Treasure hunter, sailing on the blue sea

When night comes again.

Alka and others have already arrived at this place called Broken Town.

In the northeast corner of the town, there is an area of ​​idle triangular houses.

This area is the ruler of Broken Town, and is specially designated as a place for outsiders to live when they arrive.

One silver snake per house per week.

Such rent, compared with the surrounding environment and the size of the house, if placed in Jiayuanhai, it would be no different from robbery.

But here is the endless sea.

What Alka didn't expect was that even the people on this island would actually use the Silver Snake to trade.

As mentioned in the book, these three currencies are used for transactions almost everywhere, almost reaching the level of universal currency.

Of course, I am talking about the leadership of the small town.

For the residents of the town itself, it is more about bartering and uniform distribution.

This can be regarded as some of what Alka gained in the town during the day.

They rented a total of 4 rooms, which was enough for all of them.

"Poroluo, this is the biggest house where the two of us live." Alka said, looking at the house in front of him that was more than twice as tall as the surrounding ones.

This room costs two silver snakes a week.

There is no way, mainly because Pororo's size is much larger than that of normal humans.

Equivalent to a little giant.

4 houses, specially designed large house inhabited by Pororo and Alka.

Xia Detti, Julia, and Materissa lived in one room.

Jason, Simon and Juanlu live in one room.

Four people live in one room.

Alka looked around and saw that this area was specially designed for renting houses to outsiders.

But now there are only four of them here.

And perhaps considering that they were acting together, the residents of the town thoughtfully set up a bonfire in the open space in the middle of their four houses.

At this time, there was a crackling sound of burning wood, and little sparks floated out.

After briefly looking around the room, Alka and Pororo came to sit down by the campfire.

When he sat down, Pororo stayed far away and moistened his skin with water.

The longer daylight hours today meant that he had not been exposed to sea water for a while.

One after another, everyone packed up their temporary houses and came to sit by the bonfire.

"Everyone separated today and spent most of the day wandering around this town. Did you gain anything?"

Alka asked looking at everyone.

After they were brought to Broken Town by Shiraishi's patrol team today, they were allowed to roam freely in the town.

As they said in their dreams, there is nothing strange about outsiders. As long as they do not disturb the residents here and there is no conflict, no one will care about them.

By the way, he also told them where to rent a house if they wanted to take a temporary rest here.

Alka had thought that their town would have such a thing as a hotel.

"The residents here all have magic power in their bodies, and their magic power reaches a minimum of one spiral."

Jason looked at the bonfire in front of him, fiddled with it twice and said.

However, Alka had received this news in his dream yesterday, and briefly told everyone about it.

Although I was still prepared, I was still slightly shocked.

They had never seen so many magical people gathered together in their lives.

I heard Jason continue to say: "These people whose magic power is active due to the high-magic environment around them are completely different from those who touch the treasure and become touchers."

“These ordinary people have become magically active people due to their environment, and their newborn survival rate is not high.

Even if they have lived in such a high-magic environment for generations and their physiques have already changed, the children they are born will not be born with the ability to withstand the surge of magic in their bodies.

The probability of neonatal death is not low, but the exact rate is unknown.

And in the subsequent growth, the damage caused by magic will make these children face certain dangers before the age of 5. Among these surviving children, some with weak constitutions will die of illness. "

When Jason finished speaking, everyone looked at him.

Juanlu scratched his head and didn't understand.

"Did we really enter this town at the same time?"

Why does it feel like Jason has been in this town for a while? Is this news that can be obtained in such a short time?

Don't understand.

"Hmph, I haven't finished speaking yet." Jason snorted lightly.

"I found out that I don't know who the leader is in this town, but he must be in possession of the treasure."

"Oh, why do you say that?" Alka asked curiously.

He intentionally asked in his dream, but no one told him, so he didn't know if anyone on the island had the treasure.

"You said that the way they gain power is through the tattoos on their bodies, right?" Jason asked, looking at Alka.

Alka nodded. This was indeed the news he had received in his dream, and he had told everyone before.

"But I discovered today that the person named Shiraishi must be stronger than me, right?"

Julia next to her nodded and said: "He can give me a sense of danger, so he should be on the same level as me."

Okay, that means he's around six helices, maybe even a little higher.

Hearing Julia's answer, Jason clapped his hands: "Yes, he is very strong, but he has very few tattoos, only one."

"How do you know this?" Simon asked curiously from the side.

He had not been on the ship very long.

So in his impression, Jason was a living treasure type character on the ship, probably someone who used a gun to carry out long-range attacks.

It gave people the impression that he was not very reliable. Not only him, but Materissa, who had just stayed on the ship for a few days, also felt the same way.

This even includes Juanlu.

They didn't know that Jason's real strength was in gathering intelligence.

"I asked one of his subordinates, a man who just got a new tattoo a few days ago."

"That's what he told you?" Simon asked doubtfully.

He felt that things like this should be considered relatively confidential, and no one would tell an outsider such a thing.

Even for this small town, being foreign is not surprising.

But the necessary vigilance should not be lacking, especially for these hunters patrolling the town.

Hearing this, Jason looked at him in surprise, came to his side, patted him and said, "Friend, he doesn't know that he has told me. He and I were just chatting."

He said and winked at Simon.

Do you understand, using some kind of rhetoric technique, the power of language?

He felt that he definitely couldn't do it anyway.

Jason continued: "I have also learned about other patrols. Most of the people in leadership positions have very few tattoos, but ordinary hunters have many tattoos.

The possibility of this is not low, but I can't completely guarantee it. "

"I also followed them around outside and saw them fighting."

"People with few tattoos are obviously using the power of the spell, while people with many tattoos are using the power of the tattoos on their bodies."

"It's obvious that those with few tattoos have very precise control over their magic power. Just like us, they can use magic power accurately to make their attacks powerful.

Those with a lot of tattoos can't do it. They can only use the tattoos and simply integrate the magic into the tattoos. If you want them to wrap the magic in their hands and let them flow out and attach to the weapons, they can't do it. "

Jason observed very carefully, including those old hunters who seemed to have a lot of experience, but they couldn't do it either.

This is obviously unreasonable, unless they are born with poor control over magic.

This is a problem caused by hard conditions and cannot be made up for by experience.

"Then I walked around the town a few times and got to know about those with less tattoos. They should be people who were enlightened by the treasures, and they are all very powerful."

"And those with many tattoos have poor magic control. Without exception, they are all ordinary hunters. The magic in their bodies is active because of this high-magic environment."

After listening to all the information gathered by Jason, Alka understood.

He had been thinking before.

If the people in the Infinite Sea are all people with active magic power due to the environment, then wouldn't it be meaningless that the treasure's very important characteristic of being able to enlighten people into touchers would be meaningless?

This will inevitably lead to the treasure's importance being greatly reduced.

For some large forces, the importance of the number of people they can enlighten may at some point exceed the ability brought by the treasure itself.

But in "Dream Chaser", it can be known that treasures are still the core of a force, which is obviously not consistent with what is known.

And now this is explained.

Ordinary people whose magic power is active due to the environment, although the magic power in their bodies can make their bodies stronger, it is difficult for them to control the magic power in their bodies.

Magic power is difficult to control, so you basically say goodbye to using meditation to improve your strength, and can only rely on natural improvement.

This is definitely much slower than their improvement speed in Home Sea.

In the home sea, he can also control the magic power in his body, spiraling in the circuit to speed up the absorption of magic power.

It is obviously impossible for ordinary people to do it here.

Although it is not logically reasonable, after all, how can the active control ability of magic power be low since childhood, but it is indeed the case.

But from some information in the dream, we can know that as the number of tattoos on their bodies increases, their strength will naturally increase.

Obviously, in addition to giving them the power to use certain spells, the tattoos can also increase the total amount of magic in their bodies.

How it was done was obviously not something they could peep into right now.

However, Alka still wanted to know the nature of these tattoos, so that he might be able to better carve better-used spells on the dolls.

Alka felt that there was something in common between the two.

The residents of this island choose to use tattoos that can use spells to enhance their fighting power.

To bridge the gap with normal contacts.

But there is obviously a limit.

But those who use treasures to enlighten them do not have such shortcomings. And because of the high-demon environment, their strength increased very quickly.

Just a simple guess.

Classification of town power.

Ordinary tattoo hunters are at the base of the powerful class, that is, at the bottom. Experienced tattoo hunters can probably reach the middle class.

The Touchers are clearly the island's mid- and high-level powers.

I just don’t know how many people have touched it.

If we knew the specific number, we might be able to figure out how many treasures they had.

In the dream, Alka couldn't completely figure it out.

Alka then looked at the others.

I want to see if they have any information.

"Then the crab is really delicious, right?" Juanlu thought for a while and replied awkwardly.

Obviously not everyone has obtained useful information, especially among them, the only ones who have truly had experience in treasure hunting groups before this are Alka, Xia Detti and Jason.

Xia Detti thought for a while and said: "Due to the language barrier, it is very difficult to get some information from these people."

She also tried to collect some information, but the language barrier made it difficult for her to do so.

Especially the residents here have almost never left this island. Even if there are outsiders, no one has the patience to teach them foreign languages.

And obviously they are not in the mood to learn.

Jason heard this and added: "Yes, I also discovered this problem. Basically, those who can speak Homeland Sea Language are hunters, and even among hunters, only a small half can speak it."

If it weren't for the language barrier, Jason could still get more information.

"And these hunters who can speak Common Language are very proficient in answering questions."

But at this time, Xia Detti smiled and said: "Fortunately, Lucilia is with me, so I have gained something."

"The residents of this island actually have a fixed fleet of ships that come in every 30 to 50 days and nights."

"A day and night is their way of keeping time. It can be simply understood as a day, but the time in each day is not equal, and the length of day and night changes."

Hearing this, Simon next to him nodded.

They wandered around this town for a long time during the day.

There are a total of 18 hours of daylight today, which is even less than last night.

I heard Xia Detti continue: "Most of the materials they traded were daily items that were not available on the island, and what they traded were materials on the island, especially the bones and fur of prey and other spell materials.

The large number of monsters on this island seems to be a specialty of this island? a large amount"

She wasn't sure either.

Alka nodded and continued: "The reason why there are so many strange monsters on this island is because of the activated ruins."

After all, he is the leader of this team, so he met with the leader of this town today.

Just by looking at it, Alka could feel the danger that man caused to him.

The strength must have exceeded the second stage.

The people he communicated with were also the leaders of the island, and these people were very free and easy about his problems.

They knew that Alka was visiting the island for the first time.

"It has been 36 days and nights since the last arrival of the team. It may not be long before a trading ship arrives." After Xia Daiti finished speaking, he said that was all the information he had.

Then Alka looked at everyone. Facing Alka's sight, everyone shook their heads slightly to indicate that they had not obtained any useful information.

Even if there was, the two people before had said it away.

"Okay then, tell me what I know."

"This island is very dangerous, as you have known before. If you want to go out and explore, you cannot go to the dangerous ruins surrounded by them."

There are people patrolling and guarding these ruins. It is not known whether they are really dangerous.

"Don't talk nonsense outside in their language. It's very dangerous at night. It's best not to go out. That's about it."

Then Alka started talking about business: "After daybreak, I will ask the Dawn Voice to come directly to the port behind the town. Normally arriving ships will basically park there."

"Then let's talk about what we're going to do after daybreak."

Hearing this, Xia Detti smiled and said: "Drawing a map?"

"That's right, but this island is a bit big. We don't necessarily have to paint it all at once. Then we can find a guide to take us for a walk in a safer place."

Alka has tried it before. The map does not have to be completely drawn on the island, even if it only draws one area, it is still feasible.

It's just because if you draw the island directly, you can intuitively know where the treasure is, so as not to waste time.

"Then separate a team of people and wait for us in the town. We can guard the ship and learn more about it."

As if afraid that everyone would not understand, Alka pointed to the houses around them.

"Have you seen the number of these houses? It means that outsiders come to this island from time to time. A group of people just left just yesterday."

And not to mention there are houses specially prepared for relatively large people like Pororo.

It is thoughtful and also shows that there are enough strangers coming to this island.

And to be honest, they have just arrived at the Boundless Sea, and they know very little about the overall information about the Boundless Sea.

However, the problem is that the ordinary residents of this island have never left the island. Among the hunters, there are also very few who have left the island and traveled abroad.

But not nothing.

These people are also the source of general information for Alka and others about the entire Infinite Sea.

For them now, the information on the entire Boundless Sea is countless times more important than the information on this small island.

These require someone to operate them.

And this same island needs to be mapped, because this island really has ruins.

Although he didn't know how much the islanders knew about these ruins, he could tell from the ruins they left before.

There are still many ruins that have not been opened, and they are afraid to open them.

Ancient ruins can also have functions that can be turned on using special languages.

It's hard not to associate them with treasure.

Now that everyone has come to this island, it is natural to have a good treasure hunt.

So a map is also essential.

Although there were not many of them, they were enough to be divided into two teams and carried out in two lines.

After telling everyone some of their ideas, they began to discuss.

Quietly waiting for the day to come.