However, what she didn't notice was that the oak wood that made up the ship's hull was creaking miserably as it sailed at an unprecedented high speed.

Forty-one Lantan (Part 3)

Of course, the silver magic net has not yet spread to the entire ocean. The most terrible thing is that Emilia has no idea who is still alive on Lantan.

The Lantan people that the Bodu people knew were naturally middle-aged and elderly people who held high positions of power back then. Even if they were dwarfs, they might not still be alive after eighty years.

Even if they were still alive, they might not go out to sea with you and sway with you in the ocean with the wind.

Therefore, if they want to find the trace of the Lantan fleet, they can only rely on luck.

Speaking of luck.

"Clap."

Alestria solemnly released the Moon Blade from her grasp, letting it tilt in one direction. Then she quickly grasped it, pointed in the direction of the hilt, and said earnestly, "I think they're in that direction."

Using the most outrageous methods to get the most accurate results, this is the confidence of our Lucky Church pastor.

Mars said: "Although we guessed they were taking the southern route, our position is getting further and further north."

Could it be that the Lantan people actually took the northern route?

Now Metatron did not come with the team. She stayed in Halrua to monitor the sky in case the Holy Church of Elements actually attacked Halrua.

However, the Platinum was still not fast enough, so in this emergency operation, they still used the Phantom.

Moving forward in the direction indicated by Elastri, the first thing that caught the eye was not the Lantan people's fleet, but rather some unexpected but reasonable weather.

Dark clouds had covered the sky above their heads at some point, and raindrops were already falling from the clouds.

At some point, the relentless pulse of purple lightning grew denser and denser, the flashes of lightning repeatedly darting through the clouds illuminating half the sky. Countless bolts of lightning intertwined, resonating in the air like the shrill cries of millions of birds, and blossoming like flowers in the sky.

The wind direction near the Thunder Flower was also quite strange—a storm powerful enough to overturn a city roared continuously from the center of the flower toward the outside world. But after a certain point, the direction of the storm suddenly reversed, and an endless storm surged toward the Thunder Flower. The two storms met more than ten kilometers away from the Thunder Flower, causing waves to pile up and form a wall of waves over a thousand meters high.

Silver narrowed his eyes slightly and opened his hands slightly towards the Thunder Flower: "...This is it."

Thunder Flower.

One of the two most famous astronomical phenomena on Abel, if nothing unexpected happened, the reason it exhibited such a bizarre form was precisely because the magic web was still surging within it.

Before setting off, they had no intention of visiting this wonder - the whereabouts of the Lantan people were still unknown. What if they wandered around during the journey and let the Lantan people slip away to Halrua during this gap?

Not to mention, maybe the dragon cannot cover the entire sky of Abel, but there must be dragons guarding various key places.

With just a quick look, they saw several giant dragons carrying thunder flying through the clouds.

It wouldn't be surprising if there were hundreds of dragons around the Thunder Flower.

Now is definitely not the right time to show up.

However, Emiya and her group are maintaining invisibility at this moment. As long as the dragons or thunder flowers don't get too close to them, they will be invisible to the outside world.

"...Why did you end up here?"

Emiya sighed.

Their visit to the Thunder Flower at this point in time could do nothing except confirm that the Thunder Flower really existed.

Thunder Flower and Tianhe were both things that could bring no immediate benefits. In other words, they were merely souvenirs after the final victory.

At this moment, Sig, who had been looking around, suddenly looked at the sea and was overjoyed: "Emmya! Look! Is that a ship?"

what? !

Emilia actually had mixed feelings about Elastrid's way of giving directions.

No matter how you look at it, her way of giving directions is outrageous.

What’s even more outrageous is that no matter how outrageous it seems, the results are even more outrageously accurate.

The most outrageous thing is that she pointed so casually along the way, but she always found the target in the end!

Emiya was completely shocked when she saw the streamlined, narrow sailboat on the sea.

That sailboat looked far more advanced than the common sailboats of Baldur's Gate, clearly optimized for sheer speed. Abel's slaves lived in poverty, lacking any true civilization. A sailboat like this, requiring a long accumulation of technology, was not something ordinary slaves could create.

Not to mention, there was a faint pattern of gears on the sailboat.

The Lantan people's boat actually came here! This is outrageous. What are they doing here?!

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Tita regrets it now, very much.

As expected, using amber enchanted items in the first sea trial was too risky.

Her mentor reprimanded her for this more than once during her apprenticeship. But before she could fully reform, the Arcane Blight struck. As a result, she quickly became a prominent artisan of Lantan. And all these years later, she even became its leader.

Her habit of being overly impatient remained.

It turned out something really went wrong.

To be more precise, there was nothing wrong with the enchanted items themselves; they fully provided all the functions that Tita had envisioned.

The wind assisted the sails, the currents added to the thrust. At its fastest, the Ashe Frame reached a top speed of over 40 knots! And during this process, there was no need for anyone to watch the sails, as the currents and sail speed remained constant.

As for the fact that the course is not completely towards their original destination...it's not a big problem, just turn the rudder every once in a while.

Until a few days later.

They soon discovered that they had deviated significantly from their original course.

At the same time, the effectiveness of amber-enchanted items not only did not weaken, but became stronger and stronger.

The ferocious wind pushed the ship in a certain direction with the force that threatened to rip the masts off. To make matters worse, even the ocean currents helped the storm, pushing the Ashe Frame further and further in a certain direction.

To make matters worse, the weather was visibly getting worse, and they had lost even the ability to find astronomical directions.

All of Tita's struggles were ultimately in vain - even though the ship managed to turn around in the waves, the entire ship was still pushed towards the Thunder Flower by the combined force of the storm and the raging waves.

Tita finally realized the biggest flaw of the amber creation.

Amber-enchanted items will be activated by the presence of amber, but will not be deactivated by the removal of the amber.

…This kind of crap should be used to make consumables like bombs! ! ! !

There are even worse things.

Tita was confident in the Ashe Frame, the ship she spearheaded. Theoretically, it could handle quite severe sea conditions. In reality, a typical ship would have long since disintegrated under the combined force of wind and waves. The fact that the Ashe Frame had held out until the Thunder Flower entered the crew's view was a remarkable feat.

But in any case, the redundancy of an engineering artifact will not be infinite.

Soon, Tita heard the report she least wanted to hear: "Lord Kuipal, the ship is starting to leak!"

"Then hurry up and block it!!!"

As if the world weren't already unfortunate enough, the dragons guarding the Thunderflower soon spotted her ship. Soon, several Thunder Dragons of various colors swooped down from the clouds. After circling the Ashe Frame several times, a Silver Thunder Dragon lowered its head and unleashed a breath of frost at the waterline. Everything it touched froze. The seawater that had been pouring into the ship's hull instantly transformed into solid ice bricks, temporarily saving the Ashe Frame from its silent doom—though the breath apparently inflicted significant casualties on the crew members who were bailing out water and sealing the gaps.

However, it is obvious that the Silver Dragon does not care about this.

Even so, the dragon still provided help - such help was naturally not priceless.

A Thunder Green Dragon roared, "Look at the family crest... Are you slaves of the Ash Frame family? What are you doing here in Thunder Flower?"

Tita's face turned pale, and she could only lead her crew to kneel down on the deck in a hurry.

They are at the mercy of others and I am the meat. If they show any disrespect at this moment, they will be eaten by fish or even dragons.

"...We were originally planning to support the front lines," Tita replied with just the right amount of trepidation. "However, we encountered a storm on the way and ended up being swept all the way here... We definitely didn't mean to do this. The Thunder Flower is completely useless to us!"

However, Tita soon discovered that she had misunderstood. The dragons did not come to attack her to exact revenge.

After the dragons pretended to ask a few questions, they immediately got straight to the point.

The Thunder Silver Dragon, who had previously breathed frost to help seal the breach, said with a smile, "Dragon King Kearney once said: When you see injustice on the road, flap your wings to help. The big scale divides gold, the small scale divides silver.

"We've put aside our past grudges and saved you from danger... A simple thank you wouldn't be enough for such a significant favor."

Tita suddenly realized what was going on and cursed herself for being stupid.

The dragon suddenly surrounded us, of course, for the sake of money!

They had some provisions in their cabin for possible tolls, and hopefully that would be enough.

Just as she ordered her crew to quickly get the treasure stored in the warehouse, a green dragon exhaled a breath of dragon without warning, and engulfed a Lantan man who was about to go below the deck in the dragon's breath.

The yellow-green dragon breath instantly turned the unfortunate Lan Tan man's whole body red. He covered his eyes and screamed, but soon even the screams became distorted.

Green dragon's poison gas.

This hasty result made Titta feel cold all over. "...I...don't quite understand. We were planning to collect your rewards, why would we attack the crew?"

"You really don't understand," the green dragon said slowly. "Lord Frame usually manages prisoner exchanges, pocketing the ransom from both sides, taking countless kickbacks. How much treasure can this little boat of yours hold?"

Tita was shaking with anger. "...Even if you all wanted to settle your scores with Master Ashe Frame, our appearance in Thunder Flower was a complete accident! How can we contact Master Frame and prepare the ransom?"

"That's okay." The green dragon sneered. "We'll eat one crew member a day. When Frame realizes his fleet is in trouble, we'll demand a ransom from him."

"--you!"

The most important thing is that the Lantan people really have no means of fighting back at this moment.

There were a number of young and adult dragons, all ready for battle. Lan Tan only had one ship, perhaps armed with a few naval guns—but those were useless against air attacks.

The operation itself was a secret, and there was no intention to fight the dragon!

As a result, she never expected that she would be murdered by a giant dragon from the same country as her theoretically!

Are we really going to watch these guys eat the crew members like snacks one by one?!

She might as well be the first to die!

At this moment, several deafening explosions erupted from a very close distance.

When this not harsh but extremely loud explosion sound reached Tita's ears, she felt that all the blood in her body rushed to her brain at the same time.

She knew what that sound was.

That was the sound of old weapons that had been covered in dust for eighty years in the Lantan warehouse.

Several metal cones pierced the dragon's body with a sharp sound, leaving a shocking bloody hole. The shooters had clearly carefully chosen their firing positions beforehand, so that all the shells penetrated the dragon's body, rolling and twisting within its body cavity, without immediately passing out.

——It also caused the most devastating casualties.

The excruciating pain in the physical sense easily destroyed the will of the dragons. Only the green dragon from before successfully completed the elemental transformation at this moment of despair, turning into a ball of lightning.

However, at this moment, a flame with a strong smell of sulfur suddenly exploded in the lightning, completely dispersing the lightning in the air.

The lightning dissipated, and after struggling painfully for a while, the remaining two dragons lost their buoyancy and fell into the ocean, picking up a large splash of water mixed with blood.

At this time, Emiya and his companions landed on the deck and said a few words: "Alright, everyone, please go and rescue the people first. I will come to talk to this Gond people."

The red-haired young man in the lead spoke the familiar Common Language...although his accent was a bit heavy.

However, the people of Lantan, who are far away from the mainland, have no right to criticize this.

The ups and downs of life made Tita feel a little dizzy. She shook her body and then she could see clearly the emblems on the chests of the red-haired young man and the black-haired female elf.

For a moment, she thought she might as well die.

Meeting an old friend in a foreign land.

hater.

Damn it, these people are Halruaan!!!

Not long ago, they were even gloating and wishing bad luck to the Halrua people!

The red-haired young mage coughed lightly. "You must all be the people of Gond, of Lantan. I'm sure you've all realized that we currently represent Halruaa... Yes, the territory where Grinwalt Frame resides is Halruaa. However, there's a hidden story behind this."

"Now, the most important thing is for us to reach a consensus and leave here as quickly as possible... We've used some tricks that should keep the other dragons in the dark for a while, but I'm afraid they won't last long."

Emiya looked at Tita's outfit.

Very well, she is not the Master Craftsman of Gond.

So……

Emiya simply took out the entire set of luxurious tools from the dimensional bag at her waist and hung them on her body.

Then, he saw with incredible clarity the entire process of the expression on Tita's face changing from surprise to sudden realization and then to awe.

Immediately afterwards, all the Lantan people still on the deck knelt on the ground without hesitation: "Master Gongde, please give the order!"

……Well.

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