Extraordinary Sailing

The western side of the Balboa Isthmus in the New World.

This place already belongs to the range of the Broken Star Sea that is naturally separated by the mainland. The deeper you go into the Broken Star Sea, the closer you are to the unknown place of human beings, and it also means more dangers and mysteries!

At the official level of the kingdom.

Even Sirius, who has the most explorers and the fastest progress in ocean exploration, only has a taste of this sea area, and doesn't have a deep understanding of it.

Perhaps only when gold, silver, or other great interests turn up there will spark another wave of ocean development.

at this time.

Hundreds of kilometers away from the Balboa Isthmus, on an unknown volcanic island that has never appeared on human charts.

Drizzling

Dark clouds have been entrenched over this island for a month, and the light rain that seems to make people moldy has also lasted for a whole month, and it looks like it will continue for a long time.

Well, maybe it's not "as if", on this island where the vegetation is not very prosperous, but it is located in the tropical hot and humid climate zone.

Dead wood, treetops, ground, and even seemingly inorganic stones are already covered with mold spots, green, white, red, and yellow, which look a little gorgeous from a distance, dangerously gorgeous.

This is clearly a veritable plum rain (mildew rain)!

Near the center of the island, from a cave that is only one person high, along the winding ground fissures, it goes deep into the ground more than 200 meters.

There is a huge crystal cave.

The depth of the cave exceeds 300 meters, and there are spectacular luminous giant crystal pillars everywhere. The longest one is nearly 15 meters and weighs 60 tons, and the shorter ones are as tall as ordinary pine trees. All of them are translucent gold and silver.

Beautiful and priceless at the same time!

but.

There is a constantly surging magma chamber at the bottom of the cave, causing the temperature here to be as high as 50 degrees Celsius all year round, and the humidity has reached 98%. This level of temperature and humidity is simply a deadly killer for humans.

If normal people come here without any protective equipment, they will definitely not last ten minutes before they will be completely strangled by this fairyland-like place.

What's more, in addition to temperature and humidity, there are more hidden murderous intentions hidden here!

There are more than 200 million germs in a drop of water that falls casually around us.

There may be more than 100 types of various germs in total, and most of them were caught by running water between 10,000 and 60,000 years when the crystal cave was gradually formed, and then survived in this relatively closed environment until now.

Therefore, 90% of them are ancestral bacteria that do not exist in the outside world.

However, this crystal cave, which is full of murderous secrets for ordinary people, is a priceless treasure for some people.

tick tock

The dim light emitted by the crystal pillar.

One can vaguely see five pale-faced figures in black robes standing there for an unknown amount of time under the large crystal clusters that look like beams in a cave.

"These three abominable guys are so unpunctual, how long do I have to wait here? In this hot and humid place, my babies decay too fast!"

A shrill murmur of unidentifiable origin resounded among the five figures. Apparently, among the five dead-like guys, there might actually be only one "living person".

However, judging by their similar appearance and the suture-like green hyphae spreading under the skin, maybe the only "living person" is not so "fresh".

However, his voice just fell.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

A black shadow leaped back and forth from the sky with incomparable dexterity between the huge crystal pillars scattered all over the place.

It landed on the top of a crystal pillar, lying on it like a big bug, and mercilessly mocked its companions:

"Hiss, living corpse, you are still so afraid of death, no matter where you go, you don't forget to bring those stinky corpses you collected."

As a dark wizard in the same school, he certainly knows the other party's details. The companion who hides among the living corpses of these strains is a ruthless person who turns himself into a mycelium petri dish.

The black wizard known as the "living corpse" immediately retorted without showing any weakness:

"'Insect man', who has completely abandoned your own body, what right do you have to laugh at me? After turning into a louse, you can run pretty fast!"

The eldest brother doesn't have to laugh at the second brother.

"Head lice" is a facultative parasite that can live both on its own and as a parasite. The "insect man" who came later used his own human body to support a huge "head lice".

Let this terrible parasite turn its host, gradually replacing his own body. In the end, it became such a "insect man" with two legs, four arms and a chitin shell.

chirping

"Ha, it's really lively. I heard you bickering when I first came here. If only you could be so energetic in normal times!"

In the voice that seemed to sound from the bottom of their hearts, a guy with a mouth, eyes and a canopy on his head, like a big mushroom in the shape of a human, slid down the crystal pillar limply.

Where he walked also left a trail of wet mucus like a snail.

Seeing the person coming, the two "living corpse" and "worm man" who looked strange in appearance and strong in strength immediately stopped talking.

Don't look at this guy's seemingly handicapped appearance, but he is actually the strongest among them.

Like the "Insect Man", it has abandoned the human body and has transformed into another biological form, the "Fungus Man" composed entirely of fungi.

They even think that the guy has lost the concept of a self, and that the displayed personality is just an outward manifestation of a fungal collective pan-consciousness.

Even the dark wizards of the same school don't know whether this guy is alive or dead.

Just like at this time, he has lost his instinctive language ability as a human being, and can only communicate by relying on [spore cloud telepathy].

After the third person arrived, there was a sudden silence in the crystal cave.

But they didn't keep them waiting.

call out--

A gigantic wolf with mottled fur that was as tall as a man landed deftly.

However, the three people who arrived ahead of time had long been familiar with the strangeness, and they just complained one after another:

"'Poisonous Wolf', why are you so slow? You are obviously stationed on Naika Island during this time, and you are the convener of this gathering, aren't you?"

The others still had the shape of a human, but the "poisonous wolf" who arrived at the end had turned into a thin giant wolf with five red swollen sacs around its neck.

Only on the limited space of the wolf's head was another distorted human face, which looked the most terrifying and weird among the few people.

"As a landlord, I just went to greet our guests.

Oh, here he is. "

Fluttering——

A big black crow flew in from the top of the cave, flapped its wings and landed on a tall crystal pillar.

If Aiwen was here, he would definitely find this crow familiar.

I saw the big crow's pure black eyes turning, staring at the four black wizards with different appearances below, but it didn't have the slightest sense of being a guest:

"Quack, since everyone from the Poison Epidemic School is here, I will announce the second step of the lady's plan and the target, please cooperate."

Half an hour later, the crow as the messenger had quietly left.

Only four black wizards belonging to the Poison Epidemic School remained.

"This croaking crow is so annoying, I want to see what it would be like to grow germs on the body of a shaman.

Moreover, he believed in a high-level totem god who possessed the authority of [unclean], [plague], and [death]. The effect should be far beyond that of ordinary people. "

The five living corpses rolled their dirty eyes at the same time and laughed strangely twice.

"Hey! Don't say anything stupid, we are now allies with Ms. Crow and her shaman group. It is really stupid to give up the real treasure behind for a little profit."

The distorted human face on Poisonous Wolf's head opened his mouth, sneering and breaking his companion's fantasy.

"'Poisonous Wolf' is right, although their attitude has not been very good.

But as long as we can use the power of Lady Crow to partially manifest the school's final creation [Plague Tree], we will be able to perfect the corresponding knowledge, and at least give us the hope of being promoted to a high-ranking wizard.

After completing the sublimation of the essence of the soul and gaining a longer lifespan, the future of the 'Poison Epidemic School' will be created by us! "

On the surface, the relationship between several members of this evil school seems to be okay. But only from the fact that they only use their own wizard names to call each other, it is known that the internal harmony may not be as harmonious as it appears.

In fact, facing a group of companions who have given up their human identity for the sake of power, it is really unreasonable for them to be on guard against each other within the school, otherwise they will be sold out by so-called companions who have no sense of human morality.

The "Poison Epidemic School" is a new school of wizards, whose source of power comes from many [pathogens] in nature.

Pathogens are the collective term for microorganisms and parasites that can cause disease.

Among them, microorganisms account for the vast majority, including viruses, chlamydia, rickettsia, mycoplasma, bacteria, spirochetes and fungi; parasites mainly include protozoa and worms.

All pathogens belong to parasitic organisms, and the natural hosts of the parasites are of course animals, plants and humans!

And these horrible and disgusting things can all become the spell-casting materials of the Poison Epidemic School, and a series of terrible witchcrafts have been derived from this, and these four monster-like black wizards have also been created.

"The first step in spreading the [cyst germ] in the pioneer colony, 'Poisonous Wolf' has done a good job. The second step is still led by 'Poisonous Wolf', and other people are in charge of cooperating. Do you have any opinions?"

The strongest mushroom man among the four took over the command without any hesitation.

The remaining three people looked at each other and had no objection, and they all promised:

"give it to me!"

"no problem!"

Now that even the "compatriots" who are Niemensters have become the sacrifices of the first round of actions, all the so-called morality, ethics, identity, race, etc. that distinguish humans from non-humans are all gone within their consideration.

Like desperate martyrs, no matter whether they are sacrificing others or themselves, they only have the [plague tree] as the source of mystery in their eyes!