Ice Crown's faction:
"Gou Dan is back?" Ice Crown, Lei Xue, and the others all let out long sighs of relief when they saw the familiar battleship at the dock. After the sudden attack last time, what worried them most was Li Gou Dan, who was still drifting somewhere out at sea.
"Wahahaha! I told you I had a high status, didn't I? Look at all these people here to welcome me!" Li Gou Dan stood at the dock with a smug look on his face. The First Mate and the others, who were familiar with his personality, couldn't help but curl their lips.
"Finally, I'm back..." Wang Ye floated in the air, looking at the familiar faces on the dock. He felt a little moved, with an urgent longing to return home.
It wasn't that the sea expedition had been unpleasant. On the contrary, aside from the strange incident on the Ice Island, everything that followed along the route had been very interesting, especially after reaching the Western Islands.
The customs and cultures of the different islands were fascinating, and he had enjoyed himself immensely. He had even begun to like this life of exploration. Still, that didn't stop him from urgently wanting to come back.
There were two reasons. First, he had reached the bottleneck of taking humanoid form. Without the guidance of an elf mentor, he had never managed to complete the transformation. He had long yearned to possess a body as equal as Gou Dan's, and desperately wanted to take humanoid form instead of being treated like a mascot by everyone on the ship every day.
Especially the newly boarded mages. Every one of them looked at him with utter curiosity, as if they couldn't wait to drag him away and dissect him to examine his