(8) Torment

I'm Popeye Martin, 20 years old, sailing south with my idol, the hero Luhr, in February. In March, we met a terrifying five-headed sea dragon, who chased us playfully for four months before leaving, and at that time, there was only one ship left in our fleet.

Then, after the hero Lull pacified the unstable sailors, we began to sail south under the leadership of the hero Lull.

Although the hero Lul agreed with the people on the ship to give him a month, but in this endless place, the sailors on the ship were a little unstable.

Half a month after the sea dragon left, a bad news came, the keel of the ship we were on began to shatter, although it was repaired, but how long the keel could last, no one can be sure.

In this case, the hero Luer is worthy of being a weathered great wisdom, and when the other Ziluo class on the ship is a little panicked, the hero Luer does not move, and commands the sailors very calmly, and continues to sail south.

I don't know if it's the composure of the hero Luer, in short, after seeing that the hero Luer didn't panic, the sailors on the ship were anxious because of the damage to the ship, and they calmed down for a while.

(9) Carnival

Another half a month passed, and when it was still a few days away from the appointed day, the land was discovered.

At that time, I was sleeping when I heard a sudden noise from the deck, and I, who had been sensitive these days, jumped up from the ship as soon as the noise sounded.

When they first heard the noise, the sailors were a little flustered, because some people thought that the ship could not hold up at all.

But whether the ship can hold it or not, we have to get out of here and get to the deck first, or else this will be the first place to be flooded when the ship sinks.

When we went up, we learned that the noise was caused by the sailor on duty at the watchtower, and when we heard the sailor's loud shout, we did not blame him, but shouted with him with joy.

In the far south, new landmasses have appeared, and we are saved!

At that moment, all of us were roaring wildly, glad that we had survived this catastrophe, and every sailor was high-fiveing each other, even me, even the few sailors who had seen it particularly unpleasantly before, with the discovery of the New World, I looked at them with a bit of a pleasing gaze.

At that moment, all our sailors seemed to forget about the previous unpleasantness.

Seeing the sailors so happy, the hero Lul took out half of the rest of the food and let us eat it to our heart's content, celebrating the aftermath of this catastrophe.

After having had enough to drink and eat, and despite the exhaustion of the over-excitement that made me feel endless sleep, I, like all the other sailors, braced my body and watched the ship approach the New World in the south little by little.

As the ship approached the New World, all but the sailors who were to be on duty lay on the deck and fell asleep.

(10) Strange lands

When I woke up, I found that I had been tied up, at first I thought it was the Ziluo class on the ship, who had killed the hero Luer and was going to attack me, but then I found out that the hero Luer and the Ziluo class, they were also tied up.

And what tied us up was a group of strangely dressed people, who seemed to be inhabitants of this land, and judging by the attire of these inhabitants, they were different from other places, and like Myrami, they had a state.

It wasn't until later, when I could speak the language, that I understood what that day was like.

Our ship sailed directly to Fassaka, one of the six city-states of the country called Manada. As one of the six most powerful city-states in the country, there are 2 transcendent legends in Fassaka, so we have no power to resist and are directly captured.

Luckily, the Fassaka legend saw the surprisingly large ship we were on, they only had fishing boats, and instead of treating us like barbarians, they chose to take us back to their capital and present it to their queen's judgment.

(xiii) Queen Manada

In the previous chapters, I mainly talked about the scenery I saw along the way after I was tied up and pressed to the capital of Manada with the whole fleet, and the state of Sos, the capital of Manada.

What impressed me the most was that the nobles of Manada liked to pierce their bodies, and it seemed that the higher their status, the more holes they had on their bodies, and it was difficult to understand their thoughts.

When I saw the queen, I was honestly disappointed, this queen is in her fifties, older than Lule, and there are a lot of holes on her body, although she should have been beautiful when she was young, but the years have destroyed her appearance.

Queen Manada was very interested in us, the foreign visitors, and wanted to keep us as personal slaves of the royal family, but Lul and another purple dill were too high-level, and the queen was not at ease and ordered them to be killed.

Faced with the queen wanting to kill herself, another violet class was so frightened that she cried and begged for mercy in Bourbon, while the hero Lul held his head high and did not say a word, maintaining the last dignity of the Bourbon nobles.

This behavior of the hero Lul attracted the attention of Queen Manada's granddaughter, who pleaded with her grandmother, and finally the hero Lul was tolerated, but at the price, he had to be tied to a magic circle that bound his strength.

(xix) The hope of leaving

As we Bourbon visitors lived in Manada during the seven years we learned, the Manada language, and a war that we went up to watch, the Manada conquered the Zla.

In the past seven years, some sailors have accepted the marriages arranged for them by the royal family, married other high-ranking slaves, or Zila, and one of the sailors with a good mentality, Dammado, has already had children here.

But the hero Lul, and I, and the other sailors, never gave up the idea of returning home.

In the year 702 of the Great Calendar, the old queen Manada abdicated, and her daughter was elected by the parliament as the new queen, and the new queen had a very good relationship with us, and the Damado, whom I mentioned earlier, married a wife who was the personal slave of the new queen, so our minds were somewhat active.

Led by the hero Lull, we try to make the new queen want to go home.

The new queen was reluctant at first, but thanks to the eloquence of the hero Lul and the fact that Damado himself did not want to go back, he also helped me to intercede, and finally the new queen reached a verbal agreement with us.

We can't turn to the power of Manada, we can only rely on ourselves to build new ships, and we recruit sailors ourselves. A sailor can only be a Bourbon or a Manada noble, and if a Manada nobleman leaves with us, it means that he automatically renounces his inheritance.

And, after our ships have set sail, they will never be able to return to the continent of Manada, and they will no longer be able to receive supplies from Manada.

If all this can be done, the queen will agree to let us go, and when she leaves, she will give us enough food.

After the hero Lull said this condition, all of us looked at each other, you know, we are sailors, not shipbuilders, although we have some knowledge of ship structure, but we are far from building our own ship.

Promise is to give us time, let us slowly build our own ships and accumulate experience, that is not impossible, but the queen said very clearly, once the ship goes to sea, it cannot come back, in other words, we only have one experience.

Faced with such conditions, many sailors thought that the queen was deliberately making things difficult for us, thinking that we could eat and drink well if we stayed here, but it would be a death to return home, so many sailors began to retreat.

However, there are still some sailors, including me and the hero Lull, who insist on setting foot on the way home, why the hero Lull insists on going home, I don't know, but my child has been born for 7 years, and I haven't seen it yet.

I'm only 27 years old now, I still have a lot of time to try, how can I give up now?

(22) A ship that symbolizes hope

Seriously, we were surprised that there was a Manada nobleman who was willing to leave everything behind and sail with the hero Lull. The hero Lul also liked this nobleman, and boasted that he had the demeanor of his youth.

As for the process of shipbuilding, to be honest, it was not smooth. First of all, the keel was used in vain for 2 years, in these two years we did not use the keel, built some model boats to practice, after the keel was dried, we were a group of whites, only to start shipbuilding with the keel, and then it was 2 years of shipbuilding time.

However, Lu Er was very dissatisfied with the boat that was built, but in the end there was no way, the keel was all used up, so he could only pick the most satisfactory one and go to ride.

If you continue to race the keel, it will take another two years, and shipbuilding will take another two years, and it will be another reincarnation, then it will be another four years. And Luer, who is getting older, can't wait for 4 years after another.

There is no choice but to make do with this debatable ship with a safety factor. And that strange Manada nobleman, with his two slaves, really embarked with us on the road back to Bourbon.

(27) Flexibility

Although the Queen kept her promise with us and gave us a large amount of food before we left, we knew soon from the beginning of the voyage that we would not be able to keep our promise with the Queen.

Maybe it's because we didn't meet any sea monsters in the coastal sea when we came, and after we went out, we kept bumping into all kinds of sea monsters, forcing us to have no way to cross the ocean when we came, so we could only sail east around the coast of Manada, hoping to try our luck and take a break to avoid large-scale monsters.

As for not setting foot on the land of Manada, after a month of sailing east, the city-state of Manada was no longer visible, and only a wretched tribal barbarian remained occasionally.

Therefore, even if we were to go ashore to replenish the repairs, which was necessary, because the ship was poorly built, Queen Manada would not have known.