After staying in the tavern for the night, Feng Chou left the tavern the next morning. He left the southern city and went to the dock in the north. He spent a few crowns to board a cargo ship that was about to set sail and went down the river.
The cargo ship went down the river and passed by two Baron territories and seven or eight Knight territories without stopping. They had lunch on the ship.
Not long after lunch, they were attacked by a group of freshwater murlocs in a gentle river basin.
Freshwater murlocs were humanoid creatures with lizard-like heads. They had a humanoid body, robust lower limbs, and a large tail with vertical fins that were much longer than their legs. These murlocs had greenish-black scales and vertical fins on their backs and legs. Their fingers were very long, and there were webbed membranes between their fingers.
When the group of murlocs jumped out of the water and boarded the cargo ship, their open fins all fell down and stuck to their bodies.
A dozen murlocs and a dozen mercenaries were fighting in the narrow deck of the cargo ship.
Feng Chou realized that the battles on the ship were even more dangerous than those on land. The narrow space restricted his movements and dodging. He could not use long weapons, and even shields were not convenient to use. He could only use short swords, short knives, short thorns, and even short swords to fight in close combat.
Some mercenaries were also equipped with short-barreled guns. These short-barreled guns were very weak and could not even penetrate ordinary steel armor. However, it was enough to deal with the murlocs' natural scales. Within ten meters, shooting at close range was enough to make the murlocs lose their fighting power.
Feng Chou also found that these mercenaries who ran the water trade route were overall very strong. Basically, they were both Rogues and Warriors. Their total level was basically above level 5. The weakest was a level 4 Rogue and a level 2 Warrior. The strongest mercenaries were level 6 Rogues and level 4 Warriors.
This kind of part-time job was very suitable for the narrow combat on the ship.
The murlocs who jumped on the ship were quickly driven off.
After driving all the murlocs off the ship, the captain of the ship stood at the bow and poured a bottle of potion.
Leo had seen this potion in the pharmacy outside the school. It was called "Fish Repellent Potion". In fact, it was used to drive away murlocs. It was said that as long as the concentration was very small, it could cause great pain to the murlocs.
Sure enough, after the potion was poured into the water, the murlocs in the water rolled and crawled ashore, even the injured ones were no exception.
The murlocs on the shore looked coldly at the cargo ship gradually sailing away. Finally, they went into the forest on the south bank.
Feng Chou was a little curious about where these murlocs came from. Along the way, he did not see any murlocs' nests on the banks of the Antalya River.
A familiar boatman told Feng Chou that in the southern part of the Antalya Plain, there were a series of lakes and swamps due to the low-lying terrain. These murlocs came from there. Sometimes, some murlocs would come to the banks of the Antalya River to build a tribe, but they were quickly cleaned up by merchants or lords along the coast.
When it was almost evening, the cargo ship arrived at a small town slightly bigger than Fügssac City. This small town was the most western territory of the Antalya County, the main city of Viscount Gabriel's domain. If one continued to head west from Gabriel's domain, the Antalya River would enter a mountainous area. After traveling for hundreds of kilometers through the mountainous area, one would arrive at the eastern border of the Duchy of Vita.
Feng Chou went ashore. He stood on the dock and looked at the mountains in the west. He felt conflicted again.
"Biolocation" was a very powerful spell. When a 7th Level Mage used this spell, they could clearly sense the location of a target creature within 30 kilometers, and vaguely sense the general direction of a target creature within 100 kilometers. As the Mage's spellcasting level increased, the range of detection would also increase.
If it was paired with a Magic Crystal Ball, the detection range of this spell could even be increased by a few times.
Legend had it that the most powerful Magic Crystal Ball could increase the detection range of a detection spell by ten times. However, a Magic Crystal Ball that could increase the detection range by five times was already a high-level Magic Item. A Magic Crystal Ball that could increase the detection range by ten times was probably close to a Legendary Item.
In this era, it was very difficult to escape three to four hundred kilometers in three days with normal means of transportation and escape the detection range of a Biolocation Spellcaster.
Even if he managed to escape three to four hundred kilometers, he would still be easily found. This was because Antalya County was surrounded by mountains and the only exit was in the west. As long as Darnel was not an idiot, it would be easy for him to think of letting Wizard Brandt use a Teleportation Spell to teleport to the exit of Antalya River in the Duchy of Vita. Then, he would use the Biolocation Spell to locate the target again.
As long as he knew the direction, there was probably no one in this world who could outrun a Teleportation Spell. Spells could be bought with money.
Even so, Feng Chou was still quite confident that he could escape from Wizard Brandt's tracking.
The reason why he did not escape decisively was because during this period, Feng Chou had been struggling with a question. Should he escape or take revenge?
According to Feng Chou's thoughts, "Revenge? What revenge?
Of course, escaping is more important! "
However, once he had this thought, an indescribable pain and sorrow would surge in his heart. Feng Chou was very sure that if he left like this, he would not be able to live well for the rest of his life. The part of Leo's personality would never let him go.
Fortunately, Leo did not hate the Gray Shadow Chamber of Commerce the most, nor did he hate the cruel Drow. In fact, Leo felt that Drow's revenge had already been taken in the underground fortress. What he hated the most was the traitor who betrayed his father, and his uncle.
Among them, Leo hated the traitor who betrayed his father the most.
With Feng Chou's current ability, as long as he found the opportunity, it would not be difficult to kill the traitor.
In order to prevent himself from having a split personality, Feng Chou could only try to see if he could avenge Leo.
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If he was always trapped in the Mage School, he would definitely not be able to do anything. Feng Chou had already planned to use the loophole of staying in the laboratory to move around.
If he wanted to move around, he needed a legal identity. In Antalya, entering and exiting the city gates required an identity check. Once or twice, he could use his mage apprentice badge to deal with it, but he could not do it all the time.
It was better to be safe than sorry. Once the matter of him sneaking out of the school was exposed, he would be in big trouble if he was targeted by Darnel.
Moreover, without a legal identity as a free citizen, it would be a problem to pass through the territories of other nobles.
Therefore, Feng Chou came out today, other than selling his equipment for gold coins, the other main purpose was to obtain a legal identity as a free citizen.