Chapter 66: The Sea of Ice

"Are you sure you're not in the wrong place?"

Professor Granger looked at the shore in front of him, a familiar northern landscape, with snow lingering all year round, bitterly cold waters, and towering reefs on the shore.

The problem is that it doesn't feel like a "battlefield of frost giants and fire giants" at all. ”

"I used to gallop across the sea on a warhorse," Brünnhilde had returned to her familiar place, and the Valkyrie's expression had an extra warrior's flying, "sometimes it was a gloomy day, sometimes it was a dark night, and on one of the best days I have ever experienced, the sky was cloudless, the water was crystal clear, and I saw that strange sea fish under the water." ”

"Bright red head and dark blue belly?"

"They frolicked in the water and even jumped out of the sea, which I will never forget. ”

Magellan nodded, interrupting Professor Granger's conversation with the Valkyries: "Put these aside, we need to set up camp and boil some hot water." ”

It's definitely not an easy thing to do.

This stretch of coast is deserted, not only covered with snow, but also rugged, with a damp and cold coast and not a single tree on the bare ground.

Fortunately, Magellan had already prepared, and Professor Granger was also used to camping, so he prepared the necessary things in advance, and a small camp was quickly set up.

Huddled in tents, drinking hot tea around the fire, they began to prepare for their next steps.

"This is definitely not that battlefield. ”

In the Schmidt family records, that battlefield was a port, and there was no doubt that this stretch of coast was not suitable as a harbor at all, and even fishing boats could not be passed, and the naked eye could see that the sea was full of towering reefs, and there must have been many reefs underwater, and any ship that came close would have been trapped.

"The place where I saw that fish was in the sea a little bit from the shore, maybe the port wasn't here. ”

Magellan nodded: "It is also possible that this fish lives more than here." ”

In short, the only thing they can do now is to find out what is nearby and find that kind of sea fish before they can continue to search.

After a short afternoon tea, the Baron and Professor Granger rested in the camp while dinner was prepared, and Magellan and Valkyrie prepared to go out to sea in search of that sea fish.

They went straight to the shore, Magellan with a roll of rope and a plank, and the Valkyrie flew on a war horse and rushed with Magellan to the deep sea.

Although rudimentary, Magellan was strong enough to control the planks, and with the Valkyrie's Pegasus, they were incredibly fast.

It only took a little time for the Valkyrie to arrive at the place she remembered: "It was here that I saw schools of fish frolicking. ”

Magellan looked around, then looked up at the weather, it was a sunny afternoon, but the sky was gray and the sun did not have a trace of temperature.

"The weather isn't good enough today, the fish won't come up. ”

After saying that, he sighed helplessly.

"I have to go down and take a look. ”

Brunhilde sighed, "You'll regret it. ”

"Think of a way. ”

Magellan smiled helplessly, he knew it would be cold, but time was of the essence and there was no other way.

"Wait," the Valkyrie held out a hand toward Magellan, "I've always wondered why someone as intelligent as you is not good at magic?"

Brunhilde wrote a few runes in the air, and Magellan suddenly felt that the cold wind around him was no longer biting, and it was as warm as spring.

"I don't know. ”

After Magellan finished speaking, he jumped into the sea.

The Valkyrie's magic was so powerful that Magellan not only couldn't feel the cold, but he could even open his eyes underwater, and he looked at the gray underwater world and dived deeper.

It was an underwater world that lacked light, but Magellan quickly adapted to it, and he began to distinguish different colors in the gray, which would be a beautiful place on a clear day.

Descending the bottomless abyss, the water is mostly empty, and the occasional school of fish, almost all of which are blue-gray and look as deep as the sea, nimbly swims around Magellan towards their target.

Reaching the depths, Magellan still did not see the unique fish he was looking for, and although he had more than enough physical strength, he was ready to start going back: it was getting dark, and it was time for dinner.

The fish that would frolic on the surface of the sea would not normally live too deep underwater, and it would be better to expand the search range than to go deeper, but as the day ended, the light began to fade and Magellan was ready to go back.

He began to swim upward, and when he was about to reach the surface, he encountered a school of fish, and without much effort, Magellan caught a large fish.

"Let's go back. ”

The Valkyrie was very pleased with Magellan's catch, and Brunhilde was not at all surprised that she had not found that particular sea fish, after all, she had been to this stretch of coast countless times, and had only seen that fish once.

By the time they returned to the tent, Professor Granger had already begun preparing dinner.

He was cutting the bread and placing the baked sausages on the bread slices, plus two slices of spinach leaves that Magellan had specially prepared, which was not hearty, but it was enough for a full meal.

"Looks like we're back too late. ”

Magellan raised the big fish in his hand, attracting the professor's astonished gaze.

"That fish is enough for us for a day, but today's dinner is ready, so let's put it away. ”

Magellan nodded, dug a pit on the coast, filled it with seawater, and threw the big fish into it.

Dinner was soon ready, and Brünnhilde summoned the baron, who stood on the top of the hill and looked out to sea, into the tent, and began to destroy the fruits of the professor's labor.

The Baron and Professor Granger soon fell asleep, and Magellan and Brünnhilde kept vigil, sitting by the campfire drinking hot tea and listening to the wind howling outside.

Soon, the next day arrived.

The baron woke up early, and he headed towards the shore, ready to see the fish of the sea that he had never seen before.

Magellan picked up a pile of snow from the tent and prepared to boil hot water.

When the water in the pot began to boil, the baron rushed into the tent.

"That kind of fish!"

"What?"

Magellan looked at the excited Baron and couldn't understand what he was saying.

"That's the fish we're looking for! Red Head and Blue Belly!"

"Where?"

"That's the one you caught!"

"Impossible......"

Magellan reluctantly accepted the reality that the baron was wrong.

The big fish that was about to be served on the plate did have a red head, but like the usual fish in the sea, it had a blue-gray back and a white belly, which was not the kind they needed.