Woody looked at the young monk girl in front of him who looked much worse than before, and while she was stunned, he got closer.
The cave becomes smaller and smaller as you go inside, and it can't actually accommodate many people.
He put down his long sword, sat next to the young monk girl, sat directly on the ground against the uneven rock wall, and spoke earnestly.
"Or do you think you can turn into a shark on the beach and bite me to death..."
"……you?!"
Looking at Angelina's confused eyes, Woody sighed helplessly.
"Am I that stupid in your mind? Can't you even guess your true identity now?"
"This must have been bitten off by a shark!"
Woody pointed to her broken left hand.
"Also, you should have snatched this long sword from the bloody-skull pirate! Otherwise, why would you have the sword of the Orson family in your hand?"
Regardless of the girl covering her severed hand with her robe, Woody pulled out the mithril stabbing sword stuck in the sand.
There is a line of inconspicuous Elvish language inside the shining silver sword guard - "Orson".
This was what he was studying in the dining room that morning.
"It must have been the group of sharks you controlled that didn't attack me that night! That megalodon was you? Otherwise, why did you say sorry to me..."
"If you still say no, then I'll turn around and leave now!"
Angelina heard Woody's almost affirmative tone and wanted to refute, but in the end she silently lowered her eyelids and whispered helplessly.
"Yes... everything you said is right..."
"I'm a monster, I can't kill you, I can only be helpless and furious..."
"He is a coward who only knows how to avoid..."
The monk girl pursed her lips, her eyes were painful and tangled, and her tone became lower and lower.
But just when she thought Woody was going to continue to taunt her.
What came to her ears was not the boy's almost cold and paranoid question, but a warmth like a winter stove, refreshing her heart.
"But none of this is your fault, is it?"
"Did you want to become a megalodon yourself?"
Facing the gentle voice, the girl subconsciously shook her head.
"That's right. It's not your fault. What are you afraid of? What are you resisting?"
Seeing that Angelina finally got on the road, Woody sighed deeply. Every time he gave these lycanthropic natives who were infected with the "Call of the Deep", it would take a while to get them back to being able to communicate with normal people.
s level.
"I……"
Angelina was speechless.
"Don't talk. I'll ask you to nod or shake your head."
Woody looked at the young monk girl in front of him and knew that she had completely calmed down, so he didn't talk too much.
"You know how the mutation in your body came about, right? I guess the news you got is that it's lycanthropy, right?"
Angelina nodded.
"And the reason why you panic is just because you find that you can't control your body when you are crazy. Animal nature is greater than human nature, right?"
This time the girl nodded more forcefully.
"You really want to control it, but you find that you just can't control it. You want to walk into the ocean. When you enter the sea water, it feels like you're back home, right?"
"How did you..." Gu Lu
Angelena finally couldn't help it this time and wanted to know why the young man in front of her could easily express her feelings.
It's like the "lycanthropy disease" mentioned by the tavern owner. Although she transformed under the same full moon, it actually still doesn't match her feelings.
But lycanthropy was the only disease that could describe her current physical condition, so she subconsciously thought it was lycanthropy.
"How do I know so clearly?"
"Because I've seen other people suffer from this disease."
Of course Woody would not tell her that after the Golden Years, many indigenous people and players were infected with this disease.
This is just the beginning, there will be more in the future.
In his memory, this series of events can be triggered as long as the player character is on the coast or on the islands.
Because this was a curse created by Sekola, the god of the sea and hunting, whom the sahuagin believed in. At that time, creatures affected by this disease could be seen from the Ice Floe Sea in the north to the Starfall Sea in the south.
This vicious, ferocious, and eternally hungry giant shark god wanders in Baator Hell all year round, driving his countless followers in the ocean to continuously plunder, to slaughter non-stop, and to rule all sea areas.
And in order to appreciate the gillless species also joining the army of pleasing Him, "Call of the Deep Sea" came into being.
All sea creatures blessed by his divine power will attack humanoid creatures with a curse called "Call of the Deep".
Because as long as you are bitten by a sea beast in the sea, the curse "Call of the Deep" will transform the injured person into a lycanthrope with the ability to transform.
Sea wolves, sharks, killer whales and even mosasaurs all have curses attached to them.
However, most of the latter three ended up forever turning into mosasaurs or other sea beasts without being able to change back, and were indulging in the desire to kill and prey.
After all, in the druid's advanced "Shapeshifter", if you want to transform into a mosasaur, the minimum perception attribute must be 30 or above.
The deformed shark has a minimum of 18 points to restrain the savagery and madness flowing in the blood of the body and suppress the animal nature.
It would be great if most players could survive the sea wolf's attacks without being affected by their animalistic nature.
However, there are still lucky people who have harnessed the power brought by the curse. The pirate king "Giant Shark" Locke, who I mentioned before, will receive the legendary pirate treasure map in the future and sail across thousands of seas. He is a person cursed by the call of the deep sea.
An aborigine, his giant shark form makes him invincible in the ocean.
The reason why the monk girl in front of her was not completely devoured by the beastly nature of the megalodon is probably because of her extraordinary perception attribute, which allowed her to control part of her humanity and prevent it from being destroyed by the beastly nature.
But if no one helps, the ocean will become her true destination.
Become an "eternal drowner".
After transforming a few times at most, or fighting fiercely two or three times, as long as she doesn't find a suitable method, she will completely sink and surrender to the animal nature that is gradually emerging in her body.
The human nature and the animal nature in the body are not evenly matched, and one side will always end up defeated.
…
"Then...can this disease be cured?"
"I heard from the tavern uncle before that there is a cure if you go to Gem Town, but I didn't expect to encounter pirates..."
Although Angelina's tone was low, her eyes were a little more angry.
But it dimmed in the next second, because Woody shook his head and affirmed.
"If you can't cure it, unless you kill the god who spreads the curse, your soul will belong to him after death."
"As for the town of Gemu you mentioned, there is indeed an abandoned altar of the Lady of the Moon. She protects all kind-hearted lycanthropes. If you are a lycanthrope, you can indeed master the ability to freely transform there.
"
If you choose the lycanthrope race to start among the saints, you will be born in the town of Gemu. Woody remembers that there is an abandoned lair of a bronze dragon on the coast behind the town. As long as you defeat a few drowned undead in the water, you can get a certain probability.
A magical object.
"However, you are not a lycanthrope, but a professional who was cursed by the call of the deep sea, so the blessing given by Lady Moon to the lycanthrope has no effect on you..."
Woody's words were like the final declaration of the trial, which directly made Angelina feel that she had been on the execution platform, and her heart was filled with despair.
However, Woody's words suddenly changed.
"However, although this curse cannot be cured, it can be controlled."
Her hair almost fell to the ground. The girl suddenly raised her head and threw her head. As if she was coming back to life, her gloomy eyes brightened instantly. She stepped forward without hesitation with both hands and tightly grasped the young man's sleeves, praying.
