From afar, the island looked exactly the same as the one they spent most of the night on. The terrain was still flat, and the vines were growing everywhere, giving the place an ominous and deadly atmosphere.
Everyone's expression changed when they saw the island. They didn't run into any trouble on the other island, but that didn't stop them from fearing this place.
Erwin ordered the ship to move faster so that they could avoid the island as soon as possible.
"Hold on." Angor signaled the ship to slow down. Under everyone's puzzled looks, he jumped into the air and landed on the island with two tornadoes under his feet without any explanation.
No matter how reluctant they were, they had no choice but to approach the island with their ships.
As soon as Angor landed on the island, the vines that sensed the presence of a living human came back to life and swung their barbed tentacles at Angor.
Angor slowly walked toward the vines. As he did so, several dancing flames appeared around him and burned all the incoming attacks into ashes.
When Angor began to attack the vines, the strange auras hiding in the dark finally woke up.
Under the gloomy sky, several glowing undead creatures crawled out of the ground and glared at Angor with ferocious expressions.
"So there are undead creatures!" Angor wasn't surprised. He already sensed negative energy from afar, and he was right. This island was full of undead creatures just like the previous one.
Angor's test for Prelude to Rebirth was almost finished, but he couldn't be sure about the results until he actually tested them.
In order to complete the test, Angor needed a large number of undead creatures. He wasn't afraid at all. Instead, he prayed that there would be as many of them as possible.
With Prelude to Reincarnation in hand, dealing with these Undead was like cutting grass. In fact, it was even faster than cutting grass.
By the time The Limpet reached the shore, Angor had already cleared half of the undead creatures on the island. In less than two minutes, he had cleared an entire island. The dark energy was completely gone.
He didn't return to the ship right away. Instead, he walked around the island to find out why there were so many undead creatures here.
The island wasn't big, so it didn't take him long to finish. During this process, he didn't discover anything. Other than the smelly ground, there was nothing else.
Angor dug deep into the ground, but he did not find anything strange. These undead seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
Logically speaking, if there were so many undead, there should be so many corpses, right? Why couldn't he find a single skeleton?
In the end, he could only blame it on the uniqueness of this area.
Next, he jumped back onto the ship and told The Limpet to keep moving.
Captain Naki, who had just put away the sail, quietly untied the rope.
For the next few days, he would land on any island he came across. After waking up the sleeping Undead, I immediately took out Prelude to Reincarnation to harvest them. As time went by, Erwin also realized that the ship wouldn't go ashore or anchor. Instead, it simply drifted along the sea. Angor would soon return to the island on his own.
After clearing five islands in a row, Prelude to Rebirth successfully filled up one and a half bullets. He still needed one and a half bullets to fill up the magazine.
Angor was planning to move on to the next island, but Erwin stopped him. "We'll reach the Shallow Reefs if we go any further."
The Shallow Reefs were a nightmare for ships. They could easily run aground if they weren't careful.
He looked ahead, but it was too dark to see anything, so he had no choice but to give up. He already searched all the islands he came across, and he didn't want to go too deep into the center of Specter Water. He had no choice but to return to Death Loop. As for filling up Prelude to Rebirth's magazine, he would have to worry about that later.
With that in mind, The Limpet turned around and headed for Death Loop.
However, they didn't go far before another strange vortex appeared on the surface of the sea.
"Why is there another one? We're already dozens of kilometers away from the last one," the sailors commented.
Erwin ordered the ship to turn around and leave again.
However, when they tried to turn around for the third time, the vortex still followed them like a shadow. It was as if every time they tried to go back to Death Loop, the vortex would appear.
"It's like it's sentient. It's trying to stop us …"
"It's more like it's trying to lure us deeper into Specter Water."
"This is so weird. I'm wearing so many layers, but I still feel cold. This kind of coldness is like a coldness that chills to the bone. " Someone said as goosebumps appeared on his arm. "I keep having the feeling that we might stay here forever."
"It's not an illusion. As long as the vortex doesn't disappear, we'll be stuck here forever."
At first, they were still discussing the strange phenomenon. But as time went by, they began to feel pessimistic because of the ominous aura.
Helen and Erwin had no choice but to ask for Angor's help again.
Angor was confused as well. Was the vortex trying to stop them from going back as if it had a mind of its own?
Was it something unique to this strange place? Couldn't they leave Specter Water after entering it?
His mind was filled with questions as he watched the vortex getting bigger and bigger.
"Do we have no choice but to keep going through Specter Water?" Helen had a bitter expression on her face. Such a strange thing had happened in the periphery of the Ghost Sea. No one could guarantee what would happen if they went deeper into the Ghost Sea.
"We'll take the Specter Sea as our last option. The best choice is to take the Winter Waterway."
"But the vortex is stopping us. I don't think we have a choice."
Angor considered for a moment. "How about this? You guys keep patrolling the area while I check the water."
Angor had a feeling that the vortex wasn't natural. Maybe it was controlled by some kind of creature.
As for whether he was right or not, he just had to check it out.
…
Humans had an innate sense of security towards places that they could see with their eyes, such as a sparkling ocean. However, people tended to imagine the evilest things when they couldn't see them. For example, the bottom of the ocean.
To give a simple example, a giant blue whale that was floating on the surface of the sea and a giant shadow that was hidden at the bottom of the sea gave people a different feeling of horror.
The enclosed environment of the ocean, the dim light, and all kinds of dark corners gave people plenty of room to imagine.
The more they thought about it, the more scared they became.
Even the shallow parts of the ocean that were illuminated by light would cause people to imagine something horrible lurking in the dark corners. Needless to say, in their eyes, this Spirit Sea was simply pitch black.
Sometimes, sailors wouldn't even dare to look at the surface of the ocean, fearing that they might see something terrible. Not to mention that they were going to dive into the ocean to investigate.
When Angor suggested that they should dive into the ocean, everyone on the ship looked worried.
The dark ocean, the unknown horrors, and the Specter Water, the most terrifying of all. All these prefixes made Angor feel like he was a hero who would never come back.
Of course, that was only what the others felt.
As for Angor himself, he wasn't too afraid to explore the sea. He once spent a long time in the Sea of Purification. He even stayed alone in the darkest parts of the ocean. That was why he was quite calm.
Leaving Toby on the ship to protect everyone, Angor jumped into the dark ocean.
With a splash, Angor's figure reached the bottom of the ocean in front of everyone's eyes.
As soon as he entered the water, he smelled something even more fishy and salty than other parts of the ocean. After activating the Purification Force Field, the unpleasant smell slowly disappeared.
He couldn't see anything in the darkness. However, the turbulence caused by the vortex reminded him that the ocean was even more dangerous than the surface.
With a thought, Angor cast Light to illuminate his surroundings.
As soon as the light appeared, a giant rodent fish appeared in front of him. Angor almost jumped out of his skin when he saw its hideous appearance.
He tilted his body, dodged the fish's bite, and casually cast a Quick Freeze.
The fish was instantly turned into a block of ice.
It was a simple cantrip he learned from analyzing "Ice Wall" from his tablet. However, it worked perfectly in a watery environment.
After killing the fish, Angor looked around. There were no other fish in the darkness, but there were quite a lot of tiny Mayflies.
Angor decided to move closer to the vortex.
He slowly approached the center of the vortex while withstanding its powerful pull.
Before he reached the center, he saw a faint glimmer coming from the bottom of the vortex.
His instinct told him that the glimmer might be the source of the vortex.
Angor loosened his control over the water around him and dove deeper into the darkness.
When he was about a hundred meters below the surface, his pupils shrank. He was still some distance away from the light source, but he still saw the glowing object clearly.
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