Chapter Seventy-Four: The Lord of the Sea

As the players arrive, the frogman village gradually begins to get crowded.

Under the dual constraints of Alina and the Great Elder, the frog people can only watch those players wander around the village with curiosity, and occasionally some players go to the sea to hunt for treasures, but they are basically eaten by sea beasts and the like before they swim far......

If it weren't for the bad weather during the frost and fog season, and a thick layer of snow accumulated on the ground, players might have been able to dig up the tidal flats into archaeological ruins, ensuring that not even a single crab would survive on the beach.

It's not that the frogmen haven't seen living people, but the player's art style is obviously different from the average person.

As to why these guys are so tired of doing death and fooling around, the frogs don't dare to say or ask, so they can only let them mess around.

- In fact, if it weren't for Sivi's foresight, after Vera and the frogmen successfully formed an alliance with the frogmen, and made the frogmen allies forbidden to attack, there might have been restless players who would have wanted to try their knives with these neutral units.

Fortunately, when Princess Leah arrived, she quickly restrained the players' actions.

By brushing a wave of faces as an event NPC in the last attack on the Cult of Evil Bones, and finally turned the tide on the stage, Her Royal Highness the princess gained the respect of many veteran players, and at present, almost all of the outcast players are taught by senior players, and they are quite convinced by the first batch of senior players, so the girl's words are still relatively effective in the player base.

Compared with this, Angra, who always can't call the players, is about to cry and faint in the toilet: obviously I came first, whether it is guiding the players or cultivating the players, I came first! Fuck you, why!

It was only after the players became a little more (stressed) on their own that Princess Ria met with the Grand Elder of the Frogmen on Edward's recommendation.

Well, in fact, there are already many players who have seen this unusual frogman when they wander around the village, and even some bold players even want to go up and laugh and touch the frog's head, but they are all beaten out by Edward and their black faces......

"Hello, Grand Elder, I am Lea Acarand, the daughter of Tiera."

After the appearance of the clerk old man who used to work part-time as a ceremonial officer, Princess Lia finally picked up a little bit of the aristocratic etiquette that she had forgotten about a little. After meeting the Grand Elder of the Frogman Clan, she took out the suit that the Royal Family of Tiera had used when they faced the alien leader.

"Hello, Your Highness the Queen of Humanity. It's an honor to have you in this barren land. The Frogman Elder also said slowly: "There is really no hair here, it is a real barren land, hehehe......"

As if amused by his own cold jokes, the Frogman laughed happily.

In this regard, Liya could only show an embarrassed but polite smile: "After all, this is the beach." ”

Then the Great Elder rambled on and on a lot of things, but most of them were meaningless information.

I always feel that the old man (frog?) is left to be let go. If you continue to pull it off like this, you guess it's going to be dark outside.

So the girl could only ask straight to the point: "It's a bit presumptuous, but I wonder why you would rather face a war with no chance of victory than leave this tidal flat?" ”

The pimple tidal flats in the Greyfjord are of great value to the Secret Eye Society, but this is due to the presence of commercial smuggling lanes, and the Dense Eye Society only intends to build a smuggling port here to increase the throughput of goods.

Aside from its geographical advantages, the tidal flats are of no value at all – there are no mineral deposits underground, the mix of saline and sandy land is not suitable for growing crops, and while shallow fisheries are barely visible, sea monsters can be found just a little further from the coast.

As the Great Elder himself said, this is just a barren land with no value.

Therefore, it is very strange that the frogs still have to stay here even in the face of the invasion of the Dense Eye Society.

As far as she knew, frogmen didn't seem to be the kind of subhumans with a strong sense of locality, and because of their diving abilities far beyond that of humans, they could easily avoid being rounded up by the Dense Eye Society from the shallow seabed and make their home on other, more fertile shores.

According to the other party's answers, she can also better organize her tactics, such as relocating the frogmen to other places, leaving an empty village as an ambush site to ambush the Secret Eye Society, and if she has enough time, she can even create some fortifications and traps......

The Great Elder of the Frog was silent for a long time, and just when the girl thought that it was not going to answer this question, it slowly spoke: "Little girl, do you know the 'Lord of the Sea'? ”

"Lord of the Sea?"

"Yes, that's the god we frogmen believe in. O little human girl, have you ever heard of its name? ”

Liya was stunned by its question, and the girl carefully recalled the knowledge about the gods in her head, but after searching her stomach for a long time, she still couldn't remember that there was a god called the Lord of the Sea.

As one of the heirs to succeed to the throne of Tiera, Leah had learned a lot of the necessary knowledge, including the part about the gods: it was the most important part of the world where the gods really existed.

But even she had never heard of the name.

It's okay to pretend to have heard it and make it up according to the other person's words, but the girl doesn't plan to do such a thing.

"I'm sorry......" she apologized bluntly, "I haven't heard of it." ”

"It's normal that you don't know, because this god hasn't performed its miracles for nearly a thousand years, and some even think that it fell in the last god war!"

The Great Elder said slowly.

This surprised Leah a little.

But she soon came to her senses: did this have anything to do with why she wanted to stay on this tidal flat?

"The reason why we have stayed on this land, even if the wind and rain are blowing and the waves are crashing on the shore, the reason why we have not left is very simple...... For a long, long time ago, our ancestors received a request from the god of the sea, as long as we remain in this land and maintain our faith in the lord of the sea, then one day, the god will return and become the guiding light of our people again......"

The Great Elder said, "In the past thousand years, we have suffered hardships without the favor of the gods, and we have been humiliated and oppressed by other church races, but we have not given up our faith for a single day, believing that the Lord will bring us good days. So no matter how dangerous or desperate it is, we will not retreat...... Because under our feet are the gods! ”

The girl took a breath, showed a solemn expression, and saluted slightly.

She knew the feeling better than anyone - the gods of the game had not been able to react when Tiera had fallen, and long after the destruction of the kingdom, the survivors had been humiliated by various churches and had to cower in the sewers. But even so, the girl still believed in the existence of the god of the game, and in the end, she really prayed for the god, and from that time on, the girl felt that her stagnant life was starting to work again......

Compared to her short-lived perseverance for a few years, the frogmen have passed on this belief from generation to generation for nearly a thousand years!

It's no wonder that no frogmen have escaped in the face of such a unimaginable behemoth as the Secret Eye Society—death alone is no longer a deterrent to them compared to the millennia faith.