It was a wooden ship. More accurately, it was a dilapidated wooden ship. Even the white sails were rotten to the point where only gray rags were left.
Angor couldn't tell what kind of ship it was. But he could tell that the ship was very old, which made it very different from modern ships.
Most modern ships were engraved with statues that could deter sea beasts, but this wooden ship's bow was a semicircular feather that looked like a peacock spreading its tail. The feather pattern still retained some color. If this was a ship from three thousand years ago as Helen said, it must have been a brightly colored ship when it was still in good condition.
Angor's impression of the ship was that it was a dilapidated old ship.
"A ship like this should have sunk to the bottom of the sea. Why is it floating on the water?"
While he was still wondering, he heard the sailors discussing something in fear below him.
"A ghost ship?" Angor noticed the main point of their discussion. He took a closer look at the ship and found that it did look a bit like a ghost ship.
Angor frowned and jumped down to the deck as he watched the people talking about him getting more and more excited.
Angor glanced at the crowd, and they all fell silent.
"Do you know this ship?" Helen nodded.
"No. But it doesn't look like a modern ship. It looks like a ship from the Age of Gold from three thousand years ago," Helen quickly explained.
"To be exact, it's an exploration ship from the Age of Gold," Erwin said as he came out of the cabin door.
According to Erwin, this ship came from Ferran Continent. Three thousand years ago, Ferran Continent was in a period of chaos, which was known as the Age of Gold. People were not satisfied with the resources available on the continent and began to explore the outside world, which led to an era of voyages. This ship was the symbol of that era.
Erwin looked at the approaching ship with a puzzled look. "That's a typical three-masted ship. But the exposed keel is already cracked. Why hasn't it sunk yet? It's not a ghost ship, is it?"
"Why don't we go and take a look?"
"Sir," Helen and Erwin quickly advised, "Devil's Water is full of strange things. Even the most ordinary places can be dangerous."
"Don't worry, I didn't sense any energy fluctuations inside, nor did I sense any danger."
"Sir, if you really want to go, you can use the scouting puppet." Helen suddenly thought of something. "There are scouting puppets in the lower cabin, but we can't control them. Only wizards can use them."
As a matter of fact, he already used his spirit feelers to check the "ghost ship" and found nothing out of the ordinary. That was why he decided to take a look. But since Helen mentioned that there were scouting puppets on the ship, he didn't insist.
Scout puppets were low-level alchemy tools, and Angor could make them himself.
It had the appearance of a small sphere, like an eyeball, and could be an extension of a Magus' eye … In fact, its effect was similar to that of a Magus' eye.
For apprentices who didn't know how to use Magus' eye, it was a useful alchemy tool. The only downside was that it only had a range of one kilometer, which was much closer than Magus' eye.
Angor activated the scouting puppet, and a pair of eyeballs with transparent wings slowly flew into the air. The eyeballs flew across the misty sea and landed on the ghost ship.
In his vision, the ghost ship looked the same as what he saw with his spirit feelers. The ship was in tatters, and there was even a hole on the deck.
The scouting puppet followed the hole and entered the inner cabin.
It was dark inside, but the scouting puppet was equipped with a light source, so he could still see clearly.
But as soon as the light came up, Angor frowned.
Helen and Erwin's hearts skipped a beat. "Is there really something dangerous on the ship?"
Helen gulped and signaled the sailors to get into position. She was ready to raise the sails and accelerate if anything went wrong.
"Strange. The inside of the cabin is wet."
Helen heaved a sigh of relief. "Sir, the ship has been staying in the mist for years. It's normal for it to be wet, isn't it?"
"No, it doesn't have to stay in the mist all year round." Angor frowned. "I can tell the difference between wet and wet. The ship's cabin is wet, and the scouting puppet hasn't reached the bottom yet. It's only on the first level below the deck."
Seeing that Helen and Erwin didn't understand what he meant, Angor snapped his fingers and summoned an illusion in front of them.
While using the scouting puppet to enter the cabin, he showed the situation inside to them through an illusion.
Helen and Erwin were surprised by this miraculous illusion. However, their surprise quickly disappeared as they were captivated by the scene in the illusion.
"Yes, it was soaked in water!" Helen suddenly added, "And the wooden planks on the walls don't look like they were in the water not long ago. They were only pulled out of the water in an instant. Otherwise, there would be traces of water."
Angor also noticed this after listening to Helen's explanation.
"That's right. But it doesn't make sense. Could it be that this ship was previously submerged in the sea, and now it has suddenly surfaced? "
Angor paused for a moment. "Anything can happen at Devil's Water. Maybe it's true. But if the ship was in the sea before, it should be covered in sediment, right? But there's nothing here. "
Since he couldn't figure out what was going on, Angor decided to keep moving forward. He could use the scouting puppet to collect some water when he came out, and he could check whether the ship was seawater or not.
Angor controlled the puppet to go deeper. Most of the cabins were the same. Most of them were soaked in water.
Apart from that, nothing else was out of place. The only strange thing was that the cabins were too clean. Angor could see some daily necessities in them, but there were no traces of people. Not even the bones of dead people.
Finally, the scouting puppet reached the bottom.
He saw a huge hole here, and below it was dark seawater.
"Why isn't the water flowing into the hole?" Helen looked doubtful. "Such a big hole is enough to sink the ship. How can it still float on the sea?"
"Take a closer look," Angor suddenly said.
Angor focused on the hole in the illusion.
Helen was confused at first, but she suddenly thought of something. She looked at Erwin and ran to the railing to look down.
"The ship isn't touching the sea at all. It's floating above the water!" The ship was so close to the surface that it was hard to see anything. However, there were no ripples on the surface, which meant the ship wasn't touching the water at all.
Since the ship was floating above the water, the water couldn't get in.
But why was the ship floating above the water? That was another question. However, just this point alone was enough to make everyone's hair stand on end.
"Should we keep looking, sir?"
Angor was glad that he didn't get on the ship. He didn't sense any energy ripples coming from the ship, but it was still floating above the water.
Still, he didn't want to give up halfway.
"Let's go check the captain's room." He took off the glove on his right hand to repair the nightmare aura on The Limpet. Clearly, he wasn't as calm as he appeared to be.
The scout puppet moved upstairs. The captain's room was usually on the top floor, and this ship was no exception.
As soon as the door was opened, a cloud of dust drifted out.
"That means there isn't much water inside," Helen said. Why was the captain's room different from the outside?
In the illusion, the dust disappeared, revealing the inside of the captain's room. Old, rotten furniture and rags were scattered all over the floor. Most of the items were gold ornaments, all of which were still in good condition.
"That's the style of the Age of Gold. Judging from the decorations, this ship must belong to a noble." Erwin pointed at several ornaments.
The scout puppet pointed at a desk near the window.
After entering the ship, the first skeleton, which was also the only skeleton, was placed on display here.
Helen said, "This skeleton should be the captain of this ship, right? Judging from the rotten clothes, it must have been a very fine one. But why is it missing a head? "
It was a headless skeleton.
Why was there only one skeleton on the ship? And why was it missing a head?
This ship was filled with all kinds of abnormalities and irregularities, but the strange thing was that there was no danger so far.
A sailor on the deck suddenly yelled in surprise. Helen looked over and narrowed her eyes. "Sir, the bottom of the ship is gone!"
Angor looked up and saw the bottom of the ship disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The entire ship seemed to be embedded in another dimension. In just a short two seconds, the disappearing range had already reached the deck.
Angor frowned. He ordered the scout puppet to pick up a parchment scroll from the desk and quickly ran out of the window.
When the scouting puppets returned to The Limpet, the ship was already gone. All that was left was a white fog.
It was as if everything that happened before was just an illusion.
However, the scroll in the scout puppet's hand was telling them that the ship was here before.
"Sir, what's going on?"
"I don't know. Maybe it's some kind of anomaly or another dimension." Angor shook his head and looked at the scroll.
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