Chapter 76: Anka's Secret Blade

The Featon warship drifted along the wind and currents on the vast sea, and sailed into the unknown distance without an owner.

Siberis opened the last bucket of fresh water on the boat, and she took a sip after the skin water bladder had been refilled. She then picked up the wooden spoon and scooped out some water for Nohibi. At this time, Noshibi was exhausted from a long time at sea. It stuck out its tongue listlessly and licked a few mouthfuls of water, then crouched on the deck again.

After feeding the last piece of jerky to Nohibi, Siberys found that not only was there no jerky on the ship, but even the small bucket of yogurt had been drunk by herself. Seeing that there were still two large buckets of potatoes left on the warship, Sibriss had no choice but to pull out the "Anka Secret Blade". She used it to cut the potatoes from the supply bucket. After digging up the sprouts from the potatoes, she peeled them and cut them into thin slices.

"Day eight." After putting a slice of raw potatoes in her mouth, Siberis casually used the tip of the "Ankami Blade" to carve a mark on the side of the ship, and then she counted the marks and said.

"Gods, Ancestors, where do you want me and Nohibi to go? Is it the kingdom of heaven? ... Or the Ship of the Ancestors? Cipery put the raw potato chips in her mouth and chewed them, she looked up at the clear blue sky and the endless sea, and muttered to herself in the sea breeze.

It wasn't until she had finished eating all the potato slices in her hand that she slowly looked down at the cabin. The cabin was as full of dead bodies as before. It's just that over time, the corpses have begun to stiffen, and some of the dead bodies have even foamed blood from their mouths and noses. And Miki Charan's body, even the tongue has collapsed out of the mouth. The way she looks now, it's scary.

Siberis looked at the corpses and couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness. She also knew that if this continued, the corpses would soon begin to decompose.

As the day darkened, Siberys felt an unprecedented chill from the wind. She took off a woolen coat from a dead corpse and, after a simple cut of it with an "Ankami Blade", slipped it on herself.

Looking behind the side, where there was still a glimmer of afterglow, Siberis thought that the ship was now being blown away by the wind to the far and unknown east.

Thinking of this, Sibriss took out her "true eye" again, and looked through it at the head of the ship, where, as before, there was nothing but the sea, a dull sky and clouds.

"Gods, ancestors." Sibeliss looked into the distance and whispered, "I... I don't want to go anywhere, I.... Just want to get back to him. ”

The wind began to blow in the night, and the waves gradually became turbulent.

For the first time in eight days, Sibris, who was accustomed to calm and calm, became worried because of the wind and waves. The warship, which was constantly swaying and undulating with the waves, began to make her feel uncomfortable.

She looked at the night sky, which was now obscured by dark clouds, without stars and moon. The whole world was soon left with only the glow of the glow on the bow of the ship.

After a muffled thunderstorm, with a strong wind, huge raindrops dripped down.

Braving the raindrops, Sibeliss struggled to pull the awning rolled up in the stern, and the awning formed a small tent space in the stern of the boat under her vigorous pulling. Sitting in this tent space, Sibriss held Nahibi, who was approaching her, with one hand, and clung to the ropes of the ship with the other. She sat under the canopy, staring blankly at the dark sky outside the ship and the falling raindrops.

As the lightning shone in the thick clouds, the wind grew stronger at sea.

The windswept rain and the spray of the waves continued to blow into the half-rolled awning, and Siberis was soon soaking wet. While feeling cold from being soaked all over, she also saw that water had accumulated in the cabin, and the corpses and some lighter items in the cabin had begun to slide back and forth in the shallow water as the hull tilted.

There was a loud thunderclap, and Nohibi, who had been barking just now, seemed to be frightened by the wrath of the sky, and after a little whimper, he turned to silence. As the thunder continued to sound and the turbulence of the ship intensified, Nohibi, who was already weak and tired, became even more depressed. It shook off the rain and left Sibris's side, retreating into the deepest part of the awning.

A bolt of lightning slammed across the sky. By the white light of the lightning, Si Bai Li saw the many white corpses and their hideous and painful faces that were suddenly illuminated inside the ship, which made Xi Bai Lisi feel a pang of horror. In addition to being frightened, Xi Baili only felt her stomach churning, and she suddenly opened her mouth and vomited.

She didn't know why she was vomiting, maybe it was because she was frightened at the sight of the white face of the dead man, maybe it was because of the nausea reaction from eating raw potatoes, maybe it was because the violently shaking boat had made her lose her sense of balance, but she vomited so suddenly. The rocking hull caused Siberys to vomit some vomit on herself. Seeing that the stains on her body were quickly washed away by the slanting rain, she had no intention of wiping them again. After wiping a handful of rain from her face, she turned to the rain and looked into the dark distance.

Looking into the dark distance, Sibeliss remembered the first time she went out to sea in a boat. She clearly remembered that at that time she was crossing the Trembling Sea by boat. At that time, she also felt helpless and worried in the face of the unknown, and she vomited the same with the rocking boat. It was then, she recalled, that when she vomited, someone who had later taken possession of her heart handed her a delicate handkerchief.

Thinking of Friedlier and the handkerchief he had handed her, Sibriss flipped over with one free hand, trying to find the handkerchief she had been carrying. But this time, she rummaged through the placket several times, but could not find it.

Another flash of lightning that suddenly illuminated the world, followed by a furious thunderclap. The rain was falling more sharply, and the wind was blowing harder.

Siberis looked at this terrifying world in the dark, she felt helpless and lonely like never before, and she finally couldn't help crying after touching the Ouroboros ring hanging from her neck with her hand.

The waves, the winds, the torrential rains, did not weaken because of anyone's crying. Sibeliss was constantly being shaken by the frantically swaying warship.

Because the sails were not closed, the ship gradually began to tilt sharply under the action of the strong wind, and Sibeliss fell on the side of the ship, crying, clutching the rope, looking at this somewhat upside-down dark world with fear.

"Gods, ancestors." Looking at the frenzied darkness of the sea and sky, Sibeliss cried and prayed to the glowstone lamp at the bow of the ship, "Please help me." ”

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky, and the lightning fell straight over the ship, and the strong light it emitted made Xi Bailis, who was looking outside, suddenly faint, accompanied by strong dizziness, and her eyes were temporarily blinded by the bright light of the lightning. At the same time, Siberis heard the crackling sound of wood cracking the moment the lightning lit up.

After the splitting sound, the blind Siberis immediately heard the crackling sound of burning wood, and at the same time smelled the smell of burning wood. She thought it was lightning that struck the hull and the ship caught fire. But a moment later, as the white light in Sibelis's eyes faded away, she was surprised to see that the lightning had broken the ship's mast.

The mast with the sails burned briefly before being extinguished by the heavy rain. Although the broken mast hit one side of the ship as it toppled, the heavy mast with sails smashed a gap in the side of the ship and was immediately swept into the sea by the waves.

Looking at the mast that had been cut off by lightning, Sibeliss noticed that the ship had lost its sails and was no longer so affected by the wind, and it leaned sharply to one side. Although the waves still caused the boat to rise and fall violently, it was no longer going to roll over.

The undulating ship forced Siberis to hold on to the rope on the side of the ship, but she still tried her best to free one hand, and she pointed two fingers on her forehead, chest, right shoulder, and left shoulder, and looked at the rainy sky and said, "Thank you, God." Then, looking at the glowstone lamp on the bow of the ship, she said, "Thank you, ancestors." ”

Boats toss with the waves. After clutching the rope for a while, Sibriss felt her arms stiffen from clutching the rope too hard. In the face of the big waves that kept lifting the boat high and throwing it down rapidly, Xi Baili gritted her teeth and persevered for a while, but finally because of the lack of strength in her hands, she was thrown aside by the undulating ship.

Sibris, who had been thrown out of the boat, fell to the side, and she wanted to get up and go to hug the boat bench, but she didn't, and before she could fully get up, another high wave hit. The ship rose sharply against the waves, and then fell sharply from the waves, and Sibelis, who had lost her grip, was once again thrown off the deck. But this time, Siberis was unlucky, and she slammed her head on the boat's bench, and immediately the wound was bleeding profusely, and she passed out.

When the unconscious Siberis was woken up by Nohibi, the first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was a clear blue sky.

She tilted her head, feeling a pain in her forehead as she saw the dilapidated and messy cabin of the ship after the rainstorm.

Sibriss reached out and touched the True Eye and the Ankami Blade tied around her waist, and she was glad that neither of them had been lost due to her coma. When Xi Baili sat up, she suddenly realized that the ship was surprisingly stable at this time.

She leaned on the boat bench and slowly stood up. After glancing out of the boat, Ciperys was pleasantly surprised to find that the boat had been washed ashore by the waves and ran aground. And the stranded place, she saw, this is not some secret reef, nor is it an uninhabited island, but a vast land with green grass.

"Great, Nohibi." After looking at the endless prairie, Si Baisi turned to hug Nohibi excitedly and said, "Now we will definitely not die in the sea." ”

Nohibi yelled at Silberis, and it turned through the messy cabin and ran to the other end of the ship. Cybeliss followed it curiously, and when she came to the other side of the boat, she was surprised to find that on the beach not far away, there was a strange animal with a huge size.

Cybeliss had never seen an animal so large and so strange-looking. She tried to recall the books she had read, but she couldn't find any references to the animal. In Siberys' opinion, they were six or even seven times as long as their own height, and they were the size of a small fishing boat.

Sibriel suddenly thought of Mikicharan, and she wanted to ask her for the names of these animals, but her heart trembled, and she remembered that her sage, Mikicharan, was dead.

Thinking of this, Sibris, she turned around and looked inside the cabin, and she found that Mikicharan's body was no longer in its original location, and even Milika's body was missing. She searched the cabin again, but their bodies were nowhere to be found.

They may have been swept overboard by the huge waves of last night, Si Baisi thought to herself, looking down.

Siberis walked to the side of the boat facing the sea, looked out into the sea for a moment, and then murmured into the sea, "I'm sorry, Virtuous,...... Goodbye sage. ”

Nohibi also ran to Sibris's side at this time, and whimpered in a low voice towards the sea.

Sibriss stroked Noshibi, then she took off her heavy wet clothes, and after hanging her boots and clothes on the side of the boat, Siberis jumped barefoot with Nohibi on the side of the boat.

After jumping off the boat, Si Baili looked curiously at these seaside animals from afar. Then, she mustered her courage and walked slowly towards the monsters basking on the shore.

Nociby rushed forward and barked at the monsters, then turned around and ran back, circling around Sibris, and then clinging to her, and carefully walking with her towards the monsters.

When she came to the vicinity of these monsters, Si Baili noticed that they seemed to be very docile. Most of them just lay on the shore and bask in the sun, while a few devour floating seaweed in the shallow waters. Looking at these docile monsters, Siberis approached them a little more, and she saw that their forelimbs were thick and short, like oars, but they had no hind limbs, and the tail at the end of their fat bodies was more like a strange large fan. She saw that they moved slowly, clumsily, and somewhat funny.

Siberis slowly walked to the side of a monster, and she found that the monster in front of her had seen herself with its huge eyes, but it did not react, it was still lying on the ground leisurely, doing nothing. Siberis raised her guts, and she reached out to touch the monster. To Siberice's surprise, the monster still didn't react to her touch, as if it didn't even notice Siberis's presence.

Siberis had been troubled by the time she had wandered from Raven Island, but now, when she touched the monster with her hand, she smiled faintly. She stroked the rough skin of the monster with her hand, she felt that the monsters in front of her were very interesting, and she felt that they conveyed a peaceful and leisurely mood to her through their cute appearance.

"Did the sea send you here?" Siburys whispered to the behemoth in front of her, "Or did you live here in the first place?" ”

Looking at the green grass under the waves in the distance, Sibriss said, "Perhaps, you were also sent here by the sea." ”

The monster twisted its fat body, which frightened Si Bai Li and took a step back, but soon Xi Bai Li smiled slightly and said to the monster, "Don't disturb your rest, goodbye." ”

Siberis then climbed back into the ship, thinking that if she didn't want to die like that, she should go to land to survive. As for the survival of the land, she has to carry the useful items off the ship as soon as possible. Otherwise, as the sea continues to rise, the warship that was blown to the shore by the storm will be touched by the sea again and float. If the boat was dragged into the sea by the rising water, then there would be no way for her to return to the ship to carry supplies.

Looking at the messy cabin, Sibriss first pushed down two supply buckets with potatoes. She then took off two more cloaks from the corpse and hung them on the side of the ship to dry.

After pulling a handaxe from the waist of a warrior's corpse, and holding the handaxe, Sibriss slashed hard at the ship's side, which had been smashed by the mast earlier. The damaged side of the ship was chopped by Siberys, and several broken wooden bars fell. After throwing the broken wooden stick and hand axe off the ship, Siberis drew the "Ankami Blade" again. She used it to cut the tarpaulin instead.

Pulling at the tarpaulin, and the ship's split sticks, Siberys erected a small, simple shed on a grassy slope far from the ship and the shore. Looking at the ugly little shed, Siberis thought to herself, no matter what, this is the first time she has built a house for herself in her life, and fortunately, it can also shield herself from the cold wind at night, so that she will not freeze to death in the cold wilderness.

By the time she rolled the two supply buckets with potatoes to the side of the shed, Sibriss was exhausted. However, after peeling a potato and resting for a while, Siberis returned to the ship, where she retrieved her clothes and cloak to dry.

By the time Cybeliss had done all these things, the sun had gradually sunk. She looked at the sky that was still bright, and then went into the shed.

In the small shed sheltered from the wind, Sibeliss unconsciously touched her injured forehead. That's where she was thrown out of the boat in the storm yesterday and struck by it. When she first touched the wound, she felt a faint pain, but the pain was not intense, and the pain was much weaker than it was this morning.

Continuing to touch her wound, Sibelis, while feeling a faint pain, felt as if her fingers had touched a piece of dirt at the wound, which was a little rough and seemed to stick to her wound. But soon, Siberys realized that it might not be dirt, but more like a scab of blood clotting from her own wound.

She was amazed by the trauma she had suffered since she was a child, she knew that she had only touched her forehead yesterday, and if there was blood, how could the wound scab over so quickly, and it was only a day's time.

Intrigued by the scabbing wound on her forehead, Sibeliss lifted her cloak and came out of the shed. She fumbled for a moment, then pulled the Ankami Blade from her waist. With the bright and reflective blade of the "Ankami Blade" and the not yet completely dark sky, Celestia took care of it on her forehead.

Under the photo, Xi Baili was surprised to find that her forehead was really scabbed at the moment. She was surprised and wondered, could it be that the wound on her forehead was not touched yesterday? It's been a long time? After some thought, Celestia quickly dismissed the idea, for she thought she hadn't felt too hungry when she woke up at least this morning. And if he had been unconscious for a long time, she would have been hungry when she woke up in the morning. Moreover, even if she was really in a coma for two or three days, it would not be enough for the wound to scab over, because she clearly knew that it would take at least four or five days for the wound to scab over.

Looking at her forehead from the dagger's shiny blade, Sibriss was confused. After looking at her immature face again, she turned to put the dagger down.

She lowered her head in thought, and her gaze unconsciously fell on the scabbard of the "Ankami Blade" on the grass. She unconsciously stared at the various animals inscribed on the scabbard, and then slowly picked it up.

Holding the heavy golden scabbard in the palm of her hand, Siberis, who had never looked closely at the carved patterns on it before, looked at the patterns engraved on it carefully.

From left to right, Sibeliss carefully observed each of the animals inscribed on the scabbard, all of which were inscribed with their backs to the left and right. As she followed the direction of the animals, she saw such southland animals as lions and elephants, which were not strange. However, when she was close to the end of the view, Siburis was surprised to see that there was a standing villain engraved on it. Unknown for this reason, Sibriss continued to look back, and after she looked over the vertical line that the man was facing, she was puzzled to find that the last animal inscribed on the scabbard was actually a crouching sharp-eared jackal. But this sharp-eared Hu Lang is cut off from all other animals by the vertical line, and it is also facing a different direction from all other animals and even people, and it is more like it is inscribed and crouched on the vertical line.

Confused, Siberis immediately raised the scabbard. After the scabbard was erected, the vertical line on the scabbard became a horizontal line, and many animals under the horizontal line also became face up and back down. Similarly, the jackal, which was originally inscribed upwards, has also changed its image. Cybriss looked at the jackal who was coming over, and she felt that this jackal was more like a jackal crouching on the ground represented by the horizontal line.

Seeing this, Xi Baili pondered for a moment, and then couldn't help but open her mouth wide in surprise. She reacted at this point, this picture should have been seen like this. Seeing the jackal crouching on the ground, as well as the many animals and the person lying underground, Siberis immediately understood the general meaning of the whole scabbard carving.

She understood that the motif was inscribed on the golden sheath by the Anka people, a god they feared. And their god, whose usual incarnation is a jackal. It was their funeral god, Anubis.

Sibelis, who has read Garland's ancient books, knows that the reason why Anubis is incarnated as a jackal in the eyes of the Anka people is that he is often depicted by the Anka people as a man with a jackal head. In fact, this is due to the fact that the jackal is a scavenging animal, and they always forage for the dead bodies of animals in the wilderness of the southern continent, or pick up shallow graves, and pull the newly buried human corpses out of the tombs and devour them.

The Anka people believe in rebirth and the afterlife, they revere the jackal who pulls the dead out of the cemetery, they see the dead devouring jackal as the embodiment of the burial god Anubis, and they believe that those who are pulled out of the tomb by the jackal are not innocent, because Anubis will judge people with "heart" when they die. Only those who are not guilty will have an afterlife and will be born again, and those who are deeply sinful will be devoured by their incarnation, and those who have been devoured will never be resurrected, and there will be no afterlife.

After thinking for a moment, Siberis turned the scabbard over.

She then took a closer look at the other side of the scabbard. At this point, Siberis took a closer look, because she found that the top of it was actually inscribed with the symbol of Anka's life talisman. She knew about it, and she had seen it in ancient Garland books. It's a "morning" symbol, and it's very simple, with a ring on top of it, which represents the sun, and a cross on it, which represents salvation. The combination of the sun and the cross is a symbol of hope and life in the hearts of Ankh people.

Looking at the jackal engraved with the incarnation of Anubis on one side and the "Ankami Blade" engraved with the talisman of life on the other, Sibris's heart trembled, and she suddenly realized something again.

She remembered the day when Talon Mountain erupted, and she seemed to understand that on the shores of Snow Raven Island, under the attack of such thick volcanic smoke, everyone on the ship died in the suffocating smoke, but she and she hugged Nohibi so tightly that they did not die.

Surprised, Sibeliss struggled to recall the book with the "True Eye" on it, but she couldn't remember any of the drawings that depicted the dagger. Maybe the wandering monk, she thought, didn't know about the artifact. Or maybe this amazing artifact was secretly hidden for a long time before Daniro stumbled upon it out of nowhere.

Cybeliss thought for a moment, then she picked up the dagger and held it in her palm. She looked at the dagger, then at her white forearm, and then, after giving herself courage, she tried to slash the blade of the Anka Secret Blade into her forearm.

The sharp blade split through the skin in an instant, instantly slicing through Sibelis's forearm and causing her to bleed out. Xi Baili stared at the wound that was scratched by herself, and after looking at it intently for a while, Xi Baili was shocked to find that the wound had begun to heal soon after!

Looking at the wound that healed quickly, Si Baili gently scratched away the shallow blood stain, and after staring at it for a while, she found that her skin had gradually recovered to its original state, until finally, her forearm could not even find a little of the scar left just now.

Touching her forearm that had recovered to its original state, Si Baili was stunned, and then turned to look up at the western sea in the setting sun, and after a moment, she sighed deeply. She lamented that although Danelo had the dagger, he did not know the power of the artifact, and gave it to her instead. She also lamented that she had not been able to discover the dagger's power in time to save Miki Charan.

After putting away the "Anka Secret Blade", Siberis stroked Nohibi, who was guarding the door of the shed, and reflexively slipped into the shed.