Transcendent Journey

The sea is densely covered with lead clouds, and the black lacquered clouds are extremely low.

The air is dull and the wind is extremely low. Obviously, a storm of wind and rain, which is very common on the Black Sea, is quietly brewing.

Even if it has not yet reached the most frequent and largest summer of wind and rain, the Black Sea is always reminding humans of its coldness and ruthlessness!

In this foreseeable and foreseeable Celestial Phenomenon, a huge sailing fleet has to drift slowly on the sea purely driven by ocean currents.

It is extremely difficult to determine the voyage of sailing wooden boats that depend on the sky for food. In the event of continuous windless weather or severe Celestial Phenomenon, it is not surprising that it is delayed by two weeks or even longer.

And misfortunes never come alone is that the trouble they encounter does not stop there.

“Be careful! The monster is here again!”

Boom——

A huge shadow on the edge of the fleet rushed to the surface, shaking the giant The tail jumped high from the sea, directly over the forty-meter mast of a warship, and went into the water from the other side.

During this period, its appearance was also exposed to the seafarers.

Hiss——

Everyone on the nearby ship sucked in a breath of cold air.

It is a giant marine fish with teeth full of teeth and a body length of nearly 100 meters [Large species·Gyrenia Sphinx]. Its hideous face is covered with iron-colored scales, just like a whole body. A mechanical monster made of steel.

Slap——

Just a slight flick of the tail and the turbulent currents caused a huge shock to the 39-meter-long Fifth Level cruise ship, and many crew members on the deck All were shaken down one after another.

“Ah! Help!”

“No–!”

After that, he fled back to the boat without waiting for the struggle in the water, and was caught one by one. After opening, the huge mouth which is almost half the body length of the strange fish directly swallowed it.

As if playing with these land creatures, wild sea monsters and giant water wolffish are constantly swimming under the fleet, picking and choosing, as if this is not a sea boat, but full A delicious food box for the little meat man.

Just wait for it to be gorgeous oneself.

bang! bang! bang! bang! ….

The escort fleet with a long flame flag hung on the periphery is assembled, lowering the muzzle and attacking it with continuous guns, solid bullets, and grapes. The bombs were fired again and again, and the smoke of azure had been connected into a cloud.

There is a powerful transcender captain struggling to throw the special harpoon in his hand, but in front of the hard scales and super high speed of this large sea monster, the effect is very small.

“Damn it! Keep firing!”

There is no targeted attack method against underwater, so that these cruisers can only rely on intensive attack when facing large species. The gunfire scared the opponent away.

Even the Level 4 ships of the escort fleet are extremely difficult to gather fire and inflict heavy damage.

Until…

bang!

Like a blazing sun suddenly descending, dispelling the slight chill remaining on the sea surface in winter.

At the forefront of the fleet, a peculiar-looking battleship, a yellow and white flame column shot out, gasifying a large area of ​​seawater over a distance of nearly two hundred meters, turning the head of this huge sea monster Department easily penetrated!

Wow——

Just now I showed off one’s military strength The giant water wolftooth that no one can cure, but at this time there’s no resistance died on the spot, slowly floating on the surface .

Even though the steel-like body keeps twitching and flicking its tail, it seems that it is no longer alive…

A burst of burnt smell mixed with the smell of grilled fish fills the entire fleet .

“Restore the form of the guards! Keep going!”

A cold and hard voice spread through the sea like thunder, and all the crew members who were still in shock quickly regained their spirits. Boost morale. As long as this adult is there, there is no problem at all even in the dangerous deep sea.

While the signal flag was waving, the fleet’s formation was slowly adjusted, returning to the marching queue of the merchant ship inside and the frigate outside.

The identity of this fleet is already obvious.

It is the Sirius Treasure Fleet that returns every spring!

After the dispute over the new continent Potosi silver mine was settled, it set sail. At this time, it was returning to mainland China along the shortest route between the “yellow golden sea” and Sirius mainland.

This is the largest fleet return in a year, full of gold and silver, gems, tobacco, ink trees collected from the new continent…the total amount is unimaginable by an ordinary person. wealth!

The total number of fleets has reached 120. Among them, 102 merchant ships have both official fleets and Sirius folk merchant ships. The frigates consist of 18 ships of at least Fifth Level. The composition of warships.

The leading flagship is also called the “Red Maple”, the battleship that just shot and killed the sea monster.

The bowsprit is covered with generals, nobles, fleet, and commander flags, leading the entire fleet as the flagship and pilot ship.

There is no doubt that this is a powerful “quasi-Legendary battleship”!

In terms of size alone, it is slightly larger than a normal Level 4 ship, and the largest caliber ship-borne artillery is only 24 pounds, which belongs to the same level as the “Cape Storm”.

But since it is known as the “quasi-Legendary”, then this “Red Maple” certainly has the strength to match its legendary name. Even from the appearance, it can be seen that it is different. The biggest feature is that the color of the ship is very bright, like the red sails of burning maple leaves.

Because this battleship was fortunate to have been blessed by the angels under the seat of “Fire of Eternal” (praying with ceremonies, not angels descending), and obtained a super speed comparable to the Legendary battleship.

The normal speed is 18 knots, and the limit speed is 22 knots. Even in a completely windless environment, it runs an unconditional base speed of 6 knots.

Of course, this speed is not that absolutely does not have the conditions. The premise of everything is that the outside temperature is above zero. After it is below zero, it will immediately be beaten back to its original shape.

Apart from this, this battleship is also equipped with a powerful marine treasure, which makes up for its lack of firepower in pursuit of extreme speed.

[Marine Secret Treasure·Dragon Breath Torch]

Effect: Outside of winter, it can be used three times a day, and it can release a hot flame with a range of up to 200 meters. Sea water can burn through. Except that the attack range is slightly close, there are no other shortcomings.

As long as the speed of the “Red Maple” is matched, it is definitely a nightmare for any enemy!

But the shortcomings and advantages of this battleship, which is called the “red ruling” in Sirius, are as obvious as the advantages, that is, it will be completely sealed in winter, and it is not as strong as a normal Level 4 ship. How much.

This is also the reason why it is known for its speed, but it was not sent to the front when supporting the battle for Potosi.

The decoration is simple and simple as in the captain’s room of a cultivator of painstaking cultivation residence.

“Your Excellency Commander! The aftermath has been dealt with. Although there was damage to the hull but no ship capsized, a total of 52 people were lost.

In addition, we will soon enter the Black Sea Eye’s waters, in this waters we do not have any islands or naval bases to dock.

How to deal with wind and rain that may come at any time, please tell me!”

“I You know, go ahead, just keep your guard up.

The main route of this kingdom is in the mid-ridge of the Black Sea. There has never been a record of overturning the fleet due to wind and rain.

As long as it takes a week to get over here, even if it is damaged, we can get repairs at the Soviet naval base on the other side.”

The red hair looks very young, but the actual age is already. The commander of the fleet, over sixty years old, rubbed the hilt of the long sword on his waist and issued his own order.

According to past experience, this decision-making is of course no problem at all.

The adjutant thought the same way. He turned around and left without raising any objections.

“The voyage is nearly halfway, and it has been a year since I left the kingdom. This time I must go back to Holy City’Novigrad’ to listen to the hadith under the teaching Sect Pavilion and wash my soul.”

Looking at the back of the adjutant leaving, the commander muttered to himself.

The captain of the “Red Maple” is also Lieutenant General Doyle Griffits, commander of the Treasure Fleet, although he is a Peak Great Knight who belongs to the kingdom’s military.

But it was originally from the Volcanic Knight group of the “Fire of Eternal” church. He was a devout believer of “Fire of Eternal”, and he even retained his teaching position in the church.

Being less than thirty years old, he had already broken through Great Knight, became famous at a young age, and was entrusted with an important task. In addition, he was influenced by the radical style of the “Fire of Eternal” church. The domineering Sirius are well-known hardliners.

It is more accurate to say that it is the main battle group. One of the propositions is: strictly block air routes with strong military forces and monopolize the interests of the colonies!

At this time.

A precision-carved wooden box is placed at his feet. It is the silver ingots extracted from Potosi Island No. 1 and No. 2 by the craftsmen working overtime, totaling 100 kg. Although not much compared to total reserves, it has extraordinary symbolic significance.

It was also a gift jointly presented by the colonial leaders to King Philip II.

Glanced at this precious gift that was only exchanged for starting a war and even paying major benefits, Lieutenant General Griffits was lightly snorted:

“hmph! If you heard me earlier Yes, how can the hyenas grow bigger in the colony? Even the kingdom has to make compromises?

In these years, the king Your Majesty has become more and more distant from the will of God, and even delusions and inheritance are sacred The Habsburg family, crowned by the Lothar Empire, married, and naturally won the Supreme Emperor.

After I go back, maybe in the kingdom, I need more like-minded companions…”

Then, wind and rain arrived as scheduled.

…….

hua hua wa…

wu wu wu …

Squeak. .. Squeak…

The whole fleet has been sailing for three days in howling wind and torrential rain.

Although the strength is not enough to make the ship capsize, it also makes the crew very uncomfortable. Fortunately, most sailboats are full of cargo, and there is sufficient load to make the center of gravity of the sailboat low enough. The ship was overturned by wind and rain.

If you pass the time to summer, you can’t tell.

But even so, the return journey was not as smooth as they expected.

Crack—

The sparkling electric light pierced the sea.

On the “Red Maple” as the pilot ship, which is responsible for the most important reconnaissance mission, the watchman who tied himself to the mast under wind and rain saw something and suddenly shouted:

“Not good! That’s…big vortex!”

clang! clang! clang! …

The alarm bell was sounded like a reminder, Reverberating far in wind and rain.

A huge whirlpool with a diameter of one kilometer suddenly appeared on the fleet up ahead.

Without the slightest hesitation, the commander of the fleet has issued his order.

“Left full rudder!”

“Obviously! Full rudder left!”

Behind the “Red Maple”, the fleet collectively lined up in three rows Turning, the time of discovery is early enough, and they have plenty of time to avoid.

However, next moment.

One, two, three, four… there are nine huge vortices no smaller than the first one that has been generated around them.

crash-bang ——

It’s like a huge monster in the seabed suddenly opened a huge mouth in the abyss.

No! That’s really a huge mouth!

Through the electric light shining on the sea, the crew on the deck looked at the bottom of the vortex around them dumbfounded, the passage of flesh and blood covered with ring-shaped teeth, that is the passage to hell…

“Fire of Eternal is on!”

In the last prayer, the tens of meters long sailing ship has been sucked into the whirlpool and swallowed like a biscuit.

ka! ka! ka! ka! ka! …

Pinch the “sea monster pointer” that is about to explode, Doyle Griffiths His complexion was pale: “The son of the wild sea god, the’Great Vortex’ Chary Buttes!”

The legendary’Great Vortex’ Chary Boudis once competed with the “Mother of Sea Monsters” and was the Black Sea. One of the most powerful sea monsters in the world.

No one has ever seen its real body, only know that the legendary powerful sea monster of unknown size has ten mouths. Opening the mouth can create a huge vortex to swallow any ship.

Under the Legendary battleship, you will die if you see it!

At this time, Griffiths watched the sailboats that were swallowed by the vortex there’s no resistance.

The red eyes are almost roaring and issuing commands: “‘Red Maple’ is moving forward at full speed, we charge ahead!!!”

ka-cha! ka-cha! …

The sound of crunching cookies.

In the end, only the “Red Maple” was enveloped in a strong transcendent aura. With the blessing of angels, it successfully escaped from the scope of the big vortex…

Yu All of them were buried in seabed.

After a long time, there was no trace of a ship on the sea anymore.

“From today, the’eye of the storm’, like the’Summers Trench’, is also a restricted area for human ships!”

There was a huge roar from the turbulent water vortex , Like a human voice.