Chapter 973: Chapter 406: Sea of Mist (Part 2)

Even though the danger posed by the island ahead might lead to their demise here.

This is still Alka and the others’ first encounter with a drifting island exhibiting peculiar phenomena.

How could they just leave like that?

You should know, the drifting islands they encountered before were either deserted or had some wild animals, generally just like that.

Raphael looked at Alka, noticing the excitement on everyone else’s faces.

Evidently, this wasn’t quite what she had imagined.

It seems she needs to understand the outside world even more.

The Sound of Dawn continued to sail into the thick mist until visibility on the whole ship became exceptionally low.

Originally flying out, Ulu Liwus flew back and stood on the deck.

"Can’t see anymore, these thick mists are mixed with magical elements, nearly blocking all normal sight.

Even with special vision, it’s hard to penetrate, they’re too dense."

Upon hearing this, Alka decisively ordered, "Raise the protective shield, set detection waves to the maximum!"

As the words fell, a melodious song was heard. A layer of faint white translucent protective shield expanded outward from the mast at the top, subsequently enveloping the whole ship within.

The detected waves began to spread outward from the ship’s bottom, as the Sound of Dawn had long merged with the tree on the ship, becoming a living ship with life.

Thus, it even possessed the ability to learn.

The detected waves pierced the water in a silver color, originating from Chadite’s spell.

Soon, the originally clear outline of the island dissipated.

Completely covered by thick mist, they lost themselves in this fog.

"Can we still determine the direction? Did the direction change?" In such a situation, Alka immediately turned to ask Ulu Liwus.

Ulu Liwus shook his head and replied, "The target location’s direction is still the same, these mists haven’t changed our perception of the surrounding direction."

"That’s good."

This increasingly thick fog reduced their visibility so much that they could only see the surrounding environment within a few meters.

One fiery light orb after another appeared on the ship.

Chadite controlled these light orbs, spread around the ship.

Soon, the scorching brightness slightly dispersed the fog, lighting up the surrounding visibility. At least allowing Alka and the others to see the condition on the ship through the dense mist.

"With no visible range, we can only rely on perception. Everyone, stay alert," Alka said as she looked at them.

Suddenly, the sound of wooden planks colliding was heard.

Alka immediately went to the side of the ship, looking towards the direction of the sound.

Just at the edge of the ship, a wooden object hit the vessel.

The wooden item was about two meters long and half a meter wide.

Through the thick mist, Alka could only see a faint outline, unable to discern what the thing truly was.

Just like drifting debris on the sea surface.

But the debris drifting in such a place might also hide something.

A melodious voice was heard, it was the Sound of Dawn speaking.

There’s no life within.

"Bring it up."

As Alka’s words fell, a vine stretched out, curled around the object, and dragged it to the deck.

With seawater dripping all the way down, the group finally saw what the object was.

It was a wooden box.

Severely corroded by seawater on the surface, but overall structure-wise, it wasn’t in terrible shape, still somewhat intact.

However, the planks seemingly had some characters and patterns once carved on them, now blurred and unclear.

"This thing... feels a bit like a coffin," Jason said as he looked at its shape.

A long shape, narrow width, isn’t this a coffin?

Honestly, it’s exactly the same, only somewhat crudely made.

Alka gently waved her hand.

Magic power pushed the lid open, "Seems this is not just a feeling, this is indeed a coffin."

Inside the coffin, a skeleton completely weathered and dried lay, but behind the coffin lid, something seemed engraved.

This coffin had once completely rotted and decayed garments along with darkened metal burial items.

"Creak!"

The sound of bone collision was heard.

In the eyes of everyone, the skeleton actually climbed out of the coffin.

"Is... is this the skeleton creature mentioned in the book?" Raphael asked, trembling but maintaining her curiosity.

She had only seen these in books.

Beside her, Simon nodded.

Black-green smoke emitted from the skeleton, making it more sinister. But in Alka’s eyes, the skeleton’s strength hadn’t changed much, still somewhat fragile, likely around the Second Stage.

"Didn’t expect it to be an undead," Alka said, a golden Light Arrow forming in her hand, directly shooting out.

The Light Arrow directly penetrated the undead’s skull, causing the newly emerged undead to halt on the spot, collapsing entirely into a heap of piled bones.

A very weak skeleton, indeed completely countered by Holy Light as an undead creature.

"Unexpectedly there’s an undead here, seems this fog-surrounded sea area is not too peaceful," Jason remarked upon seeing this undead.

On the contrary, Julia shook her head, "No, although there’s a certain undead element in the surrounding air, it’s really sparse, not enough to casually infect a skeleton into an undead creature."