Full-Time Magister: The Calamity of Fire, the Emperor's Flame Burns the Heavens

Chapter 52 Landing on the Island, the Unruly Vice-Captain!
On the slightly murky sea, a white ship was slowly sailing away, gradually moving away from the designated safe zone.

The sea and the inland are quite different. Inland security zones can at least be set up with sentry posts, relay stations, and fortresses to block important locations and prevent demons from having the opportunity to infiltrate. In the ocean, the so-called security zones are just a few sea towers with a few military mages watching over them, which do not constitute a real defense line.

Fortunately, sea monsters are not particularly frequent along the coast, and most coastal cities and counties can ensure safety with only a small number of troops.

Asuka City is probably an exception; sea monsters have been frequently appearing in this area.

"During their last demon-slaying expedition, they reached this rocky island. While resting there at night, they were ambushed by sea monsters and suffered heavy losses," Ai Jiangtu said, pointing to an island on the map.

"So that means that's where the sirens most often appear. Speaking of which, what kind of sirens are they? If they're Azure Scale Sirens, then we should head back. If these things have a clan, we're doomed," Jiang Yu said.

Jiang Yu was a fair-skinned young man who wore glasses and had the appearance of being very knowledgeable.

Let alone seeing a monster encyclopedia, even if a monster just shows half its leg and drops a single hair, he can deduce what kind of monster it is, whether it's male or female, just from that hair.

The Azure Scale Sea Demon he mentioned is the most ferocious and insidious race among sea demons. These creatures haven't appeared along the Chinese coast for some years, and occasionally news about them from Japan always causes a great deal of panic.

“It’s crimson, it can’t be the Azure Scale Sea Demon,” Nan Jue said.

"Speaking of which, I'm not very good at naval warfare. If we get dragged into the sea, wouldn't we non-water-based mages be doomed?" Jiang Yu said seriously.

"I'm not good at water combat either," Mo Fan stated directly.

Mo Fan turned his gaze to Zhao Manyan, who was standing to the side.

"Old Zhao, aren't you from the water element? And you're a native of Shanghai, so you must be very good at water combat, right?" Mo Fan put his arm around Zhao Manyan's shoulder and raised an eyebrow as he asked.

"Water warfare? I've never tried it!" Zhao Manyan said, spreading his hands with a helpless expression.

“We’re quite far from the mainland now. There are many deserted islands around here, most of which are only a few thousand square meters in size. Once we pass those two deserted islands ahead, we should be able to see the rocky island where they encountered the sea monsters.” Ai Jiangtu was indeed a graduate of a military academy. Unlike the other scattered team members, he and Nan Jue were almost constantly thinking about how to deal with the sea monsters.

According to Lin Junxian's description, a group of sea monsters inhabits this place. Currently, none of them know their own strength or whether they can deal with a group of demons.

Most importantly, this is the ocean. Ai Jiangtu inquired and found that there are only three people who are truly skilled in naval warfare, which will greatly reduce their combat effectiveness.

“Then let’s set up camp there and decide whether or not to use the Demon Gathering Device after we’ve got everything in place,” Nan Jue said.

“Using the Demon Gathering Device is not suitable. We are not sure how many sea monsters there are. If there are tens of thousands, we will be surrounded and killed.” Ai Jiangtu directly rejected the plan.

The Demon Gathering Device is equipment that only the military possesses.

This thing is very simple to use. It's similar to an element detector. Once placed on the ground, it will quickly spread out some energy fluctuations, attracting most of the demons within a radius.

The Demon-Gathering Device is even more powerful, emitting a noise inaudible to humans—a noise that can be heard from the sky, the ground, the ground, and the sea. Once this sound reaches the ears of demons, it will agitate them, causing hordes of demons to attack. The military uses this device to clear out a demon-infested area when they have overwhelming superiority, but hunters rarely use it. Hunters mostly operate in small teams, and the Demon-Gathering Device is practically a death sentence; few hunters dare to use it.

Moreover, the Demon Gathering Device is a prohibited item. Nan Jue thought it was very efficient, so he asked Lin Junxian to prepare a few for him. Lin Junxian was indeed well-connected and could even get his hands on such a prohibited item.

“Since we are a group, let’s not do something so risky. If a leader-level one appears, someone here will die,” Ai Jiangtu said.

This mission is extremely difficult, and it would likely require a team of high-level mages, all of whom would be highly experienced. As the team leader, Ai Jiangtu would naturally not undertake such a risky task.

……

We arrived at Rock Island, which, as its name suggests, has nothing but rocks.

The island is fairly spacious, but it would take a normal person at most one or two hours to walk around it.

There was a lot of debris on the rocky island: tattered tents, torn clothes, medicine boxes, and the like—presumably left behind by the team that came to exterminate the demon last time.

They suffered a crushing defeat here. Instead of exorcising the demons, they were chased and forced to flee by the sea monsters. After that, even some hunters rarely dared to target the scattered small sea monsters anymore, and Lin Junxian completely lost faith in the city.

“Look at this claw mark. The claws of this kind of siren must be at least this long!” Jiang Yu observed very carefully and quickly discovered a mark on the rock.

It was indeed a claw mark, cutting straight down to the middle of this two-meter-high rock, leaving three sharp cuts in the rock, indicating that the siren had three claws...

"Can you identify what kind of sea monster it is?" Ai Jiangtu asked.

“Three-clawed. Crimson. This kind of sea monster is actually quite rare, at least it won’t be in our demon books, but I guess it should be the Crimson Ling Demon!” Jiang Yu said with certainty.

“We’ve never heard of the Crimson Demon before. Before we fight them, we’d better figure out what abilities they have and what deadly tricks their higher forms have,” Mu Tingying said.

A group of people began discussing knowledge about sirens, but Mo Fan was nowhere to be seen.

Mo Fan had been wandering around aimlessly since he arrived on the island. By the time everyone had figured things out, he emerged from behind a high rock, dragging a crimson monster that was about half a person's height...

"Um... is the thing Mo Fan caught the Crimson Demon you mentioned earlier?" Zhao Manyan asked weakly amidst everyone's astonishment.

It took Jiang Yu a while to come to his senses. When Mo Fan threw the half-dead red monster in front of everyone, Jiang Yu nodded sharply: "It's this thing. Mo Fan, where did you catch it?"

Nan Jue and Ai Jiangtu didn't look too happy either.

(End of this chapter)