Chapter 20 Snow-covered islands
After a period of storage and practice, Ethan can finally use his magic to perform auxiliary magic that all mage apprentice masters: the mage's hand.
This magic has a very low demand for magic power, and it is activated by the main body of the mental power and a small part of the magic power. With Ethan's mental power strength, this kind of magic has long been used. Even without the cooperation of magic power, he can only use his mental power to complete it.
However, using magic is completely different. It can prevent mental power from directly touching external objects and provide a layer of protection for one's own mental power. Especially when conducting magic experiments, this layer of protection can avoid a lot of trouble.
More importantly, the meaning of this layer of magic is completely different!
Ethan looked at the small stone floating in front of him and felt proud.
Only today did he be able to raise his chest and announce to everyone: I am really a magician!
Standing in front of the steering wheel, Ethan threw the stone into the sea. After sorting out his mood, he began to look at the surrounding sea surface.
After so long he left the Central Island, he had gradually approached the border area of this sea area. The sea surface became increasingly harsh. The ups and downs of the waves could not maintain the stability of the previous one, and it was rising and falling on the sea surface.
At the same time, the sky was covered with a layer of gray. The sun was shining brightly before and the sea breeze became colder and colder. Ethan put all the thick clothes he had almost never worn before on, so that he felt warmer.
"Is it an illusion?"
Ethan felt the splashes of water seemed to be mixed with snowflakes, and he had never seen snow in this world.
As the Goddess of Dawn continued to move forward, the clouds above Ethan's head became thicker and thicker, and the snowflakes that fell from time to time in the sky reminded him that what he had seen before was not an illusion.
"Suddenly it got colder."
He always thought that the entire sea was almost the same climate, because there was almost no temperature change in the calm sea, but this exploration trip caused by curiosity made him realize how naive his previous thoughts were.
The set of latitude and longitude knowledge on the earth cannot be applied here. The only knowledge that can be used is how to correctly protect your ships in such cold environments.
Ethan carefully inspected various areas and did not allow the ship to continue moving forward. Every time he advanced for a period of time, he would stop to check to see if any places were seriously affected in this environment.
Control the ship's speed to avoid hitting ice and other things at high speed, causing fatal damage to the ship.
Because of Ethan's care, although the navigation speed slowed down, there was no danger, which finally allowed Ethan to successfully arrive at the border area of this sea area.
At first glance, the storm that could not be seen at all was connecting the sky and the sea like a wall. Through various equipment observations, Ethan found that this storm was not only filled with violent storms, lightning and thunder, but also mixed with tornadoes wandering everywhere and huge vortexes that suddenly appeared from time to time.
"This kind of sea situation...no wonder no one wants to break through here."
Ethan is still far from the terrifying wall of storm. It takes a long time to drive from where he is now. He can observe so clearly thanks to various technological tools provided by Tony, otherwise he would have to keep getting closer to see so clearly.
In that case, not to mention how much time wasted, this road was not very comfortable. Now he had to hold the rudder tightly to stand on the boat, and he had to be careful to avoid rolling into a ball every time he moved.
"It's no wonder that there are no adventurers here in this environment."
Ethan habitually took out the island pointer, and he would take it out every once in a while. He had been shaking before and did not find any island. It seemed that in this environment, even the floating island would not appear.
The result was once again speechless. The pointer that could not find the island before suddenly pointed firmly in a fixed direction, which meant that there were islands within its search range.
It was not only embarrassing to him, but the direction of the pointer was on his left and slightly tilted towards the storm waters, which meant that he would continue sailing on this waters, or even continue to move forward.
This could not be a reason for him to give up on the island, and Ethan drove the Goddess of Dawn towards the pointer.
The distance seemed not close, maybe it was in the largest area of the pointer search. For some time, Ethan had been enjoying this bumpy life. He was so shaking that he was completely in a mess. He felt that his brain was being shaken into a lump.
Just as he was thinking about whether to give up, an island appeared on the sea level ahead.
“…”
Looking at the island getting closer and closer, Ethan wanted to complain, "Do you want to read this heart?", and finally, he honestly circled the island, found a relatively calm area to park the boat, then jumped down from the deck, and walked all the way to the island from the undulating sea.
When he was down-to-earth, Ethan was a little uncomfortable because he suddenly stopped shaking. He stood there for a while before he returned to normal, and then began to look at the island.
There is no familiar green, but a vast white area. The entire island seems to be covered with a layer of white snow; there are also trees not far from the sea, and thick white snow is hanging on the trees. Ethan leans over and kicks the tree trunk. After shaking the snow, he can see the entire appearance of these trees, and it looks closer to the types of trees in the cold zone on the earth.
“No fruits were seen.”
Fruits are an important food source in this world and can also replenish water. Therefore, adventurers are looking for the first time whether there are various fruit supplies on the island.
There seems to be no fruit on the island to replenish. Ethan walked a long way along the coast and saw the same trees.
Generally speaking, the plant condition of the entire island can be observed by any side of the floating island. There is no direction in one, and the possibility that the existence of other places is not high.
“What’s there on this island?”
All of them are here, so you can't go back empty-handed. Since there is no food supplement, ore and wood are good choices, Ethan has kept his eyes on those trees.
“The quality of this wood seems to be good?”
I didn't care much about it just now. At this moment, I thought of this kind of wood as a very good raw material. He could collect some warehouses that filled him.
"If there is nothing else, I can only play a guest role as a lumberjack."
The wood is a guaranteed guarantee, and he doesn't want to do such logging work. It's not that cutting trees is troublesome, but it's only a few things for him. It's mainly because it's not a very easy job to resist wood from the island to the ship and load it into the cargo warehouse.
"Continue to explore inside for a while."
I looked back at the Goddess of Dawn that was parked on the sea. There shouldn't be adventurers suddenly appearing nearby, which is one of the reasons why he chose this direction.
He doesn't even have a companion now, and after he goes to the island, there is no guard on the boat. If he meets other adventurers, he will have no place to cry.
Now, he can only set up a warning magic circle on the ship, and remind himself when someone invades.
After changing into a full set of magic equipment, Ethan continued to explore deep into the island. Due to the weather, he put on a thick cloak outside and wrapped himself tightly.
In this case, he cannot hide his own movements and is easily discovered. He can only place his hand on the weapon, wear that pair of eyes, and turn on all search functions to ensure his safety.
The technology products are really useful. Not long after Ethan moved forward, he was surprised to find that there were creatures on this island. This was the first time he encountered an island where creatures existed.
"But this guy's location..."
Ethan looked at the various data given on his glasses and found that the creature seemed to be constantly adjusting its position, then approached him from time to time for a while, and then retreated.
"Is this a test?"
This is not a good phenomenon, and it seems to mean that this unknown creature is trying to attack itself. Whether for defending the territory or for some other reason, Ethan has to be careful and careful as long as this is possible, and at the right time it needs to take precedence.
He marked the guy with glasses, and Ethan continued to move forward without discovering anything. The scenery on the island was very monotonous and very novel at the beginning. After watching it for a long time, he gradually felt bored.
The only surprise was that when you entered the middle of the island, your glasses detected many energy sources and there were recorded objects in the database.
"Magic Stone!" Ethan found the energy sources according to the prompts of his glasses and found that there were a large number of open-pit magic stone mines. Many magic stones were exposed to the ground, and a few could be dug out simply by digging them out.
Most of the quality is not high, but keeping it as a shell is also a good thing. In addition, the magic stones are generally not big, so Ethan can use his own storage space to carry it, which is much easier than resisting the whole piece of wood to run back and forth.
He seemed to have focused all his attention on the magic stone mine in front of him. In fact, he kept staring at the prompt on his glasses, and had long noticed that the creature had quietly walked behind him and approached him carefully.
Under the cover of the cloak, Ethan touched the Book of Heritage with his left hand and held the battle cross with his right hand, ready to surprise the guy at any time.
Chapter completed!