011, Holy Grail

The Earth Divine Domain of the Humans is located on the Holy Mountain, and the Ocean Divine Domain of Naga is located in a huge circular pit under the sea called Yasgart, which can barely be defined as a basin.

At this moment, Talos floated in the sea and looked down on this magnificent complex of buildings arranged in concentric circles, along with Deborah, the knight of the Divine Domain whom he had met three days ago, surrounded by a large group of other Nagas, and his eyes radiated a fervent and sincere light towards the temple.

The Temple of the Creator is unsurprisingly located in the center of the circle in the center of Asgart, and is architecturally different from the columnar cloisters of the Earth Domain or the Afaryn plane.

Instead of the huge marble pillars with a strong sense of sculpture, there are rib arches, flying buttresses and rose windows, as well as a large number of slender columns and minarets, which make the temple of the Creator appear tall, sharp and slender as a whole, visually presenting an upward dynamic, as if it is about to come out of the atmosphere of spiritual ascent at any time, and really rise from the bottom of the sea to the sky, like the Gothic church architecture of the previous generation of Talos.

"This is the most magnificent temple in the history of architecture, and there is no one, and every year the Nagas who come to worship the gods from all over the world can't help but shed tears of excitement and joy at the first sight of the Temple of the Creator—"

Deborah introduced Talos with enthusiasm and pride as a knight of the gods and a female Naga, but the self-proclaimed Knight of the Apocalypse did not have the excitement and excitement of ordinary believers, as if he was preoccupied with admiring not a magnificent temple belonging to the Creator, but an ordinary stone at the bottom of the sea.

This made Deborah feel a little frustrated, power, status, money, and beauty, which had always been invincible against other male Naga, did not play a role in this young Naga named Minos.

So, she had no choice but to show off a little secret that basically only the knights of the Divine Domain were qualified to know: "Have you seen the stone tablet frozen in the square?

Deborah's idea worked, and the young Naga's gaze finally moved from the Creator's Temple to her face, a very good sign that she thought, everyone has something that interests them, and interest can be a bargaining chip.

"No one can resist the secrets associated with the Holy Grail, and I think you, a Knight of the Sea Aspire to the Pope's Throne, must know more interesting things about the Holy Grail, both in terms of function and power. ”

Talos tilted his head and said in an excited tone, not a pretense, but a true expression.

Just now, with the help of soul fire power, he carefully observed the magnificent building in front of him, the situation was the same as the Creator Temple of the Earth God Domain, there were only a few silver threads of faith intertwined above the two tall and slender spires, and the spiritual light of faith emitted was faintly like a fluorescence in the moonlight, which was negligible.

It is safe to say that in human society and Naga society, there is no more important temple of the Creator than these two Creator Gods located in the Earth God Domain and the Sea God Domain.

Despite this, after careful observation by Talos, the situation of the spiritual light of the two temples that have carried the belief and worship of the Creator of the two intelligent races for thousands of years is very worrying.

Talos didn't even have to go to the temple of the Creator built by the Harpys at Eagle Head Rock to put the word "bleak" on the aura of faith in the Sky Domain, and increase the likelihood that the Creator was dying and had to extract the power of Terra's faith to the fullest.

The mage's past determined that Talos did not have much belonging or worship to the sea goddess, the most common belief in the Naga kingdom of the main material plane, and the ignition of the soul fire and the fact that there was no creator plot made Talos even more unconcerned about the phenomenon in front of him.

For him, this is a good thing, a creator who is most likely to fall into a deep sleep due to a near-death experience is much easier to deal with than an active deity who can send down an oracle or even the embodiment of the will at any time.

"Is there a difference between effect and power?" said Deborah, amusedly.

"Tell me, and I'll beg you. ”

The Knight of the Sea God Domain wanted Talos to know that she was not a random Naga, and would easily tell the "secrets" that belonged to the Sea God Domain.

Talos's request certainly wouldn't break Deborah's will easily, but just as she had been an ignorant maiden decades ago, the ambitious knight of the Divine Domain was helpless when the young Naga's gray-blue pupils stared at her.

All the training, negotiation skills, rules of knighthood, or other self-restraint she had received over the years had been invalidated the moment she saw herself reflected in Talos's pupils.

With a sigh of helplessness or self-comfort, Deborah spoke, as had happened in every conversation between them in the previous three days.

"From the moment history was born, the faith of the Creator existed in the world, from the land to the sea, from the plains to the cliffs. The three major divine domains each have a heritage treasure. ”

"Yes, I know—" Talos responded in due time, giving the Knight of the Divine Domain more encouragement, "The Holy Sword of the Earth Divine Domain is a terrible weapon in anyone's hands, and using it to separate a discus is as easy as tearing apart a fallen leaf. ”

Although Talos was skeptical of the above description—in his opinion, a so-called treasure of a broken plane whose highest strength level would not exceed the third order was probably at most comparable to the two froststeel scimitars on his waist, or even comparable—but the Black Witch's description of the other two treasures of the Sky and Sea Divine Domain made Talos bury this slightly arrogant attitude in his heart.

"The Holy Crown of the Sky Domain, which stays on the Pope's head every day, ensures that they can summon lightning and storms to descend on the earth when they flap their wings, and use them to repel any enemy who dares to offend the majesty of the Creator and challenge the order of the Sky Domain. ”

"As for the Holy Grail, the treasure of the Ocean God Domain, the holy water created can repair any damage in the world, including mutilated limbs!"

If the description of the Holy Crown of the Sky Divine Domain simply caused Talos to restrain his suspicion and arrogance, the exaggerated description of the regeneration of the severed limbs of the Holy Grail Holy Water made Talos consider the possibility of the three treasures being treasures for the first time in a real sense.

In the list of general thesaurs of the main material plane, Limb Regeneration, which causes the target to regrow congenital or acquired mutilated arms and feet, is a high-level divine skill that requires a fourth-order archbishop or high priest to perform, and is expensive.

As far as Talos knows, it takes at least 3,000 gold coins to exchange for an archbishop's opportunity to release the high divine art of severed limbs and regeneration, and God's gifts and redemption are never cheap.

As for Sainz's holy water, it is just a healing item in the divine realm mixed with the holy power generated by the priest's prayer, which is equivalent to the living water technique of healing minor injuries, slander injuries or water elemental factions in white magic, and is far less powerful than the superb divine power of the Holy Grail Holy Water to regenerate severed limbs, at least at the descriptive level.

Deborah keenly caught the faint suspicion in Talos's words, and finally found an opportunity to refute and regain the initiative: "Ha, it sounds like you don't believe that the three treasures really have those wonderful powers, do you?"

Talos shook his head, and slowly nodded twice in the gaze of the knight of the Divine Domain, his eyes flashing with a searching light: "Can the holy water in the Holy Grail really make a Naga with a broken tail grow a slender snake tail again?"

"Yes. Deborah replied proudly, in a tone that certainly did not allow anyone to question, "Of course, you know, it can only be a tail in the real sense, otherwise the situation will become a little troublesome." ”

- The part of the Naga snake tail that connects to the waist of the upper body, and the part that occupies about three-fifths of the entire snake tail contains some internal organs—part of the digestive system—and only the part near the tip of the tail two-fifths is the tail in the pure sense of the word, composed entirely of bone and thick flesh.

Cutting off a Naga's tail from other parts may not be as severe as a human halving, but sometimes it's almost the same, and it's fatal.

"Say it like you've seen it with your own eyes—" Talos retorted deliberately, and in Emma's words, agitation was always a cliché to consider.

"Actually, I really did. Deborah said seriously.

For a moment, Talos almost exclaimed, but luckily his will didn't disobey his brain's command, swallowing them all back before the voice reached his throat.

Talos guessed that there was still a hint of disbelief on his face, as Deborah chuckled and became interested, staring at him with interest.

"That's a fact, swear to the Creator in the name of a knight of the sea gods. Deborah flicked her tail to bring her closer to Talos, then lowered her voice and continued, "Rachel, one of the three Divine Domain Elders, lost a five-foot-long tail in a battle, only to regrow it with the help of holy water. ”

"You'll see her later, Elder Rachel is one of our rivals, one of the most senior Elders of the Divine Domain. ”

Talos's attention was not shifted to the competitor as Deborah thought, at this time, only one message kept repeating in his mind, the effect of the holy water was not exaggerated and deified, it turned out to be true, worthy of a high-level divine skill severed limb regeneration!

- When a priest or paladin swears by a god they believe in, you can fully trust the content of their oath, lying to a god will directly affect the priest or paladin's faith, and in severe cases, it will also attract punishment from the gods, a decrease in cast level, or even a decrease in strength.

Does this mean that the Holy Grail is a true treasure that meets the definition of a treasure in all respects, the kind that even legendary mages and epic knights will be tempted by?

Surprised and shocked, Talos's thoughts couldn't help but emanate and think more.

Do the Holy Grails of the Ocean God Domain, the Holy Sword of the Earth God Domain, and the Holy Crown of the Sky God Domain represent three treasures, and they are in the hands of the three Popes whose highest strength may only be of the third order?

Talos had never been so close to a treasure as he was now, knowing that every magic item and perfect weapon that could be classified as a treasure in the main material plane could only be found in a fifth-order powerhouse or a story or legend.

Even the Frost Holy Crown that Talos had a "one-sided relationship" and appeared in the treasure space of Black Dragon Island was contested by two adult black dragons with fourth-order strength, corpse witches, and several high-level professionals, and he didn't have much interjection.

And now, the strength of the treasure holder will not exceed the third order at most, is there an easier chance in the world to get a treasure than this?

On the one hand, it is a treasure that is too valuable and valuable enough to make people lose their minds, and on the other hand, it is a relatively low power that is not enough to defend the ownership of the treasure, which is simply instigating people to commit crimes!

"Wow-" After nearly three seconds of silence, sanity returned.

Talos tried his best to make his exclamations only amazed and admired, without a trace of greed, which tested his acting skills very much.

After that, he quietly continued to pursue the news: "I believe you, but I guess the holy water must not be the true power of the Holy Grail, right?"

"Of course, the Holy Grail is more powerful than you and I can imagine, and it is a gift from the Creator to the Nagas. Deborah mysteriously praised the dying Creator in Talos's view, more reverent than any priest he had ever met, "The other function of the Grail is a tsunami, a terrible tsunami in the ocean according to the will of the master!"

Coincidentally, one of the bloodline specialties that the Immortal Whale Bloodline might give him in the future was tsunami control, Talos thought.

Could it be that this is the fate often mentioned in the drama, and fate destined him to have a chance to get the Holy Grail?