Echoes of the Shipwreck Graveyard

Xia Lin searched the corpse for a moment before finally recovering his ring.

The silver ring was still stained with a little blood. It was the [Ring of Splendor] Linor had given him earlier.

"Tsk."

He carefully wiped it on the dead pirate's clothes, then held it up for inspection.

The band had clearly been stretched wider. What had once fit perfectly now hung loose.

"You even stretched my ring out," Xia Lin muttered. "That guy's fingers were like sausages----"

He tried putting it back on, and sure enough, it was far too loose. With a sigh, he stored it in his Space Bag, intending to find a craftsman to resize it later.

He took a small black pebble from his pocket. It was the casting medium Sera had given him, an obsidian fragment imbued with her power.

According to Sera, as long as both parties held matching stones, they could communicate telepathically one-on-one within a range of ten kilometers.

Xia Lin clenched the stone and called his companion's name in his mind.

"Sera? Can you hear me?"

"----Bzzz----Lin? You----bzzz----"

A broken voice sounded in his mind, like the static of a radio with poor reception.

"This damn place has terrible signal," Xia Lin said with a frown. "How are things on your end?"

"----Going smoothly----bzzz----on the island----bzzz----soon----"

Though most of it had been drowned out by static, Xia Lin still caught the key words. It seemed Sera and the others were making good progress on the island.

Everything was proceeding according to plan.

Their appearance at this pirate hideout had been part of a plan to turn the tables.

After learning of Sotowa's scheme to kill with a borrowed blade through Little Shadow's eavesdropping, Xia Lin had immediately devised this counterattack.

It was not only to eliminate the Frostfang