Chapter 193: A Terrible Voyage
Luo En and Danitz, who was holding the cat, followed Cattelya in silence.
Luo En rubbed his still throbbing Sun. The fleeting warning just now had left his head feeling muddled even now.
What exactly was that thing? Why did he feel a faint, almost imperceptible sense of familiarity?
Forget it, it's best not to overthink.
That was definitely not a good thing.
After a moment of thought, Luo En forcefully suppressed the dangerous urge to activate his "Spirit Vision" and look again.
Beside him, Danitz looked at Cattelya, who was currently holding her forehead with one hand, her steps somewhat unsteady, and her condition clearly not right. He couldn't help but feel a little flustered.
Is she really "Admiral of the Stars" Cattelya? She seems so unreliable!
Then, he turned his gaze to Luo En beside him, who was also looking listless.
Brando, this guy, also suddenly looked sickly… Ugh…
Danitz sighed heavily in his heart. He felt that his trip to Bayam couldn't be described by a single word like 'unlucky'; it was simply the worst vacation ever.
After walking for a while, the three of them stopped by a very secluded dock. A small, somewhat dilapidated boat was quietly moored by the water.
This boat is too small!
Luo En examined it carefully. He found that this boat was even smaller than the small pirate ship he and Tracy had snatched when he was drifting at sea.
To undertake an ocean voyage with a boat like this?
Danitz's expression also became extremely grim. As an experienced old pirate, he knew better than Luo En what it meant to sail such a small boat in a place like the Sonia Sea.
He leaned close to Luo En and complained in a very low voice, "Damn it! With this broken boat, let alone encountering storms! If we're unlucky and run into a Storm Church patrol boat, we won't even be able to escape!"
Hearing this, Luo En could only brace himself and ask Cattelya, "Madam, are you planning to… use this boat to take us away?"
"Don't worry," Cattelya, still holding her forehead with one hand, replied with a hint of fatigue, "This boat is just for transit."
"Transit?" Luo En was a little puzzled.
But Cattelya didn't explain further. She just turned around and looked at them with her still sharp eyes.
"Since the agreement has been signed, I will definitely take you away from here safely."
"Come aboard."
Luo En and Danitz exchanged glances, both seeing helplessness and unease. But since things had come to this, they had no other choice.
They could only brace themselves and follow Cattelya onto the small boat.
There was nothing particularly special about the boat's deck. But when they followed Cattelya into the narrow cabin, they immediately noticed some carefully arranged materials emitting a special spirituality.
There were silver pieces inscribed with complex symbols, and dried herbs soaked in a special liquid.
Seeing their puzzled gazes, Cattelya, who was resting against the cabin wall, took the initiative to explain:
"Once we are a little further from Bayam, I will activate a ritual magic. This ritual will take this boat, bypass the Storm Church's patrols, and head directly to my true flagship."
Ritual magic…
Hearing this term, Luo En immediately thought of his captain, Edwina.
This style is somewhat similar to the captain's. However, judging from her previous state, the two of them should not be from the same Pathway, Luo En thought silently to himself.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
In the suite of the luxurious hotel, Katarina sat somewhat disheveled on the soft sofa. Her beautiful white dress had several tears, making her look dusty.
"Rosell's daughter is really not cute at all," she looked at her slightly disheveled reflection in the mirror and pouted unhappily. "She just started fighting without a word, really…"
Although they were both Sequence 3 demigods, the "Queen Mystic" Bernadette had an absurd number of Mystical Items! If it came to a head-on fight, she was no match at all.
"But why is she also targeting that Brando?" Katarina sighed, propping her smooth chin with her hand, lost in thought.
"Could it be that the little guy has some secret I don't know about, something even Rosell's daughter would be interested in?"
Suddenly, she chuckled as if she had thought of something interesting.
"It seems this little guy is quite good at attracting trouble."
"First there was my little Tracy, then the 'Iceberg Admiral' Edwina Edwards whom little Tracy mentioned, and now—a 'Queen Mystic' Bernadette Gustav has been added."
"Sigh, really. With that woman stirring things up, I don't even know where my little guy has run off to."
As she spoke, she extended her slender fingers and carefully picked out an inconspicuous black hair from deep within her collar. It was something she had secretly "borrowed" from Luo En during their "date" when he wasn't paying attention.
"Fortunately—"
"I was prepared."
The small boat sailed steadily on the dark sea for a period of time.
Away from Bayam, which was full of dangers, Luo En and Danitz's tense emotions finally eased a little.
"Meow—"
Even Lachi, who had been on high alert, seemed to relax, curling up in a corner and falling into a deep sleep.
However, good times don't last.
After the small boat had sailed a considerable distance from Bayam.
Cattelya, who had been resting with her eyes closed in the cabin, endured the discomfort that had not completely dissipated and forced herself to stand up, beginning the preparations for the ritual magic.
Just as she picked up a silver piece covered with symbols, preparing to place it in its designated position, her body suddenly stiffened!
"Clang"
"Ah—!"
A suppressed scream of extreme pain tore from the depths of her throat.
That familiar, terrifying feeling had returned! The vast, chaotic torrent of knowledge from the Hidden Sage once again mercilessly surged into her mind without warning.
She couldn't hold on, and her entire body fell heavily to the ground, curling up in pain. She even scratched deep bloody marks on the wooden floor because she couldn't suppress the pain!
"Meow?!"
Lachi, in her sleep, was completely startled awake by this sudden change.
"Damn it! What—what's wrong with her?!" Danitz watched Cattelya writhing in pain on the ground, his voice beginning to tremble.
She's not going to lose control again, is she?!
"Brando! What do we do now…" He subconsciously wanted to turn to Luo En for help.
However, when he turned his head, he found that Luo En's face had also become exceptionally grim! He was holding his head with one hand and pressing his chest wound with the other, his entire body weakly leaning against the cabin wall.
"Damn it!" Luo En gritted his teeth, fine beads of cold sweat appearing on his forehead.
He found that his head was once again feeling muddled. Even the wound on his chest, which had been slashed by the claws of "Steel" Maveti and had already begun to heal, suddenly throbbed with excruciating pain!
Damn it!
The "Calamity" premonition had activated!
Something… terrible was coming!