As soon as they set out, they ran into a swarm of tiny flying fish that would self-detonate if they made any sudden movements.
At a glance, there were at least tens of thousands of them densely packed together. It was like a black cloud pressing down on everyone's heads.
"I'll take care of them," Keely said as she took out her lantern.
But Angor stopped her in time. "I'll do it. Save your mana."
With that, he used a trick he learned when he first entered the garden. He set up a basic illusion and lured one of the fish to self-destruct. The other fish inside the illusion thought that they were being attacked, so they all did the same.
Explosions rang out one after another, and blood rained down from the sky.
Angor drove Gondola out of the range of the exploding fish.
But as soon as they left the range of the fish, danger came again. Luna kept meowing. Nausica frowned as she held a scale in her hand. "Angor, I can sense 30 auras coming at us from all directions within a hundred kilometers."
Keely nodded. "Yeah, Luna sensed it too."
There were thirty presences, but Nausica could only sense the presence of apprentices with heart scales. If those apprentices also formed a team, and there were apprentices in their team who didn't have scales, then the number of people attacking them would be more than 30, or even higher.
"How many auras are coming from our direction?" Angor asked.
"Six! Two to the southwest, one to the southeast, and three to the south! "Nausica quickly reported the numbers and roughly estimated their current distance.
Angor nodded and made some calculations in his mind. Should they stop or keep going?
"Keep going. Keely, Shiliew, get ready to fight. I'll help you with the illusion. Nausica, you take control of Gondola. Shan, protect the ship. " Angor quickly prepared for battle. He took out a revolver and a trigger crossbow and handed them to Nausica and Shan. The ammunition inside the weapons were all enchanted with runes, which could cause serious damage to level-2 apprentices.
After traveling for several kilometers, they ran into the first wave of robbers.
Among the five ordinary apprentices, two of them were even Bloodline Apprentices who were riding on vehicles. The outcome of the battle was decided almost instantly.
Before Angor could use his illusion, Keely's flames already froze them into popsicles and dropped them into the sea.
"There are two auras coming together. They're still five kilometers away from us," Nausica said as she looked at the scales.
Angor and the others saw the two people hovering in the air.
"That's' Gravedigger 'Munro and' Dance of Peaks' Dawnen!" The one who spoke was Shan. She quickly introduced the two to everyone. "Menlo is a level-2 apprentice, and Dawnen became a level-3 apprentice 30 years ago!"
Shan's name, of course, meant that these two people were elite apprentices. And one of them was a level-3.
Shan's expression didn't look too good, but Angor, Keely, and Shiliew didn't seem to care. "They're nothing. Just kill them," Keely said in a flat tone.
"Oh, so it's' Deathflame Witch 'Keely. Let me see, isn't that one of Mister Sunders' new apprentices?" Dawnen spoke up. She was a middle-aged witch, but she looked more mature than experienced.
"Tsk, tsk. And a bunch of nameless kids. You got so many Meraid's Swords. Why don't you share two with us? " After saying that, Dawnen turned to look at the skinny and stooped Menluo and transmitted her voice, "Menluo, are you confident?"
The corners of Menlo's mouth curled up. When he smiled, deep wrinkles appeared on his face. "A group of nameless fellows, plus a fame-seeking alchemist. Absolutely no problem!" Although he said that, when Menlo looked at Keely, there was a hint of fear in his expression.
Dawnen nodded. "Don't worry about Keely. Let's deal with the level-1 apprentice with a silver arm and the girl with blue curly hair. Let's get the Meraid's Swords and leave! "
After communicating with each other, they dashed toward Gondola.
"Don't stop. Keep going," Angor said when he saw Nausica was about to stop.
Nausica nodded. Without hesitation, she sped up and dashed out of the cave like a gust of wind.
Angor reached out a hand and created an illusion around them. Keely sneered and summoned a flame.
Before they could get close, they heard Shiliew speaking again. "Water Curtain."
Several water curtains rose from the surface of the sea, but they were only there to block their vision. Dawnen and Munro went straight through the water.
But just as they passed through the water curtain, Shiliew said in a voice that only the people on the ship could hear, "Lava."
Since they went through the water curtains, Dawnen and Munro's clothes were soaked with water. They didn't notice anything until Shiliew mentioned "lava". The water on them instantly turned into red-hot lava.
In a moment of carelessness, the two of them screamed.
Their skin was instantly soaked by the lava, and their bones were exposed in less than a second.
However, the two of them reacted quickly. When they realized that the seawater on their bodies had turned into magma, they immediately stimulated their bloodlines. Their bloodlines couldn't completely protect them from the heat of the lava, but they still bought them some time. They tried everything they could to get rid of the lava. However, their bodies were already covered in bumps and bruises. Their bones were exposed in many places, and their faces were even worse.
"My hair! My face! My hand! It's not my hand! It's not! " Dawnen reached out a trembling hand to touch her own face. But when she saw her bony hands, she lost control of her emotions.
She glared at Shiliew, who was still half-asleep. "It's you! It's you, isn't it?! I'm going to kill you! "
Munro was also covered in wounds. He was using Heal to heal himself. When Dawnen was about to step forward, Munro stopped her. "Dawnen, calm down. Change your target. Don't let your emotions get the better of you. "
Munro was angry as well, but he knew that Shiliew alone was enough to beat them up, let alone steal the Meraid's Swords. Keely was also here.
They had no choice but to retreat and see if they could find someone else.
After all, Dawnen had cultivated for many years, and she knew this very well. She suppressed her anger and slowly retreated into the air, but she kept her eyes fixed on Shiliew. "I'll remember you. We admit defeat this time, but next time, I'll kill you."
Seeing them moving away, Nausica pushed Gondola to full power and sped away.
At this time, a soft voice came out from Shiliew's mouth again. "Poison."
As soon as he finished speaking, two intense screams came from behind him.
Everyone looked back and saw Munro and Dawnen's bodies turning green before they melted into white bones. Both of them died.
Seeing this terrifying scene, everyone fell into silence.
Keely looked at Shiliew with a hint of vigilance in her eyes, and her body was faintly on guard. Angor didn't consider Shiliew as a potential threat, but he still had a lot of thoughts.
He once fought Shiliew and learned something about her from Sunders. He knew that Shiliew was an Occult user who had a mysterious "water attribute" talent. According to what he heard, Shiliew could change the nature of water, such as turning it into poison. But he didn't expect that she could even create lava, which had nothing to do with water.
In other words, she could create anything that had nothing to do with water, such as oil or lava.
Even Angor himself could not think of a way to counter such a power.
At this moment, Shiliew suddenly yawned and fell asleep on the railing of the ship.
"It's the side effect of Shiliew's ability. The more she uses her ability, the faster she'll fall asleep." Shan jumped down from Gank and untied the pouch on Shiliew's waist. She took out a pill and stuffed it into Shiliew's mouth. "This is a special pill Master Shiliew made for her to enter the purification garden. It can forcefully wake her up."
As expected, Shiliew woke up right away. Apart from the dark circles under her eyes, she didn't show any other symptoms.
"You're getting stronger and stronger. No wonder Jebra couldn't handle you so well." Angor sighed when he saw Shiliew waking up.
Both Shan and Nausica nodded in agreement. They knew Shiliew was strong, but they didn't expect her to be this strong.
Shiliew froze for a moment and didn't say anything. She just lowered her head shyly.
However, she was still puzzled by the fact that someone mentioned Jebra's name in front of her. She was the only one who knew that she had no memory of Jebra at all.
Did she really have a split personality? Was there another personality hiding inside her body? But why didn't it show up before? Or maybe she didn't know about it?
The series of questions made Shiliew fall into deep thought.
When Angor mentioned Jebra's name, Shan told him something interesting. "It's strange though. Shiliew never fell asleep in the middle of a fight against Jebra. I wonder if there's a reason for that."
Angor raised an eyebrow. Maybe Shiliew and Jebra really were born to fight against each other.
With Shiliew's strength acknowledged, the rest of their journey was much smoother. They were above the sea, which was Shiliew's home ground. They ran into several groups of robbers, and Shiliew could take care of them all on her own.
It took them about half an hour to cover half of the distance.
At this time, Luna meowed again.
"More ripples within a hundred miles." Nausica frowned. "And there are more than a hundred of them."
"But I think there's only one ripple right in front of us!" Nausica suddenly exclaimed.
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