Chapter 179 Arriving at the Door
"Illustrated book, what illustrated book?" Alka turned around and asked curiously.
“It’s a collection of illustrations of all kinds of strange creatures. You need to simulate these creatures anyway, so you need to capture them, dissect them, and even observe their habits.
After the simulation, you can experience the abilities of these creatures firsthand, and we record these abilities, the appearance of these monsters, and some of their habits.
How is it? Isn’t it interesting? "
Hearing Lucilia's suggestion, Alka couldn't help but rub his chin and finally nodded.
He was quite interested because he also had a small notebook to record the creatures he had simulated.
Now I am just putting more effort into organizing it into a book.
"No problem. How about calling it Monster Manual? It only records those weird and rare creatures."
"No problem, let's do it. Now get out your booklet and we'll rewrite it. I know you have it. I saw you wrote it."
Arka nodded after hearing Lucilia's words, and the two of them went directly to the small table next to the observation room and began to write.
Xia Daiti next to him shook his head helplessly, stood at the window, and began to look at the surrounding situation, taking out a telescope from time to time to look around.
Then he looked at the huge compass next to it.
This huge compass is connected to the detection spell group of the Voice of Dawn, and creatures of a certain size swept by the waves will be reflected on it.
Be better alert to the presence of enemies.
The entire observation room became quiet, with only the occasional sound of raindrops hitting the glass and bursts of thunder.
There were also occasional sounds of communication between the two of them.
Not long after, the thunder disappeared, the raindrops gradually became thinner, and the surging sea surface began to calm down.
The sky began to clear up and the surrounding sea became clear.
"The rain has stopped." Xia Daiti said as he took out a telescope and looked at the small island in the distance.
At this time, they were less than 1 kilometer away from the island and could clearly see the ships around the island.
The two people who were writing in the illustrated book put away their things and came to the window.
Looking at the situation around the island.
The island is not big. In comparison, it is only slightly larger than Golden Wheat Island.
But the entire island was filled with boats, and there were at least twenty or thirty of them when I counted them.
And none of these ships are ordinary ships, as can be seen from their appearance and the patterns on their flags.
They were at least mid-to-low level spell ships, and Alka even saw several pirate ships with black sails among them.
But they all docked their boats together peacefully.
"Let's go down and inform everyone."
Lucelia suggested, sitting on Alka's shoulder.
The two nodded, and Xia Daiti climbed down the stairs.
As for Alka, a mirror mask appeared on his face, and then his hands were wrapped in broken mirror solution and turned into a pair of huge wings.
The wings are white, and the tips of the tail feathers are light blue. Each feather is extremely broad, and the hands have turned into wings, each of which is larger than Alka's entire body.
It flapped its wings twice and jumped down. After flapping its wings in the air and gliding around twice, it landed steadily on the deck.
Lucilia also slid down from Alka's head and sat on his shoulders.
Xia Daiti, who had not yet started to climb down, looked at the two people's behavior and curled his lips helplessly.
I had no choice but to climb down the stairs obediently.
After landing, Alka retracted the mask and turned his wings into hands.
These wings come from a kind of bird that can travel long distances on the sea. Most of the time, it relies on its huge wings and the sea breeze to glide, and only occasionally flaps its wings to fly.
It was because of this that Alka imitated their wings.
If the wind is strong enough, Alka can fly medium distances by falling from a height and going with the wind.
It can be regarded as one of his gains during this period.
However, this is not a rare animal and is quite common in the ocean.
Arka waved his hand after reaching the deck, and a clear bell rang out.
After a while, everyone came out from their rooms.
At this time, you can already see the islands in the distance while standing on the deck.
"We're almost there. Didn't expect there to be so many people? Are they also going to leave Home Island?"
Jason leaned on the railing beside the boat, looking at the scene in the distance, and couldn't help asking.
Alka came beside him and nodded upon hearing his question.
"There is a 16-year gap between this time and the last time they met. In 16 years, the Home Sea is so big. Only 20 or 30 ships are considered few."
Alka said, at least that's what he thought.
The Home Sea is already big enough. Even if there is no continent but only islands, the population will not be too large. However, in the past ten years or so, only twenty or thirty ships have wanted to leave here.
In fact, it should be considered as less.
As the distance gets closer.
The real gate appeared before their eyes.
They were two huge stone pillars, standing between the rocky cliffs where the sea was surging.
Each stone pillar is hundreds of meters high, reaching straight into the sky. Huge spells are engraved on the pillars, glowing slightly in the wind and rain.
I hadn't noticed such a large building from a distance before. Why? But I saw it when I got closer.
There must be some spell that blocks vision, so you need to be within a certain range to be able to see clearly.
There are no reefs between the two huge stone pillars, but all around them, extending far into the distance, there are various huge reefs built to block ordinary ships from leaving.
Through the surroundings and next to the two pillars, you can see that there is a violent storm behind these reefs.
Even between the stone pillars, the storm was sweeping, and there were even lightning bolts of purple, blue and black interwoven together, striking continuously.
The space was distorted and weird, and even cracks appeared from time to time.
Who would dare to pass by such a scenery?
"Is that the door leading to the outside?"
Alka looked at the scenery in front of him and murmured to himself, "This is really spectacular. Those two stone pillars are simply a wonder."
Xiadaiti looked at Lucilia on his shoulder and Julia beside him.
I couldn't help but ask, "You two came through an environment like this?"
The two of them were still a little frightened. They were in an unconscious state when they passed through such an environment.
Now that I have witnessed it with my own eyes, I cannot even imagine that I have ever been through such an environment and survived safely.
At this time, the sound of dawn had slowly arrived at the island.
The entire island is light black, including the mud and rocks on it. There are almost no plants on it. It looks bare as far as the eye can see.
As the island was small and surrounded by large ships, Alka and his crew could not find an area to anchor after circling the island.
We had no choice but to dock the boat outside on the sea and drop the anchor.
Not only them, there were several other ships on the surrounding sea that should be the same as theirs and were traveling back and forth.
These ships are of various types, showing their true colors, and all have a faint magical fluctuation.
Xiadaiti looked at the ships.
Jason pointed to a ship not far away that was painted black and red. The sails were crimson like flames, and there was an emblem of a flaming lava hand on it.
"Is that the Burning Blood Hand Hunting Group?"
Hearing this question, Alka turned his head, and Xiadaiti next to him also answered: "Yes, it should be the Burning Blood Hand."
There is a big difference between the so-called hunting group and the treasure hunting group. They can be regarded as sea mercenaries or adventure groups.
The only difference between them and the adventure group is that they accept missions regardless of food or drink.
He accepts bodyguard missions and assassination missions. As long as the money is paid, it is not impossible to attack some official forces.
However, the range of their activities is in the north of the Home Sea, which is too far away from where Alka and the others are.
This resulted in Alka never even hearing about it, except for people like Xiadaiti and Jason, who used to be in a position to collect information in the treasure hunting team and would pay attention to it.
The reason why it is so famous is because this hunting group has treasures.
Almost all teams that can become famous have this characteristic.
"That's the Ahara family, the icon of the sun scepter." Jason said as he discovered another familiar icon.
Alka looked and saw that it was a huge ship that was over 50 meters in size. The overall color of the ship was gold and it looked magnificent.
Listening to the simple answers of the two, this is a family-based force, similar to the Frost Bloodline 800 years ago.
The two of them kept answering questions for everyone about some of the more well-known forces within these teams.
There are as many as eight forces of this kind that can be named, so you can imagine the power of these forces that want to leave their home sea.
"Do they want to leave here too? If so, those famous teams that suddenly disappeared in the past may have also left this sea area."
Looking at these teams, Xia Daiti suddenly thought of something and said.
There are always some well-known teams that suddenly disappear in the ocean. When I didn’t understand it before, I thought they just encountered an accident or disbanded.
Now it seems that most of them have left this sea area.
After all, any well-known group that can be named can be described as powerful, but the Virgin Mary's home sea suppresses their strength.
When they have ambitions, they will naturally think about leaving .
The man also nodded slightly in agreement.
And these forces that can be named, without exception, are because they possess treasures.
Not to mention that there are some relatively low-key teams among these teams, such as Alka and his team.
It can be said that this is where the most famous and powerful part of the Sea of Homes has gathered in recent decades.
Those who are powerful always have more ambitions than others.
While Alka and the others were observing others.
These forces that had been waiting here earlier were also observing this team that they had never seen before.
"Golden pupil compass? Which force's emblem is this?"
"I don't know. There is no record. Maybe it's a team from some remote rural area."
"No, it's impossible. That ship is very new. It was obviously just manufactured in the shipyard. Moreover, the magic response of that ship is not low."
These conditions all indicate that the ship is powerful and was built by a well-known shipyard.
Then the team that controls this ship should not be underestimated.
The same communication was heard on many ships.
"That's the style of the Notre Dame Church's shipyard, right? Don't they not build ships for the public?"
"Maybe it's someone Notre Dame Church thinks highly of, or maybe it's teammates under Notre Dame Church. It's possible."
"There are only a few members on that ship. Are they elite soldiers? They look like a treasure hunting group."
Alka and his team had just arrived here for a short while, and their background and situation had already been seen through by those teams.
The teams that can come here and go into the unknown are all those with both strength and wisdom.
Adequate preparations had been made in advance.
And they are all experienced people who have sailed on the sea for a long time, and can learn a lot of information just by appearance.
"Are we going to the island?" Jason asked, looking at the island not far away.
Alka shook his head beside him: "No, we will wait here and make sufficient preparations."
They had just made a detour and took a general look at the current situation of the island.
Many crew members chose to live on the boat all the time, and some people set up simple rest tents on the island.
You can even see an open space on the island where these people have a simple market organized spontaneously.
But it is very small and very simple.
In preparation for this trip, they almost spent all their gold sails.
The supplies on the ship are also very important and it is impossible to exchange them. There is no point in going to the island.
After all, everyone has made sufficient preparations when coming here.
Just wait quietly in the last month.
This is also the choice of most people.
After all, where they were going was unknown.
In this way, the Voice of Dawn stopped in the waters outside the island, quietly waiting for the final time to arrive.
…
During this last month of waiting.
Alka had been staying in his manufacturing hall, preparing to complete the puppet construction of Lucilia's body before entering the Infinite Ocean.
He did just that at this time.
In the manufacturing hall, Alka's precise hands continued to emit light.
In a basket nearby, there were many puppets piled up.
There are all kinds of models, and at a glance there are at least dozens of them.
Lucelia's dolls are placed on top of these puppets, and she makes clothes based on them.
There was even a small box nearby, filled with all sorts of sewing tools shrunken down to fit Lucelia.
There is also a drawing next to the doll, which is filled with various clothing designs.
From the signature in the lower left corner of the design drawing, we can see that this is Xia Daiti’s masterpiece.
She does more than just draw maps.
The reason why Lucelia did this was because after a period of testing, it was clear that a puppet using flesh and blood could not transform into clothes.
Lucilia has to prepare this herself, of course, Xia Daiti will also help with the preparations.
At this time, another puppet flew in a parabola from where Alka was and fell into the pile of puppets.
It hit Lucelia's side.
Hearing the sound, Lucelia just turned her head to look, as if she was already used to it, and turned her head back to concentrate on the sewing work in her hands.
These puppets that were thrown to her were actually already capable of being used by her, but Alka inexplicably had a sense of perfection in her own creations.
He cannot accept some major flaws, so he has been making small changes and repairs.
This also indicates that the last part of the puppet has already been completed, and Alka is now doing the finishing work.
He could still be heard mumbling to himself.
"No, no, pearls are not suitable for eyes. They need special magic diamonds."
After saying this, Alka turned the ring in his pocket, trying to find the right material for him.
When he found the right material, he controlled his precision hands and accurately placed two magic diamonds on the puppet's eyes.
The puppet shook noticeably twice, and the flesh and blood hidden inside its body began to wriggle.
However, the puppet's heart has been changed. It is no longer a heart of flesh and blood, but has become an energy core with carefully arranged spells.
This technique came from Bobby and Jamie, and Alka had learned it secretly in the cathedral.
Looking at the puppet in front of him, Alka extended his magic tentacles and began to carefully inspect its inside and outside.
Only after the process was completed did Alka finally smile and wipe the sweat from his face with his sleeve.
He raised the puppet in his hand and couldn't help laughing out loud.
"It's done, Lucilia, come here quickly, this puppet is perfect, come and try it, quickly, quickly."
In response to Alka's urging, Lucilia threw what she was holding onto the puppet pile and rushed over with a few jumps.
