"Remember, adventure ships are less tolerant of wind and waves, and the primary reason they can go far out into the ocean is that they are fast and can avoid most of the dangers that are visible, and as long as you travel reasonably in those few safe routes and have enough fuel you could theoretically go around the world and back."
The ship's coach said goodbye to the trainee who had gone out on a limb in a long tone of voice.
Over a week, from crashing into the dock and capsizing the boat to yesterday having been able to walk around the corner and fluently side dock into the harbor, he seemed to have witnessed the rise of a genius, he had never seen anyone learn those complicated ship maneuvers so quickly.
Immediately after completing the course, the other party chartered an adventure ship and went out to sea, looking to be in a great hurry.
"It looks as if he's a fool who got the family's treasure map and is ready to go out on a treasure hunt, but he's so smart, he shouldn't be..."
The coach sighed and turned to talk to the club registrar beside him, "This kind of newcomer sailing is the most accident-prone, and you guys are just so relieved to rent the boat to someone else?"
"Mortgaged half a million dollars and got a noble young master to vouch for it, what's not to worry about." The registrar who was writing said carelessly.
The coach lowered his eyes and scanned the statement, then saw a nobleman's name.
[Fintan - Emeka]
...
"Whew, it's finally official..."
Watching a ship being overtaken in the channel on either side, and the dock fading away Eleazar exhaled.
It hadn't been long, and it had taken a hard month at the docks, so could he not be anxious?
[Countdown: 150 days]
[First day at sea: calm winds and waves...]
Third day at sea: Racing with a medium-sized fishing boat...]
[Day 10 at sea: encountered a storm and slowed down for one night...]
[Day 20 at sea: exchanging supplies with ships on the way...]
[Day 21 at sea: eliminating pirates...]
...
On the twenty-fifth day at sea, Eleazar, who had been at the helm for a month without rest, and whose face was a little haggard, looked at the charts.
"Finally, we're off the Celine map... Next, we'll reach the borders of Ruin by way of two more ungoverned public seas..."
"Outlaw Seas, the inevitable route of the Trade Route, used not to be called that until more and more pirates wreaked havoc in the area and the resounding name came to be."
"And then there's the Black Trench, the sea of darkness that even the radio can't reach, where a shipwreck is a death sentence..."
According to the normal course chart, he should have turned into the Sea of Lawlessness at this point, sailed 2,000 nautical miles to the west, and then passed through the Dark Trench as fast as he could, so that even if he encountered a shipwreck, he would at least be able to use the radio to inform Loran's side that he'd swooped down, leaving as many traces as he could in this world.
With a quiet glance at the course markers, Eleazar turned the rudder and stepped off the course that had been tried and tested by countless captains, heading straight south.
With the shortest possible distance, he crashed directly into that horrible swirling sea!
"What's an adventure ship if you don't take risks..."
After half a day of safe sailing, and just as Eleazar couldn't figure out that there weren't even any pirates in the area when it was so safe, he suddenly saw something huge tumbling out of the water on the side of the ship.
Whales!
What a big whale!
And a bunch of them!
Eleazar, finally realizing what he had intruded upon, quickly hit the ground running to maneuver the ship and avoid being toppled by the behemoths poking out of the ocean floor.
Perception unfolded at full force, utilizing the flexibility of the Adventure Ship to avoid impacts in advance.
Fifty meters off to the side of the boat, another whale leaps out of the water, its broad fins flipping through the air in a wonderful arc before slapping the barnacle-laden whale's back heavily down towards the surface!
"Boom!!!"
The surface of the sea was shaken with a shudder as if a deep-water bomb had fallen into it, and white waves splashed in all directions, violently undulating the water and turning the neighboring side of the adventurous ship upside down.
Trying his best to stabilize the boat Eleazar saw the roiling barnacles flying with the splash and even a few landing on his boat.
He feared that if his small ship was hit by such a thing, it would sink on the spot.
"Whale waters, right?"
Eleazar's brow furrowed as he maneuvered the boat, cranking up the horsepower to the max and quickly passing a whale that had leaped out of the water.
Being off course means that everything behind is an unknown risk, no wonder those captains would rather fight the pirates with bayonets than drive in, what exactly will they encounter behind them?
Eleazar had no idea what awaited him later in the trip, all he knew was that the sky overhead was getting dimmer and dimmer, while dense reefs were bubbling up out of the sea ahead of him that looked as if they were impassable.
"Reef waters?"
Having just escaped from whale waters that risked destroying his ship, he didn't realize that the next area was even more dangerous, and he was starting to think about backtracking.
Parking the boat on the outskirts of the reef, Eleazar went to the boat ramp and then saw dogtooth-like concave and undulating rock formations under the water.
It's like... Something was bulldozed at one time.
"This used to be a very large island, but it was obliterated hard by transcendent forces, and when the level landed, it revealed these reef-like wrecks..."
Eleazar watched in silence for a moment, realizing that after forcing his way through there was a risk of hitting the reef, he would have to go around the side.
The clouds in the sky were getting thicker and thicker as if a storm was coming.
With the speed of a toddler's boat, sticking to pass slowly between the reef waters and the whale waters, and now and then intimidating with a dragon's breath the big fish that were curious enough to try to get by.
"La~~"
Until a seductive singing voice came from the distance, the Demon Hunter, whose breath condensed in his body, opened his palm and gripped a silver sword that appeared in his hand instantly, and his figure leaped out of the window.
"Monster suffer!"
The long rainbow through the sun-like sword light shot from a thousand meters away, the body of that siren sitting on the reef hitting the water and combing her hair trembled and twisted her head, the silver light instantly blinded her eyes, her mouth subconsciously opened and she was just about to try to unleash her charm ability. Still, she was instantly pierced through her throat by the tip of the sword that was raised horizontally, and a half-foot of red-dyed sword tip emerged from the back of her head.
[Magic potion residue: 9700→9600]
The incredibly powerful silver light instantly incinerated most of the transcendent activity in the monster's body, and those eyes were even more like they had been imprinted by a red-hot branding iron, with only two fuzzy scars remaining.
With a demonic face, a mouth full of sharp teeth, and a body covered in delicate scales, it is the siren that uses its song to trigger shipwrecks before dragging those who have fallen overboard to the bottom of the sea to be drowned and gnawed on.
Pulling out the tongue, peeling the skin, bleeding...
A swift set of processes was done, while the transcendental activity that was igniting in his body was getting hotter and hotter.
Standing on the reef, Witcher, who continued to be awakened to murderous intent by his evil senses, coldly watched the shadows rapidly passing through the seabed.
"There's more down there..."