The Azores Islands originally consisted of nine uninhabited islands in the Extreme West Island Group.

After the completion of the Undead Dungeon expansion (conquered by players), the Banshee Queen Minerva fled to this island and established a permanent instance.

Thus, players followed to this island, for instance grinding is a major feature of RPG online games, something not to be missed.

Among the nine islands, the eastern ones were San Miguel and Santa Maria. After players eradicated the undead spirits there, they established preliminary trading camps.

Players looking for companions to grind instances, gathering instance materials, or selling equipment outside the instances, all sorts of diverse players continuously arrived, making the two islands busily lively.

Of course, players wouldn't use the system-generated cumbersome names; they unanimously referred to them as "Northern Island" and "Southern Island."

The five central islands were where the Undead Dungeon was located; players needed to cleanse all four surrounding islands before they could attack St. Jorge Island in the center and defeat the Banshee Queen… not in the sense everyone might imagine, but simply defeating the boss.

As for the two western islands, they were devoid of monsters and uninhabited, with only a large number of Azores pigeons nesting there. Players could hunt here to supplement their meat supply.

What Aske meant by "stocking up" was obtaining food and fresh water from the island.

Nora maneuvered the ship past the two eastern islands, planning to head directly to Florais Island in the west to hunt. As they passed by Teresa Island in the middle, suddenly a shout came from above them from Eleanor.

"Aske!" she shouted, half her body sticking out of a window, "There's a port on that island!"

A port? Aske was somewhat puzzled. The central five islands housed the Undead Dungeon, which had been cleared by players countless times, and there definitely wasn't any port inside.

"Let's bypass it," Aske decisively ordered.

What a joke, only players would rush toward anomalies to investigate.

Now, Aske just wanted to find Heaven Mountain within the depths of the storm (thus avoiding various other troubles on the mainland, such as being summoned by the Church Court), and on the way, get everyone to Demigod Level.

Then, upon returning to the mainland, they would go straight to Mont Blanc without stopping, to fight the Bronze Dragon.

The girls had no objections to this order. Although they were also curious about the port and whether it indicated current or past inhabitants on the island, since the Squad Leader decided not to deviate, they buried their curiosity.

Thus, Nora steered the ship hard to starboard, intending to bypass the island… However, although The Azure Longsword intended to avoid trouble, it seemed trouble was not intending to avoid them.

A few minutes later, the ship suddenly couldn't move.

To be precise, it wasn't an issue with the propulsion system, but it seemed like something from under the sea had entangled the ship.

Everyone quickly rushed from the cabin to the deck, only to see the ship's side suddenly rising... A giant, entirely made of seawater, was slowly standing up from the sea surface, and their ship was right in the palm of its hand, rapidly lifted from the water.

Sigrdrifa rushed to the side of the ship first, throwing the North Wind Axe, which struck the arm supporting the bottom of the ship. Immediately, the arm, originally made of seawater, was encased in a thick layer of ice.

Peggy and Eleanor simultaneously leaped from the ship's rail, landing on the frozen surface of the Giant's arm, and then quickly dashed toward its shoulder.

The Knight opened her palm first, as the flowing Radiance of Will condensed into a sword in her hand, stretching quickly to about seven or eight meters, then she swung it down like a Long Spear, severing the Giant's arm made of seawater.

The severed, frozen limb plunged into the water, dragging down the ship held in its palm and creating a wave nearly ten meters high. Luckily, Thira quickly reversed gravity, causing the water above their heads to fall away in every direction, thereby saving everyone from a drenched fate.

Peggy continued her rush along the break in the limb and the moment she stepped into the seawater at the edge of the ice, her body collapsed into corrupted blood, mixing with the seawater as she rapidly ascended.

As the corrupted blood passed through, the originally azure sea turned a bloody red and began to churn uneasily.

Clearly, the Giant from the deep sea had not expected this insignificant member of the Blood Clan to contaminate its entire left arm; it immediately stretched out its right hand, and before she could reach its shoulder, it tore off its contaminated left arm.

The arm was thrown into the water by the Giant, but the corrupted blood representing Peggy surged out from the surface of the limb, speeding towards the Giant's face.

The Giant reached out with its hand again, as if to block its face, and the seawater in its palm quickly spun, extending something like long, thin tentacles of a jellyfish, binding towards the mass of corrupted blood that Peggy had transformed into.

These tentacles seemed to possess the power of the Law, binding the mass of corrupted blood perfectly and quickly forming a thin membrane around Peggy, trapping her firmly within.

The next second, the membrane of seawater exploded violently, instead rushing towards the face of the Giant, tightly wrapping up its right hand and head.

Aske stood at the edge of the deck, continuing to maintain the "Rebellion" Skill, using the Giant's own Binding abilities against itself, and Peggy didn't waste a moment, stretching out the freed mass of corrupted blood into a rapidly spinning circular saw and swiftly sawing through the Giant's neck.

The head of the Giant fell backwards, and its headless body lunged forward, crumbling before it even hit the water, and then transformed into numerous oceanic mermen wielding tridents, charging at the ship once more.

Immediately, numerous tornadoes erupted from the sea around the ship, taking the unprepared mermen high into the air.

Thira's Catastrophe Law Skill "Tornado" was impeccably suitable for clearing the field on this boundless sea surface.

The whirlwinds moved rapidly, quickly scooping up nearly three-quarters of the mermen, while the girls on the deck, gathered their strength, ready to target the whirlwinds with various attacks to completely exterminate the mermen inside.

But, before they could make a move, the mermen in the water suddenly dropped their tridents and began to shriek sharply in fear.

Everyone: ??

Although they did not understand the language of the mermen, the action of dropping their weapons was clear enough that no language was needed to understand it, so Aske gestured, and the girls temporarily dispersed their readied Skills, vigilantly continuing to watch the mermen.

Thira's Tornado dissipated on the spot, and the mermen originally swept up into the air, fell back into the sea with a splash.

When they resurfaced, their bodies initially made of seawater had transformed into tangible bodies covered in scales.

That is to say, these mermen were also flesh-and-blood beings, merely possessing some ability to transform into seawater.

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