Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 211 Construction Under Sea, Adversity Upgrade

In the evening, before setting sail, the night fishermen of Shita Town would always check the fish prediction section of the local newspaper. If they were well-off and able, they would also offer a seagull as a sign, which would stand at the bow of the boat and guide them to the direction of the fish.

The town's fishermen often return with their catches full.

At the headland's rocky beach, the eerie blue sacrificial fire has been extinguished. The sorcerer, who dances with diviner's grace, sits cross-legged on the ground, deducing the movement of the fish from the murmur of the waves. He dispatches seagulls to investigate, for when these birds fly across the sky above the pier, it is time for the fishermen of Shita to set sail.

Newspaper reports are always delayed, and schools of fish may change their location, but these seagulls always follow them precisely.

Lin Bo slowly calmed his breathing. The Heart Stone Amulet he wore was full of vitality, which made his parched muscles feel as if they had received sweet rain, and the soreness quickly dissipated.

[Skill judgment successful, [Double Blade Dance] basic proficiency +1]

[Exquisiteness coefficient × 1.0 (no work, no mistakes)]

【Health Status Coefficient × 2 (Perfect)】

[Inspiration proficiency +3 (body reshape, spirit penetrates the bones)]

[Final calculation result: [Double Blade Dance] Proficiency +5]

Not long ago, Lin Bo had upgraded this skill to Lv2, but the precision coefficient dropped rapidly, causing the proficiency gain to slow down.

He knew the reason very well: Lv2 was already a high level of general skills, and practitioners were walking their own paths, practicing skills with their own thoughts and styles.

In the case of double-bladed spinning dance, practitioners should have already grasped the concept of "self-dance" and begun to hone their mind and body at will.

Lin Bo didn't value this skill and didn't put in any effort or ingenuity, so he simply practiced the first four dances step by step, especially the sacrificial dance. It's understandable that his skill level dropped.

The Double-Edged Whirlwind Technique pursues vitality, passion, and chaotic agility, thus enabling the execution of magnificent, surprising, and perilous sword techniques, forcing enemies into desperate situations and rescuing oneself from them.

Lin Bo's dance, on the other hand, is precise, calmly indifferent, and methodical. He never expresses his emotions, but simply executes commands with his body.

He practiced the Double-Edged Whirlwind Technique as if he were performing the Absolute Control Technique, maintaining a detached, bystander-like demeanor.

This is certainly a clear personal style, and it is no different from the original in terms of its purpose. For him, what is needed to summarize his own dance is not an epiphany, but to spend time and effort to find the most suitable moves for exerting physical force and to organize them into a set of disciplined and rigorous movement systems.

Lin Bo plans to set aside time specifically for choreography when he has some free time. Before that, he can study relevant dance and martial arts theories to broaden his horizons and improve his foundation.

Since the [Giant's Field] team battle, and having dueled with players from other factions, Lin Bo has personally experienced the art of melee combat, a game of strategy played in the blink of an eye.

They have mastered one or more martial arts techniques to the core, often able to dodge or launch attacks in seemingly impossible situations, creating an advantage in dire circumstances. This is a quality that is very worthy of learning.

There are six traders in the [Fallen Giants] channel, each belonging to a different trading platform.

Among them, there are two platforms that specifically serve melee players: "Mingding Battlefield" and "Xinliu Pavilion". Compared to Duolian Duoyi and Aoqi Guiliyuan, these two are smaller in scale and have a clear bias in their product categories.

There are many small and medium-sized player platforms, which can be found everywhere in the player gathering places in the permanent plane.

Lin Bo added the two traders as friends, and after exchanging pleasantries, he also spent more than one hundred disaster coins to buy materials on kinesiology and martial arts theory.

Even a fleeting glimpse from the product list reveals that the art of melee combat is a vast realm, as expansive as magical knowledge. With his limited energy, Lin Bo can only dabble in it for now.

After buying a bunch of extracurricular books and stuffing them into his metal bookcase, Lin Bo politely declined the enthusiastic promotion from the two traders and went offline immediately.

Tonight's task is to explore the seabed. Lin Bo unfolded the time-space cardboard box, and a huge homemade submersible appeared in the twilight. The white paint on its surface had dried, making it look like a large snowball. There was a huge glass observation window on the front, which occupied almost one-tenth of the sphere's surface area, and six high-powered searchlights were distributed on both sides.

The monk formed the sword finger mudra and the three mountain mudra, gently touching the submersible, sensing the resonance between the steel and his body and mind.

The circular hatch at the top opened silently, and Lin Bo floated in, taking out an oxygen cylinder from the time-space cardboard box and placing it properly.

Waves wash over the pebbles on the shore and the base of the submersible.

As the hatch closed, Lin Bo activated the power supply, and the interior of the submersible became bright. He sat comfortably in the chair behind the observation window, and the entire submersible silently floated off the ground, drifting towards the sea surface and slowly immersing itself in the dark, lightless water.

The twilight beneath the water's surface was stripped away, and for Lin Bo, visibility was only a few meters. Then, the searchlights were turned on, and the surrounding water was instantly bathed in daylight. Tiny algae swirled like dust, and small fish from the nearshore came drawn by the light, hovering by the window like birds.

The submersible began to swallow seawater, and the hull continued to sink.

Lin Bo felt the water pressure along with the steel. From the ballast water tank next door, there was a constant gurgling sound as the internal air was expelled and turned into a series of bubbling bubbles.

The watchman reached out and pressed his hand against the bulkhead, feeling the seawater through the steel barrier.

He heard the whispers of the undercurrents and the waves, the flesh and skin of the same thing—the ocean itself—which did not speak to the monk. Lin Bo was not yet qualified to hear its words, so the sea remained deeply silent.

Under the control of the Flowing Technique, the submersible moved forward close to the continental shelf. The searchlights illuminated the seabed, startling the fish, shrimp, and crabs from their quiet darkness. The massive currents disturbed them, causing them to mistakenly believe that a giant predator was approaching, and they fled in all directions, stirring up hundreds of clumps of mud and sand.

Lin Bo still doesn't know the real name of any marine creature and can't transform into a fish to swim in the water. But even if he could, he wouldn't risk transforming into a small fish or shrimp and putting himself in the dangerous environment of the marine food chain.

If given the chance, Lin Bo would like to know the whale's real name, so that he might be able to figure out the reason why they possess magical energy.

He recorded the seabed depth and seabed topography along the way. The entire route from the coastal headland to the East Cliff Grottoes was shallow sea. If the line connecting the two were to deviate northward by a few dozen meters, there would be a cliff several tens of meters deep.

Since it is all shallow sea, in order to prevent the submarine cables from floating around in the water and getting caught on the anchors of passing ships, it is necessary to dig trenches to house the cables.

Lin Bo crafted an enchanted plowshare from sea-fired gray steel, making it sturdy and sharp. He then used tens of tons of steel to forge a chain, which he attached to the submersible, and together they were sent to the seabed.

The submersible moved forward, while the iron plow towed behind it, under the magic control of the mage, pierced deep into the silt and rock layers, scraping out narrow, straight grooves. This was repeated three times, cutting through the rock layers beneath the silt, making the grooves deep enough.

The reef area near the cave was the most difficult to deal with. Lin Bo used his secret mercury to cut through the rocks and sediments blocking the way, carving out a cable tunnel.

The next step was to purchase a sufficiently long submarine cable from the Duolianduoyi platform, lay it on the seabed trench, and then fill it with the surrounding silt. This completed the task, and it was already the early morning of the next day.

The final step was to connect the cables to the equipment at both ends. We worked from early morning until afternoon, and only then was the project truly completed.

The campfire by the sea went out.

Lin Bo gazed at the sky, which seemed to be the same as the evening before yesterday.

The seagulls set off again to find schools of fish, and the fishermen once again followed the spirit of miracles.

[Final calculation result: [Fire Sacrifice Divination Ritual] Proficiency +2]

Fire Divination Ritual: Lv2 (30/30) Communicate with the existence of the unknown and hear some voices that may be real.

"upgrade."

(End of this chapter)