Three days later, in the depths of the ocean, Talos rode on a three-eyed octopus summoned from the Tableworld and set out towards Asgart, the god of the sea, aiming for the throne of the new pope!

This is the latest news that Talos has received from the mouth of the Black Witch, the current Pope Titis VIII is about to come to an end, and he needs to choose the most suitable successor from the remaining three Elders of the Sea Domain and the eight Knights of the Domain.

- Whether it is the main physical plane or the terra plane, the pope is for life, and no one can shake the papal throne unless the gods send an oracle to intervene personally.

The three divine domains of the earth, the sea, and the sky correspond to the three tribes of humans, naga, and harpys, and although they all worship and believe in the creator, the way in which the pope is born is different.

According to Hernan, the Earth Domain will hold a secret meeting before the Pope's death, where three Divine Domain elders and eight Divine Domain Knights will elect each other to elect the next Pope.

Generally speaking, a new Pope of the Earth Domain is born among the three Elders of the Domain.

Of course, there are no exceptions, for example, the current Pope Setters was only forty years old when he ascended the papal throne.

The Pope of the Sky Domain is born through an event called "Ascending to the Sun", where the elders and knights of the Divine Domain who are interested in becoming the next Pope will choose a sunny day, spread their wings, and challenge the sun and the sky.

They will keep flying upwards and upwards, and they will fly higher in the sky with the sun as their goal.

Whoever can climb to the top of the crowd of candidates will be the new Pope, and the feathers on his wings will gradually turn into a gorgeous and brilliant divine gold after wearing the Sky Divine Domain Treasure Holy Crown!

Among the Harpys, only the Pope's feathers are pure gold, and each feather symbolizes the blessing of the Creator, summoning the power of storms and lightning.

Compared with the democratic election of the Earth God Domain, the comprehensive consideration of conduct, morality, prestige and strength, the simple and crude selection method of the Sky God Domain but unexpectedly convincing the public, the way of the Ocean God Domain is the most mysterious.

According to the tradition of the Asgart and Naga clans, the Elders of the Divine Domain, the Knights of the Divine Domain, and other Naga with supernatural powers would throw shells engraved with their names into the Holy Grail of the Divine Domain's treasures.

Seven days later, the Grail will select a shell under the direction of the Creator, and the name on the shell will be the new Pope.

Ordinary people would probably be naïve enough to think that the threshold for the Ocean God Domain's pope candidates is the lowest among the three god domains, and even for other non-god domain members' supernatural power gainers—although the number of such members is very rare and all of them are of the first order—but the conditions under which the Creator can testify to her are actually the most stringent of the three god domains.

Because the Holy Grail, the treasure of the Ocean God Domain, contains holy water, ordinary shells will be dissolved in less than a second once they are placed in it, and only the blood of the trench merfolk can ensure that the shells will not be dissolved by the holy water within seven days, and will persist until the last day of the ceremony.

"Trench Mermaid ......"

Talos recalled in his mind the Black Witch's description of the Trench Merfolk, a special sea tribe that lived in the depths of the dark and deep trenches, and although the number was very rare, each one was not weaker than any knight of the Divine Domain.

Therefore, whenever the Pope places the Holy Grail on the Creator's Temple Square to open the registration, the number of people is often no more than three, and the Ocean Domain uses this special way to ensure that each Pope has enough power.

The moment he first heard about the Trench Merfolk, Talos had the Mermaid in the United Kingdom, but the Trench Merfolk of the Terra Plane bear no resemblance to the Mermaid.

They have a human upper body, webbed fingers and claws, and a very slender but extremely muscular tail with no scales.

This sounds rather strange, but it's far from the weirdest, as trench merfolk don't have noses or jaws, and their tongues, which are about three feet long and resemble octopus tentacles, can be clearly seen.

To be exact, the head of the trench merfolk is all mouths except for the eyes.

And starting from the mouth, their throat, chest, abdomen, and entire upper body are all open outward, like corpses that have been dissected to separate the chest cavity and abdomen.

It was empty, with no internal organs or other organs, only large scarlet flesh walls, sharp teeth at the edges, and sharp sternum and ribs that opened outward, like centipedes and other animals, and the feet were neatly arranged and densely packed like centipedes, just looking at it could make people feel creepy.

It is said that only when the trench merfolk wrap their prey, usually naga, with sternum and rib bindings, filling their empty bodies, the ribs and chests are tightly closed, digesting the prey in a way that the black witch cannot describe and describe.

"There are such strange creatures in this plane......" The disgusting eating method of the Trench Merfolk sounded like draping a fleshy human skin over its prey, making Talos instinctively think of undead creatures, "But anyway, I must first go to the Trench to hunt a Trench Merfolk to qualify for this papal selection." ”

Talos was still thinking about how to proclaim the name of Talos in his own plane, gathering enough faith, and the papal change in the Ocean God Domain became a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to send it to his door.

If he can successfully ascend to the papacy, he will be able to subtly add a function to the Creator from top to bottom, judgment, translated into theological terms, that is, the priesthood.

As the omniscient and all-powerful creator and creator god, adding a judgment priesthood is just a trivial matter for the gods to expand their power and refine their authority, and it is not difficult to accept that adding an incarnation of the judgment lord born based on the judgment priesthood is not an unacceptable thing.

After all, after five days of gathering information, Talos learned that the Creator had divided into interpretations of kingship, law, sacredness, storms, lightning, tsunamis, life, and other different priesthoods among the humans, naga, and harpy, and it was not surprising that there would be one more judgment.

The crux of the matter was whether the Holy Grail would be able to spit out the shell engraved with his name, which was by far the least certain aspect of Talos, who could only hope for illusory luck.

Anyway, compared to the cluelessness of the way he had just descended to his own plane five days ago, this was a plan worth trying.

Moreover, Talos had seven years to plan and act on it.

Yes, in seven years, Talos has tested the time ratio of the two material planes, the time lapse of the Terra plane is the same as that of the Afalon plane, and the time ratio of the main material plane is one day in a year.

What's even better is that since being promoted to the second-order bloodline knight, Talos is confident that he can go without food or drink for up to seven days.

Seven years is enough time for Talos to achieve something.