On the beach of the South Island, about two kilometers from the Samun tribe.

Under the supervision of the hammer, the two Samon used shovels to dig a small gentle slope. Immediately afterwards, an iron pipe embedded in a "concave" wooden trailer was dragged into a small slope by two strong Samuns on a twine rope, and the wooden wheels were buried and fixed with sand.

After doing this, Hammer left the beach with his two younger brothers.

It wasn't long before an apprentice from a blacksmith's shop came to the beach with a cask as tall as his calf.

He was followed by Oliver, a fugitive from Banville, a human blacksmith now inhabiting the Samun tribe and the young apprentice's mentor.

"Mr. Oliver, what are we going to do today?"

"Complete the experiments that the wizard explained?"

Hearing the word wizard, an indescribable expression of fear or admiration appeared in the apprentice's eyes. Although he was grateful to the wizard for taking them in, instinctively, as a mortal, he was still afraid of those mysterious powers.

After all, no one wants to wake up and become a frog.

Wizards, on the other hand, have such skills.

Armed with the greased starter stick and the flint for the ignition, Oliver followed the steps Jiang Feng had instructed the apprentice to step by step to put the black powder packed in a paper bag into the barrel of the cannon, then stab it to the bottom with a long stick, and then load it into the pitch-black lead projectile.

Stepping forward, he removed the wire-like object from his waist and poked through the hole in the back of the gun, piercing the paper bag where the black powder was placed. Then he took out the fuse made of cotton and linen, and inserted it through a borehole of just the right size.

Taking two steps back, Oliver lit the flint with the flint and handed it to the apprentice.

"Remember the steps I told you?" Staring into those eyes, Oliver said seriously.

"Remember!" The young apprentice nodded nervously and repeated at a rapid pace, "Light the fuse and run away." ”

"Then go quickly."

This is a task assigned by the wizard, and there is no room for sloppiness.

Oliver stared at the back of the apprentice trotting past and made sure he was ready to run to the barrel, so he tore his voice and shouted.

"Ready—"

"Ignition!"

Lighting the fuse, the apprentice threw away the fire starter and ran away.

The last step, Oliver vaguely remembers, was to cover his ears.

"Boom ——!!!"

The flames ran down the cotton rope into the barrel, and the white smoke of the explosion instantly spewed out of the barrel, and almost at the same moment, an earth-shattering loud bang hit like a tsunami, almost causing Oliver and the apprentice next to him to lie on the ground.

A second sound wafted from afar.

However, this sound was much lower than before.

Although it did not hit the target placed in the middle of the beach, the shell that hit the reef on the shore shattered the reef and cut off a corner of the part above the water.

Oliver knew very well how strong this long-washed reef was, and even if the trebuchet designed by the chief engineer of the kingdom threw stone projectiles on the reef impartially, it would not have produced such a terrifying effect.

The sea breeze was blowing, and Oliver slowly recovered from his surprise as he smelled the pungent smell of gunpowder wafting from the front.

He could swear to God the Father that he had never seen such a shocking scene.

The moment the cannon rang out, it was as if the earth was shaking. He couldn't even see what was happening when he saw white smoke from the barrels, and the reef in the distance had been torn apart.

"God the Father is on ......"

Oliver felt his hands tremble.

He knew very well that he was just a mere mortal, and his ancestors had never produced even a single wizard apprentice, let alone the slightest talent to become a wizard, but he just fired a mold according to the wizard's requirements, and then injected molten iron......

He couldn't believe that such a terrifying weapon was actually from his own hands.

And if such a weapon appeared on the walls of His Majesty the King......

Recovering from his stupor, Oliver immediately realized the value of such a weapon, which even mortals could easily make and use. Although the wizard didn't seem to tell him to keep it a secret, as a blacksmith who used to work in the Viscount's Manor, he still had a certain "politics" about what he had to keep secrets. Cure Enlightenment".

Calling the apprentice in charge of lighting the fire, Oliver stared at the young man in front of him with a warning look and said in a low voice.

"Don't say what you see today, not a word."

"Yes......" The apprentice looked nervous and nodded quickly.

I don't know if it was because of the cannon fire earlier, or because of Oliver's warning eyes.

……

While the sound of cannons echoed on the beaches of the South Island, Jiang Feng boarded the rejuvenated brig sail from the pier of the port of Savit to the rejuvenated brig that was docked next to the pier, of course, it should be called a steamship now.

The White Seagull, this is Captain Kairut, after seeking Jiang Feng's consent, to get a new name for the steamship.

With the speed of a flight, the White Seagull spews white steam like a seagull's feathers, and sails on the endless sea, just like a real seagull. Not only that, but for the sailors who walk on the sea all year round, the elves hovering over the islands and ports are like lucky birds.

There is really no taste in choosing a name, Jiang Feng can call this aboriginal whatever he wants, anyway, he is the captain of this ship.

Boarding the deck, he heard the rough laughter from afar, Jiang Feng looked up, and saw Captain Kairut standing on the bow deck of the ship, taking off the captain's hat on his head and greeting him warmly.

"Dear Wizard, what wind brought you here?"

"I'm just going to take a look around casually, and I'll take a look here," looking at Captain Kairut who walked down the bow of the ship, Jiang Feng smiled slightly, and asked in a casual tone, "How do you feel, how is this new ship familiar?" ”

"In addition to putting the sailors in the boiler room, I basically used the rudder to control the direction, which was easy for me." Captain Kerut shrugged his shoulders and said in a rather confident tone, "It's like a part of my body, and I can't wait to get back to sea soon." ”

"Soon you'll have that opportunity, and at the end of the month, I'm going to go to Varland." Jiang Feng said.

"Go...... Where to? ”

Looking at Jiang Feng in a daze, Captain Kairut thought he had misheard.

"Vallan, the royal capital of the Rick Kingdom." Jiang Feng repeated, "Is there any problem?" ”

"But...... Now the entire coastal waters of the kingdom of Rick are blocked by rebel pirate ships, and any ship that approaches the continent of Aditya from the west side will be attacked by pirates. And we don't even have weapons to defend ourselves......" Captain Kairut said with an embarrassed expression.

Although the White Seagull has a terrifying speed of fifteen knots at the fastest, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to cross the blockade of the entire fleet with a small ship.

"I've solved the problem with weapons, you can rest assured of this. As for the pirates, it's just a rabble. ”

Jiang Feng's tone was very relaxed, so relaxed that Captain Kairut even suspected that this wizard master didn't take those pirates to heart at all.

And that's what worries him the most.

Although the power of witchcraft is powerful, it is small in the face of the sea in the face of powerful witchcraft, and even a three-star wizard cannot be strong enough to defeat an entire fleet alone.

And the three-star star is already the pinnacle that a wild wizard from a non-academy orthodox background can reach. Although Captain Kairut didn't know Jiang Feng's specific strength, he didn't think that he would exceed the bottleneck of three stars, otherwise he wouldn't have to build the wizard tower on this resource-poor desert island.