The Lord of Ashes

Bixi and Thain were very happy to see each other again after a year and a half.

A year and a half is not long, and there is no sense of strangeness between one person and one turtle.

Bixi talked about his situation after going to the Forest of Sages, and Thain gave a general introduction to his experience in the past year and a half.

It turns out that Tourmaline didn't just arrive here, it had already arrived at this estuary for nearly a year.

Tourmaline's total time spent in the Forest of Sages did not exceed two months.

As Bixi's brother Mo Yan left the wizarding world, Bixi had no intention of continuing to stay in the Forest of Sages, so he left directly.

And after four months of walking and stopping, we arrived at the estuary to the west of the Steel City, where we waited for Thain.

After letting Bixi wait for a year, Thain was a little embarrassed after hearing this.

But Tourmaline didn't feel much of anything. Anyway, it just fell asleep when it came here.

Although the sunshine here is not as warm as on the south coast, the sand bed offshore is soft enough, and Tourmaline likes it very much.

Tourmaline's experience is nothing to introduce, but it is Thain's various experiences in the City of Steel in the past year and a half that made Thain listen with interest.

Including Thain, he also showed Bi Xi the mechanical bee he had recently purchased.

The mechanical bee, which is less than five meters tall, is as small as a bug in front of Tourmaline, which is a thousand meters tall.

Bixi herself looked at it very seriously, her round eyes blinking, and she was obviously curious about this kind of mechanical alchemy product in the wizarding world.

When I heard Thain talking about buildings and giant platforms that were thousands, tens of thousands, or even taller and more magnificent.

Tourmaline will also echo and exclaim.

In short, this is a dragon that likes to sleep, but is also very curious about new things.

More importantly, Bixi is very good to Thain and really treats him as a friend.

"Let's go to the Western Islands." Standing on Tourmaline's back, Thane said to the big guy.

"Okay! Go home!" Bixi shouted happily, and then headed towards the depths of the northwest ocean.

Tourmaline was broken out of its shell in the Western Isles, where it grew up even as a baby.

So the Western Islands are Tourmaline’s home.

For Thain, where is his "home".

He thought of the Grant family in the Land of Green Source, and of the little nest at the Black Magic Academy in the Underdark.

More importantly, he thought of her. …

In terms of sea area breadth, the endless South China Sea in the Wizarding World is larger than the West Sea.

However, based on Thain's own experience of traveling, the time and distance required to cross the West China Sea were obviously much longer than those in the South China Sea.

The reason is that when Thain was on the southern coast of the Wizarding World, he did not go deep into the depths of the endless South Sea.

He was just traveling in the offshore area of ​​the Endless South China Sea close to the continental plate. As for the true vastness and boundlessness of the Endless South China Sea, Thain had not yet experienced it personally.

And with Thane's first-level life level, he can't feel much.

The field of vision is so low and so small that sometimes you can’t even see the so-called “reality”.

Today, Thain stood on the back of the tourmaline and crossed the West Sea, and could appreciate the vastness and vastness of the West Sea.

Not just because Thain will cross the Western Sea here and head to the final destination of this trip - the Western Islands.

Another reason is that Tourmaline's substitution has enhanced Thain's vision and cognition.

Open your arms and embrace the sea. The journey to the Western Islands is not short.

Four months later.

Sneaking above the sea, there is endless sea water in all directions to the west of Thain.

Except for occasionally encountering one or two islands, not even the shadow of the Wizarding Continent can be seen at this time.

This is the real depth of the ocean and the paradise of the sea people.

As a terrestrial creature, Thane is not quite used to traveling in the depths of the sea.

But Tourmaline has been performing like a fish in water during this period. She is much more energetic than before and rarely feels sleepy.

On both sides of Tourmaline's huge body, rows of sea creatures of different shapes were respectfully distributed on both sides in a queue.

Like a guard of honor, they respectfully escorted or followed Tourmaline.

These sea creatures all came spontaneously, and the strongest among them reached level two.

The appearance of these sea tribes undoubtedly demonstrates the unique status and influence of the tourmaline family in the ocean.

Thain noticed that the sea tribe following on both sides of the tourmaline were mainly marine creature Nagas.

It seems that the Naga clan occupies a larger proportion and population in the Western Sea of ​​the Wizarding World.

But if Thane remembers correctly, Naga only belongs to the middle-ranking sea clan in the entire wizarding world's ocean clan.

Among the upper-level sea clans, in addition to the royal mermaids, there are many other upper-level sea clans, and there is nothing to do with the Naga clan.

As for why it was this group of Nagas who ultimately followed Tourmaline instead of other high-ranking sea tribes, it was beyond Thane's imagination.

This may involve power intrusion and racial strife within the Sea Clan in the wizarding world.

(ps: In super ancient times, the Naga clan once competed with the Mermaid clan for the dominance of the ocean. In the end, the Naga clan failed sadly and the Mermaid clan succeeded in taking over.

Since then, the mermaid clan has been promoted to the royal clan, while the Naga clan has not even been able to retain its status as a high-ranking sea clan and has fallen to the middle class of the sea clan.

However, starting from the ancient times and ancient times, the Naga family has seen a turn of events again and has flourished in the Western Sea of ​​the Wizarding World.

Although the strength of the Naga clan is far inferior to that of the Mermaid clan, their influence in the Western Sea of ​​the Wizarding World is greater than that of the Mermaid clan.

Even the Naga family's diverse pedigrees and huge number of groups make the overall strength of this middle-rank sea family surpass all other high-level sea families in the wizarding world, except for the mermaid family.

This is a special marine ethnic group that appears to be a middle-ranking sea tribe, but in fact, its strength reaches the upper-level sea tribe.

At least in the West Sea, the Naga clan has the greatest authority. )

According to Tourmaline, it would take nearly two years to cross the Western Sea and reach the Western Islands.

This journey on the sea was indeed full of novelty at the beginning.

But as time went by, Thain gradually got tired of it.

There’s nothing interesting about a sea of ​​sameness.

Instead, Thane would dive into the seabed from time to time to collect some magical materials that interested him.

With Tourmaline standing by as an endorsement, the attitude of those ocean races towards Thane can be described as extremely respectful.

In addition to collecting specimen materials, Thain's own experiments were not left behind.

Thain's recent research direction has been on Owl Xiaoqi.

Strangely enough, the owl Xiaoqi just followed Tourmaline to the Forest of Sages. After returning, its feathers turned much whiter.

Although the overall color is still gray, it is not as dark as before.

There were even a few white wavy lines on its forehead.

The reason why this happened, according to Xiao Qi himself, was that Bixi's brother Mo Yan asked a fellow Warcraft King to give Xiao Qi a drop of blood.

This is blood nourishment from a fourth-level creature, and more importantly, the opponent is also a bird.