At five o'clock in the afternoon, on the ice ocean north of Pantuolaken.
In late autumn in the subarctic zone, it gets dark very early. It is still evening and the sky is already dark.
Under the cover of darkness, a scout ship sailed quietly in the thick fog. This was not a naturally formed thick fog, but an illusory fog created by the scout ship using magic. In this way, the ship could avoid the Vikings.
Eyes and ears, reach your destination safely.
In the cabin, a group of knights were discussing in a temporary combat conference room. The cabin had excellent sound insulation equipment, so the knights could discuss strategic deployments without restraint.
"This is the underwater temple from a month ago." Tactical Staff Jack spread out several photos on the table, "Then, this was taken by the patrol boat yesterday."
The photo was enlarged to the size of a palm, and the print quality was not high. Arthur could only vaguely see the outline of the underwater temple:
The ancient stone building sleeping on the seabed has long been eroded by a large number of sea creatures and turned into a reef-like existence. The exquisite carvings on it are difficult to recognize. The overall shape of the building is square, and only the pillars are cylindrical, and there are few.
The spire-shaped roofs of modern buildings. It is said that these ancient buildings were reinforced with photons mixed into the stone, making the building materials as hard as the enchantment of physical weapons, so that the core of the building can still stand under the erosion of millions of years of continuous sea currents.
Don't fall.
Compared with the old photos, the underwater temple in the new photos seems to have been severely damaged, and is surrounded by some kind of black shadow. This is obviously not a shooting error, but the result of some kind of human factors.
Kai showed a funny smile and asked jokingly: "What on earth is that? Octopus ink?"
"How is that possible, idiot." Arthur mocked with disdain.
The rocking of the boat made him feel irritable, and the fishy smell brought by the sea breeze made him even more irritated. He couldn't help but want to relieve the pressure by sarcasm: "Do you think there is really a sea monster hiding under the sea?"
"No, sea monsters do exist." Zack, the black-armored knight, crossed his arms and leaned back on the bench, as relaxed as if he was on vacation.
"What?"
"Don't you know that the main duty of the Knights of the West is to deal with the sea monsters in the West Sea? They are also big enough." Captain Zach continued, "Some scholars once hypothesized that the photon concentration deep under the sea is higher than that on the ground.
A hundred times, the creatures there that are affected by the high-concentration photon flow will become giant------"
"Epic photon creature!" Bedivere exclaimed.
"No, it's not that risky. The appearance of the epic level must meet very stringent conditions. However, strictly speaking, those sea monsters are indeed [photon-adapted creatures]." The captain said, "The existence is second only to the epic level."
In this world, humans are just the lowest level [non-photon adapted creatures]. Using magic will be punished by petrification. You have to worry about your own safety even if you use magic.
Slightly higher level [Photon Adapted Creatures], such as orcs, whose bodies can adapt to photons, will no longer be punished by being petrified when using magic*.
(*Note: However, the orcs cannot activate other magic except for the magic of changing their form, such as [Crazy Transformation]. The types of magic they use are strictly limited by their own genes.)
The most advanced [Epic-Level Photon Creatures] can even accumulate inherent photons in their bodies. By consuming inherent photons, they can even activate extremely powerful magic in an instant. This is the huge strength gap between humans and these [Epic-Level]
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Arthur came back from his thoughts and said indifferently: "That's not what we should care about now.------So, the mission this time is to repel the sea monster?"
"No, it's more difficult. We have to secretly investigate the underwater temple. We suspect that the Vikings are secretly training sea monsters as weapons. If that is true, it will be a huge threat to Pantorakon."
"Vikings? Ha, those imbecile ruffians know how to train sea monsters? They can't even drive animals!" Kai said contemptuously.
The Vikings knew nothing more than fighting. They were pure mindless fighting machines. I believe no one would object to what Kai said.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you're thinking too one-sided." Jack turned the pen and said disapprovingly: "------The Vikings really won't, but their allies will. You forgot the real king of Iceland---
Oh no, who is [Queen]---?"
"Mermaids?" Arthur frowned slightly. He finally knew the source of his uneasy premonition.
The only thing that came to his mind was the image of a beautiful creature with a woman's upper body and a fish-tailed lower body that he saw in a drawing book when he was a child.
On the cold ocean, thick fog surrounds the small island. The mermaid in the painting sings gracefully on the reef, but behind it is the sunken ship. No one knows how the ship sank, but
Most people believe that the sinking of the ship is to blame on the mermaids.
He felt that this kind of creature was beautiful and terrifying, alluring and deadly. If possible, Arthur would not want to deal with these beautiful mermaids.
Jack's words interrupted Arthur's thoughts: "Yes, mermaids. Lovely ladies, photon-adapted creatures who are proficient in hypnosis. Their hypnosis may be able to control those giant beasts."
Hypnosis? Indeed, using hypnosis to hypnotize sailors and cause ships to hit rocks and sink is a common trick of the legendary mermaids. Arthur knew very little about hypnotism, and it would be difficult for him to confront this specific magic without facing it head-on.
make a judgment.
However, if the mermaids can control the Kraken and form an army of Kraken Knights, this will be a huge threat. The Kraken are huge in size and most of them have various powerful magic talents. It is not easy to fight these big monsters.
thing.
The war between humans and orcs is already on the verge of breaking out, and now there are mermaids coming to join in the fight. This autumn of Pantorakon is indeed an eventful one.
Kai's thoughts changed. Unlike Arthur, the red-haired knight always had optimistic expectations: "Great, I have wanted to see a living mermaid for a long time."
"Muscular idiots like you, be careful of being hypnotized by mermaids!" Arthur said sarcastically, with a cruel and ruthless mouth. "They specialize in hypnotizing stupid men with weak willpower who are seduced by beauty, and then drag them into the ice sea and drown them -
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The werewolf boy flinched.
"That's not bad!" Kai showed a lewd smile, "You can die under peonies and be a ghost, do you understand?"
Jack, the tactical staff officer, added like a joke: "They also cut off certain parts of the trophies and froze the remaining men's bodies in the eternal glacier to laugh at the men's stupidity. It is said that the frozen men are actually still conscious.
They will feel pain in some part forever!"
"This..." Kai's face turned pale, and his lower body felt an inexplicable soreness: "It's not funny at all."
As if to dispel their uneasiness, the knights on the ship laughed at this unfunny joke.