Chapter 946 – Bodie Island (2)
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The man woke up 10 minutes later.
“Uh, uh… “
“Are you awake?”
“Ugh… ? Uh, uh, Count Wolfheddin?!”
“Do you know me?”
Britannia is fluent. It looks like a nobleman who ate some ink.
“You know! I’m an archaeologist! Let’s say it’s Delta, which received a letter of recommendation from the president of Asherad… Ah! Where are my friends?”
Looking around, I couldn’t give him an answer. He got quiet
“… Haha. I am the only one who survived.”
“What happened?”
“You may not believe it, but the ship I was on was sunk in a raid by the Ghost Fleet. I managed to escape by holding on to the wreckage of the ship, but I lost consciousness on the way… “
It was like what I saw in my dream. It seemed that she had no memory of falling into the whirlpool and flowing all the way here. Dana, in a gown over a bikini, held out his hand.
“I’ll treat you, so stay still.”
“Go, thank you.”
“How about a brooch to reveal your scholarly status?”
When Dana treated him and asked questions, the man rummaged here and there.
“… You lost it. Yes, but believe me! I am a real scholar!”
“Where do you think I’ll put it? Don’t worry.”
Just looking at it, it’s not that strong. In case you stumbled upon it, I couldn’t seem to catch one on the valkyrie that went down for a while to bring you a towel.
Perhaps it’s just that Delta is a timid guy, he searched his pockets in genuine bewilderment.
─Huduk!
Something like a card fell from his chest. Delta was taken aback, and with a slightly relieved expression, he put the card in his pocket and pulled out another token.
“I was also friends with the president’s son. I was with you on the day my older brother disappeared… Here you go! It’s proof that I belong to the wizard’s guild as well!”
He didn’t have a brooch to guarantee his scholarly status, but he had other identification cards instead. Tirsi, who slightly reflected her face, spoke to me.
“It’s genuine.”
“All right. I won’t doubt you, so rest assured. What exactly happened?”
I smiled kindly and ordered a hot drink to be served. Having lost his body temperature in the seawater, he seemed to relieve his tension and fear a little while drinking the drink.
“We recently boarded a ship in Romania for the purpose of studying the Azteca Expedition in the Golden Age.”
What he said was roughly:
A pharaoh of the golden age of ancient civilization attempted to serve the god Woo instead of the lost god. I heard about that from the present Pharaoh as well.
“They were almost wiped out in front of the Woo Gods, but they were mindful of battle. Naturally, it is assumed that it was an expedition that mobilized all the high technology of ancient civilization… ”
“It must have been worth excavating and analyzing the legacy of the expedition left in Azteca. Scholars would have volunteered.”
“Yes. However, the president of the society and the researchers who follow him are currently concentrating almost all their efforts on the Hittite capital, Kanesh.”
“Did you get a letter of recommendation? You’ve been entrusted with excavating the Azteca Expedition. He encountered an accident while he was on an expedition to Azteca with his colleagues.”
“Yeah, yes. Your insight is great. Of course, I was a mediocre researcher, but… “
Dana got up as if the treatment was over and moved away. I pondered for a while.
“Don’t you know why you were attacked?”
“I have no face. Since it’s a ghost ship ruled by a group of specters, I think it might have been attacked for some reason, unlike monsters… “
“Specter?”
As I twisted my head, Nefertiti said.
“Higher classification of ghost monsters. Use magic The boss class is a mithril class.”
“… It is a ‘minimum’ mithril class.”
Delta has attached a quadruped. I nodded.
“I’m going to tell the president of Asherad. We were talking just a moment ago, so you should come out soon.”
“Yes? Hey, are you here?”
“Nope. With this.”
I took out the communication tool I had been talking with before.
It is a different world without infrastructure such as satellites or repeaters. After all, that means a radio that works thousands of miles away, not to mention how inefficient it is.
—… Tooth support. Rule… Hedin… Are you a count?
“Yeah. That’s me. Do you know a scholar named Delta Corporation?”
But now, inefficiency was out of the question. In spite of the sudden question, Asherard calmed down the noise and spoke shyly.
─Yes. He was my son’s friend. Now, I think I’ve been dispatched to the Azteca tribe… Did you ever run into her at sea?
“If we met, we met. Listen for yourself.”
When I handed over the communications artifact, Delta Company panicked and somehow ended the conversation.
—… We will change the president.
The speechless president exchanged with Kiara, and a voice mixed with noise was heard.
─Yes. This is Kiara Collido, friend of Lord Wolfhedin.
“It’s a greeting that your friend will be moved by.”
-I’m glad if that’s the case. It’s a ghost ship Coincidentally, there is a friend next to me who is putting all the monsters and subjugation quests in her head, so let me ask you a question.
The artifact crackled for several minutes, Kiara said.
─I can’t. What this friend doesn’t know is that our adventurer’s guild union doesn’t have any information, so it seems that the ghost ships and the ships they encountered have either been wiped out or a new group that has only recently emerged.
This is because if they are annihilated, there will be no survivors to deliver the news. Upon hearing Kiara’s assumption, Delta immediately jumped up.
“Choi, there’s no way it only appeared recently! That ghost ship——it’s so big!”
Delta Corp. Grabs his chest and collapses. Dana’s complexion hardened.
“I treated wounds and curses until they healed naturally… Are you saying your symptoms got worse in that moment?”
“Show me too.”
I opened Odin’s eyes. The curse I saw earlier was definitely removed by Dana. He weakened it to the point where it was almost worse than the cold energy, but that was what made him stronger.
“The Curse of the Specter… It looks like… “
Panting, Delta said as if reciting a will.
“I guess it was his fault for living shamelessly even after losing his older brother right in front of his eyes… I thought that if I got hittite technology, my brother and the president would be able to reunite… “
“Stop. Don’t tell me.”
“I know my body best. Bae, Count… The ghost fleet was a Hittite warship. Throw me into the sea and run away. I’m sure he’ll follow my curse… “
“No, please be quiet. It’s preventing me from concentrating.”
Delta Corporation shuts up when the nobleman shoots at them. The thought that he was searching after not being able to properly leave a will was conveyed as if he could be caught with his unfair expression.
Blinding my eyes, I lowered my fingers covered in lightning as if using tweezers.
Jiggly… !!
The curse caught in my hand was ripped off.
The source of the curse he analyzed was picked up with the [Elden Ring] And destroyed.
─Pujik! The source of the curse was crushed with grip.
“Dana. Since the curse has been lifted, heal this nobleman as well.”
“Okay. Shit, that’s embarrassing. You can’t fix it all at once.”
“It’s not your fault. It was a bit of a special curse. As this nobleman said, the effect was weak, but it was a curse made to make it easier to chase after it because it keeps recurring.”
Too much treatment will weaken the body.
Dana, whose Ulsterian blood flows, allowed Delta’s body to heal on its own, but the curse just recurred.
It was a curse caused by grudge, different from black magic. Delta Corp. Opened its eyes and opened its mouth in amazement at how quickly it healed.
“Uh? Mo, my body has become lighter—”
“Oh, really. I’m lying down. My lungs were damaged by the seawater and the curse.”
“Ahh!”
Pushing her forehead like an overnight nurse, she flipped over Delta Corp. And Trindana resumed her treatment. Although he was not a professional healer, he seemed to feel resentment and responsibility for making a mistake.
─Poof!
I jumped in one month as the mast of the Ammu-na.
‘It’s not all my fault that the curse recurred.’
There’s no way my older sister was careless. The curse was weakened enough that I saw it through Odin’s eyes and said, ‘This will be fine.’
In other words, this phenomenon is because the subject of the curse is getting closer!
‘It means that there is a ghost ship somewhere in the nearby sea.’
Landing on the mast, I found the franc and asked.
“Uh? Fran, were you here beforehand?”
“Because Norr told me about the dream. If a drifter floats alive, he thought, that fleet of ghosts would be nearby.”
“As expected, it’s our franc.”
He patted his back, where his wet hair was clinging sensually.
“So, how do you look? The sea is so vast that I wonder if it will be difficult to find even with your intuition—”
“You just need to find the mana of darkness and yin. Look over there.”
Fran pointed to the vast sea.
No, it was just the sea, so there was one sunspot.
─Keying! When I activated my clairvoyance, three warships with ghosts on board were approaching. As if he had found this ship, his speed rose at once.
“… So fast! It must be a normal boat!”
Fran exclaimed, a little startled. It was fast even compared to a horse running on land.
It wasn’t just a horse, it was the same compared to a horse that uses mana in another world. I solved the clairvoyance and answered.
“It’s a Hittite sailboat. The same as this Ammu or Ho.”
“Nor, are you going to turn the boat around?”
“If the performance of the ship is comparable, the chances of winning in a naval battle are low. We don’t want to destroy the ship, so let’s get it out before they try to engage.”
We jumped off the mast. Delta Corp. Seems to be the type of person who doesn’t listen to words, but even when Dana tried to stop them, they quickly got up and clung to the ship’s railing.
“Oh, that’s a big deal! Count! A ghost ship, a ghost ship!”
“We saw it too. It’s approaching. It seems like a squad.”
It seemed that only a few ships from the fleet were chasing the curse.
Now that the curse has been lifted, there is nothing to do. I don’t know if those ghosts have eyes, but would they miss us from a distance that the human eye could see?
When I answered roughly, Tel Thasa opened his eyes wide as if he had realized something.
‘What?’
I thought that at this point, they wouldn’t recognize our skills and would be trembling with mischief?
“Yeah, it was! Count Wolfheddin might be able to take down the ghost ship with little trouble! Please take care of yourself!”
“… Did you hear what I said from the president?”
“Yes! You are the hero who subdued those mighty Woo Gods! And, I lost it because it sank, but I bought the bicorns that the bicorns were selling on behalf of… “
“… Oh, that’s right.”
I grabbed Veronica’s ear as she ran away without saying a word.
It’s Niimi Esreel Blade, this one.
“Oh, it hurts! Master, it hurts! As long as you forgive me! You said you could sell what you already made!”
“Okay, the ship is properly guarded. Hurry up and get a few guys.”
You have to read it to see how far it has been written. I couldn’t see it right away, so I skimmed through it and folded it, but it seems that my battle record was inflated with beautification, dramatization, and some censorship.
‘No matter how much it is, is the cowardly scholar who almost died because of the ghost ship put his mind at ease? I’ll turn around.’
Sticking out my tongue, I sang a franc.
“Let’s go alone, just the two of us. Chain those who look high in status.”
“Yes!”
Fran, holding a hammer, replied confidently.
If you use the holy relic hammer you received from the popes, you can bestow holy power around the chain of the golem. The reinforcing effect would be quite minor, but there was no problem as long as it caught the entity.
“Dark!”
Combined Beast Return’s Mana with Smoke.
Now that Odin’s Eye has been completely sublimated into my authority, combining the spells has been like eating rice cake while lying down. We climbed the clouds and soared into the sky.
“Eight!”
A golem arm appeared behind Fran and aimed at the specter, a ghost wearing a hat.
─Neuuuuu!!
Surprisingly, Specter made a strange sound and escaped the chains.
“… Reinforced by grudge? Rather than being strong in life, the one who played the role of leader seems to be that powerful.”
It reminded me of the specter I saw in my precognitive dream.
“I am not a black mage because I was consumed by my own grudge, and a powerful mage became a specter because I was overcome with resentment and obsession… ? Eek.”
While muttering, I evaded the magic flying from below.
“Nor! I can’t catch it if it’s this far!”
“Yes? Too far.”
From a distance, you can see them flying. There is also time to escape. Even if it’s knife throwing, it’s okay to avoid enemies who are worse than Franc in terms of chain to capture alive.
“Could you lower the altitude? No, I will do this.”
I put my palms together and floated the rune mandala.
“【ᛁ(Isaz)】.”
Activated the rune with Brunak’s power.
The power of the rune wand that allows you to transcend the aptitude of runes and the wall of enlightenment! I demonstrated the true meaning of the rune, which has the meaning of retreat, stop, and ice.
Kiki-Ik-!
The specters and ghosts paused for a moment.
‘A creature that moves with grudge and mana can stop it.’
“Yap!”
Franc blew the chain. A few Specters were immediately subdued and brought to Geun-Duun. It was a restrained capture that contradicted the cute spirit.
“Just grow up. Don’t think about working overtime anymore.”
Even after death, I gave them a gift of rest as they roam the world.
Oh oh oh-!! A thunderbolt gathered in his hand.
It is Vesta’s authority,
The lightning that burned the sky more brightly in broad daylight pierced the ghost ships.
The ghost ships quickly turned into ash and debris from the rapidly spreading lightning. Rather than sinking into the sea, it was burned along with the ship’s defense magic.
Gurrrr…
When the souls who were possessed by resentment went to sleep, there was no one who refused to die and moved on the sinking ship.
I made the sign of the cross lightly and returned to Ammuna.
