The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Tagash honestly told everything he knew, Leo and Sylvia didn't make things difficult for him anymore, let him leave, and before leaving, Leo gave him a bottle of the most effective wizard potion , let him treat the eye injury.

However, Tagash seemed to know the effect of this bottle of medicine, and did not ask Leo how to use it, so he put the medicine in his pocket and did not take it immediately. He seemed to have other plans to treat his eyes.

After Tagash left, Leo and Sylvia started to further improve the method they envisaged to deal with Daru according to the information provided by Tagash, but they all had the same heart in perfecting the method until Tagash predicted After reaching that level, they did not stop, but went further to reorganize and modify. Obviously, none of them planned to act according to the script provided by Tagash.

In the next few days, people on board were busy in their own ways, and the overall atmosphere seemed very strange. Even the Barbarisa family, who were hiding in the cabin for some embarrassing reasons, noticed something was wrong, but they were not embarrassed. I asked Leo about the situation, but I just sent someone to ask the crew, but the answer given by the crew was very vague, saying that the ship was about to sail to the Black Reef sea area, and it was difficult to sail safely in that sea area, so preparations were needed in advance.

Although Barbarisa didn't think that the crew on the Beloved would do anything bad, and also believed that the safety of the ship with mysterious strong men like Leo and Silvia should be guaranteed, he still made a cautious decision. Strengthen your own arms to avoid having no self-protection ability in case of any accident.

So, when the Beloved docked at a large public island in the Pirate Bay, he bought some powerful prohibited weapons from the local black market, and hired some people from the local mercenary organization to increase his protection.

Everything that Barbarisa did was seen by Hairesa, and he has no objection to it. Now his main energy is to deal with the voyage in the Black Reef waters, so every time the Beloved docks for repairs, he They will go to the pier to inquire about the news. The latest news is that the veteran pirates have assembled in the waters of the Black Reef, and the gold ship is sailing on another route along the coastline. The golden boat entered the waters of the Black Reef one to half a day earlier, which was good news for him.

However, there is also a lot of bad news. For example, the pirates' actions with great fanfare cannot be covered up, so there should be relevant news from the gold ship at this moment. For this reason, the gold ship hired seven people from nearby coastal countries. warships, forming a standard fleet, it looks like it is going to head-to-head with the pirate coalition forces.

From the perspective of momentum, once the two sides start fighting, as long as the ships are still in their fighting area, even if those ships are neutral, they will definitely be regarded as hostile ships by both sides and attack them to avoid the battle. Sometimes, neutral ships suddenly launch an attack to affect the battle situation.

Therefore, if the Beloved is unlucky and happens to be near the sea area of ​​the battlefield, even if it hangs the flag of a neutral ship, it will definitely be involved in the battlefield.

Another bad news is that the Kuroshio in the Black Reef waters has appeared ahead of time, which is very bad news for any ship that wants to pass through the Black Reef waters.

The Kuroshio Current is a special tide generated in the complex topographic environment of the Black Reef Sea Area. Generally, sea tides are generated on the ocean and then pushed towards the shore, but the Kuroshio Current is different. It is generated in the complex submerged reefs on the bottom of the Black Reef Sea Area. , and flow inside the black reef waters.

Some flowing black currents will conflict with each other and eliminate each other, but the vast majority of black currents will merge with each other to become larger black currents, and finally run to the surface of the sea, changing from dark tides to raging waves on the sea.

In such turbulent seas, only steamships that are large enough and heavy can travel normally without being overturned by these waves, or pushed off the course and hit the reef.

Generally speaking, the Kuroshio only occurs during the stormy season when spring and summer converge, and now is not the time for the Kuroshio to appear at all, so after hearing the news, Hailesa immediately felt that it must be the old pirates passing through a special What the secret method did was not only to cause trouble for the gold transport fleet, but more likely to eliminate unnecessary external factors, such as the Beloved.

After learning more about the situation in the Black Reef waters, Hiresa once again called his right-hand man for a small meeting. This time the small meeting was not about mobilization before the war, but asking everyone whether they want to continue Take the church route.

Obviously, Hailesa should feel uneasy, feeling that he is not fully sure that he will pass through the black reef waters safely in the upcoming chaos, so he is not ready to take the risk and move on. Now he is asking his own hands to vote, but for himself Just find a reason to change your mind.

None of Hailesa's subordinates expressed any objection to this. In fact, they also felt that it was a bit risky to move on, but soon someone gave a reason why they had to move on. A conflict suddenly occurred among the maritime countries, and the conflict was very serious. The sea route of God's Domain has been blocked, and all ships can only take the northern route.

After hearing the news, Hailesa suddenly felt like he was being tricked by fate. If he took the northern route, then he should be able to reach the target port at the appointed time and hand over the things to the other party, but now even if he It is sailing at full speed, and there is absolutely not enough time to pass the route and reach the target port, and the commission will inevitably end in failure.

If it was any other entrustment, Hailesa would at best compensate the client some money, but this time the client is obviously not someone who can be dispatched with money. After the entrustment fails, he may have to pay an unexpected and painful price.

So now the choice given to him no longer exists, he can only bite the bullet and continue to take the path of the church route.

Although this meeting was a secret meeting of the top management of the Beloved, the whole process of the meeting was secretly observed by Leo and Sylvia, and in their opinion, the news that caused the failure of the purpose of this meeting in Hiresa, It must have something to do with Tagash, because the person who revealed the news happened to be the navigator who temporarily replaced Tagash. He should be a student of Tagash. This is because most of his outfits are imitating Tagash. You can even see it.

Obviously, judging from the emphasis on Tagash's voyage to the Black Reef, he should not only want to make his prophecy come true, but also have other important things related to himself.

In this regard, both Leo and Sylvia are happy to see the result. In fact, even if the new navigator does not stand up to prevent the change of route, they will use other methods to make Hai Lesa decide to take the Black Reef sea route again. Because they have made so many preparations, if they change the route, some of the key preparations may not be needed, and in that case they need to prepare again, otherwise, when they encounter Daru, they will not be as full-fledged as they are now. The confidence to deal with this demigod.

Circle Island is the last supply island on the northern route to enter the Black Reef waters. Whether you take the Pirate Bay reef route or take the coastline route along the sea, you will eventually converge on the Circle Island for unified replenishment, and then officially enter the Black Reef waters.

As the name suggests, the shape of the ring island is a ring, and an ring-shaped island reef wraps a piece of ocean, forming a natural deep-water haven.

After dozens of repeated constructions, the islands and reefs that were originally divided into more than a dozen sections were connected by the city walls, and only three channels were reserved for ships to enter and exit. The inner ring wharf has also changed from the original seven or eight to a Now there are dozens of them, and there are more than 60 large and small docks, which are not much worse than some large port cities.

Although the infrastructure of the roundabout island is complete, with the church's complete control over the route in the south, there are fewer ships taking the church route, because the tax to be paid on this route is far more than the other two routes. Therefore, most of the wharves on Circle Island are in a semi-abandoned state, and the island is usually very deserted. The residents on the island are more like fishermen than boatmen.

However, this day, the ring island was much more lively than usual, because a rare large-scale fleet sailed into the pier of the inner ring, and hired the boatmen who were already idle on the island to reinforce and repair all the ships. Trimming.

Some old sailors who lived on the island recognized at first sight that this was Kajilan's gold ship fleet, and the scale was far larger than the previous gold ship fleet. In the fleet, some coastal countries' ships could even be seen. battleship.

Well-informed people naturally know what's going on, and they are all curious whether this temporarily expanded gold fleet can withstand the looting of those old pirate coalition forces, so people began to sit in the casinos on the island, Bet on whether this golden fleet can pass through the Black Reef waters.

The members of the Gold Ship Fleet naturally knew about the casino being the banker. Although they were the targets of betting, they did not feel dissatisfied or angry. On the contrary, many sailors and guards on the ship also ran to place bets. It seems that they should be extremely confident that they can safely pass through the waters of the Black Reef.

About half a day after the gold transport fleet arrived at the ring island, the Beloved appeared on the sea level as far as the watchman could see on the ring island.

And when they sailed into the port pier of the circular island, they were very surprised to see the fleet of gold transport ships docked on the dock. Hai Lesa, who expected the Beloved to arrive at the circular island earlier than the fleet of gold transport ships, was even more dazed. Watching the gold ship fleet for a long time.

Hairessa didn't think that there would be such a big mistake in his estimate, so he asked his subordinates to inquire about the reason why the gold ship fleet could reach the circle island so quickly. The result was somewhat unexpected. The sailing speed was so fast, it turned out that the High Priest Mild who accompanied the ship summoned the sea monster current, so that the ship could go with the current and speed up the ship.

Siren Mild is one of the first church beliefs of the sea gods that appeared in this world. Although his church appeared very early, the scale of the church has never been very large. Most of the believers are concentrated in the sea of ​​the old continent. In the sea area around the Demon Cape, there are some underwater monsters called sea monsters. They accept sacrifices from fishermen and sailors in the sea area, provide shelter for these people, and even rescue these people as sacrifices to them after a shipwreck. A person of high quality, and the Siren Mild is the creator of these sirens and the real protector of the sea area of ​​Siren Point.

In the past, the Kraken Church has always tried to spread the belief of the Siren Mild to other sea areas. In various sea areas of the Old Continent, the spread of the Midland belief is not bad, although the Siren Church cannot become the leader of those sea areas. Exclusive churches, but they can also build church sanctuaries in those sea areas and share faith with the sea gods in those sea areas.

But in the waters of the New World, the Kraken Church hit a wall everywhere, because the sea gods that appeared in the New World's waters appeared to be more rough and primitive, and they would not give the Kraken Church any room for negotiation and discussion, and directly destroyed and After destroying the belief area opened by the Siren Church, after so many years, there are less than five churches of the Siren Church in all sea areas of the New World.

The Siren Church is naturally extremely dissatisfied with such a poor missionary effect, so they have been looking for an opportunity to make a name for the Siren Church to truly gain a foothold in the waters of the New World. The expected naval battle seems to be the best opportunity to become famous.

Judging from all the circumstances, the Kraken Church should have a big fight in this naval battle, otherwise, it would not rule out that a high priest of the church would accompany the ship, and some people even maliciously speculated that those old pirates were uncharacteristically Gathering together to rob the gold ship is also a secret trick of the Kraken Church, in order to create opportunities for themselves to become famous.

Leo and Sylvia would not believe the malicious rumors about the Kraken Church at all, because they were sure that the Gold Ship Fleet was not relying on the Kraken Church, and it was even possible that the Kraken Church was deliberately pushed by the Gold Ship Fleet. The target that comes out is to make those snoopers make wrong judgments.

When the Beloved entered the inner deep-water port of the circular island, Leo and Sylvia could clearly feel the energy fluctuations emanating from the gold transport fleet.

That's right, it's not two ships in one ship, but the entire fleet emits the same energy fluctuations, and this energy fluctuations are completely different from the energy fluctuations on the high priest of the Kraken Church, obviously belonging to two completely different gods.

Later, when Leo turned on his spirit vision and used the power of the eye of reality to spy on the real situation of the entire fleet, he found that all the ships in the entire gold transport fleet, including those warships from the coastal countries that joined later, had a large number of imprints on the surface of their hulls. The holy words and runes of the gods composed of mysterious power, that is to say, all the ships of the gold transport ship have been blessed by the power of the gods and turned into temporary artifacts.

There is no doubt that if the pirates have no means to turn the tide, then they will be doomed to fail when facing dozens of huge artifact warships.

It's just that now Leo doesn't care about what will happen to those pirates in the end, he cares more about which god can squander his divine power so generously.