"What... is this place?"
Christina first touched her satchel and found that the "magic lamp" that allowed her and Dorothy to sneak out of the house and run around was still in the bag, and then turned to ask her sister.
The latter obviously hadn't recovered yet. He was made dizzy by the bizarre scene in those few seconds. His brown eyes were as calm as a lake. It took him a while to come back to his senses, and he was looking around like Tina just now.
"Beach."
She gave an unmistakable answer.
Of course I know this... We only went on vacation at Desi Bay last year, but the sky there was not so blue, the color of the sea was not so deep, and more importantly, the whole beach was full of people... Tina muttered, reaching out to open the satchel, ready to touch Golden Lamp, and ask Genie inside if he knew where this was.
But before she could get in touch with Sealed Artifact and ask questions, the other party's characteristic majestic voice sounded in her mind:
"This should be the central area of the Rhoside Islands, north of Blue Mountain Island, very close to the largest city in the entire sea area, 'Bayam'.
"It just so happens that the next place we're going to is in this city."
Blue Mountain Island? Tina repeated this somewhat awkward name in a low voice, and found the location of the island in the Berserk Sea in his mind.
It is a tropical island located between the southern North Continent that once belonged to the Loen Kingdom and is now peaceful and independent.
"You said this is Blue Mountain Island where 'City of Generosity' Bayam is? "Dorothy heard his sister's muttering and asked loudly, then looked at her hand that had just put it into her bag, "Did that Genie tell you?"
"That's right!"
The voice from Sealed Artifact also sounded in Dorothy's ears, which made her shrink her neck and look here in surprise.
"After the second seal was released, he seemed to have a little more strength."
Tina explained with a smile on his face.
But her smile disappeared the next second, and she fiercely took out Golden Lamp from her bag, grabbed the spout protruding from the main body, swung the ancient and expensive magic lamp, and said angrily:
"Now that our strength has been restored, why not use normal methods to get us here? Now my aunt must be very worried about the whereabouts of me and Dorothy, maybe she thinks we are dead!"
Then she would tell Uncle Benson, which meant that mom and dad also knew. When we returned home, what was waiting for us was my father sitting at the table with a blank expression, and my mother waiting by the door with her hands on her hips, ready to lock me in Imprisonment... She suddenly felt that she had lost hope in life.
"You are going to visit the laboratory, and you touched the door yourself. Why are you blaming me? Are you the kind of person who always takes the blame for everything? "Genie retorted unceremoniously, and as the seal was further unlocked, Tina couldn't even stop his voice from reaching his sister's ears, "That electrified door doesn't have the ability to 'Traveler' at all. 's ability to travel through Spirit World can only be simulated to a certain extent, but the moment you touch it, the device starts unexpectedly, sending you and the people and things you come into contact with into Spirit World."
Tina's breathing was stagnant, and he guiltily hid the arm that had touched the door handle behind his back.
"If I hadn't adjusted my landing point and landed near Bayam, you would have appeared in the primeval forest of the Southern Continent and become a meal for the local indigenous people."
"Genie" continued with a somewhat high-pitched tone. The golden figure seemed to appear in front of Tina's eyes, with his hands on his chest and his head raised, looking arrogant.
After everything is over, can I make a wish and send Genie back to Sealed Artifact... She shook her head, shook the annoying figure out of her mind, and continued to ask:
"What to do now?"
Anyway, we have already arrived at this island, and there is no way to go back and explain to Melissa. It is better to untie the seal of "Genie" as soon as possible and realize the wish. Maybe it can make my mother smile and not blame her for "running away from home".
Tina even suspected that this Sealed Artifact deliberately promoted the unexpected development in order to unlock all the seals as soon as possible. At least it strengthened the curiosity in her mind and made her touch "Random Door" at all costs. Otherwise, with her caution, she would at least hesitate for a few seconds before touching...
"The third location is in the penthouse luxury suite of a hotel in 'City of Generosity' Docklands. You can enter the city by walking west along the beach."
As if he was worried that something would happen if he continued to stimulate his owner, Genie's tone also slowed down a bit, indicating the next destination.
Following his words, Tina looked up at the slightly tilted direction of Sun and found that there was indeed a series of low buildings in the distance, and there were ships approaching or moving away from each other on the sea. It was obviously a busy port city.
Between her and the city, a steep cliff rises from the ground, blocking part of the sunlight. The cliff face on the side facing Tina is at an inverted angle. It has not been eroded by the sea wind over a long period of time to form a smooth surface. Instead, it looks like it has been bombarded by hundreds of large-caliber artillery. The craters are continuous and the surface is rugged, like the open mouth of a monster.
Dorothy didn't know when he came to Tina. He was also looking at the cliff in the distance and said to himself:
"This is said to be the place where the legendary pirate 'Golden Queen' Oldest One made his fortune. She and her flagship 'Queen Anne's Revenge' demolished half of the cliff and proved her strength, so she directly joined the ranks of Pirate King instead of being as famous as Pirate Admiral."
Golden Queen Angelica...Tina's eyes shone brightly, and he couldn't help but look at the cliff leaning toward the sea like the bow of a ship for a few seconds.
Among the children's books designated by the school, compared to the "Roselle's Story Collection" and "The Great Adventurer Gehrman" series, her favorite is the "The Great Pirate Angelica" series about the adventurous life of Golden Queen. She yearns for the unrestrained and free life of this female pirate who is both good and evil.
Able to break half a cliff, her flagship should be more powerful than the kingdom's latest "Dreadnought"... Tina was thinking in her heart, following Dorothy who had already left, walking towards Bayam on the soft beach.
In the minds of the two sisters, the idle "Genie" continued to instill knowledge in the field of occultism into them:
"The power that sent you to Bayam is Teleportation of 'Traveler', or it can also be called 'Travel'. This was almost the only one before Demigod The means to quickly move to any location, so this Sequence is very popular with other Beyonder, and often attends various underground trade fairs in the form of Sealed Artifact or Beyonder Characteristic.
"... This cliff is actually the traces left by the battle between two Angel and multiple Saint. Of course, the real Angel's destructive power is far more than that. They can easily destroy a city, turn the island into ruins, set off tsunamis and attract meteorites..."
"Wait, you mean 'Golden Queen' is actually Beyonder, a Angel?"
"... I didn't say that, I just said that the ship has the power of Angel."
"Is that Saint? The difference between Pirate Admiral and Pirate King is whether it is Demigod?"
"No... let's talk about other topics. For example, don't you have any doubts about why your uncle rushed from West Borough to East Borough in 10 minutes?"
With the help of some magical power, Christina and Dorothy quickly came to "City of Generosity" from the deserted beach.
This city built along the hillside is surrounded by low city walls. It is not so much for defense against foreign enemies, but just to mark the scope of the city. There is no traditional city gate here. Each street leading outside the city has its own city gate. Therefore, Tina two people followed a carriage entering the city and arrived at the business district in the center of the city.
Then they got lost.
Every street seems to be the same... Docklands should be close to the seaside, but it looks like there are several piers... Tina stood on the street that was slightly higher than the sea due to the height difference of the hillside and looked towards the seaside. He only felt that the sight was full of masts, sails, and chimneys spitting out exhaust gas. It was impossible to tell where the real "Docklands" was.
Dorothy on the side was also dazzled by the busy streets. The dark-skinned Southern Continentals, natives of the Rhoside Islands with short, slightly curly hair, and half-giants with a height of more than two meters, which were rare to see in the small city of Tingen, were all over the streets. Light two-wheeled carriages, bulky steam-powered vehicles, and even coffins carried by people kept passing by, making the scene described in the book in her mind become a reality.
This is an atmosphere that is completely different from Tingen's peaceful and restrained style and Backlund's rich-poor divide. It embraces all customs and habits and forms a unique system with complete freedom and openness.
Living here might be a good choice... Dorothy A strange idea came to her mind that was not in line with her cautious character.
After gathering her thoughts, she was about to take out "Arrodes" to divine the direction of Docklands, but she was worried about another accident where her belongings were snatched away just after arriving at Backlund East Borough, so she withdrew her hand touching her pocket, looked around, and walked towards Gentlemen, who had a fair complexion, wore a top hat, and had more three-dimensional facial features than the locals.
Her guess was correct. This man was a passenger from the North Continent who came to Bayam, and he happened to be from Loen. After a brief exchange, Dorothy got the direction of Docklands from the smiling Gentlemen.
"Actually, I can find the destination without the power of Sealed Artifact."
She walked towards Docklands with Tina, and couldn't help but speak.
Immediately, the two passed by a road sign written in the local language, Loenese, Intisian, and Dutanese, and from there they found the directions to different areas such as Docklands, the commercial district, and the administrative district.
And this kind of convenient road signs are almost everywhere on the streets, and there are them on every street corner.
No wonder the gentleman looked at me with a strange look just now. It turned out to be a look of care for an idiot... Dorothy suddenly became frustrated, and even his steps became weak.
"Xiangshu Avenue, after passing here it should be Docklands. Then we need to find the 'Azure Wind' hotel and sneak into the luxurious suite..."
After looking at the road sign on the street corner again, Tina said to Dorothy beside him.
The two of them were standing on a wide street, with houses on both sides that were independent of each other and had entrance lawns and back gardens. The styles were different, but they were all extremely luxurious. It was obviously an area where rich people lived.
But the strange thing is that it was just after noon, and other areas of Bayam were busy and noisy, but Xiangshu Avenue was deserted, like an abandoned old city.
Do you want to take a detour to the other side? But if you go straight, you will soon enter Docklands... Tina looked at the avenue that looked a bit gloomy under Sun, and hesitated a little.
At this moment, a yawning man walked out of a Intis-style building with fan-shaped brackets. He was wearing a silk shirt, with his well-developed chest muscles pushing up the fabric, and a windbreaker with a fringed waistcoat. His short blond hair and eyebrows were burnt yellow, as if burned by fire, but his blue eyes were extremely bright, which instantly attracted Tina's attention.
It turned out that someone lived here, I thought they were all haunted houses... He was quite handsome... Seeing the stranger, she was relieved, looked at him twice more, and was about to pull Dorothy through Xiangshu Avenue and into Docklands.
But the Blonde Man looked steadily in this direction. After a moment, he frowned and strode over with shining eyes. He stopped in front of Tina, squeezed out a smile and asked:
"What's wrong with you standing in front of my house?"
"We are going to Docklands and passing by this avenue," Tina had some inexplicable affection for this man and was unwilling to deceive him with lies, so he answered honestly, "But there is no one here. I... I thought it was haunted..."
Blonde Man pointed at himself with an expression of "Am I not a human being?", then looked around, and said as if he suddenly realized:
"The properties here belong to me. No one lives there, and of course no one will come over."
Does he own the whole street of property? Tina was stunned and couldn't help but start to calculate how much the handsome and wealthy man in front of him was worth Gold Pound. He was quickly shocked by the huge number and was speechless.
Her dull expression seemed to activate some kind of memory in the man's mind. The latter's face suddenly changed to Distortion, then returned to normal, and asked in an extremely gentle tone:
"Are your parents not around? Or are they nearby, but you accidentally got lost?"
Why are everyone I know and don't know today asking where my parents are? Tina muttered, shook his head and said:
"They are no longer here..."
"No more?"
Blonde Man let out a sharp blast, grabbing his not too long brown hair with his right hand, revealing an exaggerated gold ring on his hand.
"... I mean, they are not here, but my sister and I are not lost. We just want to go to Docklands to find a hotel called 'Azure Wind'."
Tina took a breath and finished what he said next.
After hearing this, the man put down the hand holding his hair and covered his chest, as if he was trying to put his heart that was beating out of his chest back into place. His expression was also extremely strange, his eyes flickered and dimmed, and finally he looked at Dorothy beside him:
"Is she your sister? Well, it does look a bit like..."
He nodded and continued as if he had made up his mind:
"I'll take you there to prevent you from being kidnapped and sold on the road. That would be a terrible thing..."
Docklands, Sour Lemon Street, "Azure Wind" hotel.
Tina As soon as the man who was half a head taller than her and walked with weird steps walked into the bar on the first floor, the originally noisy environment became quiet.
Almost all the guests who were drinking, eating, chatting and having fun sitting at the bar or at the small tables scattered around looked towards the door, and then quietly looked away one by one.
"It's 'Fire Flame'..."
"Why is he here? Didn't he go to sea East Continent?"
"Danitz is now Oracle of the 'Fool' church. Of course, he will come to this city often..."
"... But I heard that he got together with a bishop from the End Church. This is the main reason..."
The exchanges that were obviously extremely depressing but seemed to be close to her reached Tina's ears, making her unable to help but look at Blonde Man in front of her.
It turns out that his name is Danitz. Is "Fire Flame" his nickname? It's the same as Male Servant, Gehrman's personal bodyguard in "The Great Adventurer"... But unlike in the book, he is not a pirate, but Oracle from the church of "Fool"... Why are there still strange rumors of romance?
Various thoughts kept flashing through her mind, until the man known as "Fire Flame" stepped out. The heavy footsteps and his deliberate "hum" stopped the private discussions of other drinkers.
"Let's go to the luxury suite on the top floor."
He turned back to the two girls and said, then turned towards the stairs upstairs, and his somewhat embarrassed figure quickly disappeared.
As Tina followed him upstairs, a new round of discussion came from behind:
"I didn't expect that 'Blaze' would be better than this one, or two!"
"Can this kind of thing be reported to the 'Fool' church?"
"Why don't you report it to the End Church and let the bishop come to trouble him, haha!"
I always feel like I have become one of the peach rumors... Tina couldn't help but look back at the noisy bar, sighed, and followed Danitz to the third floor with Dorothy who was holding back a smile.
The corridor here is connected to four copper-clad wooden doors, which are the entrances to four luxury suites. "Lieyian" was standing at the door of one of the suites. When he saw the two people arriving, he asked:
"Which room are you looking for?"
Without waiting for Tina to ask "Genie", he opened the nearest door and murmured to himself:
"I think it's this one. This is the room they stayed in."
Dorothy is a little confused:
"Them?"
"Well, these two legends, the well-known Adventurer, the pirates who make pirates fearful, are also you..."
Danitz turned to look at the two girls, nodded and answered, but when it came to the key point, he seemed to be stuck, and he was speechless and stopped talking.
On his face, the original expression slowly changed, the corners of his mouth rose, and his eyes narrowed. Those smart blue eyes were blocked by the eyelids, and their gaze was no longer sharp.
Just like that, he laughed stupidly.
What's going on? There is a trap in this room, and Mr. "Flame" accidentally fell into it and became a fool?
Tina immediately blocked in front of Dorothy, took out Sealed Artifact from his bag and prepared to throw it directly into the room, and then decide whether to run away based on the situation, but the voice of "Genie" sounded again:
"Don't waste time. While this idiot is in a daze, put me on the single sofa by the window in the living room."
It turned out to be his fault... Tina hesitated for a moment, but decided to follow Genie's instructions and lift the third seal. She squeezed past "Blaze" Danitz by the door and entered the magnificent but Rhoside Islands-style living room. She quickly found the single sofa the other party mentioned and placed Golden Lamp on the soft cushion.
Swish——
Golden light emerged from the wick lit at the mouth of the pot, forming the familiar figure of Tina in the center of the living room.
"Very good, this is the third place. I didn't expect everything to go smoothly."
He nodded with satisfaction, and as Tina had imagined before, he put his hands on his chest and raised his head, arrogantly.
"Did you just do something to that 'Fire Flame'? He seemed to have suddenly lost his basic intelligence and turned into a fool."
Dorothy walked slowly over and asked Danitz, who was standing by the door with a silly smile.
The figure of Genie glanced in that direction disdainfully and said:
"Actually, it's none of my business... Well, it does have a little bit to do with it. This guy is carrying a Sealed Artifact that will reduce intelligence if worn for a long time, and I shortened its safety time... Of course, even so, a Saint shouldn't be affected by the negative effects of Sequence 6, which is equivalent to the '2' level Sealed Artifact. Fortunately, I happen to have some experience on how to amplify the effect of Sealed Artifact."
So that's it... wait a minute, this "Fire Flame" Danitz, Oracle of Church of the Fool is Saint? He has at least the power of Sequence 4? Tina was stunned, and several plans immediately popped up in his mind on how to escape from this place and avoid being tracked and retaliated by the powerful Beyonder later.
But looking at Danitz who smiled stupidly and seemed to have degenerated into a baby, she finally sighed and asked:
"How to remove this effect?"
"Shouldn't you take all the money in her pocket now and leave here to our next destination?" Genie's shadow looked at Tina curiously, sneered, and continued, "Okay, whatever you want, just take off the gold ring on her finger."
Ring... Tina looked at Danitz's lowered right hand, and sure enough she found an exaggerated ring on her index finger. She stepped forward and pulled off the Sealed Artifact piece that made people look like fools.