"Your Highness, can you take my sister and me with you when you and Mr. Archer go to explore the New Islands?" asked Ruth with her big cute eyes.

Lucy hurriedly scolded: "Ruth, don't make rude requests to Your Highness!"

Although Ruth was a little bold, she didn't dare to resist her sister, so she could only bow to Liszt aggrievedly and apologize: "I'm sorry, Your Highness, Ruth is too reckless, I ask for your forgiveness." ”

Liszt waved his hand: "Don't be nervous, Lucy, Ruth, if your Ake teacher doesn't refuse, there's nothing wrong with bringing you." "It's also a fun thing to see when you're accompanied by two cute little Lori, not to mention that they can also control the magic table.

Therefore, Ake, who researched the project of "How the Dragon Turtle Individual Transformed into a Thunderbolt Dragon Turtle" from Dragon Turtle Island, quickly agreed to the two sisters' request.

At Liszt's behest, she had already taken Lucy and Ruth as her magical apprentices - to this, the twins' former teacher, Chrissy Truth, did not object in the slightest, and even envied the twins for being able to listen to the teachings of the sorcerers at any time.

Of course.

Chrissy actually thinks too much, Ake is nominally the twin's teacher, but in private she has no idea of teaching at all. She only likes to study magic on her own, or assign some research tasks to magicians, and does not like to communicate with other people, let alone teach.

It is indeed too big for a magician to teach a magic apprentice, and any ordinary magician of the Magic Guild can complete the teaching.

"Thank you, teacher, thank you, Your Highness. The twins cheered excitedly.

Liszt nodded, "Go and pack up your salute, we'll leave at any time." "The voyages he and Ake made were all about walking and leaving, without dragging mud and water at all.

Then.

In a jade box hanging from the roof, Nami's somewhat weak voice sounded: "Tweet." ”

It flew out of the box and landed on the palm of Ake's hand, looking at Ake pitifully. He didn't go out to work for a while, but stayed in the laboratory and waited for Ake's return, seeking the care of the contract owner. At this time, its expression was wistful, and it was still playing with the hindrance of evolution.

Arkie held Nami in the palm of his hand and smiled, "Don't worry, Nami, Aki will take you with me, and we will go to my brother's newly discovered archipelago to explore the new world." ”

"Trumpet. Nami rubbed her head against Ake's fingers and dozed off in satisfaction.

A day later.

Liszt arranged the affairs around him, and Ake also handed over the busy magic experiments one by one, and then set off for the New Islands.

Bang!

Whoa!

"Sea, we're leaving!" the twins shouted happily as they stood on the bow of the boat.

Before coming to Black Horse Island, they were serf children in the countryside of the Eagle Kingdom, and they had never seen the sea in their lives.

When I came to live on Black Horse Island, it was a common occurrence to take a sailboat, and I had already overcome my fear of the sea, but I didn't dare to swim in the sea.

Loaded with fruits, vegetables, potions, and other supplies, the Flame rode the wind and waves along a planned sailing route at speeds of up to 500 kilometers per hour.

The New Islands are about 4,000 kilometers away from Heima Island – roughly the distance from China's northernmost point in the Bohai Sea to the southernmost South China Sea, according to Earth's data.

The average speed of the palace fast sailing ship was about 10 knots, or 18 kilometers per hour, and it could sail up to 400 kilometers in a day downwind. The Sapphire family relied on the palace fast sailing ships to dominate the blue sea, but there were many headwinds and windless voyages at sea, so a day was up to 200 kilometers.

From Heima Island to the New Islands, it would take twenty days for the palace fast sailing ship alone to arrive, and if it was replaced by a merchant ship with a speed of 3 knots, it would probably take two months, or if the navigation was smooth.

But.

For the Flame, there is no so-called headwind, downwind, and no wind, and Ake controls the waterspout to propulse, and directly races on the sea. Four hours later, having arrived at the location recorded in the nautical charts, Liszt called out the little fire dragon Leo and flew into the blue sky and white clouds to search the land.

The search went smoothly, and it took only fifteen minutes to find the island – which is why the accuracy of nautical charts is constantly improving.

Acker has been studying "astrology" for a long time, and combined with telescope technology, he has developed a set of devices that can measure the angle between the sun or other stars and sea level and ground level, and also wrote a book "Methods for Measuring the Azimuth Light of Stars in Navigation" to direct the application of the device.

After seeing this device, Liszt directly grabbed the naming rights: "Just call it a sextant!" In fact, it is an otherworldly version of the sextant.

With the sextant, the ship's position can be measured more accurately during navigation.

Basically, the situation of getting lost during navigation was cut off, and the fleet from the self-flame collar was a sextant during the day and night, and only when it was cloudy would the nautical compass be looked at - a compass-like device, which was also fixed in one direction, but not in a north-south direction, but at a fifteen-degree angle to north-west.

There is no theoretical explanation as to why this is the case.

"Ake, set off in the direction of 195 degrees, the island is ahead!" After finding the island, Liszt immediately contacted Ake - as for "195 degrees", Liszt invented it, and he combined it with a nautical compass to divide the bearing coordinates into 360 degrees, clearly indicating each direction.

195 degrees is a little bit west-south.

This invention is derived from the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Battle Royale" he played on Earth, which has a 360-degree direction indication, which is very convenient for indicating the enemy's location to his teammates.

But not before the Flame approached the island.

Lucy and Ruth shouted loudly: "Your Highness, teacher, there is news from the magic platform that the discovery number has encountered an unknown maelstrom and is being swallowed by the whirlpool, calling for help from us!"

Ah Ke immediately said: "Coordinates, directions!"

When the twins reported the location of the Discovery, the Flame immediately turned around and rushed towards the sea where the Discovery was located. Along the way, the Magic Station communication was maintained, and the Discovery was still struggling, and the Discovery and Opportunity were far away, and they could not be rescued at all, so they could only wait for the Flame.

Unfortunately, when Ark corrected his bearings and finally arrived near the maelstrom, the signal of the Discovery had disappeared from the magic platform.

"Your Highness, Teacher......" Lucy said sadly, "I can't find the Discovery's Magic Signal." ”

Liszt stepped onto the bow deck of the Flame in a bad mood, but he comforted himself: "Adventures at sea will inevitably encounter accidents, they are all pioneers of nation-building, and the new nation will not forget their credit." His gaze lifted up to look at the maelstrom that seemed to be swallowed by heaven and earth.

With Ake controlling the waterspout, the Flame slowly moved closer to the maelstrom.

It was a huge whirlpool with no edge in sight, and even the Dingshui Divine Bead could not affect its operation, and the surface of the whirlpool sloped all the way to the far center point, and it was pitch black and deep, and it was almost impossible to see how deep it led to the bottom of the sea.