Chapter 106: Dark Sands
Mores made it clear where his destination was, but after setting off from the port of return, Crete cautiously measured the angle of the compass again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The location was fine, but it was on the easternmost side of the Sunset Islands, in the center of the Brohn Empire.
As soon as he entered the territorial waters of the empire from the high seas, Lukka was in good spirits. Day or night, almost every few hours, heavily armed naval ships come and go. Unlike the commercially dominant June Alliance, the Empire's navy was not based on merchant ships and shipping routes, but rather constantly patrolled the seas under its control.
Lukka was here to look for something, not to fight, and the ships didn't look like they had much oil or water, so he tried to avoid direct conflicts.
From the boundary of the territorial waters where the Silent Death is now located to its destination, it will take twenty days at the earliest. Keeping the Silent Death invisible for such a long time, with the mana pool of Luca's third-order junior mage, it would not be able to hold on no matter what.
If only I had Leona's map for the time being. Despite complaining in his heart, Lukka can only act on the opportunity now.
Fortunately, Crete's eyesight and Daniel's control of the ship were trustworthy, and the Silent Death played hide and seek all the way, going around the sea, although it almost collided head-on with the opponent several times, but finally managed to avoid it at the last moment when it entered the opponent's field of vision.
Twenty-four days, four days longer than planned, Luka's invisibility was saved, and he didn't use it once.
The destination was calm, the highest point of the nameless sand was still twenty meters above the sea, and from the Silent Death, there were only a few subtle differences in the color of the water.
Lukka paced a few steps on the deck, and was about to recite the latest magic he had learned for this launch, when the hatch leading to the living quarters was suddenly slammed open with a "tong".
In the cold wind at the end of January, Mores appeared at the door wearing only a pair of cotton trousers, shivering.
"You help me get the diving bell out, hurry up! I'm freezing to death this weather!" his voice trembled.
"Are you going into the water?" asked Luca.
Mores crossed his arms and kept rubbing them and said, "If you don't go into the water, are you watching from above? Why don't you go and change your clothes?"
"Because we didn't plan to ......get wet at all," Lukka shook his head helplessly, if a knight lord froze to death, I wonder if Taylor would make himself lose money?
"It's a shame to go back and get dressed!" Daniel shoved Mores back into the cabin.
By the time Mores was back dressed in thick clothes, Luca asked everyone to stand together. He recited the incantation, but no change was seen.
"Did you really cast a spell?" asked Ollie, a little worried.
Of course, you just don't get five meters away from me, I'm going to go forward, keep up. Lukka carried his staff behind his back.
"Okay. "His crew is used to it, and Mores can only follow along.
Except for shutting up, it still stood at the top of the mast and said nothing and refused to come down. No wonder, who could have allowed a book to overcome its instinctive resistance to water?
He walked straight to the edge of the ship, said "jump", and jumped straight down!
The others did not hesitate and fell into the sea after him, only Mores was half a step slower.
It was this half-step that made him a lot worse than others.
Within a five-meter radius around Luca, a transparent bubble centered around him, slowly moving in the sea with his movements.
The half-step behind Mores deflected Luka as he entered the water, first taking a dip in the sea before being grabbed by Daniel and dragged into the magic bubble.
Heavy wet clothes are colder than not wearing them. Mores sneezed several times in a row.
"Don't shatter this bubble!" Daniel looked disgusted at his junior.
"It's not so easy to break, it's very strong!"
Lukka was full of confidence in his magic results, but as soon as he turned his head, he saw Ollie's movements, and quickly shouted, "You can't poke it with a sword!"
Anyway, everyone was in range for the time being, and Lukka controlled the bubbles and began to dive down. Although this amount of air buoyancy is also considerable, the magic summon is controlled by the mage after all.
The speed of his dive was not fast, and it took him ten minutes to a depth of twenty meters.
The dark sand at the bottom of the sea is actually a huge reef, topped with sand and broken shells. Viewed from above, this large stone with a diameter of more than twenty meters does not seem to have anything special.
Luca continued the dive with the group, making a circle around the side of the reef. As he passed the south side of the reef, Crete, who had been observing carefully, suddenly said, "Stop, there's an entrance." ”
It seemed that the information of the compass was correct, and Lukka controlled the bubble and floated in the direction that Crete was pointing.
The hole wasn't big, and Lukka shrank the diameter of the bubble, and several people huddled together to enter the hole.
Nora was about to light a flame of light when Lukka stopped her. The bubbles are so big that the flame needs to consume oxygen to burn, and this simple science Luca still understands.
Although there is no sunlight in the cave, the walls of the cave are covered with glowing aquatic plants, and you can barely see the way ahead. The path inside kept going down, and just as Lukka began to wonder if the hole could lead straight to the center of the earth, the passage ahead turned around and turned upwards again.
It didn't take long for the hole to turn again, and with a rushing current, Luca's bubbles suddenly surfaced!
There is such a dry space in the hole of this seabed.
Nora's flame flew out bubbles and burned steadily in the air, and it seemed that the oxygen content in the air was acceptable.
Lukka led the group up the dry passageway, and only then did the bubbles be removed.
As soon as he stepped on the ground, he could be sure that this was definitely not a natural cave.
The neat brick and stone floor goes all the way forward, and the walls next to it are carved with continuous ornamentation, although everything has long been dilapidated after the baptism of time, but every piece of rubble seems to tell the glory of this place.
However, the patterns on the stone walls made Luca a little concerned, and like the strange silver coins that Taylor brought, those patterns were also composed of chaotic curves, which continued along the stone walls.
Further on, the roof of the cave becomes taller, and there are two more rows of huge stone pillars next to it.
"Although the civilization here is obviously different from what we have now," Crete pointed to the steps that stretched upwards in front of him, "this architectural layout should be a temple no matter how you look at it, right?"
"But there are no insignia of gods here," Ollie shook her head, "is it true that their gods are completely different from ours?"
"What the hell is it, I'll know soon when I go up and see?" Luka's leg struck the steps.
Suddenly, the sound of stones moving came from above, mixed with a faint scolding sound.
There are already people here!