Chapter 107: Drift (Part 1)

"No, I only have a map on the road. It's too far from the mainland, so it's probably almost two thousand miles." Rex took out the food, and except for Shika, no one else had any appetite.

"Daniel, do you have a chart?"

"No, I never saw the chart here when I was doing business." Daniel shook his head. He is not a professional sailor. It's okay to rely on the sun to identify the direction during the day, but at night, he can't identify the star chart.

“How far have we run?”

"I don't know, it's inaccurate to feel without a magic compass." Daniel replied carefully.

"If a group of siren comes now, we will be dead." Salin looked at the puppet in front of him and said worriedly. In fact, let alone siren, even a finless whale will cause them a lot of trouble.

The sun set, the wind gradually became stronger and the waves became higher and higher. Salin had to close the hatch door and looked out through the window. The two puppets were wet on the deck by the waves.

On the sea ahead, dozens of giant beasts leaped up, and the moonlight shone silvery white on their bodies. Seeing that Salin and Rex became nervous, Daniel quickly stopped them from taking action: "Don't worry, that's a moonlight singer."

"Moonlight Singer?" Salin looked at the giant beasts falling into the sea through the porthole, and was extremely surprised. The giant beast was not very beautiful, but he had long heard of the famous name. The fishermen on the sea believed that the moonlight singer was left by the goddess to protect them. The monsters in the sea were very friendly to humans. They would convey messages to each other in sharp and crisp voices. They like to follow the fishing boats, and the fishermen would often give these monsters some small fish to pray for peace.

When Salin was very young, he heard fishermen describe this kind of monster. In the mouths of fishermen, this monster seemed to be extremely perfect, with beautiful skin, elegant figure, and pure eyes.

In fact, what Salin saw was the fine and sharp teeth in the mouth of the monster. This thing was eaten by meat. This made him unable to understand. The moonlight singer was actually called the scaleless shark. This thing is a bit like a shark, bigger and without scales. They like to be in groups, and they don’t care even if they encounter monsters that are stronger than them. The scaleless shark is very united and is born to manipulate water elements. The magician suspects that they have wisdom, otherwise how could they save people?

Many books record the actions of scaleless sharks to save people, and some people who fell into the sea were even sent thousands of miles by scaleless sharks before leaving after reaching land.

"It seems we are very lucky." Rex looked at the scaleless shark and breathed a sigh of relief. There will be no powerful monsters near the scaleless shark. Level 3 and 4 monsters are all prey of scaleless sharks. When encountering powerful enemies, the scaleless sharks will rise up and attack them.

"Is this also called luck?" Salin grabbed the bread, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it hard.

"At least we are still alive."

Rex's words left Salin speechless. He reacted quickly enough at that time, and it was pure luck to escape. Two level 6 magicians and a level 7 magician disappeared. If his group of people were flowing on the ship, the enemy would not give him any chance. The other magicians on the ship trusted Alchemy City too much and never thought that anyone would dare to attack Alchemy City. Thinking of Sandru who fell into the water and asked for help, Salin apologized.

The best result for that guy was rescued by the enemy and was captured as a prisoner. Rex was right, he was very lucky. He could escape every time he encountered a powerful enemy. Recalling the giant ship that appeared after the magical image, Salin still couldn't help but feel cold in his heart. Was that thing made by humans?

He knew that if the ship was built so big, magic cannons could be installed on it. Different from magic cannons, magic cannons are the most used to deal with hunting ships, and magic cannons can directly penetrate the metal armor of iron armored ships. It is because of a ship equipped with magic cannons that can cross the sea, making the fleet of Yunliu Empire dare not go north.

Now that other people have this ability, Alchemy City is no longer safe.

"Sarin, do you want to continue to go east?" Daniel asked uneasily. To the west is land, and they are just a small boat worth more than ten meters long, and they will be torn apart by the storm at any time on the sea.

"Let's go north, and then go west in three days." Salin did not explain why. He felt intuition that the giant ship attacking the hunting ship had a huge control range, and the flying golem was still searching for fish that escaped the net in the sky. As long as it was discovered by the flying golem, even if the puppet could be destroyed, the enemy could find its own position. The other party was a big ship with a magic compass, and the speed was much faster than his own small boat. The alchemy machinery lost its power, and it could not compare speed with the warship with the scull.

The scaleless shark played around Salin's boat for a while and swam south. The sky was full of stars, Salin had no mood to appreciate it. He said to Daniel: "Tell me to take the helm."

"I can withstand it." Daniel's honest face showed gratitude.

"I have something else for you to do. Shika, you come and learn it, and go to bed after you finish learning."

"What am I doing?" Rex did not care about Salin's orders, but instead asked about his task.

"Try to rest as much as possible. If we encounter a powerful monster, we will rely on you."

"Then... I'm asleep." Rex looked at Salin's cold eyes and felt a little strange. Salin was not usually very smart, but he was extremely calm at the critical moment of life and death. He was the first person to discover danger, and he immediately made a quick decision to steal a small boat and ran away, without thinking about going to support Juno.

Facts have proved that if Rex went to support Juno, the fate would be very miserable. She was the princess of the Empire and used to do almost everything herself. There was nothing that she didn't need to ask about in Kushui County. Now with someone like Salin, she suddenly felt relaxed.

Salin is not the kind of reckless person. If there is any problem, she will come back to ask Rex for help. Rex is the most satisfied with this. Salin knows how much she can do. Most of her magicians are focused on practicing magic, and those with strong ability to handle affairs make her feel uneasy. Those people have too high desire for power.

Salin had no desire in this area, he was more obsessed with magic than Rex.

If my father was still alive, would he like Salin more now? Thinking of what his father said to him, Rex felt sour and complicated. His father read that right, Salin was a person who could be cultivated, but he couldn't see this day.

It is not complicated to control the boat. Daniel patiently guided Salin and Shika. Salin personally controlled the steering wheel and experimented for a while. Daniel said there was no problem. Then he said: "Daniel, the necromancer can refine bone tools, right?"

"Yes, if there are enough magic cores, I can barely complete it even though I am still level 3."

"Okay, then you go and rest. Tomorrow you can find a way to refine another boat and ride two people."

"We have a boat." Daniel didn't understand what Salin meant.

"If this ship is destroyed, I am not afraid of water, are you afraid? We don't have the power of alchemy machinery, and it's not known how long it will take to return to land. Now we can only distinguish the general direction and may drift to a very far place. There are too many monsters in the sea, so I can't guarantee that this ship will be fine all the time. Just refining a small boat can protect you and Shika."

"What about...Nelise?" Daniel became honest this time and didn't ask Rex how he was.

"She can't drown like me." Of course, Salin would not explain to Daniel Nelise's ability. Nalis is indeed not afraid of water. She has one more advantage over Salin, and she is not afraid of low temperatures. Salin also needs to use magic to maintain body temperature from time to time in the water. If Nalis dares to do it, she ignores the temperature of the sea water.

Daniel is not good. If he falls into the water, he will freeze to death if he cannot die.

Daniel didn't say much, took the blanket given to him by Salin, leaned against the window, and tried to let himself fall asleep. He was a third-level mage, and his recovery ability was not as good as Salin. If he had been working continuously, he would soon lose his combat power. He knew the dangers at sea, and this place had long exceeded the scope of safe routes. It was hard to say how many days a lifeboat could last.

"Shika, watch first, I'll sleep for a while, and call me four hours later." Salin handed the helm to Shika, and he knew that in a hurry, neither he nor Shika would master the exact direction. But even Daniel would not look at the star map. He only hoped that this boat would not deviate too far from the continent.

Salin walked towards Neris. In such an environment, he could only be at ease when sleeping beside Neris. Nalis lay beside Rex. Salin walked up to him, and Rex whispered: "Sallin, let's talk a little while here."

"Yeah." Salin used his feet to push Neris away and lay down between the two of them. The fragrance on Rex's body was fresh and vague. Salin already knew that this was an advanced magic potion. It only took Rex a slight control to become a hidden smell and integrate with the surrounding environment.

"Sarin, you never seem to be afraid." Rex simply used a small-scale silent barrier to isolate the others. Sika was holding the helm, and suddenly couldn't hear the voices of Sarin and Rex, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"I'm afraid that it's useless, but I'll die. I'm different from you. I almost haven't lived a good day. If I die, it's probably lucky." Salin didn't hide his mood when he saw the silent barrier.

"Don't you care about your teacher and Shika?" Rex's tone was quiet, and Salin thought he had heard it wrong.

"If I didn't survive, I wouldn't be a teacher's student. As for Shika, I should have let her go back to the Caucasus and follow me, and I often encounter dangers. I seem to be very unlucky, and sooner or later I will implicate her."

"You're willing to let her go?"

"What's there to be reluctant to let go? If I die suddenly, she will be very sad. If I live... I will definitely become a great magician and will have a thousand years of life. Then I will miss her."

"You guy... don't you feel that Shika likes you very much?" Rex said softly, not knowing why he asked that.
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