In the captain's room of the "Far Away", the sudden arrival of Xia Duo really startled Captain Bill, but this was only due to the sudden addition of one person in the room.

After seeing who it was, Captain Bill breathed a sigh of relief, and asked as he saluted, "My lord, do you have any instructions for suddenly looking for me?" ”

Chardo glanced at the cramped, messy room, opened the hatch casually, and said to Bill, "There is indeed something to say, let's go to the deck!" ”

So saying, he took the first step out of the hatch, came outside, and walked to the bow of the ship in a few steps.

By this time, the "Far Away" had docked in Hubble Harbor, and some of the crew were arranging the cables, some were cleaning, and more were leaning against the side of the ship, chatting about dinner or a wandering warbler in the harbor.

Seeing Xia Duo suddenly appear on the deck, the chatting crew members fell silent one by one and began to help the others with their work.

Xia Duo didn't say anything about this, just a group of temporarily hired crew members, it was already rare to be able to do the right thing without making mistakes, and there was no need to care about the side details.

As for the port of Hubble, to the surprise of Xia Duo, he thought that the port of Hubble, as a transit point between the east and west narrow seas, should be very prosperous.

But in fact, this is a supply point, roughly two streets, one by the sea, full of warehouses, and the other is a little bit inside, and there are some twists and turns, both of which are inns, taverns and other resting places.

It's probably a shrunken version of the port area of Severton, which looks very shabby.

A mage tower similar to the watchtower sits at the midpoint of the street inside, and if he casts spells through that mage tower, Xia Duo thinks it would be a problem to be able to cover the entire port area.

Maybe it just needs to play the basic function of communication and transmission.

"Your Excellency—" Captain Bill arrived.

Xia Duo turned around and carefully looked at the old captain with a weathered face, and did not directly arrange the next trip of the "Far Away", but asked Captain Bill a more personal question:

"Captain Bill, where is your hometown, how many people are in your family, and what do you do?"

Bill was stunned for a moment, not knowing what his new employer was asking for, but he answered truthfully:

"My lord, my home is in Harlan Collar, not far south of Severton, and I have my wife, two sons, and their wives and children, and they run a small leather shop together in Harlan Collar, and their lives are quite passable, as for me—"

Captain Bill had a happy smile on his face when he spoke of his family, but when he finally mentioned himself, his face instantly darkened-

"I was recruited by Lord Harran as a young man to join his fleet, and I have been working for more than thirty years, from a handyman who only washed the crew's clothes in the bilge, to now a captain.

"It's a pity that Lord Harlan recently decided to reduce the size of his fleet, and I am unfortunately the only captain to be dismissed, so perhaps I will go to Harlan to run a leather shop with my two sons at the end of this mission.

"It may be a good ending for me, but it's almost a turning point of fate for my three grandsons who already call grandpa, and one or even two of them will lose the opportunity to learn magic."

After listening to Bill's story, Xia Duo was once again glad that he was able to get Mu Yan's help, and he was even more grateful to Mu Yan.

A captain's grandfather and a leather shop can't afford to provide a family member or two to learn magic, so how much does it cost him, a traveler with no background?

In retrospect, if I hadn't been given a formal apprenticeship when I first joined the Tower of Time, I hadn't been able to set up a communication group with those learning scrolls and free questions.

Then he may still be struggling to pay for the library's reading fee, the use of the spell lab, and the consultation fee for asking other people's questions!

If you don't have a formal apprenticeship, you don't have the benefit of being able to do it directly, even if the exchange group works in theory, but why should others believe him?

Even if he eventually gains the trust of the other apprentices and creates an exchange group, what about the time cost in the process?

You must know that there was a wave of orcs in the winter of the year he joined the Tower of Time, and if he couldn't get the ability to cast spells before then, he might be exempted from being drafted, but the arcane competition that followed, it was one step at a time.

Even now, if you can become an official mage, you can't become the Lord of Great Xia, become Nia's husband, or become a senior arcanist.

Or, if he hadn't followed Neil to the circus outside of town, he wouldn't have met Mu Yan, and sometimes a single thought can lead to a world of different fates.

And now that the real turning point of Captain Bill's fate has come, Xia Duo thought about it for a while, and then said the idea that he had decided a long time ago:

"Captain Bill, you should know that I am the lord of the Great Xia Territory in the South, and my territory is now lacking a veteran who is familiar with the affairs of the Northland, I think Captain Bill you can work for a few more years!"

"Your Excellency, you want me to remain the captain of the Far Away?" Bill's eyes were both delightful and hesitant.

The captain's income must be higher than that of the leather shop, but at the same time, the risk of sailing is also higher than that of the leather shop, he had already decided to return to Harlan after this mission, but he did not expect such an option to appear now.

Thinking of his grandson, Bill silently made a decision.

And Xia Duo did not disappoint him, "Yes, I intend to let you continue to serve as the captain of the 'Far Side', and the 'Far Side' will not need to go to sea again in the future, but will go through inland waterway shipping." ”

"Inland waterway shipping? I know that my lord's territory is in the south, but I heard that the river in the south is narrow, can this ship pass through? ”

Being able to say such a thing means that Bill has accepted Xiado's recruitment and is already thinking about Xiado, to which Xiaduo's answer is-

"In the past, this ship may have been really inconvenient to sail on inland rivers, but now I can say with certainty that this ship is fine!"

The reason is naturally because of the previous crowd of fish in Lake Mehter.

When Priest Morton was cleaning up the fish-man crowd, the negative energy torrent swept across the north and south waters, taking away not only countless fish-people, but also part of the riverbed and riverbank.

Under the erosion of negative energy, the north and south channels of the river have been expanded a lot, and although the narrowness is still not enough for the two "Far Away" to meet, one is completely fine.

However, when it actually intersects with other ships, the probability of being in a narrow place is extremely low.