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“Hey, Shelley!”
Catherine stood on the mast, looking into the distance, and shouted to the side, a little bored, “How much longer until we reach the Smia Desert?”
At this moment, Shelley was standing on the mast with her, but differently, Shelley’s eyes were now covered with a black cloth. He was recalling some of his special skills from the past.
[Blind Fighting]
Although he had darkvision, in some special situations, vision was not completely reliable.
While drawing his sword, Shelley changed his position with the waves. Shelley said with a smile, “About half a day, and we’ll be able to see it.”
It had been three months since they had left Fishguard Island. By the way, because the name of this island was too much of a mouthful… Shelley had changed it to “Fid Island.”
“Is that so? Then I’ll take another nap.”
The endless ocean would also become boring after looking at it for a long time. Catherine yawned at his words and curled up in the warm sunlight, falling asleep on the mast.
Although his eyes were covered, Shelley seemed to see Catherine’s cute and naive appearance. The corners of his mouth turned up. Shelley felt his heart was also healed.
“So carefree. How nice.”
Catherine had a good impression of Shelley to begin with. In the three months they had been together, their relationship had also progressed steadily. Although the system had not shown him the conquest progress of Morgan and Erica, Catherine’s conquest progress was already approaching 30%.
Especially when Shelley had returned to his original appearance… Catherine’s affection level had directly risen by 10%.
Another face-con… hmm? A face-dragon?
On the one hand, it was because Shelley’s appearance was really beautiful (his charisma was high enough), and on the other hand, his silver-gray hair was very much in line with a crystal dragon’s aesthetic. By the way, another dragon that really liked silver was the silver dragon.
“Just like a child on a trip with an adult.”
Everything was new, everything was fresh. At the beginning, watching her chase various fish and swim in the sea, Shelley felt like he was watching a husky… the kind that had been kept at home all the time and was seeing the sea for the first time.
She swam wildly in the sea. He couldn’t even call her back… she stayed in the water for a whole day. Finally, because she was really hungry, she returned to the ship to eat.
“But Vahran probably disappointed her, haha.”
About two months ago, they had arrived at the second scheduled location.
Vahran was not a single island, but a tropical archipelago. The islands were full of uncivilized savages, not the kind of barbarians in the wilderness, but the kind that would actually eat people. They wore clothes woven from dry grass and had colorful paint on their bodies. And importantly, the savages were extremely xenophobic.
This made their journey extremely unpleasant. They would be attacked by savages on the road, ambushed by savage scouts when resting by the water, and even disturbed by savages when grilling meat. Especially when they were disturbed while eating, it made Catherine very angry.
Crystal dragons mainly ate gems, but it wasn’t that they couldn’t eat human food. Especially since Shelley had gone to great lengths to please the four ladies.
In this era, seafood was generally only eaten by royalty, nobles, and fishermen by the sea. Because the fishy smell of seafood was relatively strong, only very strong spices could handle it. Fishermen, because they relied on this for a living, didn’t mind the fishy smell. And those rich nobles would use the best spices to cover up these smells. Because of the difficulty of transportation, sometimes spices of the same weight were even more valuable than gold of the same weight.
Of course, Shelley would not be stingy with these when he cooked.
“With my spices… even marinated slippers would be delicious.”
The servants of the Duke Bell’s estate all knew that besides his usual studies and social activities, Shelley’s favorite thing was to buy ingredients himself and cook.
“Although the food at the Duke’s estate is not bad, but…”
“The ingredients of these Western people are too monotonous.”
My great Chinese nation knows how to eat.
Every time he cooked, Shelley would think of his past, so as not to lose himself in this magnificent world where magic existed.
With the cooking skills he had honed in this world for many years, Shelley had successfully conquered these few women. Besides Catherine, the one who enjoyed eating the most was Morgan. Although her expression was always arrogant, she never stopped eating. Even Erica’s smile had a bit more sincerity, and the white lotus performance that could be seen through at a glance was also much less.
That day, the group of savages who had come to disturb their lunch had died a very tragic death. First, they were cursed by Morgan and tripped on the side of the road, and then they were stabbed in the butt by their own teammates’ spears. That tragic cry really echoed through the clouds and attracted savages from other places…
Finally, they were frozen into popsicles by the breath of the enraged, transformed Catherine.
By the way, besides believing in their own local demigods, the most common worship among the native savages was dragon worship. He was regarded as a dragon god warrior by the savages who had come upon hearing the news, and they kept kowtowing to him. And the naive Miss Catherine took this as a provocation to her. In a fit of rage, she sprayed all the natives. If it weren’t for Shelley stopping him, he could have wiped out the entire savage tribe of Vahran.
The final outcome, or rather, according to Shelley’s arrangement, as expected, they did not go to the place required by the mission. Shelley, taking advantage of the rest break at night, went to various places on the island to clear out the native demigods that the savages believed in.
These demigods, which had been worshipped by the native savages for who knows how many years, all had legendary strength after being enhanced. Although each demigod only provided three points of divinity at most, after all the islands, he had harvested a batch of divinity. A full 22 points. His divinity had reached 79 points, almost reaching intermediate divinity.
Fortunately, the natives in the game could not quickly obtain divinity from others like Shelley, but needed a very long digestion process. If they lost themselves in this process, they would be influenced by the previous owner of the divinity, and even have their minds controlled. Otherwise, these native demigods would have definitely not waited for Shelley to hunt them down and would have been slaughtered long ago.
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In the dark underground prison, Megan’s clothes were tattered, and she was having trouble breathing. She looked at her sister with dazed eyes and said with difficulty, “Rui… live on…”
Holding her sister’s hand tightly, Rui fought back her tears and said in a low voice, “Rice will come to save you.”
“…He will definitely come.”
Who will come… who will come and save us?
