After a few breaths of silence, Cecatly finally spoke up.
"Jon, if we give you a map of the sea, do you think you can find your way back?"
"If we have a map, it won't be a big deal. The two of us will have some ways to find our way back. As long as we can determine which direction to go, returning to the main road … won't be difficult."
Jon reacted quickly. He immediately understood what Cecatly was trying to say.
"You want me to kill them?"
"It would be best if we could keep them alive. However, from the looks of it, they won't be able to survive. The two of us will only be a burden if we bring them along. Besides, we already gave them the money to buy their lives when we first set out. How long will it take to read the memories of the captain and the others?"
"It's just Muggle's memories. Give me 30 seconds very quickly."
Jon snapped his fingers. A thin line of water flowed into the cabin and surrounded the captain, who was currently being protected and imprisoned by Cecatly.
Once Jon wanted to read the memories of the captain, he would have to store them in his mind. Fortunately, with the existence of the construct, storing the memories wasn't a big deal. The main problem was that reading the memories was a waste of time. Currently, there wasn't any distance between Cecatly and him. Hence, it wasn't difficult for her to take over the defensive mechanism he had set up. She only had to hold on for 30 seconds.
Time passed quickly.
The sailors had been struggling for a long time under Cecatly's control. As more and more people came in, Cecatly began to feel the pressure. With so many sailors on board, it wouldn't be a problem to kill them all at once. But to keep them all in one place was not a solution. She had no choice but to keep them in one place for a long time.
"It's done."
After saying that, Jon snapped out of his daze. Before Cecatly could retract the magic trapping the sailors, he released one of his hands and manipulated the water lines around him. The water lines drilled into the mouths of the frenzied sailors and clenched tightly.
In truth, the water balls contained a lot of power when they exploded.
Seeing the heads of the sailors explode in an instant, Cecatly remained unmoved.
Originally, he planned to keep these sailors and wait for the matter here to be over before leaving with them. But now, it seemed that staying with them was indeed not a good choice.
If these people didn't choose to accompany them to sea in the beginning, and instead sold the ship to them, there shouldn't be such a big problem.
Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret in this world. Even if he regretted it and his head exploded, what could he do?
Jon only managed to retrieve the memories of the old captain, but Cecatly did not remove the power that was protecting the captain.
If he could avoid killing them, then he would.
But things don't always turn out the way they want.
The fog in the sky suddenly thinned a little, but soon, a vague figure appeared in the fog.
Those things looked like birds, but they also looked like humans. As they flew, they let out mournful cries, which made people feel disgusted.
"It's the Harpies. It looks like they're here for your defense. If they break through your defense, I'm afraid your barrier won't last long."
"It's not that it won't last long, it's definitely not going to last long. We need to find the fulcrum of the illusion as soon as possible and break it."
But would the other party give him the time?
Naturally, the answer was no.
As soon as Jon's voice fell, the Harpies in the sky swooped down.
They crashed into the defensive net that Jon set up using the water balls.
Counterattacking was definitely not a solution.
They could only passively defend.
Both Cecatly and Jon knew this very well. In such an environment, no matter what kind of counterattack they made, it would be within the opponent's expectations. Once they made a mistake, they would be pulled into a deeper layer of the illusion.
"The most important thing now is to find the fulcrum as soon as possible. Haven't you found any clues yet?"
"Soon, soon, soon."
Chown was anxious as well, but he could not find where the fulcrum was even after searching through the surrounding fog.
Logically speaking, for such a large-scale illusion, the fulcrum should not be so far away, right?
At this moment, the Harpies in the sky swooped down again.
Jon did not look up. This time, he did not try to resist. Instead, he let the Harpies crash into his defensive barrier, creating circles of ripples.
In the next moment, he found it.
"As expected, a very good method. So that's how it is …"
He patted Cecatly's hand. Cecatly understood and floated up from the deck, pulling on Jon's shoulder. Then, Jon held the Staff of Gaia in his hand and slammed it on the deck of the ship. The entire ship collapsed in an instant. The living people in the cabin were naturally not spared. One by one, they fell into the sea along with the broken hull. In the blink of an eye, they were swallowed by the mutated fish.
Chown and Cecatly floated on the surface of the sea. After the hull of the ship shattered, the mysterious eyes in the surroundings extinguished one after another as though they were severely damaged. In the sky, the harpies that constantly rammed into the hull of the ship turned into mist and dissipated into the air.
But everything was not over yet.
The surrounding fog did not completely disperse, but it had become much thinner. At this moment, after the strange eyes were extinguished, it was actually able to gradually return to its original density. This meant that the one behind the scenes was not far away.
"Cecatly, can you find him?"
"I'm looking."
The two of them did not care about the dead Muggle at all. In fact, the fact that things had turned out this way was within their expectations. Although the Muggle had died, they had died a worthy death. At least they had obtained a large sum of money.
They were not important.
What was important was how Cecatly and Jon were going to break through the fog in front of them.
Fortunately, the full moon disc finally played its role at this time.
Dazzling moonlight burst out, pulling on an invisible line. The surrounding fog suddenly became thinner. A few dozen meters in front of them, an unusually strange shadow appeared out of thin air.
They had never seen such a creature before. In the fog, it seemed to be some kind of mussel like creature, but its open shell was not very regular. It was wrapped in layers of fog at the moment. At the very center, there was a thick white tentacle tightly grasping something that was emitting a dazzling ocean blue light.
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