I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 686 Jack and George's Great Luck (Part 5)

Working on the open sea is no easy task. Not to mention the pampered George, even Jack, who had been used to hardship since childhood, was panting heavily. Fortunately, they had already mastered the technique of not limiting their divine power to innate magic, otherwise the difficulty would have been several levels higher.

Of course, without mastering this skill, they wouldn't have been able to learn the "land reclamation technique."

As the giant offshore platform, built on five cargo ships and somewhat crudely constructed but structurally sound, began to take shape, both of them felt that all the hard work had been worthwhile.

"Alright, the basic platform is now secured!" George wiped his sweat and finally breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the "structural stability" green signal displayed on the control panel.

It must be said that the "hydrogel" produced by turning water into mud—or rather, land reclamation technology—is quite versatile. Whether you spread some fertilizer on it to grow crops (is it hydroponics or soil cultivation?), or mix it with steel bars and bamboo to use as building materials, it is quite good. The only problem is that its thermal conductivity is too good, so that additional insulation technology is required.

During the platform's construction, George was essentially using this material as a waterproof coating. As long as the range of the divine spell's release was controlled, the entire platform could remain afloat on the sea for a considerable period of time.

"Does that mean we can create land?" Jack asked, looking at the platform with some anticipation. George, however, shook his head and said:

"No, we need to erect the statue of the Earth Goddess first. Divine power and divine magic need a carrier. With a shrine and a statue, the divine magic can be maintained spontaneously. Otherwise, once the platform is built, I won't have to do anything but replenish the divine magic every day."

"Can a statue cast divine spells on its own?" Even with the knowledge gained from the fragments of the earth, Jack lacked understanding in this area. George respectfully carried a large white rabbit statue out of the warehouse as he spoke:

"It's not about releasing divine magic, but about gathering faith. The faith of the Earth Goddess is omnipresent. As long as you link her to the divine magic base, you can spontaneously draw the power needed to maintain the divine magic from... well, you can think of it as drawing power from the air. That's how all those existing religious wonders came about. Well, you may not have seen others, but you know that there are always sea god statues on the ships of the Sea People, right? That's to maintain the solidified divine magic on their ships."

"Oh, I thought it was to show his devout faith!" Jack didn't hide his ignorance at all. He quickly helped George set up the shrine and put the big white rabbit inside.

Ever since the Earth Goddess displayed her miracles, rabbit statues have become ubiquitous. Of course, before the Sea People completely collapsed, no one would say it was the Earth Goddess.

With all preparations complete, George stood before the shrine and began setting up the ritual for the large-scale land-building ceremony, while Jack had already climbed a watchtower made of masts, vigilantly observing the surrounding sea.

"Damn it, it really appeared after all?"

Suddenly, Jack exclaimed, and before George could ask, he shouted:

"Keep using your divine magic. It's just a pack of 'hyenas,' no big deal!"

“…” George did not respond, but simply lowered his head and continued his work. He used his faith power to guide the precise calculations of the AI, gradually outlining the scope of this land reclamation technique. The buoyancy of five cargo ships could only support a limited amount of land. With the added burden of subsequent buildings, vegetation, and population, he could only create an island the size of a community. However, once the basic structure was completed, he could easily expand this mobile territory at sea by continuously bringing in more ships.

He had already given the production module the order to produce engine components at full capacity. Once the divine spell was completed, the engine would be basically in place. He even had time to check the illusion field that was enveloping the platform to confirm that the deflection effect was still in effect before he devoted himself to weaving the divine spell.

……

A crisp gunshot rang out, signaling the start of the battle. However, the bullet missed its mark entirely within George's illusionary domain. Nevertheless, the signal to fire triggered a flurry of activity from the surrounding forces. The sea surface beyond the range of sonar suddenly parted, and a colonel-class warship, carrying a massive number of Sea Soul Guardians, launched its attack.

Missiles, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, bombarded the warship's Poseidon Barrier. As a surge of divine power spread, the optical camouflage of a fleet bearing the Land Seekers' flag was breached.

The probe ship belonging to the Freedom Island Group's "Gold Tide Investment" is the furthest away, but with the support of the almost uninterrupted pre-civilization engine technology, it will be able to enter the war zone in no time.

In an instant, Jack and George, along with their newly born, still steaming "moving wasteland," became the sole epicenter of the entire West Sea storm! Before them lay hyena-like bounty hunters, behind them were the steel behemoths of the elite navy, and in the distance, various forces were watching with predatory eyes… Jack's eyes burned with fury; with such a massive number of enemies before him, his heart pounded wildly.

He leaped off the mast and sped across the sea using water proportions. Thanks to Delis's tutelage, his experience in divine combat was exceptionally high on this vast ocean. His original innate divine grace of simply controlling water was twisted into bizarre shapes at his whim.

A magnetic field that can stop a bullet, gravity that can make a person unable to stand, and a whirlpool that directly destroys buoyancy, creates a cavity in the sea, and sucks ships in.

At this point, Jack truly possessed excellent-level strength and was only one step away from becoming one of the top powerhouses on the high seas.

However, this one step alone makes a difference of several orders of magnitude.

On the high seas, there are only a handful of exceptional and half-step exceptional individuals, but outstanding individuals are as numerous as carp crossing a river. And those surrounding the sea platform at this moment are also outstanding individuals from various forces.

The naval captain paid no attention to the land seekers who had suddenly interfered. What he cared about at this moment was to defeat the two evil god followers by destroying this newly formed land, thereby pleasing the sea god.

As for other things, those were not his concerns.

With the holy emblem, equivalent to the gaze of the sea god, hanging on his chest, the naval captain abandoned his warship and gathered a large amount of the sea god's divine power on his body, then rushed directly toward the "land".

Seeing the naval captain's actions, other forces were clearly not to be outdone. But just as a large number of ships and individuals were about to touch the platform, George's divine magic was completed.

The once bright sea seemed to have instantly turned into the dead of night, the sun's brilliance vanished without a trace, and a bright moon suddenly hung high in the night sky.

To those with divine vision, the beams of moonlight were forcibly condensed into a bundle by some force and fell directly onto the shrine of the Earth Goddess.

Clumps of white substance spread from the deck of the abandoned ship, drawing in seawater and growing wildly.

"It's done!" Jack was overjoyed as he bumped head-on into the naval captain, but then his eyes widened in surprise—

"That's enough! That's enough! Any bigger and it won't float anymore!"

However, George was also bewildered at this moment. Of course, he remembered the optimal area calculated by the AI, but now, or rather, the moment the divine spell was completed, it had already slipped out of his control.

He watched helplessly as the land grew larger and larger, as Jack went from standing in the sea to standing on land, as ships from various factions were swallowed up by the land, as he watched...

"Holy crap? It's sprouted?!"

George stared at the tender sprout that had suddenly appeared beside the shrine, utterly bewildered. The seeds he had prepared hadn't even been sown yet!
But the sapling clearly had no intention of explaining itself to him. It seemed to grow rapidly in the wind, and within two breaths, it had become a magnificent canopy, a cassia tree. As the cassia tree grew, petals of cassia blossoms began to fall, instantly transforming into various kinds of grass and trees on the ground. The originally white, cloud-like hydrogel ground was suddenly covered by lush vegetation. In an instant, a real land was spreading wildly across the western sea!
"This...the Earth Goddess has appeared?" George felt a chill run down his spine, but then he suddenly heard a soft laugh. He instinctively turned around and looked back, and it seemed that the white rabbit in the shrine was winking at him.

"Did you see that?" Jack's voice rang in his ears, and George was startled, quickly saying:
"Aren't you still fighting?"

Jack pointed and saw the once arrogant naval captain being hammered by a group of rabbits that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. He bowed respectfully to the statue of the Earth Goddess before smiling and saying:
"Do you think our identity as the chosen one of the Earth Goddess is now confirmed?"

(End of this chapter)