Chapter 313 - Travel Through The Sea (2/2)

Even the port itself was just a single catwalk leading about forty meters into the sea!

At this very moment, I suddenly felt ashamed.

Here I was, worrying about the untimely arrival of the overlord, while this entire place screamed poverty! Even with how rich this island was with energy, if someone had no access to various craftsmen and alchemists, not to speak about fellow cultivators, there was no way he could grow a formidable, personal strength!

Even if this overlord was stronger than anyone else on the island, that didn't mean he was a threat to me!

With how small this settlement was, moving past it took us only a while. It could be caused by a sudden increase in the speed of the paddling by the men as well, which could serve as a good point of reference for me. If they were still scared of the overlord despite being at the open sea and after being subjected to my rule, I could use this fear as the leverage when I come back to this island!

As the ideas of changing my appearance and hiding my power to play around the local population popped in my mind, we finally moved past the part of the island that obstructed my home from the view.

Worried about the different currents that I didn't encounter yet, I instantly paddled on my right, turning the front of the bout around, pushing our future road almost into the shore of the island!

At first, there was no problems at all, but as we finally left the local's island behind and took course directly at the now barren island of mine, I could feel something changing behind my back.

Turning my head around, I saw the faces of the men already turned white, as they stared at our destination.

”Is something wrong?”

”Eee… Ah, since you are not from this place, you might not know… But the island in front of us is called a 'Gods Grace' as the changes occurring on it tend to reflect what will soon happen to our home as well! From what the overlord told us, it's the same for all the tribes of all the nearby islands! This place is also the reason why everyone hates travelling through the water in our place. As the island closest to our, many people tried to reach it, but after hundreds of brave people being eaten alive by the leviathan that guards the domain of the gods… Trying to reach this place turned into a taboo!”

That was an interesting piece of news! But as much as it piqued my curiosity, I couldn't help but worry about a single part of the information.

”You said something about the changes, would you like to elaborate a bit?”

If something was periodically happening on this island, I had to know this in advance to prepare myself for potential trouble! The eruption of a volcano? Flood? Massive beast extinction? Or maybe people with the system were appearing in this place every once in a while, always teleporting to this island and using parasitic seed to conquer its energy?

Just a simple question, but it proved once again that this world was far more complicated than I expected!