213 Drifting Part 2 (1/2)
”You don’t know?” Lex asked. ”Then why did you give her sixty thousand gold coins? Do you know how many Caucasus people that could feed?”
”She deserved it, just like how we split the items in god’s hell,” Saleen retaliated.
”In addition to hunting, the main source of food for Caucasus people are potato biscuits. One kilogram of white potatoes there goes for one copper coin. Together with wood flour, almost two kilograms of it can be made. Wood flour is worth even less, so one can get almost two thousand kilograms of food with one and a half gold coins. The money that you have sent over will be enough for her village to survive for years.”
”What’s the use of saying all this? We’re two thousand miles away from the coast. We still don’t know if we’ll be able to make it back.”
”With me, what are you afraid of?”
”Don’t think I don’t know. With a grade-6 mage’s magic chords and the speed with which you fly, you might not be able to make the journey back. There are magic beasts that fly in the air as well. If you meet with any, you can only wait to fall into the sea. It’s hard enough just for you to fly back alone. With me, haha…”
”Since I dared to come out to sea, what makes you think that I don’t have my ways?” Lex said nonchalantly.
With that, hope sprouted in Saleen’s heart. Everything he had done thus far had been a result of following orders, and in his rush, he had forgotten that as the head of a country, how could Lex have come out to sea without an escape plan?
”What is it?” Saleen could not hold himself back, asking Lex.
”I have an alchemy drawing which we can use to create a special boat. If we can find a small island and create a lab on it, I can even create a magic compass and we can make our way back to Alchemy City directly.”
”Can I take a look?” Saleen was not good at alchemy but had a good eye for materials.
”The drawing is enormous and I cannot spread it out. Our problem now is this boat is too small. If a storm appears, there is a high chance we will die. Creating a ship isn’t as simple as asking Daniel to create bone equipment. Saleen, when the sun rises, we will follow the seabirds and hope to see land.”
As Saleen listened to Lex, he suddenly rolled over and pressed his ears to the floor of the boat. He did not utilize any of his senses but instead listened quietly to the water flowing beneath. There were too many powerful magic beasts in the sea, and if he used his senses, it would anger any magic beast that did not originally have the intention of attacking. Saleen heard a strange noise within the water flow and felt an enormous presence approaching from beneath the surface of the water.
”Watch out!” Saleen sprung up from the floor, but it was Nailisi who had pushed him away. From beneath the boat, a thick tentacle tore a hole in the floor of the boat and curled towards Saleen.
In midair, Saleen instantly cast an ice plate armor and a water shield, adding them onto his body. The thick tentacle was thicker than a barrel, and Sika, who had been steering, threw out her boomerang. With a swooshing sound, it sliced the tentacle apart, causing blue blood to spew all over. Seawater started rushing into the boat and the injured tentacle twisted, causing the gaping hole to widen and water to rush in even quicker.
”It’s an octopus!” Daniel was instantly awoken from his sleep. Seeing the thick tentacle, his face turned pale.
An octopus was a magic beast that was incredibly difficult to deal with as it was incredibly intelligent and had immense powers and a strong body. There had been recounts of an enormous octopus dragging an entire navy vessel down into the sea before. His skeleton puppet would be useless against such a magic beast, and seeing the tentacle twisting within the cabin, Daniel was the first to run out.
At the front of the deck, one of the puppets was still rowing while the other was resting, Dozens of tentacles extended from the sea and trapped the puppets on the deck. The wood exploded with a loud noise as the fully constructed puppets were forced into the deck. They were not mutated puppets, and without Lex’s commands, they could only carry out simple actions according to the orders they were given.
Daniel saw the puppets trapped and summoned his courage and released his death flames. Among the flames, nine different sized skeleton puppets floated within.
”Go!” Daniel pointed with his finger and a skeleton puppet emerged from the death flames, expanding to a height of over five meters and pouncing into the water.
Ka, ka…
The entire boat had been wrapped in the octopus’ tentacles and the tentacles contracted, attempting to crush the boat. Saleen knew they could not stay on the boat any longer and released an ice bomb which landed directly on the gaping hole where the tentacle had come from.
The tentacle was frozen to the deck, but in less than three seconds, the layer of ice on the surface of the tentacles had broken. Saleen took this opportunity to jump from the boat.
”Lex, watch from the top!” As he finished speaking, Saleen landed in the water.
He followed behind the skeleton puppet and looked at the giant octopus that was attacking the boat. Beneath the night sky, it seemed like a pitch-black shadow with its eight massive tentacles wrapping around the boat. It had lumps growing all over its enormous face and there were eyes all over its head which emitted a blue light. There were at least thirty of them altogether.
This magic beast had perfect eyesight, and despite the fact that he had hid behind the giant skeleton puppet, it had still spotted Saleen.