The water was so strong that the door collapsed, and then it floated up with the water, hitting the ceiling of the cabin. This is one of the emptiest rooms on the entire ship, like a spacious hall. Several of the other rooms had beds for resting, but none in this one, which was supposed to be a meeting place. At the end of the room, in the center was a statue of a deity that reached almost to the ceiling, and the deck below the statue carved out of white jade had rotted, leaving the base of the statue unfixed and falling to the ground, and the statue had been broken into three sections. Diagonally in front of the statue is a gold-clad throne facing the hatch, and the gold plating on the high back of the throne glows coldly in the seawater.

The walls of the ship behind the statue were blasted open, revealing the sediment on the bottom of the ship that buried the hull, and for this reason, there was nothing left in the room except for these few heavy items, and even if there were other items that had been swept away by the sea, I don't know where they had drifted with the undercurrent.

About ten meters in front of the throne, there was a half-corpse lying on the floor, the upper half of the corpse was dressed in exquisite armor, and even after thousands of years of immersion in the sea, you could still see the patterns and emblems engraved on the surface of the armor. But the lower half of his body was gone, and from under his spine, his legs and pelvis were thrown somewhere, and the vertebrae were neatly severed along with the lower part of the armor. The man didn't seem to be injured here, but seemed to have barely crawled back into the cabin after being fatally wounded elsewhere, and from the hatch to the place where he died, he could vaguely see the rows of small holes he left behind when he crawled on the deck with his fingers, and if he had been here thousands of years ago, he should still be able to see the blood and internal organs left on the deck as he struggled to crawl. The corpse's left hand was deeply embedded in the deck, and his right hand clutched a white crown tightly, even though the body was rotten, even if only white bones remained, the phalanges were still clinging to the crown, one can imagine how tightly he held it before he died.

Catherine Shield was in front of the people, slowly walked into the cabin, shielded her body with her shield, and did not go over to check the body, but took a step around the room first. The room was still completely normal, no living people, no shadows, no undead, nothing moving except for the floating door that had just fallen. After tentatively walking back and forth at the door, there was still nothing unusual in the room, and Catherine made a gesture, and Lina walked in with a magic book and a mace in the other, and stood a few steps away from her. As soon as she entered the door, Lina's hand with a mace pressed directly on the magic book, and a vigorous vitality drilled out of the magic book, quickly sweeping every corner of the room, this magic with a purifying effect can sweep away all dead and dark existences, even if they can't be destroyed, they can be hidden.

When the purifying white light faded, Lina gave Catherine a thumbs up. Catherine's sword-gripping hand struck back, and Freya's massive body squeezed through the hatch, nearly breaking through the frame as she entered. After entering, Freya hid behind Lina and re-released her magic nemesis, the metal cone surrounded them again in four points, and followed Vivien quickly stepped into the defense range of the mana nemesis, allowing Catherine's body to block herself tightly, and then she swung her staff, adding a layer of force field to everyone to protect against ranged weapons.

"It's weird. Lina frowned and said, "I feel a strong aura of darkness and death outside the door, why can't I detect it at all?

"This must be the ceremonial hall of the Sect of Timos. Pannis emerged from the shadows in the corner. Now several girls have learned to judge, if Pannisy uses the domain to hide, there will be a brief burst of energy when he appears and disappears, and if he uses the thief's skill to sneak and hide, although it is limited to a certain extent, there will be no obvious energy fluctuations. This time, Pannis did not bring energy fluctuations, and this was the first time that the girls knew that there were people who could use stealth in the water to hide themselves. When the girls entered the hall to build a defense, Pannith had already hidden his form and came to their side, and whispered, "Timos belongs to the death god line?"

"I don't really know. Lina shook her head and said, "I haven't read too detailed records." However, I don't think a half-creature like a nightmare would be the embodiment of light and life force, that would be ridiculous. ”

"If you really belong to the Darkness or Death gods, then the aura you feel may be the aura left over from the ritual hall itself. Pannis looked up and down, left and right, and said, "After all, this was once the territory of the gods, and even if it has fallen into a deep sleep, it is also the former god." And this statue of the deity, maybe it is the one in their main temple, will be brought out to strengthen their own strength in such an important task. So it's not surprising that there are 40,000 breaths escaping from here. ”

"Don't be kidding, there are no orthodox church pastors among your former friends, and those two little girls are not orthodox pastors, otherwise you would have this kind of understanding. The statue of the main temple is equivalent to another holy body of the gods, who dares to move it casually. Lina rolled her eyes and said: "But what you said is also reasonable, this should be the holy statue with the strongest divine power bonus in a sect, and the aura of darkness and death that I sensed is indeed escaping from the statue, so you can rest assured, there should be no danger." ”

"Well, that's good. Catherine breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed her guard slightly, and said, "You can relax a little, but don't let your guard down completely, and don't disperse, I'll take a look at this corpse first." ”

Catherine crouched down, the small round shield on her right arm in front of her, and carefully flipped the armor on her corpse. The parts of the armor are forged from a pure gold alloy of demonic steel, which is still hard after thousands of years of immersion. Lifting the various parts of the armor, the corpse was already left with only white bones, many of which were still covered with cracks, and other than that, there were no extra items.

"This man was badly wounded, and if you look at his bones, even under the protection of heavy armor, a third of the bones on half of his body were cracked, and several ribs were broken. Of course, his fatal wound was still on the waist and abdomen, and he may have been bitten off by that deep-sea demonic beast. Catherine inspected and said, "Lina, this person must be the captain of the guard in the second room." ”

"It should be. Lina nodded, "The style of the armor is more similar, and so is the personal emblem." However, the captain of the guard should be the strongest fighting in the church, but he didn't expect to die so embarrassed. ”

"The question now is, what exactly is this crown. Catherine hesitated, and finally reached out and touched the cadre's phalanges, the ligaments between the corpse's bone nodes had rotted, and the phalanges fell apart at the touch, drifting up with the sea, leaving only the white crown on the floor of the wreck. Catherine picked up the crown, the white crown seemed to be made of bone, it didn't feel heavy in her hand, the outer ring of the crown was inlaid with a few pearls, and even in the deep sea, it still emitted a faint white light.

"This crown...... It's also their holy relic?" Catherine said suspiciously, "It's not like it, but if it's not their holy relic, why does he have to hold it so tightly before he dies, as if he cherishes it?"

"I'll see. Panis took the crown from Catherine's hand and leaned over to the lamp behind her to look at the light. The crown is actually very exquisite, in addition to the pearls inlaid on the surface, there are countless exquisite patterns engraved inside and outside, the patterns are ingenious and fine, each line contains a very mysterious power, after looking at it for a long time, people can't help but rise a sense of respect. After thousands of years, not only did the crown not have any abnormalities, but even the lines on the crown were not blurred at all, which was almost impossible to achieve. Pannis gently stroked the lines on the crown with his fingers, frowned and thought for a while and said, "This ...... It seems to be the style of the Sea Clan. ”

"Sea Clan?" The girls were stunned, and no one thought of this possibility: "This guard captain was holding the things of the Sea Clan before he died?"

"I'm not sure. Pannis said: "I haven't heard of this crown, I don't recognize what it is, but looking at its production process and texture style, it looks like the work of the Sea Clan." And this workmanship and selection of materials are so good, I can't see what the material is at all, unlike metal or bone or mineral, but it can be placed at will for thousands of years without damage, I think no matter what material it is, it is definitely not an ordinary thing, it must be very important. ”

"Will it ...... Is it her?" Catherine subconsciously covered her lips and looked in the direction of the corpse of the giant beast outside the wreck: "That dead sea clan is the owner of this crown?"

"Quite possibly. Pannis's eyes lit up and he nodded, "It's too likely." ”

"What's wrong with you?" Vivien asked curiously, "I feel like you're very excited, what do you think?"

"Wasn't it strange that if they really had some kind of secret that could control the Sea Clan, then why could the merfolk outside still attack them, and in the end, both sides would be killed?"

"You mean, that's the answer?" Catherine said excitedly, "Did that merfolk rely on this crown to be able to uncontrollably approach this group of fanatic cult armies and then attack them?"

"I think it's very likely. Pannis nodded, "Although there is no evidence to confirm this. ”

"Well, if that's the case. Lina played with her silver hair with her fingers and whispered, "Could it be that this is the Sea Emperor's crown mentioned in that story?" )