Half past eight in the evening.
Li Nuo came to the northernmost side of the inner circle and used "Soul Sensing" to tell Dinas that he would go home later.
After that, he plunged into the sea with a splash.
Li Nuo poured 49,500 energy points into "Water Bending Technique", upgraded it to level 100, and then headed towards the location where the small ocean-going fleet was attacked at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour.
In the vast sea, trying to locate the fleet is undoubtedly an act of finding a needle in a haystack.
Selina did not mention the specific location of the attack location in her letter.
So, how did Li Nuo know that he was not on the wrong track?
Ordinary wizards would definitely be confused when faced with this situation.
Li Nuo won't.
He once learned "navigation" and "marine meteorology" from Hedwig's diary using deconstruction techniques;
When he purchased the navigation locator and fog briefing, he also used deconstruction techniques to obtain a complete set of ocean trade route charts from the Suman City Route Management Department, as well as the voyage information of all legal ocean-going ships in the past nearly six months;
In addition, there are a series of IMBA level skills such as deconstruction, "psychic beacon", "psychic vision" and so on.
Putting all these things together, Li Nuo formed a sea map with dense routes in his mind.
If you ask him about a route, he will be able to name the sea areas that this route passes through, report the fog threshold of each sea area in the next month, and list which ocean-going fleets are using this route.
Selina did not mention the details of the ocean-going fleet that was attacked in her letter, but Li Nuo knew that it was an ocean-going fleet that specialized in transporting raw materials for magic farms between Cahir Continent and the Suman Islands. An ocean-going trading company owned by the Chanard family.
This ocean-going fleet will only appear on the ocean-going trade route numbered "KSHN-033".
Considering that it was killed on the sea 200 kilometers away from the core circle, the location of the incident must be in the "Treasure Sea No. 155".
The Treasure Sea is the ocean between the Suman Islands and the Cahir Continent. It is famous for the many sunken ships loaded with cargo and treasures on the seabed.
These sunken ships are basically the work of deep-sea monsters, natural disasters, and pirates.
Under the guidance of the navigation chart and the deconstruction technique that can obtain the name of the sea area, it is difficult for Li Nuo to get lost.
However, there is still a certain gap between ideal and reality.
The route map and deconstruction techniques prevented Li Nuo from taking detours, but the strong winds and waves in the deep sea area posed obstacles.
In order to make it easier to identify the direction, he initially chose to perform "Water Movement" on the sea.
Soon, the ten-meter-high waves unique to the deep sea area taught him how to behave.
Several times, Li Nuo was sprinting in the water one second, and was thrown into the air by the huge waves the next second, performing a ten-meter high platform diving that was overwhelming.
He had to dive, and then dive, until the waves could no longer disturb him.
But the weirdness of the deep sea area does not end here.
The seawater would either turn into a yellow-green acidic liquid for no reason, or turn red and almost boil, or it would suddenly erupt into a dozen terrifying waterspouts, forming a large and powerful black cloud and storm.
Strong winds, heavy rain, hail, boiling water, all kinds of natural marine phenomena that are normal in the minds of wizards in the native world, are full of weirdness and absurdity in the eyes of Li Nuo, a foreigner.
Of course, this is because he took a shortcut and did not take the route.
It wasn't until he approached the route of the small ocean-going fleet that the environmental conditions above and below the water became normal.
In addition to the fact that the wind and waves are much higher than those of the Suman Islands, and the seawater is more corrosive than the waters near the Suman Islands, the deep sea environment here is far less harsh than the sea areas outside the shipping routes.
Li Nuo emerged from the sea, with half of his head exposed on the water, and looked at the sea and sky to the east.
The moonlight was bright and the stars dotted the night sky.
The towering Lost Sea fog covered the sea to the east.
Li Nuo threw out the deconstruction technique to confirm that he was in the right place. The name of that sea area was "Treasure Sea No. 155."
"Yes, yes. I found the place smoothly the first time I went out to sea alone. The idea of using route maps and deconstruction techniques to find the way does work."
Li Nuo gave himself a thumbs up and turned to look at the sea to the south.
There was no lost sea fog there, but Li Nuo knew that in at most 10 minutes, the support fleet of the Deep Sea Branch would appear on the sea.
This is a conclusion reached after careful calculation.
The 10 minutes before the support fleet arrived was the golden window for Li Nuo to sweep the island, plunder loot, and collect intelligence.
Li Nuo buried his head into the sea, seized the time, and moved forward as fast as he could.
He passed through the water at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour and entered the sea shrouded in the lost sea fog.
As soon as he arrived at the sea here, he heard a violent gurgling sound in the sea water. It was the noise produced when the roar of magic on the sea surface was transmitted to the water.
Li Nuo lowered the speed of "Water Movement" and approached the battlefield at an even speed, always under the sea.
Kraken is an expert at underwater detection.
They can easily capture seawater movements within a radius of several kilometers.
Based on this, Li Nuo did not enter the battlefield.
He stopped more than ten kilometers away from the battlefield and used "Psychic Beacon" + "Psychic Sight" to observe the situation there from a distance.
Three underwater ships emitting green light underwater appeared in Li Nuo's magical vision.
"This must be the Kraken's pirate ship, right?"
Li Nuo narrowed his eyes slightly and threw the "Psychic Beacon" towards where the three ships were.
After jumping around a few times, Li Nuo used his "mental vision" to see the entirety of these ships.
They are not the shabby "ghost ships" that seem to have slept on the bottom of the sea for a long time.
They have hulls made of magic metal, magic circles that spray water, round portholes, and even ship numbers written in the Unas Ring language.
Generally speaking, except for the fact that they glow green and sail underwater, these ships are no different from the magical mechanical ships produced by the Haidel family.
Li Nuo raised his eyebrows and saw some tricks.
These ships should have been plundered by the Kraken from the Suman Islands. Doesn't the serial number information on the ship point to a certain ocean trading company?
Look at the faint green light emerging from the ship. This is the appearance of the magic circle in the outer armor sandwich when it is in operation.
It is this green-lighting magic circle that gives these magical mechanical ships the ability to sail underwater.
Li Nuo was contemplating a plan to passively deconstruct the magic circle in his mind while looking at the situation inside and outside the pirate ship.
All three pirate ships were manned.
No, it should be said that there are sirens on duty.
An average of 30 Kraken per ship.
The siren on duty was not the undertide spy or tide hunter that Li Nuo had seen before, but a strange siren that the system called the "Tide Guard".
The harmless decomposition results show that the "underwater combat level" of the Tide Guard is 55, which is equal to the five-ring combat wizard of the mid-term Great Consummation.
They have many active skills such as summoning seawater cages, summoning deep sea magic servants, casting poisonous water spikes, weaving deep sea shields, etc.
The accomplices of these guys, that is, the other sea monsters who are fighting in the ocean-going fleet, have all boarded the ships of the ocean-going fleet and are now throwing the loot on the ship to the sea.
Whenever a piece of loot plops into the sea, the Tide Guard guarding the ship will summon water and jellyfish-shaped deep-sea magic servants to drag the loot to the underwater pirate ship and put it into the warehouse on the middle deck.
While Li Nuo was observing the battlefield and the pirate ships, the warehouse of one of the underwater pirate ships was filled, with many magic farm raw materials piled inside.
The container that seals these raw materials is a magic metal box with a storage space of thousands of cubic meters.
Mao estimates that the harvest from just such an underwater pirate ship has reached about 500,000 gold coins, which can be described as earning from pirate blood.
Among them are many human crew members who are bound by deep-sea magic. They were attacked by poisonous water thorns and were in a deep coma, with their cheeks turning green and their brows turning black.
Li Nuo's eyes flickered, staring at the pirate ship loaded with loot.
The Tide Guard on this ship is starting the magic engine and seems to be planning to escape with the loot first.
Li Nuo placed multiple "psychic beacons" on the ship to ensure that the other party would never escape his perception.
The pirate ship slowly accelerated under Li Nuo's gaze.
It drew a half-arc around the battlefield, then headed straight due west.
"Where is this ship going? Are these Tide Guards transformed by the Terrorsail Wizard, or are they originally sea monsters?"
One of the purposes of Li Nuo's trip was to delve into the Kraken's internal intelligence.
"The first time I went to sea using "Water Movement", I encountered strong winds and waves, as well as various harsh natural phenomena in the deep sea. It was inevitable that I was delayed for a lot of time at sea. The support fleet from the Deep Sea Branch is coming soon. If I start to kill the Kraken now, I will probably collide with the people from the Deep Sea Branch. In this case, let’s change our thinking. "
Li Nuo glanced at the battlefield and the two other pirate ships that were loading loot, then immediately turned around and left, chasing the pirate ship loaded with loot.
He kept a distance of about 20 kilometers from the other party and fell far behind the ship.
At the same time that Li Nuo followed the pirate ship out of the current sea area, the support fleet of the Deep Sea Branch appeared in his magical vision.
After Li Nuo discovered that the fleet had arrived, he threw several deconstruction spells at the opponent's hull and the wizards on board, and then removed the "psychic beacon" that was observing them.
The Deep Sea Branch sent 30 fifth-level combat wizards, three sixth-level combat wizards, and one seventh-level combat wizard.
Not all of these wizards are deep sea wizards.
One-third of them are combat wizards from other branches of Hotams. There are one to three people in each of the rock and soil department, the natural department, the metal department, and the death department.
These non-Deep Sea branch college wizards have been stationed in the core circle for a long time. The branches behind them are in the core circle, each with 10 to 30 islands.
A combat team composed of wizards from multiple departments is enough to deal with various situations at sea.
Lee No need worry about the ocean fleet being attacked.
He just needs to take care of himself and avoid being discovered by the battle wizards and tracking targets of the Seventh Ring.
"I guess the Krakens didn't expect that the ocean-going fleet would be willing to spend a lot of money to ask the support fleet of the Deep Sea Branch to use underwater passage to speed up to the scene. The pirate ship I am following now should be the Kraken The only gain tonight. The other pirate ships and sea monsters should all be eliminated by the Deep Sea Branch."
As Li Nuo tracked the target, he sighed in his heart and deeply realized the principle of "soldiers are more valuable and speed is faster".
He calmed down and entered a state of silence, hanging tightly behind the tracking target.
Time passed quickly.
The pirate ship continued sailing for three hours and finally stopped in a deserted sea area.
Li Nuo threw the deconstruction technique at the sea area, got the name of the sea area, and compared it with the route map in his mind.
This is Treasure Sea Area No. 771. It is remote and unpopular, with few ships passing through, and natural disasters called "undersea bursts" occur from time to time.
"Undersea bursts" come without warning.
Once it explodes, it will send tens of thousands of tons of seawater from under the water to the sky with a bang, erecting a terrifying wall of water on the sea and setting off huge waves.
A natural disaster of this magnitude is enough to destroy most of the small and medium-sized ocean-going fleets.
Li Nuo couldn't help but feel wary when he saw the pirate ship stopped in such a place.
He quietly swam to the sea next to him, away from this place where danger could occur at any time.
Fortunately, the pirate ship emits green light when sailing underwater, otherwise Li Nuo might not be able to see its movements clearly with his "mental vision".
Li Nuo and the pirate ship entered a stationary state together, dozens of kilometers apart.
After waiting for a short while, a vague strange feeling appeared in Li Nuo's heart.
It was as if something was approaching the "psychic beacon" he placed next to the pirate ship.
"My beacon has been discovered. That person is carefully searching for the whereabouts of the beacon."
Li Nuo's heart sank slightly.
Due to the darkness of the water, he could not see anything except the glowing pirate ship, which directly caused him to completely fail to discover who had noticed his beacon.
Li Nuo knew that now was not the time to take risks.
Without hesitation, he dismissed the beacon that conveyed the strange feeling.
This beacon is closest to the pirate ship, located thirty meters near the opponent's outer armor plate.
After Li Nuo dismissed it, the strangeness in his heart disappeared instantly.
At this moment, the beacon closest to the pirate ship is more than three kilometers away from the pirate ship in a straight line.
This beacon did not convey any strange feeling to Li Nuo.
Li Nuo was stunned for a moment and came to a conclusion that made him even more vigilant:
"Three kilometers, that is, three thousand meters. At this distance, my beacon was not discovered by anyone. So the range of that person's perception of energy fluctuations may be a sphere with a radius of three thousand meters. This range is the same as that on land A ten-ring wizard is comparable. Considering that this person appears in an underwater environment, he is probably a powerful siren comparable to a ten-ring wizard."
Having said that, Li Nuo did not intend to use experiments to calculate the other party's perception range.
When the enemy is unknown and he is secretive, it is better to be cautious.
Li Nuo thought for a second, then dismissed the beacon three kilometers away from the pirate ship, and observed the situation there through the beacon five kilometers away.
In the current magic field of vision, the pirate ship emitting green light has shrunk to a hazy little dot.
Li Nuo lay dormant and scanned the water around the pirate ship using his deconstruction technique.
His beacon was discovered, which inevitably alerted the siren.
Li Nuo deduced the various directions of the matter in his mind and formulated multiple plans to deal with possible difficult situations.
"Buzz..."
A strange muffled sound came from the direction of the pirate ship.
The sound seemed ethereal and depressing in the dark water.
“Buzz… tuk tuk tuk…”
The muffled sound was mixed with some regular knocking sounds.
Li Nuo listened carefully.
The low muffled sound came from the sea water, and the knocking sound came from the pirate ship.
Li Nuo temporarily broke away from thinking about countermeasures, forced himself to calm down, and stared at the magic vision.
His expression gradually became stunned.
A pair of amber eyes opened on the side of the pirate ship.
It is so huge that the pirate ship is as small as a grain of rice in front of it.
These amber eyes have vertical pupils, they are cold-blooded and emotionless.
"Buzz..." There was another muffled sound.
The owner of the amber eyes opened his abyss-like mouth and bit into the pirate ship.
The hull of the ship was covered by a large black shadow and disappeared into the sea.
The pair of amber eyes closed their eyelids and disappeared into the dark sea water.
Before they both disappeared, Li Nuo reached into the magic pocket as quickly as possible, crushed the magic gadget, gained energy points, and activated the deconstruction technique!
The whole set of movements is completed in one go, without any sloppiness.
Not only did Li Nuo successfully get the result he wanted, he also boldly placed a beacon on the eyelids of those giant amber eyes!
【system information:】
[You consume 100,000 points of energy to activate the deconstruction technique on the "One-horned Sea Spirit Whale". 】
[Your deconstruction completion rate of the target increases to 1%]
[You have obtained a small part of the panel information:]
【Name】Single-horned whale
[Type] Semi-spiritual creature, deep sea monster
[Identity 1] War mount of Estano Siren Kingdom
【Growth stage】Growth stage
[Character Level] Predicted to be level 190
Character level is determined by the average of "basic attributes".
[Underwater combat level] Unpredictable
You don't have combat data for this target yet. After you activate passive deconstruction on it, the system will update this panel simultaneously.
[Size] About 1900 meters*500 meters*300 meters
【characteristic】
Warcraft Mind:
The "psychic blood bar" is far superior to that of a wizard, and is immune to most mind control effects.
Sea Spirit Monster:
The Sea Spirit Monster is a semi-spiritual creature that can transform freely between physical and spiritual bodies. Things swallowed into the belly of the sea spirit monster will also follow it and transform between physical and spiritual bodies.
(The deconstruction is not completed enough and you failed to obtain more information.)
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"Sea Spirit Monster..." Li Nuo frowned and thought:
"This is a sea spirit beast that is defined by the system as a 'growing unicorn sea spirit whale'.
"I didn't expect, I really didn't expect, that Estano Siren Kingdom would actually have something called the legendary deep sea monster in magic textbooks...
Li Nuo put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind and instead sensed the "spiritual beacon" he placed on the unicorn sea spirit whale.
Li Nuo's eyes followed the guidance of the beacon and looked diagonally downward into the infinite depths.
In his perception, the beacon placed on the unicorn whale was traveling at a depth of more than three thousand meters at an extremely fast speed.
In less than 3 minutes, the narwhal whale traveled about 30 kilometers away.
Simply converted, the speed of the narwhal whale in the underwater environment reaches an appalling 600 kilometers per hour!
"Hiss... awesome, awesome. It is indeed a sea spirit monster that can travel through the sea in its spiritual form. It is indeed worthy of being called a legendary deep sea monster. The magic textbook of Unas Ring is correct."
Li Nuo was secretly speechless, thinking about a plan to reset the level of "Psychic Beacon".
He can currently only sense the specific location of the beacon within a range of 109 kilometers.
Considering that he might have to track the ultra-fast unicorn whale in the future, Li Nuo believed that it was necessary to transform the "psychic beacon" into a "psychic tracking".
"Let's do this. I will wash out the "Psychic Beacon" and replace it with "Psychic Tracking" during the day tomorrow. This incident happened suddenly, and I didn't expect that the thing that connected the pirate ship would be a sea spirit monster. Now I can only temporarily use the "mental beacon" to vaguely locate the unicorn whale. "
Li Nuo identified the direction and swam toward the core circle of the Suman Islands.
Although I didn't gain any soul fragments or loot during tonight's journey, I discovered a small part of the Siren's secrets, which undoubtedly gave me a good start in raiding pirates in the future.
Li Nuo is only worried about one thing now...
He was afraid that the beacon he had photographed on the eyelids of the narwhal whale would be discovered and erased...
If this happens, then Li Nuo can only hope that he will follow the pirate ship next time and find traces of the one-horned sea spirit beast again.
Just as Li Nuo was thinking this, a system message appeared in his mind.
【warn! 】
[Your "Psychic Beacon (No. 9)" is destroyed. 】
Li Nuo's mouth twitched slightly.
You really have nothing to worry about, so come on...
This beacon was the one he placed on the eyelids of the narwhal whale...
"Looks like I'll have to put the beacon somewhere else next time."
Li Nuo was thinking while performing "Water Movement Technique":
"The pirate ship was swallowed by the narwhal whale. If I put the beacon inside the whale, will it still be able to destroy the beacon?"
Li Nuo raised his eyebrows, vaguely feeling that this idea was feasible and he could give it a try next time.
"But then again, how could a unicorn whale have such a high "mental" attribute value? Didn’t the book say that this thing got its name from its fast movement in the sea, its huge size, and its ability to transform between physical and spiritual bodies? Apart from these advantages, it does not seem to have particularly strong spellcasting abilities. "
Li Nuo frowned and thought deeply, with some guesses in his mind:
"Could it be that someone else discovered and destroyed the beacon, not the unicorn whale?"
Li Nuo seemed to have some realization:
"Oh, I understand. In the "Identity" column of the narwhal whale's body, there is the word "War Mount", so there must be a driver. It was probably the driver of this beast who destroyed my beacon. If I think about it this way, even if I use "Psychic Tracking" to monitor the unicorn whales, it would be a bit unsafe..."
Li Nuo couldn't help but feel a little headache. For a while, he couldn't think of a tracking method that would not be discovered at all...
In addition, he was also eager to find out the relationship between the "Estano Siren Kingdom" and the "Dreadsail Pirate Kingdom".
He had never found any trace of the "Kingdom of Siren" in Selina's memory before.
Reminiscent of the previous gains from deconstructing the Horrible Sails Wizard, Li Nuo always felt that the so-called "Dreadsail Pirate Kingdom" might be a puppet or a stand-in for the "Siren Kingdom".
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