That ominous and looming sense of danger was fleeting. When Griffith first arrived in Bayeran, he had a vague sense that there was a solemn darkness in the depths of the street, mysterious and gloomy like a giant beast. Now the feeling has become even weirder, more distorted.

However, his attention was soon drawn to the magnificent buildings near the sea.

When he first arrived in Bayeran, Griffith was already impressed by the epic walls, but he was even more amazed by the new wonders that appeared near the port.

After years of intermittent construction, the Tower of the Planetary Tower of Bayerlanda was finally completed at an astonishing pace in the six months after the war, standing above the waves and cliffs. It stands on the top of a mountain, looking down on the raging ocean and looking up at the endless starry sky, which makes the hearts of those who gaze at it surge.

The observation of the stars has always been the focus of the occult world, and at the same time it was built with small astrological towers in many important cities. These buildings of all sizes monitor the trajectory of the stars and provide services ranging from auxiliary divination, psionic detection, and mutated creatic tide alert to weather forecasting and clock calibration.

The Great Astrology Tower sends powerful psionic signals to all corners of the civilized world, once near noon and once at midnight. Wizard towers and astrological towers all over the world calibrate their clocks based on this signal.

There is an extra layer of meaning to this signal.

All human activities are carried out under the guidance of the Bedlanda Astrological Tower. Bayeran will go from an ancient union to a truly unitary state. After the defeat of the mighty Orcs of the East, the king and the wise senate must have found some particularly convincing arguments to convince the princes everywhere.

Griffith stared at the spectacle, weighing the strength of his argument.

"Hey, Lord Knight, do you know?" the coachman also saw the magnificent spectacle and turned to talk to Griffith, "I heard that with this Great Astrological Tower, many functions of the Mage Towers in various places can finally be safely operated. It's like teleportation or something, and it can move people thousands of miles away at once. ”

"Really!?" Griffith really didn't know.

"Everyone is in the story, but there seems to be some restrictions," said the coachman with some envy, "It is said that only the mage and the knight like you can use it, and ordinary people still have to rely on my old profession." ”

This Griffith understands that many magical items require the psionic power of the Extraordinary to be used. No matter how elaborate and simple the design is, it will end up serving less than one percent of the total population of Bayeran.

......

A few hours later, Griffith lay on the soft bed of the equinox, playing with the corrupt feather fencing from the Baron of the Whispering Forest Blood, pondering how to complete the purification. The soft sunlight and warm sea breeze make you sleepy.

With a displacement of more than 8,000 tons, the seven-masted schooner Spring Equinox sailed smoothly and quickly through the waves. Her sails and rudder are aided by a magical device powered by dust crystals, and the structure is different from that of a normal boat, far more efficient and convenient. Although it is expensive to build and maintain, it also saves the number of sailors, and the cabin and cargo compartment are larger, which has been favored in recent years for its comfort and convenience.

Although this distinctive sailing ship is still made of wood and sails on sail power, it has been built with the latest technology, with pipes and frames made of iron or copper all over the hull. The equinox was able to be sturdier and cleaner than traditional sailboats, and the first and first class cabins even had their own lavatories.

Iron production in Beyeland has grown rapidly in recent years. It is said that there are many abyss-deep veins that are being produced day and night, and the billowing smoke obscures the sky, and even the price of steel has fallen sharply. The newspaper said that the Senate of Wisdom was preparing to eliminate the old-fashioned leather armor of the various legions and popularize a new combination of half-body plate armor and chain mail.

But that's all big guys, and Griffith feels that the combination of leather and chain mail is also flexible and has its own advantages.

Thinking about it, he gradually fell into a deep sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, I couldn't tell if it was a dream or reality, and something like a cold, slippery, curved tentacle gently touched his body.

In that moment, Griffith was awakened by fear and nausea, and out of the corner of his eye, what seemed to sweep over a snake-like thing and disappear into the corner of the cabin.

“S.H.I.T！”

Griffith jumped up from the cabin couch and drew his sword dagger to defend himself.

There are snakes in the first class of this luxury passenger ship to the south?!!

Griffith jumped onto the couch, then onto the desk, struck the service bell like lightning, and then stood on the desk, nervously looking up and down, left and right.

In the swamps and wastelands of the East, the elusive, flimpy, slippery creatures of the Viper left Griffith with untold memories worse than terrifying monsters, ferocious orcs, and evil magic. Moreover, he seems to have been afraid of this thing since he was a child, and he doesn't know when it left a shadow.

"Sir, what can we do for you?" the waiter knocked on the cabin door, and earnestly asked the midshipman for his request outside the door.

After receiving a clear answer, the waiter quickly walked away. After a while, two tall waiters walked in with a long pole and a snake net, looked at the extraordinary man who was still standing on the desk, and said, "Sir, is there a snake in your room?"

Yes, yes, yes, otherwise what do you think I'm doing on the table!" Griffith hurriedly pointed to the bottom of the bed, "It's quite big, and it's going in." ”

"Leave it to us!" the waiter closed the door, put on protective gloves, and the two men checked each other's equipment, and then one took cover, and the other moved the big bed with his hands.

"Do you often have snakes on board?" Griffith couldn't help but ask, seeing their skillful and calm movements.

"How so?" replied the waiter very seriously, "the equinox is the most luxurious sailing ship in this sea, and there is absolutely no tolerance for snakes and other things that are detrimental to the dignity and quality of this ship. ”

Then why do you have tools to catch snakes?" Griffith asked inwardly.

"Be careful, probably in that corner," said one waiter, "spray a tranquilizer first to calm it down." ”

"Understand, my gloves are wired with wire mesh lining, it's fine. The other waiter was not afraid, but his every move was coarse and detailed, and he did not miss any blind spots.

Didn't you just say that you had never made trouble with snakes, why are you so skilled! Griffith was even more alarmed when he saw the professionalism of the two of them. How many times have you caught snakes!

"See, a sea serpent!"

"Don't let it hide in the pipes!"

Sure enough, the waiters caught a curly, tumbling, grinning snake in the corner and divided it by two and put it in a sturdy sack. The intricate and brightly colored patterns made Griffith's heart tremble.

"Rest assured, Dear First Class Passenger Mr. Brandon. The waiter calmly snatched the snake away, and then beckoned more attendants in, "We'll do a full inspection of your cabin, and the cabin maître d'hom will be there later." ”

Looking at the sea serpent, still tumbling and curling in the sack, Griffith panicked. Although he was already an experienced warrior and had killed many mutant creatures, his fear of snakes had not changed since he was a child. Besides, he couldn't figure out how this thing got into his cabin.

"Mr. Apprentice Knight," the cabin maîtress respectfully brought a bottle of red wine, without the slightest consideration of whether the guest would drink it or not, "please accept our sincere apologies." ”

"Do you know where this snake came from?" asked Griffith, taking the wine and setting it aside, with a pleasant face.

"The only entrance is the pipes of the lavatory," the foreman took Griffith to look there, "but, Mr. Brandon, your chamber is on the upper deck of the main deck, almost close to the top of the ship. As far as the sea serpent's habits are concerned, we can't figure out how it climbs so high. ”

"Is it possible to climb in through the pipes here?" Griffith followed the foreman's direction to see the possible entrance, and found that there were indeed some traces there, "but this place ......"

The pipes here are not much thicker than the snake that was caught, and it is not so much that the snake crawls up, but that it has been poked in with a stick......

"Artificial?" Griffith's expression became unusually serious, "I don't think a snake can go through such a pipe on its own." ”

"We'll investigate the whole ship, Mr. Brandon, and we'll keep you informed of progress at dinner. The foreman exited the room with the attendants who had already cleaned the cabin and gently closed the door.

......

The Fallen Mage has sensed my presence?Did he somehow send this snake in to kill me?Is there a ghost in the Earl's Court so soon?

Could it be someone else? Did I offend someone? Well, maybe I inadvertently offended a lot, after all, I just killed a witcher.

Griffith sat on his desk, thinking on tiptoe.

If the target of the actor was not mine, it was probably aimed at the passengers in my nearby cabin, and finally arrived at me due to some mistake. But why do you want to do that? It's inconceivable that the snake is still alive when it gets stuffed into a narrow, dusty pipe and then comes out.

The more he thought about it, the more uneasy Griffith became, and simply stood up and checked his gear.

Now he can condense runes with both frost and blood, and reserve 6 runes at the same time.

After each rune, Griffith needs to re-use his mental power to condense a new rune before he can use it. Due to his lack of mental power, Griffith would condense runes whenever he was free, making sure he had 6 runes that he could call at any time.

The spells he can currently use include Ice Armor, Tier 2 Frozen Nova/Ice Formation, Blood Golem, and Blood Bat Storm, where Blood Golem and Blood Bat Storm consume two Blood Runes per cast.