"Level 2 Magical Hybrid Ships?"

In the gentle sea breeze, the boatmen shouted one after another, but Roger stood on the dock and chewed on this somewhat awkward term with an embarrassed face, his confused eyes swelling up and down with the behemoth in the waves.

According to Roger's eyesight, the slender streamlined hull of the Suzuka is at least 100 meters long, which is not outstanding among the many ships in the dock, but it gives Roger a strange feeling.

The three sets of masts on the ship, before the sails were raised, and the sleek thick wooden pillars and crossbars took on the shape of a twisted cross under the blue sky, making the behemoth of the Suzuka look like a wobble sea grave.

"How can there be so many resentful souls on the ship? While still muttering the technical terms of the ship, Roger noticed something else interesting and couldn't help but slow down.

Of course, Roger's bewildered expression was not disguised, but he really had never heard of the term.

In the years when Roger was still on the mainland, to be precise, in the era before AE1400, although on the surface magic developed rapidly, the mage organization led by the Pan-Continental Mage Federation flourished, new magic theories, arcane models emerged one after another, and there were magic items with black technology like magic crystal radios, but the overall development of magic was still unsatisfactory.

In view of the fact that the mages are still more concerned about the improvement of their own strength, and due to the constraints of many factors such as the impurities that are difficult to get rid of in the refining of magic crystals and the resonance and interference between magic energy machines in a small space, the large-scale magic machines that can really promote the leapfrog development of social civilization are only imaginary in computing, and this inevitable technical bottleneck actually brought the development of magic to a standstill.

However, judging from the results alone, it seems that perhaps the catastrophe that swept the continent was not some kind of opportunity to break and stand up, and the research in the field of magic over the years has not been without achievements, at least the ship equipped with magic propulsion in front of him is proof, and it is enough to confuse Roger, who is not from a professional background.

Just when Roger was hesitating whether to use his right eye to observe, the old and sophisticated Gregory had already seen Roger's embarrassment, and explained understandingly, "Look at my brain, I only care about introducing myself, little brother, your Cyprus province is located inland, and you may not know much about the situation of ocean-going ships, let my brother and I introduce you to my baby." ”

Proudly pointing to the streamlined hull of the Suzuka, Gregory's face was full of excitement, like a child sharing his new toy, "In fact, the so-called two-level magic energy hybrid is not complicated, it refers to the power of these ocean-going ships when sailing is provided by the wind and the magic energy machinery mixture, this is because most of the magic energy machinery on the market uses the two-stage linkage structure, so the propulsion force that can be provided is small, and it needs a certain amount of wind to assist in pushing to achieve normal sailing speed.

As for the military ships, they are completely different, they are all equipped with high-power magic engines, completely free from the shackles of fluctuating wind, and can better adapt to all kinds of bad weather, that is really a good ship. ”

"However, there is a grapevine that the prototype of the new generation of magic energy engine has been installed on the ships of the Royal Navy, and has achieved good experimental results, and maybe one day the magic energy engine used by the military will be downgraded to civilian use. At the thought of that scene, Gregory rubbed his fat palms with a look of anticipation.

Walking behind Gregory's ass like the Suzuka, Roger looked strange, after all, it was still very awkward to hear the word 'engine' from the mouths of other worlds equivalent to medieval Europe.

Although the language may be different, the word must mean the same thing, and the wooden sailboat is powered by magical energy, and perhaps the deformed technological structure is also the miracle brought about by magic, which has made the world change beyond the times in some areas, Roger thought.

Gregory took a wooden box with metal horns from his assistant, and carefully twisted some brown powder from it, but because of the sea breeze, even if he was cautious, there was still some powder blown away in the sea breeze, which made Gregory feel a pain in his flesh, these tobacco leaves were good things brought from the west of the continent, and he only had this point until the next ocean voyage.

"We're lucky, it looks like Lady Tina, the Storm Dominant, is in a good mood today, and now that the Grey Sea is not stormy, as long as it successfully breaks through the Grey Mist zone near the shore, the Suzuka can easily handle this journey. If it goes well, it is estimated that we will be able to go to Endless Overseas Wai in three days at the latest, which is as simple as slipping around at the door for the Suzuka. ”

He took out a sepiolite pipe carved with an intricately detailed relief on the outer wall, and its mouthpiece looked like a natural amber, shining in the morning light, and because of the long use, the whole pipe was rendered a deep brownish gold, which was worth a lot of money.

Gregory added the pinch of brown powder to his pipe, compacted it with a small silver tool, then put the mouthpiece to the corner of his mouth, and continued the topic just now, "But this is not easy to say, no matter how skilled the navigator is, he cannot predict what the wind and waves will be in the next moment on the gray sea, after all, Ms. Tina's heart is known for its fickle mood, which makes no one know the situation at sea. ”

"Ahem"

Seeing that Gregory wanted to have a good chat, Brandon coughed lightly with a displeased expression, and the smile that Gregory had originally hung on his face froze, and he met Brandon's gaze when he heard the sound, and the latter's flashing vertical pupils with mottled gold made Gregory's body shudder, and the match that was originally going to light a cigarette in his hand also accidentally slipped into the water.

"Haha, it's windy outside, maybe there's some light snow later, let's get on the boat first, let's talk about it, there's nothing more pleasant than a warm stove and a steaming glass of gin in the winter." Pretending to glance at the sky, Gregory put away his pipe and said with a smile.

"It's fine. ”

As if he didn't notice anything wrong, Roger nodded casually in response, and called the people of the True Knowledge Guild who were still immersed in the rippling blue waves, and several of them boarded the huge Suzuka with the help of rickety pedals.

As soon as they got on the boat, the subtle feeling of the deck swaying slightly with the waves made Alley and the others, who had never been in contact with it, soften their feet, and they subconsciously held the side of the ship, and they did not ease up for a long time.

However, Roger was very accustomed to such a bumpy feeling, and he was leisurely observing the deck the size of a football field in front of him, but he couldn't feel the resentful aura that seemed to be in the distance just now.

As far as the eye could see, the wide deck was full of busy workers and slaves, and it was easy to distinguish between the two, and those who were naked were slaves, and their dark skin was tanned in the sun, and sweat ran down their scarred backs, and there was a slight pause at every turn, and the cruel whip of the overseer was ushered in, and the workers who worked with them had the right to laugh at the slaves, because they were legally free.

The situation of these slaves was even worse than that of the slaves under the oppressive rule of the ruins of Amanda, who were mostly prisoners of war, bankrupts, and exiles, who were required to do the most arduous work, and whose best reward was a mere meal.

The merchant aristocrats used them as the cheapest consumables, and it was only 'normal' for them to encounter ferocious sea beasts on a ship and kill one or two slaves to attract the attention of them.

As soon as he stepped on the Suzuka, Gregory seemed to be a different person, holding his slightly bloated body on the rickety deck and walking like a flying leader, and by the way, he introduced his love ship to Roger and the others.

From Gregory's fragmentary introduction, Roger is generally clear that the Suzuka is about 146 meters long and about 50 meters wide, and such a size is only a medium-sized ocean-going ship in Viktz, but those larger ships are docked in the port of Viktz, where the waterline is deeper, and they also undertake more important trade tasks.

As for the sails of the Suzuka, it is a longitudinal hard sail with three sides, which can make the most of the wind power of the monsoon, speaking of which, Gregory said proudly: "Don't look at the Suzuka now, it is the flagship of the Royal Navy's retired Predator, and I also spent a lot of effort to buy it from the group of vampires of the Royal Navy." ”

Speaking of this, Gregory's tone changed, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Speaking of this, I am angry, obviously it is already a model ten years ago, and all the weapons and equipment and power plants have been dismantled, and there is an empty shell that dares to sell so expensive, almost squeezing out half of Lao Tzu's life savings." ”

"Forget it, don't mention this, Andre, help a few gentlemen put their luggage in the cabin on the second floor, and then let the group of wastes hurry up and prepare, until now the tung oil has not been brushed. ”

Gregory was obviously a little dissatisfied with the progress of the slaves, and pointed to the busy group of slaves and urged, "If you continue to do this to them, you won't be able to leave the port tonight, tell them that if they don't hurry up, pick a few and throw them in the power room." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

The entourage following Gregory bowed slightly, politely took the large bag in Ryan's hand, turned around and disappeared into the hallway.