Angor opened the scroll and raised an eyebrow. "So it's from the logbook. I didn't expect to miss something like this."
[Gold Age 1353, Month of Looming Frost, the eighth day. ]
[I died quietly at the bottom of the well. It's a pity that my treasure is still far away. I hope my descendants can find it. It is the only glory I have left for you. ]
On this piece of parchment, there was only such a short record. Angor also noticed something from the date.
Lucas jumped into the well: Gold Age 1353, Month of Looming Frost, the sixth day.
This entry was written two days after he jumped into the well. In other words, this piece of parchment stuffed in the drawer was the last page of Lucas' logbook!
When he finished reading the last entry, he was a little confused.
"Lucas claimed that he died quietly at the bottom of the well, but his remains were clearly on his Feather Fan." Could it be that Lucas' remains had been brought here by someone else?
Also, Lucas hoped his descendants could find his treasure, which meant his descendants used their blood to activate the magic array at the bottom of the well, which brought them to this strange place.
Then, according to the meaning of his diary, was there still a treasure in this strange place?
Was Lucas lying in the last entry, or was he telling the truth about how he felt after jumping into the well?
Was Lucas a liar or an honest man?
Since he couldn't find anything, he put the last entry away and decided to check if there were any treasures mentioned by Lucas in this place. As he turned around, he caught a glimpse of the skeleton sitting on the bench.
The headless skeleton looked a little strange.
There were still some cloth strips on the skeleton, but they were obviously rotten. Angor picked up the skeleton and inspected it, but he didn't find anything wrong.
"This should be Lucas' remains. But where's his head?" Angor mumbled to himself. He shook his head and left.
He stepped out of the captain's room and quickly went down to the cabin.
Half of The Feather Fan was submerged in water. Many rooms were submerged in the water. When he first saw The Feather Fan at Devil's Water, the ship was floating on the surface of the sea in a strange way. The rooms inside the ship were all submerged by water, which was exactly the same as the cabin he saw now.
He carefully checked the soaked parts of the cabin and tried to recall what happened to The Feather Fan when he used his scout puppet.
Angor was very sure about this. The reason why The Feather Fan was submerged in the water was because it had been here all along. Angor just didn't know why it suddenly showed up in the mist zone.
Could it be deduced that the Feather Fan had returned to this place when it had mysteriously disappeared?
But where exactly was this place? How did The Feather Fan leave this place? And how did it come back?
Angor flew out of the cabin and hovered above the statue on the ship's bow. He used a fluorescent lamp to illuminate the surroundings.
There was only darkness in front of him. He couldn't see anything. Below him was the quiet sea. Angor looked at the back of The Feather Fan. It was also dark here, but the weak light from the fluorescent lamp would illuminate the area for a short distance.
Angor flew closer and was surprised to see a cliff behind The Feather Fan.
He also noticed that The Feather Fan was stranded in a pile of rocks near the edge of an island.
"Is Lucas' treasure on this island?" Angor asked himself.
He didn't land on the island right away. Instead, he used his spirit feelers to explore the water. He felt that the sea was too quiet, as if it had lost all signs of life.
When he was some distance away from The Feather Fan, he used his spirit feelers to explore the water.
The feedback from the seawater was just as he had expected. It was dead silent. There were no currents, no undercurrents, no signs of living creatures, and no signals from living creatures. The sea was truly dead.
Angor retracted his spirit feelers and didn't dare to go any further. He didn't know how to tell directions on the sea. If he went too far, he might not be able to find his way back.
Therefore, he returned to the place where The Feather Fan was stranded.
He woke up Toby, who was sleeping in his pocket, and asked the bird to transform into a griffin. "Protect my body. I'm going to use my spirit form to check the area."
Toby was still in a daze. He didn't know how he ended up sleeping on the sea.
Angor explained the situation to Toby in a low voice, and the bird finally realized what was going on. Toby's eyes glowed when he heard that there was treasure here. He nodded without hesitation, as if saying, "I'm here for you."
Angor shook his head and ejected his spirit. Toby wrapped his body inside the gravity power.
"I'll see if there's a magic array nearby." With that, Angor began to search around The Feather Fan.
Normally, a magic array wouldn't be too far away from the exit. Angor searched the nearby beach but didn't find any runes.
He then dove to the bottom of the sea and found nothing. However, he did find several skeletons hidden in the dust.
There was no identifying information on these skeletons, but judging from their position, it was very likely that they had fallen from The Feather Fan.
Perhaps these skeletons belonged to the sailors of The Feather Fan?
Since he couldn't find anything at the bottom of the sea, he could only check the cliff.
He flew closer to the cliff and searched around, but he still didn't find anything. Just as he was wondering if he had made a mistake, Toby, who was unwilling to be left out, suddenly called out to him.
Angor followed the voice and saw Toby bringing his body to the edge of the cliff. There was a dead tree next to Toby.
Angor's eyes lit up as he tried to figure out why Toby called him here. There was a hidden cave behind the tree.
Could it be that the teleportation channel was in the cave?
Curious, Angor flew into the cave. The cave wasn't very deep. Under the illumination of the fluorescent stones, Angor quickly reached the end of the cave. In Toby's eyes, there was nothing here. It was just an abandoned cave. Toby looked disappointed. But to Angor, the cave was filled with a faint glow.
Seeing the familiar magic array on the wall, he finally felt relieved.
There really was a way back. But he didn't expect it to be hidden in such a hidden cave.
Now that he had found the way back, he no longer needed to worry about anything else. He could now explore the island without worrying about anything else.
He brought Toby with him and headed out of the cave.
Just as he was about to reach the entrance of the cave, his vision blurred as he saw a shadow flashing past the entrance.
He quickly ran to the entrance of the cave, but there was nothing there. There was only the shadow of the dead tree, which looked twisted and strange, as if it was imprisoning a struggling soul.
"Am I hallucinating?" Angor shook his head and looked around again. Still, he didn't see anything alive and gave up.
"Let's go to the other side of the cliff and see what Lucas' treasure is. Where did he hide it?"
Angor flew to the top of the cliff. The other side of the cliff also looked like a sharp peak, but there were many strange-shaped dead trees. When he walked down with the fluorescent lamp, the shadows of the trees on both sides looked like terrifying monsters, observing him from the dark.
The dark and silent environment gave Angor goosebumps all over his body.
He stuck close to the ground and quickly flew across the cliff. If it weren't for the lack of light and the fluorescent lamp, Angor would have flown.
Just like that, he traveled dozens of miles. There was no living creature around. Finally, he and Toby stopped at the edge of a lake.
He stopped here because the lake was huge, and he saw signs of human activity near the shore.
Not far in front of him, there was a simple outdoor stove on a piece of scorched land. An iron pot covered in dust was placed on top of the stove made of stones.
Judging from the thickness of the dust, the stove was at least decades old.
These traces were enough to tell him that this island used to be inhabited. However, just like the sea, the island "died" a long time ago. Angor guessed that the people on the island weren't natives. They must have come here by accident, just like him.
Angor walked around the lake to see if there were any other signs of human activity. At the same time, he wanted to clear his mind.
The island looked very deserted. Based on what they had seen so far, there wasn't anything of high value. The only thing they were interested in was the illusory treasure recorded in Lucas's logbook.
Could it be the thing that attracted Song of the Deep and Summerdew Ridge?
Now, he had to find the location of the treasure mentioned by Lucas and confirm it.
But he also knew that he didn't have much time. Since the two truth-finder wizards, "Poseidon" and "Basket Witch", were already on the move, it was only a matter of time before they found this place.
The pressure put out Angor's excitement. Whether he found the treasure or not, he had to leave this place before the truth-finder wizards arrived.
"Tweet —"
Toby's voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts. He looked over and saw Toby flapping his wings at the center of the lake with a fluorescent lamp in his hand.
Angor flew closer and found out why Toby was calling him.
Right below his feet, there was a small wooden stick stuck straight out of the water at the center of the lake. With the help of the fluorescent lamp, Angor could see that the stick extended far under the water.
Angor tossed a fluorescent lamp into the lake along the stick.
The fluorescent lamp slowly sank to the bottom of the lake and illuminated a large shadow under the water.
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