Thick black clouds covered this vast sea area, preventing all sunlight from shining down.
The dark energy spread in this sea area, making it not only dark, but also lurking with invisible dangers.
Like a huge hand, it firmly grasped this place in its hand.
This is an island in the central area of the Dark Realm, but there are no living creatures on the island. The only ones left are the skeletons and undead who died and resurrected in the dark outbreak.
A young man was leaning against the wall of a house ruin that had not yet completely collapsed, panting.
He had a head of black hair hidden in a small flat hat on his head, and he was wearing a slightly old brown leather jacket, with a cotton-lined collar visible from his neck.
In addition to a ring on each thumb of his left and right hands, the most conspicuous element was the metal box on his back.
The silver box was covered with religious patterns.
At this time, two cards suddenly appeared in the man's hand, and he threw them out between his fingers.
The two cards flew out at the same time, but slid to different places with different trajectories.
Quickly disappeared in the endless darkness around him.
Alka calmed his breath and moved, walking in the darkness as if it were flat ground, walking freely in it as if it were daytime.
He carried a heavy metal box on his back while walking, but did not make any sound.
It seemed that all the sounds that could be made were absorbed and integrated into the darkness.
After walking forward for about 100 meters, he once again leaned against a complete house.
A big mirror appeared in front of him, and the picture shown in the mirror was not Alka in front of him.
It was another scene.
What appeared in the mirror was a broken street corner, surrounded by many ruins of buildings, some of which had not yet collapsed completely.
Such street corners can be seen everywhere in this ruined town.
Alka stared at the screen until a piece of gravel on the ground in the screen suddenly rolled twice for some reason.
Instantly a blue light flashed.
A card with a gradient blue back exploded, like a water ball exploding, and the splashing water condensed into 5 water chains in the air.
Five water chains flew out, binding up the transparent objects in the air, and an invisible evil spirit appeared.
This sudden water chain caught the evil spirit off guard.
The limbs and waist were tied up and he was struggling constantly.
Seeing this scene, Alka smiled, but before the smile disappeared, he immediately frowned and squatted on the ground, holding his head.
Whispers and singing began to appear in his brain with a tingling feeling.
It came at the wrong time.
A white mist flew out of the magic mirror on his chest and entered his brain.
After about 5 seconds, Alka opened his eyes in a trance and came back to his senses.
In just a moment, a stick-like weapon appeared in his hand, but there was a round ball head on one end.
Alka stepped out from the corner of the street, and the ball head immediately floated up from the stick.
A card was thrown out by him at some point, and flew straight to the far end of the street.
Alka then stepped out, holding the stick in both hands, and hit the floating ball in front of him with force.
At this moment, 100 meters away from Alka, right in front of the street, the evil spirit was struggling to break free from the water chain.
Because Alka was delayed for a few seconds by the sudden mental attack, the evil spirit was about to completely break free from the water chain.
The ball, the size of two adult fists, flew over and ignited a pale white flame in the air, which was the Holy Flame.
This weapon did not have such an effect. The reason why there was Holy Flame was because Alka asked Sofia to enchant it when it came out.
It can only be used once, which is better than nothing.
When the ball was about to hit the evil spirit, he finally broke free from the water chain and immediately dodged to the side, but was still hit by the ball.
A small hole immediately appeared in half of his body, which was burned into green smoke by the ball.
The soul was torn apart, making the evil spirit howl on the spot.
However, just as he opened his mouth, a card fell at his feet.
It was a card with a gradient red back, and the flame cross on the front lit up, igniting a flame-like light.
A huge flame spurted out from the card, a column of fire directly enveloped the evil spirit, and the other three flames covered the surroundings.
The cross flame burst out, and only dark green smoke floated out of the flame and disappeared.
For the evil spirit, the flame is also a better means of damage, of course, compared with the attack of the holy light element, it is definitely a lot worse.
Alka put away the stick weapon in his hand, straightened his clothes, and walked towards the place where the evil spirit died.
The mirror that appeared in front of him before, which could see the distant scene, disappeared and turned into a card.
The card is still ordinary white, with an eye with the number 1 logo in the black line border on the front.
Take the card and put it directly into the ring.
Alka did not go directly to the place where the ghost died, but came to the wall at the corner, took the eye card with the number 2 logo from it and put it into the ring.
These two are a pair, and the number 2 is one of the two cards that Alka just threw out.
The other one is the water chain that imprisons the evil spirit.
This kind of eye card with numbers is used for real-time transmission of short-distance images.
It is made by combining the [Replicate] spell with [Mirror].
The original function of the [Replicate] spell is to immediately copy some digital text or simple line drawings onto another piece of paper.
It is generally used for quick copying of books, but the result of the fusion is a completely incomprehensible effect.
But no matter what, it is indeed very useful.
Watching the still burning flame gradually extinguished.
Alka couldn't help but sigh.
"I wasted a red card. What a loss."
"Alka, your resistance to darkness is getting weaker and weaker. It's been less than a week since the last mental attack."
A soft and pleasant voice entered Alka's ears. It was Lucilia in the magic mirror.
As the battle ended, she also came out of Alka's soul space.
A bottle of potion appeared in Alka's hand. He took a look, shook his head, sighed, and poured it into his mouth.
Feeling that the darkness in his mind was being cleared, Alka said, "It's okay. I'm about to be promoted to the second spiral."
At this time, it has been almost half a year since Alka and his team entered the central sea area.
They have been active in this place for half a year, and their food depends on Polo going to the sea to find fish that can resist the dark element.
And from time to time, they killed the pursuers and harvested supplies from their ships to fill their stomachs.
As for the water source, it is naturally a spell like spring water.
For a toucher, water sources have always been the least to worry about.
In the past six months, Alka has cleared many blue dots in the less dangerous islands.
This also brought them countless gains and made their strength much stronger.
Correspondingly, after staying in such an area for such a long time, they were naturally invaded more and more by the darkness.
This is completely inevitable, even though Alka has various reasons that make him resistant to a certain extent.
Fortunately, Alka's previous calculations did not go wrong. He was about to step into the second spiral and had just drunk the last bottle of potion for clearing the mind.
It was still Sofia who had not used up the potion he gave him.
Thinking of this, Alka had come to the place where the corpse of the evil spirit was originally, and took out an object with a blue outline from under the corpse.
Took it in his hand and looked at it, then wiped off the stains on it.
"Not bad, at least I won't lose money."
The consumption he mentioned was the cards spent to kill the evil spirit.
As for the thing in his hand, it is a natural magic core, just like the stone fragment that activated the magic card when Alka used it for the first time a long time ago.
This is a complete one, and it is generally used as a material or energy source for certain objects.
It is worth a lot.
The magic crystal disappeared in Alka's hand, and he walked out of the ruins of the city.
All the way to the port.
In a relatively intact port building, there was a flickering light, and a lantern floating above Alka's head was illuminating the surroundings.
At this time, a figure emerged from the sea, carrying two huge fish and walking towards the room.
Just met Alka.
"You are back, are you done?"
Looking at Porro in front of him, Alka nodded: "Don't worry, it's done."
Then he and Porro walked into the building.
This is a small warehouse, otherwise it can't accommodate Porro's tall and strong body.
The light came from a small stove made of unknown metal in the room. Sofia was next to the small stove, carefully drawing something.
It was an unfinished map.
Hearing the sound from behind, she put down the tools in her hand and turned around.
And the painting brush for drawing the map was still floating, automatically outlining something.
"Have you harvested everything on the island?" Sofia asked Alka who was walking over with a smile.
Alka nodded, shrugged and said, "They are all useless things. How is the map drawing?"
Hearing this, Sofia turned his head, touched the floating painting brush with his finger and said, "It's almost done. The final finishing work is already in progress."
This automatic painting brush is a magic tool they found. When infused with magic power, it can help Sofia draw maps automatically.
Of course, the premise is that the user can really draw maps and has his own ideas in his mind.
They don't know how many things like this they have collected in the past six months. Most of the blue dots come from these things that are somewhat useful, but not very useful.
However, although it is said so, it still facilitates their activities. For example, the small metal stove in front of them is such a thing.
And the chef's knives that Porroro is using to cut fish at this time are two magical kitchen knives.
Alka didn't know the specific function, but in Porro's words, it was very useful for processing fish.
Two kitchen knives, one long and one short, were like small table knives in Porro's hands, quickly cutting and sorting the two fish he caught.
There was also a large silver dinner plate with exaggerated patterns on the rotten wooden table next to it.
Put the cut fish on the dinner plate, and the dinner plate automatically floated in the air and came to Alka and the others.
While chatting, the two put the fish on the stove, where there was a place specially used for grilling and heating various foods.
This kind of magic tool that is convenient for life is always very considerate in strange places.
As for Porro, he likes to eat raw.
The two sat by the stove roasting fish and chatting.
Pororo was sitting at a distance from the stove, eating sashimi.
As a fishman, he didn't like overly hot flames.
Throwing a large piece of raw fish into his mouth, Pororo said, "Just now on the sea, I found a pirate search ship."
Hearing this, neither Alka nor Sofia panicked.
"Have they found you? No hurry, I'm about to reach the second spiral, so I'll stay here for a few days."
Hearing Alka's words, Sofia suddenly relaxed a little: "That's good, I can finally be free from the invasion of darkness."
Because Sofia even gave Alka the mental invasion potion he used, if Alka hadn't reached the second spiral, they might have to leave the central area.