As soon as the boat entered the giant mouth of the Skeleton, it abruptly dropped, nearly catapulting everyone out. Fang Hong quickly grabbed the gunwale, looking ahead to see a treacherous shoal before him, with dense, pitch-black rocks strewn about like sharp swords.
Sophie saw even more clearly and had already alerted everyone through the communication channel, "Be careful, thirty ters ahead, dangerous shoal to the front left, paddle to the right!"
Indeed, without her warning, everyone was frantically paddling to the right. However, being but novice sailors, they applied too much force, causing the boat to slew sideways in the rapids. Fortunately, there was an Elentalist in the team who reacted quickly, creating a water curtain in the river that provided a reverse thrust, allowing the boat to pass through the first shoal safely.
With their example, the two canoes behind them had a much easier ti navigating through, passing one by one. Fang Hong, seeing all the boats were safe, finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to give that Elentalist an appreciative look. The person was just a girl of about thirteen or fourteen, quietly sitting in the boat with both hands on her magic wand.
Fang Hong marveled, as ordinary people would find it difficult just to react on the rocking boat, let alone cast spells. Despite her young age, she perford no worse than a professional Invoker. Indeed, those who could enter the Elite Youth Training Team of Silver Weslan were no ordinary people.
He glanced again at Sophie atop the Light Page, thinking to himself that there's no weak soldier under a strong general.
"Why are you looking at ?" Sophie asked, sowhat puzzled by his gaze.
"Nothing, just a bit envious," responded Fang Hong as he wiped the drops of water off his face with the back of his hand.
She paused, then smiled and said, "If you're envious, why not join our Guild? If you believe , leave it to to convince the higher-ups, and we'll equip you with a team just like mine."
She paused again, "Of course, I still hope you'll join my team."
Fang Hong was stunned for a mont; how many tis had it been now? This young lady's thoughts were indeed just like Miss Red Leaf's, but he still shook his head, declining for the first ti, "No, I have my friends."
Sophie looked at Xiangzi and Parker, then rembered those who had traveled with him in the Mountain Palace and understood. She could have tried to get these people to join Silver Weslan as well, but she decided against speaking out. Firstly, she understood it wouldn't be effective since she never repeated aningless words.
Secondly, it would make Silver Weslan look too cheap. She indeed had the power to do it, but that didn't an it would be effortless. Having quite a few rivals within the Guild, she didn't care about those people, but when they spoke ill, it was quite annoying.
Sophie realized this topic was now closed. It seed that the young man wouldn't change his mind anyti soon, and to continue would only annoy him—that said, there would likely be other opportunities in the future, once they left this place.
She thought to herself.
Of course, Fang Hong had no idea that the princess of Silver Weslan had so many thoughts running through her mind.
In fact, his attention was quickly drawn to the troubles ahead. The subterranean river had beco narrow and turbulent upon entering the Bottomless Depths, riddled with dangerous shoals and rocks. On so steep bends, there were even sights of overturned canoes and piled-up bones flashing by.
It was unclear whether they belonged to previous Adventurers or to the Night Lizard People.
Fang Hong certainly didn't want to end up as one of them. However, one treacherous shoal followed another, and the canoe almost seed to navigate through a forest of swords, risking being shattered to pieces at any slight misstep. The intense concentration required left everyone exhausted. Just when they had finally grown sowhat accustod to the challenge, a sudden surge from the side threw the boat off in another direction.
Amidst the screams of everyone, Fang Hong noticed that two underground rivers were converging, creating a whirlpool of undercurrents, but before he could figure out a plan, soone shouted ahead, "There's a fork ahead, which way do we go!?"
The river pathways under the cavern were complex and dizzying with forks, and a slight error could lead to a wrong turn. Fang Hong's biggest worry was encountering such diverging pathways, and it was just his luck to encounter one at this mont—it was a case of fearing what cos.
While directing everyone to steer the canoe back on course, he said to Sophie, "Take over the command, I'll assist you."
Sophie was startled, thinking Fang Hong was passing the buck, but then she saw him lower his Wind Goggles, raise his right hand, and throw out three or four golden sparkles that flew into the darkness ahead. She hesitated before exclaiming, "Hey, wait, you're releasing Clockwork Fairies even in this environnt—!?"
"Just command them, turn right," Fang Hong ordered firmly.
Sophie was taken aback, uncertain if he could really manage it, but understanding the urgency of the situation, she imdiately opened the team list and relayed orders through the team channel to all three boats fore and aft.
As the boat veered into the fork on the right, the speed increased, as if flying on water, and that's when Fang Hong spoke again, "Watch out for the shoal ahead, about forty ters, rocks on both sides—there might be undercurrents below, be mindful of paddling strength."
"Watch out for the shoal ahead, about forty ters, rocks on both sides—there might be undercurrents below, be mindful of paddling strength," Sophie repeated the orders, and after doing so, she looked at him sowhat surprised.
As the echo of her words dwindled, the glow of torches highlighted a forest of rocks ahead. The paddlers cried out in alarm, but being forewarned, they quickly veered away, passing the hazard without incident.
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