One heroic spirit after another answered him.
The Branlit Lantern in Su Wen's hand gradually brightened in the night.
At last, it became an elegy depicting the civilization of this sea isle over thousands of years.
At this moment.
As he watched those figures, some carefree and some silent.
It was not only him.
Nor was it only the tear-wiping girl, Philia.
Beyond the far more distant Storm Forbidden Zone.
Every naval soldier standing by the shore and looking into the storm laid down their weapons.
After all.
Most of those figures that faded beside Su Wen into pale-blue motes of light.
Had long since been engraved upon the tombstones of Sea Isle Cemetery.
'They' had already departed.
'They' had never been forgotten.
Colonel Ulysses said solemnly and ceremoniously:
"Salute!"
Following his lead.
With a sharp clap.
All the stationed soldiers completed their salute at the same time, with reverence.
Even Sidney was no exception.
He had witnessed the future Detective had spoken of.
At the same time.
Everyone present would remember this moment.
Yet this oath of the 'Glimmer of Lamplight' was far less worthy of praise in the eyes of the Abyss Believers.
Ten meters away from Su Wen.
The Tidal Sect patriarch charging at the front.
Waving his enormous body covered in deep-blue scales, he brandished a rust-covered battle axe and roared as he charged forward:
"I don't care what you're doing.
Kevin, die!"
Watching this scene.
Su Wen sighed calmly.
"How ugly."
He turned sideways.
Yet he did not retreat to evade the mighty blow.
Instead.
Surrounded by the faint radiance of lamplight, Su Wen met it head-on.
He pinched the already rusted battle axe between two fingers.
Then.
The radiance of Glimmer of Lamplight suddenly blossomed.
Reducing this Extraordinary-grade Tidal Sect ritual battle axe to