Wizard: This witcher is neglecting his duties.

Chapter 70 Black Tern Island

Under the cool moonlight, Lake Vijma was as calm as a mirror at night.

A thin layer of mist shrouded the lake, making it impossible for ordinary people to see the direction in the lake.

Fisherman Wang steered his wooden boat like a sickle, swiftly cleaving the smooth lake surface and leaving a trail of ripples.

Wayne held a black pearl he had obtained from Lala in his hand. It was the size of an egg, with a smooth and shiny surface, but it seemed to contain some kind of wonderful charm that could involuntarily attract the attention of those around him.

This is what Lala's brother Fitz stole. His school badge reacted to the black pearl, but Wayne's knowledge did not include anything about this kind of pearl.

The fisherman, Wang, who was steering the boat at the bow, remained silent, as if he had practiced Zen meditation. Apart from saying "Let's go" at the beginning, he did not utter a single word.

However, judging from the speed and stability with which he piloted the boat, this man who looks like an old man should possess considerable physical strength and control, and is not as frail as he appears on the surface.

After the wooden boat sailed for about half an hour, an island covered with trees and vegetation gradually came into view.

Black Tern Island is quite large, almost comparable to the entire city of Vizima. Moreover, in those places covered by vegetation and rocks, one can still vaguely see the ruins of some ancient buildings, whether they are relics of elves from a thousand years ago or relics of an even earlier ancient race.

However, these ruins have long been abandoned, and the civilization that lived on them no longer exists. Today, this deserted island has been occupied by a large number of wild plants and animals, as well as half-fish people.

After landing on the island in the middle of the lake, the fisherman, dressed in tattered linen clothes, picked up a wood-chopping knife from the bow of his boat, sat down on a rock, and looked at Lala with his cloudy eyes, saying:

"I'll be waiting for you here."

After saying that, he fell silent again.

Wayne glanced at the Fisherman King, figuring this mysterious figure should be able to protect himself, then turned to Lala and asked:

"Lala, do you have a way to pinpoint your brother's location?"

"If not, you can stay here with the Fisherman King and wait for me."

He had only asked tentatively, but the little one was quite resourceful. She proudly held up the colorful conch shell around her neck and said:

"Wayne, I can find my brother. He also has a conch shell. As long as I blow this one in my hand, I can sense where my brother is."

Wayne raised an eyebrow, sensing that the Lady of the Lake truly favored Lala's family, bestowing upon them many good things. After considering for a few seconds, he said:

"In that case, Lala, you can use your invisibility spell to follow behind me."

"Be careful, don't get close to any monsters!"

The little guy nodded obediently, picked up the colorful conch shell on his chest, and blew on it.

Without a sound, an invisible wave spread out, and she blinked, pointing to the southern part of Black Tern Island, saying:

"I can feel it, my brother is over there, Wayne."

After saying that, the little earth spirit Lala blew the seven-colored conch shell again, and her body quickly became invisible. She carefully followed behind Wayne.

In the center of the island lies a dense forest, and the fastest way to reach the south Lala indicated is to cross this forest.

However, entering an unfamiliar forest at night was undoubtedly a dangerous thing. After considering it for a few seconds, Wayne decided to be cautious and quietly advance around the perimeter of the forest.

Anyway, as long as you know the location of the little earth spirit Fizz, you can find him by spending a little more time.

The stealth journey went relatively smoothly. Although they encountered a few wolves and brown bears along the way, no battles broke out thanks to Wayne's Axii sign.

Half an hour later, Wayne led Lala out of the forest area, through a wasteland full of flowers and grass, and arrived near a damp cave by a lake.

Looking around, several monsters with fish-like heads, carrying wooden sticks and bone spears, were standing dumbfounded near the cave, chattering quietly to themselves, clearly not wanting any other creatures to enter.

Watching them move freely in the dark without needing torches, Wayne frowned, guessing that these creatures also possessed the ability of dark vision.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Life at the bottom of a lake or the seabed is obviously different from that on land. There is no sunlight, and light cannot penetrate to such depths. To live there, one must be able to move freely in the dark.

He turned to Lala, who was following behind him and was currently invisible, and whispered:

"Your brother should be in that cave, but it's probably dangerous there. You wait here for me, don't go in. I'll handle it alone."

The little guy was quite well-behaved and didn't try to show off; he immediately nodded and said:

"Okay, Wayne, but be careful too. May the goddess protect you."

After giving Lala his instructions, Wayne stepped back a few paces, found the back of a huge rock, sat cross-legged, and took out Swallow Potion, Wolf Potion, and Maribor Forest Potion from his magic-inlaid storage bag.

These three potions can respectively increase Wayne's physical recovery speed, attack speed, and the speed at which he casts signs.

Considering that the target of this attack was a relatively weak monster like a half-fish, he did not use lightning to increase his power. Instead, he decided to enhance his advantage of fast attack speed so that he could cause damage in a very short time.

After drinking the three bottles of potion, Wayne checked his body and felt that he could still withstand more poison. After considering for a few seconds, he gritted his teeth, took out a bottle of cat potion from his storage bag, and gulped it down.

Soon, as his eyes became bloodshot and his surroundings became clearer, a sensation of itching and pain filled his blood vessels and muscles.

This is his body telling him that the toxicity has reached its limit and cannot be increased any further.

Wayne exhaled a breath of stale air, enduring his physical discomfort, and took out a bottle of invisibility potion and a bottle of healing potion from Azeroth from his storage bag, putting them into his waist pouch along with seven or eight alchemical bombs.

No one knows how many merfolk are inside the cave; these alchemical bombs and potions are his only means of survival.

Once everything was ready, Wayne hid his steel sword behind a rock, took a deep breath, drew his master-level silver sword, pushed off the ground with both feet, lowered his body, and, using the weeds for cover, charged toward the merfolk guarding the cave entrance with incredible speed.

These subhuman creatures, whose height is generally between 1.2 and 1.4 meters, never imagined that someone would attack them at night.

Before they could even react, the three merfolk closest to Wayne had already fallen to his chilling sword light, their heads sliced ​​off by the sharp silver blade.

At the same time, Wayne also noticed that these half-fish people were much weaker than normal human males. Although they had limbs, the structure of their joints made them unable to be as flexible as humans.

However, they are covered with a thick layer of scales, like fish scales, densely packed in many layers. When the silver sword strikes them, it creates a slight obstacle, as if they are wearing a leather armor.

After killing three murlocs in succession, the other murlocs also began to react. One of the murlocs, a slightly fat half-murloc with only one eye, was the fastest. It grabbed its spear, tilted its head back, let out a strange cry, and thrust it toward Wayne's abdomen.

However, his speed was clearly far inferior to Wayne's. Just as he raised the spear made of fish bones, Wayne's silver sword pierced through his only remaining fish eye with lightning speed, instantly destroying the half-fishman's already underdeveloped brain.

After killing the merman, Wayne didn't stop. He immediately drew his silver sword, twisted his waist, kicked aside the corpse of the half-merman in front of him, and launched a swift diagonal slash at the other half-merman closest to him.

The merman clearly had some combat experience; he raised a rusty iron axe, trying to block the slash with the axe blade, but Wayne's speed was far beyond what these monsters, weaker than water ghosts, could react to.

Before the half-fish could even raise its arm, the sharp sword light had already severed half of its body.

Foul-smelling blood gushed out, and the fishy-smelling body was split in two. Wayne neither dodged nor avoided it, and using the blood as cover, he delivered another horizontal slash, directly severing the skull of the last half-fishman at the cave entrance.

From the start of the attack to the end of the battle, in less than half a minute, six murlocs had fallen to Wayne's sword.

Without exaggeration, with his level 5 swordsmanship, combined with the cat's agility skill feat, the half-elf's agility talent, and the enhancement from the wolf potion, Wayne's attack speed is definitely among the top in the entire Northern Kingdom.

Dealing with these weak merfolk who still use bone spears and wooden clubs and don't even have a decent suit of armor is as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.

(End of this chapter)