"Storm Horn" Aven's exclusive laboratory.

The golden spear, a superb weapon captured from Ovig, lay quietly on the wooden tray of the test bench, radiating a brilliant transcendent aura under the soft light of the hanging wind chimes.

Zila

While observing its structure through the various detection witchcraft of the Living Chemical School, a gold coin in Aiwen's hand flickered with lightning, slowly changing its appearance.

First, the front and back of the flowers and characters are quietly switched, and then the whole melts into a miniature golden lion, seagull, and sailboat

Obviously, Ovig's ability to use thunder and lightning when refining the golden spear gave Evan a lot of inspiration.

To him, the spear made of pure gold was of limited value in itself, but the technology contained in this extraordinary weapon was a valuable asset to Aven.

It can be said that it is a magical technology independent of the alchemy of general wizards, not only the form of gold, but even the physical properties have been changed by him at the same time.

Although Ai Wen's current abilities already include all kinds of prerequisites for realizing that kind of technology, he is still far from truly reaching the level of the other party.

But he is not presumptuous, compared to Ovig.

With the use of his lightning attribute ability, combined with the "data-based vision" of activated aura and accurate measurement, Ai Wen has been able to realize most of the precision machining capabilities of "manual" machine tools.

As long as the materials are available, it is easy to make muskets, shipborne guns, and even relatively complex mechanical parts that do not involve essential changes.

And after this mission, go to the Far Sail Collar.

The main purpose is to deal with this large shark totem pole, and by the way, to reshape the eight brigs of the slave ship that have almost completed the preliminary preparations.

Another point is a subversive modification of the Storm Horn to bring it as close as possible to the standards of a quasi-legendary ship.

That's when this precision machining capability shines!

Fluttering

The sound of wings flapping suddenly interrupted Aven's thoughts.

He saw a spirited seagull messenger suddenly emerge from the air in front of him and place a letter transmitted through a spirit beacon on the table.

"Oh, Anthony, he's efficient. ”

Aiwen's eyes lit up instantly, and he reached out and gently unfolded the letter he had been waiting for.

There are five valuable pieces of spiritual letterhead, densely filled with small print and graphics:

"Aven, during this time, I, Dilis, and Alva are really going to break their legs, and when you come back, you can't forget to compensate us.

But it's a good thing, and we've got all the excerpts we can take under our purview."

This is a letter from Anthony, who specializes in "alchemical tools and enchantment engineering".

Because Ai Wen was afraid that the backward knowledge in "Rite of Flesh" would waste this excellent raw material, he specially asked his friends in the kingdom to collect the knowledge of the production of the "Ship's Bow Statue" for his own reference.

That's right.

Ai Wen is preparing to make this very rare and extraordinary material into a powerful ship's bow statue!

When he used the Grand Fleet to defeat the "Grand Theater" piloted by the Death Soul Box, the distorted human head shipwreck that also had third-order power really impressed him.

With that bow statue alone, a dilapidated galleys that had long been behind the times could have the combat power of a quasi-legendary warship and defeat its own fleet.

One has to marvel at the wonder of this witchcraft creation!

As for the ability of witchcraft to create things, it is obvious that no one in the entire material world dares to boast of surpassing the alchemy school.

Moreover, the scope of their collection of materials is not limited to the library of the "Violet Eye" and the private collections of the members of the association, but also includes their family collections.

For Anthony and others, it is no problem to get some basic knowledge that does not involve core secrets for Aven, who is no longer what it used to be.

Even this knowledge is invaluable to the outside world.

If it weren't for the lineage of the "Living Chemistry School", three or four hundred years ago, there was no technology specifically for witchcraft creations like the bow of a ship, and Evan would not have turned to others for help.

"Yes, yes, the next time I mail the 'Extraction Potion' to the crown prince, I won't forget you. ”

Reading it voraciously in one sitting, especially several of the ready-made production cases, greatly expanded Aiwen's thinking.

Gradually, an initial manufacturing plan based on the inheritance of the "Living Chemical School" and supported by the knowledge of the "Alchemy School" has begun to take shape in his mind.

"The only thing that is a little uncertain right now is the coexistence of external energy and the remnants of Ovig.

At least in the raw materials of the normal ship's bow statue, there is no remnant of the power origin of a totem god. ”

Taking out two huge sapphires from his magic pocket and looking at them quietly for a while, Evan suddenly thought of someone.

With her knowledge of the witchcraft material of gemstones, she should be able to provide herself with a lot of ideas, right?

So he took out the leaf of the hyacinth and wrote softly on it:

"Hello, Miss Moonstone!"

Sail down the bay from the bay near Kabushir.

Even with the double of "Monsoon Goddess" and "Horn of the Current", it took the "Horn of the Storm" for eight days.

Duration.

Merchant ships sent by the colonies transported the women and children of the Araucan clan directly to the island of Tortuga in the northern part of the Golden Sea.

Evan had already made contact with the well-connected Arawak clan in advance, and they would join the clan to balance the extremely unhealthy ratio of men to women.

And the Arawak clan will also pay an equal price.

Even after Zinaro returned to the clan after successfully taking up the position of "Totem Warrior of the Tree of Life", the tribal chiefs began to consider offering the "Tree of Life" as their new totem.

Although Evan didn't know what would happen when the mysterious source of the school was worshipped as a god, it shouldn't be a bad thing at least.

The status of women in the Atlions was not high, and after years of fighting between tribes, according to tradition, most of them killed all the male members of the other party, and then absorbed the women and young children into the new tribe.

And there were already a lot of women in the Araukan clan, who they had snatched after defeating other tribes, and now they were not too resistant to being accepted by other tribes.

Everyone's happy!

Three days after the arrival of the Storm Horn.

The largest dock near Sail City, which was originally owned by the Amor family, has been renamed the Mercury Dockyard and is also the temporary office of the Mercury United Trading Company.

Dock Room 1 has become the exclusive workspace of Evan and a group of assistant craftsmen.

swish

As the "Activating Aura" slowly dissipated, the reshaping of the last slave ship was finally completed.

"Whew"

The renovation of the eight new privateers was finally completed, and Evan breathed a long sigh of relief.

At this point, there is no need for him to continue to do it himself, as long as he hands it over to the craftsmen for re-outfitting.

Looking at the masterpiece in his hand in the dock, Aven nodded in satisfaction.

The long protruding bow and stern posts increase the effective length of the deck. The keel has a tendency to lean down towards the tail to obtain a larger tail draft, which improves the longitudinal stability and speed of the vessel.

The hull was elongated, the cross-section was V-shaped in the ship, and the length-to-width ratio was increased at the expense of keel strength, which was now about 5:1.

However, as a supplement, Evan also added longitudinal stiffeners for them, which were not much worse than they should be.

With a flat deck design, there is no superstructure on board. It is conducive to reducing drag, facilitating sail and wind, and increasing ship speed.

Converted "Brigentin-type brig".

With a displacement of 210 tons and armament of 1 24-pounder gun and 8 6-pounder guns, the firepower was quite strong enough for a small privateer.

The foremast is equipped with a crosssail, and the mainmast is equipped with a longitudinal sail, and the maximum speed can easily exceed 11 knots.

Moreover, sail handling is much easier than that of ordinary sailboats, and the number of sailors required is greatly reduced, and only six people are required to operate normally without the need for gunners.

At the same time, the drawings of the new style have been delivered to the company's ship engineers and carpenters, and trial production of the first prototype ship has begun.

"It's not easy, the surplus pirates can finally start working for me. ”

The main body of the privateer fleet is only now truly formed.

"Your Excellency, there are some documents for your review. ”

Hawkins, who was dressed in a school officer's uniform next to him, saw that Evan was finally busy and handed him a stack of papers. Although he is the sole agent, there are some things that must be signed by Aven.

After Hawkins became Aven's attendant before, he was not required to carry out combat missions, and he had come directly to work here, and he did a good job.

"Your Excellency, the construction of the headquarters building of the trading company has begun, and the recruitment of personnel has also started at the same time, and the appeal of the Marquis is still very amazing

In fact, the personnel belonging to the smuggling team of the Far Sail Leader have completed their first transaction with the Cyrius Secret Dragon Colony and made a profit

And, before coming to the dockyard, the Marquis asked me to invite you to sit down at Orange Leaf Castle again, saying that I miss you very much."

Ai Wen waved his hand and signed all the places that needed to be signed by himself, confirmed that there were no problems with the current operation of the company, and casually agreed:

"Okay, I got it.

Reply to the Marquis, I'll visit him after I've completed the Storm Horn modification here. ”

Just went through a big battle, in addition to Milan and the necessary people left behind.

Evan had sent most of the crew out to relax in the city of Far Sail, one of the few bustling cities in the entire New World.

And he and Milan had an important job to do before they could make the ship's bow.

That is, on the existing basis, the "Storm Horn" will be replaced with a steel skeleton, which will greatly improve the structural strength of this fourth-class ship.

In other words, to convert this wooden sailing ship into an iron-ribbed wood-hulled ship second only to an ironclad ship!