The total voyage from Gabred, the base of the Third Fleet, to Newinn, where the Royal Naval College is located, is about twelve days.

Although Pharytis is only a small island country on the west coast of the mainland, the world is too vast. On the mainland, it is better, and if you get to the open sea, even with the help of seasonal currents, it is quite normal for a single voyage to take several months.

On the third day of Aven's departure, the sky that had been gloomy suddenly began to rain continuously, and the sea breeze gradually became noisy, and soon the ship's flag was blowing.

Fortunately, the supply ship that Aven was on had been sailing inshore and was generally stable. The unpredictable weather at sea was so normal that even the most experienced captain could not accurately predict its changes, and the supply ship did not stop its plans to evade without affecting the voyage.

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

But.

Things didn't turn out as they expected, and halfway through the voyage, the weather at sea slowly began to show some bad signs.

Woo woo...

Click!

Boom - rumble....!

There is nothing on the coastline side, but the dark clouds are a little low, and the continuous wind and rain do not mean to stop at all. But in the direction of the open sea, layers of dark clouds accompanied by lightning and thunder continued to suppress, and in the turbulent wind and rain, it seemed that the sky and the sea were connected together, and the ship was constantly jolting in the waves several meters high, almost thinking that the sea and the sky had been upside down.

This extreme celestial phenomenon is a clear indication that a storm of extreme intensity has begun to brew.

Bang –

"Your Excellency, the situation at sea continues to deteriorate, and I think it is necessary for us to find a safe place to take shelter. The door to the captain's cabin was pushed open, and the dripping Captain wiped his face and asked the captain loudly for instructions from the captain sitting behind the desk.

When the Navigator entered, Evan was a guest in the captain's quarters.

The ship's commander, Edlin, was the same rank as Aven and was a major, but he was much older than Aven, approaching forty years old.

The long-term comfortable life on the supply ship has made him less of a soldier's spirit, more like a peaceful uncle next door than a navy. In the face of the captain's rude behavior in front of the guests, he was not angry at all.

"My dear navigator, you have run this course a hundred times, and I trust you as much as I trust my hands.

Prove our professionalism to our guests and I'm sure you'll find the perfect haven for us. ”

The two mentioned himself in their conversation, and Evan smiled politely at the two who looked at him. Although the weather was a bit bad, he was not nervous. As the captain said, at this time, the individual is too small in front of nature, and it is enough to give enough trust to the experienced sailors.

"Yes, Your Excellency. The Navigator saluted the two lieutenants in the captain's quarters and turned to leave.

Soon, with the captain's orders one by one.

The direction of the supply ship was fine-tuned, and while maintaining stability, it headed for a small island with an excellent safe haven a few nautical miles away.

Evan had ridden quite a few ships, and he had found that each captain and his crew had their own way of getting along.

For example, under the command of Uncle Gehr, every crew member on the "Silver Wing" is like a part of a machine, simple and efficient. This Major Edlin, however, boldly delegated power and allowed professionals to play their part to the fullest.

Evan himself has always had a dream of captainhood, and although he knows that this goal is still a little far away, it does not prevent him from absorbing the experience of other captains from now on to enrich himself.

"Drop the sails, drop anchor, and go back to the cabin except for the officers on duty." ”

The chief navigator of the supply ship was very reliable, and soon led the ship into the leeward side of the island, lowered anchor and lowered the sails.

Cracking sound....

Huhuhuhu-

As soon as the supply ship came to a standstill, the heavy clouds that rushed from the direction of the open sea pressed down like toppled peaks. The rain instantly became several levels stronger, and even gave people the illusion that even the waves were being pressed down by the rain.

However, the anomaly of the weather obviously cannot be so simple, and there are other strange "things" that are pressed down along with the clouds and rainstorms.

"Moo... Moo..."

Is that... It was like the strange roar of some kind of giant sea beast.

"What's that sound?"

After the ship was parked, the navigator, who was still on duty, could not rest like the rest of the crew, and simply returned to the captain's room. A sudden roar rang out, causing all three people in the room to look up at the window at the same time.

At this time, the strange roar became louder and louder, and after listening intently, the chief with a little gray hair turned solemn: "This is not a movement that any sea creature I know can make. ”

"Could it be... Sea monster?!" The three of them looked at each other and thought of a disturbing answer.

It's just that as the captain of a supply ship, Major Edlin doesn't have the expensive alchemy equipment "Sea Monster Pointer" in his hands, let alone the alchemy bomb that can kill the sea monster.

It can be said that if it really encounters a sea monster, this supply ship will have almost no power to resist. Even Captain Edlin, the ship's highest combat power, is just an ordinary official knight, and it is difficult to say how much combat power is left after being pampered all year round.

Major Edlyn and his navigator were both looking a little ugly at this moment, and they kept making iron crosses on their chests with their right hands, and they prayed for the blessing of the goddess.

Evan wasn't surprised.

The Iron Cross Church is the common faith of the entire Tulip Alliance, and is dedicated to the "Goddess of Kingship and Navigation", one of the seven gods, and the black iron cross with the tip of the anchor at the lower end is his holy emblem.

At least seventy percent of the people in Pharytis were followers of this goddess, so the mention of the word "goddess" in public was a reference to the "goddess of kingship and navigation".

Because his ministry had the realm of navigation, his influence on the kingdom's navy, sailors, and fishermen was particularly great. In the face of the harsh maritime environment, the smaller oneself is, the easier it is to place one's trust in the gods.

Evan is not an atheist, but his reverence for the Great Being does not affect his own actions to find a way out, and he must be prepared for the worst!

The light in the eyes flashed slightly, and the invisible fluctuations were transmitted in an instant. At the command, two pintail swifts in the distance were already flying into the air like arrows off the string, piercing through the storm and speeding away in the direction from which the roar came.

......

The strange roar came from farther than Evan had imagined.

At present, the maximum real-time detection radius of the Seabird Scouts is about ten kilometers, beyond which Aven can no longer receive real-time images.

Two pintail petrels who received the order flew to the very edge of the reconnaissance radius, and finally discovered the anomaly on the rough sea. Can you imagine how powerful an existence can easily transmit a roar so far away?

When Ai Wen really projected his gaze on the sea through the eyes of the pintail petrel, he was also deeply shocked by that behemoth.

"Oh my God, what is this?!"

A huge sea monster resembling a whale, with a bony carapace wrapped around its head and thousands of tentacles on its body, floats in the sea like a small island.

Just by visual inspection, its size is already more than 2,000 meters, which is much larger than the largest giant species in the ordinary sea monster category, such as small species, large species, and giant species!

"This ...... It can't be the son of a sea god comparable to a fourth-level human transcendent, right?!" A slight shiver rose from the depths of Aven's bone marrow, a biological instinct in the face of the suppression of life beings.