At dawn, the Goshawk weathered the strong tides and the changing direction of the wind, and finally approached an unknown island in the open ocean, found a suitable docking point and lowered the iron anchor, and the first morning light shone on them in only a few minutes, and they were engulfed in the fog that filled them, and they could not see the details of the island due to their poor vision. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On deck, the crew looked around in a hurry, as if affected by the intense weather in the Strait of Calidos, a huge dark cloud floating over the island, completely shrouding the island in complete darkness, and the fierce sea breeze blowing the side of the Goshawk, the ship was still affected by the wind and swaying from side to side even if the sails were not raised, which made the crew even more uneasy.

"Everyone, prepare!!"

At the bow of the boat, Nabal instructed the sailors to pull up a dinghy with the help of a sail line and place it on the surface of the sea below, and Shoy was puzzled by his actions, so he stepped forward and asked, "Nabal...... Is this really our destination!"

She called Lemuel to compare the coordinates and directions repeatedly, and continued to express her doubts: "The coordinates are correct, but this cannot be the case on Minera...... It looks like a ...... in any way It's like a barren island made up of rocks......"

"It's really here! Minella is a reef island, and the tide is not yet high, and the water level of less than two meters is impossible for the Goshawk to travel, so it can only be entered by dinghy......"

Nabal's firm tone dispelled everyone's concerns, and Shoey ordered: "Sig, Tea, and Sister Melva, you go ashore with me, and the others stay behind!"

The three of them prepared and followed Shoey down into the dinghy, and Kagami and Nabal watched from the deck as the four of them paddled towards the island and gradually disappeared into the fog......

The group traveled for about an hour in the shallow, foggy water, and when Mo Cha was unable to paddle anymore, the dinghy hit the hard ground, and after confirming that it was the field, Shoy landed with the others and secured the dinghy to the shore with tools......

"Whew...... I'm so tired!Why don't you let Sieg row!" Tea tossed the oar into the dinghy, still complaining about Shaw's intention to let herself paddle alone.

"Ahem...... I remember you lost to Sieg on the ship! That's the punishment for losers!"

After a brief explanation, Mo Cha stopped complaining, but said, "I'm convinced!" So how are we going to find the prophet in this fog? ”

Melva took a closer look at the ground beneath her feet and found that it was just some reef formed by the continuous erosion of the sea, and speculated: "The water will be very deep here after the tide rises, anyway, keep going first, don't worry about getting lost, I brought a compass!"

The three agreed, and Sig walked through the fog with the Sirius Sword in his hand, while the others followed, always on the lookout for dangers lurking in the fog......

Minutes and seconds passed......

"Damn!!Stinky Fish Head!!" The drenched Mo Cha slashed at the last frenzied fish-man in front of him, and before they came to a large mansion in the middle of the island, and were about to enter it to investigate, several half-fishmen suddenly appeared nearby, and they attacked them with their claws.

The fish-man blocked the slash with the scales of his hard back, and jumped up on the spot to force him back with his long tail, but Sieg followed with a stronger slash that slashed off its long tail, causing the fish-man to roar in blood, and the dagger that Shoy threw shot through its throat, and Melva, who approached from behind, took the opportunity to break its neck.

"Whew...... Finally solved...... No, this mansion is the nest of these stinky fish heads......" He wiped the sweat from his face and hung his long knife back behind him.

"There won't be such a thing! we haven't gone in yet, so there's no reason to come out and attack......" Shaw kept complaining, but the danger had not yet cleared, and someone or something was approaching them.

At the entrance of the mansion shrouded in dense fog, the figure of a large cat gradually revealed, its swift movements dazzled people, and in the blink of an eye, it swept a distance of more than a dozen paces and stopped in front of the eyes of the four people.

"I'm rubbing, how is it a big black panther!!" When the murderous eyes of the giant beast swept over everyone, Mo Mocha screamed and took a few steps back, and the others also took out their weapons to defend themselves.

But the panther didn't attack them, just walked around them, sniffed the smell of their bodies, and then turned around and rushed towards the fish-man corpse in the pool of blood, and in an instant the flesh, internal organs, and blood splattered, although the stunned four people could not stop it from enjoying the delicious meal, but as an animal, it still had a sense of protection, and dragged the fish-man's corpse aside to continue biting......

Not long after the predator appeared, a black-robed elder appeared at the entrance of the mansion and gradually approached them......

Due to the relatively obvious sound of footsteps coming into their ears, the four of them immediately turned around and restrained the black-robed man behind them with the weapons in their hands, and the other party instinctively raised his hands and gave up resistance.

"I didn't expect anyone to come to Minella to look for me...... And it's heavily armed...... Alas!" sighed a slightly hoarse voice.

Seeing that the other party was not hostile, Xiao Yi put down the dagger in his hand and asked, "Who are you?"

"Ganif. Ganif, the black-robed wizard of Minera. The wrinkles under the man's gray hair could not hide the vicissitudes of time, and the expressionless wizard was clearly over seventy years old.

Seeing that the black-robed man claimed to be Garnif, she asked again: "I don't believe it very much, alas, you don't look like a prophet at all, what kind of person are you!"

"I am the black-robed wizard Garnif, the Prophet...... I don't think anyone will know about it except for the popes of the Holy Church. Son, did the Holy Church send you to me?"

"Ahh......h I am Shoy Ogst, and they are all my friends, and we have indeed come to you on the commission of the Holy Pope!" Shaw changed his attitude and politely answered the old man's question.

"Shoy August, Melva of the Holy Cult, Sieg, and Tea Tristan. Please come with me, it's not convenient to talk in the fog, let's talk slowly in the mansion. Garnif nodded in satisfaction, and invited everyone into the room to elaborate.

"Hey, old man, how are you ......?"

When Tea was about to ask Garnif, Shoey told him to shut up, and the group followed Garnif into the imposing mansion......

When Garnif led them through the gate of the mansion, what appeared in front of Xiao Yi and the others was a large corridor full of antiquity, with a large number of rooms on both sides, but most of them were locked or not used at all, and there were many strange ancient paintings on the walls on both sides, which bloomed in mysterious colors under the light of the fire of the candelabra hanging high at the top......

"Hey!!Commander!Look at this!!" Tea stopped next to an oil painting depicting a demon knight with four legs, plate armor, and a feathered helmet standing in an eerie setting, with purple-red fireworks burning in his eyes, and his huge hands each holding a tombstone-shaped spear and a large sword in the shape of a corpse-shaped gauntlet.

Shaw and Seeg were also attracted by the painting and stopped, looking at the scene on the painting, they were both surprised and said, "Isaac's magic spear and Shion's sword!?"

"This painting depicts the legendary demon Menus in the Abyss and its Devil'svein spear and the Devil's Spirit, which I made a few years ago. Ganif also stopped beside the crowd and explained to them the origin of the painting.

I remember Isaac's gun was called Devil'svein...... Teacher Garnif is really amazing, he can actually draw so expressively!~" Xiao Yi couldn't help but praise, in her opinion, an old man like Garnifer wanted to see the demon weapon in Isaac's hand It was really difficult, even if it was a one-sided relationship, the painting was enough to convey the spirit.

Garnif nodded expressionlessly, and led the four of them to visit other paintings such as the roaring two-headed demon dog, the running nightmare monster, and so on, and finally he led the four of them into a large room at the end, in addition to the tall bookshelf with many books and oil paintings, a gorgeous bayonet sword on the coffee table with cups, and a lot of drawing paper piled up on a sandalwood table in the center of the room, various colors of paint and various brushes were also lying aside, which showed that Garnif was a master of painting.

"Welcome to my realm, please take a seat, it's a bit messy. As he spoke, the old man walked over to the coffee table and prepared to serve tea to the four of them.

While the others sat down, Melva habitually glanced around with a wary gaze, finally locked onto the sword at the coffee table, and asked, "Teacher, will you make a sword?"

After brewing the tea, Garnif brought four cups of tea to the crowd and answered Melva's question: "This is a sword forged for me by an old friend of mine, but I have never used it, which is a bit sorry for my old friend, so I began to practice swordsmanship in addition to painting." ”

He drank all the strong tea, took a long breath and asked, "Old man...... No, how did you know who we were, old man? I've always wondered!"

Ganif finally smiled, "Haha! I'll find you when you get to the reef...... It's just that the tall young man was unexpectedly alert, so I could only use remote sensing to learn some trivial things...... Like your name. ”

"Remote Sensing...... No wonder it is called a prophet...... And that panther?"

He continued to inquire about the panther, and Garnif said, "That's my domesticated pet, you know, there are six real inhabitants of this big house, but most of my friends have gone to places that really suit them, and the only stupid boy who will come back here hasn't seen him for a few days, and I, the old man, can only keep an animal to relieve my boredom...... And the half-fish people that nest on the outside of the reef are just the food for it......"

The tea was already sluggish, Melva pushed him, and said to Garnif: "Teacher, since you know my identity, you won't hide anything from Commander Augst, right?

"No problem, you must be in trouble, and it has something to do with the sea...... I'm pretty good at it, so just ask me if I need anything. ”

At this time, everyone's eyes turned to Shoey, and she nodded to Garnif and recounted to Garnif what she had seen nine months ago through the thunderous projection of the Celestial Elemental Gem, the enigmatic pirate ship.

After Ganif had listened to Shoy's story, he began to think, and the group sat in their seats waiting for his conclusion, and after ten minutes had passed, he finally spoke.

"Heart of the Ocean...... The pirate ship, cursed by the prehistoric sea witch, seemed to be the only possibility. ”

"The sea witch Selene, the demon god who appears as an ugly mermaid, has a history of the heart of the ocean for nearly a thousand years, am I right?" said Sieg after communicating with the wolf.

"That's right, it's related to the Demon God, which means that you will have to deal with all the monsters in the sea, including Bermangaard, Rahabd Lucas, Hydra, Brachuura, Asrovota, Ticarabia, and Verneus, the most dangerous monsters of the seven seas in the sea......"

The old man's words sent a chill through the audience, and Shoey said, "Bermangard I know...... It's dangerous...... I don't know about the other six monsters!"

"There won't be much difference between them, these monsters used to be Selene's faithful servants, but their master Selene was killed by the Holy King Leon, and the monsters went where they belonged, and the pirate ship was a curse that inherited Selene's consciousness. Garnif finished all this as it was, and the crowd listened to him with great vigour.

"Since it is a curse, it must be found through my sorcery, and this is what your Pope really did when he sent you to me...... Then look at it!!" Garnif took a short wand from under his black robe, and gradually extended it as it swirled at high speed, turning into a longer black staff.

“......”

Ganif began to recite the mysterious incantation, and gradually condensed a black gas in front of the staff, and the black gas turned into a black mirror under the continuous rotation and dissipation, he raised the staff with all his strength, and large drops of sweat dripped down his wrinkled cheeks onto the black robe, and in the black mirror appeared the rough sea, and the mysterious pirate ship still appeared in the thunder roar, and gradually disappeared into the darkness in the wind and rain, at this time Ganif also put down the staff......

"Hey, old man...... Forehead...... Old-timers!We haven't seen anything clearly!That's it!?" Couldn't believe her eyes, and got up and asked.

After putting away his cane, Garnif wiped the sweat from his forehead, gasped and said, "...... Call...... It looks like my peeping eye spell doesn't work completely because of its curse, and that's the limit...... At least I learned that the sea area where it is currently located is the most dangerous area in the Western Sea, the Strait of Somnus. ”

"How do I get there...... Somnus Strait?" Scheve complained.

"Surely that big man among you knows that he wasn't the leader of the Goshawk Regiment in the past?"

Xiao Yi was a little disappointed and complained: "Alas...... Looks like we're going to have to count on that fly head again! Let's hope we can make it!"

Melva patted Shoey on the shoulder: "I will do my best, and I will be at your disposal at any time, Captain August." ”

"It seems that your purpose here has been accomplished, and I don't think you will want to stay here, and I have nothing to say if you want to leave. ”

"Yes, it's time for us to go, but we'll meet again in the future!

Seeing that everyone had made up their minds, and Garnif didn't do much to stay, Shoey and his party said goodbye to the old wizard and left the isolated mansion, while Garnif and his black panther stood in front of the mansion and watched the four of them leave.

The four of them walked on the smooth rocky reef, about a mile away from the mansion behind them, a gust of sea breeze blew, and the clear sound of the sea washing the reef came to their ears, obviously the tide was rising, and the outline of the goshawk gradually appeared in the fog, and slowly approached them as the tide advanced......