Chapter 34: Unable to Escape the Devil's Island (Two Chapters in a Row)

  "What? You're saying we should leave on a raft?" Joanna frowned, looking at Du Wei with skeptical eyes. "This is the brilliant idea you've come up with? You plan to sail across the open sea on a small wooden raft and take us back to the mainland? You must be crazy!"

  Du Wei smiled and slowly expressed his own speculation:

  "I think that's very promising. You, and Vivian, you two are both powerful magicians, you can fly far with any tool or mount! Am I wrong? If your magical powers were still there, wouldn't you have used the wind flying technique to leave this damned island already?"

  "Of course!" Joanna said coldly: "If I could still fly, I would have left long ago."

  "The problem is right here." Du Wei smiled and said, "You've lost your magic. But based on my guess, the reason isn't with you, but rather with this island! I suspect that there's something here that suppresses magic, such as a seal or an anti-magic domain... probably related to that terrifying monster you saw. So... I think, this magic-suppressing seal... how large can its range be? Is it tightly covering just this island, or also including a small part of the surrounding sea? However, I think at least one thing is certain - this range shouldn't be very large."

  Joanna finally understood, without Du Wei continuing to explain, she went on to say: "So, you're not planning to use this small wooden raft to take us sailing across the ocean back to the mainland. But as long as we use this small wooden raft to row out of this seal's boundary, Vivian and I will have our magic restored, and we can fly back to the mainland without needing the raft, right?"

  "That's right." Du Wei nodded.

  "What if it doesn't work?" Joanne frowned. "What if you're wrong? I mean, what if Vivian and I have been affected by some kind of magic, and our powers won't recover even after we leave this island? Or maybe it'll take a few days or even months to recover? What then? Even if we manage to get out of here, we still can't fly. With just this small wooden raft, we're sure to die in the vast ocean."

  "That's just a different way of dying." Du Wei raised an eyebrow: "I can tell you very clearly... if we don't leave here, in two or three days at most, we'll starve to death. Although there are many trees on this island, the edible plants with roots and stems are very rare. I've already discovered this when searching for food, and I'm not sure if I can find something to eat tomorrow."

  "We can go fishing!"

  "Haha!" Du Wei burst out laughing: "Fish? You go try it! Heaven... Yesterday that monster triggered a water system magic giant wave, and an earthquake-like... Such a huge commotion, even if there were any fish schools in the surrounding sea area of this island, they would have been scared away long ago!"

  Although this remark sounds a bit adventurous, Joanna thought it over carefully and also felt that Du Wei was right.

  Staying here will only lead to starvation, it's better to go out and give it a try.

  Next is how to make a wooden raft.

  What's embarrassing is... there are no tools in hand!

  Even if you want to cut down trees to make a raft... don't you need an axe?

  Even without an axe, a knife can be used in a pinch!

  But Du Wei and his men didn't even have a knife, let alone a dagger!

  Joanna is also a warrior at the same time, but unfortunately the weapon she uses is a long flute!

  No tools, cut down trees with bare hands? Du Wei and those people probably don't have that kind of skill.

  Even Joanna, a skilled swordswoman, didn't have that kind of divine power to chop down a large tree with one palm.

  Du Wei initially focused his attention on Joanna's armor. The armor was made of metal, and as long as he could attach a piece of iron to it and grind an edge onto it, it could barely be used as a knife.

  Unfortunately, Du Wei was soon disappointed.

  Joanna was generous with her magical enhancements to the armor, but it was full of openwork patterns and didn't have a single solid piece of iron as big as a palm!

  But after careful consideration, Du Wei still had a way!

  Dragon scales!

  Even if Vivian was heartbroken about her pet, she still agreed to let Du Wei peel off a few dragon scales.

  The dragon's scales are extremely solid and hard, and in ancient times there were even those legendary heroes who used the dragon's scales to make sturdy shields.

  Vivian used her remaining magic to calm down the flame dragon, and Duwei boldly peeled off two scales from it.

  Spent another day on the beach and found a large rock, those two palm-sized dragon scales were ground into barely sharp knife edges.

  Two women and one man spent another two days working.

  Du Wei and Joanne cut down several large trees, while Vivian was in charge of tying the trunks together with rattan.

  Du Wei even made a few paddles out of tree trunks. He ran out again to find some large, gourd-like objects and brought them back. These things could not only hold some fresh water but also be tied to the raft to increase buoyancy.

  Finally, Joanna donated her white cloak and made a sail out of it.

  When almost all the work was done, Vivian suddenly thought of a very important question!

  "What about my dragon?" Poor little Vivi suddenly thought of this extremely important question!

  A wooden raft can't hold even one dragon!

  Actually, Du Wei and Joanne had thought of this problem a long time ago, they just always felt it was difficult to mention it to Vivian.

  Vivian's pet dragon was originally able to be sealed with a sealing spell when her magic was normal, and could be summoned at will.

  Unfortunately, she no longer has magic and can't seal this dragon to take it away.

  Du Wei and Joanna exchanged a glance, facing Vivian's pitiful question, both feeling somewhat reluctant to answer.

  Vivian immediately understood, and Xiao Shaoyu burst into tears: "No! No! I don't want to lose my Lie Ri!! My Lie Ri!!"

  She ran over crying and threw herself onto the sleeping dragon's body, hugging it tightly and refusing to let go.

  Du Wei sighed and looked at this simple little girl, Du Wei also felt a bit guilty in his heart.

  What else can we do?

  They can't take away such a big dragon!

  Moreover, deep down in Du Wei's heart... he didn't think of a dragon as some kind of powerful, great high-level creature like the people of this world did.

  In Du Wei's habitual way of thinking: talent is the most important. Dragons and snakes... are just categories of "animals".

  Human life is the most important. If sacrificing human lives for an "animal" is, in Du Wei's view, simply an incomprehensible stupid thing.

  And even deeper... Hmph, if it weren't for Vivian's sake, he would have even considered slaughtering this big "animal" and using its meat to make dried rations.

  But then Vivian would probably die of crying on the spot.

  Although Vivian refused to leave her precious dragon, Duve and Joanne forcibly took her away.

  What surprised Du Wei was that the vicious woman this time showed rare gentleness towards her own sister.

  "No need to be surprised." Joanne was already somewhat familiar with Du Wei, and just by looking at his eyes, she knew what he was thinking: "I've also just lost my dragon, I can empathize with this little guy's sadness."

  Du Wei saw that in Joanna's eyes, a deep sorrow also flowed out.

  Two girls sat on the raft, Du Wei pushed the raft into the sea with force from behind, then he flipped over and jumped up, Joanna controlled the sail, Du Wei picked up the oar and rowed vigorously.

  Only poor little Vivian was forcibly taken up by two people and sat on the wooden raft, silently shedding tears as she looked back at this small island... Here, there is also her pet dragon.

  The waves were very small, which was fortunate.

  But both Du Wei and Joanna looked tense.

  Because both of them were praying...

  I only hope that they won't encounter that monster as they move forward! That monster can lurk in the seawater and attack a dragon... So if the monster targets them, capsizing this small wooden raft would be an easy task.

  Du Wei only hoped that a few of their own people could quietly leave the small island for a distance, and then they would rely on the two magicians to fly up.

  "Omnipotent God, protect us..." Joanna murmured.

  Rowing vigorously was a bit too strenuous for Du Wei, a frail and weak young man, but under the drive of escaping and surviving, he still persisted with all his might, although his arms were somewhat sore and numb, Du Wei continued to grit his teeth and persevere.

  Judging from the top, it's already at least over 200 meters away from the coastline.

  "How are you feeling?" Du Wei asked loudly to Joana.

  "No use, still no use." Joanne tried to conjure a wind magic to enhance the sail's effect, but unfortunately it didn't work.

  "Keep trying." Du Wei gritted his teeth and said.

  However, it seems that the gods of this world are destined not to bless a heretic like Du Wei.

  Just as the small wooden raft had paddled out about a hundred meters further...

  Suddenly, a huge wave surged up on the sea! In an instant, that terrifying roar that had once made people's hearts skip a beat appeared again!

  Then, under the terrified gaze of the three people, a huge wave about 4 or 5 meters high suddenly rose from the calm sea surface and roared towards the small wooden raft!

  With a loud crash, the wooden raft was immediately broken in the impact of the huge wave, and the three people almost simultaneously fell into the water...

  Du Wei only felt that at the moment his whole body fell into the sea water, there seemed to be a force binding him in the seawater!

  His whole body was unable to move, and as soon as he opened his mouth, a large amount of seawater poured in. Du Wei thought he was going to die, his vision began to black out, and in the water, a whirlpool wrapped around him, quickly dragging him downwards...

  Du Wei felt as if he was constantly sinking... constantly sinking...