Thirdly, Sulla: The struggle for survival

For many days, hideous and terrifying monsters fell from the sky.

And just before the first monster descended from orbit, a new type of sea monster was discovered, sending the settlers on Namibi into a deeper panic.

Not far from the town where they were staying, a small fishing port suddenly lost contact. When the Pasha's blasphemer mages arrived on a magic carpet, there were no living people left, and corpses slowly decomposing in the sunlight were everywhere. Houses were damaged and destroyed, and hermit crabs crawled in and out of the eyes of the dead.

A dead creature lay quietly on the sand, rotting on the indigo sand.

Around it were layers of human corpses, their skin darkened, making it even larger than ever. The dead thing is like an upside-down bowl, as big as a house. Its cortical muscles, which by this time had long since cracked and drained pus, took on a mottled grayish-green color. Its body stretched out on the sand, like some kind of giant starfish. Its mouthparts are in the middle of its body, roughly equivalent to the axle of the wheel. And the twelve green limbs—stiff, strong, twisted—stretched out from around the mouth, with distinct joints inside.

These limbs are both legs and hands, and it can crawl like a spider and can also feed with those limbs. Thousands of them crawled out of the sea and strode on the sand, as if to wipe out all the inhabitants of this world. Together with the jellyfish giant octopus and the hot air balloon jellyfish octopus, the sea monster on Namibi has ruled the sea, sky and land at the same time.

There used to be some Start Spencer Druids who were skeptical of committing all of their biological weapons at once, but after seeing these new sea monsters, they were shaken by the sight of them. Throw the Moon Monster into the war for one day per postponement. It could mean the destruction of an island, or the fall of a port.

Moussa's message to Muhati was delayed. Just before the Psychic and his companions could visit the Old Emir, the Broken Flower Islands lost contact. Forty-five islands were wiped out by sea monsters. It was for this reason that the Starch Spencer Druids decided to immediately commit to the monsters they had created.

This is extremely dangerous, as the Great Druids can forcibly order the monsters they create to commit suicide, but they cannot anticipate the long-term effects they may have on the ecosystem. After all, the elimination of the original creatures at the top of the food chain in a world can lead to the explosive reproduction of some species that are not common in the first place.

On one occasion, some of the Starch Spencer druids of the Great Expedition attempted to conquer and colonize a desolate world of the main material plane. The world's humanoid inhabitants were scarce, and they were infested with terrifying giant insects, as large as castles. The Starch Spencers sent the druids to create predators such as the Devil's Web and the Night Banshee. Wiped out the giant insects. It was later discovered that the giant insects were feeding on a local, fast-growing fungus that was populating everywhere before the druids had time to react. Pollination channels for local plants have been disrupted, crops have died, vast areas of forests and grasslands have withered, and ecosystems have been completely distorted. Today, it's a dead world full of fungi.

However, at this time, the Starch Spencer Druids couldn't take care of it so much, if they didn't immediately invest in the hybrid monsters they had cultivated on the moon. Soon the world will not be able to be saved.

Plagues and microbes can also wipe out sea monsters, but they can also pollute the oceans and reduce the productivity of fisheries. So the druids decided to take a more direct approach, using large predators against the sea monsters.

The bloodlines of these predators come from many worlds conquered and colonized in the Great Expedition. Vampire lampreys from the inland world, the Nice sea monster, and clumps of mesh grass floating in the air - they are transparent. It is as sharp as a knife and deadly.

There are night predators from the distant heavens, cloned from the blood sucked by mosquitoes in fossilized amber by the Starch Spencer Druids. A more agile scarlet predator with a poisonous smoke-spewing puppy. There is also the fragrant-smelling carnivore "lady bane".

There are salons from the Ming Sea, copied and bred by the druids, toad dragons, and more than a dozen brightly colored water snakes of different sizes.

There are enhanced giant great white sharks, barracudas, Kraken squid, and cunning and bloodthirsty orcas from the world of Ansellon.

The temporal extraction created by the psykers envelops these monsters, preventing them from dying from hypothermia or vacuum when they fall from orbital altitude. The Starch Spencers sent the druids to scatter the giant Grey Siren of Lisado and the smaller Blue Siren of Anse on Namibi, and the Syllable Fish abundant in the Sultanates of Linom, the Spinner Whip of Daron, and the Blood Ribbon Fish of Casade.

The huge A-Lasan Fortress Fish crashes into Namibi from its orbit with a great sound, like a meteor falling into the sea. Even more famous than their appearance are the pseudo-whales of the Mediojar star and the thousand claws of the Najd world.

Some monsters are smaller, but they reproduce at an astonishing rate. They include the blister-finned fish of the Baloch, the parasitic fish lice that cause the world, and the dreaded aquatic wasp of Camilla that lays eggs and nests.

In order to hunt hot air balloon jellyfish octopuses, the Starch Spencer Druids brought with them countless flying monsters: whiptail manta rays, bright red sword-winged birds, flocks of mocking birds, half-aquatic howlers, and a terrifying light blue creature - half plant, half animal, but almost weightless - that drifted with the wind and lurked in the clouds like a hungry living spider's web. The Starch Spencer sent the druids to name it the "Weeping and Whispering Grass", and forbade all magical ships not to go near the clouds.

Some of these things were plants, some were animals, some were both, and some were neither—since the Great Expedition, the original taxonomic system of the Starch Spencer Pai Druids was outdated, and it was impossible to describe the monsters created by hybridizing the primordial nature of the monsters of the world. They are either predators or parasites, or they are as dark as night or bright and dazzling. They may be strangely beautiful, unspeakable, ugly, indescribable, they are the top overlords of their original planet, the top of the food chain, and now they are all together. Face off against the sea monster that suddenly appears on Namibi.

Day after day, more species fall from orbit. Fall into the sea of Namibia. The Tears of the Moon lasted for a full ten days, when the last tears fell into the ocean. The war was completely unveiled.

After that, there was good news every day.

Fishermen who ventured out to sea reported that large groups of unfamiliar species had emerged in the Indigo Strait. There is no sign of any sea monsters. ”

"Someone saw a sea monster like a starfish near the sister island, which was twice the size of a certain one. Something with tentacles fights to the death...... The Starch Spencer sent the druids to say it was their Grey Siren. ”

"Patrol officers at Grand Beach reported that a litter of whiptail manta rays had settled among the rocks offshore. The local Bey says they cut through the hot air balloons and jellyfish octopuses like living daggers - the balloons swing and deflat, and then fall helplessly, which is great!"

"Today there is new news from the A-Tariq Strait, a strange thing. Three sea star monsters rushed out of the jellyfish, but did not attack. They all seem to be going crazy. The body swayed, as if suffering some kind of inhuman pain. Foamy pale objects hung from their joints and openings, and their corpses looked as if they had been eaten from within, what was that?"

"A large group of dead jellyfish octopus sea monsters washed up on the beach of New Muscot, causing an instant sensation. A magical ship patrolled and saw a large area of the ocean filled with the corpses of sea monsters, and several strange fish were frantically fighting for their corpses. ”

"A magical ship managed to make its way to the Broken Flower Islands, where contact had been lost, sending supplies and bringing back some survivors. Blocked by only two hot air balloon jellyfish octopuses along the way, Pasha is considering resuming the regular route of the magic ship that connects the islands. ”

Emir Moussa kept the Psychomancer and his companions informed him daily, though he was never polite to Muhadi at the top. But he allowed two guests to enjoy his best room and food. Other than that, he didn't ask much questions, just thought that the psychic warlock knew everything. He also kept silent about his past, out of politeness. Muhadi did not forcibly read his memories to find out why he left the court on Mistara and was tortured.

The Psychic Warlock was very ill, but he rejected the suggestion to change his body now. I'm going to keep me the way I am. He explained this to the Coral Witch so that the others would recognize me. I need this identity now more than ever. to bridge the divide of the Atas.

Appearance is not a factor that determines who a person is, and giving a person plastic surgery does not mean that he has changed a person. Sadiri offered her opinion. You are you, your soul is your own, your real name is your own, your essence has not changed, you have become only the appearance of flesh and blood, who can deny your identity?

This made Muhathir think more, and he remembered that when he first entered the Lyra sect, his master once asked him the question, "What can change the essence of a person?"

If the wise men did not deliberately deceive themselves, if they were indeed primordial sorcerers, then when did they complete this transformation? What was the change in the process that caused the change in their essence?

If he is not the primordial warlock Rajat, then for the psychic warlock whose memories can be distorted and tampered with, whose body can be changed at will, and whose way of thinking can be diametrically opposed by experience and experience, what is the constant and unchanging essence of defining the past self and the present self?

Almost a month after the war between the Starch Spencers and the sea monsters began, the Emir of Musa brought new news: "Oh, the fishermen have found another dead jellyfish octopus sea monster, but it is bigger than the previous ones, and it fought a terrible battle before it died. The chicken thieves analyzed the dirty stuff left in its stomach and found that it only seemed to eat orcas and blue sirens. ”

"Today, the body of a grey kraken was washed up on Barrien Island by the sea. A few days later, the emir reported back. "Local residents have been complaining about its stench. They also said that the corpse had many large circular bite marks, apparently from the jellyfish octopus sea monster. There has never been a time before that a kraken has the ability to kill the Grey Siren. ”

"The giant great white sharks in the Coral Ocean seem to have all disappeared, and the Stap Spencer Druids can't figure out what is going on, and they are intensifying their research. ”

"There's a strange thing to tell you both, something has been seen swimming up and down in the Kauhleni Sea. I've also heard blasphemer mages who patrol with magic carpets claim. It was a veritable living island, sweeping away everything in front of it. It wasn't made by the Starch Spencer Druid. Or it must be out of control, as it is devouring tens of thousands of barracudas, blisterfish, and terrestrial needlefish. ”

"Another person saw a hot air balloon jellyfish octopus on Mulito Beach -- hundreds of them. More than before!, eyewitnesses added. The sea monsters have changed, and their bodies can now bounce whiptail manta rays away. ”

"The jellyfish octopus is back, can you believe it? The Starch Spencer Druids had promised the Pasha that they were going to be extinct......!

"The jellyfish octopus suddenly spewed water arrows, and a large number of them shot down the howler birds in the air......"

"A new sea monster has appeared! a flying sea monster, or a gliding sea monster! They have emerged from the tops of the hot air balloon jellyfish octopus in droves, and have already killed three blasphemous mages on the magic carpet, and the manta rays can't stop them......"

“...... It's all over, I mean, the stuff hiding in the clouds...... Hot air balloons, octopus jellyfish, ripped them off. The acid couldn't hurt the sea monsters anymore, and they were thrown from the sky......"

“...... It's dead aquatic wasps again, thousands, tens of thousands, and they're all ......"

“...... The starfish monster has reappeared, and Dawn Island has lost contact and may have been captured. The Starch Spencer sent the druids to understand that the island was surrounded by a large number of bloodband fish and ointment fish, and that it should be safe. Unless ......"

“...... It's been a week without news from the Spice Coast......"

“...... Thirty or forty hot air balloon jellyfish octopuses were seen near Carben Island, and Pasha and his staff were worried......"

“...... Emir Island lost contact ......"

"The dead fortress fish is half an island ......"

“...... Jellyfish octopuses rush into the beach and carry out a massacre ......"

“...... There are too many starfish to count......"

"The druids were defeated. "Finally. Mosa told the Psychic Warlock. "Everywhere there is death, defeat and destruction. All the monsters they've created have been wiped out, or they're still struggling. It was proposed to make some bigger ones. More terrible monsters come out. But we have reason to worry, in the depths of the ocean. Even more terrifying sea monsters are also being bred. ”

"That's right. ”

"Aren't you going to do something?" it took a lot of effort for Mosa to refrain from taunting the Psychic Warlock. "Aren't you the one who came from you, the omnipotent Savior and the Messenger, and why aren't you going to save the believers of this world? Most of them are dark-skinned Namibians. That's true, but they've chosen to follow the first cause. ”

"There is only the first cause in the world who can be called omnipotent, not me. Muhadi shook his head with difficulty. "I had unrealistic expectations of the druids and didn't expect them to lose. What's more, I have some problems to deal with. I don't really want to reveal my identity until I find out who blew up the magic ship I was on more than a decade ago. ”

"So that's the savior that we all count on. Moses let out a sarcastic wail. "How long are you going to save the people here?"

"By the time I figure out who the enemy is. These sea monsters, these jellyfish octopuses and starfish and things like that, they're not enemies, they're just weapons, like the monsters that the Starch Spencer sent druids to. The Psychic Mancer thought for a moment and said. "I'm not a druid, and my knowledge of biology is nowhere near as much as theirs. But when I find out who the enemy is, I'll strike. ”

"Then you need to hurry. Moussa said. "The Starch Spencer Druids have been defeated, the sea monsters are raging everywhere uncontrollable, and the Pasha is already desperate. If the situation does not improve, I am afraid that the extermination order will come. ”

Muhadi knew about the extermination order, which was still an old concept in the battle of purification, and the primordial warlock Rajat had issued an order for the total extinction of all intelligent races except humans. But he did not know what Mouses meant by the extermination order. "Mind explaining the extermination order to me?"

"It's literal, otherwise what do you think?" Moussa explained. "Great expeditions have conquered so many worlds, and from time to time, there are always one or two places where the resistance is so stubborn that the gains from capturing them outweigh the sacrifices. ”

"And then you're going to enforce the extermination order?"

"Since defeating the Gisyankees, they have built the most powerful fleet of magical ships the multiverse has ever seen, and there are many of them in the Hoyo Troll-class superships alone, led by the fearsome Lord Danjar, also known as the Star Shifter. (To be continued......)