Start with Island Lord

Half a month later.

In the waters east of Paddlefish Island, there is a small hidden bay hidden by woods.

A slim streamlined boat about 15 meters long and 3 meters wide, with a shape somewhat similar to a modern speedboat but with a strong alien style, slowly slid into the sea.

‘Wow~~’

After the black-colored boat with a hint of blue entered the water, it swayed slightly in the sea water and immediately regained its balance.

It shows quite excellent hull stability.

There were many people standing on the secret pier in the bay.

There are high-level officials from the Ministry of the Navy, the most skilled local boat craftsmen and construction craftsmen on Paddlefish Island, Gatland, the weapons research mage, and Alonso who specializes in electric motors. Naturally, Wei Ge, who studies steel potions, also came.

Of course Rosen is there.

And this small boat in the water is a creation that gathers the highest magical achievements of Paddlefish Island.

The official scientific name is "Tempered Clay, Hybrid Power, Rune Combat Speedboat".

A very peculiar name.

Because this is the first time to test a boat, it may also be the world's first lightning-driven speedboat, so no one has the courage to control it.

Rosen jumped on without hesitation.

He was bold because he was driving a puppet double.

"I will be responsible for driving the ship, but I still need three companions, one to control the Lightning Torrent Crossbow, one to defend, and one to light the fire in the furnace."

Why does the stove burn fire?

Because although the boat is small, it is a battleship, and the battleship must consider all-weather combat.

Although it is electrically driven, the energy absorbed by the light guide is not enough for the battleship to surge forward, so it has to burn coal.

Where does the coal come from?

It was dug in the mountains next to Black Rock Town, and Black Rock Town even got its name from this.

There is a coal mine on the mountain. The reserves are not large. Rosen estimated that it is less than 10 million tons, but it is enough to last their small island for a long time.

In addition, there are many coal mines on Weiland Island, especially in the northern county, so there is no need to worry about burning them in the future.

Burn coal, change light to lightning to fire to lightning, charge the medium-sized lightning house, and then use the lightning house to drive the Hercules motor, thus propelling the speedboat to run wildly on the sea.

This is called ‘hybrid’.

Also because of the addition of mana, the heat energy utilization efficiency generated by the coal furnace is particularly high, reaching 65%. This is because the test ship is relatively rough.

Seeing that Lord Rosen was on board, Harry also jumped on board: "I'll control the Torrent Crossbow!"

He jumped into the middle of the speedboat and grasped the handle of the ship's torrent crossbow.

Wei Ge thought for a moment, then jumped up and sat next to Rosen: "I am responsible for detecting underwater life and activating the lightning defense array."

Alonso chuckled: "I'll light the fire for the stove. This thing is fun."

There are a total of four seats in a speedboat, and they were quickly filled up and everyone took their seats.

Everyone on the shore looked at it with surprise and anxiety, fearing that something had gone wrong.

Yopp reminded: "Lord, please drive slowly. I always feel that this thing is not reliable."

He will depend on the lord for the rest of his life.

Rosen laughed: "Don't worry, I have controlled every technical detail of this small battleship and have checked it many times. It will definitely be fine."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pressed the power switch.

‘Woo~~~~~’

The Hercules Rune motor produced by the assembly line immediately started running. The entire speedboat shuddered slightly and began to vibrate slightly, like a beast that was ready to go.

Rosen slowly turned the circular steering wheel, adjusted the underwater rudder, and stepped on the electric pedal with one foot to control the power, making the small boat turn in the water little by little, and then pointed in the direction of going out to sea.

Although the speed was very slow, it was the first time in the world that controllable power other than sails and oars appeared. Everyone at the dock looked at it in amazement.

Everyone on the boat was nervous and excited at the same time.

Soon, Rosen adjusted the direction and shouted softly: "Sit tight~~"

After the three of them were ready, he firmly grasped the steering wheel with both hands and deepened the switch bit by bit.

‘Woo~~~Fufufuhu~~~’

The sound of the boat became louder and the speed increased. The specially designed bow was slightly tilted, and the special windshield blocked the wind from the front, but the wind from the side gradually became fiercer.

Everyone's hair was blown wildly.

"So fast!"

Wei Ge was a little panicked and tightly grasped the fixed handle with one hand.

Instead of being afraid, Battle Mage Harry was very excited.

He shouted loudly: "Faster~~Faster~~~"

Rosen said: "Alonso, burn harder~~"

Alonso immediately threw more black coal into the stove and opened a specially designed air inlet on the side.

‘Huhuhu~~~’

The coals burned fiercely, emitting a large amount of heat, and were transformed into violent and orderly lightning power by the rune array.

‘Woooooooo~~~’

‘Wow, wow, wow~’

The speed of the small boat suddenly increased a lot, the bow of the boat was raised higher, and the water splashed back crazily on the hull and behind the boat.

The speed has reached 70 kilometers per hour, which is even faster than the average speedboat on the earth, and far exceeds all the sail warships in the world.

The audience on the pier couldn't help but look shocked as they looked at the speedboat racing violently on the sea.

No one expected that this small boat would run with such amazing momentum and speed!

Look at the big white waves behind the boat and the triangular cone-shaped spreading waves on both sides of the boat. They are simply beasts!

Someone shouted: "This is the charging knight on the sea!"

This description is so vivid that everyone nodded in approval.

On the speedboat, Rosen controlled the boat steadily and shouted.

"Look, there are murlocs over there~~See, on the left side of the ship, 300 meters away~~"

"Harry, shoot at them!"

Harry had wanted to try it for a long time, and immediately adjusted the torrent crossbow, aiming at the murloc and pulling the specially designed trigger.

'Hoo~Hoo~Hoo~~'

The specially made ship-made torrent crossbow has greatly enhanced its range, reaching the extreme of 380 meters.

The power of a single shot has also been greatly increased, reaching the strength of an intermediate spell.

The firing rate has been slightly reduced, six shots per second.

The crossbow disc is specially made, with a particularly large capacity, reaching an astonishing 1,000 shots!

I saw fist-sized lightning balls flying on the sea surface, and after hitting the sea surface, they quickly exploded and turned into a large group of dark blue electric sparks.

It was difficult to aim at high speeds. It was Harry's first time, so he was a little unfamiliar with it, so the group of fishmen were not hit directly.

But seawater is a good conductor of electricity. After hitting a point, a large area of ​​water was electrified, and there was no escape at all!

After a burst of lightning, more than a dozen fishmen's bodies floated up in the sea.

"Great~~Great~~Hahahaha~~"

Harry roared loudly, and his finger on the trigger never loosened.

The fishmen were suddenly attacked, of course they didn't accept it, and immediately turned around to chase.

After chasing for a while, they found that they couldn't catch up with the strange thing on the sea.

This thing is too fast!

If they can't catch up, they will block it from the side.

There are many fishmen in the sea east of the White Sturgeon Island. They use biological ultrasound to communicate with each other on the seabed, and their tactical coordination is quite powerful.

"Wei Ge, the fishmen are coming, be ready to activate the lightning storm at any time!"

"Okay."

Wei Ge was a little scared, and at the same time felt a strong sense of excitement, which made her response change.

Feeling that Wei Ge was ready, Rosen turned around and rushed into the murloc encirclement.

A dozen murlocs immediately rushed over from the bottom of the water on both sides.

When they were about 30 meters away, Wei Ge suddenly activated the lightning storm on the bottom of the ship.

The lightning storm, with high intensity, was charged by the ship-borne lightning house. Without affecting the power, it could be fired every fifteen seconds.

‘Swish~~~~’

A ball of blue electric fire exploded on the sea surface centered on the small boat, but this was only the situation on the sea surface. Although it could not be seen on the seabed, it would only be more violent.

A dozen murlocs were silent and floated up one after another.

Harry laughed: "Hahaha~~~ It's simply a murloc killing ship!"

Feeling that it was almost done, Rosen turned around and returned to the hidden bay dock.

He was not worried that the dock would be attacked by murlocs, because the dock was equipped with a shore flood crossbow and a lightning storm array was installed under the dock.

As soon as the fishmen approach, there will be more than a dozen lightning torrent crossbows to greet them. If they can't stand it, they can also trap the fishmen in and cook them all.

Soon, the boat returned to the dock and slowly stopped under Rosen's control.

The four people on the boat got up and landed, and saw a group of almost petrified spectators standing on the shore.

Rosen smiled: "The performance is unexpected, isn't it?"

Yopp was the first to react: "It's simply an invincible god of war!"

He had never seen such a fast and powerful boat, not even in his dreams, and he probably couldn't find it in the kingdom of nature.

Rosen shook his head: "It's still far from being invincible. It can only bully the sea fishmen, but it's hard to impress real naval warships."

Although the sailing warships are currently bulky, their attack and defense are still quite fierce, and there are many strong people on board. A long-range curse attack with joint casting can cause great trouble to the captain and his crew.

Yopp immediately said: "As long as there are a large number of them, they can still fight like wolves."

Harry also said: "Yes, yes, not only the number should be large, but the lightning crossbow should also be stronger, and the range must be far. Although 380 meters is good now, it is still insufficient, because I heard that there are many deadly weapons that can hit farther on the Southern Fleet."

This poses a challenge to weapon research mages such as Gatland.

He frowned and said: "380 meters is already the limit of the lightning ball. If you want to go further, you can either use arcane magic or force throwing weapons."

Rosen smiled and said: "Let's discuss these carefully when we go back and find ways to improve them."

Although this speedboat is powerful, its endurance is poor. It can only show off its power near the White Sturgeon Island and achieve near-sea denial.

Adding a large supply ship will greatly increase the endurance, but this is the plan for the future.

"The most important thing at present is to build more small warships, at least 100 or more, to establish a unique navy for our Sturgeon Island."

Although this small warship is easy to build, the cost is not low. The hard cost of one ship is about 1,500 Ogg, and 100 ships are 150,000, which does not include the subsequent use and maintenance costs.

But the people present are basically not clear about this. They all think that since the lord has spoken, there must be no problem.

Except Wei Ge.

She turned her head and looked at Rosen. Seeing his heroic face, she didn't say it on the spot.

Rosen said again: "Everyone, give this little thing a name, everyone?"

Everyone immediately became interested and started to name it.

What Sturgeon Guest, Wild Wolf Ship, Sea Arrow, a lot of scattered, in the last discussion, unanimously decided to call it 'Murphy Nemesis'.

Thus, the ‘Murky Nemesis’ that made the murlocs tremble in fear was officially born on the White Sturgeon Island.

The next step, of course, was to produce it vigorously.

On the way back, Rosen suddenly heard Wei Ge’s whisper: “Lord, 100 Murky Nemesis is not cheap. Other places on the island are also spending money quickly.”

In addition to researching warships, the island is also building a lot of buildings.

Using ‘yellow clay’ steel potion to build a new magic laboratory, magic academy, and even build ports, roads, etc., it burns money faster than burning firewood.

In addition, various magic research is also a pit that cannot be filled.

As the head of the magic department, she has already regarded herself as a part of the White Sturgeon Island, and she is worried that Rosen will spend too much money and cause the White Sturgeon Island to go bankrupt.

Rosen sensed her worry and smiled, "My butler, interests that are not protected by force are ownerless gold mines."

"If you encounter an ownerless gold mine in the wild, would you occupy it?"

Wei Ge was startled, looked up at Rosen, her dark blue eyes unblinking: "Gold mine? Is there a gold mine on the island? I thought the island was very barren."

Rosen turned to look at her, recalling the relevant character information collected by the "Detection Guard" seal, and knew that the other party was determined to follow him.

In this case, it's time to give her some confidence.

He whispered: "There are a lot of bird droppings in the mountains and forests, to an astonishing degree. And this is the best fertilizer."

This Sturgeon Island, known as the Bird Shit Island, has always been a derogatory name, but only Rosen himself knows that in the era of chaos, it is more valuable than a gold mine!

Gold mines cannot be eaten or drunk, but the food production increased by bird droppings can really feed people.

According to his preliminary investigation, the phosphate formed by the guano deposited in the forest over billions of years is at least more than 150 million tons.

10 years ago, one ton of guano sold for 2 Ogg, but in recent years, it has quietly risen to 4 Ogg.

Although the base is small, this has doubled.

150 million tons of reserves, 4 Ogg per ton, may be even more expensive in the future. Rosen dare not think about how explosive it will be after the news spreads!

Therefore, without sufficient military force to escort, he will never sell guano on a large scale, not even a ton!

Wei Ge certainly knows the situation on the mainland, so she understood what Rosen said.

Because she understood, her heartbeat and breathing accelerated significantly.

After a few seconds of silence, she seemed to have made up her mind.

"Lord, when I go back, I have to tell you something, a secret of my mentor and the royal family."