"Use the Reproduction Scroll." Xia Fan spoke directly to the Hera Church priest in Dragon language.
Only after placing a hand over his chest and bowing eastward did the latter activate the scroll.
Mist instantly surged across the sea.
When the mist dispersed, an enormous phantom of a Tree Boat appeared in the center of the image—though it was a scaled-down Migration Tree Boat, it was still far larger than a first-class battleship. The trees standing densely upon it were each a house, and every voyage could carry around twenty thousand people. Judging by its course, it was traveling north to south. The wind and waves were quite calm as well; it was a rare day of fine weather.
Yet only a few dozen seconds later, a bright blaze erupted within the Tree Boat's residential district!
It expanded rapidly, covering nearly half the Tree Boat in the blink of an eye. At the same time, the image became severely distorted, as if something had interfered with it.
Everyone present sucked in a breath.
Everything happened in the space of a spark flying from flint. By the time the image returned to normal, a raging fire had already broken out aboard the Tree Boat, and it had begun to tilt toward the explosion. Many people fled their homes in terror, leaping blindly into the sea for fear of being caught by the flames. But all the viewers knew that fewer than one in ten would ultimately survive.
"This is..." Qian Yan frowned.
"Fluctuations caused by a violent change in magical power," High Priestess Sainiya said. "Only under such circumstances will the Reproduction Art produce distortion."
"What is the monitoring system's judgment?" Xia Fan looked toward Thought Control.
"It was indeed some kind of spell," the latter confirmed. "Heavenly Eye recorded fluctuations