Chapter 401: Apostle
Such coverage naturally led to the fact that Chen Mu and the monkeys had been in a state of being tracked by signals since they entered the western seas.
Of course, the so-called "full coverage" of the temple system in the western seas is not so absolute, but relatively speaking, all the large and small strongholds, including the artificial islands inhabited by humans, can be counted, all of which are within the signal coverage of the temple.
As for wanting to thoroughly monitor every inch of the sea area, it would be a fool's dream, and with the total area of the "Golden Sea", even if all the manpower, material and financial resources of the merfolk were consumed in the construction of the temple, it would almost never be possible to complete this task.
What's more, things like the "Poseidon Bead" are the real core items for building the temple, without its existence, the temple is just an empty shell, and there is no use in building it.
And the "Poseidon Pearl" is precisely the most difficult to obtain, it is very troublesome to extract one, and it also contains the origin power of the "Poseidon", the loss is not small, and it is impossible to extract a large number of them.
This is the main reason for the limited construction of temples, it took countless years for the mermaid clan to accumulate the current temples, which are actually so many "sea god beads".
Chen Mu's actions seem to have destroyed a temple, but the significance is extraordinary, and perhaps others still can't understand it.
Even Her Majesty, the queen of the merfolk clan, only thought that this blasphemous act had caused the wrath of the gods, so she sent down an oracle and demanded the issuance of a maximum bounty order, and wanted this person everywhere.
As for what the high priest said about the "disaster of extermination", she didn't completely disbelieve it, but to be honest, she also felt a bit fuss and sensational.
After all, over the years, the mermaid clan has experienced a lot of winds and waves.
Even the destruction of the temple has not happened before, and on the contrary, it has happened many times.
The most concentrated is of course in the eastern front area, as the main means of defense of the various war fortresses, the shield provided by the temple, of course, will be fiercely attacked by the Fish-Men.
These shields are not invincible, and when they are hit by a devastating blow, they will naturally be shattered, and the temple itself inside is even more vulnerable, and it can easily be razed to the ground.
So often when a front-line fortress is completely breached, it represents the destruction of a temple, but many times, wars also come and go.
Most of the area where the destroyed fortress is located will not be long before it will be reoccupied by the merfolk and the temples and fortresses will be rebuilt.
The main reason for this is that the Fish-Man Empire has not launched a real all-out war against the "Golden Sea".
The main ones who launched the attack were the several large fish-man tribes adjacent to this side, and their behavior was more like looting than for the purpose of occupation, even if they destroyed a certain fortress, they would not stay in this area for a long time.
Therefore, most of the time, the destroyed fortress area will return to the merfolk after a short time, and then rebuild the temple and fortress, and then continue to fight and kill the invading merfolk tribes.
As for other areas, temples have also been destroyed, but in much smaller numbers than on the eastern front, not because of war, but because of horrific natural disasters or rampaging sea beasts.
These circumstances naturally led Her Majesty to underestimate the destructive power of Chen Mu's actions, if she knew the inside story of the "Poseidon Pearl" and knew that Chen Mu had plundered a "Poseidon Pearl", it would probably scare her on the spot.
The high priest naturally knew all this insider, so if there were any, he could tell the queen, but if there were others, he couldn't mention them at all, and he couldn't mention them to anyone, he couldn't afford to take this risk, no matter how low the possibility of leaking secrets was.
To be honest, he had never been so shocked, angry, or even a little frightened since he took over as high priest.
This kind of emotion was something he had never experienced before, even if the invasion of the Fish-People was victorious, breaking through the defense line several times, and a large number of fortresses on the eastern front line fell and temples were destroyed, he was still very calm.
The reason is naturally that he has a bottom in his heart, and the high priest knows very well that even if those temples are destroyed, the "Seagod Pearl" inside will never fall into the hands of the enemy.
He knew the inside story and knew that the so-called "Seagod Bead" was actually a special collection of energy origins, and the source was naturally the supreme "Seagod".
This kind of thing is already a real artifact, at least in the eyes of the high priest, the artifact naturally has the means of an artifact, and it is not so easy to get into trouble.
Any "Poseidon Pearl", in essence, is connected to the original will of the "Poseidon", which is equivalent to remote control or doppelganger, but it is not as magical as in Xianxia.
But even if it's not that magical, it's almost impossible for the Poseidon Orb to be "captured", and in the previous temple destruction incidents, in most cases, these artifacts were very safe.
Ordinary enemies don't even have the ability to discover the existence of the "Poseidon Bead", they simply destroy the shield and temple building, and the bead itself is still hidden in the ruins, and the designated priest will recover it afterwards.
Even in the rare case that the "Poseidon Pearl" encounters a special threat, it will simply self-destruct, and the enemy will not even have a chance to get close, let alone take it back to study after being captured.
So far, there has never been a precedent for the "Poseidon Pearl" to be controlled and taken away, such as the Fishman Clan, who has been fighting with the Mermaid Clan for so many years, and still doesn't know that this kind of artifact exists, and he also scoffs at the so-called "Poseidon".
By the way, the Fish-People actually have a belief in gods, but they have a polytheistic religion, or more accurately, a primitive worship similar to the tribal culture, and almost every Fish-Man tribe with a heritage has its own beliefs.
Therefore, on the side of the Fish-People, there are as many gods as cows, some of them take it seriously, and some of them are just for show, which is a kind of traditional culture, but they don't actually take this matter seriously, and there is no unified belief and temple system on the side of the Mermaids.
In the eyes of the high priest, the Fish-Man Clan is a group of blasphemous freaks, which is not worth mentioning in essence, as long as the power of the "Sea God" is enough, it will naturally be able to deal with the invasion of the Fish-Man Clan, and even counterattack the past, it is not impossible.
But this time, Chen Mu actually robbed the "Sea God Pearl", which was definitely an unprecedented super crisis in the history of the temple system.
And in the words that the "sea god" passed to the high priest, it was also full of anger, anger, and incomparable anger, and even leaked a little extra information because of this - the other party should be the "apostle" of other gods, this is a divine war!