Chapter 179: The Gain
Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion

The broken pieces of wood were everywhere. The cabin was half ruined by fire and lightning. Obviously, there had been a bitter fight there.

Tom was very surprised seeing that. He wondered if Lucien had some sort of very powerful magic item, or even if Lucien was already a second circle sorcerer, which, according to what he knew, was almost impossible for sorcerers who never joined the Congress and studied arcana.

Then, when Tom quickly drew his thoughts back, he said to Lucien decisively, “Twenty seconds for you, handle the mess, check the kids. Leave the rest to me.”

Two seconds later, Tom quickly turned around and ran toward the main cargo cabin, where there was noise of planks of wood being broken there. It seemed that the kuo-toans were now trying to withdrawal by directly breaking their way out of the ship.

Lucien nodded. He understood Tom’s command.

As he was the one who caused the mess, he should be responsible for cleaning this place up. And within twenty seconds, he was supposed to get to the above floor and hide with the apprentices as well, to avoid being found by the incoming knights and squires.

And Tom would be handling the rest of the stuff.

The red light on the murloc mage’s scales stained the scales and now they looked as red as blood. Lucien knew that this was a good ingredient for making armor or magic robes to increase the wearer’s defensive ability level and his or her speed under water.

However, due to the limit of time, Lucien had no time for scaling it or collecting Murloc’s Lymph from it.

Lucien quickly grabbed the coral staff and took away the small purse hidden underneath a big piece of scale of the murloc mage.

Then Lucien cast Force Wave and pushed the murloc’s body out of the ship into the boundless ocean.

After that, Lucien ran back into his own cabin and calmly looked around this small space. Because of the bitter fight he had with the murloc, there was no trace of a person once living in here left. So he jumped up again, grabbed the edge of the broken ceiling with his hands, and climbed up onto the floor above.

Then Lucien started collecting some pieces of wood and iron plates to fix the floor.

Apprentice level spell, Repair.

As the dim light was shining, the gaps between the broken pieces were gradually disappearing. As a real sorcerer, Lucien was able to fix bigger gaps now. Twenty seconds were almost gone, however, the spell still needed more time.

At this time, a loud explosion came from outside of the cabin, which covered the noise made by Lucien’s magic.

Together with the sudden silence coming a second later, a bunch of people came downstairs and rushed to check the main cargo cabin on the other side, without even taking a close look at the cabins where Lucien and the apprentices were living.

After all, compared to the main cargo cabin where all the Wave Stones were stored, this side of the cabin was like nothing to them.

On the floor above, the gaps were all fixed. Lucien was now ready to hide. He thought to himself that what just happened must mean a great loss to Granneuve. As he was thinking, Lucien saw the door of a sailor’s cabin secretly opened a gap. There were several pairs of eyes behind the door.

“Mr. Evans, here!” Annick, Layria and Heidi said to him at the same time. Their voice was full of joy and relief.

Lucien quickly got into the small cabin and locked the door from inside.

“Good job you three, especially you, Annick.” Lucien nodded to them.

Annick’s face flushed a bit from Lucien’s words.

“We brought your suitcase with us, too, Mr. Evans,” said Heidi proudly. The young teenagers were waiting for more of Lucien’s praise.

Lucien smiled, “That’s very considerate of all of you. Right now we’re still in danger, and all of us still have to be careful. Now I have to analyze this staff, so let me stay focused for a while.”

Sitting down on the messy bed, Lucien started checking the coral staff from the murloc mage.

Having no idea whether the viscount and the pastors could beat the murlocs, and whether the ship was going to sink or not, Lucien had to seize every chance to make himself stronger. Maybe the staff would be the very thing that would save his life in the last second.

The three apprentices nodded seriously. They had this sense of responsibility that they were protecting their teacher right now.

Gradually, the sound of thunder and lightning slowly disappeared, and it seemed that the fight had come to an end.

Lucien opened his eyes.

It did not take Lucien long to analyze the staff, since he had already successfully analyzed several second circle spells. Now the staff belonged to him.

This coral staff was a level two high-rank magic item named Amboula. Its user could breathe under water and cast Lightning Ball and Acid Bubble, which were both second circle spells, three times a day. Besides, it helped its owner to concentrate on accumulating his or her spiritual power when a spell was cast, and also to locate his or her enemy, especially when one was casting metal control spells.

The staff was made of the coral growing near the altar of the Lord of Ocean, Amboula, and it was a common staff for Kuo-toans.

“One who is blessed by the Lord of Ocean has the power of water.” Lucien murmured to himself when he finished analyzing the magic item. This was the message left by the maker of the staff.

Holding the staff in his hand, Lucien noticed that his spiritual power had become more concentrated. He was glad that he finally got a staff as a sorcerer.

And even if the ship sank, he would be able to breathe under the water.

At this time, a loud voice came from the deck,

“The murlocs are beaten. Knights and soldiers, don’t let a single one of them escape. Pastors, repair the ship.”

It was Viscount Wright’s voice.

Although he was saying so to comfort the people on the ship, only he and the cardinals knew whether the murlocs were beaten or they just left by themselves after obtaining the stones.

The three apprentices released a long sigh.

Lucien was now in a pretty good mood as well. He opened the small grey purse that he got from the murloc mage.

As soon as the purse was opened, a great sense of oceanic power came out of it. Lucien saw six dark blue gems in there, and each of them was about the size of a finger tip. The six gems were all covered with ripples of light.

These were high-quality Wave Stones, ten times more valuable than common ones. They could not only be used as a main material for making medium-rank magic items but also to make high-rank ones. These stones were his own trophies. Lucien was quite delighted.

At this time, he noticed that there was a piece of note at the bottom of the purse.

“What’s this…” Lucien murmured.

After telling the three apprentices to keep securing the space, Lucien secretly unfolded the note.

“Collect a large amount of Wave Stone and bring them to the tarnished ocean area. We need a great magic circle to open it.”

Under this line of words, there was a simple map for directing one to get to the so-called “tarnished” area.

As this piece of note was already copied by Lucien’s spirit library, he quickly destroyed the note.

Lucien never heard about anything related to a tarnished ocean area. And it seemed that even the murloc mage had no idea where it was.

According to the map, it looked like that this area was part of Storm Strait.

However, Lucien was not sure, since the note was written in the murlocs’ own language, and Lucien could only understand part of it.

“Mr. Evans, the fight is over,” Annick said to Lucien.

Lucien grabbed the staff and nodded, “Then we’ll see what Tom wants us to do.”

As soon as he closed the purse, Lucien noticed that the power of the Wave Stones disappeared at the same time.

He wondered whether the purse was a magic item as well, so Lucien secretly cast Identification to check it.

The purse turned out to be an apprentice level magic item called Kuo-toan’s Pouch, which could conceal magic waves.

Lucien was a bit disappointed. He thought it was something better.

At this time, Tom’s voice came, but he was not talking to Lucien and the apprentices.

“What are you guys doing here?”

Tom’s voice was loud, purposefully loud.

“The cardinal asked us to check the cabins downstairs for fixing the divine power circles,” someone answered in a slight arrogant tone.

The three apprentices’ faces immediately turned pale, and they were all very nervous again.