Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 2043 Purpose of this Trip
Because the Black Sail Vanguard required a large number of enchanted inscriptions, it took four or five years to build one.

In contrast, the number of destroyers in their Great Zhou Dynasty has increased to three, not to mention the other ports, but just in the Elven Port alone, including the first one, and the fourth one is almost completed.

From this perspective, it would be reasonable to have at least three destroyers against one Black Sail Vanguard.

This is still taking into account their financial expenditures and manpower issues, so they did not fully ramp up production. Otherwise, they could have increased the number of destroyers rapidly at a rate of one per year, instead of manufacturing two every three years.

Before they could finish speaking, both ships had already returned to port.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou on the destroyer were full of vigor and high spirits, looking as if they had won a battle.

In contrast, the dark elf soldiers on the Blacksail Vanguard were filled with a low-pressure atmosphere.

Zhou Xu didn't concern himself with how to train and educate these soldiers; that was Lin Youshu's job. He was there to inspect the results.

Although they lost the live-fire exercise just now, Zhou Xu is still very satisfied with the performance of the Black Sail Vanguard Ship so far.

More importantly, this ship is just for practice. Later, they can use spirit wood of higher age to create a stronger black sail warship!
Although it was a live-fire exercise, upon closer inspection, one could still see some damage to the ship's hull.

However, in Zhou Xu's view, this level was basically equivalent to daily wear and tear.

At the same time, his powerful perception as a Nascent Soul stage mage allowed him to keenly sense that the damage to the ship was being repaired at a slow pace.

This discovery reminded him that the design drawings for the Black Sail Vanguard ship mentioned that the ship itself also had the ability to slowly repair itself.

During this time, Lin Youshu, who was standing nearby, also provided appropriate explanations.

"Under sufficient energy and without deliberate manipulation, injuries like this can be fully recovered in about three days."

"What about deliberate manipulation?"

The deliberate manipulation Lin Youshu mentioned refers to increasing energy output and improving recovery speed.

"That can be expedited to one day."

Obviously, this improvement is not without its limits.

The recovery time has been reduced from three days to one day, and the improvement in recovery speed seems huge, but in reality, it's not that significant.

Don't forget, this is only the level of damage from daily wear and tear.

Simply put, during navigation, the ship scraped against something, resulting in a scratch, or it slightly collided with something, resulting in a dent.

For an injury of this severity, it would take three days to heal naturally, and another day to accelerate recovery.

Can you really expect this ship to be hit by enemy shells in battle, have a hole in its hull, and then quickly recover and be put back into battle using this ability?

Obviously not!

On this 300-year-old Black Sail Vanguard ship, this capability is barely worth mentioning.

The enchanting itself isn't the problem, but the hardware isn't up to par. The simplest and most direct way to make these abilities show their value is to use spiritwood that is older.

Zhou Xu had clearly been thinking about this for a while.

Of course, before this matter can be officially finalized, he needs to consult with the elves. After all, high-grade spiritwood isn't something you can just pick up anywhere. The elves probably have a certain reserve, but given Zhou Xu's style of doing things, they're definitely focused on long-term development and wouldn't do something that's short-sighted and depletes resources.

Before that, he had other things to do.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Xu led Eredar aboard the Black Sail Vanguard.

"lets go."

The Black Sail Vanguard is equipped with Dark Elf Mages, who can assist in combat and also serve as a power source for the Black Sail Vanguard when needed.

The Black Sail Vanguard had just finished a live-fire exercise, and its energy had been depleted considerably, but it was quickly replenished with mana directly injected by the Dark Elf mage.

Leaving the mana-depleted dark elf mage at the elven port, and taking sufficient supplies, Zhou Xu and Eredar quickly set off aboard the Blacksail Vanguard Ship.

Besides confirming the performance of the Black Sail Vanguard, he also had a very important reason for coming here: to explore the surrounding waters.

The existence of the North Sea Dragon Palace in the Barton Islands has always been a major concern for Zhou Xu.

The tricky part about the North Sea Dragon Palace is that its sea creature troops can move freely in the sea.

In the current situation, they can only rely on the Barton Islands' ban on the Black Dragon to passively protect themselves.

Zhou Xu didn't bother with it anymore because he couldn't do anything about it and could only leave it for now, hoping nothing would happen.

As the monarch of a country, he has too many things to do. If he can't solve something, he'll put it aside. He doesn't have that much time to waste.
And now, we've finally found a small breakthrough.

There are two potential breakthroughs: one is Hydra's Delar; the other is the Black Sail Vanguard ship beneath their feet!
First, let's talk about the Black Sail Vanguard. As we know from previous tests, the Black Sail Vanguard has an energy shield, and once this shield is deployed, it will completely envelop the Black Sail Vanguard, forming a sphere.

Simply put, the area beneath the sea surface is also within the protection range of the energy shield!
This is very important; at least with this, the sea creature forces can no longer easily approach and attack the bottom of their ships.

Under this premise, combined with the dark elf mages' 'biosensing' spells, they are also able to accurately detect creatures beneath the sea surface.

With these capabilities of the Black Sail Vanguard, it cannot be said that they have the strength to fight against the sea creature forces, but at least they are no longer like fish on a chopping board.

Under this premise, the most important 'resistance force' is naturally the Hydra Delar.

That creature is an amphibious creature, capable of fighting in the deep sea.

However, Hydra Delar alone is not enough; frankly speaking, that guy is only at the Silver level of the Vajra Realm.

The North Sea Dragon Clan has no shortage of combat power at the Vajra Realm level, and in fact, there are quite a few of them.

If the Hydra Delar were to face those Vajra-level sea monster warriors in the sea, it's not certain that it could defeat them.

At the same time, one Delar is simply not enough.

So Zhou Xu's purpose in coming here this time was very simple: to explore the surrounding seas and capture strange beasts and extraordinary creatures in the sea. He wanted to try to build a sea beast army to serve him!
He had considered this idea before, but he lacked the means to control those sea creatures.

To put it bluntly, once the sea creatures flee to the deep sea, who knows if we'll ever find them again?

But now the situation is different. In the sea, or rather in the deep sea, he has gained Delar as a henchman!

(End of this chapter)