Arcane Lord

Rodney Territory, in the mage tower near the Netheril River.

Lord Rodney Ozkar was watching with his butler as the six ships in the projection slowly turned around and sailed north again. Ozkar looked indifferent, but the steward spoke at this moment:

"Master, do you want to send someone to catch up, and then--"

The butler didn't say the next words, but he waved his hand down heavily and made a vicious expression. This action made Ozkar frown a little, and his tone became a little colder:

"Larry, pay attention to your identity and don't bring the style of that side to me! Do you have to have me start a conflict with Nanfang immediately so that side will be satisfied?!"

Butler Larry was slightly startled, his expression slowly calmed down, and he became expressionless again, even with a formulaic humility, "Sir, Larry always listens to your words."

"snort--"

Ozkar ignored the housekeeper's words, snorted coldly, and left the monitoring room. Larry, who stayed behind, waved his hand indifferently, canceled the monitoring projection, and then disappeared into the darkness.

…

On the other side, Xia Duo ordered the fleet to turn around and go back to the previous territory. After replenishing and resting in the territory called "Nelson Territory", they set off again.

After that, when passing through Rodney Loop, they passed through at full speed without making any further stops.

Soon after, they left the core area of ​​Netheril, which is commonly known as the "Inland" in the southern border. After continuing to travel against the current for three days, they passed a river fork and entered the southern section of the Netheril River.

From here, all the way to Lake Macht where Shado prepares to catch fishermen, it’s all downstream.

Along the way, Xia Duo continued to use [Eye in the Sky] to conduct "aerial photography", and then switched to projection. On this basis, he simplified and abstracted to form a relatively concise and clear map, and finally used [Transcription] to draw it. onto parchment paper.

Due to the large scope of "aerial photography", one picture is often enough for the fleet to travel for a day or two, and the simplification and mapping process is not complicated. In his spare time, Xia Duo can also conduct some simple magic experiments.

Although there is no magic laboratory on the ship, being away from Sevington and not having to worry about being monitored all the time makes me feel much more relaxed, and the research efficiency is greatly improved compared to that in Sevington.

During this period, he and Niya contacted each other through communication tools every night, either talking about what they saw along the way or trivial matters. Of course, most of the time they were discussing how to decipher Feld's spell book.

…

Twenty days later, Chateau heard warning orders coming from outside the cabin in the captain's cabin, and he knew that Lake Macht had arrived.

After Lake Macht, after a short period of countercurrent, there is the Wolfburg River. The fleet can keep going down the river until it reaches the Saville Territory, or the Bactria Territory, or even merges into a basin lake further south. .

As soon as Shado opened the door, he saw Chief Officer Russ walking towards him. He first saluted and then reported: "Sir, Lake Macht is ahead. Do you want the fleet to slow down?"

"Slow down and notify the boats in front to slow down too!" Xia Duo planned to let the fleet stop here for two days, waiting for him to clean up the fishmen before continuing south.

While Russ was sending messages to the front through bone whistles and flags, Shado also sent warning notices through spells to the four low-level mages on the ship in front.

After a while, the speed of the entire fleet slowed down, and Sha Duo also walked to the bow. Lake Macht was right in front, and he could already clearly see the vast lake.

When he used [Eye in the Sky] to draw a map before, he had already seen the entirety of Lake Macht. The lake was roughly in the shape of an irregular circle, with a diameter of about four or five miles. It was still a pretty big lake. .

At least if the current Daxia Territory is thrown into it, Lake Macht can completely accommodate it.

…

Soon, the first ship in the fleet sailed into Lake Macht, followed by a burst of high-pitched and low-pitched whistles, one by one, reaching the [Lucky Owen] at the end.

Mate Russ, who was accompanying Shado, immediately interpreted the signal coming from the front, "Sir, there are only one other ship found ahead."

"a ship?"

Xia Duo thought that when he used [Eye of the Sky] the day before yesterday, he did see a ship in front of the fleet, but he didn't pay much attention to it at that time. Although there were not many ships from the mainland to the south, it was not none.

At that time, he only thought it was an ordinary cargo ship heading to the Saville Territory. Now two days later, the ship was still staying in Lake Macht, which had to attract Sha Duo's attention.

"Don't worry about them, let our people stay alert!"

"yes."

…

When all the fleet entered Lake Macht, Sha Duo also saw with his own eyes the ship staying in the lake. From a distance, it seemed that people could be seen moving from time to time on the deck over there.

Xia Duo just glanced at it and didn't pay much attention to it. He was thinking about how to clean up the fishmen and wait for them to come over? Or find some kind of bait to attract them?

Or cast a spell to find them, and then kill them directly to their lair?

Considering that there are so many people in the fleet, the food on the ship can only allow them to stay here for three days at most. If you include the reserves in the carry-on space, they can barely stay for two more days.

With such restrictions, Xia Duo immediately made a decision.

"Let the boat in front come closer and stop, and let's get closer too!"

First Officer Ruth immediately obeyed the order.

At the same time, Xia Duo ordered someone to beat the water with a spare oar, hoping to attract the fishmen. If the corpses of the fishmen killed by the fleet before were still there, there would be no need for such trouble now.

Through the corpses, you can easily find their lair, and even if you don't kill them directly, you can still arrange it easily.

"You don't even need a corpse, just some fresh blood!" Sha Duo murmured.

On the way before, he had carefully questioned the soldiers on the boat. The fishmen just wanted to climb onto the boat, but before they could succeed, they were either stabbed to death by spears or shot to death by crossbow arrows.

Even the suspected fishman caster was hit by several arrows and then sank into the water. According to the habits of the fishman, there was basically no whole body left behind.

Um--

Xia Duo seemed to have thought of something. He immediately called Russ and ordered: "First Mate Russ, call a few crew members who are good at fishing to come out and fish."

"Sir, what are you—" Ruth was a little confused. Someone caught fish on the way before, and there was very little fresh food on the boat. He even specially made a bowl of fish soup for you, but he didn't ask for it. Could it be that now? Craving fish again?

Xia Duo didn't know what Ruth was thinking, but the doubtful look in his eyes was very obvious. He didn't hide it and said directly: "I want fish viscera to attract the fishmen, go and get ready!"

"Oh!" Ruth nodded quickly, "Yes, sir!"

Watching Ruth's figure leaving in a hurry, Xia Duo actually didn't have much confidence in his heart. He wasn't entirely sure whether fish offal could attract murlocs. He only thought of it from the rumors that murlocs like to eat the corpses of the same kind.

Murlocs should also be considered fish, right?

probably?