Chapter 76 024: What the Fisherman Caught
It was a cloudy day. The sky had not yet cleared up after a storm the previous night. The rolling dark clouds covered the entire sky and seemed like they would fall at any time. It was very depressing.
Early in the morning, Luo Xi was preparing materials in the room. It was about to be the first mental power assessment of the apprentices before disembarking. This assessment would be completed by him with the assistance of Wizard Karen.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
“Boom boom boom!”
Nicole, who was sitting on the sofa meditating in just a gauze nightgown, quickly hid in the bedroom. After she closed the bedroom door, Luo Xi walked over and opened it.
Standing outside the door was a little girl in her teens, one of the apprentices.
The girl had obviously run over here, she was still a little out of breath, and her little face was red.
After she calmed down for a while, she said, "Wizard Luo Xi, Wizard Karen asked you to leave quickly because he said there is something urgent."
Luo Xi nodded: "Okay, I understand."
Nicole changed her clothes and put on a cloak, and the two of them went to the deck.
There was still a thin layer of mist floating on the deck in the early morning, and the weather was a little chilly in autumn. Normally, the apprentices should be resting in their rooms at this time.
However, at this time everyone gathered on the deck, formed a circle, stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks to squeeze inside, as if there was some treasure inside.
"Wizard Roshi."
"Nico the Wizard."
Seeing Luo Xi and Nicole coming up, the apprentices saluted.
Luo Xi nodded and walked forward with Nicole. The crowd naturally parted to make way for them, allowing them to enter the center of the encirclement.
Here Luo Xi saw the wizard Karen, and Joshua was also here.
Luo Xi walked over: "Wizard Karen."
Wizard Karen turned his head, his brows furrowed, looking a little anxious.
He pointed to the deck on one side and said, "Come and take a look at this."
Luo Xi and Nicole walked over and took a look, and were immediately shocked.
But on the deck over there, there were some badly mutilated corpses lying in all directions, with broken hands, feet, body parts and other parts.
The more intact one was a girl, about the same age as the apprentices on their ship.
There are also some broken hull parts, wooden boards, etc. next to it.
Luo Xi frowned: "What is this?"
Wizard Karen said: "I caught it this morning."
“.”
Although he knew this was wrong, Luo Xi still wanted to say that the weird fisherman could really catch any weird thing. Luo Xi picked up the broken parts and looked at them, then asked, "This should be the wizard ship, right? Is there something wrong with the other ships that transport apprentices?"
Wizard Karen nodded: "That's what I think too."
Upon hearing the two's judgment, the apprentices around them immediately started to make a noise.
"ah!"
"Wizard ship, these people are also apprentices going to the wizard world..."
"how so."
Everyone was obviously frightened.
Wizard Karen frowned, turned around and scolded: "Alright, alright, don't gather here anymore, Knight Zhuo En, send the apprentices back to the cabin."
The sailor took the apprentices down and the deck soon became quiet.
Wizard Karen frowned and said to everyone: "Based on my understanding of wizard ships, if they collapse like this, I'm afraid there will be big problems."
Judging from the broken parts scattered on the deck, this wizard ship is probably completely destroyed.
You have to know that the wizard ship that transports apprentices is not an ordinary wooden sailing ship. All the materials inside it are selected from the magical world. The defensive strength alone is comparable to a solid city wall. It has also been reinforced with magic and is equipped with various defensive magic circles, offensive magic circles, etc., and each wizard ship must have at least one formal-level wizard or above.
It is no exaggeration to say that such a wizard ship is a mobile magic fortress on the sea. If it were placed in the human world, even if an entire kingdom was mobilized, it would not cause any harm at all.
However, such a powerful wizard ship is now destroyed like this, which makes everyone nervous.
Nicole asked, "Who did this?"
Wizard Karen shook his head: "It's hard to be sure for now."
The number one suspect who can possess such great power in the ocean must be the sea clan. The strength of this race that still retains the blood of ancient gods should not be underestimated. Some powerful sea creatures under the deep sea can easily destroy wizard ships.
But they are just not likely to be the murderers.
This is because a contract has been signed between wizards and the sea people. As long as they sail within the planned routes, they will not be attacked by the sea people. This is an agreement signed by the four level five wizard domains. If the sea people rashly violate it, it will directly provoke a war between wizards and the sea people.
I haven't heard of any friction between the two sides recently, and there are no disputes within the sea tribe that need to be diverted, so there should be no possibility of provoking a dispute.
But if it's not the sea creatures, then there is only one possibility left.
Luo Xi asked: "Could it be a dark wizard?"
At present, the dark wizards in the Dark Forest are undoubtedly the ones with the biggest conflict with them on the southern coast. It is said that the apprentices in that damn place are not treated as human beings at all. They just use them as experimental subjects casually, and the loss of apprentices is huge every year.
However, the human kingdoms in their witch domain are relatively rare and they are not good at management. They do not have a systematic apprentice selection mechanism like the White Witch Domain, and they can only recruit a few apprentices every year.
If you can't recruit, why not just not recruit? Isn't it easier to just rob them? This group of paranoid lunatics and psychopaths often come to the White Witch Domain to rob apprentices. Every time the White Witch Domain recruits apprentices, it is the hardest hit area. It is not the first or second time that the apprentices that have been collected with great effort have been robbed by them.
The reason why the South Coast has to arrange official-level wizards to be on board every Apprentice ship is largely to guard against this group of lunatics.
Wizard Karen nodded: "Although I can't be sure, I think it is likely to be the case."
Everyone's face changed.
Any sane white wizard would not want to encounter a black wizard, especially in such a vast ocean.
Wizard Karen then suggested: "I suggest that we don't move forward for the time being. I have arranged for the ravens to report the news to the Alliance. We will decide on the next plan after we hear back from the Alliance. What do you think?"
The decision was passed unanimously and no one had any objection.
The ship dropped anchor and waited in the sea for two days. Early in the morning of the third day, a raven came to the deck carrying a letter from the alliance.
It was indeed just as Wizard Cullen had guessed before, it was done by a dark wizard.
The letter from the alliance showed that the Dark Forest's expedition this time was on a large scale. Many wizard ships in the surrounding area had been looted by the Dark Forest, causing heavy losses.
The Alliance suggested that they should not go any further and instead stop where they are and wait. The Alliance had already arranged for high-level wizards to come and pick them up.
So Wizard Karen decisively ordered to stop the voyage and released the flock of Tutu birds in the cabin as soon as possible.
This is a strange magical creature that looks like a parrot's wings but has two pairs of bee wings. They are agile and can stay in the air continuously, making them natural aerial scouts. Wizards equip every wizard ship with them so that they can detect the surrounding situation at any time when encountering such emergencies.
Originally I just wanted to give myself a layer of insurance, but I didn't expect that this layer of insurance would actually work at the critical moment.
On the morning of the third day after the Dudu birds were released, several Dudu birds stationed in the northwest suddenly flew back quickly.
A sharp warning instantly resounded throughout the deck:
"Beep, beep, the dark wizard is coming!"
"Beep, beep, the dark wizard is coming!"
(End of this chapter)
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