Hearing this voice in the same voice as the autobiographical poem at the entrance to the labyrinth, Byron was still a little incredulous, even if he had already guessed:

"You're the great pirate Flint? Are you really not dead yet?

But why is he trapped on this evil Treasure Island? First Officer Thomas, I miss you so much. ”

"Alas!"

The voice on the other side let out a long sigh before continuing to say weakly:

"That's me.

This matter is a long story, two gentlemen and young ladies will first come to the core of the third layer of the labyrinth, and I will explain it to you in detail on the way. ”

The rule of "like-sex attracts" came again, and the invisible force pulled them together towards the core of the third layer.

However, after coming to the third layer, Byron was sealed by the white lead ability and completely turned into an ordinary person.

Violet's power was still usable, although it was suppressed.

In a pair of sapphire-like eyes, it was obvious that he was a little eager to give Byron a princess a show.

But considering the height difference of 165/190 between the two sides, it can only be regretted.

Naturally, he took his hand and snorted softly:

"Light as a swallow!"

The [Strange Boots: Petrel Wings] on his feet grew two pairs of small wings, and with the guidance of that attraction, the speed of the two increased again.

It's not as fast as Byron's Storm's Child, but it's much faster than running on foot.

While the two of them were following Flint's instructions and hurrying away, a second perspective also appeared in front of them.

I saw what Flint really looked like in that fourth-order lighthouse.

There is only one spirit left that dwells in the contract.

And most of them have lost their human form and transformed into a monkey, also known as a nymph.

Dressed in a golden carapace like pure gold, with three pairs of legs between the chest and abdomen, only one head still retains a roughly human appearance.

But one eye has also become a compound eye of a cicada, and three red eyes have been born on the forehead, and it has five eyes like a cicada.

Only the last one's right eye was still clear, shimmering with a golden light of reason.

"Hiss——!"

Even Byron and Violet have seen too much of the grotesqueness of the evil sect, they are full of physical discomfort with the combination of humans and insects in front of them.

I couldn't help but gasp.

Flint smiled self-deprecatingly:

"As you can see, I'm not in a good place right now.

The control of Faust's Pact is far less than that of the fallen evil spirit in my body, or my 'bestial' side.

If you hadn't made the right choice, I wouldn't have been able to communicate with you.

Introduce yourself.

I was a fourth-order pirate overseer in the Lighthouse sequence, Flint, and a Lanternman in charge of guarding the rift in the world in the Lighthouse Federation!

I think that since you have come to the Bantaan Islands, you must have heard of the 'Lighthouse Federation' and even dealt with them, right? ”

Hearing these two words, Byron and Violet looked at each other:

"Lighthouse Consortium? Lanternman? ”

Naturally, they are familiar with the organization.

When night falls, pillars of light pierce the darkness and soar into the sky across the entire Bantaan Islands.

Each pillar of light represents a lighthouse built by the Lighthouse Consortium.

A human colony can be without a church, but it must not be without a lighthouse and a tavern.

At present, the large lighthouse of Riptide Fortress is also being planned, but construction has not yet begun.

Catherine has been in contact with the staff of the International Harbor Lighthouse Federation office.

As for the "Lighthouse Federation" itself, it is an international organization composed of many Lighthouse Sequence Transcendents, and there are also and only Lighthouse Sequence Transcendents as regular members.

It has the largest number of navigators, pirates, gunners, sailors, navigators

Whichever force applied for it, as long as the owner of the land paid for it, they would build a three-level lighthouse from the lowest to the highest everywhere the humans arrived.

It has made great contributions to the overseas development of mankind.

It can be said that without this third-party public organization, the current Age of Discovery would not have been possible.

But they are a little unfamiliar with the word "lantern man".

Flint also saw their doubts, and carefully explained to them:

"[Lantern Man] is often associated with forbidden knowledge, which belongs to the knowledge that is restricted from circulation, and it is normal for you not to know it.

In the Church's Gospel of Creation, the world is a great sailing ship sailing on the vast and infinite essentia sea.

From the 'rift in the plank' which is also the rift in the world, the essentia tides and secret knowledge that penetrate into this world have achieved a variety of extraordinary powers.

But if the gaps between the planks are too large, there is a risk of leakage, allowing excess essentia tides to flood into the world.

It threatens the safety of nearby people, and even our entire ship.

When we built lighthouses all over the world, we at the Lighthouse Federation found that the number of "cracks in the planks" far exceeded human imagination.

Especially overseas, the farther away from the Old Continent, the greater the number of cracks and the higher the danger.

By the way, referring to the influence classification of [Holy Relic], the World Rift is also divided into four levels:

Level 3, Level 2, Level 1, and Level 0 correspond to the village level, city-state level, national level, and world class.

The [Lantern Bearers] who exist after facing the rift are the name of the Crack Keepers within the Lighthouse Federation."

After Flint's brief explanation, Byron and Violet quickly figured out what happened.

Because of the path, the transcendents of the lighthouse sequence are always stationed on the border between the "humanized world" and the "natural world".

Every lighthouse sequence transcendent is the vanguard of the essentia tides.

This is especially true of the Lanternmen.

The world's [lantern man] is also called the lighthouse watchman.

It is responsible for monitoring the cracks in this world with its own lighthouse, and using the power of the Silver Law to suppress essentia tides.

Along with the Church's Night Watch, it is known as the most dangerous profession in the world.

Of course, it is obviously impossible to make all the members of the Federation maintain the existence of the organization and the noble cause by the spirit of sacrifice against human nature.

Even if it can be maintained for a while, ten years, decades, it is absolutely impossible to last long.

Responsibility naturally has power, and there is naturally reward for paying.

Every Lighthouse Sequence transcendent can get a huge benefit from this kind of watchman work.

Not only does the spiritual growth rate be faster, but even the difficulty of the promotion ceremony is much lower than that of other transcendents.

Naturally, the discount when inviting the federation to build a lighthouse is not to mention.

When Flint said this, the look on his face quietly dissipated, turning into deep helplessness:

"There is a second-level rift on this Treasure Island that is large enough to allow for the grotesque passage of the middle sequence, and it is not a high danger rating according to common sense.

I thought that with the strength of a fourth-order pirate and the help of a first-level [Holy Relic Faust Contract], I could independently defend this second-order rift.

But the bad thing is that on the other side of the rift in the world, there is a corpse of an oversized existence [Worm of Greed Mammon] that drifted here with the tide.

Its dependents poured up in heaps.

And as a lone ranger, the [anchor] on my body is not strong enough.

Polluted by the endless release of knowledge from the other side, it also began to degenerate irrepressibly.

This is how the so-called treasure map, which lured people here, was born.

Although I have taken a remedy by limiting the rules of the prime-numbered year.

But after a long time, I am about to degenerate into the dependents and minions of the worm of greed on the other side, and I can no longer restrict its dependents from entering the world. ”

The [Lantern Man] looked at the two of them with burning eyes:

"I need someone who can help me!

The reason why I don't look for real artists who are in the temple sequence.

It's because they're so keen, and when they open their vision, they can often see a lot of things they shouldn't see, which is actually a walking time bomb.

Just getting close to the ontology of "Faust's Pact" may get out of control on the spot.

It is precisely because this contract really contracts the 'devil' of the Sea of Essentia.

Only someone like Faust can complete the mission of garrisoning this rift in the world unaffected. ”

No matter how evil the human race is, there are always some individuals who can be called true heroes.

And not just a fourth-order rank.

Although Byron and Violet felt that it was difficult for them to be such heroes, it did not prevent them from respecting such a person.

Until Flint made a request with a strange smile, a half-human, half-worm face, the smile was particularly terrifying:

"Now it's time for you to make a choice.

You can inherit my treasures, my Faustian Pact, my seat on the Lighthouse Federation, and even some of my extraordinary abilities through the Pirate Chest ceremony.

However, in exchange, I must also inherit my responsibility as a [Lanternman] to guard this rift in the world! ”