Chapter 12: A Treasury on a Cliff
The sudden change, everyone's first reaction was naturally to catch up with Laurie, who took away the key to the vault. Although it can be heard from the other party's words that his ultimate goal is revenge, but when it comes to words like "abyss", it will definitely not be a good thing.
But even the female pirate was not as familiar with the island as Laurie, after all, he was the one who had sweated on every inch of land. Soon, they lost the figure.
Looking around, but there was no one to be seen, Joshua hurriedly said, "Damn, that guy should have planned an escape route before." He's so familiar with this place that we can't catch up with him. ”
"If you can't catch up, you can't catch up, we all know what kind of treasure house his ultimate goal is, can't you just go directly to that treasure house?" Yu Yi said. Compared with Joshua and Joyce, who looked flustered, Yu Yi and the others were much calmer.
For Yu Yi and Bai Siling, it is not because of how good their mental quality is, but only because they are ignorant and fearless. They weren't like the two natives, who had been instilled with a fear of the "Abyss Wine Cup" from an early age, and they had heard about it only a few minutes ago. As for the well-informed female mage shadow on the side, she obviously wouldn't be unaware of these legends, but looking at her cold face as always, she knew that the current situation did not allow her to make any waves.
"Yes, yes, yes! Let's hurry to the treasure trove now! Quick, come with me! Reminded of this, the female pirate took the lead and ran as if she had just woken up from a dream. Betrayed by her cronies again, she was a little hesitant at this time, but in order to live up to her father's temporary instructions, she had to brace herself to prevent the dangerous door from being opened.
When everyone was racing against time, Yu Yi suddenly remembered a question. "Well, female pirate, we don't seem to need to be in such a hurry. Doesn't your legend say that the cup needs the right blood to be effective? That guy only has the key in his hand, so it shouldn't be enough, right? That particular blood must be hard to find. ”
Joyce, who was running ahead, did not pause in her footsteps, and replied without looking back, "No, Laurie must already have that kind of blood on his hands." He was so cautious that he couldn't have missed that. When you asked him to investigate the island, he should have found my father's body, and this rebellion broke out so suddenly that no one had the leisure to deal with those corpses. ”
"Your father's corpse? So the blood in his body is ......," Joshua speculated downward.
"Yes, so does my blood. So, my father's will was for me to leave the island and never come back. Joyce nodded.
The seafolk were so stunned that they didn't even notice that their left shoulder was heavily attached to the tree, and some voices asked, "So, all along, you pirates have been guarding this dangerous thing?" ”
"Yes," the pirate nodded in response, though she was a little dissatisfied with some of the words in her sweetheart's words. "But you don't need to think too much of us, we're just doing this to save our lives. If the wine cup falls into someone else's hands, we with special blood will definitely not end well. ”
Seeing that the little couple seemed to be arguing, Yu Yi hurriedly interrupted: "The quarrel can wait until you get married, before you enter the ground, you have the opportunity to quarrel." Now, there's business to be done. One more point, I wonder, if that person inherits the power of that Abyss Demon King, will there be any terrible consequences? ”
"It's ......"
"He'll ......"
The two of them spoke at the same time, but due to the small contradiction in their positions just now, they both turned their heads after their eyes met each other, and they closed their mouths together. It seems to be waiting to hear how the other person will respond.
When Yu Yi just wanted to teach Joshua a lesson, the shadow next to him spoke: "It's very simple, dead man." ”
"Dead people? Who died? How did he die? ”
"A lot of people, at least, people in this sea, are probably going to die. As for how to die, it depends on the mood of that guy. The silver-haired woman said something as if she were talking about a light-hearted topic after dinner.
"Do everything possible to inherit that demon king, and in the end just to kill everyone here? Isn't that a wasteful thing? Yu Yi couldn't help but complain.
"He's not killing for the sake of killing, he's trying to regain the power he's lost." Shadow said.
Regarding this statement, Yu Yi couldn't help but question: "Regain the power? So the people here have robbed him of his power? "A group of civilians can still take away the power of a demon king, which sounds a bit nonsense.
However, in the face of his questioning, the silver-haired woman just nodded and said, "Yes." Seeing his surprise, she continued to explain, "You should remember the legend I just told you before, to be precise, it is not a legend, it is a fact. However, some of the descriptions are inaccurate.
Maybe it's a resurrection, or maybe it's something else. When the Demon King Tanstar fell, he put his divine power into his beloved wine cup.
But after a series of accidents, the cup fell into the sea. A large amount of divine power was lost, causing the sea to be dyed with blue blood. It wasn't blue blood, it was the state of the sea after it had been infused with the divine power left behind by Tanstar.
"The sheer power of Tanstar has rendered the entire ocean in color. But soon, the strange ocean was gone. Because the power of the sea water has penetrated into the bodies of the sea creatures, but ordinary creatures cannot use the divine power of these sleeping states. Divine power will only continue to precipitate in their bodies until they are inherited from the next generation or enter the body of a predator. Predators, such as humans, will then pass on the divine power in their bodies to their next generation, or, return to nature.
"When the inheritor of the Demon King appears, his instinctive desire will continue to collect the divine power that was lost at the beginning. If it is a divine power left in nature, then the inheritor can directly recover it. And if it is the divine power that is integrated into the soul of the living body, then only when the soul is shattered, can the separated divine power be obtained. Therefore, if this person who inherits the Demon King appears, then the sea people in this sea area should be unspared. ”
After a long explanation, Joyce and Joshua in front of them did not refute or correct anything. What the shadow said is the truth, at least it is more consistent with the local legends.
After listening to Ying's words, Yu Yi also realized that the matter was indeed more serious than he imagined. Originally, he still thought that even if that Laurie got some demon power, it would only be revenge. But now it seems that I have thought too simply.
The most important thing is that now, he finally has a deeper understanding of that demon king Tanstar, and his power is called divine power, that is...... He is a fallen god. The troubadours who appeared in the taverns always liked to say: There are fallen gods in the abyss. Now, it seems, not nonsense.
If so, then once Laurie drank the wine of inheritance, the consequences after that were not at all something they could bear. That's the gods, the inheritors who fight the gods, even if they are just crippled, they have little chance of succeeding.
Thinking of this, the pace under his feet couldn't help but speed up a little. Although he was not a resident of this place and had no divine power in his body, if everyone else on the island was killed, the best he could think of would be to be left on the island forever.
He could now understand Joshua and Joyce's feelings. "That means he has to be stopped! This guy is really crazy, can't he think of these consequences? It's almost as if it's none of ......'s business" Speaking of this, Yu Yi suddenly thought of something.
"Maybe Laurie thinks he can control that power." Said the female pirate.
Yu Yicai didn't care what the madman thought, he caught up with Joyce and asked, "One thing, I don't understand." Female pirate, since your family has kept this secret for generations...... So, how did that guy know all this so clearly? Could it be that your pirate father got drunk one day and slipped out? ”
"No way. Dad was a pirate, but he hadn't touched any alcohol since Mom died. He has always been cautious in doing things, and it is absolutely impossible for such a secret to be revealed. Joyce immediately shook her head and denied, naturally no one has more say in the understanding of the old pirate than her. It's just a little weird to say. I don't know why, a few months ago, someone suddenly spread the rumor that the Abyss Wine Cup was on the island. At the time, I thought I was going to be too much of a secret......"
"I just didn't hold it," Yu Yi added, "it seems that that Laurie, he is more well-informed than the others." This guy ......."
At that moment, Joyce pointed forward in the gray morning light: "Look! Laurie! Catch up with him! ”
Interrupting his train of thought, Yu Yi looked up, and sure enough, the brown-haired pirate seemed to be carrying something on his back, and he was carefully climbing up the steep rock wall with a rock climbing pickaxe. Looking up through the faint light, Yu Yi realized that the location of the treasure house was actually on the top of the dangerous high cliff, and below the cliff, there was a slender ocean current. However, if you stumble and fall, you should not be able to rely on some currents to save your life, not to mention whether you will hit the undulating rock wall when you fall, and the current is also full of reefs.
Although several people could already see the guy at this time, the distance between the two sides was not as close as it seemed. "Shadow, can you use magic ......" When asked, Yu Yi got an answer from the silver-haired woman's eyes, remembering her magic situation, so he turned to ask the elf: "Bai Siling, can you shoot him." ”
The girl just shook her head, just thinking about how to explain it to the deed owner. The shadow on the side had already answered for her: "In this direction, against the wind, do you think you can shoot?" ”
'Xi'er Ang will ......' Yu Yi immediately dispelled the thoughts that popped up in his heart, and said: "Then don't be stunned, hurry up and catch up." They had barely spoken a few words, and the nimble figure on the rock wall had already climbed up a considerable distance.
And when several people also came to the bottom of the rock wall, the pirates on their heads had already climbed half the distance. Moreover, when Yu Yi was about to die, he found that he had no climbing experience at all. Not to mention chasing people, whether he can climb up or not, and whether he will fall to death is a matter.
Joshua and Joyce are both veterans, and both of them have begun to climb up quickly. The remaining three were completely at a loss to the rock wall.
After a moment, the silver-haired woman suddenly spoke: "If that pirate inherits Tanstar, the dark side of his heart will be stimulated. Nordion, you've taught him a lesson, and you're sure you'll be implicated. As he spoke, he was about to climb up, but the mage, who had been swimming in the sea all night, was already a little disobedient at this time. His fingers caught the rock wall, but he couldn't exert his strength.
After listening to the silver-haired woman's words, Bai Siling also took out the dagger on her waist, and she was allowed to climb the rock, but she had always only been able to climb trees, and she was not used to climbing this stone wall......
Yu Yi stepped forward and lifted the two girls down one by one. "Alright, I'll catch up, you guys just stay here." He said.
The words are released, but how to get up the rock wall? He couldn't help but glance at the [Blood Fury] on his back, which seemed to tremble slightly from just now. "Can you help? It's not easy to get your hands free, okay, let's make an exception. Be honest with me! Pulling out the sword, Yu Yi whispered to it.
He looks like a fool talking to himself, but only he knows in his heart that he is indeed talking to a life. Because, when he finished speaking, the sword in his hand trembled slightly, as if in response to him.
"Let me see how you can help." He said softly. In his imagination, the only thing the great sword could do was to plunge into the rock wall and prop him up the hill.
However, as soon as he plunged the blade into the stone wall, a dark red glow appeared on the greatsword. The dark red light overflowed, and two gaps on the cliff were quickly carved, one on the left and one on the right, just enough for hands and feet to climb.
"It's a little interesting......" Yu Yi began to understand a little bit what [Blood Fury] meant by helping, and after having a good focus, it was indeed a lot easier for him to get up. Just looking up, he couldn't even catch up with Joshua at such a speed, let alone the brown-haired pirate at the top.
"You're sharp enough, aren't you?" He lowered his head and asked the [Blood Fury] in his hand. The red light flickered for a moment, as if to give him an affirmative answer.
"Okay."
As soon as the words fell, Yu Yi sped up, and after grabbing the rock wall with his left hand, the sword in his right hand was quickly pulled out of the rock wall. At this moment, he jumped up with a kick of his legs, and then immediately stuck his sword blade into the rock wall. Under the effect of the red light, the blade of the sword clenched the rock wall.
Repeating this maneuver, he quickly climbed upwards with such a dangerous maneuver, and soon caught up with Joshua and the female pirate in front of him. It's just that everyone pinched a cold sweat for him when they saw this, but no one would stop him.
Because, no matter what, the Demon King can't wake up.