The Great Worm Lich

Although Zhang Lisheng had already been very cautious in hiding the traces of the rise of the Wizard Li, judging from the questions that Lumoluki asked the other day, this matter still attracted the attention of that mysterious, powerful native tribe from the Nutao Sea.

The unknown was always the most terrible. The enemy that only left behind descriptions such as ‘The land of God’s blessing,’ ‘unbeatable richness and power,’ and so on, with everything else covered in a fog, made the young man felt very uneasy. Not only that, but there were many merchants and aristocrats in the Sea Haines City who had a close relationship with them, so they might encourage the mainlanders to have a joint attack together, causing headman to feel uneasy too.

The countries in the Green Leaf Mainland indeed had a conflict with each other; however, the appearance of a Hellfire native tribe that was extremely aggressive and was about to unite the entire Hellfire Archipelago would still attract all ‘firepower.’

On top of that, even if Zhang Lisheng returned to the Earth immediately. At this moment, he could not fight against Atlantis. Other than watching by the side, there was basically nothing that he could do.

Many thoughts flashed through his mind as the young man fell into a moment of silence and made a difficult decision as he said, “Since you don’t understand the situation either, I’ll just stay here in the Shrimp World No. 2, Madam Someril.”

“What did you say? You want to stay here?” Pocky, who had been staying by the side saying nothing asked in shock. It was a good thing that this well-dressed FBI agent still remembered to lower his voice.

“Yes, I’m gonna stay here,” Now that Zhang Lisheng had made up his mind, he grew resolute right away, “Nobody is safe in a chaotic situation. I think that returning to Earth once the situation stabilizes is the smarter choice. In fact, not only do I not intend to go back, but I also intend to persuade all of you to stay here too.”

“No one is safe in a chaotic situation…” Alison repeated the words of the young man. After hesitating, she sighed softly, “You’re right, Lisheng, but unlike you, we’re all federal employees…”

The black female officer silenced everyone. After a few seconds, the young man suddenly raised his glass and said, “In this case, I’ll toast to you and your sense of responsibility, Alison.”

When Zhang Lisheng raised his toast, Yaj, who was dancing gracefully on the magnificent dance floor of the hall, looked quietly at the young man’s straight silhouette before muttering to herself skeptically, “Camano, that Sir Zhang Lisheng is toasting and celebrating with his equally mysterious companions. A group of powerful spellcasters, warriors and scholar from a foreign mainland? What do they want? Is their background really so simple?”

Looking at the dazzling beauty of his dance partner in the dazzling fire, the city defense officer who was wearing an outfit that differed from the other who had a robust and strong-looking square face, a sturdy chest that was seemingly trying to rip the fitting clothes apart, said reluctantly, “Don’t worry, Yaj. No matter what they’re plotting, I won’t allow anyone to treat you… I mean, I won’t allow anyone to treat Sea Haines City terribly. Don’t think about it anymore. Even if it’s for only a night, dance with me properly tonight. You’ll leave tomorrow!”

“Oh, I’m sorry Camano. I didn’t mean it,” The woman said apologetically.

“I won’t forgive you unless you dance with me for the next song too,” The city defense officer hesitated for a while before tightening his hand on his dance partner’s waist as he said nervously.

Feeling Camano’s enthusiasm for the first time, Yaj’s heartbeat accelerated. Her eyes gradually softened, “Of course, Camano. I’m willing to keep dancing with you tonight…”

In the accompaniment of the wonderful music, a gush of different kinds of sweetness budded in the young couple’s hearts. The pace of their dance gradually grew lighter.

The dance only ended in the middle of the night. In the next morning, outside of the Sea Haines City, on the second-largest seaport in the Green Leaf Mainland, with over 24- cargo ships from Golden Velvet Flower Trading as the mainstay, over 500 sea-going vessels slowly left the post by wind and waves. Lining up in the rising sun, they headed for the sea.

In this sail this time, Zhang Lisheng still managed to obtain a good cabin in the flagship of the fleet. When he became the god who could control water, he could imprint the routes of the merchant ship in his mind without deliberately memorizing them. Adding to the fact that the voyage had been very calm, the journey was exceptionally laid back.

Two months passed in a blink of an eye. At noon on this day, when the young man was fishing at the bow of the ship, he suddenly saw a thick fog forming at the sea surface.

It only took an instant for the cloudless sea surface for it to be so completely covered in thick clouds that he could barely see his fingers in front of his face, making him completely baffled. As Zhang Lisheng was feeling bewildered, he heard the captain shouting at the top of his lungs in the fog, “We’ve encountered a fog beast! Lower the sail, throw the anchor…”

Then, a series of whirring sound of the sail being lowered accompanied it, and the sound of the ship anchored into the sea.

The enormous wooden ship steadily stopped in the ocean. After nervously listening for a while, and hearing no sound of the ship crashing, the flagship captain sighed in relief and roared, “Good job! The fog beast we encountered this time is three days earlier than before! How rare this is! Fortunately, everybody is on alert. Miss Yaj has decided that the boatswains will be rewarded with 100 gold coins, and the sailors who lowered the sails and dropped the anchor would be rewarded with 30 gold coins. The rest of the crew members would be rewarded with 10 gold coins!”

Now that everyone was rewarded, it, of course, elicited earth-shattering cheers. In this cheer, a glob of bright, soft orange light suddenly appeared and illuminated one-fifth of the deck.

At this time, everybody could not help but look at the source of the light. Everybody saw that Yaj was holding a sparkling sea beast that resembled a giant-sized firefly covered in black shells with fish fins as she stood in the middle of the fog. Illuminated by the light, she looked like a goddess.

This dreamy scenery was very fascinating. However, when everybody else was fascinatingly looking at Yaj, Zhang Lisheng was bewildered when he saw the sea beast in the woman’s arms.

What made him stunned was not the peculiar appearance of the strange sea beast, for the young man had seen creatures that were a hundred times weirder than this. It was the Hellfire word ‘Fogbreaker’ that was on the shell.

Relying on his eyesight that was unimaginable to other ordinary people, Zhang Lisheng dared to conclude that the text was not engraved later on, but it was actually a natural line on the beast’s armor. As a remarkable biologist, he naturally knew what it meant.

“Yaj, can you show me the ‘light source’ in your arms?” When Yaj walked to the bow with the sea beast, Zhang Lisheng snapped back to reality and asked with a voice full of eagerness.

“You can tell the extraordinariness of this sea beast?” The woman hesitated and carefully passed the light source in her arms to the young man with both hands, “Be careful, this is a primitive Fogbreaker. Its value is incalculable.”

“I’ll be careful, Yaj; I will be careful…” Zhang Lisheng murmured as he took the sea beast. Rubbing the shell with his hand and finally becoming 100% sure that the words on it were formed naturally, he could not help but blurt out, “The hell? This is a ‘synthetic creature’ produced in a lab…”

“A ‘synthetic creature’ produced in a lab?” Yaj, who had never seen the young man lost his cool before, smiled and said, “I don’t understand what you’re talking about, Lisheng, but it’s said that all primitive animals at the Nutao Sea are all created by the gods who ruled the Hellfire Archipelago tens of thousands of years ago. The biggest one even reaches to the size of mountains and islands. However, it’s a pity that those big-sized animals died off earlier, and some have even become fossilized islands that are livable by humans. Only the small-sized ones are alive now. Alright, return the Fogbreaker to me. Time is very precious, the fleet still has to continue to sail.”

The longer the sea beast stayed in Zhang Lisheng’s hand, the more he felt that the ‘light source’ in his hand had some connection with himself. However, this was not the right time for him to explore. He had no choice but to yield the sea beast to Yaj and let the woman tie it with the chain of the bow before throwing it into the ocean.

After falling into the water, the light on the sea beast spread two to three times greater as it slowly bounced and floated on the sea, swimming forward.

The flagship of the caravan raised half of its sail and followed behind it. Glaring light lit up on the observation tower as it led the fleet to continue sailing in the thick fog.

In the fog that blotted out the entire sky, only day and night could be recognized. Even Zhang Lisheng’s eyesight could not penetrate the fog, but the light emitted by the Fogbreaker was still clearly visible as it guided the fleet to sail day by day.

After an entire week, they finally broke through the fog and came to the coast of an exceptionally huge island.

The fog disappeared as suddenly as it came. When the giant island suddenly appeared in front of the sailors, it naturally elicited the warmest cheers.

“We’ve reached! We’ve reached! Our voyage was smooth! Haha! It was very smooth…”

“Nado tribe! I, Hagrid, have come again! Be it the gemstones, hides or woods, take them all out! Take them all out…”

“So this is the Nutao Sea? How spectacular! T-This is the island? This is basically a continent…”

The taut nerves on the sea voyage of a few months finally relaxed at this instant. Even the navigator who was the most serious had a pleasant smile on his face.

Awakened by the noise on the deck, Zhang Lisheng, who was fascinatingly dissecting a three-foot scaleless white fish that had just fished in the fogged sea with a sharp knife in the cabin, walked out of the cabin.

Under the bright sunshine, both sides of the sea seem to extend infinitely. When the giant island at the horizon entered his field of vision, he could not help but feel a little surge of emotions in his heart too.

Strolling up to the side of the ship to stand beside Yaj, who was looking at the island, the young man said with a slightly hoarse voice, “This must be the Nutao Sea right, Yaj?”

“Yes,” The woman was so excited that her face was flushed. Pointing to the few small reef islands in front, she said, “Did you see the five reef islands? It’s said that they are the fossils transformed by the giant primitive beasts that the god had personally created when he was ruling the Hellfire Archipelago in ancient times. Now, they have become one of the landmark heading to the Rovan Island, one of the three islands in the Nutao Sea. We’ll be able to dock at the largest tribe in the Rovan Island, the Nado tribe, by this evening. By that time, you’ll be able to see the strange civilization of the Hellfire tribesmen that are in no way inferior to the mainland…”

Yaj had never told these essential information to Zhang Lisheng before. However, at this time, the young man’s attention was not on her words, but instead, the Wizard Li’s god was staring over the woman on the few island reefs in the distant sea surface.