Chapter 117: Chapter 104 You Better Pray We Get Lucky This Ti (Please Subscribe)
At night, above Yiyeta Harbor, a huge airship made use of the cover of darkness to slowly head towards the open sea.
“We must be over a thousand ters high by now?”
Hank felt the constant sea breeze blowing, and spoke with a sense of wonder, as he could even make out the sights of the city harbor below.
“About that, this altitude should make us undetectable to anyone,” North’s expression also beca sowhat relaxed.
Since the airship was powered by Magic Steam Power that drove the propellers at the bottom, and was also fortified with Wind Protection and a stable Alchemy Array, their speed was very swift. By the ti the full moon hung high in the sky, they had already entered the boundaries of the Mist Sea.
The vast mist surged up, soon enveloping everyone’s vision. Hank, Eva, and Barbara looked solemn. They were all born in Wizard Land, and although they had heard about the various stories of the Mist Sea, this was their first ti facing it head-on.
Lynn turned to North, quite curious about how the latter would find that so-called ‘Death’s Eye’.
Once out at sea, North no longer kept anything hidden, and imdiately took out a wooden Compass.
Lynn recognized it at a glance; back when they had fled to the Mist Sea, Laud had used a similar-looking Compass to locate Wizard Land.
Hank and the others, however, looked puzzled. North quickly began to explain.
“This Compass can locate nearby objects with imnse Magic Power. If you set its detection range to the maximum, it will always point towards Corona Tower in Wizard City.”
“So all we need to do is adjust the range to locate the position of the ‘Death’s Eye’,” North said, as he turned the top needle of the Compass to set its detection range to the minimum.
The pointer of the Compass imdiately began to move, eventually pointing towards Lynn.
“I never expected you, Radak, to be the one among us who possesses the most Magic Power…” Barbara said with surprise.
Lynn hadn’t expected this either, as he wasn’t even a formal Wizard yet, but he quickly realized that this must include the stored Magic Power from the Smart Brain.
Under everyone’s gaze, Lynn thought for a mont and then said in a dark, amused tone, “That’s because, these past few days, I happen to have devised a few interesting little gadgets. If this mission doesn’t go smoothly, you might get a chance to witness their power…”
Lynn’s words instantly shifted everyone’s attention away, as the Compass’s Magic Power detection could locate Corona Tower, it clearly was not only detecting personal Magic Power but also possibly the cumulative Magic Power of alchemical items one carried.
Thinking this, they couldn’t help but speculate what powerful alchemical tools ‘Lakda’ had co up with during this ti.
North continued to increase the range of the Compass’s detection, and after expanding it to fifty kiloters, the pointer finally moved away from Lynn and pointed deep into the Mist Sea.
Lynn secretly breathed a sigh of relief; his biggest worry was that the pointer would keep pointing at him, which would have been difficult to explain.
Fortunately, although the energy source of the Smart Brain had received a boost, the total amount had only increased to about thirty percent, which was not enough to be more powerful than the ‘Death’s Eye’.
Having found their target, North imdiately instructed the Wizard Apprentices in charge of controlling the airship to change course and head in the direction indicated by the Compass.
The fifty-kiloter distance was not particularly far for the airship’s speed, but the problem was that “Death’s Eye” seed to be constantly moving, so even after half a day of travel, they had not caught up.
Barbara and the others’ patience was being steadily eroded. Above the Mist Sea, thick fog was all that surrounded them. They couldn’t even distinguish their current altitude and could only determine if it was day or night through the light.
“By the way, North, our hunting of ‘Death’s Eye’ wouldn’t cause any impact on the protection over this sea area, would it?” An impatient Eva asked curiously.
“What do you think this thing is? A sea creature raised by the council? A dog to watch over our hos?” North retorted, scoffing at the suggestion.
“Stop joking. These horrifying creatures cause great vortexes to eat the living beings in the nearby sea areas, devouring their souls. Whether it’s church personnel or wizards like us, in their eyes, we are nothing more than food, no different from the fish in the sea…perhaps even tastier…”
“Instead of worrying about ‘Death’s Eye,’ you might as well pray that we get lucky this ti and don’t encounter a particularly powerful individual,” North said with a grave expression.
Lynn looked towards the murky sky. The range of this legendary magic was larger than he had imagined. He just didn’t know how high they needed to rise to escape the enveloping fog.
Five kiloters? Ten kiloters?
As ti passed, Lynn felt increasingly terrified by the vastness of the Mist Sea. He vaguely sensed that their target was very close.
The sound of surging currents faintly carried from below, prompting North to imdiately order the apprentice to lower the airship’s altitude.
Soon, the sound of rollicking seawater grew louder, as if it was echoing incessantly by their ears.
“The altitude is too low, ascend quickly!” Lynn suddenly shouted.
Hank and the others imdiately looked below the airship, but all they saw was dense fog, like a bottomless abyss. However, a few seconds later, the sharp-eyed Barbara caught sight of the faintly stirred waves…
Only then did the crew realize, due to the low visibility, that the airship had unwittingly descended to just a few ters above the sea level.
“Did you hear that, ascend now!” North, now panicked, turned to the apprentice controlling the airship and yelled urgently.
Just then, a fluctuating sound, like a deep bell, resonated in everyone’s minds, and Lynn, Barbara, Hank, and the others imdiately felt their thoughts being influenced.
The apprentices controlling the airship, however, stood frozen in place, unmoving, muttering sothing incessantly.
Accompanied by a violent tremor, the airship had stopped on the water’s surface, like a massive ship being dragged toward the center of the vortex by the swirling currents.
The rising seawater kept striking both sides of the cabin, causing the entire airship to rock and tilt.
“Damn it!” North, struggling against the discomfort in his brain, cursed angrily, kicked the apprentices frozen in place out of the way, then grabbed a pipe and frantically converted his magic power into hydrogen to fill the airbags above.
Lynn clutched desperately at the edge of the cabin to steady himself, while a nearby apprentice was thrown out during the violent shaking.
Only when the rushing water flooded over his mouth and nose did the Wizard Apprentice awaken as if from a shock, crying and shouting as he struggled, but the current dragged him away…
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