Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 26 Two Believers
“They’re all dead…”
After slowly lifting the wreckage of the warship, William, with a pale green light in his eyes, muttered to himself.
From the perspective of [Life Detection], there was not even a single human figure with any breath of life to be found inside the wreckage of the entire battleship - William only saw some fish swimming around in panic.
This is not normal.
How long has it been? Even if there was a large-scale naval battle, it is impossible for the entire ship to die so easily.
Along the way, William saw many floating corpses, most of which had no obvious scars, and a large number of them had their hands covering their chests, with painful expressions on their faces.
Could it be that the instant death skill that the phantom used on him earlier, which could crush his heart out of thin air, was also a wide-area skill? And that was how everyone on the warship died?
Thinking of this, William felt a little jealous - a wide-area instant-death skill that takes effect instantly, there shouldn't be such a bad thing in this world.
But then again, if that was the case, how did these people survive?
After using storm magic to lift the broken wreckage of the warship out of the water, William turned his head to look at the small raft that was being pushed over by several tidal servants, and the several people shivering on it.
"Sir, we..."
A man on the raft stammered as if he wanted to say something, but William ignored him and ordered the Tidal Servant he summoned:
"Keep an eye on them. If they try to escape, break their arms and legs."
The bodies of the Tidal Spirits were made of a faint blue liquid. They had shark heads and human bodies, and were covered with scales. After hearing William's order, they saluted William, and then watched him walk up the steps laid out by the [Floating] magic circle, step by step, onto the wreckage of the warship floating in the air.
The girl who had almost drowned was violently coughing the water in her lungs. Because both of her hands were tied tightly to the railing at the edge of the boat, snot and tears were streaming down her lowered face.
Seeing this, William gathered the magic power in his hands, grabbed a short dagger emitting a dark blue light from the void, gently cut the knot that bound the girl's wrist, and let her down.
The moment she was put down, the girl lost her support and fell to the ground with her hands on the deck soaked with sea water. She took several deep breaths before she recovered her breath.
"Who are you?"
After a few seconds, she leaned back on the railing, pushed aside the wet hair that covered her forehead and blocked her vision, looked at William and asked.
After asking this question, she burst into coughing again, and her body trembled, revealing the bronze Holy Spirit emblem on her chest.
William was about to answer her, but after seeing the holy emblem, he fell silent again.
He recalled that the person in front of him was the girl who had stopped the black dragon he had summoned. At this moment, the holy emblem she was wearing was full of cracks, just like his response terminal after the spell was overloaded.
Thinking of some possibilities, William stopped the name "William Kane" that was about to come out of his mouth, and then he slowly opened his mouth:
"You can call me Yin Shima."
In response, the girl nodded, and then thanked him in a very sincere tone:
"Thank you, Mr. Yin Shima, for saving my life."
Then she seemed to recall something and immediately said:
"By the way, when you came here just now, did see a floating raft with..."
Before she finished asking, William raised his hand and pointed behind her.
She looked in the direction William pointed - the nearby fog was blown away by the strong wind that lifted the wreckage of the warship, so she could clearly see the raft not far below, and the four people were squatting in the middle of the raft with their backs to each other, looking like prisoners waiting to be escorted to the execution ground.
"They are all still alive. One of them was seriously injured and I gave him some simple treatment."
William said, looking at the marks on the other party's wrists, and asked casually:
"Did they tie you up here?"
The girl hesitated for a moment, then replied:
"It was done by a few of them... but it's not entirely their fault."
There was even a hint of request in her tone.
This really made William very confused.
Someone has tied you to a boat and let it sink into the sea, and you still think you can't blame them entirely?
William originally intended to ask the other party how he planned to deal with these people in order to improve the relationship between the two of them. But after hearing what the other party said, all the words he had prepared before were suddenly stuck in his throat.
He seemed to remember that in the religions of this world, there was no doctrine that required one to turn the right cheek after being slapped on the left cheek?
However, based on her answer, William was sure that the imperial warship's previous attempt to rob the Whalebone was definitely not this girl's idea.
"You are going to Ava Continent, right?"
After a few seconds of silence, William asked.
Or try another method to gain the other party's trust first...
William thought.
Having finally met a divinely inspired person who was suspected to be the Eighth Holy Spirit, he naturally would not miss the great opportunity to analyze the essence of the Eighth Holy Spirit.
In the game, the Divine Inspirer is also an optional profession. William has used the Divine Inspirer to complete the game, so he has some understanding of it.
The biggest feature of the God-inspired profession is that spells and mana bars are replaced by a unique "God Scroll" mechanism. The "God Scroll" mechanism is similar to a rune system with a combination formula - the basic power of the God-inspired is called "prayer", and each Holy Spirit has a basic set of prayers. Different prayers can produce different "blessings" through regular arrangement and combination. Players can engrave or forget different prayers on the church or altar of the Holy Spirit, and combine many different blessings in advance.
Compared to magic chanters, divine revelators are much stronger in terms of endurance because they have no restrictions on magic power. However, because the number of prayers that can be engraved in the etheric domain is limited, divine revelators are much less flexible than magic chanters.
William couldn't say whether the Eighth Holy Spirit's divine revelators were the same as he knew before. At least, the Eighth Holy Spirit's divine revelators did not worship the Holy Spirit system as a whole as in the past. If they still had the so-called "prayer" now, compared to the era when the seven great Holy Spirits had a complete "divine scroll" system, it would be difficult for the Eighth Holy Spirit to support itself.
Or is it that the current God-revelation is simply a lie?
"Yes... originally we were going to Ava..."
The girl answered.
Then she continued:
"But as you can see, something unexpected happened on the way, the ship was destroyed and everyone died... Mr. Yin Shima, excuse me for asking, are you from that group of pirates?"
"Pirates? What pirates?"
William couldn't help but ask, but before the other party was about to explain, he raised his hand to interrupt her.
Thinking back to what Captain Hobbs had said earlier about the accusation against the Imperial Navy, William understood the whole story in less than two seconds.
If the other party hadn't coveted the small amount of goods on the Whalebone, it probably wouldn't have ended up like this with the ship destroyed and people killed...
William sighed in his heart, and then said to her:
"No, I'm just a businessman who travels to Ava Island to do business. I'm not a pirate... and there aren't any pirates in this sea area."
When he heard the word "ship", the expression on the other person's face instantly brightened.
"Then, Mr. Yin Shima, can I take a trip on your ship..."
William immediately nodded and said "yes" in his heart, but a hesitant expression gradually appeared on his face.
"But you were planning to attack our ship..."
William seemed a little embarrassed.
Hearing William's words, the other party looked down at the wreckage of the warship that was lifted up by the strong wind, and said with a strange look on his face:
"Luckily the attack was unsuccessful."
As she spoke, her eyes were naturally attracted to the iron holy emblem hanging around William's neck. After discovering this breakthrough, she immediately continued:
"Mr. Yin Shima, please allow me to ask again, are you a believer of the Holy Spirit 'Hermit'?"
As she spoke, she carefully pointed to the iron plate on William’s chest.
Having grown up in the Holy Spirit Church and being influenced by it, she could tell at a glance that this Holy Spirit emblem was definitely a valuable product from the Sealed Temple, and that both the materials used and the craftsmanship used were top-notch.
The finished product of this level has little to do with the wealth and power of the holder. Ordinary shallow believers can't even think of getting this holy emblem. Only those who have close ties with the Holy Spirit Church can ask the consecrator of the Sealed Temple to bless this holy emblem with the Holy Spirit Disc at maximum power.
In other words, the person in front of him was definitely a devout believer of the Eighth Order - perhaps even a high-ranking member of the order.
Seeing William nod in affirmation, she immediately continued:
"Mr. Yin Shima, my name is Diana, maybe you have heard of her..."
Although she used the word "maybe", it was just Diana's politeness. In this era, as long as they were members of the Eighth Order, basically everyone had heard of her name.
But after hearing his name, the other party did not show any expression. He just continued to ask in the same tone as before:
"Then what? "
"Then……"
Hearing this, Diana's expression froze.
Five years ago, after she awakened her power and quelled the blood-tear plague that was prevalent in Wanren City, Storm Province, she was certified by the priests of the cult as the new divine initiator of the Eighth Holy Spirit. After that, she had become accustomed to being able to solve most problems by simply saying her name.
Although she often showed her disgust for this situation, and even asked not to receive any special treatment on board before she boarded the Imperial battleship, she still lived in the captain's single room less than two days later, with a special cook taking care of her meals.
In fact, deep down in her heart she really enjoyed this feeling.
Diana took a deep breath and said directly:
"I am going to Ava to hold a very important baptism. I hope you can let me take your ship for the rest of the journey. Afterwards, the Eighth Order will definitely thank you greatly."
As she spoke, she glanced at the Austrian iron Holy Spirit emblem hanging on the other party's chest and continued:
"The Hermit will also bring you blessings. I promise you in the name of the Holy Spirit, the Inspired One of Riel."
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"So that's why you brought them on board?"
Captain Hobbs asked with a somewhat alert expression as he looked at the four people standing behind William.
The wind that Yin Shima had left on the sails earlier allowed the Whalebone to sail a long distance as fast as an arrow shot from a bow.
Considering that the other party was about to face the most terrifying mist phantom in the legend of the high elves, and the ship had sailed so far away that even if he ran away, it would be impossible for him to get back to the ship. Everyone on the Whalebone was truly moved by the strange customer's act of sacrificing his life to save the ship.
For a moment, the crew members and sailors on the deck who originally thought that they would die here today, all gathered at the stern on their own initiative, took off their hats in the direction where the other party disappeared, and saluted Yin Shima who bravely stood up to cover their retreat at the critical moment.
After that, they had a serious discussion on how to deal with the goods that the other party had left on the ship, which were originally intended to be sold to the high elves.
That’s more than ten kilograms of refined source silver ingots, and even more refined ore!
Especially now that Blackwater Province has become independent and cut off trade with the outside world, why sell Ava Continent? If you sell this batch of goods to the Ring of Law City, won't you never have to worry about anything in your life?
But at this meeting, Captain Hobbes righteously rejected this proposal.
Their client Yin Shima had said before boarding the ship that he came to do this business because he had a friend in Ava Island who had died with him. Now that Yin Shima died , he must fulfill Yin Shima's last wish and sell this batch of source silver to Ava Island.
He would not hesitate even if it meant he would lose 30 percent of profit.
Captain Hobbs' words drew cheers from the crew, some of whom were even moved to tears, for Yin Shima's heroic act of saving them and for the old captain's noble character of keeping his word and being upright.
However, when they came to the storage room in the cabin and were about to count the stock of source silver, with a flash of lightning, the man they thought had been dead long ago suddenly came back.
