Chapter 204: Chapter 203: Dangerous Waters, Please Fish Carefully!

The waiting lasted for two whole days.

During these two days, the giant ship stayed in place without moving an inch. So, there were no new Sea Tax Officers coming aboard, which was less bothersome, but the return to White Stone Tower seemed indefinitely postponed.

Many of the ordinary students were growing anxious, as they were all eager to reach White Stone Tower soon, but since Dempsey had issued the orders, no one dared to question him; they could only think of various ways to pass the time.

Two days later.

The sea was calm and smooth, the sunlight soft and warm. The giant ship, sitting on the sea, resembled a wooden basin floating in a pond.

On the deck of the giant ship, many students were resting and moving about, some lazily basking in the Sunlight, others chatting in small groups. Of course, there were also a few who were extremely leisurely, asking the Sailors for some materials and making sturdy fishing rods to fish for big catches. They prepared to fish for big fish, with heavy weights hanging at the end of the fishing line sinking very deep, quietly waiting for a big fish to bite.

“Whoosh whoosh,” the seawater gently swayed, hitting the hull and making the sound of waves.

On one side of the deck, the “thud thud thud” of clashing swords resounded as Richard and Nancy each held a sword.

With an audience, neither of them used their full strength; they were simply practicing their skills.

Nancy lunged with a straight thrust, and Richard quickly flicked it away, returning the attack. Nancy blocked it, then followed with a swift slash. Richard dodged by shifting to the side and struck from the flank. Nancy scrambled to dodge, her steps slightly chaotic.

After several rounds, Nancy’s face was slightly sweaty, and she shouted, “Stop,” ending the practice.

Gro, who was among the onlookers, with twinkling eyes, exclaimed, “As expected, Lord Richard is the most impressive!”

Although Nancy admitted this, hearing Gro say it raised her eyebrows, and she looked towards Gro, “Your Lord Richard being impressive doesn’t mean you are. Do you believe I could beat you with just one hand using a sword?”

“I…” Gro widened his eyes and opened his mouth, but he simply couldn’t utter the words “I don’t believe.”

Nancy didn’t care about this, just shot Gro an annoyed look, and walked away with Richard, planning to rest. While walking, Nancy said to Richard, “I have to admit, actually, Gro was right; your swordsmanship is much better than mine. And I feel like recently, your skills have been increasingly formidable. Have you been holding back all along?”

“It’s because I’m getting more accustomed to the physical enhancement of Solidification Magic, leading to increased speed, strength, and reaction,” Richard thought to himself, but he casually said, “Whether I’ve been holding back or not, the gap between us in swordsmanship, with your improvements in Spell casting, will soon be evened out or even surpassed.”

“We’ll need to get to White Stone Tower for that to happen,” Nancy’s eyes flickered slightly, “and with the current situation, who knows when we’ll get there. We’ve been stopped here for two days already; it might be another two days for all we know…”

Nancy’s words trailed off as suddenly, a shout of surprise came from nearby.

Richard, Nancy, Gro, and others looked over and saw a student who was fishing suddenly stand up, grasping the fishing rod tightly with both hands, pulling hard on the deck, and repeatedly saying, “It’s a big fish, it’s a big fish!”

Indeed, it was a big fish, as the onlookers could see. It couldn’t have been anything else.

However, just catching a big fish and shouting like this seemed a bit exaggerated, as if never having seen the world before. After all, they had seen giant fish like Blue Whales and huge squids measuring over a hundred meters before; a slightly larger fish was nothing startling.

The onlookers thought this, but in the next moment, their expressions changed as they watched, under the forceful pulling of the fishing student, the fishing rod not only did not move toward the deck but was slowly being pulled towards the sea. The fishing student slid towards the edge of the deck as well, his face turning red from exertion, yet still unable to stop this shift.

This…the fish he’d caught was indeed a bit big.

“Help me!” the student who caught the fish shouted.

A fellow fishing student, unable to watch anymore, put down his rod and ran to the shouting student’s side to help grasp the fishing rod.

But even with both their efforts, the rod continued to be pulled towards the surface of the sea.

The surrounding spectators wore shocked expressions: by these circumstances, the big fish must weigh several hundred pounds, perhaps even more exaggerated. Speaking of which, let’s hope it’s not a Sea Monster they’ve fished up, right? Now that the Master Wizard is injured, if they really do fish up a Sea Monster, and they can’t deal with it, everyone might be eaten.

Fishing, really shouldn’t be taken lightly…

As everyone was thinking this, they saw the force at the end of the fishing rod in the sea suddenly increase, jerked fiercely, and before the two students could react, they were pulled straight into the sea.

With a splash, both fell into the water.

Logically, at this time, the two should have let go of the fishing rod if they weren’t foolish. But for some reason, as if the rod was imbued with Magic Power, they clung tightly to it and were quickly dragged under the water, disappearing from sight.

Not long after, the water returned to its calm state, not even a bubble surfaced, leaving everyone looking at each other, clueless.

Nancy and Gro looked towards Richard inquiringly; Richard shook his head, indicating that he too didn’t know what was happening. But his eyes glinted, and immediately he saw Wizard Dempsey appear on the deck.

“Tap, tap, tap,” Dempsey walked towards the spot where the two fishing students had fallen into the water, squinted at the sea expressionlessly. He coughed lightly, covered it with a handkerchief, and said in a deep voice, “Macbeth, it’s you, isn’t it!”

“Boom!” As soon as Dempsey’s words fell, a water column violently burst from the sea, a figure leapt from beneath the surface, and with a “boom”, landed on the deck, completely dry. He then casually dropped the two half-drowned students he was holding onto the deck.

“Hahaha.” The figure laughed aloud while the two students dumped on the deck were vomiting seawater, “Ugh—ugh—”

Looking over, the newly appeared person was a man dressed as a Noble, all in white—white clothes, white trousers, white hat, like a white Shadow. Though he was only in his thirties, his skin was exceptionally smooth, but his eyes carried a sense of age.

The man laughed, addressing Dempsey, “Dempsey, you’re still the same, so annoying. It was too easy to guess it was me; that’s not fun at all.”

“This is because only you would do something like this—using tricks to prank students,” Dempsey said expressionlessly.

“Haha.” The man continued laughing, “Alright, you signaled, and I came over since I was nearby, curious about what you wanted.”

“It’s nothing big, just wanted to ask for your help,” Dempsey said.

“Help?” Macbeth paused.

“Help.”

“So it’s help, hmm…” Macbeth nodded slightly, then straightened his expression and said, “Goodbye!”

“Whoosh,” the man’s figure instantly vanished without a trace.

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