Agatha stepped forward and spoke in a serious tone, "Where did the 'unreachable ship' come from?"

"The port of departure, Plain, was resupplied once in Lunsar, then Cold Harbor," said the soldier who came to report the situation at once, "Frost was its last stop—everything was normal for the ship until it was resupplied at Cold Harbor."

"Damn it...."Colonel Liszt pressed his forehead hard, his mood obviously very bad, "We're all in trouble right now.... There was also a ship that went missing just as it was about to arrive in Frost... … Where do you have the energy to take care of things outside the city-state now......

Agatha looked at the defense commander in front of her, and her tone was extremely solemn: "But like you said, Mr. Colonel, it disappeared just as it was about to arrive in the frost - so it cannot be ruled out that it was also affected by some kind of transcendent vision."

Liszt raised his head: "What do you mean......."

"Frost is in a state of being infected by some supernatural power, anomalous cases are frequent in the city-state, and the incident of the Petrel proves that this 'anomaly' is not confined to the island, and now that another White Oak has disappeared at the edge of the offshore waters, I have reason to suspect that a vision on a scale far beyond our imagination is covering the entire Frost region—not only in the land beneath our feet, but also in a large area of the surrounding sea."

Liszt propped his hands on the table, and after a few seconds, he suddenly raised his head: "Extend the blockade and warn all neighboring city-states - frost pollution is spilling over, and the physical blockade is likely to be ineffective."

At this he stopped abruptly, gritted his teeth, and seemed to hesitate, and Agatha certainly noticed the scene: "What other concerns do you have, Mr. Colonel?"

」.... I'm afraid we'll have to talk to that pirate," said Liszt, grimly, "though I personally don't want to do that."

"You mean... Tirien Abnomar?" Agatha's tone also changed slightly - despite being the "gatekeeper" of the city-state, she was also a native of Frost after all, and she also grew up listening to terrifying stories about the Sea Mist Fleet, "If you don't sleep again, Captain Tirion will take advantage of the fog to take you away" is the most memorable childhood memory of every Frost man under the age of fifty, and Agatha is no exception, "Do you think he will accept our negotiations?"

"Not necessarily a negotiation, but at least a conversation," Liszt raised his eyelids and looked at the gatekeeper in front of him, "he came here at a most sensitive time, but he has not made any further moves, and I once suspected that he had something to do with the 'fakes' that appeared in and around the city, but now it seems that he is simply sealing off the area—as we are doing." We'll have to send someone to talk to him and at least find out what he wants to do."

「.... Legend has it that he was a cold and crazy man of the damned, breathing as cold as the wind on the cold sea, and his gaze could freeze the sea," Agatha whispered, "who can act as this 'messenger,'"

"Those legends are exaggerated, and anyone with a little knowledge can actually hear that the Sea Mist Fleet has relatively normal communication channels with many forces in the cold sea, and the so-called 'Sea Mist Venture Capital Company' even set up an 'office' in Cold Harbor,—— and that great pirate is just extra ruthless to Frost," Liszt sighed softly, "The emissary's problem will be solved, there is no shortage of brave men among the soldiers of the city-state, and ........"

He stopped abruptly, looked up thoughtfully, and looked out the window in a certain direction.

"Lady Agatha, did you hear any strange noises just now?"

"Strange sounds?" Agatha frowned, and looked up at the window as well, and at about the same time, she heard some strange sound that was distant and low.

It sounded like a constant hum, but it wasn't any of the sounds she knew of in nature.

That's in the direction of Dagger Island.

In the frosty offshore area, a steel warship with a white hull, three main guns, and the queen's flag is cruising slowly, and a short captain is standing on the bow of the ship, watching the love in the distance with a telescope

He was wearing the uniform of the Queen's Guard half a century ago, but there was a terrifying hole in his abdomen that could be seen directly on the opposite side, and the fragments of his torn clothes floated slowly in the air as if they were soaked in seawater, and occasionally a series of inquirements appeared out of thin air that he was a member of the Sea Mist Fleet, the captain of the powerful warship "Sea Raven", Nickerson.

He looked out at the small island with its winding coast in the distance.

And on the sea in that direction, you can also see some small black shadows patrolling.

Those were the naval vessels of the Frost City-State, who were on a mission to blockade Dagger Island in the other direction, while carefully watching the Sea Raven and other nearby Sea Mist ships.

"Those ships are really annoying," said one of the sailors, who snuffed over and beside the stocky Captain Nickerson, "can you say hello to them with two shots?"

"No, unless you want to be stuffed into the mechanical pod by General Tirion for twenty-four hours," Nexon said without looking back, "We're not here to fight the Frost Men - in the General's words, we're on their side for now."

"Well," the sailor shrugged, "they're on the other side of the blockade of Dagger Island, and we're on the blockade side, so it's not bad to cooperate, but if those guys get dizzy and really want to come closer, don't blame us for the misfire, right?"

"If you go off, you'll be the first to be fired," Nickerson glanced back at his men, then turned his gaze back to the island in the distance, "Dagger Island....... tsk, I remember standing guard on it back in the day."

"At that time it still had boiling gold to be mined, and there was even a town on the island," lamented the sailor, "well, the good days are gone."

Nickerson frowned, as if he wanted to say something, but suddenly, as if he heard something, his expression suddenly became serious.

A peculiar buzzing sound..... It came to his ears.

"What's that?" The sailor next to him also reacted immediately, with a nervous expression on his face, "Did those frost people make it?"

"I don't know, but the Frost ships aren't acting suspiciously..." Nickerson immediately held up his binoculars, "They don't seem to know either...... Wait, Dagger Island is shaking!"

He suddenly took off his binoculars and looked at the sea in the distance.

A hazy fog was rising from the direction of Dagger Island, and a low humming sound came from there, stirring his mind as if it was about to penetrate into the human mind, and he saw that the island seemed to come alive, and its edges were spreading out hazy tentacles, which rose and wriggled in the mist, stirring the sea and fog around them over and over again, while the island itself was descending little by little, and countless huge shadows on its surface appeared in the fog like giants rising.

Nickerson was stunned for a moment, and quickly picked up the binoculars again, wanting to take a closer look at the situation on the island.

However, just as he was about to do so, a loud thunderous noise suddenly came from the sea where the mist was rising, followed by countless explosions that sounded densely - the smoke rose on the island, blending with the surrounding sea fog, and the flash and flames that rose into the sky could be seen clearly even without a telescope!

Dagger Island was detonated - all the facilities on the island were exploding, and all the "ultimate means of security" pointed to the same answer: Process Twenty-two, nitroglycerin explosives.

Nickerson stared at the scene in amazement, and it took a moment to realize what had happened, but then the sight was beyond his imagination once again.

Dagger Island was sinking, like a battleship that had been blown through its hull, rapidly sinking in a series of explosions.

"The island is sinking?" The stunned voices of his subordinates came from the side, this sailor who had served on the ship for more than half a century had never seen such a strange scene, "Frost Man.... Blow up Dagger Island and sink it!? Can they blow up and sink an island?!"

"Nonsense! There is no such explosive in the world - how can the island be 'bombed and sunk?!' Nickerson immediately instinctively scolded, but the sight in front of him made it swallow back the words that followed.

Dagger Island really sank

Going down, and sinking faster and faster, and finally even to the point of being unbelievable, one minute he could see that two-thirds of the island remained on the surface of the sea, and a minute later, the whole island was left with a small hill, and after a few seconds.... The island had completely disappeared from the sea.

The mist dissipated, and there was no trace of Dagger Island in the cold sea: "Not even a whirlpool appeared......

Captain Nickerson swallowed hard and muttered incredulous.

The sea is still calm in the distance, and the sinking of an island could theoretically trigger a terrifying maelstrom of size enough to swallow the world's largest ship, but in reality.... There were no vortices at all.

It's as if ..... The island didn't sink, it melted into the sea.