In Yara's observation, the religious ritual the Oros people were performing seemed to be coming to an end.
The Oros people, who had been kneeling, all stood up and loudly cheered the same word, while the Oros priest turned and left the platform in front of the Dragon Nest, retreating to the outer area.
As their fervent shouts filled the air, a piercing cry suddenly came from the Smoke Sea, as if something in the Smoke Sea was responding to them.
Hearing the response, the Oros people screamed even louder and became even more fanatical, as if they wanted to completely tear their throats.
Immediately after, Yara saw huge waves rising on the surface of the Smoke Sea, and gusts of air blew away the large amount of poisonous smoke that permeated the area above, as if a colossal creature was rising from the seabed.
Soon, the sea surface began to boil, and a huge tentacle emerged from the water, striking the nearby cliff.
The tentacle's suckers firmly adhered to the cliff face.
Subsequently, a second, then a third, and then seven or eight more tentacles emerged from the water, attaching themselves to the cliff.
Following that, a sea monster, roughly the size of two elephants and covered in festering boils, emerged from the Smoke Sea.
It crawled along the cliff face and onto the platform outside the Dragon Nest.
At this moment, the Oros people instantly fell silent.
They nervously watched the sea monster that had climbed onto the platform, while some of the treasure hunters who were being used as sacrifices were still alive.
The moment they saw the sea monster, they all screamed madly, struggling desperately to escape their predicament.
However, their violent movements actually gave the sea monster the best guidance.
The sea monster extended its tentacles, precisely covering the sacrifices.
The screams of the sacrifices abruptly ceased, and when the sea monster's tentacles moved away, all the sacrifices had turned into mummified corpses, as if all the liquid in their bodies had been drained.
At this point, the sea monster seemed unsatisfied with these sacrifices.
Its tentacles swept towards the Oros people outside the platform.
Those Oros people tried to escape in terror, but the sea monster's tentacles were faster, instantly coiling around several Oros people.
When released, the Oros people also turned into mummified corpses.
However, compared to those who were used as sacrifices, these pus-oozing Oros people did not seem to suit the sea monster's appetite.
It quickly found a new target: the Ayla and Yara sisters, who were hiding in the dilapidated tower observing the situation.
"Danger, danger!" The sisters instantly sensed an unprecedentedly strong danger.
They disregarded their exposed position, quickly jumped down from the tall tower, crawled out, and then ran towards the direction away from the coast.
However, their movements were quick, but the sea monster's movements were even faster, and its tentacles seemed to extend infinitely.
Soon, a tentacle stretched out for hundreds of meters, directly blocking the sisters' path and wrapping around them.
An extreme sense of danger swept through their bodies, instantly making the sisters' limbs go limp.
They sat on the ground, able only to watch helplessly as the tentacles covered them.
Just as the sisters felt that they were doomed this time, a grand roar, which made everyone feel awe and a desire to prostrate themselves, descended from the sky.
Everyone who heard this sound involuntarily knelt on the ground, and the sea monster also seemed to feel fear.
It no longer continued to capture the Ayla and Yara sisters, but instead retracted its tentacles, wriggled frantically towards the cliff edge, and then directly jumped off the cliff, falling vertically towards the sea surface, attempting to return to the sea as quickly as possible.
Although the sea monster fell quickly, the lightning was even faster.
A thick, silver-blue bolt of lightning descended from the sky, striking the sea monster directly, instantly cooking it from the inside out.
Ayla and Yara could even smell the scent of roasted squid.
Subsequently, everyone saw a bizarre giant dragon with four wings and four legs appear in the cloud mass formed by the poisonous smoke in the sky.
This giant dragon continuously emitted lightning from its body, like an embodiment of lightning.
The surrounding poisonous clouds were torn into countless fragments by the lightning, and with the obstruction of the dark clouds gone, sunlight pierced through the hole, falling upon the Oros ruins, which had not seen sunlight for many years.
A layer of sacred light also appeared on the giant dragon's body.
The giant dragon hovered in the air for a moment, then plunged down at extreme speed, landing on the sea surface.
Its four dragon claws grabbed the roasted sea monster from the water, and its four wings flapped slightly, effortlessly lifting the sea monster, which was much larger than itself, into the air.
It then landed on the platform of the Governor's Mansion's Dragon Nest.
The Oros people were completely terrified by the scene before them.
They discovered that the god they worshipped was killed so easily, and it even looked like it would become the giant dragon's food.
Their minds were blank at this moment, as if their souls had been drawn out.
Only some Oros people with inherited knowledge found legends about giant dragons in their memories, and when they saw a knight in armor jump off the giant dragon, they couldn't help but think of the former rulers of this city, the Valyrian Dragonlords.
At this moment, the armored knight also looked at the Oros people and walked towards them.
A inexplicable fear arose in the hearts of all the Oros people, as if it wasn't a knight approaching, but a terrifying embodiment.
They scattered in panic, some even running frantically to the cliff edge and directly jumping off, falling into the sea, their fate unknown.
Soon, the Oros people around the Dragon Nest fled completely, leaving only the giant dragon, the knight, and the two-headed sisters in the distance.
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