Chapter Ninety-Four: Navigation 2
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The wizards made their way through Windy City and then reached the vicinity of Dragon City, where the ranks grew again to nine apprentices.
The huge convoy headed south, joined by a few new men on the way, and by the time they reached the Southern Highlands a little over a week later, the number of apprentices had grown to fifteen. Stephen was relatively silent along the way, so few people spoke to him except for a few wizarding apprentices that Arantir knew. The chosen teenagers and girls were very excited, chattering endlessly along the way, and the wizards basically didn't care, except for the selection of apprentices, who were rarely seen. At present, Stephen has seen five official wizards, and there are quite a few attendants and servants accompanying him, totaling more than thirty people.
It looks like every wizard is in charge of an area.
By the time Stephen arrived in the Southern Wind Valley, there were already hundreds of people in the entire team, including nearly thirty wizard apprentices.
It seems that this is all they have gained.
Because after the blue-robed wizard at the head appeared, the others began to arrange for these apprentices to go to the port to board the ship.
A huge ship has docked.
The thirty or so wizard apprentices have been divided into several small groups because of the region, the southern realm, the northern realm, the highlands, etc., and the naïve apprentices use their qualifications at the time of the test to divide their status.
"This is your room number. A gray-robed wizard said as he got aboard.
Number plates were handed out, and Stephen got the number 13, in the middle of the cabin.
The giant ship departed on the same day.
The wizards in charge of recruiting apprentices rarely traveled on the ship, and the apprentices spent most of their time in their cabins, meeting in the middle hall only when they were eating.
This boring day lasted for five days.
Although it is said to be a strait, considering the size of this world, it still takes more than half a month to sail to the opposite continent. If it weren't for the aboriginal wizard's meditation method, Stephen would have summoned the flying magic carpet and flew straight over.
Day 5.
Stephen, who was reading a book in the cabin, heard exclamations from the deck, followed by a flurry of footsteps, and faintly the screams of women.
"What's going on?" Stephen pushed open the door and walked out.
Many of the apprentices ran out, and then a chubby boy rolled in from the deck in embarrassment, and said with a blue face: "Banshee......!
Bumper Bumper!
There was a continuous crash, and three or five brave apprentices went out to take a look, and immediately someone screamed and was caught in mid-air.
Stephen also came to the deck near this time, and he frowned when he looked at it, because there were black harpies circling outside, the number of which was probably nearly a thousand, this creature was a woman with a female upper body, with wide wings, and an eagle claw on the lower body, vicious, cruel and murderous, although the challenge level was only 3, but too many would also make people have a headache.
These harpies are strange, they attack ships but they don't kill much, and the corpses on the deck are mostly women, and the men are captured by them.
"Damn, is it Harpy mating season again?"
A somewhat angry voice came, and then a gray-robed wizard walked out, and raised his hand to a gray light, and a grasp of the apprentice was desperately flying away, and the harpy was instantly pierced through the heart, and then the male apprentice screamed and fell into the sea.
"Giggles, it seems that the concubine's luck is very good. ”
The waves in the sea were churning, and in a blink of an eye, an extremely beautiful woman appeared on the surface of the sea, her eyes appeared with evil light, and she swam in front of the apprentice with a fishtail, and suddenly the apprentice's expression was dull and motionless, and the bewitching kraken instantly pounced on him, dragging him directly to the bottom of the sea.
"Sirens!" the gray-robed wizard's face changed, "Go and ask for the Mograine wizard!" ”
"All the apprentices returned to the cabin. ”
Flocks of harpies flew around the ship, and they not only caught the wizard apprentices, but also the strong sailors, but it was the male wizard apprentices who attracted them the most.
The light of several spells emerged one after another.
One by one, the harpys fell to the sea, but they still desperately attacked the cabin as if they were not afraid of death.
"Ah~...... Yes~...... Ah~......"
Suddenly, the shrill cry of the harpy disappeared, and Stephen's ears began to hear the soft humming of a woman, not some kind of language, but a soothing and addictive hum, like the murmur of a mother that had sounded in her ears as a baby. For a moment, many of the apprentices in the cabin became dazed, and one by one they walked to the deck, and then let the harpies pounce and capture them.
"Wake up !!"
A burst of shouts rang out, and the wizards led by the blue-robed wizard finally appeared.
However, at this time, the blue-robed wizard's face was unusually pale, much more haggard than when Stephen saw Arrantiel, as if he had been seriously injured at some point. Stephen hadn't seen him since he had seen him once near Dragon City, and the rest of the matter was basically handled by a gray-robed wizard.
"Could it be that he was injured before?" said Stephen to himself.
A flash of light spread.
Then the wizard apprentices on the deck woke up, and the pungent smell of blood made the unkilled teenagers scream in fright, and those who had been caught by the harpy in the air were desperately struggling for help.
"Help Me ......"
"I don't want to be eaten by the Harpy......"
"Save Me ......"
Harpys are cruel by nature, and there are no males in their group, so they will attack humans every season of reproduction and mating, and take strong males to the nest ** to feed them some aphrodisiac fruits, and then one by one the harpies will take turns to mate with them until the other party is completely squeezed dry.
In the end, these harpies will tear up and eat the worthless captives!
As for why they are desperate to snatch away those male wizard apprentices, this may have something to do with the bloodline of wizards, and the offspring born of mating with ordinary people is definitely not as good as the offspring born by mating with wizards.
It's hard for the Harpy to capture a full-fledged wizard, so it's up to the apprentice to make up her mind.
It is also possible for these harpies to become wizards, but the chance of awakening their talents depends on the quality of the essence collected. In just a few moments, there were only a dozen or so wizard apprentices left, three of whom were dragged to the bottom of the sea by the sirens in the sea, and the others either died in the attack or were caught by the harpy and flew away.
Male wizard apprentices suffered heavy losses, while female wizard apprentices did not have harpy to pay attention to.
It was at this time.
The two Harpies, who were getting fewer and fewer targets, suddenly lunged at Stephen.
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(PS: Anyway, Ding Ding was bitten by a mosquito, what should I do if I was swollen?