Tayweid Island was like a fortress hanging alone on the dark sea. There was a mountain on the island, and only the southern foot of the mountain could be seen from the Taowu Strait. The moonlight shone on the narrow waterway between Tayweid Island and the west coast, shining brightly like a pool of silver foil floating on the sparkling waves.
The promontory to the west of the island extended into the sea, blocking the view behind. There was a lighthouse on the promontory, but the light from the lighthouse did not illuminate the nearby waters. It stood above the sea level in darkness, like a night watchman standing under the curtain of night.
A few nautical miles to the south of the island, three sailboats, two in front and one behind, were sailing with full sails, their stern drawing long trails on the surface of the sea. They were slowly sailing towards the waterway between Tayweid Island and the west coast of the Taowu Strait.
The sailboats moved at six knots and soon passed the promontory. Brando stood at the bow and saw the lighthouse similar to the ones he had seen in the Sea of Eternal Darkness and the Sublime Inland Sea. When the waterway was fully opened in front of everyone, he saw the harbor in the bay opposite Tayweid Island.
"That's Gussel." Incirsta also looked in that direction and said, "This is the territory of a few Necromancers. Among all the Dark Nobles, they are the ones who have the most dealings with humans. They need materials, bones, and spellcasting materials. In short, it's very troublesome. This port was built by smugglers. At first, it was just an anchorage. Later, it gradually expanded into the embryonic form of a town. Most of the residents in the port are actually humans."
"Humans? Then what about the spirits? " The one who spoke was a young man lying on the side of the ship. He was Xin's adopted son, the young man named Sebas. Although he had been greatly affected after learning about the 'relationship' between Delfien and Brando (Delfien had lied about being Brando's fiancée), the young man's mind was as light as floating clouds, and now he seemed to have recovered.
Phoenix Flame had promised the Rosaleen family a position in the Nine Phoenix Kingdom. In fact, it was a fief outside the borders of the Nine Phoenix Kingdom. However, Lord Rosaleen naturally could not abandon his foundation. The migration of his territory still required a long time to prepare, so the youth and Na Xin boarded the ship first.
"Undead rarely build settlements in fixed places. Apart from some cities in the Dead Moon Inland Sea, Necromancers are more used to living in wizard towers. Although they also mine minerals and build workshops, they don't need to live in private places. Their settlements are usually castles, manors, or even cemeteries," Frank explained to Brando.
"It's a low-level undead," Incirsta added.
It was dark in the direction of the Port of Gussel. They could only vaguely see the trestle extending into the sea under the moonlight. Seeing this scene, everyone had a bad feeling in their hearts. Although this era was not as brightly lit as the future, a human port should be at least a little bit of light, unless something had happened in the port.
However, Brando, Delfien, Incirsta, and Tarkus did not speak rashly. They all waited until they got closer to see the situation. For a moment, no one on the deck spoke. Only the sound of the wind could be heard. It was unusually quiet.
Amidst this silence, the vessel entered the waterway of Taweed, and plunged straight into the channel that led to the harbor. Not a ship or boat could be seen in the vicinity of the sea. Only on the starboard side of the vessel, a few chains away on the beach of Taweed Island, gleamed with a deathly pale light under the moonlight, as if it were covered with white bones.
Seeing this scene, the youth obediently shut his mouth.
The ship quickly approached the port, but it was at this time that the weather was not on their side. Thick clouds drifted in from nowhere and blocked the moonlight, causing the visibility on the waterway to be reduced. The surroundings were shrouded in dense fog, and the light was dimmed by a lot.
Among them, only the two undead, Tarkus and Incirsta, were not affected. Brando could use Dark Perception to see far in the dim light, but after all, it was not like the undead. The way the undead used Dark Vision was different from that of humans.
The three of them stared in the direction of the port. The port was densely packed with rows of two-masted and single-masted ships. There were only a few large ships with masts like a forest, but there was not a single wind lantern on them. Not even a weak candle flame could be seen. There was no sign of human activity on these ships.
Brando's gaze swept across the goods piled up on the other side of the trestle. The existence of these goods and ships meant that the port itself was not affected. So why was there not a single ship on the sea during the day?
"There are people in the port." Tarkus suddenly said quietly.
"What?"
"There are people in the port, and there are people on those ships. We can smell the presence of life." Incirsta squinted and looked at the Port of Gussel solemnly.
"Are you sure you are talking about the ships docked in the port? Are they normal? " Brando asked, pointing at the forest of masts. If it was in the port, it would be fine, but those ships looked like ghost ships. The ships were dark, and there were no wind lanterns on the stern or the masts. If it was only one or two of them, it would be understandable. But if all of them were like this, it was too strange.
"I didn't say they were normal, Count, but there are people on those ships. There is no doubt about it, unless someone deliberately used magic to mislead me and Tarkus." Incirsta replied.
"How many people?"
"At least ten people, at most twenty to thirty, distributed in the lower cabins. If you're talking about those ships," Incirsta continued, "the people in the port are distributed very evenly. Inside those buildings, it doesn't look like an ambush."
"In other words, everything in Gussel is normal now?" Brando stared at the Port of Gussel and frowned deeply. "Do you think this is normal?"
Incirsta shrugged. "Seriously, I think it is very strange."
"Then Huang Huo, Mr. Ryu, have you been to the undead port like this?"
Mr. Ryu shook his head. "This port is a little strange. Even if there is a curfew, it shouldn't be to this extent."
"Do we still want to go ashore and take a look?" Huang Huo turned around and asked.
Brando looked at Incirsta. He was not familiar with this sea area, and as the local of Madara, the decision was obviously best left to the two dark nobles to make.
"Let's go closer and take a look."
Tarkus pondered for a moment and replied.
Lady Adney opened the cabin door and poked her head out to look at Brando and the others on the deck. She frowned, then sat back down on the stairs leading to the cabins below.
She looked at her companions and whispered, "Make a decision. Quill, what should we do now?"
The Knight gentlemen from Lubec were surrounding their vice-captain and whispering to each other. The Elven ranger was a little further away. He crossed his arms and leaned against the wall of the narrow aisle, pressing his longbow against his back.
Hearing the other party's words, he looked up at Adney and shook his head gently. "The only way now is to follow that person for a while. I think there must be a reason why Lord Ra's Omniscient Eye happened that time."
"Mr. Quill, we understand what you are saying. But the question is, in what capacity are we staying on this ship now?" A Knight asked softly.
"Of course it's clear," Quill replied. "That person is the messenger of Ra. We can follow him completely. This is also the will of Lord Ra."
It can be explained like this?
The Knight was stunned.
"What if he isn't?" Adney was a little reluctant. Although she was only the vice-captain, after leaving Lubec, she had been in charge of the team. No one was willing to give this power to a stranger.
Moreover, it was with such a strange reason.
"You'll know when you see. Aren't our legs? There's nothing in the desert that can restrict the freedom of the wind and sand."
"Sigh, it's not that I don't support it." Adney sighed. "I mean, let's change the way we say it?"
"Change the way we say it?" The knights were stunned again, thinking that there was no other way to put it. "Captain, what do you think?"
"Don't you think that Her Excellency the Emissary can hire us?" Adney's eyes sparkled in the darkness. "This is the difference between being paid or not. Our Lord Emissary looks very rich."
"Martha above, I knew it …"
"The reputation of our Knight Order is all gone."
"We have let Lord Hu Sai down."
The Knight immediately wailed and howled.
The wailing from the other side even reached Brando's ears. He frowned and looked over.
Those people were also the people he saved from the Ghost Chariot's ship. When he was not awake, Tarkus and Incirsta thought that they were Blank's men, and Blank thought that they were his men. That was why he made a mistake and allowed them to board the ship. However, he could not chase them off the ship at sea, so he let them stay on the ship. He originally planned to let them off the ship when they reached Green Jade Hill, but he did not expect this to happen now.
And Brando felt that those people were familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
He quickly calmed himself down and looked at the bow of the ship again. The ship had sailed into the Gulf of Gussel, and he could not see the guiding boat or anything else. The harbor was quiet. It was no more than half a mile from here to the gulf. The silhouette of the entire harbor could be seen clearly, but there was still no sign of movement.
It was as if the three ships did not cause any reaction when they entered the bay.
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