Not until he left the Black Pearl and rowed a small boat toward the island where the Golden Dream was anchored did Sifa stop thinking about the earlier "missing person commission."
Danitz and the others were discussing it as well. For the first time ever, he and Jodson were having a lively conversation.
"Captain, that guy wasn't from the Southern and Northern Continents, was he? I've never seen anyone who looked like that!" Danitz sounded excited, as though he had already cast aside his disappointment over failing to buy the potion formula.
Sitting in the small boat, Edwina looked like a beautiful statue beneath the crimson moonlight. She exuded an air of intellectual beauty as she nodded gently. "It's also my first time seeing someone of that race. It's strange. Where did he come from?"
Edwina might be connected to the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom. Her knowledge was astonishingly vast. If even she did not know where that person named "Li Rui" or "Lin Rui" had come from, then it was highly likely that this world—or rather, the people of the Southern and Northern Continents—had yet to discover the existence of other continents.
Perhaps I could become the Columbus of the world of Lord of Mysteries someday?
As Sifa let his thoughts wander, gunshots suddenly rang out across the sea, making him and the others turn toward the sound.
Several points of light appeared on the dark sea in the distance, like the glow of storm lanterns.
Then came faint voices and the sounds of someone falling into the water. A moment later, Sifa heard furious splashing as someone desperately swam toward them.
"Help!"
"Help!"
The moment Sifa heard that voice, he immediately recalled the gathering participant who seemed to be connected to an Artisan—the one