"Um?"
Chen Lun, who was sitting on the sofa reading a collection of poems, suddenly stopped turning the pages and looked slightly stunned.
Flo Yin, who was standing by, cast a puzzled look and asked with concern:
"What's wrong?"
Chen Lun shook his head and smiled back at her.
"Nothing, just someone praying to me."
Flo Yin hummed, then stood up and said she would make him a cup of hot milk.
She knew that her man was already a demigod, with the ability to receive prayers. Although she was inevitably curious, she was as sensible as ever and chose not to ask further questions.
Chen Lun looked at Floyin's beautiful back in a black dress, calmed his mind, and felt the prayers coming from a distant place.
"You are the door to the great chapter, the beginning of the grand epic... You are the final act of the supreme drama, the end of all myths... The lord of the foreign land hidden in the fairyland, the white-scaled dragon who has seen through fate, His Majesty Jackspeter..."
He seemed to see through the endless void, and in the freezing cold St. Byron's College, a group of students were praying to him anxiously with faces full of anxiety.
"Teacher, Senior Lucy is missing! We had planned to go out together today, but she is not in the apartment. We have searched everywhere... Raphael restored the historical scene of the past, but was disturbed by a more powerful force. We suspect that she is in danger!"
Felice Novo's forehead was covered with sweat, and he closed his eyes and muttered to himself nervously.
Raphael stood beside him with a serious look on his face, while Ahsoka's eyes showed worry and concern.
“… We hope to have your help, teacher.”
Felice Nou finally said softly.
Chen Lun looked down at the three of them, frowning slightly.
'Lucy is missing?'
She was just an ordinary student. She kept a low profile and would never cause any trouble. How could she suddenly disappear? Chen Lun was puzzled.
'Lucy Payne's current life status.'
bite!
Chen Lun muttered to himself, then casually threw a gold pound. It rolled a few times before landing in his palm, with the sun-face pattern on the front facing upwards.
'Yes, still alive.'
Chen Lun looked calm.
He gently raised his left index finger, and a world map appeared out of thin air on the clean coffee table. The gold pound in his right hand was ejected again.
'Lucy Payne's current location.'
bite!
Round gold coins rolled across the map.
It first rolled around the territory of the Trisur Empire, then slowly headed north and entered the territory of the Byron Kingdom, as if an invisible force was secretly pushing it forward.
Eventually, it slowed down near Enlightenment Harbor in the Byron Bay area.
'Interfering with my divination?'
Chen Lun sneered.
He snapped his fingers.
Bang!
"Shining New Star", "Great Destiny" and "Man of Destiny" are all combined in one, plus Chen Lun's own status as a third-order demigod, and the power bonus of the hidden bookmark to destiny-related abilities.
Even if it is an angel, Chen Lun has the confidence to touch it from a distance!
His body was emitting a faint psychedelic color, and his eyes were as bright as white diamonds.
The gold coin on the coffee table was about to lie down, but it stood up and continued to roll... It passed through Qidi Port and St. Byron College, continued to go up along the ocean, and went directly to the depths of the vast sea.
It was already the edge of the map, and it also showed a human settlement called the "Explorer Islands", which was already the limit of the area that had been explored on the Sun Continent.
But the gold coins did not stop.
After running over the Explorer Islands, it rolled off the map and finally fell under the coffee table with a clanking sound.
The strange vision on Chen Lun's body gradually disappeared. He sat upright on the sofa, quietly looking at the gold coins on the ground, frowning slightly.
"I went to the Misty Island..."
There are three known Misty Islands, located deep in the Misty Sea in the southwest, north and southeast of the Sun Continent, surrounding the entire continent in a triangular shape.
According to divination, Lucy is currently located on the Misty Islands in the north.
After Chen Lun finished drinking the hot milk that Flo Yin had made himself, he sent a message to Felice Anno and other students.
"I already know."
Ignoring the students' joy, Chen Lun immediately greeted Fuluoyin and got up to leave.
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More than ten minutes later.
The port of Bensheng in the Shiratau region in the north of the Kingdom of Byron.
Chen Lun was still dressed in black clothes and a black hat, with a thick high-collared windbreaker on the outside, and holding a white cane, as he boarded a medium-sized ship that was about to set sail for both merchants and passengers.
The name of this ship is "Homeward Bound". Strictly speaking, it is a product of the Moses Sailing Group and was sold by the Empire to the Kingdom of Byron as a strategic material.
The sailing route of the Homeward Bound is quite simple, which is to go to the Explorer Islands in the extreme north of the Misty Sea, and then return. It trades daily necessities and delivers a small amount of specialties and guests.
Chen Lun had discovered long ago that the coastal areas of the Misty Sea were relatively normal, but the distant sea was covered with thick fog, which obviously interfered with the spatial movement of a demigod like him... So he planned to take a boat to the Explorer Islands first, and then fly from there to the Misty Island to search for Lucy's whereabouts.
"Behind this incident, there is the influence of someone in a high position..."
Chen Lun handed the bill to the crew member, walked straight to the deck, leaned against the railing to look at the sea, thinking in his heart.
Lucy is just an ordinary mid-sequence extraordinary person. The only special thing about her is her high charm and high luck.
'Especially her luck value... It has experienced two sudden increases in succession. Before I left the academy, her luck value had already reached over 90 points. This is very abnormal.'
Chen Lun had done divination for Lucy and even peeked into her fate, but everything remained the same.
He narrowed his eyes as he looked out at the sea level, already suspecting that Lucy's sudden disappearance might be related to her skyrocketing luck value.
Perhaps, it was because without realizing it, my luck had reached this special value of 100 points that triggered some changes that I was not aware of.
"Just go and see... I'm curious about the Misty Island, too."
Chen Lun thought to himself.
His fearlessness comes from his confidence in his strength.
At this time, some more passengers came onto the deck, making a lot of noise.
A woman held a crying child in her arms and sang a famous local nursery rhyme to comfort the child. A few men who had drunk a little bit of wine laughed and scolded each other, and the topic seemed to be related to the bar girl on the shore.
There were also some well-dressed middle-aged businessmen who were constantly exchanging information, with expressions on their faces sometimes excited and sometimes frowning.
Among them, there was a figure that caught Chen Lun's attention. This person was wrapped in a thick coat, and his face was covered by a scarf and a woolen hat. As soon as he got on the deck, he couldn't wait to walk to the guardrail and take a few deep breaths.
Chen Lun glanced at him calmly, with mist in his eyes.
Boone (Magic Series Five - Carver/School of All Things)
If it was just a Sequence 5 Transcendent, it probably wouldn't have caught Chen Lun's attention. But the key point was the race of this person, which was not human...
Race: Fin People (Northern Continent)
'Supernatural creatures...'
Chen Lun said secretly in his heart.
When he left Peacock City and headed for the Royal City, he took the circus on board the "Pearl Bamogo" and was attacked by the Fin People on the way... This extraordinary creature is a humanoid intelligent race, similar to the Sirens, but with slightly worse talent, only slightly higher than ordinary humans.
Chen Lun was also surprised that this person did not take the deep sea route, but took the magic route...
The first mate's rough voice was heard from the loudspeaker hung outside the iron wall of the cabin. He shouted out precautions twice in succession and informed the passengers of the upcoming departure.
Soon, the sailors checked the sea conditions along the railing, the anchor was pulled up, and a loud whistle pierced the dock.
Woo—
The Homeward Bound slowly sailed away from the shore.
Chen Lun looked back and saw that there were far fewer pedestrians on the dock than when he came here. They were scattered here and there, and these people didn't seem to care about the departure of the Guihang Ship and just walked by in a hurry.
There was fog all around.
An inexplicably strange atmosphere quietly rose.
Chen Lun frowned reflexively.
He always felt that something was wrong, but he found nothing. His spiritual intuition showed no signs of abnormality, and he secretly used divination to confirm that everything was normal.
'interesting… '
Chen Lun withdrew his gaze calmly.
Out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of the fin-man wizard named Boone, who took out a thick tome from his arms and began to study it in the sea breeze.
Looking at his serious expression and inquiring eyes, Chen Lun couldn't help but think of the professors in St. Byron's College, and even the librarian Galio.
'This guy is very curious.'
Chen Lun gave his evaluation.
He was just about to take out his poetry collection to kill time when a group of men and women in plaid robes quietly came onto the deck.
There were seven or eight of them in total, and they didn't have much luggage, so they didn't look like they were going on a long journey.
These people walked to the side of the guardrail on the right side of Chen Lun, whispering to each other, glancing at Boone rather obscurely, secretly observing something.
Chen Lun leaned against the guardrail, opened a collection of poems and started reading. Without even raising his head, he sensed everything on the deck.
'The "Heart of Knowledge" team, the elite extraordinary people of the Madman School... are they hunting down criminals? Or is it some other operation? Anyway, the target is the fin-man wizard named Boone.'
He understood and a smile appeared on his face.
He seemed to be very interested in what was going to happen next.
As far as he knew, the Madman School's style of doing things was actually very conservative. To put it bluntly, they were "self-enclosed". They were only interested in knowledge and were too lazy to bother with any irrelevant trivial matters.
Since the Heart of Consciousness team is on board, Boone must have either committed a serious crime or has something that the Madman School is looking for.
The seven or eight men and women in plaid robes seemed to have discussed a countermeasure. They quietly dispersed their formation and mixed in with the passengers on the deck... It seemed that they were planning to secretly surround Boone.
Boone buried his head in the tome, his eyes fascinated.
Another page turned, and he exclaimed with satisfaction.
At this moment, he finally realized something was wrong. He turned his head and saw several familiar figures passing by. Boone's face changed drastically.
He quickly stuffed the large book back into his chest and took out a palm-sized stone carving, as if intending to protect himself.
However, Chen Lun raised his eyebrows.
The stone carving in this guy's hand looks quite familiar.
The specifications are quite consistent with the "weird stone sculpture", but it is not octopus-shaped, but a two-headed dead fish.
Just when the conflict was about to break out.
boom!
The "Return", which had already sailed quite far out of the port, suddenly shook.
The passengers on the deck screamed in fear.
Hundreds of huge black shadows appeared faintly in the fog all around. Their outlines looked like some kind of big fish with tall dorsal fins, or like some strange marine creatures.
The sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, as if a storm was about to come.
Chen Lun watched all this silently.
He finally knew what was wrong with him...
The fate of everyone on this ship came to an abrupt end here.
'They will all die in this shipwreck.'