Following Wenni and Walkas, the group entered the interior of the island, passing through the defensive formations left by their crew.
As soon as they entered the island's lush forest, with coconut trees over 50 ters high, flowers of every imaginable color and a strong dicinal fragrance, capable of attracting the group's doctors and alchemists, they ca across a shady area on the banks of a small lake.
In that place, a construction made of bamboo shaped a property of over 300 square ters, a house in an unusual style for Minos and his people, but which clearly served as a resting place for the mbers of Walkas' crew.
With three floors, the building had at least 30 different rooms, with the top floor being an exclusive area for the leaders of Walkas' pirate crew.
Wenni spoke a little about the place, saying how they made use of the area when they spent ti in the area to rest and recover from battles.
"... You can make use of the whole structure. Don't worry about us, we'll soon be in hibernation again." She pointed out, before adding what she had already noticed that so n in the crew were muttering among themselves. "And about the Sea Serpent, try not to think about him too much. We've hidden from him twice on this island in the past, so it's unlikely that he'll get to us.
The Violent Sea is large and, in particular, the area around this island has zones capable of causing spatial disorientation in those who don't have special thods of dealing with the area. That's one reason we consider our island to be a safe place back then."
"If he's the strongest in these seas, why wouldn't he have thods of counteracting these effects that your crew and ours have managed to counteract?" asked an Armhands General.
Walkas explained in his wife's place. "That's the difference between soone looking for a needle in a haystack and another being able to exclude everything in their surroundings and see only what matters."
Wenni simplified. "We knew exactly what we wanted and where we had to go. The Sea Serpent has no way of knowing about this place and that we're here. For him to reach us, he would have to sail these seas for thousands of years or be very lucky to randomly choose this area to check out."
Minos coughed before changing the subject. "Don't bother explaining why the island is safe. I'll know when it's ti to leave. You must tell where your treasures and most important areas are. It's about ti you went back to sleep."
Walkas looked silently at Minos and then showed. "The special cultivation areas are underground on the island. You must explore them before anyone else and set the boundaries for your people. But as long as they follow these limits, they should be fine.
As for the absorbable resources, books, coins, crystals and artifacts, I buried them at 57 points around the island. Each one is protected by formations, but if you follow a certain spiritual fluctuation, you'll find them."
As he finished speaking, Walkas released a subtle golden thread of energy, carrying a special aura. Minos let it enter the tip of his right index finger, an instant later understanding sothing new.
"Oh?" He couldn't help but be surprised. 'I didn't imagine there was sothing capable of hiding from like that...'
Minos had noticed many formations around the island, but so of them weren't traps, but rather distraction items to draw the curious away from what they protected.
Walkas smiled when he saw the surprised look on Minos' face. "This sort of thing shouldn't surprise you. After all, I'm a native of Uzira and I've learned thods capable of fooling even a Celestial."
"We haven't lived this long in this sea without first learning a bit of everything." Wenni added with a confident smile on her face.
"I see. Thank you for another lesson." Minos summoned the black coffins of the two. "Now I feel I will have to ask you to return to your rest. I'll call you again if we run into trouble or if we've finished what we intended to do here."
"Good luck."
With those words, the two closed their eyes, allowing Minos to control their bodies and place them inside those urns.
The two fell into a deep sleep, with hourglasses appearing inside their coffins, significantly slowing down the passage of ti to the point where it seed as if they had 'died' again.
After taking the two coffins in his spatial ring, Minos looked around the area of the large bamboo house and the nearby lake on this part of the island. Looking at the surrounding hills and the many plants nearby, he ordered his group.
"Diret and your n should settle down in this residence and prepare for our stay here. I feel there are so excellent opportunities that can help our companions grow stronger here, so we'll stay for at least a year."
"A year?" one of the Generals asked. "What about Leger's group?"
"We'll still keep our end of the bargain with them. But they'll have to wait for us if they're still alive... Anyway, I want two Supres to stand guard here and the other two to co with . The rest of you should stay where you are. I'll define where we can co and go and co back to define the raiding parties."
Minos left Tiolos and Wovar behind, following with the two level 115 Supres in search of the cave entrances on the outskirts of this area.
He could sense the places where Walkas' treasures were hidden, but he would leave that for later. Now he wanted to mark out an underground cave for his group to absorb the area's opportunities. Once he had all the underground locations for his companions marked out, it would be ti for him to go after the buried treasures of that pirate crew.
As he moved with the two Supres, he couldn't help but roll a smile on his face, sensing opportunities for his won and so of his n close to reaching the mont of their advancent to the next stage.
'It's all because of a new part of a True Celestial's body... What can I achieve if I get a third part?' He felt interested, wondering if he could find anything else on Zocarro, given that he had already found two parts of such a being.
'Even if I find nothing else on Zocarro, I'll be able to go after the planets of my competitors. While I was at the Millennium Massacre, I got the locations of so good high-level planets.'
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