<h4>Chapter 1097: Sea n</h4>
The High Elf leader panicked and sped up his chanting speed, while his voice became sharp and harsh. He was no longer as refined and elegant as before. However, his efforts were in vain because the branches that swarmed over soon entangled and cocooned him like an insect. Immediately afterwards, a dull and miserable cry sounded from the green cocoon, and the power of the Domain World quickly faded.
When that Domain Worldpletely disappeared, Lin Li was left hovering in the sky with a rxed look, while the proud High Elf leader had already disappeared without leaving anything behind.
In fact, if it were Elder Zumar of the Illuminati, Lin Li might not have won so easily. The High Elf leader only had himself to me for being a showoff and exerting power that he could not even master himself in front of Lin Li who had two saplings of the Tree of Eternity.
After killing the Sanctuary-level High Elf leader, Lin Li returned to <i>The Star</i>, which was under his control, and began attacking the High Elves ferociously. That battle made Lin Li realize the power of <i>The Star</i>‘sbat power as the High Elves’ fleet became a prop for <i>The Star</i> to show its power.
Under the fierce attacksunched by <i>The Star</i>, the remaining High Elven battleships were barely able to retaliate, and they either sank to the bottom of the sea or simply vanished.
After the battle ended, Lin Li had gained a better understanding of <i>The Star</i>‘s performance. At the same time, he couldn’t help but want to possess a powerful sea fortress. Although he already had the Sky Castle now, he could not use it easily. If he had a sea fortress like <i>The Star</i>, it would definitely be of great help in the future, be it when he was exploring the Endless Ocean or when developing the Tower of Dusk.
However, Lin Li had merely operated the arms system of <i>The Star</i>, and he still couldn’t interfere with <i>The Star</i>‘s voyage yet. Besides, he didn’t want to do so at the moment, either. After all, he still had to wait for <i>The Star</i> to bring him to his destination where he could find out Geresco’s intention for bringing him to this world.
After the battle with the High Elves’ fleet, <i>The Star</i> seemed to be sailing on a safer course, and there were no powerful sea beasts appearing along the way like before. Lin Li also began to rx a little. Apart from studying the structure of <i>The Star</i>, he spent the rest of his time waiting to reach the destination.
Just like that, <i>The Star</i> sailed on the sea for another six or seven days. Lin Li finally saw a huge ind in front of <i>The Star</i> from afar. As <i>The Star</i> approached, he also got a clearer glimpse of the ind, and saw that there were countless buildings, as well as arge port where various kinds of ships were docked.
<i>Where’s this ce? Is Geresco’s purpose to get me here?</i> Several doubts popped up in Lin Li’s mind as he really couldn’t imagine what kind of secrets could be hidden on such a seemingly prosperous ind.
Finally, <i>The Star</i> slowly sailed into the harbor on the ind, and the boats there hurriedly evaded when they saw the massive ship. Even though they had never seen <i>The Star</i> in action, they could tell from its massive size that their tiny vessels would definitely be smashed into bits immediately uponing into contact with it.
Lin Li came out of <i>The Star</i>,and walked straight towards the center of the ind, ignoring the countless curious or fearful gazes that were being cast on him. He didn’t have to worry about the safety of <i>The Star</i>, either, because there was a skeleton watching from above anyway. Besides, even if there wasn’t anyone watching, <i>The Star</i> could not be operated or maneuvered by just anyone. In fact, no one below the Sanctuary-realm could safely step on the deck of <i>The Star</i> without permission.
Looking at his surroundings curiously, Lin Li walked towards the center of the ind, which was not solely upied by humans. Apart from humans, which was the mostmon race, there were also dwarves, orcs, and even High Elves. Besides, even those whose races had feuds with each other seemed to be getting along peacefully here. Although it was not to the extent that they could call each other friends, they at least wouldn’t get into conflicts.
There was arge variety of stores on both sides of the streets that peddled a variety of goods from weapons and equipment, which were the mostmon, to the carcasses of sea beasts. Stores that sold a plethora of marine resources were the mostmon. In addition to a variety of live and dead deep-sea magical beasts, there were arge number of minerals sold, which were rarely found on the maind. An example would be aquamarine adamantine, which was sold for a cheap price here.
Lin Li walked aimlessly on the ind, only to find the ind increasingly familiar. Standing on the top of one of the highest hills on the ind, he looked around and discovered that there were numerous mountains in the other directions in the distance, forming a crescent-shaped bay. The ind was located in the center of the bay.
<i>Isn’t this Cage Ind?</i> Looking at the surrounding scenery, Lin Li suddenly recalled the barren ind where the corpse of the Dragon of Destruction was sealed, and which the Gilded Kingdom had requested him and the others to go to give aid. Initially, Lin Li did not dare to believe it, but after matching it with what he remembered, he realized that that ce was 90% simr to Cage Ind in his memory, except for some minor details.
<i>Is this really Cage Ind?</i> Lin Li looked away from the distance, and turned around to begin observing the surroundings, which were rather lively. Compared to the deserted Cage Ind, it was drastically different.
At this point, Lin Li suddenly remembered that when he was walking over, he vaguely heard the conversations of the people passing by. Initially, he didn’t take those words to heart, and thus did not deliberately listen to what they said, but now that he had recalled their conversations, he realized that it seemed that they were speaking in a differentnguage!
Thinking of this, Lin Li decided to make his way down the hill and return to the somewhat lively street. At this juncture, Lin Li soon discovered the issue from their conversation because he had deliberately paid attention to it. Although the humans, dwarves, and whatnot were speaking in amonnguage, they had a strange ent.
After thinking carefully, Lin Li suddenly remembered that the strange, entedmonnguage was not some local dialect, but a very ancientmonnguage. In Lin Li’s memory, this ancientmonnguage seemed to be popr in Anril thousands of years ago.
That should be during the Dark Age, which was also when the High Elves Dynasty was at its prime and most prosperous. Under such circumstances, there was very littlemunication between the various races, thus giving rise to the peculiar ent. In fact, it could even be considered amonnguage, or perhaps it was not really amonnguage, but a simplemunication method that arose from the exchange between the various races, and which had not been modified much.
As the High Elves’ rule over Anril weakened in thete Dark Age,munication between the various races increased day by day. Gradually, themonnguage began to be improvised, and thenguages of various races were fused to be more suitable for the use of various races. Hence, the ent of the ancientmonnguage gradually disappeared over time.
Thus, although Lin Li also mastered the universalnguage, it still took him some effort to decipher and understand it. Fortunately, apart from the ent and words, there were barely any changes to themonnguage. Although he was struggling, he could still somewhat understand the meaning of their words.
Lin Li walked on the street for a while, and he already had a conjecture that this world that Geresco had created seemed to be based on Anril from thousands of years ago. That was simr to the ancient world of nna that he had experienced when he first explored the Sky Castle.
Of course, strictly speaking, the ancient nna that the Immortal King had created was in fact still in sync with the time in Anril. However, due to the fact that that world was closed to the outside world, there were very little changes, and it had been developing slowly like it had during the Dark Age. <i>Has the world now been developing for thousands of years, or is it just a scenario-based world created by Geresco at a specific time?</i>
At this point, Lin Li found a tavern next to the street. Taverns were usually rowdy ces with all sorts of people; hence, it was just the ce for him to find out some more about this world or Cage Ind.
Thus, Lin Li turned around, walked over to push the obscure wooden doors, and walked into the somewhat dimly lit tavern. Actually, the taverns from thousands of years ago were not much different from the ones in present-day Anril. It was dim and rowdy, and the air was filled with the smell of alcohol and tobo, as well as the revolting stench of sweat.
Although it was still daytime, the tavern was full, and there were even some human sailors who were wearing singlets, bearded dwarves, and hideous orcs. As for the High Elves, they definitely wouldn’t want toe to such a ce, because it was probably one of the filthiest ces of Anril in their opinion.
However, in addition to the humans andmon races, Lin Li also discovered a group of peculiar-looking people or creatures in the tavern. They were covered in fine scales, and had bald heads with only holes for ears. The most bizarre thing was that they seemed to have gills, and were breathing using the gill-like structures that opened and closed with their breathing.
Lin Li squeezed through the crowd, and arrived at the bar counter of the tavern. Straining his voice, he ordered a ss of ale from the bartender at the bar. It was the only ale that Lin Li knew of that hadn’t changed much after thousands of years. It still tasted rancid and was as cheap as ever.
Boom!
Arge cup of ale was mmed hard on the table in front of Lin Li. The yellow liquid with white foam looked just like a cup of urine, but others were enjoying it very much.
In particr, the dwarves were relishing and gulping downrge sses of ale which flowed down their thick beard to their chests. They then mmed the ss hard on the table, and patted their chest while burping before continuing to brag to the people around them.
Lin Li picked up his ss, put up with the rancid stench, and pretended to take a sip. He then put down the ss, and casually asked the bartender, “Bartender, where do those peculiar-looking people over theree from?”
The bartender didn’t seem surprised by Lin Li’s ent, perhaps because he had seen all kinds of people in this ce and heard all kinds of ents. However, he revealed a look of bewilderment when he heard Lin Li asking about the group of people. “It’s probably your first time at sea since you don’t even know who they are.”
“Uh, yes. Well, I’m sure you know about the situation on the maind. I’m out at sea this time with my elders, and we’re trying to see if we can do some business at sea.” Although Lin Li was a Sanctuary powerhouse, he was only in his early twenties, so his excuse didn’t seem too suspicious.
Hearing Lin Li’s words, the bartender grinned happily, and said, “I knew it. Your tender skin tells me that you haven’t been exposed much to the wind and waves. On the ount that we’re both humans, I’ll give you a heads-up. If you want to survive on this sea, the most important thing you need to watch out for apart from the High Elves are the peculiar people you mentioned.”
“Oh, is that so? Who are they? You actually likened them to the High Elves,” Lin Li said, ying along and pretending to be surprised.
The bartender was obviously very satisfied with Lin Li’s performance. While wiping the wine ss in his hand with a dirty rag, he lowered his volume, and mysteriously said, “Even those High Elves dare not provoke them easily, let alone you people. They’re the true masters of the sea.”
During the era of Anril that Lin Li lived in, many people would probably think of the Gilded Kingdom at the mention of the Endless Ocean. With their powerful alchemical warships, the Gilded Kingdom could be considered the overlords of the Endless Sea where there was no one and no force that couldpare to the Gilded Kingdom. However, due to the fact that this world was set in the era that was thousands of years ago, the bartender’s words immediately made Lin Li think of the Sea n.
As their name suggested, the Sea n was an intelligent race that lived in the ocean. Legend had it that the High Elves ruled the maind of Anril during the Dark Age, while the Sea n ruled the boundless Endless Ocean.