Chapter 70: Black Gull Island

Under the cold moonlight, the Wyzima Lake at night was as calm as a mirror.

A thin layer of mist covered the lake, making it impossible for ordinary people to see the direction in the lake.

The Fisherman King drove the wooden boat like a sickle, quickly cutting through the flat lake surface, leaving a series of ripples.

Wayne was playing with a black pearl he got from Lara in his hand. It was the size of an egg, with a smooth and shiny surface, but it seemed to contain some wonderful charm inside, which could involuntarily attract people's attention.

This was the thing that Lara's brother Fiss stole. His school medallion reacted to this black pearl, but in the knowledge Wayne had learned, there was no record of any kind about this kind of pearl.

The Fisherman King, who was driving the boat at the bow, remained silent, as if he had practiced a closed-mouth Zen. Except for the "let's go" at the beginning, he didn't say a word.

However, judging from the speed and stability of his boat driving, this guy who looked like an old man should possess quite powerful physical strength and control, not as weak as he looked on the surface.

The wooden boat sailed for about half an hour, and an island covered with trees and vegetation gradually appeared in the field of vision of the three.

The area of Black Gull Island is quite large, almost comparable to the entire Wyzima New City. Not only that, in those places covered by vegetation and rocks, one could vaguely see some ruins of ancient buildings, not knowing whether they were elven ruins from a thousand years ago or ruins of ancient races from earlier times.

But in any case, these ruins had long been abandoned, the civilization that lived on them no longer existed, and today this desert island had been occupied by a large number of wild animals and plants, as well as Drowners.

After landing on the island in the middle of the lake, the Fisherman King, wearing dilapidated linen clothes, picked up a firewood knife from the bow, found a stone and sat down, looked at Lara with turbid eyes, and said: "I'll wait for you here."

After saying this, he fell into silence again.

Wayne glanced at the Fisherman King, thinking that this mysterious figure should have the ability to protect himself, so he turned to Lara and asked: "Lara, do you have any way to determine your brother's location?"

"If not, you can stay here with the Fisherman King and wait for me."

He originally asked tentatively, but he didn't expect the little guy to really have some means. She raised the seven-colored conch on her neck somewhat showily and said:

"Wayne, I can find my brother. My brother also has a conch. As long as I blow the one in my hand, I can sense where my brother is."

Wayne raised his eyebrows, feeling that the Lady of the Lake really took good care of Lara's family and bestowed them with many good things. After considering for a few seconds, he said: "Since that's the case, Lara, you can follow behind me using the invisibility spell."

"Pay attention to safety, don't get close to any monsters!"

The little guy nodded obediently, picked up the seven-colored conch in front of her chest, and blew it in her mouth.

No sound was made. After an invisible wave spread, she blinked her eyes, pointed to the south of Black Gull Island, and said: "I feel it, my brother is over there, Wayne."

After speaking, the godling Lara blew the seven-colored conch again, and her body quickly became invisible, carefully following behind Wayne.

There is a dense forest in the center of the island, and the fastest way to reach the south indicated by Lara is to pass through this forest.

However, entering an unfamiliar forest at night is undoubtedly a dangerous thing. After considering for a few seconds, Wayne decided to be more cautious and sneak forward along the outskirts of the forest.

Anyway, as long as he knows the location of the godling Fiss, he can find him by spending a little more time.

Sneaking all the way, it was quite smooth. Although he encountered a few wild wolves and brown bears on the road, under the soothing of Wayne's Axii Sign, no battle occurred.

Another half an hour passed, Wayne finally bypassed the forest area with Lara, passed through a wilderness full of flowers and grass, and arrived near a damp cave near the lake.

Looking around, a few monsters with fish heads, holding wooden sticks and bone spears, were standing stupidly near the cave, chatting in a low voice, clearly not letting other creatures enter the cave.

Looking at their posture of being able to move freely in the dark night without torches, Wayne frowned, guessing that this kind of creature also has the ability of dark vision.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Life at the bottom of the lake or the bottom of the sea is obviously different from that on land. Without the sun, light cannot enter such deep places. If you want to live there, you must be able to move freely in the dark. He turned to Lara, who was following him and was in an invisible state, and whispered:

"Your brother should be in that cave, but it should be a bit dangerous there. You wait for me here, don't go in, I'll deal with it alone."

The little guy was quite obedient and didn't try to be brave. She nodded immediately and said: "Okay, Wayne, but you also have to be careful, may the goddess bless you."

After explaining to Lara, Wayne stepped back a few steps, found a huge stone, sat behind it, and took out the Swallow potion, Wolf potion, and Maribor Forest potion from the magic-inscribed storage bag.

These three potions can improve Wayne's body recovery speed, attack speed, and spellcasting speed respectively.

Because he considered that the target of this attack was a monster with relatively weak defense like a Drowner, he did not take Thunderbolt to increase his strength, but decided to strengthen his advantage of fast attack speed, which could cause damage in a very short time.

After drinking these three potions, Wayne felt his body, and it seemed that he could continue to withstand more toxicity. After considering for a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and took out a bottle of Cat potion from the storage bag and drank it in one gulp.

Soon, as his eyes became bloodshot and the surrounding things became clearer, a feeling of itching and pain filled his blood vessels and muscles.

This was his body telling him that the toxicity had reached its limit and could not be increased any further.

Wayne let out a turbid breath, endured the discomfort of his body, took out an invisibility potion and a healing potion from Azeroth from the storage bag, and put them into his pouch together with seven or eight alchemy bombs.

No one knows how many Drowners are in the cave. These alchemy bombs and potions are his reliance for saving his life.

After all preparations were made, Wayne hid the steel sword behind the stone, took a deep breath, drew the Master-level silver sword in his hand, kicked the ground with both feet, lowered his body, and with the cover of weeds, rushed toward the Drowners guarding the cave entrance with an extremely fierce speed.

These sub-human creatures, generally between 1.2 and 1.4 meters tall, never expected that someone would attack them at night.

Before they could react, the three Drowners closest to Wayne had already fallen under his sharp sword light, and their heads were cut off by the sharp silver sword one after another.

At the same time, Wayne also noticed that the strength of these Drowners was much smaller than that of normal human males. Although they possessed limbs, the structure of their limb joints made them unable to be as flexible as humans.

However, they were wrapped in a layer of thick scales, like fish scales, layered one after another, and the silver sword caused a little hindrance when slashing on them, which was equivalent to wearing leather armor.

After continuously killing three Drowners, the other Drowners reacted a little. A slightly fat Drowner with only one eye was the fastest. It picked up the bone spear in its hand, raised its head, let out a strange cry, and stabbed toward Wayne's lower abdomen.

However, its speed was obviously a big cut worse than Wayne's. Just as the bone spear was raised, Wayne's silver sword pierced into its only remaining fish eye with lightning speed, instantly destroying the Drowner's underdeveloped brain.

After killing this Drowner, Wayne did not stop at all, immediately pulled out the silver sword, twisted his waist, kicked away the corpse of the Drowner in front of him, and launched a fierce diagonal slash at the other Drowner closest to him.

That Drowner clearly had a little combat experience. It raised a rusty iron axe, wanting to use the axe face to block this slash, but Wayne's speed was not something these monsters, who were weaker than Drowners, could react to.

Before this Drowner raised its arm, the sharp sword light had already cut off half of its body.

The foul-smelling blood gushed out, and the body with the fishy smell was divided into two. Wayne did not dodge or avoid, and under the cover of blood, he made another horizontal slash, directly cutting off the top of the last Drowner's head at the cave entrance.

From the start of the attack to the end of the battle, in less than half a minute, six Drowners had already fallen under Wayne's sword.

It can be said without hesitation that with the blessing of level 5 swordplay, plus the skill specialty of Cat's Agility, the half-elf's agility talent, and the strengthening boost of the Wolf potion, Wayne's attack speed is definitely among the top in the entire Northern Kingdom.

Dealing with these weak Drowners who were still using bone spears and wooden sticks and didn't even have a decent piece of armor was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

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