Extraordinary Voyage-Chapter 758 - 652: Exceptionally Accelerated Process

Chapter 758: Chapter 652: Exceptionally Accelerated Process

The competition between the two True God Churches was not something anyone informed Aiven about in advance, and it temporarily had nothing to do with him.

Right now, the adventurer team had their eyes only on the Ocean Treasure: Ancient Scroll, which determined whether they could obtain the continuous World’s Favor!

The fast cruiser headed northeast all the way.

On the first day at midnight, when they weren’t planning to sleep at all, they finally encountered the first island appearing before them due to the Extraordinary Gathering Effect.

"Upright Fool: The beginning of things, the change of actions, skilled techniques, and the use of natural forces to achieve ambition. It’s not dangerous for us but the rewards are just an appetizer, no need to expect too much."

After hearing Milan’s words as he shuffled a deck of Tarot Cards.

The group no longer hesitated, and the fast cruiser, with agility far surpassing nearly any warship of the same era, executed a tail maneuver and reached the edge of this densely fog-covered island.

However.

Before they could set foot on the island, the island’s "Guardian" had already gathered and launched an attack on them first.

Puff—!

A large patch of eerie green phosphorescence suddenly appeared out of thin air, forming a viscous phosphorescent cloud mass aggressively pressing towards them.

The rolling heat wave seemed determined to incinerate them and their battleship together into ashes.

Wherever it passed, even the pebbles on the beach turned blackened, whether from the high temperature or the terrifying toxin at an Extraordinary level within it.

Standing closest to the ship’s side, Jelos stepped forward.

Whirr—!

A burst of flame stream, interlaced with golden runes, swiftly rose from his feet and enveloped his body. When the light dissipated, he had gained a semblance of the Flame Demon Spirit form.

He was so handsomely demonic that it invoked envy!

[Talent Magic: Trait Incarnation: Envy]

Effect: Maximally magnifies different traits in the soul, granting a unique corresponding extraordinary ability while keeping the main body unchanged.

Lifting his right hand, an extremely dazzling light suddenly illuminated at his fingertip like a sun descending into the Material World.

Then, a surge of platinum flame stream erupted and clashed with the bizarre phosphorescence, producing terrifying sizzling sounds like branding irons.

The phosphoric cloud mass initially withstood it barely but crumbled instantly when the Flame Demon Spirit Jelos’s forehead manifested a purple key-shaped True Name. It shattered and recoiled.

Forcing a group of monsters hidden in the air to reveal their forms, screeching and fleeing.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!...

Today, they indeed had a destiny with lizards, having just bid farewell to the Basilisk on the heavy Galleon, only to encounter a bunch of real Basilisks here.

Aiven, connected with the data visualization of the Turin Grand Library, already displayed the opponent’s information. Guarding this island was a giant Wise Demon from the Spirit-rich environment in the Broken Star Sea, the Eight-Clawed Ghost Lizard, and its fourteen lower-grade Ghost Lizard kin.

The largest Eight-Clawed Ghost Lizard was clearly mature, nearly twenty meters long, with eight sharp claws under its belly, a backward-extending bone shield on its head, and its body covered in dense blue-black scales.

The smallest Ghost Lizard was over five meters long, larger than a horse.

This was a Dragon Species Demon with a Swamp affinity, most of which surpassing the Ghost Lizard’s ten-meter racial limit were potent Sub-dragon species with activated Shadow Dragon bloodlines, capable of wielding various magic-like abilities of dragons.

Clang—!

A line of brightly shimmering blade emerged.

Annie, with a long greatsword in hand yearning for battle, charged first. As a Great Knight, she didn’t care whether the big lizard had inherited the Dragon Vein.

She directly invoked the name of the Dragon-slaying Sword: Siegfried, activating the special effect of this extraordinary weapon, adding a Dragon’s Might intimidation of her own.

The rest charged in as well, swiftly and cleanly taking down this sizeable "Eight-Clawed Ghost Lizard" family within a few rounds.

Only Kaka, hiding in Aiven’s shadow, didn’t come out at all, even curling deeper into the shadow cautiously, pretending not to exist.

Subsequently.

The group, filled with the excitement of opening a treasure chest, landed on this seemingly ordinary small island. In the main geographical feature of the island—a vast saltwater swamp, they discovered an ancient shipwreck that the Clock Tower must have dredged from somewhere in the seabed.

A large number of ancient gold coins and silver coins from the Holy Rosar Empire era, gemstones, exquisite gold and silverware, and over a hundred sets of beautiful porcelain from the Peacock Islands, many of which still shone brightly despite at least a thousand years passing by.

Aside from these, other items evidently could not withstand the erosion of time and had completely decayed.

Yet.

Looking at these treasures worth a fortune, the thought in Aiven’s mind was:

"Is that it...?"

’Could it be that our strongest trait is actually greed for wealth?’

Aiven looked at himself, then turned to the glittering Olivia next to him, and finally glanced at his sister nearby.

Although these items were an unignorable massive wealth for any force, they were no longer the target of their relentless pursuit.

However, since the treasures delivered themselves, they each took a share with an indifferent attitude.

Just as Milan’s Tarot Card Divination mentioned before: "Just an appetizer, no need to expect too much."

On the contrary, it was the sub-dragon species demon slain by Anita with a single sword that piqued the interest of a group of wizards. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Returning to the ship, while instructing the heroic spirit crew to set sail again with Aiven, Olivia, and Jelos as the main force, Angie and Milan assisted in the tasks; the attack team immediately went into action.

In the deep night, colorful magical lights flickered continuously.

By the following evening, the team of two Great Wizards and three Senior Official Wizards had already created a new ship’s figurehead from the colossal skull of the Tier 3 "Eight-Clawed Ghost Lizard" as raw material, bringing their flagship back to the top level of this space.

The ivory-like bony ship’s figurehead: [Ship’s Figurehead: Eight-Clawed Ghost Lizard] solidified three abilities in total.

[Stealth]: Although unable to dive underwater like the "Sea Soul", it can completely conceal the ship’s form as well as the trajectory of its navigation on the water’s surface.

[Fire Cannon Enchantment]: To accommodate this enchantment ability, they placed a bone ring made from the ghost lizard’s skeleton on the muzzle of each cannon on the ship, where Olivia, Angie, and Jelos all set about enchanting them.

The ship’s figurehead and enchanted bone rings worked in tandem, with each cannon fire’s scorching effect comparable to scorching bullets, and the bronze cannons immune to the negative impact of overheating from continuous firing.

[Water Jet]: Though unable to be used for long-distance assaults, it can initiate short-range serpentine maneuvers, making it an excellent auxiliary means for either dodging or surprise attacks.

While in this environment, what Aiven wanted most was the ability to speed up exploration efficiency, but conditions being limited here, there was indeed no choice to make.

Already like adding wings to a tiger, making them dare to confront any opponents in this space head-on.

However.

The glorious extraordinary spiritual light from the warship provided the strongest intimidation, much like a porcupine with exposed spines, other powerful quasi-legendary battleships wouldn’t recklessly engage unless there were significant interest conflicts.

As for the endless heroic spirit battleships, even if they came in hordes, they could no longer pose a threat to them.

Thus.

Relying on the fast cruiser which had undergone three upgrades to reach quasi-legendary status, they took down two more islands in the next three days, with the most valuable gain being an [Ocean Treasure: Weather Ring].

Effect: Can forcibly summon a disastrous rainstorm, gale, snowstorm, hailstorm covering an area of fifty kilometers above, but cannot summon any favorable weather or sunny weather, being a meteorological weapon detrimental to both sides.

However, the process was not entirely smooth sailing, although Tier 3 was the entry limit for external parties into the [Clock Tower], it didn’t mean that danger levels inside the [Clock Tower] were only Tier 3.

They encountered seemingly ordinary islands, yet Milan’s divination result was "inverted Wheel of Fate": border failure, setbacks, turning for the worse, vicious cycle.

Given their strength, such a divination result already posed a serious threat, regardless of how tempting the treasure was, they simply chose to abandon it.

Until the morning of their sixth day at sea.

Boom——

Dozens of scorching bullets whistled past, mercilessly turning a heroic crew-driven great galleon ship into a blazing fireball, just as they were preparing to move in to collect the metal materials on board to replenish the continually consuming cannonballs.

Crash...

Seemingly affected by mysterious forces, the direction of ocean currents and winds simultaneously changed, forcing the fast cruiser to rapidly veer significantly in one direction.

Aiven and his team did not forcibly intervene.

By the following dawn, the fast cruiser had traveled nearly 400 kilometers.

A vast island broke through the night, appearing before them.

Milan’s divination subsequently came to fruition.

"Upright wheel of fate": pivotal event, new opportunity, fortunate beginning, problem resolution, arrival of good fortune.

No need for him to interpret, by now the group’s hearts were already uplifted.

However, along with the emergence of this island, there also appeared another approaching "quasi-legendary battleship" in the distance.

Glancing remotely at the flag hoisted aboard that ship, suppressing inner excitement, Aiven inquired of Jelos beside him:

"Mr. Jelos, this seems to be the force of the Broken Star Sea, ’Black Pyramid’... should we fight?"

During this period of adventure together, Jelos had long since given a brief introduction to Aiven and the others about all the forces, including the witches, residing in the Broken Star Islands.

The "Broken Star Sea" of the Celebes Islands, indeed has the highest density of human extraordinaries globally, where on territory equivalent to the size of a kingdom, totaling 620,000 square kilometers over eight islands, large forces possessing Tier 4 extraordinaries hold their ground.

Compared to this, the chaotic territory of the New Continent, Kabral, is insignificant.

The distant ship approached by numerous extraordinary practitioners, black wizards, wise demons... comprises the "Black Pyramid", and is very likely the force to which the [Netherworld Master] Aiven once encountered belongs.

"Look quickly, something seems amiss."

However, not allowing Jelos, who was most familiar with the Broken Star Islands, to make his judgment, Milan’s exclamation pealed forth, as two drifting islands seemed to magnetize numerous ships one after another, appearing far at the eye’s end.

At this moment.

Most of the forces scattered across the ocean seemed to be reassembled in this corner.

The group’s expressions turned solemn.

Even those possessing "Adventurer’s Blood" among them were only ahead of the "Black Pyramid" by an hour at most.

"This doesn’t match the records, how long since the sixth layer began? Such grade treasures shouldn’t appear as the lead-up! Why does it feel like the ’game’ progression suddenly accelerated? Has something happened to the [Clock Tower]?"

This was the doubt in everyone’s minds, including Aiven’s team.