Masses of darkness gradually emerged on the horizon.
"Saw!"
“Discover the Magnetic Islands!”
The watchman's cry echoed throughout the Justice.
It has been a week since the Justice, Bird, and Rapids set sail from Crescent Port. During this period, they stopped at Bagen Port and recruited more than 200 sailors to replenish their personnel.
The dragon boy pushed open the door to the captain's cabin, stood at the railing, and stared into the distance.
At the same time, Mange on the Bird and Gray on the Jetstream both raised their monocular telescopes.
As the distance gets closer, the Magnetic Islands become clearer and clearer.
This is a desolate place, full of dark rocks and almost no vegetation.
The terrain on the island is steep and rugged, with strange peaks and hills, and the air is obviously much hotter than at sea.
Sailor swords and other weapons began to clang in the armament room.
The Magnetic Islands, as the name suggests, exude the power of a powerful magnet at all times. Most metals are greatly affected.
About three thousand years ago, a huge golden ship ran aground here.
The owner of the golden ship was a wealthy merchant from the Elf clan, and he was definitely one of the top three in the world in terms of financial resources at that time. The wealthy merchant extended usury loans and used force to oppress those who could not repay their debts. The fifth generation Pirate King was born into an Elf noble family. At that time, the family owed money
He incurred a huge debt and was captured by a wealthy elf merchant and used as a slave. All the fixed assets of the family were annexed by the wealthy merchant.
The young fifth-generation pirate king relied on courage and luck to escape from the shackles. He lived on the sea and became a pirate.
When he came of age, he emerged as a pirate captain.
He began to take revenge and continued to plunder the fleets of powerful elf merchants.
The wealthy elf businessman was extremely extravagant and in order to satisfy his own preferences, he built seven cruise ships of silver, gold, agate, pearl, emerald, diamond and crystal.
Each cruise ship is comparable to the most luxurious aristocratic manor, with all the amenities available.
The fifth-generation pirate king continued to rob wealthy merchants, relied on his enemies to make a fortune, and became more and more powerful.
The wealthy merchants fought back, but the Five Dynasties were cunning and shrewd and devised a plan.
On one of these occasions, Godai failed and fled to the Magnetic Islands. The Golden cruise ship that was chasing him was affected by the magnetic force and its combat power dropped sharply. Godai seized the fighter plane and launched a fierce attack, sinking the Golden cruise ship in the Magnetic Islands.
The most basic construction material of the Golden cruise ship is gold. Although the fifth-generation pirate king sank the ship, he did not have time to salvage the Golden cruise ship because of the subsequent arrival of the fleet of wealthy merchants.
When I came back afterwards, the Golden Number was nowhere to be found.
People speculate that this giant ship, which is almost made of gold, was sucked into the depths of the Magnetic Islands due to magnetic force. Therefore, descendants continue to rush here in an attempt to find the golden giant ship.
However, no one has ever heard of anyone discovering this huge treasure.
After the sinking of the Golden Ship, more than a thousand years passed.
The Magnetic Islands have become a battlefield of life and death for two legendary strongmen.
One of the two warring parties was from the barbarian tribe, the fallen druid Ruiye. The other was from the orc tribe, and was the orc tribe's high priest at the time, Howling Sang.
The two were of similar strength, and both died here in the end.
According to rumors, both of them left their own power inheritance here. Before they died, they agreed to use the inheritance to create outstanding juniors, so that they could duel between them to determine the true superiority.
After this battle, the Magnetic Islands once again became a popular scenic spot, and extraordinary beings who hoped to obtain the legendary inheritance appeared every year.
This is information about the two most valuable treasures in the Magnetic Island Group. In addition, there is also a lot of other information, and the value of the treasures involved varies.
This time at Crescent Port, the dragon boy exchanged some of the treasure information.
The three ships gradually approached the Magnetic Islands.
Still some distance from the coast, the three pirate ships stopped moving forward.
Although the main material of the pirate ship is wood, there are also metal nails and other materials. If you get too close to it, it will cause damage.
"Check your equipment for the last time, don't bring metal objects!"
The Dragon Man boy and others took a landing boat. On the boat were Gray, Cangxu, Big Man, Dilu, Sandao, Blue Algae, Xiaoniao and others.
Zong Ge stayed behind and took charge of the overall situation.
The landing boat quickly docked, and the Justice Pirates officially set foot on this strange land.
When their feet stepped on the dark and shiny magnets, everyone immediately felt a heat coming from the soles of their feet.
After staying briefly on the coast for a while, everyone got used to it, and the team began to move deeper into the archipelago.
The journey was quiet at first, but soon everyone was "welcome".
boom.
A black stone suddenly shot towards the crowd.
Sandao quickly dodged the little bird exploring the path ahead.
Then, with a bang-bang sound, a large number of black stones were shot at everyone like cannonballs.
The big man raised a huge wooden shield, half-knelt in front of the dragon captain, and blocked three black stone cannonballs for him.
"Don't mess up." The dragon boy shouted, "Old Zhong!"
Cang Xu immediately instilled mana, tore open a magic scroll, and manipulated it mentally to form a translucent light shield.
The black stone hit the light mask and was blocked. Although the light mask was thin, it only had ripples and looked very solid.
Seeing that the intruders were holding their ground, the natives of the Magnet Islands came out one after another.
They are all humanoid, but they are all made of earth and stone, and their bodies vary in size.
"Earth element!"
"There is also the magneto-earth element, a mutant form of the earth element!" the pirates shouted.
The earth element is yellow-brown, while the magnetic earth element is black-grey.
They have the ability to control earth and stone. Each of them opened their palms, leaned down, dug out a piece of black stone, then held their heads high, raised their arms violently, and threw the stone over.
The stone cannonballs had no effect, and the largest earth elements among them began to cast magic.
Earth magic, earth stab!
However, the ground thorn did not appear.
Cang Xu tore open another scroll and strengthened the ground beneath everyone's feet.
But defense alone cannot bring victory, so the old scholar shouted: "Attack quickly!"
The dragon boy, the little bird, covered in gray has already rushed out of the protective barrier.
They all held alchemy bows and crossbows in their hands.
The next moment, the alchemical bow and arrow hit the earth element group, bursting out with bursts of thunder, water splashes and flames.
The smoke and dust dispersed, and the first wave of tentative attacks came to fruition.
The dragon boy discovered that the usually powerful thunder-based alchemy arrows had almost no effect, and the power of water-based and fire-based arrows had also been reduced by about half.
The young man was not surprised, this was what he had expected.
The earth element has outstanding defense, and is best at defending against thunder and lightning spells. If other spells hit them, their power will almost be reduced by half.
The defensive advantages of the earth element are not only reflected in spell defense, but are also excellent against hard strikes such as swords.
The dragon boy then ran into the enemy group himself, waving his dragon claws to attack everywhere.
He is a silver fighter, but it is difficult to kill a black iron-level earth elemental. It usually takes ten claw strikes to harvest a black iron-level earth elemental.
The earth element itself can also cast some natural spells.
In addition to stone throwing and ground stabbing, there is also the annoying slowness spell.
The dragon boy was hit by a slow spell, his movement speed and attack speed were greatly reduced at the same time, and his killing efficiency plummeted.
I am strong when I am weak.
Although there are many earth elements, the highest level is only black iron, and it only has three heads.
However, it still took everyone a full half hour to clear out all these earth element groups.
This is based on consuming a large amount of alchemical arrows.
The battle ended with no casualties, but Xiaoniao, dressed in gray, and the others all looked a little pale.
"It's not okay to continue like this, Captain Dragon Service."
"Yeah, no wonder the Magnetic Islands are not a popular place to explore for treasures."
The dragon boy nodded slightly, knowing that what the two people, Xiaoniao and Gray, were talking about was the cost issue.
Alchemy arrows are expensive, and the cost of winning this battle will be too high.
There are also trophies though.
After the earth element is killed, there is a certain probability that the essence of the earth element will be condensed from the corpse.
This is a common casting material for earth spells, and it is also a commonly used alchemy material with low market price.
In addition to being pure, the magnetic earth element will condense into some magnets.
The price of these magnets is slightly higher than that of earth element essence, but they are also very limited.
The effort and benefit are completely out of proportion.
But the dragon boy was resolute: "Keep moving forward, don't be afraid of consumption. Alchemy arrows are for fighting."
Now that the boss said so, they were all covered in ashes, so Xiaoniao and the others could only obey the order. They were not the ones paying for the alchemy arrows anyway.
After three battles, the exploration of the magnet island that everyone chose to land on was completed.
The dragon boy was about to take a boat to the next island, but soon found that there was no need to do so.
The magnet island under his feet was getting closer to another one.
Soon after, the two small islands collided together and temporarily formed a larger island.
This is the special thing about the Magnet Islands.
These small islands are all active and rely on magnetic forces to repel or attract each other.
Therefore, it is extremely difficult to describe the topography of the Magnetic Islands, because the topography here is changing all the time. In a week's time, earth-shaking topography changes will occur here.
The Justice Pirates set foot on a new land, cleared two groups of earth elements, and harvested some earth element essences and magnets of different sizes.
This exploration continued into the evening.
Xiaoniao, who had been silently calculating the cost, felt heavy in his heart. The harvest was too meager, and it was simply a loss of blood.
If it is a normal environment, everyone can also use metal weapons to attack the earth element. Although the efficiency is relatively low, at least the cost is acceptable.
However, on the Magnetic Islands, it is difficult for fighters to use equipment, and their conventional attack capabilities are greatly reduced.
For the sake of efficiency, the cost of using alchemical arrows is quite high.
Xiaoniao, Yichen, Dilu and others couldn't help but secretly admire the dragon boy. The captain never changed his expression.
"Sir, something has been discovered!" As evening approached, the pirates exploring the path brought different news.
The eyes of everyone who was exhausted suddenly lighted up.