It was a glorious warship made of tightly packed steel plates.

On the deck, rugged gun emplacements can be seen lining it.

The gears representing the Church of the Holy Machine, as well as the pupils in the center of the gears, are printed on the sides of the hull.

Soldiers in light chain mail can be seen patrolling the deck, armed with powerful-looking rock guns.

The three steel warships from the Church of the Holy Machine slowed down and circled around the place where the two demon warships had sunk. One of them, which seemed to be the leader of the warship, slowly docked next to them in Arka, about 10 meters away.

An ordinary-looking man, with somewhat dark skin, looked at the flag on Arka's sails.

That's the logo of Arka's team.

With the ocean island as the background, there is a compass with accurate scales and the pupils in the middle of the compass.

"You are the pupil of the compass?" He looked at Arka on the side of the boat, and they asked, confused.

Although he was also not sure if the flag with this pattern was what he thought.

Hearing this, Arka and the others were slightly surprised, although they had some popularity in the Twin Islands. But they knew in their hearts that it was only in that area.

Although confused, Arka nodded: "That's right." ”

Hearing this, the captain-like character nodded and looked at Simon next to him.

They nodded at him, politely saying hello, for they were supposed to be members of a church.

"Then you're going to World Scar, right, we've received similar news."

It seems that the news from the archbishop's side should have come here first, and Arka nodded.

Then a metal ear of wheat ornament appeared in his hand.

See this metal ear of wheat ornament and the smell emanating from it, plus Simon next to Alka. The captain seems to have identified Arka with their identity.

"Okay, we'll leave a ship to guide you."

Without waiting for Arka's answer, the boat drove to the place where his companion had stopped. After the three ships converged, one of them stayed where it was, and the other two sailed off into the distance.

The ironclad ship that had stopped where it was was drove over.

The captain of the ship was a man with a flat head and a square face.

"Now it's up to us to lead you to the scars of the world, please follow us and don't be left behind."

Communicating with each other, the ironclad ship moved backwards, and drove the sound of dawn to them in the rear.

Following the ironclad ship, it didn't take long to see the current ahead, and it seemed that there was a different change.

As soon as the ironclad ship passed, its speed immediately increased. Arka and the others followed, and the speed of the sound of dawn was pushed by the current, and they immediately accelerated to follow.

Following the current, the speed of the two ships gradually increased, faster and faster, faster and faster. As you drive, you can see other boats moving not far from the current.

Even Acre could see a demonic warship that he had seen similar before, being chased and beaten by three ships that seemed to be made up of vines and leaves.

Soon, this demon warship sank to the bottom of the sea, just like the two they had encountered before.

The various patrolling ships, the naval battles that are taking place, all demonstrate to them that the war is going on in this place at all times.

"Is this some kind of fast current?" Standing on the deck, feeling the speed of travel, Jason asked.

He doesn't know much about it.

"There shouldn't be this kind of current in this kind of place, it should be man-made." Lucilia said as she surveyed the sea around her.

Matresa next to her nodded: "I can feel that this current has the breath of the sea god, and I even detected the sea god's believers below the ocean current just now."

It should be the Poseidon Church that is responsible for running and sustaining it. ”

As soon as he said this, everyone understood.

The speed of this current is extremely fast, and it would have taken two or three days to reach the journey. It only took them about half a day to see the island in the distance, which almost completely obscured the view.

Perhaps for such an area of land, it is no longer possible to call it an island.

Following the current, Arka and the others soon discovered a port city on the shore.

The surrounding ships were densely packed and rushed towards the area.

When they arrived, the ship that led them left without any communication with Arka.

When they got here, Arka and the others probably understood, and drove the ship directly towards the port.

As they got closer, they could see that the city was built on a mountain.

It is a high peak on the shore, and the city spreads from the mountainside to the sea.

On both sides of the city, there are towering walls and some protrusions of the mountain peaks, which combine to form two curved protective surfaces. The whole city is surrounded in the center.

Arka: They could see at least six or seven airships flying in the sky.

"What's that?" Jason asked, surprised.

Simon's eyes lit up even more as he looked there, right on the shore in a lighthouse-like building. However, at the top of the building was an extremely thick barrel, like a giant cannon.

And as this lighthouse got closer and closer, they gradually realized how exaggerated and huge this lighthouse was.

It can no longer be described as a lighthouse, it is a towering fortress in a circle.

In addition to the thick barrel they saw in the distance, the circular stone wall was surrounded by dense shooting holes and protruding barrels.

It doesn't look like a fantasy anymore, it's more like a steel war.

As Arka's ships approached the harbor, it was evident that something was already aimed at them.

I don't know if it's because they're strange ships or if it's a warning.

Following the jumble of ships, Arka pulled their sailboat to one of the berths in the harbor.

With the stop, something had already scanned their ships, and there were no people from the port who came to collect the fees, so they were left to dock at will.

"Do you want to go down and have a look?" Arka asked, turning to look at the crowd.

Everyone nodded, and everyone was a little curious about the place.

"Then let's wander around the city and get a feel for it."

After saying that, Arka jumped directly off the boat.

The crowd jumped down one by one.

Shadetti and Lucilia followed Arka towards the port.

The port is bustling with people and looks a bit noisy. But among the people who came and went, whether it was civilians or laborers, there was an air of fierceness.

It seems that they are all very capable of fighting.

Arka looked at the humans here, more or less mutated.

Some have orange-red eyes, some have slightly pointed ears, and some areas of their bodies have tiny bone spurs.

You can also see subhumans of different races that you have never seen in various places.

"You don't have eyes, do you?"

There appeared to be a collision not far away, and a box of goods fell to the ground.

Looking at the goods that fell to the ground, they were all kinds of materials that were taken from the demons, but most of them seemed to be the horns and tails of the little ghosts.

With the noise.

A group of soldiers walked through the crowd.

"What's the noise? What happened? ”

Arka: They could see that the group of soldiers were wearing a heavy suit of armor, and the armor was pure black. But it didn't look like metal, but rather like some kind of solid black stone.

In his hand he was holding a spear with an exaggerated tip like a sword blade.

Arka blinked, this group of soldiers totaled 5 people, and all of them were in various stages of the third stage.

Some kind of markings can be seen on the armor.

An axe slashed into the demon's stick figure.

After looking at it for a while, the three of them walked in the direction of the city.

"Did you find out? It seems that the goods that are shipped out are all demonic materials, and the goods that come in are all kinds of supplies. ”

Xia Daiti has been observing the goods here and said.

Arka nodded, and he saw that many of the goods had the Church of the Four Gods mark on them.

The most important thing you can see when you walk through the harbor is a tavern-like building.

Small groups dressed in improvised armaments, armed with various weapons in their hands, and some blood scars can be seen walking through the streets.

Some of them even had loot-like materials hanging from their bodies, all of which were materials from various demons.

After a closer look, Arka found that it was not only demons, but also some creatures that he had never seen before, and the material was not known from what creatures it was pulled from.

The buildings here are all low, heavy stones.

It was all made of various grayish-white-brown hard stones, and Arka had not seen a building more than three stories high.

It looks very sturdy and thick.

The noisy voices in my ears made me hear a variety of languages, but the most of them were the languages of the Four Gods Sea.

Arka blinked slightly.

Look at these people coming and going on the street.

In the midst of the crowd of people who came and went, Arka saw four beings with the aura of treasures.

Even the ordinary residents, the women dressed in linen, are in the second stage.

"The Church of Our Lady?" As they passed through the streets, they saw buildings resembling the Church of Our Lady. The reason why it is similar is because the building looks a bit like a fortress of war.

And they did see the statue of the Virgin and the emblem at the door.

Looking inside, both the priests and the guards were wearing armor.

Positioned in the doorway was a man in heavy armor with a book wrapped in a steel shell, seemingly using some kind of healing spell.

In front of him was a row of wounded men, mercenaries, civilians, and soldiers in black stone armor that he had just seen in the harbor.

The priest's armor was not the same, and some subtle scratches and slight dents could be seen on it.

He also had a shackle hanging from his waist, and the hammer of the flail had dried blood on its head.

Moreover, this priest is wearing a priest's robe under his armor, and his body does not look strong, which is the standard of ordinary adults.

One of the guards of the Church of Our Lady, who was standing nearby, saw Arka and they approached.

After walking over, he crossed his hands and saluted.

Arka: They also returned the salute.

Apparently, the guard saw the scent of the Virgin in them.

"Saints, are you here for the first time?"

It seems that for members of the Church of Our Lady, the discernment of the saints is too easy.

Looking at the man in front of him with a helmet and visor, with only a slight glimpse of his eyes and lips, Arka nodded.

"That's right, we've only just arrived here, and we don't know much about it."

At this time, it seemed that the priest in the back had finished healing and walked towards them.

He patted the soldier on the shoulder as he walked over, and then stood in front of them in front of Arka.

"I'm Puvis, a marching priest at the Church of Our Lady."

"Alka, captain of the Pupil of the Compass." Arka looked at him, shook his hand, and said.

The priest in front of him was around the middle level of the fourth stage, and he didn't grasp the treasure, but the book seemed to be a holy weapon.

For the believers of Our Lady, it can be regarded as a treasure.

"Alka? Compass Pupil...... I seem to have heard this call somewhere. The pastor in front of him couldn't help but think about it after hearing Arka's introduction.

Then he seemed to remember: "I remember, I received news a few months ago that a saint and his team would be here. That's you. ”

"If there's no other one called Arka, it's probably me." Arka said with a smile.

"Laughing, please come with me."

Puvis said as he led Acre into the fortress-like interior of the church, still facing the oncoming prayer hall.

However, there seemed to be no one in the narrow prayer hall now, so Puvis took Alka and they found a random seat to sit down.

"This is the Jushan Harbor, which is the gateway between the world's scars and the outside world, and it is quite safe here."

As he spoke, a map appeared in his hand.

"I don't have a lot of maps to give you, but you can take a look at this one of mine." As he spoke, he handed it over.

Arka took the map he handed over.

This map is fairly clear and straightforward.

The shape of the whole world scar, resembling a very irregular diamond. In the center of the diamond there is a long notch that leads all the way to overseas.

Arka looked at the divisions on the map.

The place where the demon is located is the gap in the center of the diamond and the direction in which the gap extends.

Three sides were occupied by the Order side, and the mouth of the gap was the only area where the demons could connect to the outside world.

There was also a sea channel outside, which was supposed to be the fast current they had just crossed.

These currents spread around the surface of the sea like blood vessels, but the channel could be seen to circle almost around the demon's mouth to the sea.

Obviously, it was to prevent the demon's ship from carrying the demon out of this area, and coupled with the extreme weather that Arka and they encountered outside, it was certain that these extreme weather were also a part of restricting the demon from going out.

Looking at the map, Arka couldn't help but blink.

I don't know if this map is a world map or a region map?

Thinking so, Arka blinked and looked at the map.

It's not a world map, it's a regional map.

One point after another of light appeared in front of Alka.

It is dense and almost completely covers the entire continent, mainly because this continent is already very large, and the scale of the map in Alka's hand is too small.

So it looks like there's a treasure on the whole map.

The golden light all over the place reached hundreds.

Even the orange pillars of light, Alka saw a dozen.

On top of this, Arka found a full 6 red pillars of light.

Four of them are in the Demon Realm.

As we already knew, the Demonic Empire, which was once considered the top in the world, has left behind a large legacy throughout the region.

It hasn't been scraped for so many years, simply because this place is too dangerous.

"This map is not the latest version, it was from 10 years ago, and some areas have also changed now, but the terrain has not changed much."

Puvis explained two sentences on the side.

Overall, the area occupied by the power demons of the entire continent accounted for about one-third.

However, the alliance of the Church of the Four Gods does not seem to account for the other 2/3, and there are still some areas occupied by other unknown forces.

Arka looked at the demon's circle of protection, and the surrounding area was densely packed with the names of various fortresses.

The human side almost built a fortress wall there, keeping the demons firmly in the breach, preventing them from rushing out and harming the entire world.

After learning about the area, Arka put the map away and handed it to Puvis.

"Thank you."

(End of chapter)