Chapter 90: Uneasy Voyage
Chapter 90: Uneasy Voyage
When sailing on the sea, you will feel very fresh in the first one or two days, with the sky and sea being very blue. But on the third day, it will become a bit boring, as all you can see is the blue sky and the sea, and the scenery remains almost unchanged.
At night, there is always darkness all around that can swallow up the light, as if something will jump out of it in the next second.
"Guard the deck, kill them!"
Shortly after nightfall on the tenth day, strong winds and huge waves surrounded the wizard's ship, causing the ship to toss up and down constantly, and also brought some uninvited guests.
Hearing the increasing noise outside, Ivan and Pernie opened the door one after another, looked at each other, and decided to go out and take a look. After all, they were now considered guards on the ship.
There were raindrops in the sky and the deck was wet.
"Captain Caleb, what's going on?"
The two came to the front deck of the ship. Caleb was leading other guards to clean up the creatures that were blown aboard by the strong wind. These small creatures from the ocean were all magical, such as the increasing number of fluorescent jellyfish that were climbing up from the side of the ship.
Caleb is indeed a great knight, and his fighting spirit is not pure black, but has a faint yellow halo, which is the fighting spirit characteristic of a great knight.
Ivan also saw him use the Dou Qi Slash, which slashed through the air at high speed and killed the fluorescent jellyfish that had just appeared. The power was no less than that of a zero-level spell.
In fact, the damage Ivan inflicted with his sword was no less than the maximum scale of the vine entanglement effect, and even exceeded it by a lot. The shortcomings were the damage distance and flexibility. The flexibility and diversity of spells were far beyond what fighting spirit could match.
Caleb turned his head and signaled, then looked forward: "It's okay, these little things can't do anything to us. This is how it is when sailing on the sea. If you are not careful, some strange creatures will climb onto the deck. The closer you get to the Moon Clamp Peninsula, the more likely it is. You have to be more careful."
"Understood. I'm here to help you."
Ivan wanted to see the differences in the creatures here, so he stepped forward with the Quillen sword and cleaned up the fluorescent jellyfish with the guards.
Similar to the cloud servants on Lar Island, the sword swept through like cutting gel.
He had an idea. After the death of the cloud servants, they would leave behind a stone-like core. That thing should be the elemental stone that was used as currency like the magic stone. When he tested the diet of the Xunmu silkworm before, the queen silkworm showed some interest in the stone, but not as enthusiastic as Sangmu Duan.
After killing several of them in succession, he was disappointed to find that there were no elemental stones in the fluorescent jellyfish's bodies.
"Well, Mr. Ivan's ability is really good."
Caleb's eyes lit up. He saw the fighting spirit wrapped around Quillen's sword. It was hard not to praise him for being a high-level knight at such a young age.
"No match for the Great Knight Caleb."
“Haha, that’s different.”
While the two were talking, something jumped onto the deck. Upon closer inspection, they saw that it was a toad with bumps all over its back, lying on the deck like a wooden block.
Caleb warned: "Be careful, this is an acid jumping frog. It can flick its long tongue and spit acid."
He was covered with a layer of Dou Qi to form a 'Dou Qi Leather Armor'. Seeing this, Ivan also covered his body with Dou Qi, like a layer of black gauze.
'Frosty Air'
Pernie cast a spell and landed on the deck. The frosty air turned into clusters and spread along the deck, accurately landing on the acid frogs that jumped onto the deck. A layer of ice immediately appeared on the acid frogs' bodies, freezing them in place, even the long tongues that had just popped out were no exception.
The others took the opportunity to step forward and kill the acid jumping frogs one by one.
"Good spell."
Caleb still supported it, and the spell was indeed cast just right.
Perni glanced at someone with a smug look, as if to say, "Is it reasonable for a wizard apprentice to only use fighting spirit?" Ivan smiled indifferently. Compared with magic, fighting spirit is undoubtedly more durable, unless he controls the Swift Wood Silkworm to fight.
As time went by, the strong winds showed no sign of abating, and all kinds of small marine creatures fell onto the deck, such as the clam shells that emitted smoke when they hit the deck. This made them see the diversity of sea beasts and also how difficult they were to deal with.
The pressure of the battle gradually increased.
"Secondary tornado."
At this time, Cody, who had been watching for a while, let out a low shout, and the sound was clearly heard by everyone.
As soon as the words fell, two small waterspouts landed on the deck, quickly pulling in the surrounding water vapor to grow larger, and gradually turned into the height of a building. The waterspouts spun and cruised on the deck, lightly avoiding people and rolling up the sea beasts, from the front of the ship to the sides, from the sides to the stern, then to the side, and finally back to the bow.
Any sea beasts that were touched were swept up and then thrown back into the ocean one by one. In a moment, all the sea beasts on the deck and the hull were swept away.
Seeing this scene, everyone present was filled with admiration and awe.
"Is this a third-class apprentice? A spell of this power can truly be considered a wizard's skill."
Ivan was also stunned by this move. This kind of magic that could sweep away everything at will was what he pursued. It was far beyond the reach of the knights. He became more excited about the wizard academy he was about to attend.
With the joining of several third-class apprentices of Cody, the pressure on the escort ship was greatly reduced. After a long time, the strong wind stopped and everything returned to calm.
After this time of fighting side by side, Ivan and Caleb became closer and could even sit together and enjoy a drink.
Caleb came to the table again and said, "Ask whatever you want to ask. I will tell you everything I can. Don't expect me to know much about the wizard academy."
Ivan smiled sheepishly: "Where is Captain Caleb from?"
Caleb said, "I'm from the Moonclamp Peninsula. It's a very large area, probably 20 to 30 times the size of Tidal Island. In addition to the wizard academy, there are more human kingdoms, and there are countless people like me."
Ivan suddenly realized that wizards had opened up a vast area for human habitation. In this case, Tidal Island, apart from its special title of "the origin of mankind", was probably just a remote island in the eyes of wizards. No wonder there were so few wizards there.
"Are the people in Yuequan Peninsula all relatively strong?"
"How is that possible? Ordinary people are ordinary people wherever they go, just like the civilians in your place. Besides, I am different from you. I have undergone a wizard's blood transformation, and that's how I broke through and became a great knight."
Caleb did not hide his identity. He was a knight who had surrendered to the wizard, which was equivalent to a follower of the wizard. When he was talking excitedly, he also talked about the characteristics of his fighting spirit, which were just ordinary "great strength" and "endurance".
As far as Ivan knew, a great knight usually had only one type of fighting spirit, so he had reason to suspect that Caleb was showing off.
From Caleb, he had a preliminary understanding of the destination he was about to go to, the Moonclamp Peninsula. In addition to humans, there were many other types of intelligent races there.
Early morning of the fifteenth day.
A long, melodious howl suddenly sounded, waking up the people who were still sleeping.
On the sea surface some distance away from the wizard's ship, a shadow resembling an island rose from the sea, soon revealing most of its body, followed by several smaller figures that emerged from the water and gathered around it.
"What a big whale."
Ivan and Penny walked out of the room almost at the same time and saw the giant whale in the middle that was as big as a mountain. Its huge body was breathtaking.
The first thing he thought of was the whale on the boat, and his heart skipped a beat. That was a whale enslaved by a wizard. It couldn't be here to settle a score, could it?
(End of this chapter)