reincarnation npc, but tomorrow's ark

Then he continued:

“Miss Arya, please help us inspect this lighthouse. You are the most familiar with all the equipment in the lighthouse. We need to restore the Eye of Iberia to its best possible condition. Afterwards, if the ship is in good condition, we will need its guidance to return to port.”

Iberia was fortunate to have a professional lighthouse technician among his group, who was able to improve the lighthouse's condition.

"Where did you find such a master?" Elena was genuinely curious.

Bai Ye was somewhat speechless; he had already answered this question several times along the way:

"I just picked it up on the street."

Unfortunately, Eleanor still couldn't quite accept it. As an Iberian, she had a hard time even finding a lighthouse keeper; she'd traveled to so many towns without encountering one. And Bai Ye wasn't even Iberian; he'd only been here less than five times in his entire life. Yet he could find one so easily on the road.

A professional lighthouse keeper is more capable than the technicians of the Iberian Tribunal. Although she may not understand the principles, her practical skills are truly exceptional.

“I understand.” Arya ran towards the location of the energy module. Some of the pipes there hadn’t been used for a long time and were severely worn. If they could be repaired, the lighthouse’s effectiveness would be significantly improved.

"Alright, don't get distracted. Mark the real-time location of each signal the ship sends on the nautical chart for me, so we can map out its range of activity." Bai Ye had Elena unfold the nautical chart she carried with her.

This nautical chart is also a treasured possession of the Iberian Inquisition, a relic of the Golden Age. Adventurers of the past explored parts of the Iberian Sea and personally drew such a chart. However, it became obsolete in the decades following the Great Calm.

"Let me see, hmm, the flight path record—wait, what?" Bai Ye looked at the data on the terminal screen, somewhat surprised, "So close to the coastline?"

"Very close?" Dario, who had been silently staring at the terminal screen, finally spoke up.

“Yes, Miss Elena, please make a note of it.” Bai Ye then began to recite the numbers.

“Just call me Alini,” Alini blinked.

Actually, Bai Ye still felt that calling him "Little Bird" or "Little Judge" was easier to say, but now that this guy's teacher was right next to him, it didn't seem like a good idea.

Elena marked the points one by one on the nautical chart, then looked at the chart in her hand and fell into deep thought.

“This ship keeps going in circles, like it’s going around in circles, but it never returns to port. It’s so close to the coastline, it should have a way to come back…” Eleanor frowned.

Dario narrowed his eyes:

"Unless there's something that doesn't want her to come back, or... she never wanted to come back in the first place."

“Perhaps the ocean currents trapped her, or… the unusual currents caused her to drift. In any case, she must be surrounded by enemies. There shouldn’t be any survivors in decades.” Bai Ye said, closing the information log on the main control panel.

"In other words, what we are about to encounter is a ghost ship full of monsters, trapped on the sea..." Elena murmured to herself, looking at the sea chart in her hand.

"Scared?" Bai Ye teased.

“How could that be!” Elena straightened her back immediately and looked at Bai Ye, saying, “The Inquisition knows nothing of fear.”

“We have the approximate location of the ships—what’s the next step?” Bai Ye asked Dario.

“The saints have sent us as the advance party to clear the way, reach the lighthouse, and activate it. After that, we are to hold this position and await the arrival of the next troops,” Dario replied.

"I wonder what the situation is like there... All those terror fish and sea creatures have run towards the coastline," Ulpian said softly.

Bai Ye shook his head:

"Don't worry, things on the shore are probably easier than they are here."

At least, they managed to take down a not-so-weak knight of the Sea King level.

“But, so many monsters…” Elena was puzzled by Bai Ye’s words.

Bai Ye smiled. Some things can't be explained without seeing them for yourself.

“The lighthouse has been restarted, and soon we will be able to re-establish contact with the land. Before that, Captain Ulpian, Grand Inquisitor Dario, I have something I want to show you.”

As Bai Ye spoke, he took out the documents he had previously searched the room from his inventory. When he rushed into the room following the scent, the cultists of the Deep Sea Church tried to burn these items, but Bai Ye's magic stopped them. Bai Ye packed them all up without a chance to examine them.

The charred pages were unfolded, revealing Agor's still-obscure script.

Bai Ye had learned this pronunciation from the girls, so she had no trouble reading it.

It contains records of correspondence between bishops of the Deep Sea Church, as well as the locations where some bishops were hiding.

“These places have never been reached by the Inquisition’s eyes… Damn cultists.” Dario’s eyes were filled with rage.

Bai Ye found one of the locations and pointed it out to the two of them:

“Look here, it’s very close to where we are now. We still have time before the people on the shore arrive. We’re just killing time anyway, so we can take a look.”

Chapter 5 Five Minutes of Fate

(I'm going to try to get Eunya's skin on May 2nd)

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While Bai Ye was full of confidence in the situation with Kal'tsit and Carmen, on the coast of Granfalo, the two "old folks," Kal'tsit and Carmen, looked blankly at the large group of people surrounding them.

The threat of the Terrorfish and the Sea Spinner has long been eliminated; these enemies are no match for us.

However, Kal'tsit and Carmen had an even bigger headache than before.

Why did things turn out this way? We need to go back to when White Night and Kal'tsit finished their communication.

……

The swarm of terror fish crossed the sandy shoreline and moved towards the plaza of Granfalo. Kal'tsit, Carmen, and a few Inquisitors and Punishers who had accompanied the Saints formed a defensive line against the enemy.

Because they needed to clear away the lingering traces left by the Terrorfish entities after the battle, they didn't plan to use the incendiary agents left behind by White Night before the battle began.

Otherwise, such a persistent and high-temperature flame could indeed be used as a fire wall to defend against the daphnia.

The terror fish spread towards the plaza, seemingly targeting the strange device in the center of the plaza as their primary objective, paying no heed to the other buildings or the remaining, still-burning Netherworld remnants, and all rushing towards the plaza.

"They said all we had to do was hold this place... but they're all heading this way." Kal'tsit glanced at the strange device behind her, unsure of its purpose.

“My informants have seen cultists from the Deep Sea Church communicating with the Terrorfish—these monsters are probably lured here.” Carmen raised her weapon.

During the brief preparation time, he loaded ammunition into the hand cannon.

No aiming is needed, as the swarms of terror fish are so dense that you don't have to worry about missing. The only thing to be careful of is not to accidentally hit the smaller monsters that Kal'tsit has already released and is rampaging through the area.

Kal'tsit, also known as the Mon3tr Launcher, derives most of her combat power from the Mon3tr. Once the Mon3tr is deployed, she herself has little combat ability, as the fragile human body is not suited for direct combat. Therefore, she can only perform support and healing duties from the rear of the lines.

Among everyone present, the one with the highest presence was not Mon3tr, nor Saint Carmen, but the Lich Lady floating in mid-air. She unleashed all sorts of bizarre spells, testing this strange creature she had never seen before.

Although this hastily assembled team, composed of different countries and races, was efficiently killing the Terrorfish, the sheer number of monsters was overwhelming, with wave after wave of Terrorfish surging towards the plaza.

After killing a certain number, the Punishers will throw out incendiary agents to burn the corpses of the Terrorfish to prevent the appearance of Netherworld Marks. The flames are indeed effective in stopping the monsters from advancing, but the intense heat also causes the guarding soldiers great pain.

This highly efficient combustion agent is also a master at consuming oxygen; its intense combustion can deplete the surrounding oxygen, making it difficult for the punitive troops to breathe.

Five minutes may sound short, just 300 seconds, but every second felt incredibly difficult and long. The surrounding daemons seemed oblivious to the concept of retreat, charging forward recklessly even when covered in flames.

“On other coastlines, there’s no such intense fighting…” Saint Carmen sighed.

The hastily assembled defensive line was indeed not strong enough, and the Punisher Army did not carry weapons with a wide area of ​​effect. Their light weapons were hardly effective against such a horde of monsters.

The makeshift defensive line kept retreating, and the area they could set foot on was constantly shrinking. Even Kal'tsit had no good solutions. The only option was to continue holding out until the reinforcements Bai Ye had mentioned arrived.

"But where are the reinforcements?" The shrine maiden, floating in the air, threw incendiary agents into the distance to stop Hai Si's advance, while looking around for any sign of reinforcements.

However, there was nothing else to support them; the Terrorfish were everywhere. They were no longer simply taking ground head-on; the Terrorfish came ashore from all over the long coastline, some charging directly at the defensive line, while many others circled around, preparing to surround them.

The terror fish don't think; they probably just want to flood this place and swallow the whole town with this tsunami.

This scene was merely a rehearsal for a conflict between land and sea. The real battle would be far more difficult and terrifying. After all, for now, there were only terror fish, nothing else. And the terror fish were ordinary, not nutrient-rich. They were simply tools for paving roads, to transform the land into suitable landing sites for the sea creatures.

……

Kal'tsit and the others continued to retreat as usual, but felt something behind them. When they turned around, they found that they had nowhere to retreat.

The densely packed swarms of terror fish were not in a hurry to advance. In just a few minutes, their casualties had been too heavy, so these monsters instinctively stopped and began to swim around the square or continue to occupy other places.

At this moment, no one had the energy to clean up the other stains, so they could only let the dirty carpets spread everywhere.

"My men were also blocked."

The three great formations of punitive forces and dual-purpose warships that Carmen had mentioned earlier were now being intercepted by the Terrorfish. His reinforcements would not arrive immediately.

The reinforcements that Bai Ye had mentioned earlier were nowhere to be seen.

However, just as Kal'tsit was about to order Mon3tr to use Meltdown again to wipe out a swarm of Terrorfish, the dim device behind her suddenly began to vibrate. Then, as if awakening, the crystals on the strange device began to glow.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the light began to intertwine, and a figure appeared out of thin air beside the device.

"The event has finally started... Wait, I'm the first one?!"

The man spoke standard Common, but no one understood what he meant.

The next moment, countless figures appeared around the crowd in the same manner.

After a moment of stunned silence, they drew their weapons and charged toward the terror fish.

"This is... the reinforcements?" Saint Carmen frowned as he looked at the chaotic crowd. "They're all undead."

A large number of undead poured out of the device.

"Excuse my bluntness, but they have absolutely no organization. Warriors like that cannot withstand the deep sea..."

Before Carmen could finish speaking, Kal'tsit shook her head:

"But their numbers are enough."

Because, in everyone's field of vision, they could see nothing but light...

Chapter 154 The Fourth Calamity

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The small Granfalo was filled with light, each ray representing a player, the undead known to Kal'tsit and others.

The first players to arrive at the coastline were almost instantly overwhelmed by the vast schools of swarms ...

……

"Is this event going to be this exciting? Even the monsters are guarding the teleportation points."

"Combat right after arrival? There wasn't even an introductory process?"

"What kind of monster is this? It's so slimy and disgusting... Where's the porridge expert? Where's the Terra biologist? Help!"

"Didn't any of you look at the mission panel? The official statement said that we must first ensure that we can defend the teleportation point before we can consider what to do next."

"Hold on? We're going to attack! We'll push back against those mere sea monsters."

……

Although players with strong martial spirit were initially overwhelmed by the dense horde of enemies, they soon discovered that these monsters were merely numerous and not particularly difficult to defeat.

After the initial chaos and many unlucky players, the players gradually gained a foothold, and this large-scale player-versus-player event soon became organized.

Moreover, at this time, major gaming guilds also began to enter the market.

These gaming guilds had long been prepared for the raid. They were fully prepared and then teleported together, so you could clearly see a large area of ​​white light flashing at the same time, which meant the guilds were coming.

The players quickly regained their organization through the chat function on the system panel. All the players who had been teleported to Granfalo were divided into temporary combat groups according to their regions, and some raid leaders from large guilds volunteered to take charge of these temporary groups.

These people have all been through the baptism of several fully stealth MMORPGs, and are very experienced. They are obviously more than capable of dealing with enemies like the Dreadfish.

After all, the current Terrorfish rely entirely on biological instincts to attack; they haven't yet developed a unified consciousness to command, control the overall situation, or rapidly learn, absorb, and evolve. Therefore, players currently face no challenge in dealing with these enemies.

For example, in Area 3, the temporary player group responsible for guarding and clearing the area in front of the plaza is led by "Brain Rabbit and Pillowman," a veteran player of fully stealth MMORPGs who has previously played classic games like Arcadia Gate. While Arknights Online offers more flexible and realistic gameplay, many aspects remain interconnected for all players.

"Players who learned the Shield Guard skill in the core city, step forward. Don't be reluctant to part with your Flash Shield; it's time to take it out and show it to everyone."

"Warlocks who have learned AOE spells, now is your time to shine. This monster horde mode is not a test of DPS, but of sustained output ability. Watch your mana bars and don't let the output chain break."

"Pay attention to their special units. I see some elite individuals and some players with special abilities who specialize in melee combat. You need to airdrop directly from the top of the building, take them out, and then use the grappling hook to escape. Players who specialize in sniping, please provide cover."

……

Commands were transmitted through the game's built-in communication system to every player in Zone 3. These commands, inaudible to the Terran natives, connected each player. Therefore, after the initial chaos, the players quickly organized themselves and began a methodical defense against and elimination of the Terrorfish.

As the players initially said, holding on? That's too easy. What they need to do is push back and drive all the monsters back into the sea.

As players organized themselves, the chaos subsided, and more and more players flocked to the game, since not all players were initially eager to participate in the new event. Arknights Online is a massive game, ensuring that almost every player can find something they want to do.

I'm currently busy with something, so I might not be too keen on joining a new event on the first day. The first group to teleport here might just be there to take a look, or they might be large guilds preparing for a raid.

But as the battle began, the players' traditional skill kicked in again—calling for reinforcements.