Chapter Forty-Eight: Rush to the Maelstrom! (Ask for follow-up)

The conversation was interrupted by the rocking cabin and the constant screams from above, and Lynn and Jonny glanced at each other before rushing up in unison.

Opening the hatch, the cold wind howled and the icy raindrops poured down on the deck like a dense rain of bullets, which was the prelude to the storm......

The otherwise calm sea was now turbulent, and the sea continued to lap against the hull, causing the sail warship to shake incessantly.

Due to the continuous strong winds, the originally thick fog has become much thinner, and the visual range has been increased by about two times, but the fog is no longer pure white, but has become an extremely eerie gray......

"Tighten the sails for me, let's get moving, we must get out of this sea as soon as possible!"

There was chaos on the deck, hundreds of [Ship's] sailors were in disarray, and Lauder's face was extremely ugly and shouted loudly, but to no avail, many of them were kneeling on the ground in despair, their faces desperate, and their mouths kept shouting something.

"Mr. Lauder, have you hit the rocks? Or the effects of a storm? Lynn stepped forward quickly and asked.

"No, it's the Maelstrom, it's the Eye of Death!" Lauder shouted in horror.

Maelstrom?

Lynn suddenly remembered the information he had asked in Harbor Town before, and looked at the rough sea again, only to realize what he had just overlooked, the constantly tumbling sea surging in the same direction, and the big sail ship under him was being pulled towards the center of the vortex little by little.

It's just that the diameter of this vortex is too large, and the sea surface is full of fog, and he can't find any reference, which actually gives him the illusion that the ship has been sailing normally!

Hiss~ How big is this thing?

Lynn couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and Lauder, who was on the side, seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and looked at Lynn with an extremely eager gaze, and asked excitedly. "Wizard, do you have a way to freeze the entire maelstrom?"

"What are you kidding?" Lynn frowned, this maelstrom must be at least several kilometers in diameter to cause such a visual error, what kind of force can freeze such a huge ocean?

"Then we're dead, it's too late to escape!" The flame of hope flickering in Lauder's eyes was extinguished instantly, and the whole person sat on the ground as if he had no bones, muttering to himself.

The Sea of Mists is so terrifying, in addition to the dense fog that envelops the entire sea and can completely disorient people, what is more important is the maelstrom called the Eye of Death!

This is an existence that has made countless voyagers extremely fearful, like a god of death wandering in the vast sea of mist, which may appear in any corner of this sea at any time, without warning or any law, and once encountered, the sailor will be condemned to death!

Because the terrifying suction of the maelstrom is far greater than the speed of any sailing ship, it is rumored that those who are eventually caught in the maelstrom will not only not escape death, but also fall into the abyss, which is where the name Eye of Death comes from......

The only way to get through this sea of mist is to wait until the moonlight day, when the [Eye of Death] maelstrom will briefly subside, and during this time, the ship will sail away as much as possible from the sea where the Eye of Death is frequent, and the rest will be left to luck.

Therefore, when transporting goods in previous years, they would try to go to sea on the first few days of the moon, so as not to collide directly with the maelstrom......

But this year was different, the Holy See had blockaded the town of Harbour, causing them to leave the port a little too late!

Lynn ignored it, walked quickly to the cargo stacked on the deck, picked up a few wooden barrels, reversed the weight, threw the barrels in different directions and at different angles, and then stretched out his right hand and began to measure the relative distance of these objects.

Personally, it is impossible to calculate the diameter and velocity of a maelstrom just by relying on a few drifting barrels as a reference.

But this level of computing power is pediatric for the brain......

"The diameter of the maelstrom is seven kilometers, and the escape velocity is ...... Twenty knots! To avoid being sucked into the whirlpool, you'll need at least twenty speeds! Lynn soon received the results of Zhi Brain's analysis, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

If the speed of 20 knots in the previous life can be reached by any small boat, after the energy reform, these old antiques can only be piled up in the warehouse to eat ashes.

However, he is now in a different world of all evils, and the maximum speed of the sail warship under their feet seems to be only ...... Seven sections?

"It can't be! Even the best alchemy ship in the Wizarding Lands could never have a speed of twenty knots! Lauder also heard Lynn's words and shouted in despair.

Although he didn't understand what the escape velocity was, he knew very well what the concept of twenty knots was!

"No, it's possible!" Lynn said very seriously, throwing aside the helmsman who was slumped on the ground, and looked at the people present. "I'll take the helm, everyone will give me back to your posts, listen to my commands, and hoist all the sails for me!"

"Do you understand a ship! With such a strong wind and waves, once all the sails are raised, it will not be long before the ship capsizes, and then we will all have to die! The helmsman who had been pushed away by Lynn immediately jumped up and shouted hoarsely, in the current situation, he didn't care what wizards were or not.

It was only in the next moment that the words on his lips were swallowed back again, as a huge fireball was condensed in Lynn's palm.

"Do so, or you'll die now!" Lynn's tone was cold.

The yellowish-white white phosphorus flames made the sailors on the deck shudder, and the helmsman sat on the ground in fright.

However, in despair, not many people obeyed orders at all, and some even felt that dying under witchcraft was better than having their souls swallowed into a maelstrom.

At this moment, the sound of the winch turning violently came, and Lynn and the others turned their heads to look over, and the person who did it was Jonny!

At this moment, the girl was holding a sail rope and putting it on the winch, and the raindrops fell from the top of her head, and just like that, the ends of her hair and the delicate side of her face, making her robe wet, but Jonny didn't care, and pulled harder and harder with her hand until the last loop of rope was firmly fixed to the winch.

"Since you have no other way, then you can just sit here and wait for death!" Jonny's sapphire eyes stared at everyone present, and he spoke resolutely.

Lauder quickly picked himself up, drew the long whip pinned to his waist, and slammed it on a sailor who was kneeling on the ground praying, and shouted in annoyance.

"Do it, do it all for me, and hoist all the sails!"