The owner of the Silaire Hotel booked the ferry ticket smoothly, and Rogge and Coulosius spent two days comfortably resting and waiting in the sea-view room of the Silaire Inn, and the sailing date was approaching soon.

"Sir Rogge, I think I've followed you into a pleasant journey." The second he stepped out of the Silaree Inn, Culosius jumped on his face with excitement, "The sea view room of the Silaree Hotel is really comfortable!" ”

"The pleasant journey is soon coming to an end, and my special attendant, Cullosius, after we have reached the royal city of Parma by boat, we will dissolve all relations and go our separate ways. Don't follow me then. Rogge let out a long yawn lazily, a strong smell of beer in his yawn, "The dwarven beer is indeed different from our El Tora. ”

"Yes, Lord Rogue, the taste of El Tora and the beer of the dwarves are different, and people are also different and have special abilities, so you will not be willing to let me go." Culosius's red face was full of confidence, "I can tell you still need a trustworthy helper, and I--just happen to be that person." ”

"I hope so. Culosius. In the past few days, our topic seems to have been enriched a little. You're a good guy. "Rog and Culosius exchanged words with each other, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious, and after a while they entered the large commercial port of Havalo, but in the stone house next to the commercial port, Arno and his caravan had obviously left first, but tied a 'mark' knot to the latch of the stone house.

"Looks like we can't say goodbye to Arnault! Arno was really quick to make a quick decision, and after quickly handing over the goods, he tied the 'Mark' knot, and the code left by the 'Mark' knot showed that the group had left here first, and went in the direction of the east, probably in the direction of Ironfist Fort. Culosius stepped out of the stone house and shrugged helplessly. led Rogge straight into the dock in the commercial port.

"It's a one-eyed dragon who likes to cut through chaos with a quick knife." Rogge thought back to the talkative one-eyed Arnault in his mind,

After Kurosius checked the two tickets with dwarven script, he finally found the ship in the dock of the merchant port, it was a two-masted merchant ship, and a sailor on the side of the ship opposite the gangplank had been holding a wooden sign with a sloppy and random writing on it: Welcome to the Wind and Waves Knight.

"Your Excellency Rogge, please dismount, the innkeeper named Batu has booked us this merchant ship, this merchant ship is my old 'acquaintance', in short, it is a good order! He belonged to the dockyard master of Merissa in Parma, the ship in the hands of Baron Merissa, and it was in good condition. "Colossius took the whip that Rogge handed him with one hand, and took the reins of the 'dot' with the other.

Rogge walked on the pedal quickly, slowly walked to the bow of the boat, he wanted to look at the endless seascape, breathe in the frozen breath of the white covered coast, he looked at the horizon in the distance with cold eyes, and sighed secretly, "Wangcheng, Wangcheng, Wangcheng, who has bound me for more than ten years, I didn't expect that this time I took the initiative to go." Your Majesty, are you an enemy or a friend? ”

After handing over two tickets to the crew, Kurosius took Roger Tyme's 'Dot', the spotted heavy horse, off the deck and deposited it in the stables below deck, and the 10 Ruston Copper coins made the sailor's face brighten as the keeper of the livestock.

In a short time, the deck of the Knights of the Wind Wolf was filled with people, only some of them were sailors preparing for work, and most of them were dwarves from the port city of Havalo who were preparing to travel or do business to the royal city of Parma.

As the golden light shone the golden light of the sea near the horizon of the white-covered shore, the captain's command to anchor and sail was immediately heard from the cockpit on the deck - it was the long sound of a conch horn, low and long.

The crew of the merchant ship of the Wind Wolf Knight immediately began to get busy, the agile sailors led the sails, and climbed the mast with their hands and feet with the weaving net, and the sailor holding the wooden sign on the string wall dropped the wooden sign, and with the help of two or three crew members, began to pack up the wooden gangplank connecting the ship's side and deck, and dozens of muscular men around them pulled the thick iron lock ring, and the anchor was lazily dragged onto the deck and thrown on the deck behind the crew sailors. The dwarven travelers and merchants on the deck also began to walk towards the deck cabin one after another, and actually lit tobacco happily in the room below the deck cabin.

The dwarven sailor standing on the second deck at the top of the cockpit excitedly pulled the white sail and shouted excitedly to his fellow sailors, "set・sail!"

The twin masts of the Wind and Wave Knight had already been pulled up by the agile crew and sailors two huge white sails, the hull of the brig merchant ship suddenly began to shake, the angular bow with the shaking of the hull also began to shake, only to see the protruding tip of the ship suddenly shook, the ice-breaking angle of the lower part of the tip of the ship immediately smashed the white covered sea ice, the deep blue sea under the broken ice was suddenly revealed, the whole brig merchant ship finally tended to calm down, and began to sail slowly in a slight trembling.

After passing through the icy island of Aisla Island, north of Port Havalo, there is no land to be seen. Without the frozen scenery of distant mountains, the voyage at sea is undoubtedly boring and long.

"Culosius, do you take this merchant ship every time you return to Parma?" Rogge seemed to be tired of the same turbulent waves, and his face turned a little pale.

"No, sometimes it's another ship." Kurosius had long been accustomed to the turbulence of this merchant ship, "Your Excellency Rogge, don't hold back your heart if you have something on your mind, I am honored to share your worries and solve problems." What's more, if you don't have fun and talk with everyone in the case of a long boat ride, there is a chance that you will vomit. ”

"Well, I think that's true" Rog retched a few times, then widened his eyes and took a deep breath desperately, "Cullosius, I order you as an employer, talk to me!" As for the topic, let's talk about our route, which is from Puerto Havalo to the royal city of Parma. ”

"No problem, Lord Rogge! I'll just say you'll always need me for you. Culosius still had a confident smile on his red face, as if he would never be silent, "We set out from Puerto Havalo and passed through that large island, which is Isla Isla. The island was almost uninhabited, and very few people lived there, except for ice and snow. ”

"So, are there any other islands? Isn't there a stop and a break along the way? Rogge coughed dryly, he felt his stomach churning, and he tried his best to restrain his instinctive impulses.

"Yes, we will arrive at a small island called Lena in about three days. Will stop there for the night. However, there is no difference between day and night, and the sun is swirling around our sea level, and it is impossible to estimate the time. Only probably. Culosius shrugged.

"That's right, man, we sailors and sailors have a saying: there is no day or night in the East Palma Sea. Sleep when you want. A crew member walked up to them and interjected, throwing Rogge a glass bottle of rum, "Hey, looks like you're a little seasick, you need to use this strong thing." Drink it and keep a sip of seasickness! ”

Rogge looked at the dark red liquid in the glass bottle curiously, he couldn't care so much, and drank the rum in one gulp, although this was inferior alcohol, but this Lang slightly sweet taste, and immediately drove away the chill in Rogge's body, "It's really good wine!" My throat was about to burst into flames. ”

"If you like it, you can do it. Brother, you're really good! Very few people dared to drink it in one gulp, except that we sailors and sailors didn't mind the strange smell of ordinary people. The crew laughed and walked away.

The twin-masted merchant ship sailed day and night on the waters of Palma do Oriental, and Rogge and Coulosius hooked up with the crew and sailors of the Temporal on a boring voyage, a rude procession of wine and drinking, under the influence of which they were almost all drunk with the paralysis of alcohol, and occasionally swayed on deck with bottles when they were sober - but unfortunately there was no prospect to look forward to, except for the overly calm sea, or the occasional little wind and waves. Even if it is a mirage that often appears in the ocean, even if there are mirages often, the scene in the mirage is still a blurred ocean and blue sky. Not even the distant mountains.

They woke up, woke up, and time seemed to simply not exist on this brig merchant ship. Until the chaotic and excited shouts rang out.

"Look, Reef!" The sailors flocked to the head of the deck, and the gossip began, but their fingers all pointed in the same direction—the outcropping reef and the white spray around it, at least one to a half nautical miles away. The first mate, who came out of the captain's cabin, blew the second conch horn of this voyage to the sea. The dull sound of the conch horn seemed to penetrate the wind and space, all the way to the distant island that was about to be reached.

The crew called the island Lena. As for why this island is called Lena Island, no one can say, only that the name of this island has been handed down from distant antiquity. Lena Island is a huge island composed of mountain rocks and snow and the occasional moss growing under the ice, this huge island is the largest island in the vast Palma Oriental, and it is also the center of the Palma Oriental, its rocky rock walls form a harbor for ships to dock and shelter from the wind, this harbor is next to a large section of low cliffs just as high as the ship's side, and the crew only needs to put thick planks on the cliff when the ship approaches, and they can land safely, like a natural dock. On the orders of the captain, the merchant ship was ready to anchor for the night on the navel of this East Palma Sea. The crew took out the old barrels from the ship and pulled them out of the ship, and they cut them into pieces of wood with axes, and made a fire to make a sporadic campfire, and they rolled barrels of rum from below the deck to sit around drinking and warming themselves and barbecue the fish caught in their nets from the sea. They used knives to quickly scrape off the scales of the fish, skillfully slashed open the belly of the fish, and vigorously pulled out the belly of the fish like an air sac and the internal organs that were stuck in a heap. Although the fish was still struggling in the rough and bloody hands of the sailors, they could not resist the fate of being pierced through the tail by the slender wooden skewers that the sailors had already prepared, and the enthusiastic sailors handed Rogge and Culotsius a freshly grilled sea fish, and in respect of these sailors, Rogge raised his tin glass full of rum and gestured to have a toast with the friendly crew. Rogge, like a rugged crew, drank it all and won the admiration of the crew.

The sky suddenly darkened, "This ghost weather, it looks like it's going to snow heavily." The drunken crew members leaned against the cold rocks in a drunken daze, waving their fingers to the sky indiscriminately, "it, let's continue to toast." Cheers!! ”

"Boom." The sound was as crisp as a thunderbolt in the sky.

"Come on! There was a loud rolling thunder, and the whole place was shaking. The crew was still staring at the rum bottle and laughing, "Drink too much, it must be an illusion!" ”

The gloomy sky suddenly began to rain like a torrent of seawater, "Huh? Rain!? It never rains in this kind of place. "Some of the clever old crew members realized the anomaly of the situation, and they looked up to the sky. Their faces suddenly turned pale, their trembling lips seemed to have suddenly lost the ability to speak, their fingers hurriedly gestured, and finally pointed to the sky, "Look~~Look~~Look!!" That~~That~~~That~~ Wow!! Rog and Coulosius saw the sky at the same time after hearing the screams of the crew. At the same time, they threw away the tin wine glasses in their hands.

Rog and Culosius finally reacted, and everyone's horror was not referring to the sky, but to the behemoth that blocked the sky in half. In front of the behemoth, people were like ants about to freeze to death in the snow, and they rushed towards the wooden box in the eyes of the behemoth, the brig merchant ship. He let out a frantic roar of triumph, a thunderous roar.

"Boom!" The earth shook again.

The screams of the crew continued to erupt around Rogge, their voices coming from near and far, and a drop of blood splattered on the tip of Rog's nose - it was a strong smell of blood.

"Lord Rogge! Escape to the ship! What a horror thing this is! Culosius's voice trembled, "Those missing ships in Havalo must have something to do with this horror!" ”

"We may not be able to escape!" Rog turned decisively, pulled out a one-handed sword embedded with a pale sapphire from his waist, and looked directly at the behemoth with its head sticking out from behind the mountain wall in front of him, and let Culosius shout, "This time, I'm not going to run away again." ”

"It seems like we really can't escape." One of the crew members running in front of Culosius was swallowed by a huge mouth that suddenly descended from the sky, and Coulosius was startled by the sight of him and took two steps back, and instinctively, he picked up the long swords that the crew had discarded, and slowly walked towards Rog.

Rogge and Coulosius were confronted by a monster with nine gigantic serpentine heads crawling out from behind a rocky ridge, and Rogge remembered a poem he had stumbled upon in the library of Santa Caterina in Parma City, called "Ode to Arcana." There's a passage in it that seems to describe the monster in front of you.

Arcana's will leads,

Sidrion, the warrior of mankind,

Carrying the Starred Sword,

Leading the hands of defenseless obscurantism,

Leaving the distant Crescent Bay,

Sail the boat that rides the wind and waves,

Lena landed on the shore and frightened the beast,

Nine serpents' heads stir up the east sea,

Warriors drive away sea monsters in a hundred battles,

Lava fire lost course,

Wanderers in pursuit of the skyrim,

Sidrion finally sought the Garden of Eden.

Ignorant and enlightened kings,

Sidrion is like a shadow of the wind,

Starred becomes a trail,

Legends, legends, memories of the past,

Lost in the sea of distant and unknown times.