Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 505 - 69 Attackers_1

Chapter 505: Chapter 69 Attackers_1

"Look, they’re changing shifts." A suppressed soft voice seeped out from a rocky crevice blocked by rubble. If you peered into the crevice, you would only see several pairs of eyes gleaming under the moonlight, curiously watching the situation outside: "So they’ll return underwater to rest after switching shifts, I thought they’d just find a place on the island."

On the island at night, three moons were hanging high in the sky. Mia, of the Life Moon, was now in her full moon phase, the silver light full of vital energy, delicately sprinkling between jagged rocks. The deserted island was silent, no chirping of birds, no beastly roars, only the sound of waves crashing the beach, echoing in the silent night over the island. The controlled Sea Race members interchanged their shifts without uttering a word, one mechanically emerging from the seabed, the other mechanically returning to the sea. Their silence mimicked a group of ghosts, shuddering anyone who witnessed it.

On the distant slope, occasionally, small cracked rocks fell from the heights and rolled down the slope. The faint noise of the rubble hitting the ground echoed far in the quiet space; it could clearly be heard from the other end of the island.

"I’ve sensed it." Lina said in a muted voice: "Seems like luck is on our side, I had forgotten that today is Silver Lady Mia’s full moon phase. If we’d come a day or two later, perhaps it wouldn’t have been easy to identify the approximate location of the secret."

The Azure Moon represented the mystery of knowledge and magic, the Crimson Moon represented the devilry of darkness and death, while the Silver White Moon represented the hope of light and life. This was the time of the Silver White Moon, the time of the Night of Hope. On a night when Silver Lady Mia hung high in the sky, the air pulsed with vibrancy and signs of growth, the flower of life bloomed to its fullest, and what flowed with the moonlight were seeds of life and hope. The whole island, no, the whole Yarran World, was filled with light and life in this night. Under the silver-white moon’s reflection, any dark and deadly energy stood exposed like a beacon in the darkness.

As a follower and a believer of the Earth Goddess and a sage of Denia who controls a portion of the power of life, Lina’s strength is at its peak with the Silver White Moon’s rays. Even the moonlight seemed to resonate with her, each beam felt like an extension of her senses, easily detecting a space emitting a dense aura of darkness and death in a world teeming with vitality. The dark and deadly aura was considerably strong, not even suppressed by the divine power of the Silver Lady, stubbornly holding its territory without retreating.

"So, we’ve got our location right, it’s this island." Catherine said thoughtfully after hearing Lina’s explanation, "That area must be where our target is. If it’s not suppressed by the contrasting divine power, only a corresponding deity could achieve that. It seems that it’s the site of Demos’ remaining power and the final territory of the Mare and the Sect of Fear. Lina, can you determine the exact location of that area?"

"Just an approximate location." Lina shook her head, "Around more than two thousand square meters."

"Then it should be easy to find." Catherine said, "There’s no additional cover on the island, and the area of more than two thousand square meters could be thoroughly searched in tens of minutes, it should be relatively simple."

"Don’t get your hopes up too high." Pannis dismissed Catherine’s confidence: "This happened thousands of years ago, who knows if it’s been buried over time. Think about the goblin architecture, in about ten thousand years, it was buried a few hundred meters underground. If our target met the same fate as those goblin remains, then the work we need to do is huge. Imagine trying to dig a deep pit of a few hundred meters and of two thousand square meters under the surveillance of many controlled Sea Race members. Even in decades, it might not be complete, let alone tens of minutes."

"No need for the exaggeration, I already observed it during the day." Catherine said, "On the island, excluding the area near the coast, the mountains are all bare rock, there’s barely any deep layer of soil. We may not know why this is the case, but the situation you mentioned, where our target is buried deep underground, shouldn’t arise unless the target is on the coastline."

"It’s not on the coastline." Lina affirmed, "I’m certain it’s on the mountain, on the mountainside, in the opposite direction to us, at a height of about two hundred meters from our current location."

"Opposite?" Freya blurted out surprisingly, "Didn’t we just bypass it during our exploration?"

"Indeed, we did, it’s a shame." Catherine laughed bitterly, "But that’s fine, I can confirm that there is indeed no soil layer exceeding twenty centimeters. So you can rest assured. But I do agree with Pannis, it should have been buried long ago after thousands of years, why isn’t it obscured here? Could it be that the target is controlling the influenced Sea Race to clean its room? What’s with you all? Did I say something strange as to why you are all looking at me like that?"

Before Catherine even finished her sentence, she saw Vivian and Freya glaring at her with peculiar expressions. Vivian gave a helpless sigh and said softly, "Big sis, isn’t that common sense?"

"What?" Catherine and Lina stared at each other for a few seconds and then turned to Pannis, seeking advice: "Is that common sense?"

"Uh..." Pannis scratched his head, causing mud fragments to fall like rain. "Ha, I didn’t think of it before, but considering it carefully, the situation I described indeed can’t occur. From a certain perspective, it was indeed an attempt to test my scholar’s knowledge."

"Stop joking around." Lina barely managed to control her volume: "In the eyes of those monsters, anything seems like common sense."

"Right, right, those people are completely distorting the meaning of the word ’common sense’." Catherine nodded fiercely in agreement. "Besides, please don’t scratch your head. It wasn’t easy to ignore the layer of mud on your body in the first place, but the moment you scratch your head it makes me remember it again."

"Alright, I won’t move." Pannis obediently placed his hands on his knees and sat up straight, like a child waiting for dinner: "Look, we’re covered in mud, which comes from the beach, right? So if we want our target to be buried in soil, where would the soil come from?"

"Of course it’s... alright, I understand, deep in the sea, there isn’t so much soil that can be blown here." Catherine nodded with embarrassment, then suddenly complained, "You did it on purpose, didn’t you? You had to use this example?"

Not only Catherine, but all the girls were glaring at Pannis. The cave crevice they were in wasn’t spacious, although it could accommodate everyone in the adventure team, the five had to squeeze together. In this environment, especially since the girls were all wearing revealing Gallon jellyfish skin swimsuits, their large stretches of skin were exposed. Pannis would normally enjoy such a predicament, but he wasn’t finding it enjoyable at all. Everyone was covered in mud and looked like monsters or magical beasts to them. The girls found it for the first time that they missed the undersea world so much, at least there they could wash off the filth from their bodies.

"But I’ve been thinking from earlier on, we might need to change the plan a bit." Catherine propped up her chin, trying to keep still so that the ash on her body wouldn’t splash everywhere. "Since Lina has sensed the approximate location of the target with the help of the Silver White Moon, why not act now in search of the target? Tonight is the Full Moon, moreover, it’s the brightest Night of Hope amongst the Full Moons, and it’s not cloudy, we can absolutely search for the target now."

"That might be possible, but is it necessary?" Pannis asked, "Even though the moonlight might be sufficient, visibility at night is still not as good as during the day. Why should we act at night? Why not have a good rest tonight, and save our energy for tomorrow?"

"But, tonight is the Night of Hope, what if we encounter creatures like the Mare again? With the power of the Silver Lady to suppress them, Lina should be able to easily resolve the situation. Moreover, if we miscalculate the target’s location, Lina can search again with the help of the Silver Moon, which she wouldn’t be able to do once it’s daylight." Catherine spoke seriously, but at the end, her face flushed and her voice became smaller: "Besides, if we wait till tomorrow, I don’t think anyone aside from you would be able to sleep tonight, it’s just too uncomfortable. We should solve the problem sooner, and get back into the sea for a bath."

Pannis wanted to say something but realized all the girls were nodding in agreement, clearly they all had the same idea. He could only smile bitterly and say: "The excuse you found... no no no, put down that sword, put down the spellbook too, it’s not meant for hitting. And we can’t set fires here, wait, the Explosion Flame Spell is fire too, calm down. What I meant was, the reasons you gave were completely valid, I can’t refute them. Let’s wait for the patrols to finish their shift, and we will start the search."

"Yay." The girls cheered in a low voice, silently high fiving each other. Catherine returned to the mouth of the cave, peering outside through the gap in the rubble: "Let me see, the shift should have ended already. Eh, come here and see, something’s not right."

"What is it?" The others huddled over.

"The number of patrols has increased." Catherine frowned, uneasily saying: "And some of them are heading up the mountain, they never had this patrol route before, could it be that night patrols have a different route than day ones?"

"That should not be the case." Pannis whispered, "The numbers have indeed increased a lot, and it looks like some of the Sea Race have come ashore from the sea, what’s happening... be careful, shield up!"

Pannis suddenly changed color, not caring about keeping his voice down anymore, he shouted a warning. The girls reacted quickly, retreating backward while setting up their shields at the same time.

The rubble blocking the cave entrance exploded all of a sudden, shooting inward at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye. If the girls hadn’t put up their shields in time, they might have been gravely injured. After the rain of rubble, all the girls could see was a crab claw that was three meters wide flashing past the cave entrance. (To be continued. If you like this novel, please come to qidian.com to vote for it. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users can read this on m.qidian.com.)