Doris bent down deeply, raised his hands above his head, and prepared to receive items in a very low posture. Catherine did not put the fragments in her hand into Doris's hand, which meant that she had agreed that Doris's lowering posture would look very arrogant and rude. Therefore, Catherine held Doris' arm, helped Doris up hard, and whispered: "High Priest, if you continue to make this posture, I really dare not continue. I can accept your gratitude, and I can also accept the gratitude of the sea clan, but thanks for it, I dare not accept your current attitude. It is really too exaggerated."

"You don't understand." Doris was held up by Catherine and straightened her waist, but her expression was still solemn: "You can't understand how important this is to our sea clan. Your help to us is completely worthy of such etiquette."

"No, I understand very well." Catherine stared at Doris and said, "I know very well what this means to the sea clan, and I know very well what happened in the short ten minutes last night. I made a choice after careful consideration. If I really want this aberrant low attitude, why did I make that choice last night? Moreover, we just completed a normal adventure commission task according to the requirements of the client. No matter what impact the task ultimately has on the client, it has nothing to do with us. So, High Priest, you should communicate with each other in an equal manner. Please forgive me for not accepting this aberrant attitude."

Doris looked at Catherine's eyes intently. As if she was about to look into the depths of her heart, Catherine looked at Doris calmly, without avoiding her sight for a moment. She was silent for half a minute. Doris nodded slightly, showed a familiar gentle smile, opened her hand again, and said softly: "Since that's the case, thank you."

Catherine also smiled and solemnly placed the fragments of the Nightmare Spirit in Doris's hand. The moment she got the fragments, Doris, as a clergy, keenly felt the remaining power in the fragments of the artifact. Although most of the divine power had been dissipated, it was a magical artifact made by the gods himself. It was inevitable that they would still carry the mark of the gods, even if the gods had fallen.

Holding these artifact fragments in his own hands, Doris even felt dizzy, threatening the sea clan for thousands of years. The burden on the shoulders of previous high priests made her worry about the hidden dangers that had been around for nearly a hundred years, and finally solved it today. Holding the artifact fragments, even with Doris' stable and peaceful heart, there was an urge to cheer loudly. Although she temporarily suppressed this impulse, the uncontrollable smile on the corner of her mouth still betrayed her excitement.

"High Priest Holy See." Catherine raised her voice and called Doris back from her trance: "Please check if these fragments are the quest items you need to find in the quest you commissioned. If there is no problem, please confirm on this adventurer badge, and wait until you confirm. The mission will be officially over."

"That's right, this is exactly what we commissioned to find." Doris turned around and waved his hand. A high-level priest of the mermaid clan who had met came over. Doris called the artifact fragments into her hand, put them in a box made of unknown materials and put them in a box made of unknown materials, then said to Catherine: "My Lord's eyes passed through my eyes and saw these broken artifacts. My God had just descended the oracle, and these were indeed evil things that had troubled the sea clan for more than three thousand years. Therefore, several adventurers have already received gratitude from the ocean and the God of Storm. In the distant future, when the opportunity is right, you will naturally receive rewards from Storm."

"Thank you for your mercy." Catherine bowed and offered her gratitude to the powerful god.

"Okay, the mission handover is over here." Doris handed Catherine the confirmed Adventurer emblem, grabbed Catherine's hand and raised it high, turned around and faced the large number of sea tribes and shouted: "The following is the moment to welcome victory with cheers."

"Hey, Sister Doris." Catherine's face felt hot. Although she had experienced many big scenes, she was an experienced adventurer and a well-educated noble woman, she was still a girl in her early twenties. Facing the shouts from thousands of sea tribes, Catherine twisted her arms very much, trying to break free from Doris's hand: "Don't do this, it's awkward. And this is the result of everyone's efforts. It's not fair for me to accept the cheers."

"You are the leader, and it is your duty to accept the cheerful respect." In Catherine's panic, Panis's hand gently placed on her shoulder from behind, and a difficult and serious voice sounded in her ears: "And think about your choices, these cheers, these gratitudes, and these sincere respects, each of them is what you deserve. Apart from you, I believe that no one can do better than you in this mission. The final choice you made has proved that you are worthy of the name of our adventure group and the followers of Nellie. I believe that if Nellie is still alive, you will be proud of having followers like you. Look back at the expressions and eyes of your companions. Everyone supports you and trust you, so stand up and welcome this glory that belongs to you. That is your most perfect medal."

Catherine was stunned for a moment, and slowly burst into a bright smile. But she did not do what Panis said, but instead grabbed Lina's hand with her empty hands. The girls' eyes seemed to be able to speak, and they knew each other's meaning without any need to communicate with each other in words. Lina looked down at the hand held by Catherine, and pulled Vivian's little hand with the same smile. Vivian thought for a while, grabbed Freya with a smile, and then Freya grabbed Panis, who looked reluctant. The five of them stood in a row with their hands in hand, and raised their hands together to welcome the cheers of the sea tribes.

"Maybe you are right, Panis, but I still don't think this is my glory." Catherine said proudly: "Even if the cheers are only for me, I choose to share them with you, because this is the glory of all of us and the glory of everyone. Yes, it is me who made the choice, but without you standing behind me all the time, I may not be able to resist this temptation. So, if you must accept this glory, then let everyone bear it together, just like bearing pain and hardships together, this is the choice that the family should make."

Panis's pupils shrank slightly, and although he still had the smile he had just kept on his face, a sigh of grief in his heart, and a thought circled silently in his mind: "Maybe, she is right? This is also something I had done wrong back then? Alas, maybe."

The cheers continued for a long time before slowly stopping. Doris put down Catherine's hand, suddenly turned around, hugged the five people together with a fish tail that was nearly ten meters long, and her face also restored the gentle and naughty expression of a sister she had seen in the Storm Temple. She hugged everyone hard and said in a low voice: "The business is over. Now it is the personal gratitude from Doris, which does not represent the temple, does not represent the race, but only represents a gratitude from friends from alien races."

"Sister Doris, calm down." Doris' fishtail was very powerful. The girls frowned. Catherine said hard: "Don't be so excited, let us go first."

"Do you know? What I feel during this period." Doris relaxed a little, but still hugged everyone with a fishtail and said, "You can't imagine how scared I was when I recovered from more than ten minutes of mental control. There was no sign of control. I had no time to fear and despair, and I had been forced to change my mind. Everything was left to the end of the control. Let's just say it directly. Before this, we had made all the preparations we could do. Several powerful demigods gathered in front of the statue of my Lord in the Storm Temple. Once you make other choices, we intend to temporarily fight the influence of this artifact with the help of the majesty of the icon, and join forces to create a devastating vortex to completely swallow the island. Ha, I will say it now, you will not be dissatisfied."

"Of course not, don't forget, but we reminded you to do this." Catherine shook her head and said, "But if you can let us go, we won't be dissatisfied."

"Haha, so excited, so sorry." Doris let go of her tail and continued, "Although we made so much preparation, it turns out that we still underestimated the power of this artifact. I really don't know how it did it. In the deep sea, the power of the icon can be directly affected by us. The defense measures set by several of our demigods did not produce any effect. In just a moment, we were controlled together and became loyal to the master of the artifact. After more than ten minutes, we escaped from control, and it was not until then that we knew what had just happened. If you had not destroyed this artifact, I wouldn't even dare to think about what would happen in the future. It was so terrible. When we recovered our will, everyone was at a loss. The fear that came from this delay almost collapsed everyone. It took us a long time to calm down."

"The thing is over." Panis patted Doris' back and said softly: "It shouldn't be possible that such a magic weapon will appear again in the future."

"Yes, the fate of the sea clan should be left to the sea clan itself." Catherine also said: "No one is qualified to control and enslave others, even for the sake of noble purposes."

"It seems that handing this matter over to you is the most correct choice I have made." Doris sighed: "On the way here, everyone discussed asking you to go to the temple to express their gratitude for you, but I guess you don't want to go back and forth again, so I'm going to move the banquet here and don't refuse. This is our wish."
Chapter completed!