Chapter 7: A Small Life

This Maury, with his small body, was able to conjure up a ball of flame, which surprised Jack, and seeing the flames erupt intensely, Jack didn't know if Maury would be the god who saved him, or if it was just a façade.

Just as the shark was getting ready to go, the raft suddenly tilted and broke away from the sea!

There were sharks attacking! The raft was hit to the point that it almost fell apart, three or four meters above the surface of the sea, and fell so hard that it almost overturned! Jack couldn't help but be glad that he had tied the raft firmly enough at the time, otherwise, let alone another impact, the raft would have fallen apart in one fell swoop, and they would have fallen directly into the mouths of the sharks.

However, the five-meter-long raft is clearly at the level of a small plank in front of a shark the size of a whale.

At this time, the flames around Maury became redder and redder, as red as blood, and the sea was also "dripping with blood"! This is not over! Jack clearly saw that Maury's size had grown! The raft gradually sank.

"Tex!is it saving us or hurting us!, let it hurry!" Jack shouted to Tex in panic when he saw that the raft was about to sink into the sea. Tex didn't speak, and Jack was helpless. The moment Jack turned around, the enlarged Maury transformed into a tiger-like creature!

Molly, who had turned into a "tiger", held his head high, his mouth spitting a raging red flame, and rows of sharp teeth like sharp knives glistened in the light of the fire. In an instant, the "Tiger" jumped down and threw himself into the sea!

Jack couldn't believe what he was seeing, and he couldn't put into words what he was seeing like a dream.

Maury, clad in red flames, plunged into the sea, and the sharks quickly besieged him as if they had been hungry for days, and Jack could not see what was happening, and could only guess the battle from the flickering light and darkness of the underwater flames.

The flames around Maury were burning in the sea, the whole water seemed to be boiling and bubbling with bubbles, and the sharks kept swimming towards the fire from all sides, and Jack and Turks stood on the raft without making a sound.

After a while, the water subsided, and the flames rose from the depths of the sea, until Maury showed a tiger-like countenance, and Jack breathed a sigh of relief—it seemed that Maury had won.

Molly, still in the shape of a tiger, jumped from the water onto the raft, and the raft almost capsized, and Jack and Turks hurriedly ran to the opposite side of Murray to weigh the weight.

Maury shook off the water, and the flames were extinguished - it was back to its humble little black dog. Turks walked over, knelt down on one knee in front of Morrie, touched Mori's back, and praised him for his bravery.

Jack exclaimed, "Is this shark blood!?" And Jack, all that was left was stunned.

He couldn't believe that Maury had dealt with more than twenty sharks the size of a whale in just a moment......

It turns out that this Moli is the protector of the god "Ugly Emperor", with a tiger face and tiger body, fish whiskers, sheep horns, ivory, and a fierce nature, but the protector is extremely strong, can go to the sky and enter the water, and integrates water and fire. When you are angry, you can turn over the river and the sea, and when you are crazy, you can bulldoze the foothills!

Unexpectedly, this mythical beast is not only in legends, but now it really appears in front of Jack!

The raft drifted away from the bright red sea.

Jack didn't dare to resemble what was happening underwater at the time. After resting for a while, the raft continued eastward, and when the sun rose tomorrow, they could drift northwest.

The sea at dusk was rendered incomparably beautiful by the setting sun, and Jack looked at this sun, and couldn't help but recall the terrifying illusion of Maury before, which was also red and equally eye-catching.

"Tex, what the hell is this Maury, and do you still have anything to tell me?" Jack asked Tex, curious.

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that I'm afraid that if I do, you won't be able to accept it for a while. Turks shook his head, aggrieved.

Jack was even more aggrieved: "Hey, if you had said it earlier, as for my mouth opening so wide when I saw Maury's illusion? ”

Tex, who had brought the dried fish from the shore from the baggage behind his back, put it in his mouth and took a bite, and then began to tell Jack about the origin of the little black dog in a slow manner.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a god called the "Ugly Emperor", who lived for a thousand years and felt lonely, so he adopted seven different animals from the world, but no one knew what they were.

There is a saying that the god and the ugly emperor have been living in the Tana Snow Mountain for nearly 10,000 years, and this Tana Snow Mountain is the lifeblood of the entire Tana Frontier, from east to west, from south to north, all the regions of this continent are Tana Snow Mountain. Besides, this Ugly Emperor, since he adopted the Seven Divine Beasts, has been carefully trained every day, so that they all surpass all kinds of creatures in the human world, each of them has extraordinary abilities, and carries the seven holy lights of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple to represent the seven powers. And Maury is the ugly emperor's protector, fierce and abnormal, and his protector is also extremely strong.

Every time this tiger gets angry, a red flame rises around it, which is brutal and abnormal, and people and animals are afraid. Hence the name "Spirit of Killing". It is also known that the "Spirit of Wisdom" is a huge eagle that glows blue. The "Spirit of Resurrection" in the Missu Kingdom is already known to be a large serpent, and when the "Spirit of Resurrection" appears, its body gathers green light. And the orange, huang, cyan, and purple light, no one knows what it is, including the "Spirit of the Flood".

When Jack heard this, he was stunned again: "Huh...... In this way, the legends must be true, and the names of these mythical beasts are derived from the spiritual power they possess. In this world, there really are such divine beasts and gods......."

Tex nodded and continued, "You must also be wondering why these mythical beasts are now outside the snowy mountains, right?" Jack nodded as if he were pounding garlic.

It all started a thousand years ago, and although they are all rumors, after all, everything that is happening now in the Tana Frontier proves that these are not rumors.

A thousand years ago, the Tana Snow Mountain melted, a large amount of snow suddenly suffered from high temperatures, turned into a flood and rushed out of the main peak in the northwest, after that, the fleeing human beings took refuge at the foot of the Snow Mountain, King Fena was the first to enter the interior of the cave that appeared after the melting of the Snow Mountain, and later people rumored that it was a huge palace inside, King Fena entered the palace and met the Ugly Emperor, who is a god who combines evil and justice.

The Ugly Emperor couldn't bear to see the extinction of humanity, so he sent his own divine beast, the Spirit of Resurrection, to carry Fenner back to the surface and take him to rebuild his home.

It is said that the Ugly Emperor is an all-powerful god, and with a wave of his hand, Fena and the "Spirit of Resurrection" return to the surface.

Later, when Fena returned to the Tana Snow Mountain to worship, he silently prayed to the Ugly Emperor that he hoped that his son could be blessed, and the Ugly Emperor saw the face of everything that Fena did with the "Light of Recovery", so he let the guardian beast rush out of the ground, and has been following Fena's son ever since.

When the tiger came out of the mountain, the Ugly Emperor made it smaller and became a docile black dog. When not provoked, it is no different from a normal black dog.

Tiger Moli, according to legend, is the only one of the seven ancient divine beasts around the Ugly Emperor who can change its form, and it is also the only one that cannot teach the "killing spirit" to humans, but it is also the only divine beast that can take the protection of its master as the ultimate goal of life, which is very rare.

"Were Fenner's squires stoned to death when the tiger came out of the mountain?" Jack suddenly thought of this question. "Maybe it was because the tiger couldn't control his emotions at that time, and he hit the mountain when he rushed out of the snowy mountain," Tex said. After speaking, Turks paused, looked at Murray and said, "But I am still willing to call you lovely Murray, don't you say Murray?"

Jack couldn't help but shudder, thinking to himself: this is clearly a time bomb, and it's cute, I can't tell if I go out to eat bad things one day, and when I come back, I can't take care of my emotions.

The sun has completely set below the sea level, and the moon can't wait to jump out of the sky at this time, joining the starry sky, making the sky and water one color and extremely beautiful. And this raft looks so small at sea. How small and vulnerable human beings are in the face of nature and the gods.

The sailing trip in the past few days has had many twists and turns, and the sharks have been attacking, but with the presence of the mythical beast Mori, Turks and Jack are still moving towards the Missus country safely. The weather along the way is also relatively strong, and it has been smooth sailing without big waves.

Jack looked at such good weather and no danger at all, and couldn't help but think of his good brother Johnson, thinking that it should have been a group of people on this continent, but now he was left alone to go to the unknown scene, sadness suddenly stood out on his face, and his eyes stared at the sea in front of him.

Turks saw that Jack was unusual and wanted to ask what was going on, but in the end he stopped asking the question, and just sighed at the sea: "This poor sea has given birth to infinite life, but it has also witnessed the passage and death of life. Sometimes you joyfully tolerate your people to play, sometimes you frantically devour souls, sometimes you fill the barns with fish, sometimes you let the shoremen weep until they die, sometimes calm as a mirror, sometimes stormy waves, sometimes beautiful, sometimes vicious"......

After listening to this, Jack remembered the hard scene of the Garland people who were still adrift on the sea and could not return to their homeland, and he couldn't help but tear up his cheeks.

This person is capable of doing everything and doing everything, this person is not able to live in peace for a day when he does all kinds of evil, this person is unmoved when his home is shattered, and this person will endure the pain of pushing his relatives to death without stopping.

A thousand years ago, because of the war of the century, the old world was almost extinct, and the spirit of Tana fell from the sky and seemed to save the continent and humanity, but will things go so smoothly?