Chapter 399 Seal
Lin Qi concealed his own existence. The distance between them was far enough that the demon could not directly sense his presence, just like he could not directly discover the demon. This was a mutual process.
He stepped on the mud and sand into the sea, and swam slowly towards the north like a dormant giant crocodile.
Eugen dreamed that he was back in the Tilia Peninsula, where his journey began.
The difference is that he went back with the dwarf, who became his personal guard.
Slender elven maidens held Eugen's arms, and every king gave him words of blessing, for he became the richest man in the Old World.
Why? The brilliant dream changed rapidly, and Eugen remembered how much effort he had put in, and how he had salvaged a huge, polished gold plate.
For this he paid with the lives of a dozen hired sailors.
It doesn't matter, their lives are worthless, a voice said in a persuasive manner.
Eugen subconsciously wanted to refute the moral values of his previous life, but the rapidly changing dreams brought the bloody reality and rich rewards to the oracle.
He should leave the team early tomorrow morning, use the remaining money to rent a salvage boat, hire the best sailors, and go to Rossol Bay in the north, where the sea is unnaturally still.
He just needs to dodge the sirens' song and salvage the treasure from the bottom of the ocean.
After that, he will have enough wealth to last him ten lifetimes.
Power, status, fame, beauty... everything.
Why bother running around? He only needs one adventure to get everything.
The Sea of Claws is known for its violent nature, even the relatively peaceful Bay of Kislev is no exception.
So when Lynch discovered an area ahead where the sea was abnormally calm, he was sure that he had arrived.
It is like a piece of land suspended in a storm, and no matter how turbulent the surrounding ocean currents are, it cannot be shaken.
The still area was eerily peaceful, without even a single fish swimming around.
Lynch witnessed a school of fish rush into the still water as if possessed and disappear in the blink of an eye.
A wrecked sailboat lay quietly in the sand on the seabed, like a giant dragon with its belly cut open, with countless gold nuggets and bars leaking out of the gap.
If it were a mortal, he would have been unable to control his greed and rushed over at this time, but Lynch could see clearly that it was all an illusion. There was indeed a lot of gold, which was tightly entangled with the rusty bronze.
The largest piece is a pure gold disc in the cabin, which has a diameter of nearly three meters. It alone is enough to make an ordinary person rich enough to rival a country.
But any mortal who dares to possess it will only fall into a miserable fate.
The surface of the golden disk is engraved with complex symbols, which record the history of the disk in the language of the Lizardmen: At the beginning of the advent of the great enemy, a Slaanesh demon was captured by the priests and thrown into this prison.
It is older than the history of all human nations.
Lynch could guess that a group of gold diggers had found the golden disk from the top of the abandoned Great Pyramid.
The Lizardmen could still guess how they were being played around by the Secret Keeper. All it took was the devil's whisper in their dreams for the ship to end up like this.
Perhaps it wanted to use mortal ships to reach the Norse Peninsula and a Norse tribe that revered it, or perhaps it wanted to go to the Chaos Sea but encountered an accident along the way.
Its trick failed, otherwise Lynch would not have discovered the prisoner today, many years later.
This is a treasure. Ordinary people cannot unlock the ancient saint's secret lock on the golden plate, and it is even more impossible to destroy it violently, otherwise the devil would have escaped long ago when the gold diggers discovered the golden plate.
It has great research significance for Lynch. If he can figure out the principle of the secret lock on the golden plate, he will know how to seal the devil.
Unfortunately, Lynch is better at flexing his muscles than solving puzzles.
This matter needs to be handled by professionals.
He swam slowly to the golden plate. Only then did he sense the strong evil essence in the golden plate. Similarly, the other party also sensed his presence.
The voice in the dream told Eugen about the future soothingly. Just when Eugen was struggling to accept it, the pleasant whisper suddenly disappeared.
The dream suddenly shook, and a four-armed demon was roaring ferociously on the bottom of the sea. Eugen intuitively felt its despair and anger.
It’s like a prisoner who has been locked up for decades finally finds an opportunity to escape, but is caught by the prison guards halfway.
In the early morning, cargo ships began to arrive in Sakal Town one after another, and along with them came the strange stories and legends along the way.
All sailors who wanted to dock had mistaken a certain area of sea for land. Even though veteran sailors had warned them beforehand, many fell into the trap. Among the unlucky ones who fell into the water were even a few veteran sailors.
Some people who almost fell into the water thought they saw their relatives or friends in distress in the water, while others saw the treasures they had been longing for.
In any case, another group of drowning people fed the restless ocean.
Rumors of disease have been rampant among sailors lately, and everyone knows now that a Tilian city has become a ghost town, and the few fools who managed to escape from the city have brought the plague with them.
It is said that a ban has been issued in Marienburg, but everyone knows that the ban there is always limited to the open. The secret ports set up by countless pirate gangs have turned Marienburg into a tattered fishing net.
Experienced sailors would rather believe that Le Angoulême of Bretonnia can ban the sea than believe that there are restrictions in Marienburg - for criminals, there are no laws there, and for pirates, it is a paradise of freedom.
The officials of the City Hall Committee had lived up to the emperor's trust by not openly selling their power.
The sailors' conversation lifted the spirits of the local Sharya priests, who quickly convinced the guards.
Now every new returnee will undergo a comprehensive inspection, and once a ship is found to be potentially infected with the disease, the soldiers will take the ship to the quarantine port for a mandatory quarantine of forty days.
Lynch woke up Tigris as soon as the sky was just getting light. He ignored the resentment of those who were still asleep and left the tavern with the half-asleep mage.
The fishermen have begun to prepare to go out to sea, and Lynch thinks it is a good time to wake up his companions, although he is the only one who thinks so.
After paying three elves' silver coins, the wizard successfully rented a fishing boat, and Lynch acted as a guide in the water.
Facing the sea breeze, the fisherman, still full of doubts, sailed the boat to the edge of the sea shrouded in legends, and no matter what the elves said, he refused to move forward.
(End of this chapter)
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