80. Extinct volcanic island
The extinct volcanic island shows a clear outline little by little on the sea level, the emerald peaks surround a piece of inland sea of less than one square kilometer, the highest point of the rolling peaks is only four or five hundred meters, the mountain is steep, the mountain walls are covered with all kinds of emerald green vegetation, in the southwest corner of the crater, the mountain gradually extends into the sea, breaking a gap that is 100 meters wide.
The water near here is exceptionally clear, if you put your head into the sea, you can vaguely see an incomparably huge cone-shaped mountain sticking out of the dark deep sea, such a strange topography, so that there are no shallows around the extinct volcanic island, some low-level sea beasts lazily lie on the reef on the edge of the island to bask in the sun, see a sailboat appear on the sea, have jumped into the sea and disappeared.
The 'Sherry' only circled the extinct volcanic island, and Deborah, who was in charge of guarding the air, landed on the ship's tower and told me that something was wrong in the sea not far away.
When we arrived at that sea area on the 'Shirley', we happened to see a group of low-level sea beasts that had already dived into the deep sea, less than 500 meters away from the 'Shirley', as if they were boiling a pot, they came out of the sea, their bodies floating on the surface of the sea and running in all directions.
At this time, some tentacles stretched out from the sea one after another, dragging the low-level sea beasts that had fled to the surface of the sea into the sea one after another. As the low-level sea beasts continued to disappear on the surface of the sea, the blood stains that surged up in the sea also quickly dissipated under the lapping of the waves.
Black shadows continued to appear in the sea, like a school of sharks, writhing their huge bodies in the sea, and constantly approaching the 'Sherry'.
Looking at the dense black shadows in the sea in the distance, the sailors on the 'Shirley' began to panic, and some of them knelt on the deck and prayed to the god of the sea, to the effect that the souls of the dead would not be burdened with sins.
I noticed that they were swimming very fast, and when they began to appear, they were just a few black dots in the sea, gradually forming a black curve, and they kept writhing in the sea and surging towards us, hundreds of Faceless warriors appeared in our field of vision, and the number of these warriors was constantly increasing, and the entire sea area of the extinct volcanic island was full of traces of Faceless warriors.
The group of Faceless Ones finally caught up with my 'Shirley' near the extinct volcanic island, Noah and I ran to the captain's room as fast as we could, pushed open the wooden door, and Noah ordered the ship's first mate: "Tell the ship, all the people on board are ready to fight, we must break out!"
The first mate sat in the captain's room, holding the rudder with one hand, and said with a desperate face, "There are too many of these Faceless warriors, they will work together to drag our ship into the sea, and then strangle us one by one in the sea, and we will suffocate in the sea and sink to the cold bottom of the sea." ”
As he spoke, the group of Faceless Ones in the sea surface, revealing their black backs, like a school of whales, they even disturbed the waves of the sea, and the sea was full of Faceless warriors.
The sailors were terrified, they gathered on the side of the ship and talked to each other, some sailors ran to the bow of the ship, pushed the winch to tighten the bowstring of the speargun, ready for battle, and some sailors turned their heads to look at the captain's room, waiting for the first mate to give the order, they did not know that the first mate of the 'Shirley' saw the countless faceless people in the sea, and his heart collapsed.
Seeing the first mate sitting in the captain's room with a decadent look, Noah grabbed the first mate by the collar and yelled at him, "If you don't give it a try, how do you know you won't be able to do it?"
A ball of water condensed on top of the first mate's head, dissipating the mana to control the water ball, and the ice water top poured down head-on, pouring the first mate to the heart.
He shivered in the icy water, and suddenly came to his senses, and looked at me and Noah with wide eyes and puzzled, with an unyielding expression, 'I'm here ready to die, why do you two magicians humiliate me before I die?'
Seeing that he had not fully woken up, I leaned into his ear and said to him: "Wake up, drive the boat into the inland sea of the extinct volcanic island, Noah and I will find a way to buy you some time, even if we die, we don't have to make it now!"
"Boss, those Faceless Ones...... They're coming!" shouted the sailors on deck, their voices full of despair and trembling.
I patted the first mate's slightly confused face vigorously, and the stubble on his face was a little prickly.
The first mate gradually woke up from the loss of his soul and looked at me in a daze.
I continued to shout to him, "We can still hide on the island now, if those Faceless warriors leave the sea and fight on the island, their combat strength will be reduced by at least half, and we can run into the jungle to fight them, but for now, you must sail to the extinct volcanic island!"
The first mate's eyes brightened, and the 'hope of life' made him look a little excited, and he blushed and stared at me intensely.
I went on to say to him, "As long as we get to the island of the extinct volcano, we climb to the top of the mountain, take the best position, and think of those Faceless warriors climbing, we are not without hope of surviving!"
"That's right, we can survive, we can still fight, and we won't give up until the last minute!" shouted the first mate, nervously.
He struggled to stand up straight, reached out and wiped a handful of ice water from his face, strode to the door of the captain's quarters, and yelled at the panicked sailors on deck, "Sail...... Quickly raise the sail for Lao Tzu and turn the rudder...... Are you all waiting on the deck to eat shit? Hurry up and paddle in the paddle room, full speed ahead!"
The first mate's scolding appeared on the 'Shirley', and the sailors on board, who were trembling at the sight of the Faceless warriors, calmed down, reflexively got up from the deck, and rushed to the paddle room below the deck, and the sailors who controlled the sail angle of the main mast of the sailing ship hurriedly pulled the pulley ropes.
The whole sailing sailors began to act in good training again.
I stood at the stern of the boat with Noah, Shirley Newman, Senior Dylan, and Ying Li, and launched a wild bombardment against the faceless warriors who were chasing the waves at the stern of the boat, because the target was on the sea, and everyone had no scruples at this time, and the scorching fireballs shot out from the hands of Noah, Shirley, and Ying Li, and the fireballs exploded on the sea, and the faceless warriors who were chasing the front were injured by the fire magic, and their backs were blown up by the fireballs.
Senior Dylan threw out a 'secret blade' again.
The 'Arcane Blade' is made up of spatial rifts, and from the moment it is formed, it constantly devours everything around it...... Even the air and sea water around the arcane blade were absorbed into the spatial rift, including a very unlucky faceless warrior, and the moment he jumped high from the sea, this 'arcane blade' just passed through his body...... His massive body shrank rapidly like a leaking balloon, and when the arcane blade flew out from behind the faceless warrior, all he was left with a layer of skin, and all his flesh and blood were sucked into the spatial rift.
For a water magician, it is a unique advantage to perform magic on the vast sea.
Take the ice wall as an example, it was originally divided into three steps: 'water gathering', 'transformation' and 'ice condensation', but when it comes to the sea, the step of 'gathering water' can be completely omitted, and a large amount of seawater can be directly drawn from the sea, and the 'transformation' becomes a water wall, and finally it takes a huge amount of mana, so that all the water walls I created are frozen and horizontal at the stern.
One after another, the ice walls of more than forty meters long, as the magic pattern arrays that were constantly drawn slowly took shape, and these fell into the sea, which seemed extremely powerful, and several ice walls blocked the faceless warriors who chased after them.
The sailors who remained on deck maneuvered their spearguns and threw harpoons at the Faceless warriors who were catching up behind, and the harpoons made graceful trajectories in the air and landed in the crowd of Faceless warriors, huddled together with the Faceless warriors who could avoid it, and almost every harpoon could hit a Faceless.
In this way, our 'Sherry', under the control of the first mate, quickly sailed into the inland sea of less than one square kilometer in the extinct volcanic island.
As the Faceless warriors poured into the gap less than a hundred meters wide on the extinct volcanic island, dozens of Faceless warriors huddled together, and they became entangled in each other, but they were delayed for some time.
Rao was like this, and some Faceless warriors chased after the stern of the 'Shirley', and the speed of the 'Shirley' did not dare to slow down at all, and rushed straight towards a shallow beach in the inland sea, the inland sea of the extinct volcanic island has a very large sandy beach, and the sailboat rushed to the beach under the control of the first mate.
The bronze ramming angle in the bow of the ship plunged directly into the sand, and the whole big ship, driven by inertia, glided directly on the fine sand, and a large ditch several meters deep was plowed in the stern, and the whole sailboat rowed across the beach and crashed headlong into a dense palm grove, and several tall palm trees were uprooted by the sailboat.
A flock of seabirds flew up from the forest with a fluttering sound.
The hull of the sailboat was hung with vines from the dense forest, and under the pull of these vines, the sailboat stopped.
The moment the ship came to a stop, I felt a violent tremor, and the sailors on board fell in unison.
Ying Li and I also stood unsteadily at the stern of the boat, and we both crashed into the wall of the ship.
At this time, Ruka, who had been guarding behind me, hurriedly grabbed my arm, which saved me from falling on my head.
Looking behind from the stern of the ship, the Faceless warriors also tracked down the deep trenches plowed by the sailboats, crawling out of the sea and rushing towards our ship.
In order to test the strength of the ice slide, Karantso took the lead in sliding down from the boat, and some sailors threw down ropes directly from the sailing boat more than ten meters high, and the sailors skillfully tied the ropes to get off the sea boat, and some sailors slipped down the oars.
In short, when the sailors ran down from the ship, there were already Faceless warriors chasing after them from behind, and Karantso did not hesitate to rush forward with his double-edged broadsword and engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat with those Faceless warriors.
The first mate stood in the dense forest and shouted to the sailors who ran down from the ship: "Everyone run up the mountain!"
Karantso, along with Ruka and Katerina, plunged headlong into the forest with the sailors.
Noah and Shirley Newman and Ying Li stayed on the boat with me, and we ran up the stairs of the ship to the roof.
The tall Faceless warriors were simply blocked by the trees of the dense forest, and the Faceless Ones were constantly rushing up from the sea, and the numerous Faceless Exhibitions crushed the dense trees, treading on these overwhelmed trees, following the trails we left behind, all the way.
Of course, Noah and I were not stupid enough to run stupidly in the dense forest with this group of sailors at this time, just on the roof of the ship, several of our magicians took out the magic handles, and then everyone rode on the magic handles, I carried Helena, Ying Li carried Becky, and everyone rode the magic handlebars and took off.
Deborah hovered happily around me, and she could easily fly through the gaps in the forest.
Fearing that we would be targeted by those Faceless warriors in the air, we didn't dare to fly too high, but we just shuttled through the dense forest, and in a few breaths, we caught up with the group of sailors running ahead.
The sailors weave through the dense forest, and the Facelings are too large to make it through the dense forest, so I reckon that they will need to level the forest and carve a way through the island before they can catch up with us.
Although there were Faceless warriors landing one after another, it was not an easy task to open up a new path in the dense forest, so after we landed on the island, we quickly climbed to a higher place and threw off those Faceless warriors in one fell swoop.
There is only one crater on the extinct volcanic island, and the mountain is only a few hundred meters high.
Fortunately, it was originally a circular crater, so the mountain is a little steep and covered with green vegetation that allows us to hide in it.
Climbing to the top of the mountain, he saw that the sailors were exhausted and out of breath, so Karantso told everyone to rest for a while.
The sailors climbed the ridge, exhausted and panting, and everyone sat down staggeringly, drinking and resting, and several kettles passed from among the sailors.
I sat around with Noah and Senior Dylan, I took out the chart from my magic belt bag, spread it on the ground, and used a charcoal pen to draw a straight line between the extinct volcano island and the island of Haushuf, and then calculated the distance before saying to Noah: "If you ride the magic handle from here and fly all the way to Haushuf Island, it will take two days to reach Haushuf Island, have you ever experienced such a long-distance flight?"
"I had this kind of long-distance flight training at the magic academy in Palestina, but at that time, this kind of flying training in the academy was all on land, and we had plenty of time to rest, and the surroundings were safe enough. Noah paused for a moment, and then said, "But this is on the sea, not to mention those faceless ones, if we want to complete a long flight, we must rest halfway to recover our mental strength and magic power, but there is no place to rest on this sea." ”
"I have a survival raft here to rest you at sea, you go with Shirley and Senior Dylan, and you go back and tell Earl Evan about this island, which is a natural hunting ground, and we are here to hunt the Faceless General. I said to Noah.
As I spoke, I pulled out a stack of soft leather from my magical fanny pack and handed it to him.
"So...... What about you, Jiga, aren't you going with me?" Noah asked me in surprise.
"I'm staying here, taking these sailors and the Faceless Ones around, without me, even if there are dangerous peaks and dense forests, I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to survive. I whispered to Noah, "Also, I'm going to set up this island, which is our main battlefield." ”
Noah was about to speak, but I interrupted, I stuffed the sheepskin raft into his arms, and whispered: "I hope you bring the situation on the island back, with Senior Dylan with you and Shirley, even if there is an emergency, you can open the portal and slip away, be careful on the way!"