607 Diary (1/2)

Just one Nautical Chart indicating one of the safest areas would lead to wealth comparable to four or five times what they could obtain in the Raging Flame Plane!

Just how shocking was that...

Now, all that wealth was beckoning to Lin Yun.

Lin Yun was in a great mood after collecting the largest Nautical Chart, he even let out a rare chuckle.

He then left that room.

Soon after, he found a large study, filled with dust. Books were stacked on bookshelves, but Lin Yun could only sigh in regret.

After releasing a small amount of mana to create a breeze, the books ended up reduced to dust.

The average paper had no defensive magic. Had it been outside, with a favorable conservation method, they might have remained in decent state, but this was the Intrepid, the passage of time had already corroded those books until they turned to ashes.

This was the Intrepid after all, and this was the room of Red Beard's First Mate, the books within were inevitably valuable. Unfortunately, they were completely destroyed.

After using a Gale, the dust was sent out of the window. But suddenly, something caught Lin Yun's attention and he immediately rushed to a bookshelf.

That bookshelf originally had seven to eight hundred books, now reduced to dust, but on an ordinary corner of the second shelf, a book with a leather cover was still intact!

Lin Yun slightly frowned and cast a probing spell, and the result of the scouting revealed no anomaly.

This was an ordinary book.

He picked the book up and discovered a very thin secret compartment. After cracking that simple mechanism, he discovered a necklace.

A seemingly ordinary necklace forged out of mithril with an embedded ruby.

Lin Yun's expression instantly changed when he touched that red jewel.

A formidable Ultimate Spell!

That ruby contained a kind of spell that made even Lin Yun fearful!

But the probing spell couldn't detect it!

After checking it closer, he found out that the spell within the ruby was very stable, and there was some sort of obstruction. Let alone extracting, he couldn't even come in contact with it.

Looking at it for a while, Lin Yun frowned and put the necklace down before picking up the leather book. The book's appearance looked very simple, but also very refined. It was thirty centimeters long, and only a simple rune could be seen on its surface. Lin Yun also didn't understand the meaning of that rune.

After opening the first page, a surprised expression appeared on Lin Yun's face.

This was a diary!

”13th day of the Cold Month - I became a sailor today, I don't need to sleep in that dirty slave hold anymore. I also saw the captain…”

Lin Yun flipped a dozen pages recording the trifling life of the diary owner as a sailor.

Lin Yun finally stopped on the 25th page.

”28th day of the Blaze Month - It was originally a good day today, after a month, we finally killed that crafty Heaven Rank sea beast, but who would have thought that something terrifying would appear when that Heaven Rank sea beast died. A huge whirlpool appeared on the surface of the sea. That whirlpool was frightening, we couldn't see its limits. It was as if the entire sea had turned into a whirlpool. It was the first time I saw that. The captain, who had remained calm and composed while dealing with the Heaven Rank sea beast, had become alarmed, ordering us to immediately escape that huge whirlpool.”

”We didn't even have time to finish putting the sea beast's corpse on the ship that the captain unhesitantly threw it away. With one look, everyone could see that the captain was utterly terrified. Officer John fell from the boat, and I watched as that terrifying whirlpool swallowed him whole…”

Lin Yun looked at this diary and could feel from the sloppy handwriting how frightened the owner had been, his hand must have been shivering as he wrote.

Huge whirlpool...

Lin Yun immediately recalled the biggest danger mark drawn on that huge Nautical Chart. It was also the symbol of a whirlpool, marked down with a shivering hand. On the precise and detailed Nautical Chart, this mark stuck out like a sore thumb, from this it could be seen that the person must have been extremely frightened when noting it down.

To the point that there was even a huge red ”X” on that whirlpool, marking a place even the Intrepid couldn't approach.

After pondering for a short moment, Lin Yun flipped the page.

”29th day of the Blaze Month - Today, I heard that kitchen George died. Looks like he choked on a piece of bread. Serves him right, that damn scoundrel was eating while we were working hard…”