Chapter 54: The God of Nightmare and Fear
"Good boy." Catherine once again reached out to rub the top of Isabella's head and said softly: "Be good, obedient, tell your brothers and sisters what exactly is this."
"Ao Woo." Isabella narrowed her eyes and arched her back, and made a comfortable purr in her mouth under Catherine's caress. If she had ears, hair and tail installed, it would be like a kitten acting cute with the owner. She was using a proud look and seeking credit for the owner and enjoying the owner's praise and reward. After enjoying it for a while, Isabella reluctantly opened her eyes and said hummingly: "Those things cannot be considered creatures, they can only be considered semi-organisms. People are used to calling them nightmare."
"Nightmare?" The other four looked at each other, and could confirm that they had never heard of this kind of thing: "We know the nightmare in the usual sense, but what exactly do you mean by this kind of nightmare?"
"Nightmare is a kind of combat that is manifested from dreams, similar to summoning objects." Isabella explained: "Originally, it only exists in the spiritual world of the god Dimos, who is in charge of nightmare and fear. Some high-level priests favored by Dimos can summon this nightmare from the Kingdom of God as their summoning creatures for themselves to fight and assist them. At this time, nightmare will come from the spiritual world to the real world and exist in the form of shadows. They are not pure summoning objects, but humanoid creatures with thinking ability, who can fight with a normal person like this. Their strength is very strong, each of them has legendary combat power, and their bodies are half-fixed and half-real. Simple physical attacks can only have half-effect effects, and often only high-intensity energy attacks can kill them."
"Dimos?" Panis frowned and repeated the name of the gods: "I remember that the god of nightmare and fear has fallen, and fell into a deep sleep in the war of the gods at the end of the Third Age. His church was also completely destroyed in the melee. There are no believers in the world, and it is basically impossible to recover."
"Then I don't know." Isabella shook her silver hair and simply shook her head and said, "Falling is not within my impression, but I can be sure that these creatures are nightmare."
"So that's it." Catherine nodded suddenly and said, "It seems that this is the result of half of the topic just now. Do you think that these human corpses belong to the crazy believers of Dimos?"
"Yeah. They are them." Isabella nodded vigorously and said seriously: "Dunk, um, forget it. Just call it Daken. This small country of Daken is a country established by the mad believers of Dimos. The church of Dimos is also the control center of the country, and the Archbishops of all generations serve as kings. Any believer who is not very pious about his faith will be expelled, and this country only allows mad believers to exist."
"Thank you, Isabella." Catherine said sincerely: "If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have thought of what those shadows were, and we wouldn't have known the identities of these corpses. However, do you know anything about this sect that believes in Dimos?"
"No more." Isabella spread her hands and said, "I just had a war with them and had a few times. I only had these rough understandings about them. I don't have a deep understanding of each sect, and I don't know more specific things at all."
"It's okay, you've helped a lot," said Catherine. "We'll find the remaining answers ourselves."
"Then I'll go back to sleep." Isabella muttered, "Give back Lina to you."
As he said that, Isabella closed her eyes, and a few seconds later, Lina came back. As soon as she opened her eyes, Lina couldn't wait to ask, "How is it, did she tell you? These corpses belong to the same sect."
"Not only did she tell us, but we also fought with Nightmare and wiped out three." Catherine explained to Lina in detail what happened in the past ten minutes and asked, "Do you know this sect?"
"Dimos of nightmare and fear." Lina nodded and said, "I have learned about his history, but I am not very detailed. This sect has not been very prosperous. It is considered a small sect. Dimos's strength is also considered to be a lower-middle among the gods. However, the process of the fall of this god is very strange, so it is mainly recorded by other sects."
"Strange?" Panis asked, "What's the specific situation?"
"Ha, you don't know anything." Lina laughed happily: "I thought you knew everything."
"I am not the omniscient and omnipotent Lord Yara." Panis smiled bitterly, "Of course there are things I don't know. Tell me quickly, what's going on."
"This sect should not have perished at first, at least it should not have perished at that time." Lina explained: "Although the sect is not large, it is relatively strong. The church not only has a few powerful sons of God and followers of God, but also powerful creatures like Nightmare as servants. The high-end combat power is not weaker than that of the medium-sized church. It is logical that there is a great possibility of survival. However, at the end of the Third Age, Dimos was suddenly severely injured by unknown reasons. No one knows what happened.
It seems that for a short period of time, Dimos's divine power fell into a trough, and even the ability to give back to believers was very weak. This situation is not uncommon for a church of gods. As long as the power of the sect is still there, the gods can be fed back through faith and sacrifice activities to help him recover his strength as soon as possible. But something even stranger happened. No one knew the reason. Decades later, several strong people in the Nightmare Church were missing at the same time, and the most elite in the church disappeared with them... "
As he spoke, Lina's voice became less and less, and finally stopped. An incredible look flashed in her big eyes. She pointed to the corpse in the wreck and said stutteringly: "Is this their most elite unit?"
"It should be that." Catherine also pointed to the direction of the corpse of the giant beast outside the shipwreck: "There are also those powerful people with unknown whereabouts."
"A historical puzzle was revealed like this." Lina smiled bitterly and shook her head, "It's really incredible. It turns out that the reason for their demise was because it was ridiculous to face the sea tribe who had always been neutral in the battle of the gods and the storm god Kaletto, who was behind the sea tribe. It was ridiculous. Losing its top combat power and losing the support of the gods, the Nightmare Church soon began to decline naturally, and was eventually destroyed by other sects in the war, and Dimos became a historical term from then on."
"It seems that things are starting to be clear." Catherine said: "Dimos fell into extreme weakness for unknown reasons, but his bishops entered the deep sea. In order to pull the sea clan into the water or other purposes, their purpose when entering the sea was probably not good intentions, so they attracted a fierce counterattack from the sea clan. After a fierce battle, the sea clan lost a deep sea clan and a super monster, while the Nightmare Church lost its most elite troops and top combat power. But... you just said decades later?"
"Well, decades later," Lina said: "This is also one of the puzzles. Dimos's decline was at the end of the Third Age, but the real death of the Nightmare Church was in the early Quaternary period, that is, after Lord Yara repaired the world. However, this was actually quite normal at that time. In the early Quaternary period, Lord Yara rewrites the rules of the world and establishes barriers outside the world that gods cannot descend to the Yara world, the strength of many surviving sects changed. In those decades, many sects either grew or declined, so there were not a few sects that died."
"Okay, put these questions that cannot be explained aside." Catherine said: "Now we can be initially confirmed that this ship carries all the hopes of the Nightmare Church, but they failed. I personally think that it is my previous inference that they will be attacked by the sea tribe, and even said that they will suddenly enter the deep sea. I am afraid that they will not be separated from our mission. They should have mastered the secret of controlling individual sea tribes, so they came here, but both sides died together, so this secret remained in this sea. Panis, do you still think that my inference can only stay in the stage of conjecture?"
"It cannot be denied that this is probably the most inference closest to the facts." Panis said: "But there is still a problem. Dimos has completely lost the hope of waking up, and the nightmare and fear sects have completely perished. In this case, even if there is the secret you are talking about, the Devil's Sea should be fixed, just like in the past few thousand years. But now on the contrary, the scope of the Devil's Sea is constantly expanding, and your guess is still unexplainable."
"That's why we need to keep looking for the answers," said Catherine. "But seriously, I'm a little worried."
"Worry about Doris?" Panis smiled: "To be precise, worry about the sea clan?"
"Maybe I'm too suspicious." Catherine shook her head and said, "But I don't think we can be enemies with the giant beasts outside, let alone the existence of a mermaid in the giant beasts."
"If this secret really exists, you don't need to worry about the Hai Clan, because judging from the attack on this ship, not everyone can fight against this secret. If this secret does not exist, you don't need to worry about the Hai Clan, because there is no point in worrying." Panis said with a wry smile: "But now I can finally be sure that your guess is right, no wonder she said that she would leave me a hostage to make us feel at ease."
"What does it mean?" Catherine asked in confusion.
Chapter completed!