Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Great Change

Near the Seventeenth Passage of the Western Sea Line, the Goshawk of the Wings of Liberty rescued a man from the sea, a water dancer with a unique skill and ordered to eliminate sea monsters. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info met him again with the Wings of Freedom, except for the mental impact of severe internal injuries, the rest was not much different from when they were separated.

On the bench in the captain's room, Long Chen opened his eyes. Due to his long-standing inertia, he stood up from his chair suddenly, pulled out the Tang knife at his waist, and moved towards the exit of the room vigilantly for the surrounding movements. Just then, footsteps were heard outside the door......

"Wake up...... Hey!!"

Nabal, who pushed the door in, dodged Long Chen's sudden swing of the knife, and he was almost cut and cursed angrily, but Long Chen ignored Nabar completely, pushing his tall body and walking towards the outer deck. This time, the crew all noticed this young man with a sinking face, and under the noise, Xiao Yi boarded the deck and came to Long Chen's side.

"You ...... Why am I here?" asked Long Chen.

Xiao Yi ordered the onlookers to disperse, and talked to Long Chen himself: "Don't complain! You are floating on the seventeenth channel, we saved you because you are still alive, Brother Long Chen, what did you encounter?"

"Black Island was destroyed, the current in the island changed after Asrovota was killed, and the whole island slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, and the last thing I remember is the huge water waves, which pushed me directly out of the Black Island range......"

"I didn't expect you to really go hunting the sea monster, so where are you going next? You're seriously injured, we can give you a ride. Sieg fell from the mast and joined the two men in conversation.

Long Chen nodded and put away the knife in his hand: "There is no clue, now that I have lost my target, I can only drift on the sea." Do you have any news about the Kraken incident?"

"Sieg, remember the spell of the Prophet Garnif, why don't you let Long Chen go to see him? Maybe you can get an answer~"

Due to the events of the Heart of the Sea, Shoey took Garnif's foreknowledge to heart and recommended Ryuchen to visit Garnif on Minella Island. Ryuchen agreed, and Shoey agreed to send Ryuchen to the Strait of Calidos, and then Ryuchen himself to the island of Minera......

A few days later, due to a series of unpredictable bad weather and changeable sea conditions, the Goshawk crossed the Strait of Calidos with the tide and finally dropped anchor near the island of Minera. The wind whipped the waves against the reef shoreline, and Raguil on the Goshawk's mainmast lookout looked as if he had seen something incredible, and the crew's eyes gradually bypassed the dark clouds and saw a scene that puzzled them......

"It's ...... What's going on, what's going on on Minella?"

The telescope in Nabal's hand slid down the deck, and the outer beach of Minella Island was occupied by a group of black-clad workers, and a large number of boulders and black cedars were dragged ashore from the seashore and processed by the construction workers to become part of the huge city wall under construction.

"Is that a wall? Commander, what now? It is still unknown whether the other party is friend or foe!" Sieg, who had always been calm, also looked a little panicked, and from time to time cast suspicious glances at the workers on the island.

Xiao Yi carefully looked at the clothes of these workers, they were all wearing special black cloth shirts, and there was nothing to represent their status, and suddenly a disturbing speculation came to her mind, and she said nervously: "It was fine a few weeks ago...... Those guys, are they...... Are you from the Dark Order?"

"The Dark Order? Why do you think so? Wait...... Nabal, look at the man on that high ground!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Barriso picked up his binoculars and followed Sieg's instructions to look inland through an unbuilt wall, where a figure in a robe stood on a high slope. Nabal held his breath and stared at the man with a bronze crown adorned with thorns on his forehead, a dark mist covering his face like a veil, and his dark robes swaying in the wind.

"Who's that freak, why do I think he's familiar......" Tea snatched Nabal's binoculars and continued to observe the target.

Only then did Shoey see the man's figure clearly, and a strong uneasiness welled up in his heart, and said, "The Dark Lich is still a Lich King or something, and I have met him with Sieg, although it is a stand-in...... At the very least, I'm sure the workers belong to the Dark Cult, but why are they here?"

"It's weird...... Nabal went to wake up Ryuchen, and we discussed that it would be better to get out of here as soon as possible...... "After clarifying the general situation, Sig ordered the crew to inspect the ship and decided to leave Minella Island.

"Don't do this! Hey!! I'm the commander, okay? We must get to the island and find out what's going on! Running away is not our Wings of Freedom's style!"

Listening to the opinion of the deputy of the regiment, Xiao Yi shouted excitedly, and the busy crew immediately stopped, and Sieg also had his own opinion on this matter, so the two argued without convincing each other......

"I know that I, the deputy regiment commander, am simply an ornament! But since I have this title, I have to think about the lives of the whole regiment! This is a meaningful retreat, not an escape! Think about it, regimental commander!"

"What about the honor of doing this! Even if I'm selfish! Then let me go to the island myself to find out the truth! It doesn't matter if you want to come with me or not...... I'm leaving!!"

Ignoring Sieg's persuasion, the hot-blooded Shoey placed a lifeboat on the surface of the sea, and she jumped into the dinghy, reaching for the oars not far away......

The hull of the boat shook, and a red tattooed arm grabbed the oars of the dinghy, and Xiao Yi looked up angrily, only to find that the person looking at him under the gloomy sky was none other than Sieg, who was holding the Sirius knife, and a smile reappeared on his serious face.

"Maybe the head of the regiment is right, for the honor of this collective...... But I still hold my own opinion, I will protect you on the way, and if the situation is not good, you must promise me to withdraw together, and then the Goshawk will cover us!"

Xiao Yi's mood improved again, and she nodded and replied, "Yes, then let's listen to you once!~"

"Whew...... I mean, did you forget about me?"

There was the sound of footsteps on the water nearby, and Long Chen stood by the side of the dinghy on the waves, and the crew on the deck looked at the three people on the sea with a worried look.

"Hey...... Now we're all together! Hey, hey, hey, what are you stupid people doing? Hurry up and get to work! We're not not coming back!"

She yelled at the crew on deck, and the sailors returned to their posts, and the three of them rowed the dinghy with great vigor towards the treacherous island of Minera......

After some time, the dinghy finally approached the shore, and Longchen rushed ashore first to hide behind the raised reef, and Xiao Yi and Sieg hid the boat and followed in Longchen's footsteps. The three of them kept moving inland without avoiding the eyes of the construction workers, and sneaked in through the gap in the city wall......

Beyond the walls, Shoy and Sieg were once again startled by what they saw, the reef that had been potholed had become very flat in a matter of weeks, as if the ground had been resurfaced, the dry black soil meant that the tide had not overflowed the shore for a long time, and the convex and concave reefs that would have been submerged at high tide were gone, except for black cedars and some black gas-polluted vegetation attached to the dark walls.

"Incredible...... Commander, do you think this is possible? It has become like this in just three weeks?" Sieg felt very uncomfortable with the environment in front of him, and he couldn't help but wonder if this place was Minella Island.

"Sieg, we'd better ask that guy directly......" Although Xiao Yi was a little difficult to accept this fact like Sieg, her current attention was all focused on the Witch King acting as the overseer, and the three of them decided to quietly approach the Witch King's back from the shadows.

"Rustling ......"

After sneaking for a distance, Sig quickly ran behind the Witch King, and pressed the blade against the Witch King's neck, Long Chen took the opportunity to go around to the Witch King and pressed his shoulders with the sharp blades of two Tang knives, and when necessary, he could easily remove his head, at this time, several vigilant workers found the Witch King who was being held hostage, and roared and raised the shovels, logging axes, sledgehammers and other tools in their hands to attack the three of them......

After Xiao Yi pulled the trigger continuously, the steel bullets fired from the Silver Falcon pierced the workers' knees impartially, and it took little effort to level the scum.

The first round of counterattack was easily repelled by Xiao Yi, but the Witch King used black magic to bounce away the two teenagers beside him, stretched out his right palm with a dark copper-colored platinum glove and slammed it on Sige's chest, and at the same time his left palm also hit Long Chen, and the two were bounced several meters away by the sudden burst of magic power, and stood up from the ground with difficulty.

“...... The imp with the holy relic, what a mockery of fate, you actually crashed into our fortified city with your teammates...... Hand over the Gem Badge and Elemental Gems, they won't be of any real use in your hands anyway!"

Long Chen and Sieg were blown away by the strong energy, and as the furious craftsmen kept attacking Xiao Yi, the Witch King seized the opportunity to attack forward, and his right palm was gradually replaced by a black shadow, which meant that a strong dark power was coming.

"Breath of darkness, take all the light from this girl's life, and plunge her into darkness!!"

Immediately following a mysterious spell, the Witch King made a move. The black shadow of the right palm gradually formed a gust of wind, accompanied by an offensive black mist that directly covered Xiao Yi's location, and it was about to devour her......

"I haven't fallen yet...... You monster don't want to hurt the head of the regiment!!"

Regained consciousness, Sieg jumped up from the ground and rolled in front of Xiao Yi, raising his left arm in a defensive motion, as if to block the dark breath for Xiao Yi......

The dark storm slammed into Sieg's arm without reservation, and he did his best to withstand the black gas attack without leaking, so that Xiao Yi behind him completely avoided the attack. Until the black mist gradually dissipated, Sieg gritted his teeth and slightly loosened his clenched left fist, and a faint flame appeared from between the gaps in his palms. Having withstood the powerful dark power without falling, Sieg had already made the Witch King feel a great deal of pressure, and this red light gave him a slap in the face. In the moment of distraction, Sig threw the flame forward, and the unavoidable Witch King was bound by a flaming rope and could no longer move......

"Spring Family Green Dragon Sword Water Demon Exploding Dragon Swirl!!"

On the ground not far away, the whirlpool of water that appeared out of thin air swept more than a dozen craftsmen into it, and after a few weeks of rapid turn, the whirlpool turned into a mist explosion *** At the center of the explosion, the workers who were blown up flew to the nearby ground like fallen leaves, and suddenly the black earth was stained with a layer of red blood, and Long Chen's figure appeared in the center of the mist, and all the rioting Drua workers were leveled without much effort......

Seeing that there was no one around him who could lift the shackles on his body, the Witch King's emotions were a little out of control, and from time to time he launched a strong dark force shock in a vain attempt to break the fire line wrapped around his body, Sige tried his best to maintain this power so that it would not be broken, Long Chen quickly rushed over and used a Tang knife to hold the Witch King's throat, Xiao Yi also came to the Witch King after reloading the two guns, ready to ask directly from him what the abnormal change in Minera Island was.

"Hey, the Dark Lich, you can't escape this time, can you?" tell us what you're doing on the island with those craftsmen?" asked Shoy with a hint of disdain.

“......”

The Witch King didn't answer, and his body, which had been struggling just now, also went limp, and when he sensed that something was wrong, Xiao Yi shot through the dark veil of the Witch King, and at the same time, Long Chen's Tang Knife easily cut off its 'head'. But what fell to the ground was just an empty shell, and the Witch King's body was just an ordinary ebony puppet, and in a fit of anger, Xiao Yi kicked it away, and the valuable ebony blocks were scattered all over the ground, and the Witch King disappeared from the sight of the three of them......

"Damn! He actually let his golden cicada escape from his shell! Now we have to continue to investigate deeply!!" In anger, Xiao Yi kicked the wooden block on the ground into the distance, Long Chen and Xige looked at each other, and at the same time turned their eyes to the nearby city wall, only to see that there were several witch kings on the city wall slowly floating, and the target was the three people near the high ground.

"Hey, Ogst, the power you're looking for, they're here again!It's on the city wall!!" Long Chen also realized the danger of the matter, and at the same time brandished two Tang knives, paying attention to the every move of these stand-ins.

When Xiao Yi saw these remotely controlled puppets, she immediately felt disgusted, and the two guns in her hands were raised above her head, and she shouted a word......

"Destroy these puppets!We must find the real Witch King!Learn the truth from him!Xige, Brother Longchen!Rush with me!!"

"Okay, let me dance in the splash......! "A pair of Tang knives formed two powerful water dragons, and under the all-devouring water dragons, Long Chen was ready to fight with all his might.

Sige's performance was not inferior to that of Long Chen, and the Sky Wolf was surrounded by purple lightning, and he was proud of all opponents. Facing the dark power of the Witch King's puppet, the three of them tried their best to fight into the enemy formation, and suddenly black fog, gunsmoke, splashes, and electric light occupied the battlefield......