Hand Rubbing Diamonds, who was pulling the boat, paused upon hearing this and hovered on the sea surface.

"Scapegoat, what's going on?"

Iron Black Pot frowned: "I see a small archipelago in the distance, but it's too far. From this position, I can only make out a rough outline."

Mr. Zhou asked curiously: "A small archipelago?"

Iron Black Pot nodded: "It's a group of islands very close to each other in the sea, from the outline there seems to be over 30, all together they should be about five times larger than the island where the Underground City is located."

Mr. Zhou was immediately interested: "Five times larger than the island where the Underground City is? That's really big and being an archipelago, it might hold lots of surprises for us."

"Let's keep going. Once you can see the situation on the island clearly, Scapegoat, we can stop and discuss a strategy."

Iron Black Pot nodded, then flew back to the high sky.

Hand Rubbing Diamonds continued pulling the boat and flying.

After advancing a bit further, Iron Black Pot finally saw the situation on that archipelago clearly.

He immediately flew down and began describing it to everyone: "These islands all look very desolate, with only a few sparse plants."

"Doesn't look like there's any sign of people."

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Mr. Zhou pondered for a moment, then said: "No matter what, let's first approach and take a look, anyway we're passing through there."

Iron Black Pot nodded: "This game often doesn't follow the rules, look at the island where the Underground City is, even birds don't poop there, yet who could have thought there was an Underground City below it?"

"Once we get there, let's take a careful look to see if there are any surprises."

Then the group of players set off again, heading toward the archipelago.

When the archipelago entered their sensory range, Hand Rubbing Diamonds frowned slightly: "Didn't detect any vital acupoint."

Then he turned his head towards Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching on the boat: "Grandpa Qian, did you sense any magic fluctuations?"

Upon hearing Hand Rubbing Diamonds' question, Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching shook his head: "No, didn't sense anything."

Hand Rubbing Diamonds breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, looks like it's really just an ordinary desolate archipelago, quite a pity for such a big island."

Mr. Zhou immediately said: "Don't be careless, Diamonds, did you forget what Grandpa Qian told us when we were building the ship?"

When the group was building the ship on the island, Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching told the new players about the encounter with those two field bosses during their first exploration.

If it weren't for those two field bosses attacking them proactively, they wouldn't have detected anything at all.

Therefore, many times sensory detection methods are not reliable.

Upon hearing Mr. Zhou's words, Hand Rubbing Diamonds immediately became serious: "Hmm, makes sense..."

Everyone then became more vigilant, cautiously approaching the outermost island of the archipelago.

And at this time, on the outermost island of the archipelago, a group of Red Merfolk were solemnly watching Hand Rubbing Diamonds and the others on the horizon from a distance.

The leading Red Merfolk was holding a white unknown object shaped like a square in its hand.

This was the carrier of the Light Magic Array 'Light Stealing and Shadow Capturing', it was one main with many subs.

The Sub-Magic Array Carrier can activate it, recording a sound-carrying image to send to the Main Magic Array Carrier over there.

The imagery recorded by the Main Magic Array will be transmitted to all the Sub-Magic Array Carriers.

The higher the Magic Array Level, the longer the image can be recorded.

However, this thing is not real-time.

After transmitting the image, the other side won't receive any prompts and won't be disturbed in any way.

Only when the other side activates the magic array, they will see the transmitted image.

This thing was not created by him, he himself is just a middle-tier mage.

The origin of this thing started with his father, who was from a village near the border, inhabited by both Red Merfolk and Blue Merfolk.

The Merfolk Border and Gana are constantly at war, and every time a mage and knight finish a battle, they need to arrange a large number of hands to handle the battlefield.

After all, mages and knights are the main forces in battle and hold noble status, they certainly cannot be arranged to clean the battlefield.

At most, they are responsible for selling off prisoners of the defeated side to the slave black market, bringing in this income through their own hands.

As for other dirty and tiring tasks, naturally, those fall on ordinary Merfolk, they certainly can't manage those.

Therefore, ordinary Merfolk are often conscripted from various places to go.

This job is not easy, because Gana completely disregards ethics, and attacks on ordinary Merfolk cleaning the battlefield are common.

In retaliation, Merfolk often treat them the same way, so both sides constantly lower their ethical lines.

The dirty and exhausting work of cleaning the battlefield becomes increasingly dangerous, directly becoming a life-threatening task that no one wants to take.

His father had a brother, an uncle he never met, who was a mage with a very high talent but had very poor interpersonal skills due to his personality and high self-esteem.

Fortunately, when his uncle was alive, although he had poor interpersonal skills, he was favored by a big figure, so no one wanted to offend him.

The village of his father also flourished under the care of his uncle, even when manpower was drawn to undertake the life-threatening task of cleaning the site, his father's village could evade the spotlight.

Besides this uncle of his, the village also produced some knights, but their talents were generally mediocre.

Usually, after detecting a Vital Acupoint or Demon Source, those with power and background could take their own channels, while those without would be recruited by the local authorities.

Once recruited by the authorities, if the talent was poor, or not good nor bad, if there was no war they'd live quite well.

But if there was war, they'd generally be sent to the front lines to contribute.

For Merfolk who have generations of blood feuds with Gana and are constantly at war, it's natural that they became sacrificial victims on the front lines long ago.

The lucky ones die directly, the unlucky ones get captured, sold to the slave black market, and called 'dead', not to mention what inhumane days they might endure later.

For a power like Merfolk, where battles never end, many Merfolk would rather their children not have a Demon Source or Vital Acupoint because if their talents with a Demon Source or Vital Acupoint were poor or mediocre, the outcome would be worse than those of ordinary folk.

As for having good or excellent talents... the probability of that obviously isn't high.

But there's no other way.

In countries without wars, reaching a certain age allows a free test for a Demon Source or Vital Acupoint, people would go voluntarily, because, in a country without wars, no one would refuse.

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