Chapter 264: Sword and Magic
The ship stopped in the distance. Then, small boats started carrying people toward the island. The ship was too deep in the water and could not reach the shore. They could only use small boats to carry people ashore.
However, when they went ashore, they did not find anyone from the Western Continent. Ma Tengyun was very confused by this. He immediately ordered the people on the Navigator to contact the Western Continent. However, their connection with the Western Continent had been severed dozens of days ago.
Ma Tengyun ordered some people to build houses on the island and waited for the people from the Western Continent to come. However, after waiting for three days, they still did not see anyone from the Western Continent.
Ma Tengyun, who was confused, said, “Although I heard that being late is a habit of French people, it’s a little extreme to be late for a meeting between two continents.”
On the fifth day, they could not wait any longer. They drove the dinghy back to the Navigator and continued heading west.
Many people started speculating about the situation in the Western Continent. Some people said that the people in the Western Continent might have encountered a crisis and have no time to receive them.
Someone speculated that the people of the Western Continent might be hostile. They might be waiting for them to walk right into their trap.
People were getting more and more confused about the situation in the Western Continent. No one knew what was happening there.
“Maybe something happened in France,” someone guessed.
A young man asked, “Why is this place called France[1]? It’s clearly east of the Western Continent. It should be called something else.”
Many Rare-ranked seniors who had lived for over 100 years smiled at this young man. Someone explained to the youth, “France is a translation. It’s based on what it sounds like. The ‘West’ as we pronounce it doesn’t read ‘West’ in other countries. Similarly, France does not mean country in the west.”
The younger generation gradually understood. They yearned for the history before the time halt. It was said that it would take at most one day to travel from one continent to another. It was said that at the time, people had lived in peace and had been very safe. However, it was also said that many people would think that they could not survive and would commit suicide. Some people would even die of a terminal illness from eating too much fish and meat.
The history of that era was very attractive to the younger generation.
The Navigator continued moving forward. After traveling for over 170 nautical miles, they saw several small islands one after another. On those small islands were lush forests. They could not even name many trees. On those small islands, birds would fly and antelopes would leap.
Dolphins and whales would sometimes appear in the sea. The humans and demons looked at the beautiful scenery, but a moment later, someone asked, “Are there no demons in the Western Continent?”
This was indeed an extremely weird thing. There were also many species in the Northern Continent, some had reached the Rare rank or the Epic rank and were very powerful. Even ordinary creatures were very ferocious. Sometimes, sheep would even hunt wolves.
It was rare to see creatures like antelopes, dolphins, and whales that would not harm humans, as such creatures could not survive in the Northern Continent.
At that moment, Li Hanfeng said, “There are naturally all sorts of demons in the Western Continent. However, they don’t call themselves demons. They call themselves magical beasts. There are many types of magical beasts in the Western Continent. The strongest magical beast is a creature called dragon.”
The demons were not surprised. They had learned a lot over the past five months. They also knew that the dragons of the Western Continent were not the same as the dragons of the Northern Continent. They knew what the dragons of the Western Continent looked like.
The Navigator drove past a few small islands. After traveling for a while, it finally encountered a continent. Ma Tengyun said, “This should be the Western Continent. The Western Continent is different from the Northern Continent. In the Western Continent, the relationship between the continent and the small islands is like that between the moon and the stars. All the small islands combined are larger than their continent.”
The Navigator stopped in the deep sea. People started boarding the small boats and driving them to the shore. Li Hanfeng looked at the shore carefully. He was confused. “It’s weird. There should be many boats on this coastline. There should be a city not far away.”
The dinghy reached the shore. As soon as Wei Huo and Li Hanfeng stepped on the shore, a gust of wind blew around them. The aura of the Western Continent suddenly changed. Every Legendary creature present could feel the change in the aura. Even the Epic-ranked creatures could feel it.
“The aura has changed,” the Legendary Mystic Turtle, who was the most sensitive to these auras, said.
Wei Huo felt it and said, “Legendary creatures can suppress their own luck. If they stay in the same place for a long time, they can even change the fengshui of the place. Our arrival changed the aura flow of the Western Continent and injected new vitality into it. Normal people can’t feel this change.”
Wei Huo had spoken very clearly. In fact, if someone who knew how to read Qi observed the east at that moment, they would realize that golden Sacred Qi had risen in the east. A sage with extraordinary status, knowledge, and means had landed in the east.
The group kept moving forward. They were very fast. After walking for a while, they suddenly saw some city ruins.
That place used to be a huge city, but at that moment, it had turned into ruins. The stone walls were charred, as if they had been burned by a huge fire. There were some scattered weapons and shields on the ground, and some broken arrows were stuck in cracks in the stones. The trees around the piles of soil were broken and charred.
The group walked into the ruins and saw some human corpses. These corpses were charred black, so it was impossible to identify them.
They frowned. What had happened to the city? It had clearly been destroyed. The people in the city had either died or fled. No wonder there were no ships on the coastline and no one had come to welcome them.
Zhao Pingfan asked, “Are the weapons of the people in the Western Continent still at this level? I didn’t even find a gun.”
Li Hanfeng said, “The Western Continent is a continent of swords and magic. Their swords and magic are better than guns, so very few people learn to use guns, especially now that the older generation has died.”
They found a few cannons in the ruins. The cannons were carved with mysterious runes and they looked special.
The Navigator’s passengers started cleaning up the ruins. They carried the charred corpses far away to bury them. In order to obtain some clues, they had to clean up this place. Anyway, with their technological strength, it was not difficult.
At that moment, Wei Huo said, “This place is a transit station. We can split up and head to the Western Continent by traveling in three directions. We can figure out what’s going on in the Western Continent. At the same time, we can contact the local humans and magical beasts and return here to discuss our next move.”
The Golden Eagle said, “The technology in the Western Continent is not advanced. Could the change have been caused by the Zergs? Although the three Leviathans were attracted by the Northern Continent and did not descend on the other continents, the Zerg broodmother is very strong. Once it reaches level four, it will only be destroyed by nuclear weapons.”
After five months on the ship, the Golden Eagle had learned a lot.
Ma Tengyun said, “The Western Continent has ancient technology and ancient creations. The power of ancient creations is unimaginable. Even Leviathans can’t compete with it. Although the Zerg broodmother is powerful, it can only occupy one or two areas at most. It can’t make the entire Western Continent fall!”
[1] France in Chinese has the word west in it.