The cold sea water instantly submerged Klein and soaked through his golden-red dress, making it as heavy as a stone, dragging his body downward rapidly.

But at the same time, the "creeping hunger" also ate the pirate, reducing the weight of a whole person.

Klein did not try to float up, but continued to sink. He vaguely heard several splashes coming from afar through the waves. It seemed that the pirates who had passed by the "sailor" were chasing him relentlessly.

This is their home ground!

They can move around here like fish for a long time!

Klein did not panic. As a magician who never performed without preparation, he had certainly considered the evacuation plan in the event of a failed operation. After all, nothing is 100% successful.

In order to best play the role of Elaine and avoid being discovered by "Lieutenant General of Disease" Tracy, he not only did not bring other magical items and wallet cash, but even the talismans related to the water and wind fields that he had just made were thrown into the gray fog. However, this would not hinder his performance. The trinity of gods, followers, and believers allowed him to have many wonderful operations to deal with similar situations.

He quickly turned the Creeping Hunger pale and then stained it with a dark green, and the surrounding sea water froze and turned into layers of white frost.

Before the white frost completely solidified into ice crystals, Klein moved the butterfly muscles on his back and suddenly opened his arms to both sides. He used the power of the "zombie" to break the frost and made it fly back into the sea farther away.

In this way, there was temporarily a small space around him where there was no sea water.

The water instantly surged back to fill the gap. Klein stretched out his left palm and released the terrible chill again, which spread over and created walls of sea water and ice.

For a brief moment, he seemed to be in an ice prison in the sea. He was able to stand and speak, but was confined to a very small space.

Klein immediately took four small steps counterclockwise, chanted the names of Blessings and Infinite Heavenly Venerable, and quickly let his spirit body enter the gray fog.

As soon as his figure appeared on the high-back chair of The Fool, he directly picked up the Scepter of Poseidon that had been placed in front of him.

Without the need to identify, Klein thought and selected the light spot that symbolized the new "Sea God" believer Gehrman Sparrow. Following the connection established in advance, he raised the milky white short staff and made the blue-green "gems" bloom with a hazy glow.

He responded to the "believers" by applying layer upon layer of spell-like effects to himself, including but not limited to underwater breathing, free movement, and resistance to pressure.

Finally, he used paper angels to interfere with divination and issued orders to the underwater creatures in the surrounding seas, asking them to help and cover Gehrman Sparrow's escape.

After doing all this, Klein did not delay and immediately returned to the real world and regained control of his body.

At this time, the pressure of the sea water has broken through the melting ice wall and swallowed up the "independent" space again.

But Klein was able to breathe smoothly and swim quickly.

Through the rippling and crystal clear water, he saw sea fish swimming towards him, a shadow rising from under his feet, and a huge monster of unknown kind floating up at high speed.

It was a brown-red octopus with a somewhat strange appearance, so large that it seemed able to embrace and entangle the entire ship with its tentacles.

It spewed ink all around, instantly dyeing the nearby sea black. Several "sailors" who were searching for and chasing the attackers suddenly felt their eyes go dark and their bodies become paralyzed.

They didn't know what was going on and immediately surfaced to deal with the abnormalities on their bodies.

When they dived again and searched for the enemy again, they had completely lost track of Klein.

At this moment, Klein was swimming comfortably on the seafloor. He even had time to reflect on his actions and review his gains and losses.

"She was fully prepared to play the role of Elaine, so Tracy, who had slept with her in bed for countless nights, was unable to detect it immediately, which accelerated the digestion of the potion.

"During the process, I also overcame my psychological barriers and found a mental state that allowed me to both integrate and detach myself, which was extremely helpful in digesting the potion.

“I did my best in the battle, and it was a well-prepared performance. However, I still underestimated the strength of a Sequence 5 Witch of Pain, and the experience of a Vice Admiral of Disease who had reached this level step by step. Even if she had lost her magical item at the beginning, it would be difficult to kill her quickly with my current strength and the Sealed Item, unless I used the Scepter of Poseidon... but this was in the waters of the Rorsted Archipelago.

"Today's battle clearly shows that I am still missing a powerful offensive magical item..."

Faced with the fact that the operation failed, Klein was undoubtedly a little disappointed, but he was not depressed because things were not over yet. He planned to write to Mr. Azik to see if he was interested in ancient documents related to the god of death and whether he had time to come over.

Before leaving the captain's room, Klein snapped his fingers and set fire to the men's suit he had just changed out of in the cloakroom, as well as his own hair and dandruff. On the surface, this seemed to leave no trace, but in reality it was a cover-up and deception.

What he wanted to conceal was the hair and buttons that were secretly thrown into certain rooms after entering the cabin and no one would notice them.

When Vice Admiral Disease Tracy was misled into thinking that the attacker was afraid of exposing her identity and being cursed from afar, and carefully erased all traces of herself, it became difficult for her to get the pirates to seriously check whether there were any similar remains.

With those hairs and buttons, Klein could use divination to locate the location of the Black Death within a certain period of time. In this way, as long as Mr. Azik expressed his wish, he could lead him to quickly find Vice Admiral Disease Tracy.

Alas, I originally thought that I could succeed on my own without Mr. Azik’s help, but I was still a little short of it... Klein sighed, feeling that his self-esteem was somewhat hurt.

This was one of the reasons why he did not ask the big guys for help right from the start. Another reason was that he could not be completely sure that Tracy had mastered the ancient documents related to the god of death. If she really did not have them, it would be quite embarrassing to let Mr. Azik make a wasted trip. Moreover, he was worried that even with the assistance of Mr. Azik, in order to find the Black Death and "Vice Admiral of Disease" Tracy, he would still have to transform into Elaine's appearance, put on her clothes, and use himself as bait to carry out the action.

This is so embarrassing in front of acquaintances!

"In fact, if we were not trying to obtain intelligence, but simply wanted to eliminate Vice Admiral Disease Tracy, things would be much simpler. I would just swim back to Bayam, go above the gray fog, and use the locked position to create a storm with the Scepter of Poseidon...

"This doesn't mean that a large-scale attack will definitely kill Tracy on the spot, but it will attract the attention of 'Sea King' Yann Cotman. At that time, the whereabouts of the Black Death will be exposed under the eyes of the Storm Church... 'Sea King' is happy to get the 'Disease Girl'..."

Klein shook his head in self-mockery and swam quickly towards the coastline, following the guidance of the fortune teller's spiritual intuition.

…………

On the Black Death, Tracy removed all her defenses, walked to the diamond-studded bracelet in her blood-stained tattered shirt, and bent down to pick it up.

"A very cautious attacker. During my time as an assassin, I was perhaps not as good as her. No, he..." Tracy suddenly gritted her teeth.

This was not only because she almost died at his hands, but also because she felt that he was having an affair with Elaine.

According to Emperor Roselle, she suspected that there was something green on her head.

"Elaine, are you really so cold-blooded and heartless? No, maybe, maybe she was forced." Tracy turned her head to look at the huge and hideous wound on her left shoulder, feeling the piercing pain.

If it weren't for the fact that both "Assassin" and "Instigator" had enhanced their physical fitness, and had a certain improvement afterwards, this one blow alone might have caused her to lose her entire shoulder, just like those pirates who were hit by rifles.

The blood flowed, dyeing her vision red. Tracy asked the blonde maid to come in and use her own abilities to help her treat her injuries. At the same time, she ordered the pirates who were unable to take their eyes off the scene to search for the items left behind by the attackers.

Unfortunately, the pirates told her that the other party's clothes had burned themselves.

This reminded Tracy of the snap of her fingers before the enemy left, and she sighed again:

“How cautious.

"And he's not greedy at all. If he takes this bracelet, I won't worry about not being able to catch up with him."

Tracy waved her hand, signaling most of the pirates to leave, leaving only the "Warning Wordsman" Mithor King and several senior members of the fleet.

“Third mate, go to Bayam again and find out where the rebels found this Elaine.” Tracy ordered in a deep voice.

Mithor withdrew his gaze from the captain's chest with difficulty:

"OK!"

Tracy thought for a moment and added:

“Publicize this, saying that I was seriously injured and would not be able to recover for a long time.

"Also, first mate, set sail immediately and don't stay here any longer."

As commands were issued one after another, Tracy's surroundings soon returned to silence.

Until this moment, she finally had time to think about where the attacker came from, why he wanted to attack her, and what his purpose was...

However, the more Tracy thought about it, the more she felt that it was like a fog and she couldn't see the truth at all. Although she had many enemies, none of them had similar abilities.

Finally, she found a clue and whispered to herself:

"Creeping hunger?"

…………

Midnight, at the private port of Blue Mountain Island.

A female figure suddenly stood up in the receding and surging sea water. It was Klein, who was still dressed as Elaine.

Surrounded by the sea, he quickly came ashore and sneaked into a nearby fisherman's house. He found a set of tattered clothes to change into and transformed back into Gehrman Sparrow.

Leaving the valuable dress as compensation, Klein quickly left the private port and returned to Bayam, the City of Generosity, before dawn.

He was not in a hurry to meet up with Danitz, but randomly found a small hotel to stay in. He used the ritual to bring the Azik copper whistle and other magical items and the cash in the wallet back to the real world.

After confirming that he could divine the location of the Black Death, he blew the whistle.

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