The moving statue can be dodged as much as possible, but the moving giant underwater statue is equivalent to a series of enhanced buffs, and the difficulty of dealing with it increases linearly, causing a major shock to a witch like Ruiji who has never seen the big world.

Statues are undoubtedly one of the strange things, and they are not the type that exists in a narrow space and are difficult to affect the present world. They exist in this world, hidden in the corners of this world, waiting for an opportunity.

The Samurai Witch Statue's iron fist came so suddenly that the entire sea was shaken by the strange force of its swing, and a large vortex was created out of thin air, spinning at high speed above the ruins, engulfing the shattered gravel and soft seaweed, and the shock became stronger and stronger.

The statue's eyes were closed, but with an almost fatal punch, it opened and closed, and a faint green light burst out from between the gray-white stones, making Ruiji's eyes sour and tingling.

The light seemed dim, but it had a powerful penetrating and deterrent power. Ruiji came face to face with the statue, accidentally making eye contact with it, and her body immediately felt paralyzed like snake venom.

She summarized some rules, as long as she looked at the statue, the body would immediately have negative reactions, such as body stiffness, dizziness, nausea, eye tingling, and nasal pain.

A stream of heat spilled out from deep in the nostrils, spreading a fishy sweetness that was more pungent than seawater. The crimson blood droplets are diluted in the seawater, and the color becomes lighter and lighter.

The nose constantly repeats the process of bleeding, and the blood is washed and diluted by seawater.

The negative reaction is much more than that, it comes quickly and rapidly, the temples on both sides throb abruptly, the body's muscles, veins, blood vessels and muscles produce illusory tearing pain, the eardrum swells, and it becomes more and more difficult to breathe.

The body is stuck in place, unable to rise or sink. In short, she was given a body by the statue's eerie gaze.

The dizziness in her head caused Ruiji to lose her ability to think, her vision blurred, and her hand holding the staff became weaker. Miss Eudora tried many times to break through the siege of the 12 giant witch statues, but the blockade formed by the witch statues was too tight, and she had no chance at all.

The combined magic power of the two is less than one-twentieth of a statue, which is still compared to the statue with the weakest magic power. Although there is no shame in beating it, the good deep-sea exploration is so embarrassing, it is indeed terrifying and physically and mentally exhausting.

The statue of the witch dressed as a priest raised the staff dozens of meters long, and the circular object in the center of the staff flashed with a dazzling white light. The beam was aimed at Miss Eudora, who had not lost her mobility for the time being, and she realized that she had been targeted by the statue, and used her magic to protect herself while dodging.

Beams of light and undersea whirlpools struck from both directions, and the hard-working witch was swept into the center of the vortex by the anomalous force. The whirlpool soon turned into a seaspout tens of meters high, and Ruiji watched as her employer was taken away by it, and her life and death were uncertain.

She's in even bigger trouble here.

The backpack full of props fell off his shoulders and quickly sank, and the abyss below was bottomless, leaving only deep diving potions, recovery potions, and holly wood staffs. It was only after the spiritual penetration and control exerted by the statue had subsided a little that she regained control of her body and opened a recovery potion.

The struggle had already consumed a lot of mana, and she needed to replenish some energy immediately.

The familiar smell of toilet dew irritates the tip of the tongue, and the stiff body begins to thaw. Ruiji didn't care about anything else, and drank the potion as she went upstream. She looked back and saw that the statues were chasing after her, moving at all slow, despite their heavy pace.

The role of the statue may not be as simple as she thought, it is only used as a tourist attraction or ornament near the underwater pyramid and the city of concentric circles, and it is more like a solid line of defense to protect the city, and the god Anubis and the Sphinx who guard the pyramid have the same role.

Western witches have always been keen to build huge statues, and it is not surprising that the Witch of Christ statue in Rio de Janeiro will also move, as will the Statue of Liberty in the United States.

(Gotta slip away...... ）

Ryji throws away the empty potion vial and wanders between the statue's attacks, desperately upstream. The hapless employer didn't know where the person was, and the two were scattered by the sudden attack.

If Miss Eudora dies, she may be held accountable by the Snowy Owl afterwards. The reason for this is that she herself did not understand the situation in advance, which led to the danger.

Being held accountable by the snow owl is still a slightly better ending, at least if you can go back alive, you can't survive to be uncomfortable.

(Suddenly understand why the divers turned her down.) ）

A trident more than a dozen stories high stabbed down from behind, and a statue of a witch riding a seahorse showed a fierce look, her calm expression turned into anger, and her mouth quickly muttered some words.

The discourse went from being vague to being clear and audible, a language that was not found on land.

"Despicable land invaders, must be obliterated—"

The witch statue repeats the same thing over and over again.

Rydge didn't know how she could understand the language of the seabed, and she wouldn't be surprised if anything outrageous happened unless she could get back to the surface.

The other statues also launched a constant verbal attack on her. It seems to house the souls of 12 witches, who can flexibly drive the statue's bulky body, making them flexible and free.

The voice of the priest witch statue is cold, but the words are loud and passionate, like a witch orator canvassing for votes in the square.

"Are you going to repeat the tragedy of 1,000 years? Take away our capital and burn everything to the ground? Or do you want to take away what little magic and technology we have left, and turn the few remaining people into your slaves? ”

"I don't understand ......"

She couldn't help but answer the statues.

It's also beyond common sense to be able to speak at the bottom of the sea, and when I think of being in the witch world, how bizarre and weird things are within the normal range, including things that just understand the language of the seabed.

The acceptance level has reached the threshold, and the Rigi is almost out of digestibility.

The statue of the witch encloses Ryji in the middle, forming an almost closed encirclement. Their bodies obscured the faint moonlight on the sea, and they looked down at the land witch beneath their feet from a high vantage point, revealing a contemptuous expression.

"I don't need to understand."

The statue of the Physician Witch, who had not spoken, let out a sneer. She tapped her staff on the ground, and Ritch immediately felt the shaking sensation of an earthquake, spinning 360° in the tumbling water, dizzy for a moment.

The witch statue is playing, and Rydge is like a weak creature that has strayed into the territory of a group of beasts, and is driven to and fro by them. Although this behavior is a bit naïve, the way the statues think may not be the same as normal witches.

"I'm curious, why are you able to wake us up?"

The Physician Witch statue's massive fingers hovered in front of Rydji. The size of the statue is equivalent to 100 times the magnification of a normal witch, and a few centimeters of finger magnification is several meters after magnification.

As long as it wants, a slap in the face can make Ruiji regret the decision of the past few days.

"Speaking before dying, that's our principle. If you are interested, you may wish to explain your last words, and our historian will record everything. Hundreds of thousands of years later, a new group of stupid land witches who come to explore will see this one on July 17, 2023 in the historian's journal, and learn that you died because you were punished for taking pictures near the statue. ”

"It's not interesting at all."

Rydge replied.

The chaotic and evil style and evil taste of these statues are not flattering, and since she can't escape for the time being, she plans to change her way of thinking and extract some information about the Deep Sea Witch Clan from their mouths to satisfy her boiling curiosity.

Witches are curious creatures to death, and if they have to die, they must die to understand.

"Why do you hate land witches? There is no record of this in the history books, and I don't know anything about it, so I beg you to tell me the truth. ”

The Historian Witch Statue has the most gentle personality, wearing glasses dozens of meters wide on her face and holding a stone carving book 30 meters long and about 21 meters wide. Although it is carved in stone, the pages can be turned freely.

She writes quickly on the book with a quill and has a lazy look in her eyes.

"The land witch is really as short-sighted and narrow-minded as she was back then, she can't even face up to her own history, and it's really shameful to hide such important information from future generations. About a thousand years ago, a fierce battle broke out between the Sea Witch and the Land Witch, and both were defeated, but the Sea Witch lost their faith forever......

You don't need to know too much, tiny land witch. Even if you know, you can't change anything, and it's an established fact that witches of the sea and land can't coexist. ”

The stone carved book closed with a loud "bang". Ruiji was almost swept up in the resulting current, and his body was thrown far away, hitting the cliff face of the sea bottom cliff hard.

The collision shattered the recovery potions and deep-diving potions she relied on for survival. She did her best to save it, using her repair magic to recover quickly, picking it up and putting it back on her belt.

Regardless of whether you can survive or not, you must take care of what you spend money on.

Coming face to face with a bunch of weirdos, Rydge begins to understand what it's like to be indescribable in The Cthulhu Mythos. The faces of the statues are not constant, sometimes normal and sometimes distorted.

The stone on his face would crack, revealing the rotting and wriggling flesh and bones beneath him, and writhing strange objects sticking out of the breach, soft and flexible.

The feeling of mental damage returned, and before his mouth could make a sound, he choked on a few more mouthfuls of seawater. The statues lose patience to communicate with her as equals, and the green-eyed samurai witch smashes the trident down.

"It's almost over......"

Ritch complained in an unfamiliar undersea language, and her tongue tingled as soon as she finished speaking. The torture she had endured in the previous round was repeated, and before the trident hit her, she had completely lost consciousness, and her body lost the power to float and sank rapidly.

Before closing her eyes, the last thing she saw was 12 statue-like faces with different expressions. They are like gods who look down on all beings, indifferent to the life that is about to wither beneath their feet.

The world in front of her was spinning, and the sea shook more and more violently, as if it was about to tear her weak body apart.

The world is beautiful and cruel.

Not far away, a figure rushed towards her with all his might.

……

The warm sea breeze still carries the familiar salty taste, and Ruiji subconsciously takes a few puffs. The lips and mouth are salty and dry, lacking moisture. The paralyzed tongue and body gradually regained control, and the body was still normal.

The world without water is beautiful, and she never wants to take on a deep diving mission in her life.

So why did you make it back to shore alive?

The vicious and vicious talk should not let go of her, a land witch who threw herself into the net, and before she fainted, she also saw a trident more than a hundred meters long about to fall down.

Could it be that everything that happens at the bottom of the ocean is a hallucination caused by deep-sea syndrome?

Hallucinations are not impossible, and they are able to explain anything that the eye sees that does not conform to common sense.

She reached out and touched it, and her nose was still bleeding. The blood was thick and dirty, dark in color, like mud that was about to dry up. The hair was still wet, proving that it had just left the sea.

It was dark, and the bracelet on his wrist showed that the time was eleven o'clock in the evening, just over four hours after evening.

Just as she racked her brains to find an answer, the footsteps behind her answered some of her doubts. There was a second person around, and it was the other party who fished her ashore.

Ryji turned, and looked at the witch standing behind her. Long silver hair, pale blue eyes, and a body that was so slender that it could not be grasped were exactly the same as the people I had seen this morning.

It was the first time they had been so close. The first and second time they met, the witch left in a hurry, leaving Ruiji without any chance to talk to her, and now it was the third time.

If a witch who is familiar with the nature of the water and is suspected of being a witch of the deep sea takes her ashore, the matter can be perfectly explained.

"It's you...... Saved me? ”

"Hmm."

The witch nodded, and sat down beside a rock.

"You accidentally awakened the Guardian Statues, which are dormant and weird, capable of thinking like witches. It houses the remnant soul of a dead witch heroine, and over time, the remnant soul and the stone statue become one, and it becomes what you see. ”

She has the face of a Western witch, but she speaks fluent Chinese, probably judging that Ruiji is a Chinese witch based on her face. The witch's judgment is basically correct, but it is better to say that it was a mistake.

Riji talked to people in Chinese for the first time in a long time, and felt very nostalgic.

"This young lady...... Thank you for saving your life, but why do you speak Chinese? ”

"Because my paternal mother is a Chinese witch."

The witch's answer was crisp. Then, she reached out to Rydge for something.

"What happened last time, is there anything else?"

"What's that?"

"Golden, a little crunchy stuff that doesn't taste particularly salty."

"You say fritters...... Not yet. Moreover, the fritters are not soaked in seawater to eat, Miss, it's okay to soak in soy milk. ”

The quirky topic made Rydge laugh. It's funny that the lifesaver cares most about churros and nothing else.

"By the way, are you a witch of the depths?"

Using a fire attribute spell to dry the water on her body, Ruiji looked at the silver-haired witch's long wet hair, and couldn't control her obsessive-compulsive disorder that wanted to help her dry. Because of the unfamiliar relationship, she did not act rashly.

"I'm a hybrid hybrid of a sea witch and a land witch."

The witch ruffled her long wet hair and replied in a nonchalant tone.

(End of chapter)