"We will arrive at the stone island in half an hour at most..."
On the sloop, Anna whispered softly.
Although their father often took them there to that deserted island when they were children, he never gave it a proper name. He just referred to it as the island full of stones, the black stone island, and so on.
She looked to the left and right, and all she could see were blue waves, as if they were the only boat sailing on the vast ocean.
"When we get to Stone Island... what should we do?" Ant murmured.
Looking in the direction of his gaze, a black outline appeared faintly in the distance.
That was the barren stone desert island they used to visit when they were children.
Anna was silent for a moment, and then suddenly asked.
"Do you have any instructions from Lord Leonard?"
"The instructions...he just told me that everything should be done according to the original plan, regardless of whether he shows up or not."
Ant replied thoughtfully, as if he realized something, his tone gradually became lower.
About ten minutes later, the sailboat approached the black stone island.
Wow~Wow~
Approaching the island, the sound of the surging tide became clear, and the blue waves rolled towards the black rocks, and then broke into transparent and white foam.
They docked on the left side of Stone Island, which is a rocky beach.
The entire Stone Island is not so much an island as it is a huge black and red stone rising out of the water.
There are no golden beaches and no green vegetation on it.
However, Stone Island also has a distinctive feature - that is, the strange potholes, large and small, that are all over the surface are like shell craters on battlefields in previous lives.
These potholes vary in size.
Small ones may only be shallow pits as thick as a thumb, but large ones are generally at least the size of a basketball court and more than ten meters deep, and can even be called sinkholes.
"Be careful, there are rocks on the left." Anna reminded old Jack, carefully checking her memory.
It is not an easy task to get close to such a rocky beach.
Before approaching the rocks visible to the naked eye, there are actually countless invisible crises scattered under these seemingly harmless sea waves...
After a while, they arrived at the chosen anchorage.
thump.
Old Jack threw down the heavy anchor, and the sailboat came to a halt with a creak.
"arrive."
He gently exhaled a breath and whispered.
"Um."
The three of them looked at each other, paused, and then stepped onto the stone island together, arriving in front of a small circular pothole near the center.
At first glance, this circular pothole looks like an ordinary pothole about two meters deep.
But in fact, the potholes here are not straight up and down like the potholes elsewhere on the island, but are somewhat curved, and there is a natural tunnel at the bottom.
At the end of the tunnel is the open bottom of a giant cave like a flask.
There is the location of the teleportation array.
In fact, there are many similar caves throughout the island that lead to the giant cave located in the center of the island.
If not all the pits are connected to that cave, otherwise the pits all over the stone island would look like they were created by some kind of huge and weird spherical creature extending out countless slender tentacles.
'Everything continues as planned...'
Arriving at the bottom of the familiar cave and looking at the dim things in front of her, Anna's heart sank slightly.
The wizard named Leonard has not yet appeared.
The little tails following behind didn't appear either.
As they passed through the long and narrow tunnel, she, Ant, and Old Jack were all quietly watching their rear, trying to detect any possibility of representing Wizard Leonard or following from Pahama Island.
Traces of the little tail.
But in the end it was just nothing.
The strength of a first-level wizard is a watershed, ruthlessly separating the ordinary from the extraordinary.
In such a situation, ordinary people are like withered leaves blown up by the strong wind, with no control over their own destiny.
"Sister Anna..." Ant looked at her and asked softly, with hesitation in his eyes.
He looked up.
Above the dark dome like an inverted funnel, there is a hole like a full moon, and bright light pours down like water, bringing the only light to the bottom of the entire cave.
And when the light falls on the spot formed at the bottom of the cave, it looks unremarkable at first glance, just an ordinary ground.
But Ante knew that that was where the teleportation array was hidden.
"Let's go." Anna said softly, with determination on her face.
No matter what, at this moment they could only choose to obey Colin, who was at least on the same side as them, and continue to proceed according to the plan.
Coming to the light, Anna took out the incomplete lightning pendant from her arms. The golden chain stretched out and made a slight sound when rubbed.
Then, Anna's movements suddenly stopped. She did not continue moving, but stood there quietly stroking the incomplete, more L-shaped lightning pendant in her hand.
"Sister..." Ant said in confusion, but was stopped by Old Jack beside him.
He didn't think much, he closed his mouth in obedience, and quietly waited for the instructions from his sister Anna in front of him.
The three of them just came to a standstill.
Neither moving forward nor retreating, he just stood there, silent.
I don't know how long it had been, but young Ant couldn't remember how many times he hesitated to speak.
"Why don't you continue?"
But at this moment, a deep voice in the air finally couldn't be suppressed and suddenly sounded!
Father Humphrey's figure emerged from mid-air.
He stared at the three Annas in front of him in puzzlement, and asked repeatedly:
"Have you noticed my tracking? Could it be that old Jack is not just an ordinary knight?"
"Humphrey, it's really you!" Ant roared in a low voice, subconsciously stepping back slightly.
"Father Humphrey..." Anna stared at Humphrey closely. Although she had expected it, her pupils could not help but shrink slightly at this moment.
Old Jack on the side pulled out the sword from his waist and stood in front of the Ant siblings without hesitation, protecting them from behind.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Humph——" Humphrey sneered, "You are the most ordinary believers, why don't you kneel down when you see the priest?"
He looked at Old Jack and said: "The body of the Great Knight can make me happy for a longer time... It's a pity that you are not a woman, otherwise I would be a little happier."
Old Jack's expression remained unchanged and he quietly confronted him.
He understood what Humphrey was referring to - nothing more than some cruel torture.
These priests who believe in the goddess of night and blood are all lunatics! They generally have perverted hobbies of sadism.
The Pahama Island, ruled by the goddess of night and blood, has a strict hierarchy.
Once you reach the priest level, your status is completely different from that of the believers below.
As long as there are reasonable reasons, the priest has the right to use any means to deal with any ordinary believer.
Under such authority, their desires naturally expanded unbridled, and then they became perverted and cruel under the guidance of the goddess of night and blood.
Whipping, slashing, tearing...as long as it does not cause a large number of deaths among believers, any torture method that can bring blood is just the most common pastime for them.
Moreover, it is also called - to please the goddess.
Of course, it was unknown whether the goddess of night and blood would feel happy, but she didn't care about it, and even let it go a little bit.
In endless pain and despair, people will become weak and pray to gods... but their faith will become stronger.
However, once you get used to praying in despair, you will lose the courage to fight, lose the idea of changing, and lose the most precious spirit belonging to mankind... In the end, what is left is just a weak body kneeling down to pray.
In fact, the main reason why Old Jack chose to become a fishing captain was to avoid as much as possible these perverted senior believers on the island.
"By the way, I have another question -" Father Humphrey withdrew his gaze and then asked:
"What is your relationship with the Barcelona family?"
"Let me guess -" he laughed ferociously, glanced at the three people in front of him, and said slowly and jokingly: "Could it be that he is a remnant of the Barcelona family?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of the two Annas in front of them changed slightly.
‘Why hasn’t Wizard Leonard shown up yet?!’ Ant looked around calmly, feeling a little anxious.
The same is true for Anna, but her expression is obviously more desperate than Ant's.
"Humphrey is a senior priest, with at least the top level of a first-level intermediate wizard..." She lightly opened her red lips and stated in a low voice.
Although he only said this, Ant vaguely understood something.
Although the wizard named Leonard has no way of knowing his true strength, he has previously said that the lowest level of ability to use the teleportation array is a first-level intermediate wizard.
I think Wizard Leonard's strength should be at least an intermediate level...right?
Ant suddenly thought of the subtle changes in his expression when he heard the four requests he had made to use the teleportation array.
In fact, Colin didn't have many expressions, but those "expressionless faces" became conclusive evidence in Ant's mind at this moment——
Could that wizard named Leonard be just a first-level junior wizard?!!
The breath of despair surged into his heart like a tide, and then spread out along his pores, making Ant feel as if the air around him was gradually condensing, making him somewhat breathless.
"Don't speak?" Humphrey continued, looking around as if he was looking for something.
Then his vision stopped somewhere in the void.
Whoosh!
The next second, he suddenly turned into a scarlet afterimage, bypassed Old Jack in an instant, and came to Anna's side.
Well!
He grabbed Anna's tied hair and pulled it up.
The severe pain that hit her instantly made Anna couldn't help but cry out in pain.
If you could see through the thick black hair, you could see little bits of blood red gradually spreading.
"Sister Anna!"
Humphrey's speed was so fast that Ant only had time to scream.
Whoosh!
But Old Jack on the side had already slashed out a sword.
Unfortunately, Humphrey, who was well prepared, easily dodged it.
He looked around, holding Anna in one hand, and throwing the removed lightning pendant to Ant with the other, and said calmly:
"Go on, I know there must be some secret buried here."
Ant hurriedly took the thrown lightning pendant, his face showing uncontrollable anger.
It's just that Humphrey has returned to the air again and is inaccessible at all, and his anger is of no use.
Anna, who was hanging in the air, gritted her teeth, grabbed the middle of her hair with both hands, and pulled hard to relieve the pressure at the roots of her scalp.
It's just that the initial pulling has damaged the scalp, and there are already a few trickling streams of blood flowing down the scalp, leaving bright red winding marks on the cheeks and neck.
Ant gritted his teeth and stopped hoping that Colin would show up.
He paused, looked at Old Jack, then at Anna who endured the pain without saying a word, and finally came to the circular light spot.
jingle.
He held the chain of the lightning pendant with his right hand and let it hang down and sway.
The mental power first spreads along the fingers to the pendant, and then comes the magic power.
‘Magic?!’ Humphrey raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Ant in disbelief.
Such pure and orderly magic can only represent wizards.
He never thought that Ant would be a hidden wizard, even though he seemed to be just an insignificant apprentice.
How could there be a wizard on the Pahama Island?!
But what he saw in front of him was not deceiving... Humphrey suddenly felt that the matter in front of him became important.
Buzz——
But at this moment, the golden incomplete lightning pendant suddenly lit up.
Immediately afterwards, as if in response to each other, the round bright spot in front of Ant suddenly lit up a little bit of light——
It seemed like something was born from it.
Humphrey couldn't help but look happy.
'A mere wizard apprentice... I have already prepared a back-up plan, so no accident will happen.'
He put aside his doubts for the time being.
'This discovery will definitely allow me to take a further step forward!'
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It's a pity that the accidental discovery of the remains left by the Basa wizard should have given him more benefits, but it was a pity that he was in a humble position at the time...
But this time, with his identity as a priest, he was able to absorb these benefits!
"Sure enough, I found out, Humphrey, you didn't lie to me."
But at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared.
This is another priest, with a hooked nose and gray hair.
"Preet..." Humphrey looked at him, feeling a little regretful.
He almost forgot that he had called this helper!
What a pity, if he had known that this trip would go so smoothly, he would never have chosen to call for this helper again!
Humphrey looked at Pritt, his eyes flickering.
Pritt, who was on the side, was keenly aware of Humphrey's expression and felt a sudden change in his heart.
He paused, suppressed his joyful expression, showed an appropriate smile and proactively said:
"The main credit for the success of this operation and the discovery of the things left behind by the Barça family and the suspected remnants of the Barça family rests entirely with Father Humphrey. I, Father Pritt, am just helping out."
"Where, where..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Humphrey's expression suddenly softened, and he paused and continued:
"Without further ado, let's take a look at what the wizard of Bassa left behind?"
As he spoke, he and Prit flew toward the light.
Watching the two priests coming over, and looking at Anna who was still hanging in the air by her hair, Ant was filled with despair...
"So, it's just the two of you, no other believers?"
But at this moment, Colin's voice suddenly came from behind the two Humphreys!
At the same time, there were two orange fireballs and a rotating cone projectile flashing with cold light.