Chapter 551 Gate of the Skull
The ship is not a small object, especially in terms of appearance, it is a large warship, and it is impossible to transport it in from the passage.
And it cannot be a creation of dwarves. The shape is far different. The shape is actually not much different from the warships used by the demons today. Considering the degree of decay, it is likely that it was stranded here in the last 100 to 300 years.
Alday's curiosity was immediately piqued.
Of course, curiosity is curiosity, and caution must be exercised.
The three of them clung to the edge of the beach and moved deeper. Because whether it was dark vision spells or natural dark vision abilities, the limit of their field of vision was far inferior to the distance under normal light. In their field of vision, more than thirty It's pitch black just a few meters away, so you have to be extra careful when moving so as not to make any noise.
Just like this, the three of them finally moved to the stranded battleship.
Aldai gently stroked the rotten wooden planks of the battleship with her fingers, shook her staff, and shot out a secret eye to connect with her optic nerve.
The Secret Eye flew above the battleship like an aerial drone, clearly capturing the entire ship.
The stern of this ship seemed to have been smashed by something. It might have been a monster in the sea. Very obvious tear marks could be seen. They were definitely not caused by decay. Perhaps this was the reason why it ran aground here.
Except for the tail, all parts were well preserved. Aldai could vaguely make out that 'Skull Gate' was written in paint under the moss on the other side of the ship's side.
Wait, Skullgate?
Aldai knew this place. She controlled her secret eye to fly in the direction of the mast, and finally saw some decayed black cloth at the top of the mast.
That's the Jolly Roger.
Zola watched the darkness around her vigilantly, leaned close to Aldai and asked in a low voice:
"Miss Aldai, did you find anything?"
"It's quite a big discovery. It's a pity that this place cannot be announced, otherwise it will definitely make the scholars in the entire academic city go crazy."
Aldee covered one eye. Although her voice was also low, she could not hide her excited tone at all.
"This ship is the Skull Gate, the vehicle of the legendary pirate Secles."
As mentioned before, the map of the Demon Realm is like cutting an egg in half with a knife. The larger piece is divided among the seven Demon Kingdoms, while the smaller piece hangs alone overseas.
The Gate of Skull is the name of a place in the isolated overseas area.
Compared with the mainland that has been occupied by civilization, there are still a large number of monsters and savage primitive tribes on the isolated overseas islands, but they produce many high-quality resources and attract a large number of gold diggers and colonists.
Among them, Circles is the most famous.
Serkles, whose origin is unknown, had become a refugee due to the war. When he was struggling to make a living in a coastal city, he was forcibly recruited as a sailor by the navy of the Demon Kingdom of Tandelon.
Later, during an operation to exterminate pirates, he became a prisoner of pirates. Since he was a civilian and had no relatives, naturally no one would pay the ransom, so he became a pirate.
It is unclear what happened to him during his time as a pirate. What is certain is that it took him ten years to go from a sailor on a pirate ship to a pirate leader.
It is equivalent to the company's cleaning staff becoming the chairman of the board.
This man was ruthless and cunning. He not only tricked the navy who came to encircle him, but also annexed several pirate groups little by little, forming a huge force that even the official power was afraid of.
Later, in order to facilitate supplies, he also felt that there was no future in being a pirate all his life, so he used the looted treasures to build a city called Skull Harbor, transforming himself from a pirate leader to a legal city lord.
When Serkles was sixty years old, perhaps because he felt that he still belonged to the sea, he suddenly gave up the position of city lord to his son and led his flagship to leave the Port of Skull. No one knows where he went. Some say he was assassinated by a conspiracy shortly after he set sail. Others say he found a staggeringly huge treasure and eventually died in the treasure together with his crew. In short, there are no rumors. have.
This was about a hundred and fifty years ago, and in terms of the degree of corruption of the ship, it was just right.
Why did a pirate ship that belonged to a legendary pirate and sailed on the sea end up in the ruins underground?
This is no longer a place that can be reached simply by sailing, this ruins is in a demiplane!
And what exactly is it that makes this legendary pirate leave the place where he has been running for half his life and take only his flagship ship to look for?
Aldai, it’s on fire again!
"Come with me, let's go up and see if there are any logbooks or anything like that."
Any secret has value in unlocking it. The difference lies in the value. Aldai can't wait to see what the legendary pirate will be like in the end.
But at this moment, a splash of water broke into the ears of the three of them, like a basin of cold water poured on Aldai's face, making her calm down instantly.
The movement sounded like something coming out of the water.
Aldai immediately let go of the hand covering her eyes, quickly made two spell-casting gestures, and cast the invisible magic ball again, putting the three people under invisible protection.
Then, she covered one eye again and searched the surroundings with the arcane eye flying above.
The arcane eye has arcane vision, night vision and the ability to see through illusions. In addition, it can fly in the sky, which is really useful for investigation.
She found the source of the sound without any effort at all.
Several humanoid things emerged from the water and walked step by step towards the shore. At first, Aldai thought they were undead creatures such as fish-men or drowned water ghosts, but after zooming in on the vision of the arcane eye, she was allowed to see Qing, those are actually sea hags.
Hags are fey creatures, but there are many subspecies.
The most common one is actually the green hag. She looks like a typical old witch, with a big and long nose full of blisters. Her seemingly skinny body is actually very tall, and her physical strength is enough to tear apart tigers and leopards.
The sea hag is a relatively rare type. From its name, it can be seen that this kind of monster mainly lives on the coast or near water sources.
Different from other hags, sea hags have bluish-white skin, like those who have been drowned and soaked in the water for a long time, and their hair looks like a combination of aquatic plants and kelp. When they swim underwater, they look very different from the surface of the sea. It's hard to tell whether it's a clump of seaweed or a sea hag.
This kind of ugly creature still has the evil nature of hags. They hate all the beautiful things in the world and will destroy beautiful creations like crazy.
Let's put it this way, if the three Aldai stood in front of the hag, the hag would go crazy out of jealousy of their beauty.
——I have a sense of déjà vu.
But having said that, hags are difficult opponents for most ordinary people, but compared with Alde, there is no comparison, not to mention that the sea hag is the weakest type among the hags.
By visual inspection, there were four or five sea hags crawling out from the water, which was almost exactly the number of hags gathered in one hag gathering. With these hags, under the firepower output of the high-level mage, they were considered awesome if they could withstand two rounds.
But then again, why the hags appear here is actually something that people care more about than how good they are at fighting.
(End of chapter)