In the sea, Ferrete's head drooped. If not for the Flames of Death in his body, he would be dead already. Salin looked at the Black Iron Armor on his body and hesitated.
Such a demonic artifact was nothing in the hands of a powerhouse, but it could easily backfire on an ordinary person. Actually, the core value of this armor was the formation that controlled the Demon Spirit. With this formation, Ferrete could barely control the power in the armor.
Unfortunately, he wasn't strong enough. Once he was injured, the Demon Spirit would jump out immediately and almost swallow him. He wouldn't end up well now. When Daniel retracted the Flames of Death, Rex wouldn't save him.
The black iron armor was damaged. If he swallowed Ferrete, it could more or less repair it.
Should he keep such a thing? Once the Demon Spirit lost control, it wouldn't recognize anyone. This Demon Spirit had the power of a Golden Sword Sage. When it exploded, none of the people around it would be a match for it.
Ferrete, who was on the verge of death, swam more than ten miles before he saw the empty shell of the Coiled Turtle floating in the sea. Salin's mind was damaged, but his limbs were still very agile. He followed Sicar up the shell of the Coiled Turtle. Rex was carried by Nelis. In just a short while, the wound on Nelis's abdomen was almost healed. Her face was pale and she was still a little weak.
She had secretly swallowed the essence of the giant dragon's heart. At this moment, it was finally completely absorbed into her body and mended her wounds. Ferrete was the last to climb up the shell. Nelis pulled out the dragon tooth dagger from his leg and turned it into a ring.
"Salin, what do we do next?" Daniel had completely given up. He no longer had the enmity towards Salin. Seeing that Sicar and Nelis were recovering at a terrifying speed, he knew he wouldn't have another chance.
Salin didn't bother. A person would have countless desires in their life. Daniel's desire hadn't been fulfilled. He still needed to use Daniel's power. There was no point in settling scores now.
"Search Ferrete first and see what he has on him."
"Yes."
Daniel was clearly used to this. He carefully controlled Ferrete to sit down. Ferrete's armor had completely lost its golden light. Only faint patterns were left, slowly flowing on the black armor. Daniel deftly took off Ferrete's armor and found a few things in the pocket.
Letters, pills, jade slips, maps.
The letter was written in Myers language. Salin glanced at it. It was just a simple document of the Divine Wind Nation. The pills were packed in a metal box. There were more than ten of them. Salin sniffed them and found that their medicinal properties were very simple. They were meant for martial artists to treat injuries. There were strange words on the jade pieces, and there were ten of them in a stack.
"This should be money." Rex took the jade piece, touched it, and said, "The quality is not high. It has no magical value."
The map was more than two meters wide and drawn on an extremely thin parchment.
"Star Map!" Salin saw the complicated symbols on the parchment, as well as the dots outlined by red lines. He immediately recognized it.
On the ground, one could draw a map based on the mountains and rivers. On the sea, there was water everywhere. If one wanted to determine the direction, one would need to correspond to the stars in the sky. It was just that this method of distinguishing was too difficult. The positions of the stars were not unchanging, and the star chart only marked the changes in the constellation's annual cycle.
The most complicated star chart even marked the changes of the constellations over thousands of years, but it could no longer be found on the Myers Continent. This star chart had two layers. The top layer was the positions of the constellations, and the bottom layer was the map of islands, ocean currents, and seasonal winds.
This star chart was just a decoration now. It needed to be placed in a special magic array to make the star chart come to life. Rex didn't have a magic array to read the star chart, either. Looking at the star chart, no one had any good ideas.
"Daniel, can you know what Ferret is thinking?"
Daniel bitterly smiled and said, "Even a Necromancer wouldn't be able to do that. If he wasn't heavily injured, I would be able to force him to say something, but as long as I draw out my Undead Flames, he will immediately die."
"Well, then I'll think of another way. Help Rex, and don't disturb me."
After saying that, Salin spread the star chart in front of him and began to calculate. A mage's sense of direction was very strong, but on this vast sea, Salin could barely distinguish the direction. It was very difficult to calculate the distance. He had never stopped calculating along the way. From the Alchemy Port to the Devil's Horn, to the strange giant ship's attack, to drifting hundreds of miles away, he had been determining the distance and direction to the Alchemy Port.
This star chart could be enlarged, but Rex's magic map was different. The star chart was more complicated, and special magic arrays were needed to release the stored information.
What Salin could see now were very small dots and lines. The line on the left of the map should be the coast of the Qinyin Empire. Salin looked down and found the location of the Alchemy Port. Comparing it with Rex's magic map, he could determine the location between the Alchemy Port and Lianyun City.
The distance between the two cities was more than 5,000 miles. On the star chart, it was only the length of half an arm. It was very difficult to convert a pattern of this scale. Salin observed carefully with his cold vision, and drew an invisible line in his mind. This place was about 5,000 miles from the coast. How could it be so far?
After calculating, Salin realized that his original feeling was wrong. Even Rex couldn't fly back to where he was now.
Mages weren't seabirds. They couldn't keep flying in the air. A level-six Mage who had just mastered the Wind Soaring spell could only fly 50 miles in an hour. Rex could fly for 12 hours, and then she would run out of magic string energy. No battle could happen during this time. In other words, without using other spells, Rex could only fly back a quarter of the distance.
In order to save magic string energy, Rex had to fly close to the surface of the sea. It was inevitable that she would encounter magical beasts that could hurt her. The possibility of flying back was infinitely close to zero.
Fortunately … the old method still worked. Rex took out a construction puppet from the Divine Sifter Ring. This puppet wasn't used in the battle with Ferret. Now, it could be used as hard labor again.
Making oars was originally troublesome, but now that there was a large flat area on the back of the Coiled Turtle, Daniel could put together the bones of magical beasts and make simple bone weapons. The two oars only needed a simple shape. They didn't need any attack power.
Rex made a frame and fixed it on the turtle shell with Petrification. This way, the construction puppet could still move the oars. This time, the only difference was that he had to make a rudder and place it behind the turtle shell.
Salin carefully looked at the mark of the island on the star map. He couldn't find the specific route, nor could he determine where he was now. He could only vaguely determine that he had to continue heading southeast. There was a hidden island there. On the island, there were Ferret's private ships and a group of soldiers disguised as pirates.
If he continued southeast, he would be further away from the original Myers Continent. The possibility of finding the island was not high.
"Daniel, can you understand the marks of these ocean currents?" Salin looked at the star map and felt a headache. Daniel shook his head. He had gone to sea many times, but he wasn't a sailor. He was a merchant at that time, and didn't need to learn these things. Later, he became a necromancer and devoted himself to magic.
Salin searched his memory, but didn't find any knowledge about sailing.
"Salin, it's actually not that difficult," Shika said. She had been sitting opposite Salin and was also looking at the star map.
"What do you mean?"
"The distribution of the creatures in the sea also has a pattern. For example, the fire element demon wolves will walk along the mountain ridges, and the earth element demon wolves like to drill in the ravines. Some sea magical beasts like to live near the island. You still have the illustrated handbook of magical beasts from Alchemy City, right? "
Salin slapped his forehead. He was out of his mind. His current goal was to find an island for Rex to set up an alchemy laboratory so that he could get rid of the big turtle shell. Then, they wouldn't have to worry about sailing in the sea.
Everyone was seriously injured now. If they encountered a magical beast like the deep-sea octopus again, there would be no hope of escaping. It wasn't easy to find Ferret's secret island, but it wasn't difficult to find a place to stay. As long as they observed the distribution of the magical beasts in the sea, they would be able to roughly determine where there was land.
With land and an alchemy laboratory, it wouldn't be dangerous to return to the Myers Continent. Salin had never thought of making armor out of this turtle shell. If he transformed it into a ship, he wouldn't have to worry about storms. He could hide in the hull of the ship, and most magical beasts wouldn't be able to do anything to it.
"Rex, you do it. I … need to save some energy now," Salin said to Rex as he put away the star atlas.
His mental strength was damaged, and it was difficult for him to release his perception to capture the traces of the creatures in the sea. One mistake and he would anger the stronger ones. On land, mages were very free. Magical beasts rarely appeared in places where humans reproduced. Even if there were, there wouldn't be any that were too strong.
All the threatening magical beasts had been driven away from the vicinity of the city by humans. Those that didn't leave became the prey of mages. It was different in the sea. There were unknown dangers hidden in every part of the sea. Not to mention a level-four mage like Salin, even a Magic Shooter would have to be careful.
Now, Salin finally understood how powerful the Cloud Flow Fleet was. A fleet that could cruise in the deep sea had to have the strength to fight against level-seven magical beasts.
For three days in a row, Salin continuously used the badge to recover his mental strength. Rex recovered quickly too. Nelis was the most heavily injured, but her physical recovery ability was incomparable to that of humans. After three days, Nelis could already go into the sea to catch prey.
On this day, the wind subsided, and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. The blue sky and deep blue seawater looked clear and moving. There was almost no resemblance between the violent sea a few days ago and the current one.
"Salin, there's a Hunter Seagull," Silva said to Salin as he pointed at a small dot in the sky.
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