(xxviii) to the east, to the east

In this way, in order to avoid and survey the sea where there were no sea monsters, we sailed eastward around the shores of the land of Manada, and often went ashore to repair our not very strong ships.

After all, according to the inference of the hero Luer, the Tenglong Continent is very large, and if you go east, you should be able to reach the Tenglong Continent.

But the Manada nobleman was quite happy, saying that this is life.

After sailing eastward for some time, we found a large bay to the east of Manada, which the hero Lull said was a little smaller than the one north of Mirami, but more enclosed.

In this way, he played hide and seek with the sea monsters, sailing for several months, and the veteran hero Luer finally seized a relatively rare gap in the sea monsters, left the shore in one breath, and got into the sea.

However, on the sea, we were very unlucky, and we were caught in a storm, and thanks to the good maneuver of the hero Lull, we managed to survive the storm, although the ship was about to break down.

(30) The Redemption of Solitude

After a torrential rain, our ship barely disintegrated after a month of sailing, and we sailed desperately at sea with broken planks, but before the ship sank, the hero Lull quickly collected some food.

Gliding on our arms at sea, we drifted alone for months, and as winter came, the weather was getting colder and colder, and we were running out of food, we were in a desperate situation, again.

The hero Lul smiled bitterly and apologized to us for harming us, and to the Manada nobleman, saying that he could not take him to his homeland.

But this time, we sailors didn't attribute everything to the hero Luhr as we did 11 years ago, after all, we abandoned the slave life of food and clothing and followed Lull home.

Just when our group was on the broken deck, touching our hungry stomachs, and making the final summary of life, something unbelievable happened, it was simply the protection of the sea god!

In the distance, on the sea level, several small boats appeared!

At that moment, I seemed to have a delusion of madness, in fact, I had returned to the Bourbon neighborhood, those fishing boats were the Bourbon people who came out to fish, and we could make these little fishing boats and go home!

But the delusion is only the illusion after all, and the people on the fishing boats, dressed in clothes and clothes that we have never seen before, speak languages we have never heard before.

But they knew at least one thing that we were hungry and needed rescue, so the fishing boats took us back to shore in two batches.

(xxxiii) Brayasson

It was only after I learned the language of Braiazon that I learned that day, and that the boats I saw that day were not fishing boats, but the best boats of Braiazon.

The nobles of Brayazon took their ships and went to explore the sea.

Brayathon is different from Manada, the Manada people worship the sky, while the Brayathon people worship the tides that follow certain laws, because they worship the tides, so the people of Brayazon want to know where the tide ends.

Compared to the century-old Manada, Brayazon is a very young city-state, based on the city-state of Rodgoma, and controls the surrounding city-states, large and small.

But there is an advantage to Brayazon over Manada, Brayazon is very keen on sailing, and our seamanship, although it is half a bucket of water, is much higher than that of Brayazon, which can only build small fishing villages.

After we learned the language of Blayathon, the hero Lul told them that he wanted to go back, so he could teach the Blaazon people how to sail in exchange for Braiathon to help him sail.

In addition, the hero Lull also brought experience, his previous experience of running a nautical school in Compolis, and built a Luhr Southern Nautical Academy in Braazon.

In short, our seafaring experience, our shipbuilding skills, the people of Braiazon absorb our experience like a sponge thirsty for knowledge.

As a sign of respect for the hero Lull, Brayazón called Lul the son of the tide and erected a statue of him at the academy.

(xxxix) In order to go home, set sail again

In 711 A.D., after a five-year stay at Brayazon, a new ship was finally built, and this one, which harnessed the power of the Brayazon state, was more reliable than the previous ones we had built ourselves.

And in these five years, I saw new monsters, new fruits, everything new in Braiathón.

And we were not idle, for the future departure, we made sufficient preparations in advance, under the pretext of helping the people of Blayapine to explore the sea, we first explored the sea area around Blayasong.

After exploring, we found that the sea area west of Braiazon is also a large bay, and the wind and waves are much smaller than those in the ocean.

Moreover, the hero Luhr speculated that Brayasson, that is, on the continent of Tenglong, theoretically, we could go all the way north to Myrami.

But... It is possible to take a boat, none of us want to sail.

During the past few years of exploration, the hero Lul began to train me with all his might, he said, he is old, I am still young and strong, I am afraid that I will be at the helm in the future.

In the year 711 of the Great Calendar, the hero Lul was 62 years old and I was 36 years old, and in order to return to our homeland, we once again left the environment where we could eat and wear, and sailed into the depths of the unknown sea.

However, before leaving, some sailors chose to stay in Braiason, saying that they were tired and that it might be the fate of the sea god to not return home, and advised us to stay with us.

In the face of their hesitation, the hero Lull scoffed at me and declared: "I don't believe that the sea can really stop me!"

After 16 years away from Bourbon, we headed for Bourbon again, only this time on the ship, even if we had included Lull and me, there were only 7 Bourbons left, 3 Manadas, and the rest were all sons who admired the tide, and volunteered to join this voyage that might be a journey for them with no return.

(41) The journey home

This voyage, the hero Lul has completely lost his hold, and he is no longer at the helm all the time, and the frequency of me and the Manada nobles at the helm is getting higher and higher.

I know that the long-term travel at sea has damaged the old man's body.

I remember the first time I saw him, he was still full of black hair, with only a few gray hairs, but now his hair is all gray and wrinkled.

Actually, I was the same, when I first met him, I was a young and strong young man, and now, the years have left their mark on my face.

Along the way, under the command of the hero Lull, we overcame many obstacles along the way, whether it was a storm or an attack by the sea monster herd, we did not give up.

The ship moved along the shore, because the hero Lul guessed that this was the continent of Tenglong, and if you walked north from the shore, you would definitely reach Myramie.

However, tragedy continued to occur, not under the attack of storms and sea monsters, but under unknown diseases.

The cases of bleeding gums and ulcering skin (editor's note: sepsis) that the hero Lull had seen again began to appear among several old sailors, and halfway through, the Manada nobleman, who was very pleasing to Lull, died because of this symptom.

After the death of this Manada nobleman, we mourned his body with great sorrow. When the memorial service was over, his two slave servants and another weary Bourbon sailor took his body ashore for burial, and left the fleet, not marching with us.

Saying goodbye to the four who had left, we moved on.

Along the way, when the hero Lul was not sailing, the most common discussion was the coast we experienced, these coasts are meandering, and one excellent port after another is hidden in them, and the hero Lull often sighs that if a seafaring nation is born here, then his development must be very convenient.

(43) The curse of the sea god

Poseidon once said that the world is unpredictable, just like the strange and unpredictable sea, you can never guess the development of tomorrow.

Just as we were going farther and farther north, the hero Lul's body went wrong, and every time he went on deck, he would cough violently, and after coughing up blood, he had to follow our advice and stay below deck.

As a sailor, I knew very well that the hero Lul had suffered from the curse of the sea god (editor's note: according to this travelogue, in his later years, Lul Gomez suffered from the symptoms of scuba disease, which was manifested in the inability to receive the stimulation of the sea breeze with a strong fishy smell), and could no longer go to the sea.

However, because he has to stay on the surface of the sea now, he can only ignore the symptoms of the hero Lul for the time being. Although the hero Lul refuses to believe that he is suffering from the curse of the sea god, his aging body eventually makes him succumb.

Is the son of the tide also abandoned by the tide?

The roof leak happened to rain overnight, and in winter, we encountered a rare attack by a large sea monster herd on the shore. The sea monster herd usually does not come to the shore, but after so many years in the Bourbon, it is not without exception, and it is obvious that we have been lucky enough to meet the rare sea monster to reach the shore.

In the face of the attack of the sea monsters, our ship was wrecked, and a large number of people died in large numbers, and when we finally fled to the shore, we counted the number of people, and only 3 Bourbons and 6 Braiazon sailors remained.

By now, we had only nine men left in our fleet, because considering that the hero Lul had suffered from the curse of the sea god, this time, we did not spend three or four years building new ships and preparing to return by land.

After all, the hero Lull said that Braiathon and Myramie are on the same land, and if we go through the land, we should be able to walk back to Myramie, and then find the trading post in Bourbon in Myramie, and go home as a merchant ship.

However, because it is winter and we are running out of food, we can only stop and build simple houses in this strange land. You can't continue your journey home until the ice and snow have melted and you have enough food to get there.