Chapter 232 Shadow Islands

"There are countless islands in the fjords, and no one has ever been to the borders of these islands," said a tall man with a rough and unrestrained face. "The farther east you go, the more unpredictable the climate is, and so are the islands. I really don't know how weird they can end up being."

"Even you haven't arrived?" Tilly asked curiously, "They say that you are the most outstanding explorer of the fjords, and apart from you, few people dare to cross Scorching Fire Island and continue eastward. "

"Hahaha," he laughed heartily, "this is all praise that has been magnified. In fact, every year brave fjord people explore eastward, but it is difficult to find anything new. The violent hurricane And the sudden fog will make it difficult for ships to move."

He is Thunder, Ashes thought, the first explorer who discovered the Shadow Islands, but since he lost his track in a shipwreck two years ago, many people thought he was killed unfortunately, but he did not expect him to appear on Sleeping Island, and The five princesses reached an agreement that he would open up new sea routes, draw charts and search for more new ruins for Sleeping Island, and Tilly sent a witch to assist him in his exploration. As for the two years of disappearance, she never heard the other party mention it, and Tilly kept silent about it, but she always felt that His Highness knew the inside story, otherwise the two would not have such a tacit understanding. This made Ashes feel a little unhappy.

"Like the hurricane yesterday?"

"That's right, it comes in the blink of an eye, and it's fleeting." Lei Ting shook the pipe, scattered the remaining ashes into the sea, refilled some grass blades and lit it, "if it wasn't for that magical witch"

"Her name is Molly," Ashes reminded forcefully.

"Ah, that's right, look at my memory," Lei Ting didn't care at all, rubbing the back of his head and laughing, "If it wasn't for Molly, the boat would have been turned upside down. Her ability is simply amazing, I I often think that maybe witches are the most suitable explorers."

"Is there already?" Tilly smiled slightly, "...the witch who inherits the title of the most outstanding explorer."

"Hmm..." Lei Ting took a deep breath of the pipe and exhaled a long stream of smoke, "I hope so."

Here it is again, Ashes frowned, he couldn't understand what the two said. She simply left the bow and walked to the stern to calm down. Her Royal Highness the Fifth Prince seems to be very eager to explore the ruins. After cleaning the fjord church, she immediately started preparing for the sea. And what surprised her was that His Highness asked to go in person, no matter how much she tried to dissuade her, it was useless.

Molly was sitting at the stern of the boat, and the magic servant who controlled it was holding a fishing rod, learning to fish from the sailors. Although the sailors were still somewhat resistant to witches when boarding the ship, everyone's attitudes have changed drastically since yesterday's hurricane Neither rain nor rain can penetrate it. Although the boat heaves up and down in wave after wave, the hull remains stable throughout. Nowadays, every sailor regards the witch as the god of luck, and even said that they would not dare to go to sea without the company of the witch in the future.

"Sister Huihui, look at the big fish I caught!" Molly pointed to the bucket behind her, in which lay a scaleless sea fish with a sharp beak, which was quite different from the river fish seen in Graycastle.

"What's this?"

"Swordfish, like to go with the boat, and sometimes its sharp beak will break the bottom of the boat," replied the sailor, "but it is very delicious to eat, especially the belly meat, which is like melting ice in the mouth. Usually," he smacked his lips, "everyone can enjoy delicious live boiled swordfish at night."

"I seem to have caught the bait again!" Molly said in surprise.

I saw a black shadow appearing under the emerald green water, and with the movement of the magic servant's lever getting bigger and bigger, it will soon surface.

"This... this is," the sailor was stunned, "No, throw away the fishing rod!"

Before the words were finished, a strange creature jumped out of the water, opened its mouth and directly bit Molly.

Seeing that it was about to swallow the target whole, Ashes was faster than it. She hugged the little girl in her left hand, swung the huge sword with her right hand, and slapped the attacker directly on the head.

The monster let out a painful hiss, and was smashed down from the air. Its six legs planed quickly, trying to escape back into the water, but Ashes didn't give it this chance. She put down Morill, and thrust down with both hands of the sword, nailing the monster directly to the deck.

It convulsed for a moment, spit out a string of white bubbles from its mouth, and soon stopped moving.

"What is this?" At this moment, Ashes had the opportunity to carefully look at the monster in front of him. It looked like a fish, and it had short legs like a crab. When it opened its mouth was round, almost as big as its body, and it was full of dense teeth. The most disgusting thing is that there are a pair of furry arms growing on both sides of its mouth, and the ends are divided into five fingers, which look like human hands.

"A mutated sea ghost!" The sailor patted his chest in shock, "They often disguise themselves as fish, bite fishermen and drag them into the water, and I heard that only sea ghosts that have eaten people will grow hands !"

"The latter sentence is nothing but a rumor," said someone behind him. Ashes turned around and found that Lei Ting and Tilly had both walked over.

"Mr. Captain!" The sailor stuck out his tongue and immediately stepped aside.

"The more sensational the rumor, the less accurate it is." Lei Ting stepped forward and kicked the monster on the ground. "In fact, it has a name that you may be more familiar with."

"What?" Ashes asked.

"Evil beast." He said word by word.

"Lord Thunder, it's foggy!" The lookout suddenly shouted.

"Everyone cheer up!" Lei Ting ordered loudly, "Lower the sails, we are sailing into the Shadow Sea!"

Ashes noticed that the sky that was clear just now suddenly turned cloudy, and the emerald green sea surface turned dark green, as if a cloud of ink was spreading underwater. After a while, the surrounding area of ​​the ship was surrounded by thick fog, and she couldn't even see the figure at the bow clearly from the stern.

"What's going on?" Tilly couldn't help but grabbed Ashes' arm.

"It proves that we are not going in the wrong direction," Lei Ting smiled, "When the Shadow Islands emerge from the sea, thick water mist will rise in this sea area. Of course, the correct statement should be that the sea water is ebbing, and the magnitude is about Ten feet, the huge drop will produce a lot of water vapor, and the reefs are everywhere, so if you are not careful, you will hit the rocks and sink. I need your witch to help the ship not be crashed."

A group of people came to the bow, just like when fighting against the storm, Molly let the magic servant wrap the bow of the boat, inflated her body as much as possible, and part of her body sank into the water, so that even if there was a reef in the bow, the servant would feel it first .

"If there is no witch, what are you going to do?" Ashes asked.

"Then we can only rely on patience and luck," Lei Ting sighed, "The fleet will send small boats to explore the way ahead, and after confirming that it is clear, the big ship will follow. But the sea in this area is not calm, just like yours. The evil beasts I saw before, the closer they are to the Shadow Islands, the more they will be. Fog, reefs, monsters... This is why many explorers have gone to this place, but few have been able to find the entrance to the ruins."

After sailing for about an hour, the fog gradually subsided, Ashes saw more and more surrounding islands, but there were few plants on them, only green moss or algae, and many crustaceans were climbing. "These islands are all submerged in the water?"

"That's right, it's like Sleeping Island, but the interval between high tide and low tide here is much faster, about once every half a month." Lei Ting replied, "And the speed of the tide is extremely fast, it's like a huge hole in the ground , is devouring the surrounding sea like crazy. I even guess that the sea level change of the entire fjord is related to this place. If we are lucky, we can also see the process of the main island jumping out of the seabed.” (To be continued .)