"You want to see the ferryman? What for? Listen to me, that old skeleton is hideous. You'll have nightmares if you see him!"
Ryder brandished his sword, using exaggerated body language to express to Su Xi the ugliness of the ferryman.
"I'm going to find Arnos," Su Xi said, frowning slightly but remaining calm.
"Arnos? Who is Arnos...?"
"Arnos the Bronze Dragon King".
"...Oh, so it's that bronze-colored lizard." Ryder suddenly realized, then crossed his two skeletal arms and said, "How about you beg me to make this old man happy, and I'll lend you the Ship Calling Flute?"
"..."
Su Xi rubbed her fists and said coldly, "It seems we need to have a fight."
"Tch, even if I gave you a two-handed handicap, you still couldn't beat me!"
Enraged, Su Xi jumped up and punched Ryder in the nose, sending his skull flying.
This guy was still underestimating Su Xi's strength, and now look what happened, his head has been smashed off.
A little while later.
Ryder cried out pitifully, "Stop! Stop! Don't fight anymore, I surrender! I surrender!"
Su Xi stopped when she heard Ryder begging for mercy.
This guy always treated her like a little girl, and even when he hit her, he didn't fight back, which made Su Xi feel a little embarrassed to use her full strength.
"Alright, can I borrow your Ship Calling Flute now?"
"Sigh, girls these days are so rough," Lord Ryder shook his head and said.
Then he took out a dark gray flute.
He blew the flute with force, and a sound filled with an eerie quality spread in all directions.
In the blink of an eye, the two appeared on the shore.
Moreover, this doesn't seem to be the coast of Hurricane City; I wonder where it is.
The black seawater surged, waves crashed onto the shore, and the surrounding environment was very dark.
It felt like playing a horror game.
As everyone knows, in horror games, without turning on a flashlight, you're nearsighted within one meter, severely nearsighted within three meters, and blind beyond three meters. Su Xi is looking at the sea right now, and that's exactly what's happening.
Su Xi wasn't surprised that a giant octopus might burst out at any moment and tell her about its faith.
After waiting for a while, a bamboo raft moved steadily forward on the surging waves. The skeleton standing on it was wearing a hemp shoulder draped over his shoulders, a straw raincoat and hat, and was pushing the raft forward with a long bamboo pole in his hand.
Near.
"Ryder, aren't you going to wait?"
"We've waited for hundreds of years, never mind." Ryder waved his hand and said, then turned to Su Xi and said respectfully, "Let's go, my princess, the bamboo raft you requested has arrived."
Su Xi looked at the owner of the bamboo raft and asked, "Can you take me to find Arnos?"
Yarman tilted his head, looked at the location of Su Xi Station, and stared blankly for a long time.
Until Ryder said impatiently, "That little girl asked if she could ride in your boat to find that bronze lizard!"
Yarman stood there for a long while before slowly nodding without saying a word.
Su Xi walked onto the bamboo raft after a moment of thought.
Once on the bamboo raft, Ryder stopped acting like a brat and sat down very calmly, holding his sword.
They traveled in silence, Yarman supporting the bamboo raft on the sunless sea, with only the sound of the tide in his ears.
"Don't be curious about what's underwater."
Su Xi turned her gaze away from the sea; she thought she had just seen Miriam...
What's underwater?
Ryder shook his head and didn't say anything.
Soon, the bamboo raft arrived at a small island. The island was very small and had only one broken spatial rift on it.
"Arnos is inside. If you're looking for him, go in."
After Yarman finished speaking, Su Xi blinked and was immediately kicked off the ship. When she looked at the sea again, they had already disappeared.
"Strange, what on earth is this place that Elysia set up..."
Su Xi muttered something and turned to leave.
Clang.
?
A sword was washed ashore on the beach.
"Isn't this Ryder's sword?"
"Hi!" The snow-white sword suddenly drew itself from its sheath, startling Su Xi.
Thump!
Su Xi accidentally threw it into the sea.
Ryder's sword flew back with a loud shout, "Hey, is this how you treat an old man? I at least let you ride the Boat of the Dead for free!"
"Wasn't your skeleton taken away? What happened to you?"
"Haha, that's what I used to trick Yarman, otherwise why would he let you get off halfway?" Ryder laughed.
"What's the meaning?"
"Yalman's ships carry the dead. He will not refuse anyone's request to carry them, but he will only take you to the World of the Dead."
The World of the Dead...
It seems that Elysia didn't mention this, and neither did Is. Did they just assume I wouldn't be in any trouble?
Su Xi's eyebrows twitched, a feeling of unease creeping over her.
Especially after seeing Miriam's appearance just now...
What would happen if you went to the World of the Dead?
"What else can you do? Don't you know Herl Emperor? Going to the world of the dead is going to see Him."
Su Xi: "..."
"Sorry, I wasted your opportunity."
"What opportunity?"
"Didn't you want me to take a boat so I wouldn't have to wait for someone anymore?"
"Haha, I'm not waiting for a living person. Oh well, I'm too lazy to talk to you. Let's go in quickly," Ryder said impatiently.
Although the Ryder Sword Saint is a bit strange, there's really no need to dwell on these issues right now; the World Tree Fragment are more important.
He took Ryder and stepped into the spatial rift.
The scene inside was incredibly surreal; some things became extremely short, while others became extremely long. The multicolored light twisted into strange patterns, and the floor beneath one's feet was made of fragments of space.
Upon entering, Su Xi activated two skills: [Soul Split] and [Dimensional Avatar: Nymph].
After Nymph Avatar reached the legendary level, the effects of her skills were greatly enhanced. Now, Su Xi's task is to stay behind and deal with that 'future self,' while Nymph goes deep into the world to rescue the Dragon King Arnos. If she can't rescue him, she will only take the World Tree Fragment.
Anyway, Su Xi felt that she had no chance of winning against her 'future self'.
However, Elysia said that this is a lucky mission, so rescuing Dragon King Arnos shouldn't be too difficult.
Nymph nodded to Su Xi, then activated the [Anti-Cognition System] and entered stealth mode.
"What is that? Your clone? A doll?" Baby Ryder's curiosity kicked in, and he asked all sorts of questions.
Su Xi: "As a sword saint of the human race, you can't even see this?"
"Well..."
Su Xi didn't know if he recognized the talent of [Soul Split], but she didn't want to explain, so she let Ryder guess for himself.
"Haha, of course I know. I'm a well-informed swordsman. I was just asking you to test your proficiency with your abilities!"
Ha, what a stubborn old man.
Su Xi ignored Ryder and headed straight along the path of the space fragments.
Soon, the environment of the space changed.
As the starry sky appeared, the fragments of space beneath her feet transformed into massive stones imprisoning starlight. Traces of light extended outward from Su Xi's feet, leading into the depths of the starry sky.
"What lies beyond the path of light...?"