The total voyage from Garblade, where the Third Fleet is based, to Newport, where the Royal Naval Academy is located, takes about twelve days.

Although Phaletis is only a small island country on the west coast of the mainland, the world is too vast. It is better on the mainland. If you reach the open sea, even with the help of seasonal ocean currents, it is normal for a voyage to take several months.

On the third day of Aiwen's departure, the always gloomy sky suddenly began to rain continuously, and the sea wind gradually became noisy, and soon the flags on the ship were blown.

Fortunately, the supply ship Ivan was riding on had been sailing offshore and was generally quite stable. Unpredictability of sea weather is so normal that even the most experienced navigator cannot accurately predict its changes without affecting navigation.

Under the premise, the supply ship has no plan to stop and evade.

Maybe it's pouring rain one moment, and the sky is clear the next moment?

but.

The situation did not develop as they expected. Halfway through the voyage, the weather at sea slowly began to change and there were some bad omens.

Woo woo woo

Click!

Rumble!

There is nothing on one side of the coastline, but the dark clouds are a little low, and the continuous wind and rain show no sign of letting up. But towards the sea, layers of dark clouds are constantly lowering with lightning and thunder, and the sky and sea seem to be connected in the roaring wind and rain.

At the same time, the ship kept bumping in the waves several meters high, and it almost seemed like the sea and the sky were hanging upside down.

This extreme celestial phenomenon obviously indicates that a storm of extremely high intensity has begun to brew.

Bang

"Your Excellency, Captain, the situation at sea continues to deteriorate. I think we need to find a safe place to hide." The door to the captain's cabin was suddenly pushed open, and the captain, who was dripping with water, wiped his face and shouted loudly

He asked the captain sitting behind the table for instructions.

When the navigator came in, Alvin was a guest in the captain's cabin.

The captain of this supply ship, Edlin, has the same military rank as Ivan, and is also a major, but he is much older than Ivan, nearly forty years old.

The long-term comfortable life on the supply ship has made him lose some of the sharpness that belongs to the military. He is more like a peaceful uncle next door than a navy. Faced with the navigator's somewhat rude behavior in front of guests, he did not show any signs of it.

angry.

"My dear Captain, you have traveled this route hundreds of times, and I trust you as much as I trust my hands.

Go ahead! Prove our professionalism to our guests and I’m sure you’ll find a perfect haven for us.”

He was mentioned in the conversation between the two, and Alvin smiled politely at the two people who looked over. Although the weather was a bit bad, he was not nervous. As the captain said, at this time, individuals are too small in front of nature, and given the rich experience

Enough trust from the sailors is enough.

"Yes, Your Excellency, Captain." The Navigation Captain saluted the two major officers in the captain's cabin and then turned and left.

Soon, the captain's orders were issued one by one.

The supply ship's forward direction was slightly adjusted, and while maintaining stability, it sailed at the fastest speed toward a small island with an excellent shelter a few nautical miles away.

Ivan has been on quite a few ships, and he found that each captain has a unique way of getting along with his crew.

For example, under the command of Uncle Geer, every crew member on the "Silver Wing" is like a part on the machine, simple and efficient. But Major Edlin boldly delegates power and allows professional talents to give full play to their role.

Ivan himself has always had a dream of being a captain. Although he knows that this goal is still a bit far away, it does not prevent him from absorbing the experience of other captains to enrich himself from now on.

"Lower the sails! Lower the anchor! Everyone except those on duty should return to the cabin."

The navigator of this supply ship was indeed very reliable. He quickly led the ship into the leeward side of the island, lowered anchor and lowered sails to anchor.

crackling

Huhuhu

As soon as the supply ship stopped, the thick clouds coming from the outer sea were pressed down like falling mountains. The rain instantly became several levels stronger, and it even gave people the illusion that even the waves were being suppressed by the rain.

However, the abnormal weather obviously cannot be that simple. Along with the heavy rain and clouds, there are other weird "things" coming over.

"Moo ho moo ho"

It was a strange roar like some kind of huge sea beast.

"What is this sound?"

After parking the ship, the navigator, who still had responsibilities, could not rest like the other crew members, so he simply returned to the captain's cabin. A sudden roar sounded, causing the three people in the room to raise their heads at the same time and look out the window.

At this time, the weird roar became louder and louder. After listening carefully, the sailor, whose beard and hair were gray, looked solemn: "This is not a sound that any marine creature I know can make."

"Is it a sea monster?!" The three of them looked at each other and thought of an unsettling answer.

It's just that as a captain of a supply ship, Major Edlin is not equipped with the expensive alchemical equipment "Sea Monster Pointer" at all, let alone an alchemy bomb that can kill sea monsters.

It can be said that if it really encounters a sea monster, this supply ship will have almost no resistance. Even Captain Edlin, the highest combat power on the ship, is just an ordinary formal knight. It is hard to say how much combat power he has left after being pampered all the time.

Both Major Edlin and his captain looked a little ugly at this moment. They kept making the iron cross on their chests with their right hands and praying to the goddess for her blessing.

Alvin didn't think it was strange.

The Iron Cross Church is the common belief of the entire Tulip Alliance. It enshrines the "Goddess of Kingship and Navigation", one of the seven righteous gods. The black iron cross with the anchor point at the bottom is its holy emblem.

At least 70% of the people in Phaletis are believers of this goddess, so as long as the word "goddess" is mentioned in public, it is a reference to the "goddess of kingship and navigation."

Because His priesthood includes the field of navigation, he has a particularly huge influence among the Kingdom's navy, sailors, and fishermen. Facing the harsh maritime environment, the smaller one is, the easier it is to rely on gods.

Ivan is not an atheist, but his reverence for the great existence does not affect his own actions to find a way out. He must be prepared for the worst consequences!

The eyes flashed slightly, and invisible fluctuations were transmitted instantly. After receiving the order, two needle-tailed swifts in the distance flew high into the sky like arrows from the string, piercing the storm and flying towards the direction where the roar came from.

The strange roar came from farther away than Alvin imagined.

Currently, the maximum real-time detection radius of the Seabird Scouts is about ten kilometers. Beyond this range, Aiwen will no longer be able to receive real-time images.

The two needle-tailed petrels that received the order flew to the very edge of the detection radius before finally discovering an abnormality on the rough sea. Can you imagine how powerful a being can be that can easily spread its roar so far?

When Ivan really projected his sight onto the sea through the eyes of the needle-tailed petrel, he was deeply shocked by the huge thing.

"Oh my God, what is this?!"

A huge sea monster that looks like a whale, with a bone carapace on its head and thousands of tentacles on its body, floats in the sea like a small island.

Just by visual inspection, its size exceeds two thousand meters, which is much larger than the giant species, the largest among the small species, large species, and giant species in the ordinary sea monster categories!
Chapter completed!