Chapter 1035: Gray Mist Island
Although the Donald family is powerful in the Kingdom of Inger, it has always been difficult for their family to integrate into the noble circle of the Kingdom of Inger. Even now, the Donald family is only regarded as a vassal family specially trained by the Inger royal family to help them deal with business matters, rather than a real aristocratic family, even if they have the title of aristocratic one.
Not only Leo, but most other people in the Kingdom of Ing, think that the Donald family is in the current situation because of their family's businessman background, their quick success and instant benefits, and their family's moral motto, everything is empty and profit is forever.
Although the behavior of the Donald family is not wrong, and basically all the aristocrats act similarly to the Donald family, it is impossible to say that such things can be done. How can this kind of method of quick success and instant benefits be regarded as glory and spread without any scruples?
However, it seems that the Donald family is not recognized by the English Kingdom aristocratic circle, which is that the ancestors of the Donald family were born as pirates.
Although, in that drama, the sailor who finally got the beauty was just a captain, sounding like an adventurer or a businessman, if you think about it carefully, you will find that the so-called captain is more likely to be a pirate. After all, at the sea at that time, even a serious merchant ship would play a guest role in a pirate when necessary.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Kingdom of England started its business with pirates and became the overlord of the sea. However, in the Kingdom of England, it attaches more importance to the knight tradition brought from the Fran Empire. It has always despised and despised the old nobles who came from the knights. Even the Pirate Earl Drake, the most outstanding pirate noble on the continent of Viron, will not be regarded as a partner by them, let alone other nobles who came from the pirates.
At this time, Leo suddenly realized a suspicious point, that is, the conch that summoned the sea monster in the story did not record its origin. If according to the records in the story, Donald's ancestor was just an ordinary sailor, or a sailor on a pirate ship, and accidentally obtained a conch that summoned the sea monster, then he would never know where the conch came from, and just knew how to use the conch. Now Sean Donald is very sure that the conch comes from the world where the Sea God Temple is located, and even showed confidence that it could get it, and even took risks alone, which is obviously contrary to the logic in the story.
Leo asked directly: "How did you know that conch came from this world? Did your ancestors tell you?"
"Yes." Sean obviously knew Leo's doubts, so after admitting it, he added: "Actually, the legendary story is not completely correct. My ancestor was indeed a sailor, but not a sailor of Viron, but a sailor of a human city-state in this world. My ancestor was a human born and raised in this world."
Leo was a little surprised when he heard Shaun's words, but he quickly recovered and asked curiously: "How did your ancestors go to the World of Viron?"
Sean shook his head and said, "I don't know, the books left by our ancestors do not record relevant content."
Leo felt that Donald did not tell the truth, but he did not ask, but asked another question, saying, "Why do you suddenly want to take the risk of finding the sea monster conch? With your current position in the royal family, you should not encounter any danger? And the sea monster conch sounds like it is useful at sea. Are you planning to imitate your ancestors and become a sea..." As he said, he saw the firm expression on Sean's face, and stopped, as if he had thought of something, and said in surprise: "You really plan to give up your current position and go to the sea to make a fuss?"
"It cannot be said that I give up my current status. My position in the royal family is of great effect, and I will not give up," Sean shook his head slightly, and then continued: "However, as you thought, I have indeed planned to focus my future on the sea. Before coming here, I had already formed a fleet of seven steamships in the kingdom, waiting for me to take the sea monster conch to sail."
Leo asked in confusion: "Now the sea is basically the sphere of influence of the Inger Kingdom fleet. Even if you go out to sea, what can you get? Could it be that you are still preparing to go to war with the Inger Kingdom and grab the islands and seas controlled by the Inger Kingdom?"
"Of course not. It was the kingdom's instruction that I formed a fleet. How could I conflict with the kingdom?" Sean shook his head quickly, and then hesitated for a moment and said, "You may not know the situation at sea. After the gray fog appeared on the sea, our fleet found that there were many islands out of thin air on the sea. These islands were all over the sea and had a lot of resources. The kingdom's own naval fleet could not thoroughly explore and control these islands, so he summoned a private fleet in the kingdom to explore these islands, and promised that as long as the private fleet explored an island, the island would grant the owner of the private fleet as a territory, and the kingdom only extracted 50% of the property tax from the territory."
Hearing this news from Sean made Leo feel extremely surprised. The changes at sea were completely beyond his expectations. He originally thought that the gray fog sealing sea caused by the world's changes was just because of a loophole in the world, causing a certain subspace world to overlap with the Viron world, and created a projection in the Viron world. But now it seems that it is not just a simple projection, but it is actually overlapping with other subspace worlds.
Compared with the changes that are happening in the entire world, the decisions made by the Kingdom of Inger have become very common.
The Kingdom of Inge made a very correct decision. They did not greedily nationalize all islands, but instead allowed the people to participate in the exploration and occupation of the islands. In this way, the fleet of the Kingdom of Inge only needs to control the sea area and can control these islands in disguise. Although they will lose half of the ownership of these islands, compared with the final gain, this loss is obviously nothing.
As long as the policy of the Kingdom of England can be fully implemented, then when the side effects of the world's mutation end and the gray fog disappears, the Kingdom of England's maritime hegemony may be truly established. Of course, the premise of all this is that the islands that appear with the gray fog will not disappear with the gray fog.
Leo soon discovered another hidden information and confirmed: "The Kingdom of Inger has now fully mastered the technology that can navigate in the gray fog, and has it been civilized? Otherwise, the government of the Kingdom of Inger would not have made the decision to explore islands among the people."
Sean hesitated for a moment, nodded, and said, "It makes it more civilized to sail safely in the gray fog sea."
Leo thought of the living cabin he found on the ship, thought of the study of living debris in the cabin, and then the island mentioned by Sean that appeared with gray fog. Some of the related questions in his heart instantly found the answer and immediately confirmed: "Are you using the things you caught on the island as amulets for ships to sail in the gray fog sea?"
Hearing Leo's transformation, Sean's eyes widened, feeling as if he was looking at Leo's monster. Obviously, Leo's inference was correct. The Kingdom of Ing did capture the creatures on the Gray Mist Island, and then used the flesh and blood of the creatures to create those living compartments through shaman spells, disguising the entire ship as a Gray Mist monster to avoid the attack of the Gray Mist monster.
However, these are the highest secrets of the Kingdom of England. He would not have known these things if he had not been very close to the royal family. Moreover, he only knew a rough idea about this matter, but he had no idea about it.
However, now Leo seems to have known the way they sail in the gray fog waters and the specific implementation methods, which makes him not sure what to react for a while.
According to common sense, he naturally wanted to help the kingdom silence. After all, this was related to the future maritime hegemony of the Kingdom of Ing, but now he would not even rely on his own safety even if he returned to the world of Viron or even to the Kingdom of Ing, he did not think that Leo would be in any danger. After all, in this situation, it was too late to win over Leo, whether it was a royal family, aristocrat, or a church in the Kingdom of Ing, and it would be hostile to it.
Just as Sean was thinking a lot, Leo's attention had shifted from what he had just talked about to the surroundings. His spiritual network easily captured all the abnormal movements around him. Then he saw him take out a bottle of potion, but without explanation, he poured it down on Sean and himself.
This bottle of potion is very strange. The liquid spilled out from it turned into aerosol in the air, which was touched by the two of them and soon stuck to their clothes, hair and skin.
Sean also woke up from his mind's random thoughts because of Leo's actions. He was about to ask why Leo did this, but Leo covered his mouth, and then was dragged by Leo to the side of the stone arch and leaned tightly against the arch.
Immediately afterwards, Sean felt a slight tremor on the ground, and then more than a dozen monsters rushed up from the surrounding hillside. The shapes of these monsters were almost the same as the monster that died in Leo's hands before, and they were only slightly different in size and tentacles on their bodies. Among these monsters, the largest monster was about the same size as a large apartment building at least four stories high, while the smaller one was about the same size as a person.
After rushing to the top of the mountain, these monsters quickly emerged from their mouths, and the tongues were shaking in the air, as if searching for something. Several times, these tongues almost swept the two people stuck to the arch, but these monsters seemed to have a strong fear of the arch and did not dare to get too close, so they did not pose a real threat to the two people.
After not finding what they were looking for, these monsters targeted their targets at the dead person. The thick tentacles tear the body of the person, tear it into pieces, and then put it into their mouths.
After sharing the same species, these monsters seemed to be still unsatisfied, so they placed their prey on other living species and attacked each other. No matter how fierce the monsters attacked each other, they would carefully avoid the semicircular arch, as if they would die immediately whenever they touched the arch.
In the end, only two largest monsters became winners, and they knew that they could not cause fatal damage to each other, so they each chose one direction and left the top of the mountain.
After a while, Leo left the Arch, Sean followed closely and made a gesture to see if he could speak. After seeing Leo nodding, he said with lingering fear: "This place is too dangerous, we should leave here now."
"Of course I know I should leave here, but the question is how to go?" Leo asked while using the Spirit Network to check the surrounding situation: "Do you know where that Mount Saint Tru is?"
"It should be there, right?" Sean pointed in uncertain direction to the palace blocked by the mountains I saw before.
"There is a battle over there, and there are many very powerful beings fighting. I went there. If we are involved in the battle, I am not sure to protect you." Leo also looked over there, and at the same time used his spiritual vision to see the energy turbulence that broke out during the battle over there. If he had no wrong judgment, the unknown existences fighting over there would at least have the power of psychics above level 5, and there might even be higher powers such as level 6 and level 7. In this case, Leo could not guarantee that he could escape unstoppable, so he asked again: "Are you really sure that it is there?"
"I'm not sure." Sean could hear the seriousness revealed in Leo's tone, so he said truthfully: "The route I know is on the top of Mount St. Tru. Only when I get there can I know how to go behind. I don't know much about it here now..."
Sean didn't say it any more, but the meaning was fully expressed.
Faced with this situation, Leo had no better advice, because through spiritual vision, he saw that the scenes around him were almost the same, only the place where the battle was taking place was different from other surrounding environments, so even if it was not Mount Saint Tru, he could only choose to go there to see if he could find smart creatures and find some useful information.
Before he set out, Leo gave Sean another bottle of potion. The effect of this bottle of potion is to increase the user's endurance within a certain period of time. Although this cannot increase Sean's strength, it can at least help him to stop and rest frequently due to endurance reasons when he is on the road.
Chapter completed!