Riding the gryphon and flying back to the deck, Aaron dismissed his mount, half-knelt on the deck and took a deep breath. Although he didn't fight the enemy just now, Aaron felt that after this encounter, he spent a lot more energy than when he had to deal with a Naga in three or two times before.
"Haha, boy, didn't you realize it yourself? I thought you had improved. It seems that I had too high expectations for you." Xal'atath's voice sounded again, and his words were still full of unabashed ridicule.
"What did you notice?" Aaron muttered, then closed his eyes and recalled the experience of the sudden attack on the Naga witches. With Xal'atath's physique, when he recalled dodging Naga's fishing net attacks, he suddenly noticed something was wrong.
You must know that it may be a compensation for sacrificing IQ. In terms of strength, male Nagas are much stronger than ordinary humans, and they are also very skilled in using fishing nets. Since they chose to attack Aaron, it means that those Nagas are sure to net Aaron. However, Aaron did not feel that it was very effortless when dodging.
Looking back now, Aaron suddenly realized that he could be more frightening. It was not that Nagas were not good at learning, but that his reaction became much quicker after he noticed Nagas' movements. In other words, in Aaron's view, it was Nagas' movements that had slowed down a lot.
"That feeling..." Aaron thought about it carefully and realized that the state just now was completely different from the feeling when Xal'atath took over his body.
If Aaron could spontaneously control himself to enter that state, he would even have the confidence to challenge Zul'jin again. However, no matter how much Aaron thought about it, he could not remember how he entered that state.
Aaron could only remember that he was staring at the fishing nets thrown by Naga extremely attentively, and murmured, "Does it mean that I need to be focused enough? Then should I find someone to learn meditation?"
"Aaron, look, those Naga have escaped!" Aaron closed his eyes and meditated for a short time before being interrupted by Vereesa. The young ranger excitedly pointed at the escaped monsters outside the ship's side and said.
Aaron followed Vereesa's instructions and looked over, and saw that the male Naga broke away from the battle one after another, quickly dived under the sea surface to escape, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Aaron looked up and found that the dark clouds in the sky had gradually dispersed, revealing the clear sky behind the clouds. The howling wind that had been lingering around the ship gradually calmed down.
It seems that the Naga witch should be the commander of this group of Naga. As soon as she died, these low-intelligence male Naga were immediately killed by the sailors because they had no command. The fear in the remaining Naga's hearts took over and they immediately ran away.
Feeling the sun shine through the clouds and shine on him, Aaron couldn't help but stretched out comfortably, and then climbed up from the deck, with a relaxed smile on his face.
"We're safe!" The sailors who realized what happened raised their weapons high and cheered in voices with different accents. For a while, the deck was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
"Boys, raise the sail, let's move on!" After the sailors cheered and celebrated for a while, the old captain announced loudly in a loud voice, and the sailors ran back to their posts excitedly.
Not long after, the merchant ship took advantage of the sea breeze and continued to move in the direction of Broken Isles along its original route. The sailors who were lucky to have escaped the disaster sang their own songs to celebrate that they had survived the test of the sea again.
After walking around the deck, the old captain inspected the work of his men, came to the deck, and bowed respectfully to Tidesages: "Friar, thank you for protecting us."
The old man waved his hand, pointed at Aaron and said, "I just did a small job, you have to thank these two young people properly.
After finishing speaking, Tidesages slowly walked back to his room holding his staff.
Seeing the old man walking back to the room, the old captain turned to look at Aaron and Vereesa, expressed his gratitude to them, and escaped from his pocket with a money bag that looked familiar to Aaron. He handed it out to the two of them, and said with a smile that it was not appropriate for him to hold the money anymore, and that he would return it to them.
Just as Aaron was about to reach out and take it, Vereesa had already taken the purse and put it on himself with a smile on his face, leaving Aaron hanging his hand in the air with a little embarrassment, neither extending it nor taking it back, which was extremely embarrassing.
"Haha, Mr. Aaron, I really didn't realize that you are still a distinguished mage. This time we can successfully get rid of those Nagas thanks to your magical spell." The old captain saw Aaron's embarrassment, and took the initiative to reach out and shake Aaron's hand in mid-air, and thanked Aaron by the way.
After getting rid of the group of Nagas, the ship encountered no more danger. According to the well-informed tide sage, the group of Nagas who attacked the ship were not specifically focused on the ship. The old man guessed that the group of Nagas were a group of wandering fish herders who usually chased fish in search of pastures with rich seagrass, but they would also grab a handful of human ships passing by.
"After the leader of the Naga was injured, the other Naga probably dispersed, and no other Naga will appear in this sea area for a while." The old man named Fannar opened an ancient book depicting the images of Naga and pointed to a picture above, and said to Aaron.
Since that cooperation to solve the problem of Naga Thundercaller, the relationship between Aaron and Vereesa has become much closer to the elderly. They usually get bored floating on the sea, so they have no choice but to get together and tell stories and chat to pass the boring sailing life.
Tidesages, who was born in Kul Tiras, claims to have started making a living at sea when he was very young. Later, he joined Tidesages and stayed at sea for a long time, accumulating a lot of knowledge about the ocean. Coupled with the inheritance of Tidesagess, at least in the sea area east of Maelstrom, there is really nothing that the elderly know nothing about.
"So that Naga is their leader?" Vereesa asked doubtfully, "I thought he was just an accompanying mage."
Fannar laughed and explained, "Unlike the races on land, women in the Naga ethnic group are in the dominant position. The men in Naga all have the same stupid look we saw that day, and they are not suitable to be the leader of the ethnic group."
"Oh, that's it." Vereesa nodded. No wonder she had this question. On Eastern Kingdoms, whether they are human elves or dwarfs, men are basically the leaders of the group. Although women's status is not low, men still have the advantage.
"I heard from the Goblins that there is a group of ethnic groups very similar to High Elf on the other side of the sea. It seems that only women exist in their ethnic groups." Fannar said. The Kul Tiras people built their country on trade, but they often interacted with the Goblins, and even learned some stories about the distant world from those cunning little men.
Listening to Fannar's narration, Vereesa seemed to have remembered something. "I seem to have seen similar records in the Silvermoon City library, but because of the age, those records are very vague and they read like legends."
"Legend... Haha, the mortal race is indeed forgetful. In just a few generations, both hatred and glory will be forgotten." Xal'atath mocked at the right time.
Although her audience is only Aaron, Xal'atath is still complaining endlessly, and she doesn't know where her fun lies.
Over this period of time, Aaron has developed the ability to filter out Xal'atath's complaints. It does not affect his normal chatting, but Xal'atath feels a little annoyed.
Three days later, in the morning, Aaron was woken up by the excited pilot's loud voice. "We've seen land, we're almost there!"
After seven days of sea voyage, the ship finally arrived at Broken Isles.