Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Story of Drowning in the Sea
By this time, the sky was already bright.
The sun shone on the surface of the deck, but it was covered with mildew and dust, and the ground was littered with broken pieces of wood with loose edges and old slag.
Looking up, there were only rags left in the sails, and the mast was full of cracks, and even one was broken, and the marks were deep and bone-invisible.
His eyes fell into the distance, and there were still traces of fire burning on the bow of the ship, and the scorched black marks were shocking.
Perhaps it was the washing of time, or the effect of other objects scraping against each other, and some of the hull that had become charcoal fell off the ground, becoming a darker debris.
But in any case, it was clearly not what they had seen on the shore before.
- Now, it's not even all black.
If it weren't for the Blue Eagle Pirate Regiment that they had come down from the deck, Mogan would have wondered if His Majesty had taken the wrong path in the first place and teleported the three of them to another broken ship.
Because of this anomaly, Al looked around a few more times, but he didn't linger long, and found the Blue Eagle Pirate Regiment's boat in the previously confirmed direction as soon as possible.
The boat is small in size, and the exterior decoration is simple and modest, with two oil lamps hanging on the top to illuminate the surroundings, and the structure looks like a small house.
Melissa was standing at the bow of the ship, followed by Connor and Will.
Captain Blue Eagle stepped on the bow of the boat with one leg and his palm against his forehead to block the sun, and looked at the changes in the ship not far away, and noticed that the three of them were rising on the top, and beckoned.
The cargo ship and the boat are connected to each other by a strange rope made of material as luster as steel. The rope structure is delicate, divided into segments by thin triangular strips, which are assembled to form soft and tough iron cables, so that large and small ships can be bound together for a short voyage.
Because the condition of the cargo ship has changed, Al first tested the strength of the hook tightness on the cargo ship, and after confirming that it was stable, he instructed the two of them how to slide down the iron cable.
After witnessing the two of them getting down to the boat, Al did not hesitate and jumped into the sea directly with the hook he had taken.
Not to mention, the action is quite standard.
- Don't jump on the boat, maybe just to avoid the impact of the boat swaying left and right.
Everyone stood on the boat, and the pirate captain had time to explain his fate.
"The people on the boat have been thrown here. When we first came alight, the ship was still swarthy and shiny. Melissa smacked her lips, "It's the change that happened when you were in the boat." But then again, what did you do? β
"We didn't do anything with the cargo ship other than the ones we talked about before. β
I also looked at the situation more, confirmed whether I could take the valuables away, and chatted by the way.
"There are no changes in the structure of the ships." Al opened his mouth to confirm. When taking the child and going back and forth, he should be the person who goes up and down the cabin the most, "but the whole dΓ©cor has become old, like ...... After a while? β
At the same time, Al Yatnos, who is also a shipwright, should be the one who has seen the most old ships here.
"Time magic." Lucifer did not sell the guanzi, and directly gave a firm conclusion, "The ultimate goal of the gradual change now is the true appearance of this cargo ship." β
Before the initial spell was cast, the cargo ship itself had been washed away by time, and it was possible that it was even a pile of scrap.
As an integral part of temporal magic, temporal magic seems to work the same as restoration, but it is not.
In addition to being able to transcend the limitations of restoration's magical material repair, time magic is equivalent to truly manipulating an object's "time dimension", and can forcibly reverse its material state and all states to a certain node.
Due to the existence of the space-time ore and the intervention of external spellcasters, the cargo ship miraculously returned to its original form.
However, this magic is not permanent, and it also requires a constant supply of mana.
- Perhaps because the materials are not amazing, this kind of magic is not as terrifying as the consumption of space magic maintenance, but it also requires at least basic strength.
As a result, the energy source that sustains the space magic is removed, and the time magic hidden in it is also useless.
When the magical power that can be drawn around it is thinned, the cargo ship truly loses all the power given by the space-time ore and turns into what it should be at this point in time.
The changes of time and space must eventually return to the original point.
Lucifer had explained it all, and under the gaze of everyone, the once solid and magnificent cargo ship gradually collapsed.
First, the mast was completely broken, the corners of the sails were gone, and then the entire hull and keel were broken off, and the whole cargo ship cracked a large opening, revealing a one-and-a-half-story cabin, and the lower half was hidden in the sea.
At the same time as the effect of time magic, the material properties of the hull itself are also changing, and it is no longer able to bear its own weight, and it will naturally be overwhelmed when it is old.
"Judging by the boatsmith's point of view, what do you conclude?" Melissa stepped forward and patted Al's shoulder.
"I've seen quite a few of these ships." Al looked unremarkable, "It's not saved, it's recommended to burn it - if there are no particularly precious materials, there is no recycling value at all." β
Will muttered to himself, "Does that mean that everything that was once on the ship would rot like this?" β
He took out a well-preserved piece of paper from his bosom and carried it in his hand.
The pages were yellowed and the edges were wrinkled.
Mogan recognized at a glance that the piece of paper that Will had carried in the book was a strange piece of paper that had been pasted in the corridor of the cabin that no one could recognize before.
It seems that this is a gain in addition to finding the captain's chamber hidden in the cargo ship.
I have to say that being able to realize that this piece of paper might be useful and save it in advance, Will is still very savvy.
However, like a cargo ship that is slowly returning to its place, this page is inevitably deteriorating.
ββ¦β¦ Why do you still have this book with you? Connor glanced at her, "I thought you were all at home." β
Their home, of course, refers to the one that burned down in Nova City.
Talking about this topic, Will was a little embarrassed.
"Actually, at that time, you proposed that you wanted to steal the sword, and I didn't think it would be possible. Maybe I'll have to be called into confinement by my father...... So take it with you so that you don't get bored. β
Hearing this, Will, who was also a little cowering himself, did not notice that his sister Connor's back stiffened, and she stopped talking, and even turned her head away as if nothing happened.
And Mogan stepped forward directly.
"This piece of paper, let me observe it?"
"It's going to disappear anyway......"
Will was listless, feeling that he had managed to keep a little bit from the ship, but it didn't come in handy, and he couldn't help it, so he gave the whole piece of paper directly to Mogan.
Getting the yellowed and fading paper, Mogan made a small gesture, turned his back, and passed the thing to Lucifer with a "swish".
- His Majesty is clearly interested in areas of study that he doesn't understand, and he also uses time magic, and may be the only one who can preserve such a clue.
Although Mogan briefly jotted down some of the text during his time in the hallway, it was impossible to write them all down.
It's wise to find a way to keep paper documents.
Under the sun, all that floats on the surface of the sea is a few trivial planks or broken poles, which float left and right with the waves, and are occasionally swept into more distant directions.
Looking at the main body of the ship trapped in the deep sea, Mo Gan secretly poked and poked the abacus in his heart, and his face was not expressed, but he still looked like he was out of the way.
Using the current visible view of the surroundings as a baseline, he noted the general location of the shipwreck.
"It's so bright now, and I don't know what happened to Boss Fleming." Will muttered quietly.
"Fleming? Do you mean Kalman Fleming? β
Melissa on the side had a strange expression.
From this expression, Mogan also realized that the sheep-headed orcs of the pirate ship at night should have asked the captain's permission before they got off the ship to find the land snake of the same clan.
The main thing is to look back, after all, it is only at this moment that it is possible for the newcomer Captain Blue Eagle in the port of Saint-Lun to know the name Kalman Fleming.
And the timing was right, and he was just in time to ask about some of the previous incidents related to the Blue Eagle Pirates.
At this moment, in the cabin of the small boat, the door was closed, and the shelter was separated, and the door was suddenly kicked open with a rough "bell".
Hearing the strange noise, everyone's eyes turned to the cabin.
Austin strode out with a sullen look on his face, looking around, glaring at almost everyone present.
"Look at your kindred! They don't say anything - the Terrans are all insidious and cunning! β
To be honest, I haven't seen this merman for so long, and Mo Gan thought that he had gone to give full play to his racial expertise, maybe he went directly into the sea and did something.
I didn't expect him to rest in the cabin all the time.
Taking the opportunity to take a look into the cabin, in addition to the still simple and simple furnishings, several strangely dressed strangers stared wide-eyed and looked out, so that Mogan couldn't help but close the door as soon as possible.
It's also weird.
These are the same people who were knocked down by Melissa at the beginning of the cargo ship, and then captured by the Blue Eagle Pirates, who were tied up by the Five Flowers, and now they are indeed awake.
Let Austin be in charge of watching people, and the symptoms of this irascible merman, who was already very unhappy with the Terrans, were even worse.
ββ¦β¦ Stumbling, don't dare to say anything! I shouldn't have helped them tear the tape off their mouths. β
Austin was so angry that he was about to burst into flames, so he had to turn out the eighteen generations of the ancestors of those zongzi and scold them.
"Anger hurts the body." Melissa was very worried about whether the "perfect assistant" she had finally found would make her angry, "This kind of thing, we can think about it in the long run." β
Al didn't say a word, but he was extremely mobile, walked into the cabin, turned his head and came out, directly carried two in one hand, and carried the four cargo ship crew members one-on-one, and slipped them to the outer deck.
- It's really the same as carrying rice dumplings.
Seeing Austin, three of the four who were awake unconsciously moved their butts in opposite directions, and were dragged back by Al, who had placed the man outside the gap in the plank on the deck.
"Did you tell them...... then," Mogan pondered, "what exactly do we want to know?" β