Sarina confirmed part of Edgefield’s statement.
There was indeed a powerful god named [Star Sea God] on the second level – counting as a demigod to be more rigorous.
However, Sarina did not have any interactions with him, and only passed through the second level when she was being chased by the Write Worms. The Star Sea God neither blocked nor helped, and the two sides just passed by, which was also the usual attitude between the gods in the Abyss.
As for the environment of the second level, Sarina didn’t know much. She only remembered that it was mostly water and very little land.
The apostles rested and returned to their respective best.
Only then did Lu Yao click into the vortex.
The screen slowly displayed a prompt for [Black Abyss Level 2].
The vortex of the second level was on a cliff, and below it was indeed a vast ocean with stars flooding the waters.
Below the cliffs were several Spellmark monsters, which were gnawing on the corpses of two clay figurines.
Under Lu Yao’s command, Sarina swiftly decimated the Spellmark Monsters.
An exclamation mark rose above Bian Ye’s head as he made his way to the corpses of his kind. When the Clay Ones died, their corpses all turned into piles of brown earth.
“All dead …… The friends who escaped with me this time, all dead ……”
Lu Yao thought in his heart, since this level is a water world, he has to transfer a professional water operator over.
He told the Apostles to stand by for the time being and manoeuvred the Deep Sea Lord all the way from the Pixel World.
Klaw entered the sea, and his body quickly bulged, reverting to the form of a backed island.
Lu Yao had the crowd board the island and use the Deep Sea Lord, a sea fortress, to navigate through the water.
During the time that Lu Yao had mobilised his foreign aid, Isabel had pried out quite a bit of information from Bian Ye.
“My lord, the Clay Clan lives in a kind of water nest.”
She explained, “That is the wisdom given to them by the Star Ocean God, allowing them to live in the water. And the Clay Clan’s food comes from algae, shellfish, and various fish in the water; the food will make them feel satisfied, but they can actually survive for a long time without eating ……”
Soon, Lu Yao saw a water nest in the sea not far away.
It was a large mud ball floating on the water, coated with a sticky green substance that looked like grease or paint.
The water nest sank slowly as the waves pushed and shoved it.
Suddenly, a hole opened up in the top of the water nest, and several long vines were thrown out of it, with a small mud man crawling out along them.
He lay down on the surface of the mud ball and pulled up the vines underneath which hung strings of shellfish of various sizes, looking like some sort of strange decoration.
The villain removed the shells, then plopped all the way back to the sink, where the hole was blocked again.
This is basically the daily life of a clay man as an adult.
Drifting at sea, foraging for food, raising shells, waiting to meet up with other people in their watery nests, and then possibly becoming friends, or turning into couples to start families.
They spend most of their time hiding in their water nests, consuming very little and living long lives.
In the past, there were only two moments when the Clay Ones would come ashore to live – when a baby was born, and when they were about to die.
If they were to reproduce, the Clay Ones would manoeuvre their watery nests all the way back to the sacred place of their birth, and the place of Lord Starsea’s divine revelation.
At the sanctuary, newborn babies would be blessed by the gods and saved from disease. There are two other most important things there, the Companion Vine and the divine artefact of the gods, the [Wishing Star].
The Companion Vine will accompany every Clay One throughout their lives.
It is a strange creature, and each Old Folk baby will pick a shoot from the long vine that wraps around the [Wishing Star], and this Companion Vine will stay with the Old Folk for the rest of their lives.
The Companion Vine will not only be a companion, but it can also reinforce water nests, hold shells and catch fish and shrimp, and will rescue its companion in times of danger.
This is a gift from the gods.
It’s hard for the Clay Clan to live here without the Companion Vine.
And once the initial companion vine was lost due to various reasons, it was very difficult to get the next companion vine. Because companion vines also need time to gradually grow and form trust and dependence with the companion, and they have a distinct exclusivity.
During his escape, Banno’s companion vine was torn apart by the Spellmark Monster, which also plunged him into despair.
The [Wishing Star] of the Holy Land, on the other hand, was a divine artefact left behind by the Star Ocean Gods. Although the god had most likely fallen, this divine artefact was still immortal, and the Curse Worm was unable to devour it.
The [Wishing Star], on the other hand, was the hope in the eyes of all the old folk.
Every believer could make a wish on it, praying with all their heart and soul in the most pious manner. The gods can then hear the deepest prayers and desires of the believers.
Many believers would receive the gaze of the Star Ocean Gods and have their wishes come true.
Unfortunately, since the invasion of the Curse Worms led to the fall of the gods, the apostles who ruled the Wishing Star also died out. The [Wishing Star] has fallen into complete silence and no longer responds to wishes.
On the island where the Deep Sea Lord was incarnated, a scared expression with his hands clasping his head appeared above Edano’s head.
He said, “Lords of the Apostles, the holy land has been taken over by spell seal monsters, and they spawn there …… unable to dock.”
“The holy land is in the centre of the sea, and there are spellmark monsters on the water all around there, and they are hunting the water nests everywhere, and the Clay Ones are having a very hard time living …… Most of the time we have to hide the water nests underwater.”
Whether this is a measure of the spellbugs or a result of pure inadvertence remains to be seen.
The current state of affairs on the second level of the Abyss is that the Spellbugs are gradually replacing the Clay Villains.
The second layer was much larger than the first, and even with Isabelle searching in the air and the Abyssal Lords moving forward on the water, it took Lu Yao half an hour to find his way to the central land.
Speaking of land, it was more like a large isolated island.
The island was covered with a white fluffy substance that looked like spider silk, like a giant spider’s nest.
Right in the centre was a giant sphere that took up a third of the island.
It was also covered from top to bottom by a tangle of white filaments, and at the top was what looked like a black pod from which the island’s filaments came.
Lu Yao called up his [Eye of True Vision] to check it out.
……
[Parasite Eggsheath LV70]: Eggsheaths made by Spellworm-Parasite.
Life value: 8592/24180
Damage: 42
Defence: 94
Speed: 0
[Hatching]
Consumes life points to hatch spellmarked monsters.
[Spellmark]
Strike a spellmark and draw the fire of faith through it.
[Rumination]
Spellmark monsters send captured mature spellmarks into their egg sheaths to focus the power of faith.
……
[Sigil]: None.
[Divinity]: Humble as a mole (13478).
[Divine Body]: none.
……
Lu Yao saw it.
This [Parasite] was using spell seals to extract the Flame of Faith from the body of each claymore before sending it back into the egg sheath.
Hunting the Clay Ones is just a means to an end.
The egg sheath in the centre of the land can be seen as an idol made by the parasitic worms.
It’s times like these that it’s the Yeti’s turn to step in.
“Jimmy will get the job done!”
The snowman was out.
As the Deep Lord crashed into the edge of the island, a single spellbinding monster crawled out of the white silk mesh of the sanctuary, and they rushed at the intruder in droves as if on reflex.
Facing these low-level monsters, the Tyrant and the Blood Knights launched a lopsided purge.
Jimmy’s figure was ghostly and soon rolled all the way up to the dead ball, his red gloves clawing towards the egg sheath.
Lu Yao’s upper right corner showed Faith +9321.
The Egg Sheath was made anxious by this and immediately spewed out a thread of silk to wrap around the snowman.
But the Yeti was too fast, constantly moving nimbly, and even pulled out another hand towards his opponent after meandering around.
Faith +1227.
This time, the bugs that were originally fending off the Tyrant and Blood Knights turned around, and one by one, they rushed towards the Yeti like crazy.
Seeing this, Jimmy darted all the way back, and was met by the Blood Knights in the rear.
“Lord God, that egg sheath has no props, it’s poor, only some faith fires.” Jimmy stated.
Lu Yao thought it was not bad at all.
A small profit of ten thousand.
The Black Abyss really is a treasure trove of goods! I’ll have to visit more often in the future when I have time.
Next, it was clearing time for Sarina and Nevid.
