Wherever one treads, traces shall remain.
When the author comes into contact with curious objects containing "Secret Powers" or possessing "Supernatural" characteristics, traces will be left in this notebook.
ship in a bottle
Type: Ship / Relic
Rating: epic
Description: A ship contained within a glass bottle, its name is Alice. No one knows the reason for its creation.
When there is sufficient space, the holder can take it out of the bottle, or put it back into the bottle.
The act of taking out/storing can only be performed once per day.
Ships tainted by Secret Powers often possess spirituality. Cultivate them carefully and communicate with them, and perhaps they can give birth to their own souls?
I abandon my ship here.
"...Hmm?!"
Rehn's eyes suddenly widened.
After reading this description, he gained a deeper understanding of the concept of the mysterious ship.
Taking this ship in a bottle as an example, Rehn could take out or store the ship within it.
It was like carrying a ship with him!
In the future, if he encountered a situation where he needed to explore an island, he could put the ship into the bottle to prevent enemies from taking advantage and seizing the ship.
Although there was a one-time-a-day limit, it was usually enough.
What concerned Rehn even more was another description in the notebook.
"...Give birth to its own soul?"
"The soul of a ship, also known as a ship spirit?"
Rehn had heard that sailors on the vast sea held a simple and primitive reverence for their ships, often referring to them as "she," implicitly showing reliance and gratitude.
Over time, this would cause the ship to develop a certain spirituality.
And in this world, it seemed that even incredible things like "ship spirits" truly existed!
Thinking of this, Rehn's lips curved slightly upwards.
His current feeling was roughly equivalent to his parents saying, "We got a package for you" when they came home, only to find out it wasn't a "package" but "a piece of land!"
Is this the joy of the rich?
His three-year-old birthday present was actually a ship!
And it wasn't just an ordinary ship, but a ship he could carry with him, a ship that existed in legends.
"However, this ship in a bottle has a drawback: it cannot hold living creatures, but general cargo should be fine..."
On the other side, Leon was still introducing the features and uses of the ship in a bottle to Rehn.
"Oh, by the way, I've already erased the residual imprints on it. You just need to drip a drop of blood on the bottle's mouth to gain control of it."
However, looking at Rehn's tender little hand, Leon seemed to just realize that his son was only three years old, and for a moment, he couldn't bring himself to do it.
"I'll do it."
Franka walked to Rehn's side and gently held his palm.
Then, before Rehn could even see what happened, a slight prickling sensation came from his fingertip.
A drop of fresh blood fell onto the mouth of the ship in a bottle.
The next moment.
It was as if a clap of thunder sounded.
Rehn seemed to hear someone chanting an ancient, desolate sea shanty in a hoarse voice, or perhaps recounting an epic of the past.
In the unseen, countless invisible and intangible threads seemed to connect him to this ship in a bottle.
Rehn could even clearly perceive every corner and every joint of the Alice within the glass bottle.
But the astonishing anomaly was not yet over.
Thump!
Thump-thump!
A dull heartbeat echoed in Rehn's chest.
As if stimulated by the ship in a bottle's recognition of its master, a dormant power in his bloodline was awakening.
In a trance, Rehn saw an illusion—
Under the starry sky, above a throne.
A tall man with an eagle helmet on his head and a cloak draped behind him was quietly gazing at him.
He had a long white beard, and his bright, single eye seemed to be able to see through the mysteries of life and death.
And in His hand, He seemed to be holding a long, slender, shining spear...
"Hoo... hoo!"
After an extremely brief moment, Rehn suddenly woke up, his back drenched in cold sweat without him knowing when.
The ancient notebook rustled open to a new chapter.
Your "Unknown Bloodline" has begun to awaken!
Temporarily renamed — "God's Blood"!
Acquired Talent: God's Blood Blessing
Description: The bloodline of a certain deity flows within your body.
Your "Divinity" has slightly increased!
Your learning ability, talent, Secret Power affinity, self-healing ability, intelligence... have slightly increased, and various blessings will increase as the degree of bloodline awakening increases.
But the bloodline of a deity will also attract the enemies of that deity.
This is a blessing, and also a curse.
Current Awakening: 1%!
"Rehn? Rehn!"
Beside him, Franka and Leon also noticed the anomaly on Rehn's body, and their expressions changed slightly.
"This aura... is it the God's Blood?"
Leon couldn't help but be moved: "But Anderia didn't say that Rehn's bloodline concentration was very low? Why is there such a strong reaction?"
Franka pondered for a moment and speculated: "Is there a possibility..."
"The last time Anderia came to the fifth-grade assessment was because Rehn's development was slower than that of ordinary children, and his bloodline had not yet been initially activated."
"If he were to test now, he might get a completely different result."
Leon nodded in agreement: "That is indeed possible."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel fortunate.
Leon knew better than most the weight of the "Alexander" surname; even he, at present, was far from having the qualifications to be an enemy of the Alexander Family.
At this moment, Rehn slowly came back to his senses.
The scene of that fleeting glimpse still seemed to linger in his mind, and he thought to himself.
"That was... a deity of this world?"
In a world where extraordinary powers exist, the existence of deities is also normal.
However, the image of that white-bearded, one-eyed man inexplicably felt familiar to Rehn.
Out of trust in his parents, Rehn explained the scene he had just witnessed to them.
After listening, Leon hissed softly, his expression becoming somewhat subtle.
"The Ancestor God's Gaze?"
"I only experienced it once when I was fifteen..."
Within the Alexander Family, as the bloodline is activated, family members gradually establish a connection with the Ancestor God and simultaneously witness certain mysterious phenomena.
The Ancestor God's Gaze is a common one among them.
However, common does not mean ordinary.
One must know that Leon's bloodline rating was a rare first-grade, yet he only witnessed it once he was fifteen.
And now, Rehn was only three years old!
This was enough to show that the concentration of the God's Blood in his body was likely beyond Leon's expectations.
Thinking of this, Leon was both happy and somewhat worried, and he said solemnly.
"Rehn, in the future, in public, it's best not to use the power of the God's Blood."
Rehn asked: "Is it because of the Alexander Family?"
"That's just one reason."
Beside him, Franka explained: "In the Chaotic Sea and on the mainland, there are many secret societies and evil cults."
"Things with Divinity—including living people—are their targets."
"Once they discover the God's Blood in your body, and without the protection of the Alexander Family, it will bring endless trouble."
Franka's tone was slightly apologetic: "So, Rehn, can you promise Mommy?"
Hearing this, Rehn's eyes widened in surprise.
Secret societies?
Evil cults?
Combined with the Deep Sea Gaze in the notebook, the Forbidden Knowledge Franka mentioned, and deities and divinity... the waters of this world seemed deeper than he had imagined.
Rehn's heart stirred, but he only nodded seriously.
"I understand, I promise you, Mommy."