16. Bait
Deborah is a harp with a strong sense of curiosity and adventure.
The Lion and Tiger clan gave her courage.
The harpses' curiosity about everything.
So when senior Dylan asked us: Who would be the first to try to cross this portal, she looked at me begging, hoping that I could agree.
I walked to her, took off the magic apprentice robe on her body, let her wings naturally gather behind her, and then patted her fair face. She always had a very special attachment to me and said to her: "Go to the portal, be smarter."
Her happy look was very much like Little Ella, and she couldn't wait to rush towards the one-way portal. Just as she passed through the portal, I followed Deborah and passed the portal.
The moment I stepped out of the portal, I felt my feet fall and my body fell down involuntarily. I was so scared that I hurriedly hugged Deborah's soft and thin waist. Deborah walked in front of me, and the moment I crossed out of the portal, I had already spread my wings, flapped my wings and barely floated in the air.
Unexpectedly, I took a step out of the portal from behind and hugged her as I fell down.
She couldn't bear the weight of the two of us, and kept flapping her wings, struggling not to fall, but she still fell down little by little.
It’s just that with such a moment of buffering, I have time to observe the situation around me.
Although I can't see too far under the night fog, I can still see clearly within at least five meters around.
The mottled walls were covered with purple moss, and the sound of tides came from the dark place beneath my feet. I crossed the portal and came outside the wall of the island city. I was worried that the light would attract the guards on the wall, so I did not use the magic of "glimmer light".
I hugged Deborah and slowly fell onto the black reef below the city wall. The waves kept slamming on the reef. The splashed water wet the hem of my magic robe. Deborah was a little panicked, and she seemed a little afraid of the sea.
I looked up at the exit of Senior Dylan's portal. This position seemed a little awkward. It just floated outside the city wall and was more than 20 meters away from the reef below. As long as I took a step out of the portal, if I couldn't control my falling posture, I was likely to fall into the sea.
The worst thing is that if you hit the reef head-on during the fall, it will be really miserable.
Deborah wanted to fly and avoid the waves that kept flapping the reefs, but her body was heavy, and her wings had not been exercised strong enough. She could only fly for a short distance like a pheasant, and then land on the reef again.
I must seize the time to cast ice magic and build a sluggish stepping platform and steps made of ice outside the city wall. Since I became a level seven magician, my ability to control water elements has become much stronger than before. These sluggish stepping platform condensed with water elements is like the raised rocks on the city wall.
Then, a piece of ice stairs appeared under the slow-paced platform one after another.
The third person who came out of the one-way portal was Kalancho. As soon as she stepped out of the portal, she immediately squatted on the ice stairs and looked for my figure. However, when she felt that the entire stone stairs were condensed from ice, she was not as urgent as before. After she walked down the ice stairs for dozens of steps, she saw me standing on the reef, and all the worries on her face disappeared.
Then, Kalancho began to carefully look at the surrounding environment and finally concluded that it was indeed the edge of the abandoned reef port terminal.
Then the ones who walked out of the portal were Begi, Helena, Yingli, Katerina, the Taurus Ruka, etc. Soon everyone walked out of the one-way portal one after another.
I stood on the reef on the edge of the coastline and said to Senior Dylan: "Senior, your portal scroll is very useful!"
The sound of waves slapping on the reefs can completely cover up all the sounds on this night, so I am not worried that the chat will be heard by the guards at the city gate dozens of meters away.
Senior Dylan shook his head with a wry smile in the dark night, and then warned me: "If you don't have some application knowledge of space science, remember not to use this teleportation scroll. The Green Empire is still in the stage of blind people touching elephants in the field of space magic, and there is no way to make a magic scroll with stable performance."
Just as my face showed disappointment, he patted my shoulder and said to me: "But, if you want to learn the magic knowledge learned from me in space, it will not be difficult to master the use of these teleportation scrolls."
When Qiong also walked out of the portal and walked along the ice stairs to the reef with a look of surprise, our chat was temporarily terminated.
With Qiong's guidance, we walked along the stone walls at the edge of the city wall and walked towards the abandoned pier with difficulty. The sea tide was beating the reefs under our feet. The night fog was filled with slippery moss everywhere, and tough shells everywhere.
Fortunately, there was a guide in our team who was very familiar with the surroundings and did not let us go too much of the wish path.
On such a night, there were only a few old fishing boats on the abandoned pier that had been stranded on the reef beach. The hulls of those fishing boats had become rotten, and only a few strands of broken silk thread were left on the canvas. The pier was disrepaired for so long, and big holes had been exposed on the wooden boards. Not only did they squeak and creak when they stepped on it, they could still fall into it at any time.
Fortunately, we were all agile and we were all at ease along the way.
However, the atmosphere in the team became a little solemn. I was really unwilling to leave Galapagos City in such a mess.
...
It was a sea ship that was pitch black, especially on such a night without any light, and it was difficult to find its existence without going near it.
Standing on the dock and watching the nearly forty-meter-long three-masted sailboat stand quietly on the edge of the dock, some sailors wearing wet sea beast leather armor were rushing to transport various supplies to the sailboat. It seemed that the most important thing for them was supplies that could maintain their life at sea, including fresh water and some food.
The captain, who had a one-legged leg, stood arrogantly on the dock wearing a black sea animal leather jacket, directed the sailors to carry supplies.
When he saw us appearing one after another from the other side of the dock, an intriguing smile appeared on his face.
"It is my honor to welcome all the magicians to the Belland. It is my honor to see you here." The captain of the cripple bowed slightly to Noah and me, and said, "My name is Bronte, and I am honored to be able to strengthen everyone on such a wonderful night."
"Can your ship take us to Dunai Island?" I asked Bronty.
He smiled and nodded.
Perhaps because he lived on the sea for many years, even pieces of tinea like seaweed grew on his face, and he had a strong fishy smell all over his body. One of his legs was a wooden stick, and he didn't know how to fix it on his big legs. When he walked, the wooden sticks lit the ground one by one. Although his body twisted and twisted, his movements were very agile, and it was obvious that he had a strong body.
He asked the first mate to stare at the sailors on the dock, and then led us onto his ship himself.
After boarding the Belan, I still deeply felt its hugeness. Although it was anchored on the pier, the ship was slowly shaking under the surging waves. This sailboat floating on the sea is very different from those airships. If this kind of ship stays for a long time, it will be seasick.
The biggest difference between sailboats and airships driving on the sea is the control of transportation costs.
A large floating airship requires more than eight sets of floating devices to levitate the huge airship in the air, and then slowly enters the established wind layer with the booster composed of the wind array, and then uses the thrust of the wind layer to achieve the sailing effect. The airship's speed is much faster than that of the sailing ship, but the magic crystals burned by an airship every day is also a huge expense.
A large three-masted sailboat only requires sufficiently strong sails and a sufficient number of sailors to allow the sailboat to sail smoothly on the sea, without consuming expensive magic crystals or expensive maintenance costs.
The Belan looked a little worn, at least it looked like this, the part of the hull soaked in the sea water had been completely captured by oysters. I saw traces of cleaning, but now, another layer of oysters grew on its hull.
After boarding the Belan, I found that it was not as bad as it looked on. At least its three masts were quite new. At least the tung oil paint painted on it had no signs of falling off. However, the brand new mast could not tell that this was not an old ship, because its side had been worn out without any edges.
The bow of the ship has huge copper impact angles, and huge catapults and crossbows are installed on the left and right sides of the ship, but these equipment are covered by rain-proof sea beast leather, just like batches of cargo are loaded on the deck.
Bronty drove some sailors under the boat and made a limited number of rooms for us. In addition to the smell of salted fish, there was also the smell of sweat and smell of sailors. Bronty had absolute voice on this boat, and the sailors dared not complain about what he said from his mouth.
The Tauren Ruka could only temporarily live in the warehouse on the deck, and his figure was too tall.
Unexpectedly, Qiong actually got on the boat with us. It seemed that she was also preparing to complete the trip with us.
Senior Dylan stood at the bow of the boat, worriedly Wang looked at the direction of the teleportation array of the military port of Galapagos City, and sighed faintly.
Unexpectedly, we would get involved in a long-planned coup by the Mensa family. However, it is obvious that Marquis Boris launched a coup this time, which was also affected by us. I guess the biggest impact was the incident of Senior Dylan's maintenance of the portal. Perhaps Marquis Boris hoped that this teleportation magic array could be damaged naturally, so he had no maintenance on the portal here.
Noah seemed to be worried. The many problems brought by the plane war had already made the Mensa family exhausted. Marquis Boris launched a coup at this time, which undoubtedly made the situation of the Mensa family even worse.
We had just packed up on the boat, and the sound of horse hooves came from the city of Galapagos. At this time, Marquis Boris thought of sending out all the knights of the guard battalion to block the various docks in Galapagos.
Maybe he had thought of it for a long time, but he just forgot that there was an abandoned pier here.
Only then did he realize that a team of knights should be sent to patrol.
Hearing the sound of horse hooves in the city, Captain Blanti and his sailors were obviously more nervous than us. They had to stop the transport of those supplies, summon all the sailors back to the ship, and quickly let the coolies on the ship push the huge winch and roll up the large iron anchors that sank to the bottom of the sea.
The sailors ran quickly back into the oar chambers on both sides of the ship. There were four sailors in each oar chamber. They worked together to extend a huge oar of more than twenty meters long to the outside of the hull.
From a distance, the entire sailboat was like a centipede with countless legs. As the whistle sounded by the first mate, the sailors were neatly rowing the huge oars.
I didn't expect that before the ship set sail, it was sailing in this way.
The ship slowly sailed out of the abandoned port dock in the night fog. Captain Blanty stood in the captain's room with a serious face, and personally manipulated the rudder.
When the sailboats sailed about a hundred meters away from the harbor, the knights of Galapagos had arrived at the dock. They rode their horses and stood on the dock, and could only watch us leave quietly.
Noah and I breathed a sigh of relief, but found that Joan and Jacques were both heavy, and the sailors on the boat became irritable. The first mate even stood in person on the bow and hit the corner, shouting at Bronty in the captain's room, and commanding the sailing boat to avoid the reefs standing in the sea.
Originally, I released my magical perception to clearly know which knights on the docks are talking about what they are now, and whether they will be furious on the docks at this moment.
But I didn't expect that when my magical perception spread around, I suddenly felt a huge reef hidden in the night fog not far ahead. Under the cover of the night fog, the sailboat crashed straight towards the other side.
I was shocked to find that the first mate standing at the bow of the ship had not seen the reef hidden under the night fog. The ship was slowly rushing towards the reef.
So, at this time, I quickly ran from the deck to the captain's room at the stern.
Just because the entire sailboat was rowing with oars, the speed was like a snail. I ran to the captain's door panting and shouted: "There are reefs fifty meters ahead, so turn the rudder quickly!"
Captain Blanty also looked at me in surprise. The rudder in his hand was rotating rapidly like a gyro...
Chapter completed!