After going into the sea, I met Miss Witch

"Bloody full moon?"

Hearing Freni's message, Ryan didn't care to continue testing his professional skills, and rushed out of the door. Because he was anxious, he failed to control his strength, and he stepped on the boat plank to create a spider web-like crack.

But Ryan at this moment had no time to care about such trivial matters.

Pushing open the door, the bloody moonlight fell on him at the first time.

In an instant, an inexplicable and indescribable noisy whisper sounded in his ears.

"*\u0026%*…………\u0026……*"

Ryan didn't understand what the whisper was saying, but he couldn't suppress the feeling of irritability in his heart, and he had the urge to destroy all visible things in front of him.

But soon, a faint warm force emerged from the depths of his soul, dispelling the whispers and restoring Ryan's spirit to normal.

"What is this?!"

Looking inward, Ryan saw the [Unknown Ship Sculpture] emitting a faint light deep inside his body. To be precise, it was the nine different trophies hanging on the mast of the ship sculpture.

He couldn't help but think of the introduction of the trophies.

——[Trophies]: How can a captain who travels through the worlds not have his own trophies? Only those that are powerful enough and unique enough are qualified to become trophies. These unique things are not only the captain's powerful medals, but also can bring considerable help to the captain.

"In addition to the special skills attached, is this also your help?"

Ryan said to himself in his heart, he raised his head and looked at the blood-red full moon hanging in the sky.

And next to the blood-red full moon, there is also a waning moon.

One full and one waning, one red and one white.

The double moons in the sky, the full and the waning complement each other, such a strange scene, made Ryan feel inexplicably cold in his heart.

Being under the bloody moonlight, he felt creepy.

"Did the inexplicable mumbling just now come from the blood moon?"

Ryan felt heavy in his heart.

In just one night, or more than five hours from 0 o'clock to now to be exact, during the short time he was adventuring in the travel destination, some abrupt changes had occurred in the Whirlpool Islands.

"Is it related to the special spirituality of Mingjin Forest - the crazy moonlight?"

Ryan had to think so.

Blood moon... crazy moonlight...

If you say there is no connection between the two, he would never believe it.

Ryan looked at the deck not far away.

There, there were a dozen pirates sitting back to back on the ground, with their heads down as if they were sleeping.

If you look closely, you will find that the faces of these pirates are covered with dark blue lines, which is the phenomenon of the "curse seal" taking effect.

These pirates were the patrol officers tonight. Obviously, they were strongly affected by the bloody moonlight, so Freni had to take action to make the "curse seal" erupt and put them into a deep sleep.

With a heavy heart, Ryan came to the captain's room.

Freni and Cecilia had been waiting inside for a long time.

"Mr. Ryan, are you not affected?"

Looking at Ryan, who had clear eyes and no negative emotions such as irritability and tyranny, Freni's face showed surprise.

"I don't know why." Ryan shook his head: "It may be due to personal constitution."

There are some things that he can't explain too much.

"Speaking of which, this weird bloody moonlight gives me a feeling similar to the monsters in Mingjin Forest that have become bloodthirsty and manic due to special spiritual influences."

"Lord Freni, do you know what happened?"

The witch lady looked solemn and spoke word by word: "The power of the witch."

"Witch?" Ryan was stunned.

He had thought of other possibilities, but the power of the witch was beyond his expectations.

The power of the witch refers to the power possessed by the sea witch. This is a power independent of the professional system and is also called "heretic power".

As for why it is called this, Ryan doesn't know.

The only sea witch Ryan knows is Furenee.

The current mutation is actually related to the power of the witch. In other words, is there a second sea witch on the Whirlpool Islands?

And how strong must this sea witch be to cause such a terrible and large-scale mutation?

Ryan couldn't imagine it.

Even the male fire dragon leader is inferior to it.

This is already another level of power.

"Yes, witch." Freni repeated again, confirming Ryan's question, and continued in a heavy voice: "Now, all the crew members on the [Black Rose] have been affected by the blood-colored moonlight and have fallen into madness. Most of them are in the lower cabin. Without the control of many crew members, the three of us alone cannot control the level 5 sailing cruiser."

"Although I can use the power of the witch to run on the sea for a short time, I can't maintain it for a long time."

"In other words, we are trapped here."

"If you want to leave, either wait for the blood moon to dissipate on its own and the sky to return to normal, or we take the initiative to solve the source of the blood moon."

"It's more than five in the morning, but the range of the Whirlpool Islands is still in darkness, and the blood moon is in the sky. From this point of view, the blood moon should not be able to dissipate on its own in a short time."

After Freni's voice fell, the room fell into an unspeakable silence.

Ryan glanced at the knight girl standing behind Freni and found that Cecilia lowered her head slightly, her eyes were scattered, and she didn't know what she was thinking, so he retracted his gaze.

After a few seconds, Freni spoke first:

"There's no need to worry too much."

"Right now, the three of us are minimally affected by the blood moon. We can stay on the ship temporarily and observe changes in the situation."

"By the way, this is for you."

The dark blue space ring on Freni's white finger flashed, and then twenty thumb-sized pale white crystals appeared on the table in front of her.

"This thing is called [First-Level Spirituality Enhancement Crystal]. Each of you has ten crystals. After using them, you can increase your spirituality. If all ten crystals are used, it can roughly increase the spiritual limit of a first-level extreme professional by 33%, and there is no Any side effects will not affect the current difficulty of spiritual improvement.”

Freni's words stunned Ryan, and even Cecilia raised her head in shock, with disbelief in her beautiful eyes.

"A treasure that can increase the upper limit of spirituality?"

This was the first time Cecilia spoke out tonight.

"Yes." There was a slight smile on Freni's lips, and the heartfelt joy of sharing good things with her family appeared in the depths of her eyes: "Cecilia, you can also use it in your situation, to increase the upper limit of your spirituality. It can even help you regain some of your fighting strength."

"The increase in the upper limit of spirituality is equivalent to strengthening the hardness of the container. Although the old container is still broken, the pressure it can withstand has increased. Even in the 'glued' state, it can withstand a certain amount of spiritual flow."

Cecilia's pupils gradually dilated, and visible joy appeared on her usually cold face: "...that's great."

But after the initial joy, Cecilia looked at Miss Witch worriedly: "Lady Freni, this thing is so precious, you..."

"Don't think too much, Cecilia." Freni smiled and shook her head: "This is something I found from the inheritance treasure house of the Augustus family. Each person can only use ten at most. If there are more, there will be no more. It’s effective, so you don’t have to worry about the danger if I get this thing, and you don’t have to worry about not being able to use it after I give it to you.”

The space ring in her hand flickered again, and nine more appeared in her hand, and she shook it gently at Cecilia.

"Time is running out. Use it as soon as possible. I will also start my second-level promotion." Having said this, Miss Witch's light blue eyes turned to the young man: "Mr. Lane, I will be in the compartment in the captain's room later. Perform the promotion ceremony. If there is any threat, I'll leave it to you."

"Leave it to me." Ryan nodded.

"Yeah." Freni smiled, and the fluffy witch hat with blue and white gradients on her head shook.

…

The door to the captain's cabin.

Ryan leaned on the bulwark next to the door frame, looking at the crystal in his hand, amazed in his heart.

The gray font has marked the detailed function of this thing, which also makes Ryan more deeply aware of how precious this thing is.

"One [First-Level Spirituality Enhancement Crystal] can bring an additional 0.1 increase in spiritual limit. Ten crystals are 1.0..."

"Although you can only take ten pills, the effect of this thing is too exaggerated."

You must know that after his [Pirate] profession initially deepened the compatibility, the spiritual improvement it brought was only 0.5, which is equivalent to 5 [First-order Spiritual Improvement Crystals].

What's even more amazing is that this additional spiritual improvement will not affect the spiritual improvement of his original career.

This also means that if he reaches the first level limit, that is, 100% compatibility, his spirituality will be 33% more than others!

Of course, this is only under normal circumstances. Ryan possesses a hidden path profession and has feedback from traveling clones. By the time he reaches the limit of the first level, his spirituality may be higher than that of the second level.

"Frenee..."

Looking at the crystal in his palm, Ryan felt complicated and unspeakable.

He could no longer calculate how much favor he had received from the girl.

After a few seconds of silence, he opened his mouth and swallowed the [First-Level Spirituality Enhancement Crystal].

Although this thing is as big as a thumb, it is very magical. It melts in your mouth and there will be no embarrassing things like choking on your throat.

In about ten seconds, the warm current in his body disappeared, and Ryan felt as if his whole body was soaked in a hot spring, warm and comfortable.

And his [Spirituality] on the panel also increased by 0.1.

After a while, he continued to take drugs.

In this way, Ryan finished eating the crystals one by one, and within a few minutes, his [Spirituality] also increased by 1.0 as expected.

[Spirituality]: 2.8→3.8

The feeling brought by spiritual improvement is different from that of physical body. The latter is more intuitive, while the former seems more illusory.

After [Spirituality] is improved, it will not only bring powerful blessings to professional skills, but also allow Ryan to try [Sword Skills] that he could not perform in the past.

[Storm Sword Skill - Breaking Waves] is divided into three levels: first stage, second stage and third stage of charging.

In addition to the factors of perception, if you want to achieve these three realms, you also need the most basic prerequisites.

A period of charging is 1.0 [Physical] and 1.0 [Spiritual].

The second stage of charge is 2.0 [Physical] and 2.0 [Spiritual].

The three stages of charge are 3.0 [Physical] and 3.0 [Spiritual].

In the past, due to the weak [spirituality], Ryan's body could only charge "a period of energy" even if he tried his best, while the traveling clone could only "charge a period and a half".

But things are different now.

With [Spirituality] of 3.8 and [Physique] of 9.46, it is no longer a problem for Ryan to charge up the second or even third stage.

The only thing that limited him was his own understanding of [Sword Skills].

Because he had to "protect" Freni, Ryan did not practice sword skills at this time.

Ryan looked up, stared at the blood-red moon in the sky, and sighed.

He just wanted to survive well, why were there so many people and so many things to force him?

...

While Freni was upgrading her rank, on the other side, Mingjin Forest.

The seated black knight and two ordinary black knights had already met at the entrance of the forest.

The eyes of the three people were extremely solemn.

Along the way, except for those who embarked on the professional path, the rest of the ordinary people were all crazy.

And those sea monsters that landed on the shore from the surrounding seas and had a certain ability to walk on land, gradually poured into Mingjin Forest. As for the sea monsters that could not land, they all gathered around the central Mingjin Island.

Just a rough estimate, there were more than fifty sea monsters floating on the sea.

What a huge number! Far exceeds the number of professionals in the Whirlpool Islands at present.

And this is without including the monsters in Mingjin Forest.

It can be predicted that at this moment, the Mingjin Forest is almost full of monsters, which can be called a "big nest of monsters".

Even the black knight in the seat has a heavy look in his eyes.

"The source of the witch's power is located in the deepest part of the Mingjin Forest." The black knight spoke in a low voice: "You have also discovered that the closer you are to the Mingjin Forest, the weaker the influence of the blood moon, and the interference of the 'whispering' will gradually disappear."

"This is forcing all creatures in the Whirlpool Islands to move closer to the Mingjin Forest."

"I don't know what the purpose of this unknown witch is, but since we are black knights, the sharp blades of the empire, we have encountered a heretic like a witch..."

"There is no reason to let her go!"

"There are many monsters inside the Mingjin Forest. With our strength, we are bound to be injured or even die."

"And the most terrifying witch is in the center of the forest, so before I see the witch, I need to save my strength. Are you willing to escort me all the way?"

"I am willing to serve you!" The two ordinary black knights saluted with their left hands on their chests without any hesitation.

"Let's go!" Seeing this scene, the black knight nodded heavily and led the two black knights into the Mingjin Forest.

In the night, the Mingjin Forest is still very dark, with extremely low visibility, even with the blood-red moonlight shining through the gaps between the branches and leaves.

This is a difficult task for other professionals, but it has almost no effect on the Black Knight.

The so-called Black Knight, whose full name is the Night Knight, is an advanced profession derived from the Night Watcher by the Augustus Royal Family.

The Black Knight in the night is their strongest moment.