Chapter 73: The Lady of the Lake's Invitation

Until all the Drowners at the scene fled, Wayne could no longer maintain his tense state, and half-knelt on the ground somewhat weakly, and his body under the armor also sent out painful signals.

The style of trading injuries for life just now, although the lethality was amazing and the efficiency was extremely high, allowing him to avoid the siege of the Drowners, also added more than a dozen bruises and abrasions to his body. The high-intensity battle of just over ten minutes almost consumed most of his physical strength.

Wayne knelt on the ground, panting lightly. After about five minutes, his body recovered a little under the effect of the Swallow potion.

He stood up and walked toward the blood pool altar in the depths of the cave. When passing the corpse of the special Drowner, he didn't forget to put the strange staff forged from unknown metal into the storage bag.

In the blood pool, those strange-looking eight-tentacled octopuses were still rolling in the blood, and six hostages sat in the blood pool, leaning against the wooden stakes, still not recovering consciousness.

Wayne went up to check their pulse and breathing. Although weak, they were still alive.

However, when observing their faces, Wayne was horrified to find that many small octopus tentacles had grown on their chins at some point.

Although they hadn't grown to twenty or thirty centimeters long like that special Drowner, both bones and flesh and blood seemed to have undergone permanent changes because of this weird ritual.

This kind of weird thing made Wayne very worried, and he couldn't help but think of horror movie plots like the arrival of evil gods and looking for bodies.

Perhaps like an alien, there are already descendants of evil gods gestating in the bodies of these hostages, waiting for the time to be ripe to break out of the body.

He reached out and pulled the godling Fiss, who was the smallest, out of the blood pool, flipped his eyelids, his pupils were scattered, and he had no consciousness.

He put this little guy into the cold water of a water pit on the side, letting the cold liquid submerge his body, but unfortunately there was still no sign of waking up.

Seeing this, Wayne was also quite distressed. Although the Drowners in the cave might have all fled, if he wanted to leave this cave, he had to pass through that underwater passage more than a hundred meters long.

Wayne himself could pass through there with the help of the Harpy amulet, but wanting to bring a few people who were in a coma and completely unable to move through there was simply a daydream.

And these hostages were not dead yet. Leaving them here to fend for themselves didn't seem quite appropriate.

There was no way, Wayne could only search for other exits in the cave. Unfortunately, after searching for half an hour from southeast to northwest, no exit was found, but he found a lot of wealth such as pearls and corals as spoils of war, making up for the loss of his few alchemy bombs.

And the state where the hostages still couldn't wake up made Wayne quite conflicted.

Just when he didn't know how to act and was in a dilemma, accompanied by three small footsteps, a familiar voice suddenly entered his ears:

"Wayne, are you okay?"

"I brought my father and mother to find you."

Hearing the sound, Wayne turned his head and saw three godlings with different heights, wearing simple fur clothes and purple skin, walking toward him.

Lara, that little guy, followed the two godlings who were obviously older, looking around uneasily.

After seeing Wayne, her eyes lit up immediately, and she wanted to run over excitedly, but was pulled by another female godling.

Seeing Lara, Wayne nodded to her with a smile, and then looked at the other two older godlings a few times.

Although godlings look about the same in appearance, these two godlings who blocked Lara were quite calm like elders.

That male godling was clearly not young. Not only did his height reach about 1.2 meters, but even black and white mixed beards grew on his chin.

He held a staff made of the bones of some animal in his hand. Seeing Wayne looking over, he bowed politely to Wayne and responded: "Mr. Wayne, thank you for your care for my daughter Lara, and thank you for your adventure to save my son Fiss."

"My name is Cruz, and I am the father of Lara and Fiss."

"I heard that witchers must collect corresponding rewards for performing commissions. After this matter, I will definitely pay you a reward that will satisfy you."

After saying this, he looked back at his wife and daughter who had anxious expressions, then looked at Wayne, paused for a second, and asked: "Looking at the situation, you have already defeated the Drowner priest here. I don't know how my child Fiss is now?"

Wayne nodded to Cruz and pointed to the side of the blood pool altar in the back, saying truthfully: "Mr. Cruz, I don't know the specific situation either."

"When I arrived here, a total of six hostages, including your son Fiss, were tied to the blood pool altar."

"They were holding an evil ritual."

"Although I killed the Drowners here, I don't understand their knowledge, and I can't wake up your son." "However, no matter what, it is best to bring these people out of the cave first. This is the territory of the Drowners. If you stay here for too long, you might be attacked by those Drowners again."

Cruz heard this and looked at the direction Wayne pointed. His expression also returned to anxiety. He nodded to Wayne and didn't say anything more. He immediately took his wife and Lara and ran toward the blood pool.

What surprised Wayne a bit was that this male godling mage Cruz was actually a quite powerful spellcaster.

Although he also had no way to save his son Fiss and the other five, he was able to use magic spells to use levitation and underwater breathing, solving the difficulty that Wayne could not bring them out from underwater before.

However, there were too many people who needed to be saved. Wayne protected their safety all the way and spent a full hour before escorting the godling family and the five hostages who had not yet woken up to the location of the Fisherman King.

For this, he also had to drag his tired body and fight with a group of wild wolves.

On the way, Lara told him that when the little guy was waiting outside the cave, her parents realized something was wrong when they returned home, hurried over from home, and found her, which led to the scene that followed.

When arriving near the small boat, the Fisherman King was still sitting on that stone, with the corpses of several Drowners lying beside him.

He saw such a large group of people coming, and turned to look at his small boat, before he could say anything.

Lara's mother, Angela, who had been taking care of her son in the team, suddenly walked to the shore, took out a leaf shining with green light from her clothes, and blew a melody in her mouth.

Dozens of seconds later, a huge sea turtle seven or eight meters long suddenly crawled out from the bottom of the lake.

After seeing the huge sea turtle, Lara clapped her hands excitedly and said to Wayne: "This is my mother's friend, Uncle Mandu. I didn't expect him to come to Wyzima Lake."

After the huge sea turtle crawled ashore, it talked to Angela in a language of an unknown race, then prostrated its body, letting Lara's father Cruz transfer all six people, including Fiss, to its back.

After doing all this, Cruz turned back to look at Wayne. The continuous spellcasting for so long made the godling mage look exhausted. He nodded to the witcher and asked: "Mr. Wayne, I must take my child home as soon as possible and use the power of the goddess altar to help him relieve the curse."

"As for the other five people, I don't have the ability to save them, so I can only transport them back to the vicinity of the swamp village and send them back to human hands."

"Is this okay?"

For such a way of handling, Wayne also nodded helplessly. No one knows how to solve the evil god's ritual. Being able to save them from the Drowner's lair is already merciful enough.

As for the fate of these people in the future, whether they can wake up and whether they can survive, it depends on their own luck.

And when they discussed the countermeasures and were about to leave Black Gull Island, the Fisherman King, who had been silent, suddenly opened his mouth and said in a hoarse voice:

"Mr. Wayne, Lara, and the cursed Fiss."

"The goddess invites you, hoping I will take you to see her."

Wayne was stunned upon hearing this. He didn't expect the legendary Lady of the Lake to invite him to meet tonight, and Cruz, who was originally full of sorrow, was very excited and happy to hear that the goddess wanted to see his daughter and son, and said:

"That's great, if the goddess is willing to bestow grace, my son Fiss will definitely be safe and sound."

Seeing that Wayne didn't agree immediately, the godling mage Cruz thought he was worried about something, or didn't know who the Lady of the Lake was, so he persuaded:

"Mr. Wayne, the Lady of the Lake is a kind and great god who has protected this lake for thousands of years."

"It is precisely because of the goddess's protection that this lake has not become a lair for the followers of the evil god Dagon."

"You destroyed the ritual of the evil god Dagon today and defeated his followers. The goddess will definitely reward you for this."

Wayne was not afraid that the Lady of the Lake would have any conspiracy against him, but was just considering the intention of this goddess. Seeing that the Fisherman King was still looking at him with inquiring eyes, he nodded and agreed to the invitation.

This is a kind and upright god, and seeing her won't be a loss.

Ding! 【Save the Godling Fiss】 completed.

Reward: 48 experience points, one Expert-level treasure chest.

(Thanks to the big bosses Yinqiangtiejian, Beidangyun, Feichangjinyao, Xiangzuo..., 20180622175609275, etc. for the tips, mwah.) (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 74 =====