The faint noise of the wooden hull in the direction of the dock faded as the ship set sail, and finally it was completely inaudible.

Bursts of shaking followed.

The shaking rose and fell like the tide of the sea, causing the face of a blonde boy in the cabin to turn pale.

However, despite his physical discomfort, he still has a steady appearance, or pretends to be calm.

"There's something going on at home, so I need to go back."

In the dimly lit cabin room, the blonde boy dressed as a probationary witcher sat on a chair beside a wooden pillar in the room, holding a cup of lemon tea, and was talking to Bernie, who was sitting across from him, about his reason for his presence.

"I was going to leave yesterday, but Captain Maltz said you were going to Neuham today, so he arranged for me to be on the ship with me."

"I've heard him mention it." Bernie nodded.

In front of him was his old acquaintance, Elinor, a probationary witcher in the Glenn Chapel.

Most of the affairs in a normal church need to be decided by the priest, but in Gülen's church, Bernie does not like to dictate trivial matters, so he will basically let out such matters and let the deacons below decide.

However, although he didn't need to do it, he still had to listen to the relevant reports, so he had long known about the existence of this person.

The truth of the matter is not so simple, the other party sounds like he is taking a ride, but this is actually a "stand-in".

The two are of the same age, and they have the corresponding illusion ability in the church, and they are arranged together, and if an assassin appears, I am afraid that this one will be attacked as soon as possible......

No one told Bernie about it, but he could already detect the arrangement after a few casual glances.

"What's going on? Can I help you? ”

He didn't say much about it, but asked the old acquaintance about the purpose of going home.

Although he is a stand-in, this person is not only here because he has received this special mission.

Bernie actually had a guess about this, but he saw that the other party was nervous at this time, so he didn't have anything to say.

"It's something related to my sister." The blonde boy replied briefly.

He knew that he was going to be on this trip, so he was naturally nervous, after all, it was said that there might be a sea clan attacking with all their might.

But there's more to him than just nervousness right now.

A probationary witcher who belongs to the Glenn Chapel, although he has known Bernie for a long time, he is more familiar with Bernie's management and prestige as a priest.

So despite Bernie's casualness, Elinor still seems reserved.

Especially when he was still seasick, his stomach was churning like a rat running into it, and he was uncomfortable.

The only source of light in the cabin was a glass-encased oil lamp hanging from the pillar beside the blonde boy, and although the light emitted was dim, it was enough for Bernie to clearly see the abnormality of the other man's face.

So he raised his finger and tapped the low table between the two, and a white luster spread down the tabletop, eventually clinging to the other.

The paleness on Elinor's face immediately faded a lot.

"Thank you so much, Father Bernie." He breathed a sigh of relief, and while his mood was relaxed, he explained in detail what he had said earlier.

"My father didn't mention anything in the letter, but I always felt that something was wrong." The tone of this sentence is slightly worried.

"He said that my sister was taken in by a relative of the royal realm for a while, but if I remember correctly, the only relatives of our family in the royal realm are the Servis family of Inko, and that family is not very good in the Pharos Kingdom, and there is no reason why my father would give his sister to them."

"So I think he must be hiding something from me."

"If it's a bad thing, I'm sure your father will make it clear to you." Bernie offered comfort.

The other party's sister is currently sitting on the throne of Pharos.

Not many people know about this, or not many people know about the origin of the new queen, and the person in front of her is obviously not one of them.

If he knew, he would probably be shocked.

Bernie didn't have any intention of answering his mind, and Elinor himself apparently didn't intend to talk about his concerns in front of his boss.

So the two talked about some of the topics they had when they first met, the monastery that had been slaughtered, the sealed place where the devil had descended, and so on.

Time passed slowly, and although the ship under him was still shaking, it was much weaker than it had been at the beginning.

The wind was relatively smooth, and the sea remained calm.

Unfortunately, this calm is destined to be broken.

Soon after, a knock on the door interrupted their reminiscences, and serious words were heard.

"The Sea Clan is already showing up, Father Bernie, it could be a mess outside, stay in the cabin, and no matter what happens, don't come out."

These words made the blonde boy next to him, who was already in a calm mood due to reminiscence, couldn't help but swallow his saliva, Bernie himself was relatively calm about this, and after answering, the person who was talking outside quietly left.

"You, you say, what kind of monsters will come and attack?" Elinor couldn't help but ask.

"Who knows, but I don't seem to have heard of any powerful sea tribes nearby." Bernie said, smiling at him, "Relax, we're very tightly defended. ”

"Maybe you'll meet a sea giant?"

The blonde boy was obviously unable to relax, and was worried about where he was.

"It is said that the sea giants are so powerful that they can even lift a mountain as large as Talahan."

"You're talking about mountain giants, not sea giants, that's not carrying, the mountain is itself."

Bernie corrected him, then gave him a quick reminder.

"Besides, now that you're on this ship, I think you're mentally prepared accordingly."

Eleanor was stunned when she heard this, and then nodded in relief.

"yes, I thought about it all night yesterday......"

The task of being a stand-in was mentioned to Captain Maltz of the Witcher on his own initiative, but the choice was up to him.

And although this thing sounds dangerous, isn't danger an opportunity?

The last time he was in danger was to break into the Seal with Bernie, suffering from a recurring killing dream.

However, the reward was to make him, a small noble child who would not have been able to enter the church, a trainee witcher, because he had known Bernie for a long time and was well taken care of in the church.

What will happen now?

Maybe it's death, maybe it's going further!

In a world with a strict class system, it is not that people are despairing, but that there is no way to climb up.

For this channel, how many people are desperately fighting for it......

He didn't say anything more, but Elinor's nervousness had calmed down and he was becoming more motivated.

……

For the next period of time, nothing special appeared in the surroundings.

Until a certain node comes, a violent shaking is born!

The shaking is like a naughty child holding his puppet toys and shaking his arms in joy, or like the tables and chairs in the room are tumbling around when an earthquake strikes.

As soon as he appeared, everything in the cabin shook and staggered.

As a result, the oil lamp fell to the ground, and the tea on the low table splashed everywhere.

At the same time, the shaking was accompanied by a roar full of violence.

Like a crazy ape fighting wolves, there seems to be some unique power mixed in with it, making the sound full of a flesh-tearing sound, which sounds very penetrating.

However, the true face of this power did not appear in the perspective of the two people in the room.

Just because before this, on the seemingly wooden walls around the room, a mysterious pattern like a vine entwined had slowly emerged, and the pattern faintly emitted a pale golden light throughout the body, excluding all the extraordinary power contained in it.

The roar outside faded as a result, as if sensing that the action was not having the desired effect.

A large number of roars and the clashing of weapons muffled by the roar took their place.

It seemed to be a hand-to-hand battle on the deck, mixed with the sounds of some witcher-specific spells and the sound of the knights' exclusive Patronus spells being activated.

The blonde teenager, who had just calmed down his emotions, couldn't help but tense all over.

However, the tension did not affect his movements.

In fact, before he became a transcendent, he broke into the seal of Ibiza with Bernie, and now he is a trainee witcher with extraordinary powers, and he is actually much more daring than ever.

Therefore, he began to carve some blood-colored lines on his left wrist with a delicate scalpel-like instrument, and said through gritted teeth: "My existence can withstand some curses and psychic attacks, but it can't protect the physical level, Father, you are not good at fighting, and if an enemy breaks in, you will stay behind me." ”

Although the clergy of the non-witcher and knight lines are also transcendental, they are all life in a sense, and they are very good at maintaining social order on a daily basis, but when there is a battle, they are generally logistics personnel who can't reach out.

So despite Bernie's mysterious abilities and a few past combat performances, many people still see him as a person who needs to be protected.

Bernie didn't say anything, but thanked Eleanor for his kindness, and he sat in the room, holding a cup of lemon tea, silently listening to everything outside.

As the clock ticked, the chaotic sounds outside the door grew louder and quieter, as if the battle had progressed from outbreak to end.

After a while, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"We've repelled the invaders, Father Bernie, you can come out."

These words relieved the blonde boy who was holding a weapon to guard the door, and then he was about to run to open the door, but was suddenly stopped by Bernie from behind.

Eleanor was stunned, and then a look of alarm rose on his face again, even more than before.

Having spent a long time in Gülen's church, he was naturally accustomed to following orders.

So it was not clear what was going on, but it was clear that the priest had decided that the knocker outside was not a friend.

"Are you alright, Father Bernie?"

The voices outside the door continued to ring, filled with worry.

"What's going on inside?"

However, no one responded to him, and the room was silent.

The knock on the door was quickened, followed by a flurry of punches and kicks, and finally an eerie sound of electricity, as if the thing outside the door had become too short of an opportunity to endure it.

It wasn't until an angry rebuke appeared that the sound disappeared in an instant, and then a raging wind suddenly sounded, as if a strong wind was blowing outside the door.

It seems that the reinforcements have sensed the anomaly and have come to their aid.

However, this did not let the vigilance on Elinor's face relax in the slightest, because with the gust of wind outside the door, some water stains quietly seeped through the crack at the bottom of the door!

The stain was filled with a seaweed-like green substance, and there was some strange black electric light swirling on it.

At first glance, it seemed that several glowing black loaches were wriggling in the rotting sewage, sticky and damp, with a faint disgusting smell.

The smell of the sea dragon's stomach pouch......

Bernie raised his eyebrows at this, and unconsciously put down the tea that he was about to take a sip in his hand.

The blonde boy not far away didn't know what was going on, so he was staring at the presence of the liquid with a serious face, and his expression was a little tangled, as if he was wondering if he should use any means to block the way of the slowly spreading liquid.

However, his entanglement did not last long before it dissipated.

Just because as the puddle of water came closer to a certain distance, the ones at the very edge suddenly began to disappear inexplicably!

Then, under his watchful gaze, the current disappeared in a row, as if it had encountered an invisible hole in the surface, and along with the black lightning mixed in it, it was contained by the hole one after another.

The situation in the room here is very strange as a result.

Liquid is constantly seeping in from the outside, but the inside is absorbing like a bottomless pit.

Back and forth, as if sewage is being reused, it is in a state of circulation.

I don't know when all the noise outside was gone, no roars, no clashing of weapons, and no shaking of ships as they sailed on the sea.

At present, all that is there is the constant trickle of water as the dirty liquid seeps in outside the door, and the crackling sound of the "loaches" in the liquid as they struggle and writhe.

"What happened?"

Elinor, who was still wary of these liquids at first, finally had the heart to notice the situation around him after seeing that these things did not cause any harm.

He was even more apprehensive because of it.

"Who knows." Bernie in the back responded.

"Maybe we've been diverted from the battlefield."

……

The people in the middle of it didn't know the specifics, but some of the people waiting to be greeted in the docklands of Nerham clearly saw the chaos appear-

Under the cloudless bright sky, a three-masted ship was originally sailing in the direction of the harbor, but after a certain time, a huge palm formed by the entanglement of countless black tentacles suddenly poked out of the sea and grabbed the ship!

However, just as it grabbed the ship tightly and dragged it down the surface of the sea, a brilliant golden light suddenly bloomed from the ship, directly converging the moment that the huge palm burned into the sea.

But the retreat of the palm of the hand did not mean the end of the chaos, but a group of dark red fish figures scattered up and down the entire body of the ship like ants, regardless of the scorching existence, and dotted the normally normal ship as if a wriggling piece of flesh was faintly floating on the surface of the ocean.

Such a terrifying scene provoked the screams of some female relatives in the dock area, and the commotion caused by it spread rapidly.

But that didn't stop the looming ship from plunging into an even bigger crisis—

As the flesh and blood continued to be dissolved by the golden light, and when some dark red liquid even swayed and floated to the edge of the sea near the dock, a behemoth suddenly jumped out of the sea at the end of the sight, swallowed the blood-colored ship into its belly, and then plunged into the sea and disappeared!