Chapter 706 – A Border with a Strange Atmosphere

Chapter 706 – The Border of Weird Atmosphere

Along with the shadows in the Spirit World rapidly fading from the surroundings of the Lost Country ship, the sea that was originally dark gradually returned to the azure blue of normal conditions, and the light of the sky in the real world and the mists that wandered around the ship shrouded the entire sea.

Nina ran from the room to the deck, and soon spotted the strange ship that was wrapped in ghostly green flames, almost in pieces, not far in front of the Lost Country.

The ship that had been destroyed by the big explosion and was now entirely powered by spiritual flames was slowly slowing down, but still sailing forward, and in the direction that its bow was pointing, was the “border” that had once appeared in the textbooks, but was only seen for the first time today.

The magnificent wall of dense fog that reached the sky and the sea, like a waterfall of clouds pouring down from the top of the giant wall, turning into a thin mist that filled the entire sea, in front of it, everything appeared to be small – even if she had already followed the Lost Country ship to see a lot of unbelievable things, Nina could not help but widen her eyes at this time, and then issued a long Exclaimed, “Wow ah–“

Shirley also ran out at this time, grasping the guardrail on the ship’s side to look into the distance, and exclaimed together with Nina, “Wow ah–“

As soon as the words fell from her side, she heard Dog’s voice coming quietly from the shadows, “That’s why you’re told to read more books in general, but if you have a bit more vocabulary, you won’t just go ‘wowah’ after seeing such a magnificent curtain at the border… …”

Shirley glared at that, “Didn’t Nina go ‘wahhh’ too? Why don’t you talk about her?”

Dog jumped out of the shadows, shaking his head as he casually mumbled, “Nina ‘wowed’ because she thought it was the right word to put here, you ‘wowed’ because that’s the only word you know, you two are different ……”

Listening to Dog’s chanting, Shirley then indignantly puffed up her face and perked up, “I …… I have a lot of vocabulary, I have so many auxiliary words of tone, isn’t that what the captain and Master Morris won’t let me use! To let me speak openly, I ……”

But Dog was no longer paying attention to her, the ferocious-looking Phantom Hound had become more and more cautious after arriving at the border, and he looked around as if sensing the scents coming from the other dimensions for a few moments before grunting, “…… It’s not quite the same here as it was in the Safe Seas! …… There are unstable scents everywhere, and while it is clearly in the reality dimension, I can faintly smell the spirit world ……”

“This is the border, and it’s only the most insignificant part of the border’s countless bizarre and dangerous characteristics,” accompanied by a streak of colorful paper circling around, Lucrecia’s voice came out, “Here, the ‘reality’ boundaries become blurred, and all those ‘things’ …… that are suppressed in safe waters become active, the probability of machines getting evil is high, books attract more and more dangerous peepers, much of the ship becomes susceptible to activate, and at some point, especially if the ship and some unseen ‘field’ accidentally overlap, these dangers multiply.”

She sauntered to the edge of the deck, gazing out at the thick fog in the distance, and continued softly in thought and remembrance-

“So there will hardly be a few sane explorers who come here to the frontier to ‘take their chances’ …… There is no honor or riches here, only cold and bizarre environments and a dangerous and horrifying destiny, and the very few who dare to set foot The few ‘madmen’ who dared to set foot here summarized some ‘codes of conduct’ unique to the border, such as not carrying any idols or portraits with human features on board, not shouting in the fog, not staying in front of mirrors for too long, and so on and so forth. ……

“But these rules and taboos only minimize the risks to a certain extent, and there are still seasoned explorers who disappear into the mists near the border, who forget where they are when the fog starts to rise, who push open a door in their cabin that doesn’t exist, and who even think, in a trance, that they’ve completed a thrilling and lengthy exploration of the border and returned to the city-state where they landed, with no problem. Their taut nerves relaxed and they finally stepped onto the solid ground of the dock with a sigh of relief – and so into the thick fog of the border, leaving only the empty ghost ship drifting on this great sea.”

Shirley’s eyes grew wide as she listened to the “Witch of the Sea” describe these strange and horrific things, and finally subconsciously shivered: “I …… f*ck…. . this sounds a bit scary ……”

“Yes, it’s scary, so under normal circumstances, people like you who have no experience in frontier exploration shouldn’t even go near these waters – but you still don’t have to worry about it, because this is the Lost Country ship, and you’re part of the Lost Country fleet.”

Lucrecia smiled faintly, looking out over the ocean and speaking nonchalantly.

“Father and this ship …… are not what I remember them to be, and if it were the Lost Country now, I’m sure that even if any ‘thing’ did get mixed up in the ship and opened the door to your rooms, it would politely apologize , and would have closed the door on their way out ……”

As soon as she spoke, a voice suddenly came from the side, “Normally speaking, they don’t have the chance to close the door and apologize.”

Lucrecia looked back and saw that Duncan had come onto the deck at some point.

“Just now, Vanna received a psychic communication, the Deep Sea Church’s ‘Tidal Wave’ has already come to the nearby waters and will soon show up, and the Death Church’s two main ships are also in the vicinity, and they’re sending out a small scout boat to go ahead and confirm the situation in the surrounding waters.”

Lucrecia nodded, “That’s good, we need to figure out what’s going on around here – the Church fleet that patrols the borders all year round is a bit more specialized than us in that regard.”

Duncan let out a “hmmm” and did not say anything else, but only controlled the Lost Country to gradually draw closer to the large ship that was “leading the way” in front of him, and beside the Lost Country, the Bright Star had also already left the spirit world, and accompanied the voyage in an unhurried manner.

Ten minutes later, the Lost Country ship and the Bright Star ship came to the vicinity of the large, fragmented ship, maintaining a uniform speed and cruising slowly. Perhaps because they were closer to the “Curtain”, the fog on the sea surface appeared to be a little denser than just now, and the layers and layers of fog floated in all directions like a flowing veil, and even the ghostly green flames escaping from the Lost Country’s surroundings couldn’t completely disperse the fog.

At Duncan’s command, the three ships stopped before the fog became even thicker.

“Let’s wait until after the rendezvous before we continue on,” Duncan glanced over the bow deck of the Lost Country at the foggy sea in the distance, “Light the lights first.”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the “guide ship” at the very front.

With a snap of his fingers, the green flame burning on that large ship was suddenly strengthened, and the blazing spirit fire instantly expanded and rose up like an explosion, and released a light that was enough to penetrate the mist!

A “lighthouse” constructed entirely by the spirit fire rose up in the mist-shrouded border sea, the light shed by the flame shone fiercely over the entire sea, and where that light shrouded, on the sea surface near the three ships, the mist finally showed signs of dissipating slightly, and visibility was restored a little bit.

Vanna and Maurice also came to the deck, the latter is now curiously observing the sea surface near the ship’s side, he saw that the color of the sea seems to be a little more dense than outside the fog, the dark blue sea water looks quite calm, just with the breeze there is a little undulation – and that undulation looks quite strange, it looks slow, sticky, just like It was as if …… the entire sea was a layer of sticky, smooth grease that lacked surface detail.

Vanna frowned as she gazed at the surface of the sea, which gave off an intensely weird and suspicious feeling, and after a moment’s hesitation, she fumbled for a small wooden amulet from her body – a wave amulet carved from hibiscus wood – and threw it out to sea.

The talisman, symbolizing the faith and enchanting power of the Storm Goddess, landed on the slimy, sluggish layer of the sea and bounced as if it had landed on solid ground, not stirring up any ripples or sinking in the waters.

It just stayed on that layer of sticky and sluggish “water”, and after several seconds, it was suddenly colored with a layer of inky blue by the surrounding seawater, and silently “melted” inside the water.

Vanna looked at this inexperienced scene with some dismay.

In her ears, however, the gentle sound of the waves surfaced, as it always did.

As bizarre as the process seemed, the power of the goddess Gemona descended as usual – in these abnormal waters, the storm goddess’s augmentation could still take effect.

It even …… seemed to take effect a little faster?
Just then, Vanna seemed to suddenly sense something again and looked up at the foggy sea in the distance.

And almost at the same time she looked up, a melodious and loud whistle suddenly broke the calm of the border sea, followed by a hazy light appearing in the depths of that thick fog – after the light, the shadow of a huge ship gradually emerged from the fog.

The soft sound of waves resounded, and in a psychic resonance, she confirmed the news coming from her fellow Churchmen, while at the same time, the massive shadow of the ship in the distance began to decelerate some distance away, and a few smaller escorts appeared one after another around that silhouette.

Through the drifting mist, the ships that came to rendezvous with the Lost Country and Bright Star, which arrived here first, were confirming each other’s identities – in the border waters, this was a very important part.

This is a very important part of the border waters, and this kind of identity confirmation will be carried out every once in a while, along with the entire course of action.

After all, in the thick fog of the border, you can’t always be sure that the person next to you is the same person you knew the moment before.

“It’s the Church of the Deep’s ‘Tidal Wave’ and escort formation,” Vanna reported as she came quickly to Duncan’s side and bowed her head, “It’s been confirmed through psychic resonance.”

Duncan nodded, “Good, permission to approach is granted, bring them into range to be illuminated by the spirit fire.”

(End of chapter)