After going into the sea, I met the witch.

With this thought in mind, Freya no longer hesitated.

She took out a dagger and stabbed a small hole in the pad of her index finger, letting the ruby-like blood drip into the wooden box.

Only the bloodline of "Augustus" can open this sealed box.

As blood dripped, the box emitted a soft glow. In the light, the box opened, revealing a carving resembling a ship's prow to Freyne.

Before she could take a closer look, the light suddenly shone brightly, and she felt her consciousness being drawn to an incredibly distant place within the light.

After an unknown amount of time, things finally returned to normal. Frey found herself in a strange white space, where the only thing was a peculiar cube in the center.

Just as Freya was curiously looking around.

"呲呲..."

A hissing sound rang out, and one side of the cube suddenly lit up, displaying a picture of a raft moored on the shore of a deserted island.

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Chapter 55 Da Yin's Cry for Help

The places I visited, and the raft.

Ryan slowly opened his eyes.

Looking at the scene before him, a thoughtful expression appeared in his eyes.

"If I re-enter after returning to base, will I not appear at the 'campfire' but instead return to the 'starting point'?"

"No problem, we can teleport there quickly anyway."

Ryan's gaze fell on a small campfire burning at the front of the raft—to teleport, one only needed to place their hand over the campfire to warm it, and then select the "campfire point" to teleport.

Just as Ryan was about to teleport to [Campfire Point - Gap in the Giant Tree], he suddenly noticed a letter with a faint glow stuck in the mast with a dagger.

"This is?"

Ryan was puzzled and reached out to touch it.

The dagger was merely an illusion. When his hand touched the envelope, it disintegrated, transforming into a piece of paper with the following sentence written in a script he could understand:

Your partner, Big Silver (Red Silverback Shark), has sent you a distress signal. Its current coordinates are: Western Outer Coastline.

"this?"

Ryan was shocked.

Wow, it even has a help function; this is the first time he's ever known that.

So, how did Da Yin send out the distress call? Did the [Nameless Ship Sculpture] collect some kind of distress signal from Da Yin, which then formed this "distress request letter"?

Ryan had no idea.

He was too lazy to delve into the specific principles behind it.

Stepping off the raft, Ryan headed towards the western outer area.

The hunting in the woods area is not urgent for now; since Da Yin is in trouble, he naturally cannot stand idly by.

Regardless, Da Yin had saved his life. Cough cough, although the life of a wandering clone is worthless, it still spared him the experience of death.

Some time later, Ryan walked to the western outer area of ​​the island. As soon as he stepped into the area, he saw the familiar shark fin near the "old spot," swimming back and forth restlessly.

"Hey, Big Silver!"

Ryan shouted, and after a pause, the big silver bird excitedly raised its head from underwater. Seeing Ryan, it excitedly slapped the surface of the sea with its tail.

As they approached the coastline, Ryan noticed numerous new scars on Big Silver's body. The most severe of these was a terrifying, meter-long gash that seemed to rip open Big Silver's forehead.

Although the injuries have healed now, one can imagine how dangerous Da Yin's situation must have been when he suffered those injuries.

Ryan frowned, his expression turning serious: "What happened to you?"

Overwhelmed with excitement, Da Yin swam around in the sea a few times before using his unique body language to reenact his past experiences:

It first swam leisurely on the surface of the sea, then changed direction and showed an extremely fast swimming speed, crashing violently into its previous self that was "swimming leisurely" with a "boom". Waves splashed everywhere, and then it swam frantically on the surface of the sea.

After completing this set of actions, it stared longingly at Ryan, looking extremely aggrieved.

After a moment's thought, Ryan tentatively asked, "You mean there's a powerful monster in the sea that attacked you while you were leisurely swimming, causing you serious injury? And it continues to hunt you down every time you venture a certain distance into the sea?"

"You want me to help you get rid of this monster?"

Upon hearing this, Da Yin nodded hurriedly.

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Ryan's expression was grave: "The monsters in the sea... but I have very little fighting power left underwater."

"Big Silver, do you have a way to lure it ashore?"

The large silver head submerged to the surface, seemingly in thought. A few seconds later, it surfaced again and nodded vigorously at Ryan.

"Okay, let's do it this way. Open your mouth, this is for you."

Ryan clapped his hands: "By the way, wait here for a moment, I'll set some traps."

Big Silver swallowed a rich pearl that Ryan threw to it, blinked, not quite understanding the concept of "trap," but it did understand the word "wait," so it obediently waited in place.

Ryan took the greatsword from his back and began digging a pit near the coastline.

He planned to set up a "pitfall trap".

The fact that this monster could injure Da Yin so badly shows its strength. Before fighting such a powerful monster, some necessary preparations should be made.

In the past, when encountering monsters, it was either an encounter battle or a surprise attack, and there was simply no time or conditions to set traps. Now that there is more time, we can set traps to reduce the difficulty of hunting, so why not?

With his physique nearly ten times that of an ordinary person, coupled with a sturdy and sharp greatsword, Ryan dug out a large pit with a radius of more than one meter and a depth of two meters in just over ten minutes.

Wiping the sweat from his brow, Ryan ran to the woods and gathered some relatively straight fresh branches, dry branches, and large leaves. He sharpened one end of the relatively straight fresh branches and inserted them upside down into the bottom of the pit, while he laid the dry branches on top of the trap, covered them with large leaves, sprinkled them with fine sand, and finally stuck a small blade of grass in the center of the trap as a marker.

In this way, a simple "pitfall trap" is set up.

Ryan nodded in satisfaction and patted the fine sand and dust off his clothes.

Such a "pitfall trap" would be too much for the slender, dry branches to support the massive size of the monsters as they passed over it. This would cause the monsters to lose their balance instantly, either falling over or sinking half of their bodies into the pit. This would create an excellent opportunity for Ryan to attack.

"Big Silver, go lure that guy over here. Be careful, don't walk right into the trap I'm setting up."

Da Yin nodded blankly, then excitedly turned around and swam into the sea.

During this period, it was hunted down terribly by that guy. Now that it has a chance to get revenge, how could it not be eager?

While Big Silver was "luring monsters," Ryan sat on a large rock behind the "pitfall trap," cleaning the fine sand and dust off the greatsword's scabbard.

After patiently cleaning it up, he stood up and looked straight at the sea.

About fifteen minutes later, on the distant sea, the shark fin belonging to the Great Silver Shark rapidly approached, followed closely by three sharp spikes exposed on the surface of the sea.

From the approximate area of ​​the underwater shadow, one can deduce that the monster's size is even larger than that of the Great Silver.

"coming!"

Ryan's expression hardened, and he gripped the hilt of the greatsword behind him with his right hand, assuming a stance ready to unleash his power.

Time ticked by, second by second.

With a "splash," Big Silver burst out of the sea and landed on the beach, using the momentum to slide forward.

Of course, it kept Ryan's warning in mind. After gliding towards the "pitfall trap" for a while, it used its fins on both sides to adjust its angle and pass by the trap.

Chapter 56 Freyne's "Wonderful" Journey

No one knows what Da Yin did during this "luring the monster" process, but the monster's hatred towards it seemed to have "exploded." Even though Da Yin had already rushed ashore, the monster showed no sign of giving up and followed closely behind.

"Wow!"

Seawater splashed as a massive body leaped ashore.

It resembles a fish, but has two thick, scaly thighs and four toes on each foot with webbed membranes. On the sides of the monster's body, where fins should be, two wings grow instead. To adapt to the need for fast swimming in the sea, the wings have undergone structural adjustments, losing their talons and replacing them with wider and thicker membranes.

Three blue-gold spiked fins are located on the back of the monster, and above the monster's head, there are similar but much smaller spikes, forming a crown-like shape.

"This monster can move on land?!"

Ryan's face tightened. He looked up at the monster that was nearly twenty meters long, his heart pounding.

This is way too big!

It was only slightly smaller than the "Rathalos (leader)" we saw in the forest that day.

With such a size, it's no wonder that Big Silver was beaten so badly that he had to flee.

As Ryan focused his gaze, a gray-text notification appeared before his eyes.

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[Water Fish Dragon: A fish-dragon species with an unusually large size, almost comparable to the larger species of flying dragons. Its entire body is covered with shimmering scales of alternating blue and gold. Its thin, blade-like wings not only help reduce drag when swimming, but also assist the Water Fish Dragon in gliding briefly in the air.]

When the abdomen of the Ichthyosaurus is exposed to air, it secretes a sticky liquid that allows it to glide across the ground. This liquid has a strong hypnotic effect on other creatures. In addition, the Ichthyosaurus can manipulate rapids to attack, so please be extremely careful.

—You feel immense pressure!

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"So strong!"

This was the first thought that popped into Ryan's mind after reading the hint.

Putting everything else aside, just in terms of size alone, the Water Fish Dragon's strength surpasses that of the Dragon Head Crab and the Thunder Dragon by more than a level. If we were to categorize the strength of special monster species, the Dragon Head Crab and the Thunder Dragon could be defined as "lower-rank one-star," while the Water Fish Dragon would at least be "lower-rank two-star," or even higher.

The concept of "lower rank" was learned by Ryan from the introduction of "Rathalos (boss)". As for "one-star" and "two-star", they are just simple quantitative terms.

Fortunately, although the Water Fish Dragon is strong, the panel did not display a "cannot be defeated" message, which means that the current Traveling Clone has the potential to defeat the Water Fish Dragon.

"call……"

With a long sigh, Ryan looked at the water dragon by the shoreline and shouted, "You little fish, look this way!"

While shouting, he also made an insulting gesture with his left hand.

The Water Fish Dragon's gaze fell on the large silver creature not far behind Ryan, inevitably meeting Ryan's eyes. It naturally couldn't understand human language, but the contaminated gesture that transcended race and language immediately made the Water Fish Dragon understand its meaning.