40. Victims at sea

(It was already the next morning when our ship emerged from the tropical storm, and we sailed into a relatively safe area of water, and saw a group of Naga Hai people emerge from the sea, and the mermaid girl surrounded in the middle looked somewhat familiar.) Noah stepped forward to greet the group of Naga Clans, only to learn that it was Barbara, the princess of the Naga Clan, who chased all the way to thank Noah, but accidentally saved the 'Shirley' in the storm.

Noah and Barbara, the princess of the Naga Sea Clan, went on a date on the reef, and our boat was docked in this area to repair, and Jacques had the opportunity to rest on the boat for most of the day.

Unexpectedly, as soon as it was nightfall, Noah actually ordered the fleet to set off and continue to sail east.

I was going to ask Noah why he sailed at night, but he told me that he would find out soon. )

......

We waited on board the Shirley for most of the day, but we couldn't get an answer.

After a little drinking, I was going to return to the Slave Trader.

Senior Dylan came up and told me that all the drawings of his teleportation magic circle had been sorted out, and he wanted me to go to him and help him draw a few drawings of the magic pattern. When he said this, I readily agreed.

The two of us rode the magic handlebars to the terrace on the roof of the Beran's ship, and saw Jacques standing in the captain's quarters of the Belan, carefully measuring the charts while driving the 'Belan' through the vast sea.

In the waters of the Vasqui plane, there are countless reefs, shoals, whirlpools, and seaweed fields, and if a large ship rushes into it, it will be fatal.

Sailing at night, without the guidance of a chart, is a risky affair.

The first mate stood on the bow of the ship, originally a slender wooden pole stretched out from the front of the bow, and a bright horse lantern was hung in front of the wooden pole, the task of the first mate was to use the light on the bow of the ship to check the abnormal situation in the sea, and to give an early warning to Jacques in the wheelhouse, the horse lantern was not very bright because of the distance, Dylan casually cast a 'magic shimmer', and a group of magic light floated out from Dylan's palm, surrounding the entire Belan.

The sea around the Belan was brightly lit, and in this way, the original horse lantern was replaced by a 'magic shimmer' floating around the Belan, and the person in charge of checking the sea area was also increased from the first mate to a dozen sailors to observe together.

I held on to the wheelhouse door with one hand and asked Jacques, "What did Noah tell you, and I want you to sail in the night?"

With dark circles under his eyes, Jacques said speechlessly, "He didn't say anything else, but asked me to sail the ship into this sea, and he said that he would definitely find something." ”

I said to Jacques, "Be smart, it's no joke to sail at night. ”

Jacques held up a bottle of psychic power potion, shook it gently at me, and said with a smile, "If you're too sleepy, I'll drink this." ”

Joan was lying on the bench in the captain's room, covered with a men's coat, Jacques's favorite one, she looked quiet in her sleep, except for her dark skin, Joan's facial features looked quite delicate, her eyelashes were curved, the bridge of her nose was straight, and her lips were slightly plump and thick, but there was another kind of beauty.

I sighed softly, Joan lived a quiet life as a receptionist at the 'Tuna Love' hotel, but I didn't expect that because of us, we were involved in this incident, and I didn't know when she would have the opportunity to return to Galapagos City.

I really want to say to her: the Rand Knight is not for you, stop being obsessed.

It's just that when I moved my steps, I saw Joan huddled in a corner recliner, her eyelashes trembling slightly.

Isn't she asleep? Or has she just woken up? If so, why is she hiding in a corner and eavesdropping on our conversation?

I stopped and thought to myself: if she had just woken up, she would have gotten out of bed next.

Unfortunately, after waiting for a while, I didn't see Joan sit up from the bench in the corner.

Senior Dylan, who walked outside the door, probed at the door and shouted to me, "Jijia, what are you still rubbing inside!"

"Hey, here we go!" I quickly replied, following in the footsteps of Senior Dylan, and walking out of the captain's room.

......

Dylan's room was a mess, and most of the boys' dormitories were like this.

The table was littered with drawings and notes, a magic robe hung on the wall, the quilt on the bed was not folded, except for a few white shirts, there were all kinds of drawings, and on the floor lay two pairs of long mocskin boots, the toes of which were pointed, and the boots were stained with water.

There was a moonstone chandelier in the room, swaying constantly overhead, and the glass cover emitted a soft white light, and the light reflected the shadow of my body, also swaying left and right behind me, fluttering.

Senior Dylan hastily cleaned up the messy pile of magical parchment on the chair and asked me to sit down.

Then he began to sort out the magic parchment that was full of handwriting on the writing table, and on many of the magic parchments full of words, there was a blank space in the corner, which was reserved for drawing illustrations and magic runes, and Senior Dylan picked out the parchment that needed to draw illustrations and magic runes, and placed them on the table, which was a foot thick.

"Is that all?" I asked Senior Dylan.

Senior Dylan nodded and said, "Well, that's it!"

I said, "Okay, senior, you can tell me what runes to draw, if there is any reference, it's better to let me see it first." ”

"Most of them are. After Senior Dylan finished speaking, he took out the magic book from his magic pocket and put it on the writing desk one by one.

I flipped through a magic book, found the magic runes that were annotated by Senior Dylan, and said, "Okay, I'll start with some simple ones first." ”

For me, those space-based magic runes are very unfamiliar magic runes, and the rune teacher will not be bored enough to spend the whole class talking about such unpopular magic runes to us, in the Green Empire, most magicians, the most respected is fire magic.

It's just that with the ability to copy in the sea of spirits, I can print the images I see into my spiritual world in the form of photos.

When I want to draw this magic rune, the pattern of this magic rune will appear under my eyes, and I just need to take a magic pen and trace the magic rune along the rune lines on the eye mask, so drawing magic runes is actually very simple for me.

Senior Dylan noticed that I was very relaxed when I drew illustrations on those magic parchments, so he sat next to me and chatted with me: "Jijia, I think you think you can become a university scholar in the magic array, since you control the thunder element, there is no reason not to learn space magic!"

I rolled my eyes and didn't answer his words.

There was silence in the room, but it was only quiet for a short while, and then Senior Dylan was heard to continue, "...... What is the future of water magicians, oh, no, no, no, no, I'm not saying that water magicians are bad, I just think that with the priests in the temple, the water auxiliary magic is not as good as those prayer spells after all!"

Questioning the existence of water magicians, this is simply unbearable!

So I argued with Senior Dylan and said, "Isn't this plane war enough to prove the role of a water system auxiliary magician?

"Of course, there is no doubt that the control ability of the ice system is very strong! But it is an ability that can only be possessed after a certain level of affinity. Senior Dylan said.

Then he said: "Electricity magic has a very powerful control magic skill in the early stage, and after the electric magic is advanced, you can learn space magic skills, imagine that when you are fighting, you release a 'lightning technique' on your opponent, and before your opponent fights back, draw a spatial crack to drill into, and then emerge behind him, what kind of feeling is that......

Senior Dylan said as he gestured with his hand and asked me, "How is it, are you interested in learning space magic with me?"

"Haven't you been studying lately?" I said without looking up.

Seeing that I had drawn a rune illustration with ease, and started to draw the schematic diagram of the magic pattern circle on the next piece of magic parchment, Senior Dylan immediately interjected: " How can it be the same, before you learned magic was basically three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, learning magic is to persevere, if you don't have such determination and perseverance, you can't do it, but before that, it was also because I had been busy recording the teleportation magic array in Galapagos City, and I didn't have time to tutor you, but now that the magic array has been completely recorded, I have plenty of time to study those space magic with you! Haha, let's come together. ”

In the face of such an energetic senior who devoted himself to studying the magic of the space department, I was speechless for a while.

Seeing that I stopped the magic carving, Senior Dylan realized that he was a little anxious, so he immediately softened his tone and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this, so are you interested in joining our Star Society?"

I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Even if I promise you, what if we join the Star Society? We are not trapped in the Vaschi plane, so we can't go, and even if we want to return to Grimm, at least we have to wait until the power of the Marquis of Boris Vaschi is overthrown?"

Senior Dylan smiled unappreliably, as if he didn't care that he was trapped in the Vaschi plane, and said to me: "This is not good, maybe we can raise enough magic materials on Conason Island, in that case, I will directly build a new teleportation magic array on the island, connect Conason Island and Illinas City, if the teleportation array is really built, won't we be able to use the portal to return to the Grimm Empire?"

Talking about the list of materials needed to rebuild the teleportation magic array, I couldn't help but say to Senior Dylan, "Senior, do you really have all the magic materials you said we need?"

Senior Dylan was full of confidence and said to me, "Of course, this vast sea is much richer than those dense forests and swamps full of demonic beasts, and next, I am going to hunt sea beasts in this sea area with you." ”

"Didn't you also see that third-class sea beast that died in the reef group? You should be able to estimate how many magic materials came out of that sea beast! Those sea beasts are like moving treasure troves, carrying countless magic materials on their backs, hiding in this sea waiting for us to hunt them. "Senior Dylan is very optimistic about the hunting of sea beasts.

But I didn't think it was that simple, so I said, "Actually, there's one thing I've been wondering about these past few days, and I've been wondering where all these Naga slaves on Johnny Jones' ship got them back." Later, I asked a few sailors on the ship to figure out the relationship. ”

"Captain Johnny Jones's slave ships are nothing more than black-market merchant ships that trade Naga slaves at sea, and they are captured by a group of sea poachers, who are basically well-armed adventuring groups. ”

"They drive the boat on the sea, and there is always a large wooden barrel tied to the back of the boat, on this barrel, there is usually a bait ranger lying on his stomach, and the sea boat pulls the barrel to wander around the sea area on the edge of the Naga Sea Clan, waiting for those kind-hearted Naga Sea Tribes to automatically take the bait, many Naga Sea Tribes are secretly swimming to the barrel, ready to save the ranger, when they are stabbed by a poisonous dagger and lose the ability to resist. ”

These trappers don't usually keep Naga slaves on their own ships, and the slave ship was born, and Captain Johnny was the slave trader who traveled between these groups. ”

"Reasonable, why would those sea hunters hunt the Naga Sea Clan, they would rather be hunted by the Naga Sea Patrol Guards than provoke those sea beasts? According to the sailors on the ship, those low-level sea beasts are hidden in the deep sea, and it is difficult to hunt them. I said.

After listening to my story, Senior Dylan sighed and said, "After all, there is a way, I heard that there are quite a lot of sea beasts on the other side of the abyss, maybe we should try our luck over there." ”

Seeing Senior Dylan's dejected look, I think Senior Dylan may have been freed from his busy work state, and suddenly he couldn't adapt to the idle and panicked life at sea, for a scholar-type magician like him, it was undoubtedly a waste of life, so he racked his brains to find something to do.

So, I put down the magic carving pen in my hand, rolled the finished piece of magic parchment into a scroll, put it aside, and took out a blank piece of magic parchment from under the chair, and said while drawing: "Senior, I once saw some strange magic runes on an altar, and I couldn't recognize what those magic runes represented before, but now it seems that these magic runes have a lot of similarities with space magic runes, senior, do you want to study them......"

Before I could finish my sentence, only three magic runes were drawn on the magic parchment, and the magic parchment was savagely snatched by Senior Dylan.

Senior Dylan asked me with some excitement, "Jijia, these runes ...... Where did you meet you?"

I replied, "In a half-plane cave called Xinliu Valley." ”

He quickly lowered his voice, leaned in front of me and asked, "How can I get there?"

I said without thinking: "There is a portal in the ivory tower in the Sloit City Advanced School of Magic, it is said that because of the reverse flow of time, the portal can only be opened once every ten years, about half a month, but the world over there has a level limit, and only magic apprentices and warrior apprentices below level seven can enter there without being rejected by the power of the world." ”

Senior Dylan patted his forehead painfully, could only sigh, and said helplessly: "Okay, what else do you remember, all of them are drawn on it, all of them are some space magic runes that have never seen such a high level......

So, after getting the page of magic parchment with only fifteen magic runes, Senior Dylan entered a state of crazy learning.

The cabin fell silent for a moment, except for the sound of pen tips scratching on magical parchment.

......

Suddenly, there was a commotion on the outboard deck, followed by shouts.

I don't know what's going on on the deck, so I decided to go out and take a look, but apparently Senior Dylan is stuck in those magic runes and can't help himself, so it looks like he's going to check on the deck with me.

Those magic runes were depicted by me from the 'Hammer of the Time Breaker', I know that those are jerky and difficult to understand high-level spatial magic runes, and only in this way can Senior Dylan find the joy of life again, I really didn't think that he was addicted to it all at once, and the others were all ignored.

I don't know much about spatial magic runes, so I don't know what they mean, I remember asking other magicians at the beginning, and they told me that these magic runes were just an ancient text with the meaning of "Time and Space Breaker".

Passing through a dimly lit corridor, I turned the stairs to the top of the ship's building, and watched as a group of sailors gathered to smash the edge of the left side of the ship, pointing at the dark sea.

At this time, the first mate in the bow of the ship shouted to the captain's room: "Captain Jacques, we have found some shipwrecked people at sea!"

"Stop the boat and save people!" Jacques' hoarse voice streaked across the night sky and was heard far away.