Chapter 6: Spiked Manta Rays

In light of this perilous experience, Aven became more and more looking forward to the physical ferocity after being promoted to the rank of official knight.

"Alas, it would be nice to have the help of the potion that the White Sail Sword Technique matches. "The dilemma of the lack of resources in the original body, even the current Ai Wen has to scratch his head, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

After sorting out the goods in the pharmacy, Aven locked the door and walked out of the pharmacy by the time it was already evening. Gas lamps are lit along the streets near the central city, and the bell tower in the center of the city rings six melodious bells, reminding the citizens of the city that it is now six o'clock in the afternoon.

Aven walked through the streets.

Occasionally, well-dressed gentlemen can be seen on the roadside, elegantly pulling out well-made gold and silver pocket watches from their bosoms, and slowly calibrating the time under the envious gaze of passers-by.

The invention of miniaturized clocks has not been very long, and the delicate and portable pocket watch is a luxury for the vast majority of the citizens.

Taking out a pocket watch in any social occasion can add a lot of glory to the owner, so pocket watches have been highly sought after by the middle and upper class who pay attention to decency since their inception.

Seeing this scene, Ai Wen was slightly amused, as if he had found the feeling of showing off his latest fruit phone to his friends in his previous life. But the proper desire for comparison and vanity are also one of the driving forces of human progress, aren't they?

Ten minutes later, Evan was sitting in Papa York's diner, enjoying his large portion of cheesesteak and mountain mushroom soup. The warm-toned lights shine on the windows, drawing long shadows from the pedestrians outside the windows.

The father who came home from a day of work, the housewife who rushed to the market to pick up cheap vegetables, and the child who ran home in a hurry after too much play..... Full of life, and something that Evan has always longed for.

It's a pity that there is only one person left.

"My little handsome man, what are you looking at?" a gentle voice sounded in Aven's ears as a young girl dressed as a waitress placed a large glass of butterbeer in front of him.

"Sister Lena!!" the girl was a little closer, the plump on her chest was slightly pressed on Aven's shoulder, and the flaming red hair that hung down fell down, tickling the young man's face slightly red, and she seemed to be a little embarrassed to resist the girl's flirtatious behavior.

"Giggle..."

Seeing the desired effect, the red-haired girl named Lena covered her small mouth, like a victorious little hen, and turned away with her head held high.

There are many memories of similar experiences, not only for Lena, the tavernkeeper's daughter, but also for school-age girls who live in two nearby streets and think they are a little charming.

Ai Wen's physical foundation in this life is excellent, tall, handsome, fair-skinned, and his swordsmanship practice and aristocratic education since childhood give him a unique temperament that is different from most of his peers in this era.

And with the awakening of memories of past lives beyond the times, this trait is even more pronounced. In addition, he owns a pharmacy and belongs to a typical propertied family.

The combination of various conditions is naturally attractive to the girls who are just starting to fall in love nearby, but most of them don't want to have something to do with Aivan, but just show their charm through him.

Now Aiwen's performance is only to continue the consistent style of his predecessor, to avoid showing his feet, and the old driver said that he was not panicked at all!

"Jingle bell, jingle bell..."

"Welcome!What do you want to eat today?" Lena ordered the new guests neatly, and returned to the back kitchen, winking at Evan as she passed him.

Ai Wen didn't notice the girl's small movements, but was intrigued by the two guests who had just come in with a slight fishy smell.

"Are there really that big fish in the offshore waters?"

Everyone who was in the same boat with me saw that there were many big monster fish running around chasing the migratory red-bellied sturgeon, which was so terrible that they looked like devils.

They also had a long red thorn on their tail, and not to mention their bodies, that thorn alone was longer than the sheriff's sword. ”

A middle-aged sailor with a missing front tooth is talking about his adventures. Even in order to increase credibility, the time, place, and what other witnesses were made clear to their companions.

I don't know if his companion believed it or not, but what he said was heard by Aven, a caring person.

"They say it looks like a spiked manta ray, is there a deep-sea population swimming in the waters near Leopold?

Not... He couldn't be wrong, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have been able to describe the characteristics of the spiked manta ray in such detail.

If I can get the manta ray's spike to prepare the potion, the growth of my physical fitness during the knight apprenticeship stage will definitely be much faster, and then I will have more time to prepare for the knight promotion. I was really sleepy and sent a pillow!"

The manta ray's spikes are an important ingredient for a knight-apprentice support potion, but due to their unique habits that are difficult to obtain through trading, even Grandpa Leo has not been able to see the real thing since he fled to Leopold.

If there is no purpose in hunting, even if someone catches a spiked manta ray in the open sea, no one will specifically save a part of this particular fish. Just like the tail of a sun-dried lizard, it is reserved for certain groups of people who wander in the dark.

Unexpectedly hearing the good news, Evan was excited, and took a large sip of the butterbeer on the table. Evan felt that today was his lucky day, and the depression of staying in the pharmacy for days in a row and not being able to go anywhere was long gone!

Early the next morning.

Having made thorough preparations, Evan didn't even go to the apothecary, leaving Leopold and running straight towards the place where the sailor had encountered the spiked manta ray yesterday. In Aiwen's heart, compared to his own knightly path, a mere day's turnover is not worth mentioning at all.

As he walked along the road, information about the spiked manta rays kept coming to his mind.

This unique fish mostly lives in the open sea, is large and oddly shaped, but is not ferocious in temperament, and can even be said to be a little timid. There are only small fish and shrimp in the recipe, and there are no such large land animals as humans.

The spikes on the tail are not used to attack, but when they escape, the spikes will turn red on their own, attracting the attention of enemies and falling off like a gecko's tail, creating opportunities for the owner.

And this time, Evan is ready to use its "broken thorn to survive" characteristic to get a spike. After all, although this large fish has a docile temperament, its size is there, and unless Aven's brain is in the water, he will go into the water to fight it shirtless.

When we reached the manta ray-infested shore, the sky lit up slightly.

Because yesterday the news of the appearance of a huge strange fish in these waters has been widely spread among fishermen. Almost no one is still here today, and it also facilitates Aven's hunting operation.

Just worried that the group of manta rays would run away in advance, Evan didn't have a chance to borrow a small sampan from an acquaintance, even if it could only work on the beach. As far as the eye can see, there are no fishing boats forgotten by well-wishers that allow him to borrow them for a while.

However, this did not bother Aven, who used the axe he carried with him to chop down two dead logs of moderate thickness on the shore, and then tied them together with ropes to become a rudimentary single "raft".

"Haha, perfect!"

Of course, only a daring guy like Evan would dare to go out to sea on such a "raft", even if it is only near and near the sea where you can see the beach.

Armed with a rope and a few stones of the right size, Aven set off with a wooden paddle sharpened from his sword.

Whoa, whoa, whoa—

By comparing the sailor's description with the distance from the shore and the location of the reference, Evan soon arrived at the place where the fisherman had encountered the manta ray yesterday.

He took off his clothes, tied a long rope to his waist with one end tied to the raft, tied a dagger to his calf, and jumped into the water.

The water in this location is not very deep, and you can barely see in the sun. Ai Wen directly opened the digital vision to assist him in finding the group of spiky manta rays who like to lie on the bottom of the sea and wait for rabbits.

If you don't have a place, return to the surface and continue diving in another place.

Evan was very patient, and kept repeating the process of diving-watching-returning-changing places-diving again, and by the fourth time, the digital vision finally captured the strangeness of the seabed.