Chapter 132 Rules at Sea
The great wizard mustered his strength, worked his aching brain, and thought about how to convince the prophet of the Serpent God.
Lynch did not give him a token, as if he just wanted to use a few words to get an agent of the gods to travel thousands of miles to cure him.
It's as bizarre as if the plague stopped spreading by itself! ...
In the underground sea, the two fleeing sharks shattered into a pool of blood.
Countless dead fish sank and floated in the sea water, also disintegrating into smaller existences.
The infection reached the threshold, and countless separated individuals gathered together to form a strange-looking flesh-and-blood sailboat.
It is no longer contagious because its number of offspring has reached a critical mass.
The giant sailboat hundreds of meters long chose a direction on its own and slowly sailed towards the vast ocean.
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The vast ocean is a cemetery for buried ships.
The eerie castle appeared out of nowhere on the sea cliff because it had completed its mission.
The Bloody Reaver has arrived next to the storm, and Count Noctis no longer needs to use his superb space magic to intimidate numerous powerful enemies.
Under the ever-gloomy sky, countless undead souls surrounded the castle, worshiping the master of the Ship Cemetery.
Few people know that this castle comes from the Imperial province of Sylvania.
It was an important territory of the human empire, but it was occupied by the descendants of Castain.
The Castaing family is a prestigious midnight aristocracy.
Their ancestor, Vlad von Carstein, was unique among the first generation of vampires.
Because before his identity was revealed, people once believed it to be the greatest ruler of the province of Sylvania.
Castain will always be driven by power, which is the will inherited from his ancestors.
But the rule of vampires will never last long. It will either be destroyed by the intrigues among the vampires themselves, or be overthrown by humans working together.
Count Noctilus was once the midnight noble of the Castaing family.
Tired of the endless intrigues, it took a different approach and found a nautical chart in the necromancy books that rose and fell with the ebb and flow of the winds of magic.
This was a buried genius. After a flash of inspiration, Castaing realized that if he could harness the power of navigation, the majestic magic of the ocean would be at his disposal! Through further deduction, he discovered the abnormal vortex in the center of the ocean, and worked day and night to figure out the principle of the vortex.
On a night of an evil moon, the Count used a blasphemous ritual to awaken many undead spirits, allowing them to simulate whirlpools and resonate with the whirlpools in the distant ocean.
The wind of magic that had risen due to the appearance of the evil moon was drawn to the castle. When the energy gathered into a terrifying storm, a lightning bolt that seemed to split the sky and the earth suddenly descended.
The bright light could be seen thousands of miles away, and the terrifying sound suddenly woke up the sleeping Emperor of Altdorf.
When the lightning faded, the castle disappeared, and with it the former Castaing.
The terrifying magic power teleported the fortress deep in the land to the center of the vast ocean! Now it is Count Noctis, and its palace stands on the dark and uneven sea cliffs.
The mountains of bones in the eye of the whirlpool are all its subjects! The Earl controlled the primitive magic of the whirlpool on the sea and pulled the sunken ships from all over the vast ocean here.
It is the "Curse of the Sea"! It is the master of the Ship Burial Ground! In the Ship Burial Ground, the Count is confident that he can confront any powerful spellcaster because the infinite ocean currents are supporting him.
Be it Matheran, the patron saint of elves, or Manawe, the sea god feared by humans, to the earl they are nothing more than antiques that should be swept into the dust.
Because sooner or later it will become a true, new god! It is the king who rules the vast ocean! ...
In the Plunderer Harbor, the Swordfish, carrying the "Queen of Tides" Arinasa Salty Wrath, slowly sailed towards the depths of the vast ocean.
No crew member looked back at the port, for Manawi law dictated that once out to sea one could not look back at land.
Once off land, Manawe must be revered far more than any other deity.
The captain of the Swordfish whistled softly, praying to the sea god for a smooth sea breeze.
A brisk gust of wind blew, pushing the Swordfish into Mannawe's arms.
The crew prayed to Mannawe in awe. Saltwater Grudge always received the favor of the sea god. She was the daughter of the sea god, and everyone who knew her firmly believed in this fact.
“Praise be to Mannawe, who gave us the sea breeze for our journey.
Praise be to Mannah, He gave us the waves to sail back home.
Praise be to Manavi, He who has blessed us with abundant food.
Praise Manavih, or His wrath will overwhelm us."
Mortals paid tribute to the sea god with fear and obedience. Pirates would occasionally pour beer onto the deck, being careful not to let it flow overboard.
A silver coin under the mast glittered in the sun.
The first mate threw a gold coin into the ocean, allowing it to enter the bottomless stomach of the sea god.
This was the pirates praying for good luck, they were trying to please Manawe.
A Druzy captured by the Swordfish was stripped naked by the pirates and hung on the sail.
Because according to Manawi teachings, naked women on a ship will calm the sea.
Of course, no one dared to mention another related or even contradictory precept.
Women on the ship will bring bad luck! Their captain is a woman, the daughter of the sea god Manawe.
This terrible sea god has double standards for everything at sea and is extremely fickle.
He is moody, and actions that appease Him today may anger Him tomorrow.
But the Swordfish always had good luck.
The pirates spontaneously told the story of Manawe. The god liked to hear his own stories, but of course, he was never allowed to mention the rumors of his setbacks.
The Swordfish has a new member, a fat ogre who is covered in oil.
Ezenas found a new employer.
It should have fled to the north of Lustria, but not long ago, its feet were empty and it arrived at the Isthmus of Lustria.
After descending from the sky and crushing the pirates recruited by the Swordfish, Ezenas was offered semi-forced employment.
Unfortunately, the ogre was powerless to resist the captain.
Aethenas refused his fate as a sacrifice to the sea god and willingly served his new master.
Because the Swordfish never lacked food.
Another big wave hit, and the sea water hit the deck, but the fresh school of silver fish was not carried away by the waves. This was the good luck that the Swordfish had always had.
With intuition and the favor of the sea god, Manawe's priest found the first fish that fell on the boat and threw it to Manawe as a sacrifice.
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To Teclis's surprise, he had just set foot on the ruins when he was discovered by the Skinks and led to the prosperous upper city of the Sky City.
As he moved through the ruins, the Archmage looked thoughtfully at the Skinks hidden within.
People always think that Lustria is a land of ruins. It turns out that they are wrong! (End of this chapter)
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