Chapter 53: Chapter 50 The Current Situation in Wizard Land (Please Follow)

Lynn looked around at the crew waiting for his instructions and spoke with ease.

“Since that’s the case, I’ll have to ask you to keep up the hard work. Until we have completely left this area, we cannot consider ourselves safe…”

Under Lynn’s command, the sailors temporarily restrained their excitement and returned to their positions, but unlike before, they looked out at the vast Mist Sea without a hint of worry in their eyes.

“I never thought I’d escape the ‘Eye of Death’ twice in my lifetime,” Laud remarked with a sense of wonder.

“Was it with the help of that great Wizard last time?” Lynn asked out of curiosity, having suspected from previous conversations that Laud had faced such dangers more than once.

Laud nodded, and then began to recount his experience from those years with a tinge of emotion.

It had happened more than a decade ago when he was just an ordinary pirate, living a life of killing and plundering at sea.

Since their operating range was near the Mist Sea, they didn’t have to worry about pursuit by the imperial fleet. If necessary, they could simply hide in the mist. As long as they didn’t venture too deep and stayed on the outskirts, they wouldn’t completely lose their way back.

Then, one time, his pirate gang encountered a large ship sailing out of the Mist Sea…

At first, they thought it was a merchant ship that had accidentally entered the Mist Sea and had luckily found its way back, so they decided to attack it with their superior numbers. Unexpectedly, they ran into a wall of steel.

The attackers weren’t Helram himself but two official Wizards accompanying him. Even so, their entire pirate gang, with hundreds of members, was decimated, and Laud’s right leg was blown off by the residual blast of a Fireball Technique.

If it weren’t for the fact that they wanted to keep someone for questioning, he would have died long ago.

However, it was precisely this opportunity that allowed him to completely change his destiny and become the spokesperson for the great Wizard Helram at Yiyeta Harbor…

Hearing this, Lynn couldn’t help but glance at Laud, wondering what he had done to be able to shed his status as a prisoner and gain the favor of the great Wizard.

He had witnessed this old fox’s integrity before, not to say it was completely absent… but it was quite limited. If it were up to him, he would never trust such a person so much.

Had he been caught with some leverage?

While thinking this, Lynn did not interrupt Laud’s story.

“After arranging the affairs of the Yiyeta Harbor, I had the fortune to accompany Master Helram to the Wizard Land, and it was during that sea crossing that we encountered the great whirlpool,” Laud said nostalgically.

Of course, the ‘Eye of Death’ wasn’t as terrifying then as it was this time; it covered only about a kilometer. Helram’s approach was simple – he froze the entire whirlpool solid!

Even so, this was enough to surprise Lynn. It seemed the power held by a great Wizard was far greater than he had imagined.

“Right, the final destination of our voyage this time is Master Helram’s territory—Yiyeta Harbor,” Laud added.

Lynn nodded, it seemed that before long, he would have to deal with this great wizard.

But how exactly should he confront Helram’s censure, he had yet to figure out…

As the two talked, the sail warship beneath their feet had completely left the vicinity of the great whirlpool, and the sailors on board cheered loudly.

Even though they had suffered heavy losses while braving the Eye of Death, Laud was uncharacteristically generous this time, allowing everyone to eat and drink their fill, letting everyone properly celebrate tonight!

However, life at sea was truly somewhat monotonous and dull, and the so-called celebration was just everyone sitting together, clasping a barrel of beer and guzzling it down, boasting about their past heroic deeds, and casually fishing for sea fish.

Perhaps their luck had begun to improve, as they encountered no further frustrating incidents in the following days; the entire sea was nothing but white fog. If it weren’t for constantly following the compass needle, Lynn would have thought they hadn’t left their original position at all.

This was also the terrifying aspect of the Mist Sea—should a great wizard like Helram lose direction, even if they could handle the great whirlpool, they would still be completely lost in this sea area.

During these few days at sea, Lynn also had not been idle; aside from the routine practice of magic, he spent every day asking Johnny for intelligence about Wizard Land and quickly gained a general understanding of this holy land of wizards.

First and foremost was the attitude towards the outside world, which was roughly divided into two factions.

One was the conservative faction that adhered to its old ways, which was the choice of most wizards in Wizard Land. They completely ignored the outside world, focused solely on studying magic within their own domains, and even considered the people outside Wizard Land, who were under the control of the Church, to be incredibly ignorant.

For wizards, the pursuit was to unravel the mysteries of things through magic, to seek the truth of the world, rather than to fight for power and land like those so-called kings and nobles; hence, studying magic was the same anywhere.

After all, within the Wizard Land, there were extremely rich reserves of magical mines, and with the blockade of the Mist Sea, the Church couldn’t invade, and it was not easy for them to venture out. It made more sense to focus on developing various magical theories and crush their enemies with one fell swoop in the future.

The other was the progressive faction that advocated demonstrating the power of witchcraft to the outside, like the great wizard Helram. They believed that although Wizard Land was a super-large island, many scarce materials could not be self-sufficient, and the population was too small, necessitating the continuous absorption of new blood from the outside world.

But the downside was very clear, the more contact with the outside world, the more dangerous it became. Relying solely on the current power accumulated within Wizard Land was not enough to contend with the Church; once their position was completely exposed, Wizard Land could face a disastrous calamity. This was the fundamental reason most wizards preferred the conservative faction!

It’s worth mentioning that their instructor Kro was a member of the progressive faction, belonging to the school founded by the great wizard Helram…

“So, it means that communication of news between Wizard Land and the outside world is very difficult, right?” Lynn mused as he spoke.

“Probably so,” Johnny nodded. In these four years, she had only visited Wizard Land once, and most of her knowledge about it came from what Kro had said normally.

“If that’s really the case…” Lynn gazed thoughtfully out of the porthole, as if trying to see through the boundless white fog to the Wizard Land that stood deep in the ocean.

He had already thought of how to handle the great wizard’s censure.