I Have a Sailing Game

But, imprisoned within the Tooth Spirit’s body, even after the truth was revealed from its memory, she continued to maintain her devotion to Tooth Spirit.

She even believed that everything Tooth Spirit did had its own reasoning, following it with unconditional faith.

The unlocked ending was also called "Devout Believer."

Later, Rogel went through multiple attempts, trying to find some "hidden ending."

But as facts proved, there was no hidden ending to choose from, the endings of Sela and Qina Island were ultimately dim and hopeless...

Frustrated, Rogel had to once again select the previous ending, ending the exploration of the Lamp of the Dying.

During the blessing distribution, Rogel couldn’t help but recall something.

From the Mermaid Naya in the earlier cave, it could be seen that the "Caves" in the Mysterious Sea game are related to reality.

Logically speaking, Qina Island should also exist somewhere in the Mysterious Sea, or at least have appeared.

Rogel navigated two routes in the Lamp of the Dying, so which path did the real Qina Island in this world follow?

If there’s an opportunity, perhaps it should be sought out.

"Artifact has been distributed."

"You have received: Qina Bone Whistle x1."

"The gateway to the scenario—The Sacred Husk has opened."

After exiting the Lamp of the Dying, another door opened.

This time, there was only one artifact.

Rogel picked it up and examined it for a moment; it was a whistle made of bone, appearing quite ordinary.

"Qina Bone Whistle"

"Type: Special Artifact"

"Special Effect: Emits a familiar whistling sound, can cause specific targets to enter a stiffened state."

"Explanation: Whistle made of Qina Bone, seems to contain some special power within its emitted sound."

It should be used to deal with the Tooth Spirit that devoured Qina and Sela.

Rogel hadn’t forgotten that in the Sacred Husk ending, Sela was controlled by Tooth Spirit.

"A targeted artifact, huh..."

"It seems like Tooth Spirit’s power in these two scenarios is very formidable."

Rogel pondered; otherwise, Lamp of the Dying wouldn’t have prepared two artifacts that seemingly have specific purposes for him.

"The Lamp of the Dying has vanished."

After Rogel took the Qina Bone Whistle, the Lamp of the Dying before him also faded into speckled light, gradually disappearing.

He stood up, looked at the two doors, and prepared to visit the Isle of Filth first.

Yet, at this time, the Sound Transmission Conch in Rogel’s Item Inventory suddenly vibrated.

Lina was leaving him a message.

It seemed something had happened during the Gelin’s voyage.

Seeing this, Rogel momentarily gave up on exploring the two doors, took out the Cave Key, and left the place.

...

"Sea battle?"

Rogel lowered the telescope in his hand.

In the distance from the Gelin, two fleets were engaged in war, flames spreading, black smoke rising.

As a crew member, Lina naturally had to inform Rogel of this situation.

Yet for Rogel, of course, it was just watching for fun, no need to get involved.

"It seems like both fleets have Believers on board."

Noemi spoke from the side.

"... That person jumped over with explosives!"

Noemi exclaimed in surprise.

After consuming the Hunter’s Potion and upgrading, her sight became sharper; she could clearly see the flags hanging on the fleets from afar and even some details of the war.

Rogel took out the Navigation Map, then found the approximate location of the Gelin on it.

After observing the two adjacent islands, Rogel instantly understood.

"Is this the so-called ’Church Holy War’?"

Rogel pondered.

He had heard this term during the Five Great Seas; however, compared to that, the scale of church wars in the Five Great Seas was far less than the one occurring ahead.

In the war ahead, the number of Believers on both sides was numerous, countless prayers shining brightly, surrounding marine creatures fleeing continuously.

In this sea area, there were large island cities, with numerous affiliated islands around, quite populated.

Only, the beliefs of the two island cities were entirely different.

Disputes and wars had frequently erupted between the two.

Rogel and his crew just happened to encounter it.

"Adjust the helm, avoid them."

Rogel wouldn’t meddle unnecessarily.

He still remembered the Sea of Confession’s current situation explained by the Tree of Life.

In a war filled with Believers, if their ship full of Extraordinary went to watch, they might just end up being opposing enemies from both sides, followed by divine witch demon...

After Rogel issued his orders, Bone Spirit and the crew began maneuvering to go around.

But Sean on the ship seemed quite interested.

He couldn’t see, but after asking others about the situation ahead, he suddenly spoke to Rogel.

"Captain Rogel, could you let me disembark at a spot near this island?"

Rogel was a bit surprised at his words: "What, not going to Magrela Island anymore?"

Sean shook his head: "I want to verify some doubts within my heart."

It seemed he had developed an interest in the belief wars between these two islands.

Rogel thought briefly, then agreed to his request.

After all, it didn’t matter where he disembarked; however Sean chose wasn’t his concern.

Soon after, the Gelin bypassed the previous sea battle site, arriving near one of the islands.

Even though it was only temporarily docked, Rogel still disguised the Gelin and the crew.

The people near the dock didn’t notice anything unusual.

"You want to know why they believe in gods, enthusiastically enough to dedicate their lives for it, right?"

Before departure, Rogel asked him.

"Your insight is impressive."

Sean didn’t deny it, only smiled.

"May your voyage be smooth, Captain Rogel."

He didn’t say much more, said goodbye, put on the blindfold Rogel gave him, and slowly walked into the island.

Rogel glanced at his back then turned and ordered to continue sailing.

...

After a small interlude, Rogel returned to the cave.

He prepared to head to the Isle of Filth first.

Having stepped through the door without hindrance.

A pungent stench of sewage blended with the reeking smell of rotting flesh began to fiercely assault Rogel’s sense of smell.

Rogel frowned and examined the surrounding environment.

The sky was dark and gloomy, black-red miasma floated around, the surface was extremely filthy and polluted, black-brown hair was scattered in strands everywhere, hung with some unknown corpses, already rotted to the extreme.

"Isle of Filth"

The place name emerged.

Pffft...

Rogel exerted a slight force underfoot, and the seemingly solid black ground tore open under the pressure, revealing a large area of scab-like scarlet.

A dark yellow transparent pus slowly oozed out...

Rogel: "..."

Looking at the path ahead that resembled a road paved with abscesses, he had to admit it might be the best-looking part...

Really disgusting.

Bang!

Rogel hadn’t finished expressing his disgust.

A muffled sound suddenly echoed ahead.

After scanning with his vision, Rogel finally saw what it was.

On the roadside, a gigantic pimple-like blood tumor suddenly exploded.

The originally crowded corpses inside were stripped of their casing, instantly toppled to the ground, their rotten juices spilling everywhere.

"Filthy Blood Corpse"

"..."

Apostle Tier creature, and apparently not very intelligent.

Rogel didn’t want to glance another time, he just gestured with his hand, several blood flowers suddenly exploded.

"You have slain..."

Rogel also skipped reading the details of the information.

Having observed the path for a moment, Rogel unfurled his Dragon Wings.

If he had wings and didn’t use them, wouldn’t he have to roll around in this disgustingly horrid environment?

He planned to go find the Tooth Spirit directly.

Once airborne, Rogel quickly ascended to a position able to fully overlook the entire island.

"Tsk..."

Once at high altitude.

Only then did Rogel completely see what had become of the original Qina Island.

Let’s put it this way.

The text information appearing during auto-exploration was not exaggerated in the slightest.

Mountains had become gigantic abscesses, spewing miasma, black-brown hair blossomed on the ground, clumped together, the entire Qina Island no longer bore any resemblance to its former self, thoroughly transformed into a place of filth.