Chapter 223 The Tower Under the Sea

Nick, who was on the ship, soon got the message from Lee.

After learning what Jon needed his help for, he didn't stay and immediately floated down from the ship to the ocean.

For the ghost, the seawater would not be a hindrance, without any magical assistance, he dived into the water.

After entering the seawater, it was like reaching another world. The sun's light was refracted by the seawater, forming fantastic-like scenes under the water.

There are many sea magical creatures around the tower, and there are also schools of fish swimming around, Nick who went into the water did not cause any fluctuations in the water, so they were not disturbed at all.

Nick drifted towards the direction of the tower underwater, from afar he saw four or five merpeople, and they were hunting in the direction opposite to him.

He did not want to disturb them, the owner of the tower, that Sir and the surrounding merpeople's relationship is very good, so if these merpeople find any problems, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not go and mention it to that Sir.

The underwater part of the tower was not hidden, and Nick could easily see the rough stone surface.

From the appearance, these columns are indeed solid, with no signs of hollowing out in the middle, and the overall body is very thick, probably about three times the diameter of the exposed part on the surface.

This is also understandable, just like building on the ground, the foundation at the bottom will indeed be thicker and broader than the top.

To make sure his judgment is accurate, Nick tried to cross through those stone surfaces, and a few moments later he emerged from the other side of the stone pillar and did not reach the space inside.

Such attempts had given him the judgment that this part of the tall tower under the sea is indeed solid, there is no place for people to enter.

But for the insurance, Nick did not immediately return to bring this result back but continued to drift down to the sea, the stone pillar is obviously rooted in the bottom of the sea, and what it hides under the seawater is bound to be more than just this part.

And the deeper he went under the sea, the more the surface of the stone pillar was wrapped by more and more algae as well as underwater plants, by this sight alone, Nick is not quite able to tell if this is the same as the part near the surface.

He got close to the algae, and through the algae wrapped in a part of the exposed stone surface, it can be seen that there seems to be no difference between here and the part above.

Just when Nick was ready to try to get rid of some algae to further verify the situation, a sudden voice took him by surprise.

"Hi! Are you- Ghost?"

Nick looked back and found that somehow, the merpeople who were originally hunting on the other side had come to him.

The one who opened his mouth to speak was a merman, whose English sounded even less proficient than the female mermaid Justin had caught earlier.

And besides this merman, there are also three others of his companions present, holding pitchforks in their hands, they look like they can't speak English at all, just jabbering in a merpeople language that Nick doesn't understand.

"Are you new here? We have never seen you before."

The English-speaking merpeople frowned and looked at Nick with suspicious expressions.

Nick, after all, has lived as a ghost for hundreds of years, he did not show any alarmed expression, but blinked and explained.

"I am the ghost of the ship that came to visit Sir Stoker, a student's things fell into the sea, so he asked me to come to see if I can help him to retrieve them."

His statement made sense, and the merpeople did not get suspicious when they heard it but said enthusiastically.

"You are the guests of Sir. Need. Do we help? For this sea. No one knows it better than we do."

Nick said with a wave of his hand.

"No, it's not that important, I just wandered around and didn't find it, then it should have sunk to the bottom of the sea, it's too much trouble to go to the bottom of the sea to find that, thank you for your kindness."

For the sake of Sir Stoker, these merpeople were very friendly to Nick.

After a short exchange with them, Nick does not stay longer, he has actually explored more or less, this part of the tower hidden under the surface of the sea is not anything special.

After saying goodbye to these merpeople, he returned to the surface, the merpeople also left, and the sea around the stone pillar regained its tranquillity.

But such tranquillity did not last long, a small school of fish came swimming through this area.

They moved with the water current and shook a piece of algae attached to the tower, in which a small piece of decaying algae was driven by the current, slowly falling off from the stone pillar.

And the place it originally covered, illuminated by the refracted sunlight of the sea, faintly glowing with a metallic lustre

Nick returned to the ship and told Lee all about his experience under the sea.

"I did not find any problems in the submerged part of the tower, but it is really too long, at most I only observed about two or three hundred meters of distance, and it is unknown what condition it is further down, and the bottom is also all covered by some algae; if someone is really using the space inside, it is unlikely that it will not be cleaned, I did not find any traces of being cleaned there. "

After getting the information from Nick here, Lee quickly went back and repeated it to Jon.

To this Jon did not show much disappointment, the matter of Nick checking was just to help him rule out a suspicious option, and it did not eliminate his suspicion of the whole tower.

"Don't do anything else this afternoon, if you still wander around the tower as you did in the morning, it will raise suspicions, just rest in the living room and wait for my news from the top of the tower."

Around two o'clock in the afternoon, Sir Stoker found Jon again and went to the top of the tower with him, continuing to do the work of removing the magic power on the ancient runes in the stone slab.

In fact, although Jon needed to absorb the magic power of the ancient runes gradually, the speed wasn't that slow. In one morning's time, if he didn't stop at all, he could completely eliminate a quarter of the magic power on this stone slab.

That is to say, the fastest he could finish all the work is two days, only he intentionally slowed down the process of absorbing magic.

To try to make the magic on the stone plate completely ineffective, according to the principal analysis of the ancient runes, simply does not require Jon to absorb all the magic power on it.

According to Nick's judgment, he only needs to eliminate more than half of the magic power on the stone slab, which will basically destroy the magic power maintenance of the locking/sealing magic, which means he can successfully open the stone slab even now if he wants to.

As for why Jon is trying to drag out time is because he is betting that Sir Stoker can't be with him all the time like this, and when the day is over, there will always be a time when he is not there.

Strictly speaking, the ownership of the things hidden here should belong to Sir Stoker, and he does not have any reason to claim or check.

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