In the evening, the clouds on the horizon make the picture seem to be on fire.

The red sun between the sky and the sea slowly sank into the sea.

The jingling of bells can be heard from the docks, and some seabirds accompany the small wooden boats to the harbor, presumably hoping to take a few small fish from the fish hold.

Jasper asked High Priest Reed for leave and left the Statue of Liberty early.

When Roy walked out of the temple gate, Jasper was waiting for him around the corner of the street, and Roy ran over to him, and Jasper walked with him to the port docks.

The nearby fish market was deserted, with a few seabirds landing in front of a garbage basket and pecking at the foul-smelling entrails inside.

There is a strong smell of sea fish wafting from the pier.

In the area of the deep-water pier, some crew members left the pier in twos and threes, and walked towards the downtown town, where the lights were gradually turned on.

There, you can buy alcohol and get something else.

Of course, if you want to have an unforgettable night, you can't miss Kohler in your pocket.

……

Seabirds, sunset.

On the harbor pier, a huge five-masted ship is docked aside.

Two seamen, a second mate and an ordinary seaman, stood under the sampan of the ship, and when they saw Jasper and Roy walking along the dock, they hurriedly greeted them.

Jasper saw the bald second mate and nodded his head in greeting.

"What exactly you want to do on the ship, have the introducers made it clear to you?" The second mate asked with squinted eyes.

He was a real strong, bulging muscle, wearing a tight-fitting waistcoat with chopping sleeves, a pair of long trousers with balloon legs, a pair of rusty feet, and a scimitar and a bundle of rope hanging from his waist.

As he turned, Roy saw a large cyan anchor tattooed on the back of his neck and skull.

Jasper nodded.

The ordinary crew members on the side were also wearing a long knife, holding a black turban on their heads, wearing leather armor and leather pants, and their faces were full of beards, making it almost impossible to see his facial features.

Roy even smelled the smell of blood coming from the long knife......

The second mate said to Jasper: "Then don't waste time, try to finish it early." ”

Then he turned and stepped on the sampan to get aboard, Jasper and Roy following behind, followed by the seaman.

Walking down the quivering sampan onto the ship, Roy realized that the ship was really big.

The length of the deck alone is nearly forty meters, and there is a ship building with small windows painted in black at the back.

In front of it was a huge bronze bumper that turned out to be a bust of a giant with its arms outstretched and its head raised, but there was also a sharp copper horn more than three meters long on the top of the giant's head.

On the back of the bronze statue was a diagonal mast with a triangular sail hanging from the fifteen-meter-long black wooden mast.

On the middle deck of the hull were five masts nearly twenty meters high, each about seven or eight meters apart, with thick sails tied to the bottom of the mast and on the transverse masts, and some slings tied to pulleys hung on them.

The back deck suddenly rose up in part, about two stories high, and this part was the ship's building, and on the top of the ship's building was the captain's wheelhouse.

There are also double-tiered paddle windows on either side of the boat, but the oars are fully retracted by this time.

The all-black ship looked a little old, but Roy walked to the boat and realized that the black color was due to the fact that the wooden planks on the ship had been treated with anti-corrosion and fireproofing.

A group of crew members sat all over the deck for dinner, almost all of them dressed naked in light leather armor, with long knives hanging from their waists, short daggers tied to their legs, barefoot boards, and some even had some moss on their ankles.

Their dinner was not bad, a grilled sea fish, octopus feet skewered on sticks, a large bowl of vegetable soup, the staple was some whole-wheat bread, and a large wooden barrel in the middle of the deck with some fruit, which looked like a large vat of plums, and Roy's teeth were sour at the first glance.

The crew saw Jasper and Roy walk onto the deck, those eyes always slipping past them......

They don't hide their voices when they tell jokes, but they don't speak Elven language, and Roy doesn't understand it at all.

It was the second officer who looked like a black tower, and although the elven language had a strange tone, Roy could at least understand it.

On this sea boat, Roy did not see the captain, nor did he see the first mate on board.

Jasper simply said that the strong man was the second mate on board, and the second mate led Jasper and Roy across the deck and led them directly to the captain's quarters at the top of the back building.

This is the highest place in the whole ship, and the whole floor is the captain's quarters, although it is divided into several rooms, but each room is very spacious, and the furnishings inside are very exquisite, and all the seats are carved with some fine reliefs.

Where Roy and Jasper are should be where the captain usually works, there is a table in the middle of the room, on which is a two-meter by two-meter chart, Roy can see at a glance that the sea shown on the chart should be the endless sea, because in the port of Castletown is still in the most remote upper right corner of the chart.

It's a pity that all the language marked above is extremely unfamiliar to Roy, and he can't understand what is written on it......

A telescope hung on the wall next to it, and then Roy noticed the wall of the room, and there were all kinds of specimens hanging on the wall, all of which were simple bones, teeth, and horns, and each specimen seemed to have some special powers.

"There's a ghost wreaking havoc in this room, help me find it and purify it."

The second mate sat in a set of leather sofas in the room, put his hands on the backs of the sofas, tilted his head and closed his eyes.

The ordinary crew stood at the door of the room, never taking their eyes off Roy and Jasper.

Jasper glanced at Roy, and suddenly as if he had thought of something, he said to Roy:

"Roy, didn't you learn the 'shimmering technique'? Try it now, and I'll show you how to use it......"

"Not only does it provide us with light, but in addition to its faint healing powers, it can also illuminate hidden units, including ghosts, that are hiding in the dark."

Roy didn't hesitate and immediately began to draw the crest and recite prayers.

"Roy, in the future, you will have the opportunity to buy a magic book like mine, you can record the commonly used divine patterns in it, my book records the divine patterns of two divine arts, when you usually cast these two divine arts, you only need to inject the power of holy light into it, and then recite prayers, which is very convenient."

Jasper waited for a glimmer of light above Roy's head to appear before speaking to him.

Roy nodded.

Grand Priest Reed was more opposed to his early exposure to these kinds of magic books, and he didn't have that many Kohlers, which weren't usually expensive.

A glimmer of light floated over Roy's shoulder, emitting a faint soft golden glow.

"You just walk around the room...... Jasper said to Roy.

Roy followed Jasper's instructions and began to walk around the room with this glimmer of light, while Jasper followed Roy with the magic book in his hand, watching cautiously around.

The glimmer floated around Roy, like a candle in the night.

Outside the cabin, there was the laughter of the crew, presumably doing some after-dinner exercise on deck......

The room in the captain's cabin was quiet, with the occasional conversation between Jasper and Roy.

At Jasper's request, Roy walked around the captain's room eight times without stopping, still not noticing the ghost hiding in the shadows.

Roy inevitably thinks this kind of work is a bit boring!

Jasper was also a little speechless, but he didn't expect to find the ghost after looking for so long, so he had to say to Roy:

"Roy, turn up the shimmer a little more."

"Oh!"

Roy raised his hand, held the floating shimmer in his palm, and injected a trace of holy light into his palm, making the light cluster brighter.

The illuminated area was larger than before, and when Roy reached the second window on the left side of the captain's quarters, he found a figure behind a white gauze curtain, the outline of which was only a very faint upper body, and the bottom was completely empty.

Jasper, who was following Roy, also saw the figure, and he immediately pushed Roy from behind, motioning for him to come closer.

Unexpectedly, the ghost came out from behind the curtain alertly, and under the light of the divine shimmer, its outline was extremely dim, and the brightest part of its head was the eyes that flashed with a faint blue flame, and it pounced on Roy with its teeth and claws.

It was only in the light of the divine glimmer that its body became even darker, so that it flew halfway to the left side, ready to find a dark place to hide.

Didn't dare approach Roy at all......

Jasper saw the ghost, and he could see that it was not aggressive, and it would be more difficult to find it if he wanted to escape.

Jasper unfolded the magic book in his hand, and with a short, smooth prayer, a glow shot down from the ceiling, trapping the ghost in it with great precision.

Under the light of the holy light, the ghost's body began to drift away like green smoke, and the already unclear outline quickly became fainter.

That soul fire is like a candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

It was bound in the light, and its body turned into a little white ash and fell to the ground, while the transparent light blue soul floated up with the wind, freed from the shackles of the light, and floated above Jasper's head.

Seeing the full blue outline, Roy discovers that the ghost is supposed to be an elven girl in her lifetime, with a delicate face and pointed ears that indicate her identity.

"Let's go, go back to the arms of the goddess Elune, it's useless to stay here."

Jasper whispered, then closed the spellbook in his hand.

As the divine beam slowly disappeared, the blue soul also turned into dots of light and disappeared into the captain's room.