Chapter 70: The Leading Party
The holograms marked the last twenty voyages of the fleet sent by the guild, and these road maps were like zigzag lines, covered with the sea of miracles, twisting and twisting with no rules at all, and it looked like a simple voyage around the sea of miracles.
However, this situation is completely different in the sea area that Ida deliberately marked, no matter how chaotic and distorted the previous route is, but once it reaches this area, then the guild's fleet will enter the same area with great accuracy.
Betty had previously revealed that after their students arrived at the Sea of Miracles, they had to go to this area to complete this assessment, which means that the so-called end point is here. ”
It certainly wouldn't be a coincidence that the guild's fleet often visited this area.
"The guild and the empire still have an ongoing connection?"
No one knows for sure, and while the information Ida found revealed that the guild hadn't been in contact with the Empire for a long time, perhaps they had been trying to find something.
Like the legacy that the empire left in this world?
"If it's actually a training ground, it's a facility...... So is the guild looking for a control room?"
Hill's words make a lot of sense, everyone really didn't think about this aspect before, Ethan is used to treating this place as a world, and his opinion has not been reversed, ignoring this aspect of the situation.
Logan and the others were similar, and Mordred didn't expect this at all: their worldview didn't turn around.
Ada might have thought of it, but she didn't say that she would point it out if Hill hadn't brought it up.
"If there is anyone who knows the truth about this world, it must be the people of the Guild, and it is not uncommon for them to worry about control of this world after losing contact with the Empire for a long time. ”
In this case, things are clearer.
The empire didn't know what was going on, and it seemed that it had abandoned the training ground, and it was likely that something was critical, so that Betty, who had sent a distress signal and was waiting for rescue, did not wait for the rescue team that should have appeared.
"If we look at the information gathered so far, the situation is clearly more favorable to us. ”
If the Empire has abandoned this place, for whatever reason, Ethan's actions here will not be restricted in any way, and the guild alone will not threaten them.
At the end of the brief meeting, Ethan then asked Ada to talk to Betty, revealing a little bit about what had been gathered on the ship.
As Ethan expected, just as Ethan casually found an excuse to blow on the deck, Betty came to him.
Betty's expression was very embarrassed, although she was not old and did not have a lot of life experience, it did not mean that she was a fool.
On the contrary, being able to become a cadet of the Imperial Military Academy itself means that she is excellent, after all, it is not an academy that anyone can enter.
When Ada revealed a little bit of information to her, she realized that she had unknowingly revealed a lot of information to the 'natives' on the ship.
The other party also sorted out and summarized the information according to the information he leaked, and finally 'stole' more information from the guild and obtained more information.
From this point of view, Betty is really not a qualified military practitioner, and now she is at the level of a cadet.
After having a clear understanding of herself, Betty felt that it was pointless to hide those things, and the other party had been very kind to her in the past few months, and she was still the one who saved her, so she finally made a decision to tell Ethan what she knew without reservation.
"You made the right choice. ”
"I don't know if it's right or not, but I think it makes me feel better. ”
She has been struggling with the question of 'to say or not to say' all this time, and now that she has made a decision, she doesn't have to continue to struggle, and her heart doesn't have to suffer anymore.
"Before we set off here, some seniors gave advice: at the critical moment of danger, we can appropriately rely on the help of 'locals' to get out of the predicament, and even directly rely on the strength of 'locals' to complete this assessment!"
Betty paused and explained, "I didn't mean to take advantage of you, I originally wanted to ask you to send me to the island, and then I would find a way to get a boat to the end by myself." ”
Ethan nodded, he was aware of this from the beginning, and he could guess that the natives who helped the candidates would probably not end up well.
Betty's next words confirm this, even if some of the 'natives' show very high moral qualities, what awaits them will not be some kindness, gratitude, or even the promised 'free from the shackles of this world' as promised by some, but a neat cleansing.
For the management of the training ground, these locals are just props to help them train new students, and if the props know what they shouldn't know, and they want to get rid of the identity of the props, then the only thing waiting for 'them' is to destroy them.
From Betty's words, it can be known that many students have used similar methods over the years, and Betty did not take this for granted, and there will be entanglements in her heart; in the chat with Ada, she proposed countless times that she would leave and then go to the end alone, in fact, it was a hint to everyone not to 'send her to the end', which shows that she is a kind girl.
"That's not a problem anymore...... The problem now is that your country seems to have abandoned this training ground, so your distress signals have not been heeded for more than 800 years, and the place has slowly developed some technology of its own. ”
Ethan pointed to a ship in the distance between an ironclad and a galleon, which was supposed to belong to an adventurer who was weaker in the seas.
With his strong vision, he could see that the ship was not a complete metal structure, and that the sails were still retained, proving that the other party was 'unaffordable' of pure magic stone propulsion, which also meant that the other party did not have a magic heart as a permanent power source.
Some time ago, because of his proximity to Miracle Island, Ethan also saw a lot of ships in this area, which were between the era of sails and the era of ironclad ships, and occasionally one or two battleships close to the pre-dreadnought era appeared, which belonged to relatively powerful adventurers.
In comparison, the Prince Eugen is simply a terrifying giant, even if no one knows how strong the firepower and protection of the Prince Eugen is, just looking at the huge appearance, no one wants to provoke it casually - the power that can propel such a large steel battleship must be a very powerful output of the Demon Heart, which means that the other party has a strong firepower output.
It's almost common sense in this part of the ocean!
It's just that Ethan has been letting the Prince Eugen turn on the radar to scan the surrounding situation, so as to prevent the Prince Eugen from being noticed by the people in this sea area, in addition to the frequent use of stealth when they approached Miracle Island a while ago, they have recently been able to avoid the surrounding adventurers by changing their route.
After a while, Ethan and the others were ready to sail to the more 'outer' part of the Circle, which he felt should be less crowded, and he could observe what was going on at the edge of the world.
Betty also looked at the ship in the distance, during this time she had also seen many local ships, although she had not boarded to see and ride up close, but she could see that the Prince Eugen she was in and those ships were not at all a product of the same era.
The Prinz Eugen was at least a hundred years ahead of those ships, and it would take several explosions of technological development to catch up with that gap. If they had developed from sail warships to those ships in 800 years, perhaps it would be another 800 years before they could build a warship of the same class.
So Betty wondered why Ethan's team was so special, and if they were actually scouts sent by another higher civilization?
With such a question, Betty and Ethan casually chatted about the empire and this training ground, Ethan knew that the empire has a vast territory, similar training grounds are all over the empire, and there have indeed been cases where the training ground has been abandoned, but it is rare to leave so suddenly.
According to Betty, this kind of military training ground hides a lot of high-end technology, and even if the empire gives up, it will take away or destroy the technology in it, and will not just throw it there.
So it's easy to conclude: something has happened to the Empire!
It's good if something happens, if something happens, no one will come to stare at them.
Ethan was happy, and Betty was unhappy.
She felt confused about her future and didn't know what to do, what would she do if she finally found the end and found that there were no teachers, no examiners, and nothing left?
"Don't worry, I'll send you back then. ”
Betty smiled back, and she took Ethan's words as comfort.
"Although I know that you have far more technology than anyone else in this place, interstellar ...... It's not that simple. ”
She originally wanted to say something about the difficulties of interstellar navigation, but in the end it could only be summed up in one sentence, and she was not sure if the other party could understand what she said too much.
Unless, Ethan is really an outpost scout sent by other civilizations, who is here to investigate the situation and take the opportunity to learn all kinds of information about the empire.
In that case, the other party must have the ability to travel interstellarly, but in this case, will he become a guide to these invaders?