Boom!
The thunderstorm lit up the clouds, weaving fine lines like spider webs, and disappeared in an instant.
But the dark clouds in the sky will not disappear easily.
The huge waves were like fists wielded by a samurai, mercilessly beating the hull of the ship. Even the tough Iron Maiden biological armor suffered a considerable impact.
The Rebel Knight and the surrounding Blizzard-class battleships struggled to maintain the ship formation from being scattered by the wind and waves, and advanced with difficulty on the surface of the Desolate Sea.
After a period of sailing, the Starwind Fleet finally arrived at the Desolate Sea to the west of the Emerald Ocean and to the southwest of the Saran continent.
Here, half the world's oceans are already across the sea from the Wolf Principality's Hammer Town where the fleet departed.
The soldiers and crew of the Starwind Fleet have been away from home for more than three months.
After entering a relatively calm sea, on the towering bridge of the Rebel Knight, Jamil arranged the navigation affairs with the fleet adjutant and walked down the long metal ladder.
He returned to the lounge on the first floor of the cabin.
As the commander-in-chief of the fleet, he has been working in the bridge command room for ten hours, commanding the naval gun unit and the gryphon bombing unit to conduct two encounters with the mechanical tribe in the sea.
Transfer command to the adjutant and return to the cabin to rest.
This muscular man with neat short hair took off his white naval officer uniform and did not choose to lie down immediately. Instead, he sat at the small table next to the porthole with a calm face.
As usual, he started writing to Tricia.
"Dear Tricia, you have no idea what adventures I had on the Emerald Ocean."
"Mutated Leviathan, mechanical octopus, mechanical swordfish... these are not the most terrifying enemies. The most powerful enemies are the transformed mermaids and abyssal naga. They will always come from They suddenly appeared on the sea and attacked in groups."
"But don't forget, I am the best hunter and navigator in the Dragoncalling Fjord. Once we only had one small boat, but we could defeat the sea dragon. Now we have an entire fleet, even if there are many sea dragons across the entire world. Why is it difficult?”
"So, please rest assured that our voyage on the Desolate Sea is very safe. In the last battle, I even operated the ballista with one hand and defeated a powerful mechanical Leviathan."
"How is it over there in Star Wind City? Last time you told me that there was a kid named Norman who often came to play at home. When can we have a cute kid too?"
"At least, until after this voyage is over."
Jamil wrote quietly on the paper using unsightly fonts, telling his thoughts about Tricia in his own way.
As a hunter, warrior and captain, he has never felt much about words.
But the longer he sailed outside, the more he fell in love with words. Letters were like a thread connecting him to Tricia on the other side of the world.
...
On the deck of the Rebel Knight, Li Ran stared at the gloomy sky and remained silent.
Important news just came from Han Feibai.
The Broken Star World Championship, officially organized by the American Amber Technology Company, will officially open in the near future.
This is the first world-class event that countries around the world have been invited to participate in since the launch of the Broken Star server.
If you want to participate in this competition, you must register in the name of the guild and wait for the official review and decision of Amber Technology.
The identity of the Lord of Star Wind, Li Ran, appears to the outside world to be a mysterious native of Ashan. Theoretically, he is unable to participate in this competition.
Although the Starwind Guild can participate, if the power of the Starwind Leader cannot join, the overall combat power will be greatly reduced.
There is only one way for the Star Wind Leader to participate in the competition.
That is when Li Ran announces his true identity and makes it clear that the Lord of Starwind is a player of the Starwind Guild. Then Li Ran's territory and army can participate in the competition as resources controlled by the guild.
Obviously, in this crisis-ridden world, it was definitely not a wise move for Li Ran to reveal his identity rashly.
What's more, even if Starwind Leader and Starwind Guild can compete together, the format and content of the World Championship have not yet been fully determined.
Broken Star, this extremely real world, how will the World Championship start?
Amber Technology has always claimed that it will not interfere with the operation of Broken Star. Will it be broken?
Before these issues were formally determined, Li Ran was obviously unable to make a decision on whether to reveal his identity.
Therefore, while arranging Han Feibai and informing Xingfeng Ling to speed up development and prepare for war, Li Ran decided to focus on continuing his journey to find the Dragon Blood Crystal.
Eureka has followed Anastasia to lead the squadron, separated into the Emerald Ocean to search for the Eternal Queen, and sought cooperation with the Hasima Empire on behalf of the Starwind Leader.
From the first day when Starwind City was founded, this female knight has been at his side, advising him, guarding him personally, and executing his temporary orders.
Li Ran has long been accustomed to her presence.
At this moment, he was standing alone at the bow of the ship, feeling a little lonely.
The sky is dark, the wind is raging, and the waves are raging, which intensifies the growth of bad emotions.
However, from breaking Salina's shackles and being thrown to the cursed Wind Spirit Plain, to going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers until now, Li Ran's character has been tempered time and time again.
At the beginning, he was complacent about having harvested a city of gods, mastered the continuous output of gold mines, and his net worth increased sharply.
Later, he felt extremely pressured by the situation facing the desperate Starwind City, and fell into anxiety and panic for a long time.
But after experiencing this long adventure, no matter what kind of challenge he faces, he is confident that he can face it calmly.
A curtain of falsehood that has blinded people for so long is dissipating.
The real world gradually opened up before his eyes.
In the fierce wind and waves, Li Ran remained motionless, thinking quietly.
After an unknown amount of time, he raised his head and murmured:
"According to the established voyage, we should soon arrive near the Big Cauldron Reef."
Li Ran looked to the west and used his psychic vision ability to observe.
Sure enough, where the sea and the sky intersect, traces of "land" appear.
If it were ordinary crew members and sailors, they might have cheered at this moment.
But in Li Ran's powerful psychic vision, the situation on the sea in the distance was clearly visible.
A long time ago, a nobleman of the Greyhound Principality discovered the dragon's blood crystal on the Great Cauldron Reef, and immediately invested all his wealth in building a mine and a fort on the harsh reef island, in an attempt to take it as his own.
But he underestimated the pirates of the Desolate Sea.
The reputation of the Greyhound noble family has no deterrent effect on this ocean. The pirates of the Desolate Sea gathered together, tore apart the imperial army stationed on the reef island, and became the new owners of the Dragon Blood Crystal Mine.
But at this moment, in Li Ran's eyes, there were no traces of rocks, islands, fortresses or pirates on the distant sea.
There was a vast area of black abandoned ships, stacked together as tightly as small conchs washed up on the beach by the waves.
Ship graveyard.
For some reason, such a name came to Li Ran's mind.
Thousands of abandoned ships, stacked up to form an endless dark land, are clearly a cemetery that has absorbed all the abandoned ships in the Emerald Ocean and the Desolate Sea!
And through the enhanced psychic perception ability, a high-pitched warning was given to Li Ran.
In the cemetery composed of rusted metal, wood and crew members' corpses, there was a powerful psychic pressure spreading outward.
