Since it was still dark outside, Alka prepared to return to his room and sink into his dreams.
He planned to return to the settlement where the intelligent beings had been and continue to inquire about information in their dreams.
"If it's daytime, remember to wake me up," Alka said to Lusilia, who was sitting on his shoulder.
Lucilia nodded.
Then Alka returned to his room, lay down on the bed, and quickly fell into his dream.
He quickly returned to the settlement he had come from.
The dream bubbles around him hadn't decreased much as Alka had expected.
Instead, bubbles kept popping, waking up, and new bubbles kept appearing from nothingness.
This meant that while some people were waking up, many more were falling asleep.
This scene made Alka frown.
This meant that the night outside might be even longer than he had imagined.
Recovering his thoughts, Alka began to choose his target.
The worst part about searching for information in dreams is that you have to choose questions based on the dream's context; you can't just ask random questions about the information you want.
It all depends on the situation.
As for waking someone up to gain more information, Alka never even considered it.
The accuracy of the information obtained in this way is uncertain.
After further intelligence exploration, Alka discovered that the vast majority of the people on this island had never left.
The number of islanders who had left and returned to live there was extremely small.
Even if the dream was related to the outside world, it was difficult to obtain any useful information.
Alka had no choice but to continue asking about the island.
As he continued asking, the island seemed even more dangerous than he had imagined.
And at night, the danger level would increase exponentially.
Therefore, most of them left their settlements during the day.
These islanders never considered the island their home, only their place of residence.
Therefore, they had no objection to outsiders visiting and exploring the island.
Because the island was so dangerous, even among ordinary people, it was best not to speak once away from home.
Arka had wanted to ask about information regarding daytime and nighttime, but no one cared.
For these islanders, this was just normal life.
Apart from that, the intelligence they obtained this time wasn't particularly noteworthy.
But at least they had gathered a considerable amount, albeit not very detailed.
Due to the island's dangerous nature, the more ordinary islanders and those who weren't particularly powerful never strayed far from their settlements.
And the more powerful islanders were so few and far between that their dreams mostly involved hunting or resting.
Instead, Alka learned a great deal about the island's creatures, even glimpsing trophies and monster corpses through their dreams.
He also indirectly learned how dangerous the island was.
Dangerous plants, strange environments.
For the hunters of these tribes, the most dangerous thing wasn't their prey, but the island's environment.
After failing to gather any more information, Alka began to return.
He had only just realized that visiting so many other people's dreams in such a short period of time seemed to tire his bubbles very easily.
He could already feel his body fatigue within the dream.
He had never before sought information from so many intelligent creatures in such a short period of time; this was the first time Alka had discovered this.
He awoke from his dream.
It was still dark outside.
It was unknown how long it would take for daylight to return.
And so, Alka lay in bed, waiting, recovering his strength and spirit. Finally, a beam of light appeared on the horizon, like a curtain being drawn back, and the sky quickly began to brighten.
In just a few seconds, night had given way to day.
Simon took out the ball he used to measure time and said, "The night lasted 20 hours."
"Nearly a day?" Alka muttered to himself.
This night was indeed long.
Then Simon flipped the ball over and said, "Now let's start calculating the daytime."
"Since it's daylight now, get ready. We're going to explore the island."
With that, he instructed the Voice of Dawn to lead them to the bay they had seen yesterday.
As they approached the bay, everyone jumped from the boat onto the beach. This time, everyone on board was out.
Alka looked at the Voice of Dawn and said, "While we're away, sink directly to the seabed, conceal your presence, and await our call."
As he spoke, Alka shook the harmonica in his hand.
A melodious song emanated as the Voice of Dawn slowly sailed out of the bay and gradually sank to the seabed.
Watching the Voice of Dawn depart, Alka nodded. He couldn't let it wait there.
In the event of danger, they would have to seek the nearest location and then leave the island, requiring the Voice of Dawn to be adaptable.
The Voice of Dawn could sense Alka's location, allowing it to circle the island's perimeter and always stay close to Alka.
This would also allow Alka and his companions to return to the ship as quickly as possible.
Then he turned and looked at the others.
By then, they had begun scouting the area around the beach.
"Ouch!"
Jason suddenly let out a strange cry and leaped backward.
Hearing his cry, the people who were looking around on the beach turned their heads.
In front of Jason appeared a gray crab, about the size of a palm. Hidden in the sand, it was indeed inconspicuous.
The crab was waving its claws left and right at Jason, as if trying to drive him away.
Looking at the crab, Jason smiled.
"Little thing, you still want to pinch me?"
He stretched out his foot, kicked the crab, and said with a smile, "Come on, pinch me!"
Looking at Jason's childish expression, everyone turned away helplessly.
Only Er walked over with great interest.
Alka observed the crab.
He had seen this crab in those people's dreams. It seemed like a very delicious delicacy, but don't underestimate it.
This crab was a magical creature that had reached the level of a spiral, no ordinary animal.
If Alka remembered correctly, he had seen this crab in an islander's dream. It seemed to be able to cause great pain to those caught in its grip.
In that dream, the islander kept hammering the crab, venting his anger.
However, the crab seemed to have no other special attack methods besides inflicting pain.
Thinking of this, he looked at Jason with a hint of gloating.
"Are you thinking of something bad?" Sofia asked, watching him from the side.
Hearing this, Alka retorted, "Of course not. I'm not that kind of person."
Hearing this, Sofia was certain that Alka was thinking of something bad and followed his gaze to Jason. Then, seeing the gray crab at Jason's feet, it seemed to understand something.
After a moment's thought, it asked, "Isn't it dangerous?"
"No."
He had asked, and many people had been pinched by these crabs; many islanders had experienced this as children.
This was a necessary sacrifice for delicious food.
"Ah!"
Jason screamed, as he had arrogantly allowed the little crab to clamp onto a small piece of his flesh.
As he screamed, the crab remained stuck to his flesh, showing no sign of letting go.
Hearing the scream,
Materisa, who had only been on the boat a few days, swam over quickly to check for any danger.
Juanlu, who was right beside him, had already taken the crab from his hand.
Jason's flesh was unharmed, save for a tiny red mark. "It's just a small wound, why are you screaming so loud?" Juanlu asked curiously.
He thought if Jason had screamed slower, the red mark might have disappeared.
"It hurts! It hurts so much!" Jason frowned, looking at the red mark on his hand. There wasn't even a wound, so why was it so painful?
Alka and the others also walked over.
"How is it? Is it still a little crab?" Alka asked with a smile.
At this time, Mathilda had already arrived and was examining it nearby.
Within two seconds, she understood the cause of the pain and said, "This is the effect of some kind of magic, like a spell. It's nothing serious."
Hearing her words, Jason frowned, and through the pain, he asked, "How can I relieve it?"
"Just use your magic to wash over the area a few times to remove the attached magic."
Hearing Matresha's advice, Jason quickly nodded and used his magic to wash over the painful area repeatedly.
With the washing, the pain quickly eased until it disappeared.
Jason finally breathed a sigh of relief.
With such a simple method, why had that person been so angry in his dream?
After all, there weren't any ordinary people on this island.
He collected his thoughts.
Alka, watching from the side, said, "It seems this lesson has taught you that this is already a vast ocean, and nothing can be underestimated."
"You must remain vigilant about everything."
After hearing Alka's words, Jason nodded.
This was what Alka had meant.
Jason wasn't a reckless person who wasn't vigilant, but his mindset seemed to be stuck in his home sea.
He wasn't sufficiently vigilant about his surroundings.
Xadaiti, standing next to Alka, smiled slightly upon hearing his words.
Jason rubbed his fingers, still feeling a phantom pain as he looked at the crab in Juanlu's hand.
"I didn't expect such a tiny creature to be so formidable."
Juanlu was studying the crab in his hand. "This crab has magical power, quite a bit."
Alka explained directly from the side: "This crab, as its appearance suggests, is called a gray crab. It's a creature with a strength of about one spiral. Anyone caught in its grip will feel intense pain. Besides that, it's also very delicious."
As for whether it was truly delicious, Alka didn't know. He only knew from his dreams that the crab was a delicacy.
Who knows if the islanders share their tastes?
"Delicious?" Juanlu heard this and looked at the crab in his hand.
After a moment's thought, a thin rope appeared in his hand and tied the crab up.
He turned his head and looked at Julia.
"Julia, help freeze it."
A cold breeze blew, and a white chill drifted out, freezing the crab and coating it with frost.
The crab died.
Afterward, Juanlu tossed it into his pocket ring. After this brief incident, the group continued their brief reconnaissance on the beach.
Naturally, the wreckage of the two ships caught their attention most.
However, it was clear that the two ships had been wrecked a long time ago, and no useful information could be obtained from them.
"Alright, stay alert, let's head in." With that, the group began to move toward the island.
Scattered vegetation dotted the surroundings, with only a few trees visible at the edge of their field of vision.
As they moved deeper into the island, the group moved slightly closer together. Julia took in her surroundings.
She said to the group, "Be careful. The magic concentration here is high, and the space is also somewhat chaotic.
" Everyone nodded at this. Sofia, walking at the front of the group, continued to project his silver ripples, scanning the surroundings.
Her silver ripples were now difficult to detect, and with the help of the Ring of Light, her detection range was growing ever wider.
However, the island was quite large, and mapping the entire island in one go was no easy feat.
"Be careful, there's a large creature ahead," Sofia suddenly said, crouching slightly and hiding behind a nearby boulder.
Everyone else also tilted their bodies slightly to hide.
Heavy footsteps could be heard from the grove ahead.
The slight vibrations suggested the creature was quite large.
Then a creature emerged from the woods.
It was a gigantic monster, about three meters tall and over six meters long.
It looked strangely like a giant wild boar, its body covered in sharp spikes, a pair of massive tusks protruding from its head, and a sharp horn on its forehead.
As it moved, its spikes tore off limbs and branches from the surrounding trees.
Thankfully, Alka didn't sense an overly dangerous aura from the monster, but she could still sense its power.
Julia's voice rang out.
"Its strength is probably between 4 and 5 spirals. Be careful, it seems in a bad mood."
As soon as she finished speaking, the monster sensed their presence, turned its head slightly, and stared at their position with crimson eyes.
The monster panted, white steam rising from its nose like two chimneys.
Then it broke into a run, charging directly towards the boulder where they were hiding.
"We've been spotted!"
With that, everyone quickly leaped to either side. The monster moved at an incredible speed, and the two fangs on its head and the long horns on its head glowed black.
Fortunately, everyone had dodged to the sides. The monster's charging speed clearly didn't allow it to turn in time, and it smashed straight into the boulder they were avoiding, shattering it.
Then it came to a halt, leaving a cloud of dust.
Looking at the people on either side, he arched his back fiercely.
Watching the spikes on its back begin to sway.
Alka immediately shouted, "Be careful, the spikes on its back might fire!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several spikes flew towards them.
Pororo, on the side, sprinted over and leaped to his feet.
One in each hand, he caught the incoming spikes, his hands swirling with blue lightning.
After grasping them, he landed on the ground, turned without hesitation, and hurled the spikes with all his might.
The moment he threw them, lightning also enveloped the spikes.
On the other side, Sofia, who was with Alka and the others, had the sun on his arm.
The shield's patterns lit up, gleaming with the sun's light.
Moving as swiftly as a beam of light, she leaped up and, with a whip kick, sent the incoming spike flying. Then, turning mid-air, she delivered another kick, sending the second one flying.
The entire movement was so swift, accompanied by a powerful flash of light, that they were blinded, completely unaware of her movements.
By this time, Pororo had already charged towards the enemy.
The spike he had thrown shot out at an even faster speed, scorched with lightning, and pierced the monster's body.
The lightning paralyzed the creature.
Pororo leaped up and struck the monster hard on the head.
Remember, Pororo was quite large.
His body was shrouded in blue lightning, and the instant he struck, he shattered two of the monster's fangs.
He slammed the monster to the ground, causing it to wail in agony.
Pororo immediately rolled over, dropping down from above him. Then, grasping the protruding horns on its forehead, he fiercely lifted the monster's massive form.
The immense strength made it easy for Pororo to lift the monster.
Then, he slammed it down hard.
With a loud bang, smoke and dust rose in the air.
The monster's screams intensified, but it proved it wasn't dead yet.
Pororo's hands left the sharp horns on its forehead and grasped its two tiny ears. Holding the monster's head, the lightning bolts in his hands danced wildly.
A burning smell wafted in.
The boar-like monster twitched continuously, and its screams began to twitch.
The sound grew fainter and fainter until it was completely silent.
Seeing that the monster couldn't last more than a few rounds against Pororo, Alka came to his side.
He looked Pororo up and down.
"When did you advance to the second stage?"
Ever since Pororo passed the trial, his aura had been unstable, causing everyone to be unaware of his advancement.
"Haha, just last night."
The magic power concentration in the Infinite Ocean was too high. Even if Pororo had advanced from the first stage to the second, the magic power required was insignificant in this environment.
Even their companions on the ship hadn't noticed this magical reaction.