Following Helene to the deck, Angel's eyes were immediately attracted by a thick fog directly in front of the ship.
It was Friday afternoon. The originally cloudless sea was shrouded in hot sunshine, and the air was humid and sultry. However, a group of dark clouds that were different from the blue sky floated in the direction of "Red Haired Woman". Below, a piece of fog enveloped the sea. The size happened to be the same as the dark clouds. It seemed that it was "confined" by some force within a certain range and would not leak out, but it would not miss any vacancy.
According to visual inspection, the ship is still about 10 nautical miles away from the thick fog and dark clouds. Even if the view at sea is excellent, it is impossible to see through the fog and see whether there is the island Angel is looking for inside.
"Slow down and don't dive in head first."
Angel frowned and said to Helene beside him.
After finding the sea shrouded in fog, she was not in a hurry to explore. After all, according to experience, the place with Sequence 3 Potion materials was likely to have Beyonder Creature at the Demigod level. If "Red Haired Woman" entered the fog without being prepared, it might be attacked and the entire army would be annihilated.
"The wind speed is not fast, we are already slowing down, and we expect to reach the edge of the fog in an hour."
Helene replied, but still ordered the Sailors who were also looking forward to lower part of the sail and slow down the ship.
Immediately, Angel found Siren YuYu in a corner of the deck, struggling to avoid the scorching sun.
This Siren, whose body surface is covered with scales and whose lower body was originally fish-tail-shaped, has transformed into a humanoid with limbs and gills hidden under the ears after leaving the sea water. It wears a burqa to isolate the sun and prevent the body surface from drying out. The beautiful platinum-blonde long hair is scattered around the hood like dazzling tassels.
Seeing Demoness who had "cheated" her onto the ship, Siren's eyes lit up. His bare feet, still with some scales, slapped on the deck, and he ran over quickly and hugged Angel.
"Okay, YuYu," Angel touched the head of Siren, who has a child-like mind, "Can you feel anything unusual in the sea ahead?"
"I didn't find the enemy." Siren replied slowly in a chattering tone. His blue eyes looked into the fog, and after a moment he shook his head, "But it's very quiet inside, and there are no fish."
Does it mean that even ordinary sea creatures have bypassed the thick fog? Does this mean there is some kind of special danger, or does it hide the power of "Fountain of Youth" and also isolate the entire sea area?
Angel conducted a simple divination while thinking, but it failed due to lack of information.
She then found Witch Tia who pointed out this location. The latter was holding a monocular telescope borrowed from William and looking at the fog in the distance from high on the deck. After Angel asked, he replied with some confusion:
"This is the sea area that I saw in the information. Now I have indeed found the location covered by dark clouds and fog. The next step is of course to go in and take a look... I think the island may be deep in the fog, right?"
That's right... Angel looked hesitantly at the approaching dense fog. After a moment, he made a decision and asked Helene to stop "Red Haired Woman" completely, about 5 nautical miles away from the sea area.
From this distance, we can more clearly see the size of the foggy area. The width is only about 3 nautical miles, which is similar to the size of the islands that can be seen near general waterways. This also means that the island where "Fountain of Youth" is located deep in the fog will not be very large.
But even if he got close to the fog, Angel's sight still couldn't penetrate the area that didn't look dim, and even somewhat translucent.
This lack of information made her very anxious, and she even wanted to send a Magic Mirror into the fog, and use her connection with the mirror to directly see what dangers and secrets there were in the fog...
Thinking this, her eyes lit up and she looked at "YuYu" hiding in the dark.
A moment later, Siren, who took off her burqa and was covered with blue scales again, jumped into the sea holding a dressing mirror. Her feet quickly turned into forked fish tails and gradually joined together to form a tail that could swim flexibly underwater. The gills on both sides of her cheeks also continuously obtained oxygen from the seawater, allowing her to swim to the foggy area much faster than the ship.
With the Magic Mirror in her hand, Angel can also observe the surrounding waters from different angles. She can even hide in Mirror World and come to Siren at any time to fight or protect her "scouts". She can even pull her into the mirror and return to the "Red Haired Woman" number.
As the viewpoint continued to advance, she found that the surrounding fish schools were indeed decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Soon, an invisible barrier appeared that seemed to separate the normal sea area from the "forbidden zone" of marine life. The fish schools turned here, but no one dared to cross it.
Above it lies the dividing line between the sunlit sea and the misty region shrouded in dark clouds.
Siren "YuYu" looked around uneasily, hugged the dressing mirror on his chest tightly, swayed his tail, wandered around the "dividing line" for several times, and finally plunged in.
As the mirror passed through the invisible barrier, the surrounding seawater suddenly changed from azure to deep blue and almost black, as if it suddenly entered the deep sea.
Angel on the "Red Haired Woman" also received the information sent back by Magic Mirror. She looked warily at the seemingly unchanged fog in front of the ship, ready to come to Siren through Mirror Substitution at any time.
But nothing happened.
There was no abnormality in that sea area except that it was covered by thick fog and dark clouds overhead and lost sunlight and became dim.
No monster attacks, no islands suddenly appearing...
After a while, Siren followed Angel's order before setting off and surfaced. While slapping the sea surface with its tail, Magic Mirror was held high, so that Demoness in the distance could use the mirror as eyes to observe the surrounding situation.
The fog, as far as the eye can see, is nothing but fog, and even Dark Vision cannot penetrate it.
Faint sounds can also reach Angel's ears through Magic Mirror, but this sea area is as quiet as dead, with no sea breeze and no waves. Except for a little wave when Siren swims, there are only a few sounds made by her breathing through the gills and nostrils of the fish.
For the next half hour, Angel followed Siren and "YuYu" around the foggy area, sometimes diving into the sea and sometimes emerging from the water. However, apart from the fog and empty sea water, no useful clues were found.
"But this fog cannot be formed naturally. Its characteristic of repelling marine life obviously means the role of some kind of force. It's just that I haven't broken through its barrier and seen the truth hidden in the fog..."
Angel murmured, watching Siren climb up the side of the ship with the help of Sailors, return to the deck, stand naked without shame, watch Helene drive Sailor away, and push " YuYu" dried her hair, put a burqa on her, watched Tia curiously step forward to ask about everything he saw in the mist, and watched Siren hemming and hawing about his "adventures" with an unskilled Loenese.
"Helene!" She shouted, calling the red-haired captain to her side, "Five Sea Miles stop the ship outside the fog, let the Sailors rest for the night, and enter the fog to explore tomorrow."
Now that she has arrived at the edge of the fog, Angel is not in a hurry to go in and explore. After all, "Fountain of Youth" has existed for a long time and has not changed due to her arrival. Then she is happy to rest for a night and let the entire ship enter it in the best condition to explore the unknown sea.
Moreover, in this week's Tarot Club, "Moon" Emlyn has helped her collect the blood of nine centenarians to make up for her missing Potion material.
As long as she finds "Fountain of Youth", gets the dead branches next to the spring, and adds the "Unaging" Demoness characteristics that Goddess Church gave her, she can deploy Potion and be promoted to Sequence 3.
Of course, the premise is that I have indeed completed the "ritual" required by Potion, that is, after a long period of time, I will accept the results of "Unaging" with a different mentality than my body...
Watching the Fog Sea domain where the dark clouds kept changing and even a bolt of lightning fell, Angel silently prayed to Goddess.
"Boom——"
A silvery white electric light emerged from the tip of "Word of the Sea" in Leonard's hand, crossed an irregular path in the air, and landed on "Witch" in front of him.
He deliberately lowered the power so as not to destroy the entire building and affect nearby people.
But even so, the electric light continued to spread on the opponent's body, wrapping it like electric claws, causing the body under the cloak to Distortion, deform...
Then it turned into shining shards of mirror.
Mirror Substitution... Leonard, who had fought against "Assassin" Pathway many times, was not surprised. Rather, his attack was aimed at consuming the opponent's substitute.
He quickly communicated with the nearby Spirit Body as "Soul Assurer", and found the location where "Witch" appeared under the warning of Spirituality. He kicked open the door from the living room to the back alley, and saw the figure at the sewer entrance not far away.
Staring in the direction the other party left, the green color of Leonard's eyes spread to the whites of his eyes, as deep as a lake in the forest. An invisible wave centered on him quickly spread to the entire alley, poured into the sewer, and caught up with the fleeing "Witch".
Plop——
The faint sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was heard, but it was not accompanied by the sound of rapid footsteps.
Witch entered a sweet dream again.
Leonard He breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes returned to normal, and he quickly ran towards the entrance of the sewer. His sight was not blocked by the darkness and he looked down. The woman wearing a hood and cloak was lying motionless next to the vertical ladder.
If I didn't have "Word of the Sea" to destroy her invisibility and create her stand-in, if I was just "Nightmare" of Sequence 7 and couldn't quickly make Dream Invasion, I'm afraid she would really have escaped...
Leonard muttered, jumping directly into the entrance of the sewer, landing next to Witch with steady steps, holding a cane in one hand and ready to attack at any time, and reaching out to the opponent with the other hand.
He wanted to make this Witch fall into a deeper dream state through close contact, and then take her back to the church and lock her into "Chanis Gate" for subsequent interrogation.
Of course, for the sake of safety, some official Beyonder, especially "Mandated Punishers" of Church of Storms, prefer to kill those wild Beyonder who dare to resist on the spot to avoid accidents during the escort process, but Leonard does not belong to this category of people.
Besides, the people this Witch killed were gang leaders and wild Beyonder who were carrying murder cases, not the most heinous ones.
With thoughts in his mind, Leonard's hand touched the dirty cloak and felt the heat from the red gloves on his fingertips.
Wait, heat?
Leonard's Spirituality screamed sharply and issued a warning. He ignored the dirty sewer and rolled on the spot. At the same time, he activated the ability of "Word of the Sea" to make a ball of water larger than a human appear between him and Witch.
Boom——
The entire cloak emitted a dazzling orange light, and the gushing flames and hot air instantly filled the entire sewer, and even drilled out of the upper exit, exploding a small mushroom cloud in the alley.
"Witch" underneath it exploded!