148 - The lazy 'King Octopus'
"It's a coral colony...... What's in between? Wiel's arms stiffened, and when he heard footsteps behind him, he was about to pull Wiel out of the shock.
"It looks like a chair." Hierro made up his mind, but the distance between the ship and the coral told Will, and Hierro's heart was not what he had shown.
Boris and Pease also stood on the side of the ship, "It looks like a throne ......," said Borris, "and the corals look strange...... Also, I felt a force presence. ”
"These ...... It's beautiful. Pease also said on the side, and it seemed that this coral throne surprised everyone.
"This shouldn't be a natural occurrence...... In other words, you can find the octopus king that the fish people call here? Will thought for a moment, and then thought of this, "This is the octopus king who said he could find everything in the sea?" It must be right, throne, octopus king...... Leave those aside. Wiel looked at the corals and seaweed. I've found these things, and Ollie's poison may be cured. ”
"I'm going to change direction." Hierro turned and walked towards the rudder.
Boris took two steps forward and looked behind Sango, "Elder Fishman said that when the Octopus King is looking for something, it seems that he needs to exchange it for what he thinks is satisfactory. ”
"What's the matter, we have a boatload of stuff...... And...... I don't think there's anything that can't be replaced. Hearing this, Wille said confidently.
"Hopefully, hopefully not some strange request." At that moment, the ship turned, and the bow of the ship headed in the direction of the Coral Throne, and the ship got closer and closer, and the coral seat, which was already surprising in the distance, became even more huge, and even the pearl clam on top of the boat needed to be looked up from the boat.
"Boy, if you don't want the ship to run aground on this piece of coral, you'd better come up quickly, listen to the ship...... Not even a single anchor ......" Hierro shouted from above, and Wille hurried over.
It's a raft again...... Of course, there is no better tool either.
"There's only one seat, but where did the Octopus King go?" Hierro was on the boat and had an unobstructed view of the entire coral reef. Not to mention the octopus king, I didn't even see an octopus.
"Maybe we've come at the wrong time...... "Maybe it's somewhere in the ocean?" ”
"No, that's not right...... I could clearly feel a power around Wel...... If nothing else, the King Octopus must be around here. ”
Hearing this, Weir couldn't help but get nervous. "Are you sure? …… But we didn't see any King Octopus, could it be ...... Could it be that this place has also been invaded by those things? But he looked up at the sky and the water around him, and although the wind and waves were calm, the waves were real, and the raft was sinking and floating slightly. You can even see a lot of birds flying in the sky, and the sound is not distorted.
"No...... If those things were here, I'd recognize them...... This power doesn't seem like magic, nor is it the power of darkness...... On the contrary, some of them are very similar to the power of Veel. Boris looked at Vere and said exactly.
"High Priestess, do you think we should find a way to lure that octopus king out?" Hierro pondered for a moment, and then spoke to the crowd. "I brought some bombs with me on board, you see......"
"Wait, wait......," Wille waved his hand, "we're going to find the King Octopus and ask him to help us find something, we're not here to eat a grilled octopus...... Also, what do you do about it? It's a little too wild, too. ”
"Hmm...... Isn't it possible? "It seems that Hierro is really thinking about this very seriously.
"Boreth, anyway......" Will tear the seaweed from the side and put it in the package as he passed by again, "I found ......something that could help Ollie," said Vere, and a stone pickaxe appeared in his hand, knocking on the coral.
"You can use this to unravel the poison on Ollie?" Hierro and Boreth exchanged puzzled looks, "Of course." Williso replied, by the way, scooping a piece of coral out of the water and placing it in his package.
Pease sat beside Bo Rest and looked at the throne of coral, which made up a lot of coral, but in Pease's eyes, it did not look tall, but beautiful, colorful, and wonderful. Such a coral is enough to satisfy a child's imagination, and of course, there is a somewhat blackened spot in the center of the coral and the idle panicked eyes that are a little on the other side.
"That eye-like coral looks so funny...... Haha," Pease looked into that eye and suddenly laughed, speaking to Hierro and Boreth, who were debating whether it would be better to blast with a suicide bomb or bombard with a high-throw projectile magic, and to Will, who was busy on the side.
“…… So High Priest, I think it's better to be on the safe side, in case that 'King Octopus' is something like a tiger shark, we will still have no way to escape from the sea after all. Therefore, if you want to lure it over, you should be prepared. What's more, High Priest, your strength has not yet been fully restored. ”
"Let's use magic...... Captain Hiero, I know your concerns, but there should be no need here, this is not like the fog before, there is no malicious atmosphere, and besides, we are here to ask King Octopus for help, and using too rough methods may make us lose the chance to find things, after all, Captain, there is only one hope for the key you want to find, isn't it? ”
This sentence hit the nail on the head of Hierro, and he stopped arguing with Boris, and just as he wanted to agree with Boris's idea, he heard Pease say. "That eye is so weird...... Ha ha. It's so much fun to watch. ”
Boris and Hierro jerked back to the top of the Coral Throne, and at that moment, the digging Ver smashed the pickaxe into a piece of coral that had protruded from the throne.
With a smash, Weir felt that something was wrong with the tactile feedback, and the corals suddenly squirmed.
Hierro and Borreth looked back and saw a coral like a 'dead fish's eye', but then, with a cry from Wiel, "Hey, isn't it a coral reef?" The eye widened suddenly, as if it was in pain, and a piece of coral quickly bent over and came under the eye, and then a lot of coral gathered and rubbed against it.
Wille looked up, but found an astonishing scene, the coral that he had smashed turned into a gray-blue slippery thing like a chameleon, and several suction cups appeared underneath, and then, the entire part of the throne that was originally thought to be the chair cushion changed color, and turned into a blue-gray slippery thing. The thing stared at a dead fish's eyes, and looked at Ver with some annoyance. Constantly rubbing the tentacles that had been smashed by Weier.
"Isn't this an octopus?" Weir said casually. "I wipe ...... What a big octopus...... Well?! ”
"King Octopus!" Boris and Hierro spoke at the same time. Unexpectedly, this octopus turned out to be an octopus that changes color.
“…… It's, it says...... 'It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!' …… You're annoyed ......'" Pease said to Boreth as if he had heard something, and then kept looking at the wilted octopus with his eyes.
The octopus was rubbed aside by the swollen and skinny tentacles smashed by Will, and one of the remaining tentacles seemed to be on the cheeks, and the wide eyes of the octopus's 'head' turned back into a lazy appearance.
"You're the Octopus King?" Weir said in surprise.
"Woo, woo, woo, woo" A sound like a whining sound came from the octopus's body, and then he gave Ver a blank look as he spoke. "Hey? Do you blame me for putting it here yourself? ”
Borreth and Hierro looked at Pease, who acted as interpreters. "It said...... 'What do you have to say, hurry up...... The bastard who smashed my hand is not qualified to speak. …… I just love to treat you like that, can you take care of it? …… Why, you want to bite me? Are you coming, biting? You bastard...... What are you doing? …… What are you doing? …… See'"
"Stop, stop...... It's okay, it's okay......" Boris quickly covered his mouth, but Pease seemed to be talking more and more.
Hierro's eyebrows raised, and a few black lines fell, looking at Will, who was jumping on the side, pinching his waist, and the octopus who was still sitting lazily on the coral, staring at Will, staring at Will, "What are you looking at?!" What are you looking at?! ......" Veel cried as the octopus kept trying to keep its eyes wide and glaring at Vere.
Coughing, Hierro shouted loudly, "King Octopus! When Wiel and Octopus heard Hierro's shout, they couldn't help but stop arguing in an infinite loop. King Octopus, I have come here to seek something from you, the key to a ship sealed in this archipelago that can go beyond the whirlpool. "Hierro carried two keys in his hand, one green and one silver, the two that Wiel had found." There's one more key that will make all the keys to open the seal, and I'll ask you to help me find the last one. ”
The octopus king held his head with one hand, and returned to its languidness, but the bouncing veins on its forehead ...... It's jumping around. "Woo...... 'Okay...... No problem, but I need some wine...... Just two bottles. ’
Hiero's translation sounded in Pease's ear, and Hiero hesitated slightly, and took out the two bottles of wine that he had hidden out of nowhere. Hand it forward to King Octopus.
The octopus stretched out a tentacle and rolled the two bottles of wine next to him, disappearing beneath it, and then, its other tentacle suddenly reached under the water of the throne, and out of nowhere took out a yellow key that looked very much like a banana.
Hierro took the key, "This is the key, this is it." He looked a little excited, and suddenly looked up at the octopus king again. You still ...... the octopus king," the octopus waved its tentacles at him, "and it said, 'He's already fulfilled your wish once in a year...... You couldn't ask for more than that. Pease explained.
"No, King Octopus, I only wish you could tell me where is the monster that sank my fleet now?" But what answered Hierro was a bunch of shaking tentacles.
“…… King Octopus, can you give me a chart of the voyage in the direction of the Star Spirit Settlement? At this moment, Bo Ruisi's voice came from the side.
The octopus reverted to the shape of its crutches, and it scratched its head slightly, and whined at Boris, "It said, 'You have to exchange it for the branch you carry,'" and Boris said naturally, "It's a branch of the sacred tree, and I ...... Okay......" As he spoke, Boreth reached into the air and pulled out a twig from the air, emitting a faint glow of a sacred tree.
The tentacles rolled over and removed the branches, and then, with a sweep from under the coral, a box was taken out of the water and the lid was opened.
Boris saw a globe-like object appear inside, and Boris received it into his own space.
Then, the Octopus King looked at Pease, "Me? …… I don't have anything to want...... I'd like to see my mom again if I could......" The Octopus King looked confused, and he reached out his tentacle and tapped Pease's pocket, and the doll was in Pease's pocket. Then it thought again, "Pie? …… Can I really still see her? Pease excitedly took out all the pies in his backpack, and the octopus swept one away with his tentacles, and then, in a gap in the coral, took out a hairpin that looked like a grass ring, and handed it to Pease's hand.
"King Octopus! We have come so far to find you, whatever you want, as long as I have it, I can give it to you, tell me! Tell me where that thing is?! Hierro was a little excited, and it looked as if he was about to draw his sword.
At this time, the octopus waved his hand, and Hierro felt that he was rapidly retreating, and the octopus king in front of him quickly became smaller, no, the entire coral reef group was rapidly becoming smaller, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was already on Will's ship, and Boris and Pease around him were also surprised. Only Wiel did not return.
"Nope! I need to go back, I'm going to ask for it! Hierro got up from the deck and ran to the rudder, trying to follow the direction from which he had come back to find the Octopus King again, only to find that the magic ship of Vere had been fixed in place, as if countless heavy anchors had been dropped into the water, and the ship was basically motionless.
Hiero's hand slammed into the rudder, "Damn! Bastard! Can you die if you say a word?! ”
At that moment, Veir also appeared on the deck with a squat.