Chapter 90: The Star of the South

Qingquan Town is actually not far from the southern capital Silver Fox City, the group took a carriage, and soon arrived at the largest city in the southern part of the empire, and then boarded the boat from the canal pier outside Silver Fox City, and went south along the Miracle River again, after a few days of sailing, they finally saw the endless coastline of the Emerald Sea. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the River of Miracles was excavated, in order to obtain a suitable entrance to the sea and facilitate the unification of the inland river transportation of the empire and the extraterritorial shipping through the Emerald Sea, the end of the canal was no longer artificially excavated, but directly widened a natural channel on the north bank of the Emerald Sea, and at the same time, in the delta where the river and the sea meet, a magnificent commercial city, the City of Neverwinter, was established.

Sean and his party stood at the dock of Neverwinter's largest port, waiting for the merchant ships of the Seven Cities Alliance to go to the Far South.

"It's really a city without winter, it's already past the shepherd moon, and the weather is still so warm. ”

Sean had taken off his long brown coat and tucked it into his bracelet, exposing his stunningly well-maintained silver chain mail. At the same time, in order not to look so strange, he simply took out the forbidden blood sword and put it on his waist, and hung a spare dagger on the other side, standing with his head held high facing the rising sun of the emerald sea, which was also majestic.

"Well, I finally look like a samurai, I used to wear only armor and didn't wear a sword every day, and I looked like I had been disarmed. Helen teased.

"Miss Rose, you're no better. Sean gave Helen a blank look, "You walk around in your mage robe every day, you look like a mage, but what about your staff, huh?"

"Why, do you want to see Miss Ben's Whirlwind Hammer, you think I won't dare knock you if you're wearing this broken chain mail?"

"Forget it, when I didn't say it. Helen was about to take out the mace when Sean was immediately defeated.

Rebecca pursed her lips and laughed, the girl gossiped a lot, and she had a lot of fun watching Sean and Helen fall in love and kill each other along the way. And the kid Victor was not interested in the flirting of these two people at all, and changed the topic and said, "By the way, Sister Helen, when will the merchant ship you said come over?"

Before Helen could answer, Sean raised his hand and pointed to the sea in the distance: "Oh, here it is." ”

Several people looked in the direction of Sean's finger, only to see that a behemoth had jumped out of the sea.

The shipbuilding technology of mankind originated from the elves.

More than 2,000 years ago, the elves survived the brutal civil war of the Triumvirate, regained their unification, burst out with powerful combat power, an army composed of elementals, sword dancers, secret archers and druids swept across the continent, dwarves surrendered and became vassals, giants fought to the last man until they were wiped out, and a scattered and ineffective human race was simply reduced to slavery. Whether on land or in the sea, the elven armies and fleets are unhindered and invincible.

It was at that time that the Elven High King sent a large number of human slaves to build on the northern shore of the Emerald Sea, and established a large number of shipyards to meet the needs of the Elven navy for combat and exploration, thus allowing humans to master the technology of building large galleys.

Then the elven empire sank, its combat effectiveness plummeted, and it was finally swept into the garbage heap of history by the suddenly appeared demon army, and the entire empire was turned into a sea of fire, but those shipbuilding techniques relied on the unremitting efforts of generations of human technicians and were hardly preserved.

When Ivan the Great unified the human world and established the Holy Griffin Empire, with the support of the empire's great wealth, shipyards on the northern shore of the Emerald Sea were once again established, and the ancient shipbuilding technology of the elves was once again revitalized in the hands of extraordinary human technicians, and even major improvements were made, and heavy oars more than ten meters long were abandoned and replaced by new sailing ships with two or even three masts.

As the crystallization of human immortal wisdom, these sailing ships of various sizes and functions were constantly driven from the docks on both sides of the canal and along the coast, which not only promoted the flourishing of maritime and inland trade, but also provided strong support for the combat effectiveness of the imperial navy.

At present, looking at the entire Emerald Sea, although the Elven United Kingdom, the Seven Cities Alliance, the Centaur Kingdom, and even the Naga Empire in the Far East have ships cruising in the Emerald Sea, the recognized number one naval power in this sea area is none other than the Holy Gryphon Empire.

What appeared in front of Sean and the others at the moment was a behemoth from the coastal dockyard of Neverwinter, the double-decked, three-masted heavy sailing ship "Southside Star".

The Southern Star belongs to the Tassar family, one of the largest giant chambers of commerce in the empire, and often travels back and forth between Neverwinter and the major ports of the Seven Cities Alliance to trade valuable materials.

"It's coming, it's docking, the Father of All Gods is on it, it's just too big!" Victor cried excitedly, he had seen the sea for the first time, let alone such a giant ocean-going ship. As the huge sails were slowly retracted and the ship slowly entered the harbor under the skillful control of dozens of sailors, the boy jumped up from the dockside and ran towards the Southern Star, which was at anchor.

Helen, as the chief assistant to the archmage of the ruling Archmage of Karsecot, was naturally familiar with the captain, and with her, the group was directly invited into the most comfortable and luxurious cabin of the entire ship, accompanied by the captain himself.

"Venerable Miss Rose, I must have been blessed by both the Father of All Gods and the Poseidon to have this honour to receive such an honorable guest as you aboard the Star of the South. ”

"Dear Captain Parker, you are so gracious, and I will never forget the friendship I will receive from you every time I board the Southland. ”

When in contact with these people, Helen completely lost the eccentric appearance in front of Sean, but easily changed into another face that was both graceful and elegant, and the cumbersome and complicated coping words required for high-class social communication came easily, and the speech was calm and decent, which was completely different from the image of the female man in the previous underground world war against earth monsters and dwarf bandits, which made Sean on the side couldn't help but be amazed.

Under her influence, Sean and Rebecca also cheered up and showed their most cultured, mature and stable side in front of the captain.

Of course, there were also the same among them, such as fourteen-year-old Victor, who, when everyone noticed him, the boy was munching on a giant Kabila sturgeon roasted and coated with honey.

The fish was huge, about the height of half an adult, and it was supposed to be served as a large dish on a special giant plate, but now Victor had nibbled off half of it in the blink of an eye.

Everyone was a little embarrassed, but Captain Pike didn't care at all, he smiled generously, and stopped Rebecca, who wanted to go up to train people: "It's okay, let the child eat more if he likes it, I don't have anything else here, the fish must be enough." And the little one has a lot of taste, and this honey-grilled sturgeon is made by my new chef here, and it is delicious, and you must be surprised to see her when I introduce you to it in a moment. ”

"Is there anything special about your new chef here?" asked Helen curiously.

Captain Pike blinked mysteriously, lowered his voice, and said, "Of course it's very special, Miss Rose, you must not have seen a chef from the Naga Kingdom." ”