The delicate three-masted sailing ship with a beautiful bird's head as the bow of the ship sailed on the blue sea for the first time in a long time.

The endless sea sparkles under the unchanging sunlight of the sky.

Golden waves rise and fall on the surface of the sea.

Everything looks so pleasant.

A long banner bearing the coat of arms of the Church of Our Lady and the Holy Machine was standing and fluttering on the rudder, guiding them in the direction of their journey.

"What do you see now?" Arka asked Jason in front of him.

At this time, Alka was raising the thumb of his right hand, as if he was playing a piano, and it was fluctuating like a wave.

A faint pink smoke passed out like a silk thread. Wrapped around Jason's side.

"One head...... A deer, no, it looks like a horse, something? At this time, Jason's eyes seemed clear, but there seemed to be a hint of confusion.

Hearing such an answer, Arka nodded, and then looked at Jason, "Are you trying your best to resist?" ”

"Yes, I even attached a spiritual enhancement spell to it."

"That's fine, it seems that the impact is very deep." Arka said and waved his hand.

The silver smoke of the lines drifted away.

The confusion in Jason's eyes also disappeared, and he looked at the surrounding scene.

"Is that your new skill? I have to say that if you are not prepared, it is indeed very deceptive. ”

The two chatted as Juan Lu walked past them, and a crisp click could be heard.

The two turned their heads to look.

I only saw that Juan Lu's mouth was chewing something, and the crisp sound was unusually harsh.

"What are you eating?" Jason asked curiously.

At this time, Arka saw the orange-red magic attached to Juan Lu's mouth when he turned his head.

It doesn't seem like it's going to be eating something good.

"Ore." He raised his hand and showed the two of them the metallic ore in his hand.

Then he turned and walked towards the kitchen.

The two looked at his back.

"I don't know if it's my delusion, since he got the treasure through the challenge mode that time, the requirements for food are not as strict as before."

"It's not a delusion, it's a little bit different to have that kind of challenge."

Arka recalled, helplessly.

Then I couldn't help but sigh.

The reason why Juan Lu eats these ores is because his treasures can help him absorb the energy in the ores and bring about some changes in characteristics.

For example, it makes Juanlu's bones and skin harder.

This, combined with the bloodlines he activated, made it easier to digest these things.

It's just that ores like this are a bit difficult to digest, and after eating them, you have to use magic to wear them down.

It is a time-consuming project.

But for Juan Lu, it is acceptable, after all, it can permanently improve some effects.

It's just very unpalatable.

However, now Juan Lu has a very strong resistance to unpalatable.

These ores are already a good experience for him.

Before the two could chat, Juan Lu walked over with a plate in his hand.

I watched Juan Lu come over with a plate.

Bororo, who had just jumped out of the sea, silently jumped into the sea again, as if he had never come up.

Alka, who saw this through the mirror placed next to him, silently turned his head to look at the sea, pretending that nothing had happened.

Only Jason didn't seem to notice anything wrong, still babbling next to Alka.

Until Juan Lu turned his head to look, and Jason, who was more conspicuous at this moment, walked over.

Jason seemed to sense someone coming towards him and turned his head to look.

When he saw that it was Juan Lu and the plate he was holding in his hand, his face immediately changed.

His face was bitter, but he forced a smile and said, "What, what's the matter, I'm not hungry yet." ”

"It's okay, try the dishes of my new experiment."

Juan Lu said with a smile.

Seeing that Juan Lu had already determined his goal, Arka turned his head and looked at Jason with a smile.

And Bororo jumped out of the sea again, and jumped onto the deck, as if he had just come up.

According to the old rules, after Juan Lu let one person taste it, he would not look for a second person after getting an evaluation.

So the two of them are now in a relatively safe state.

Jason smiled bitterly and looked at the food on his plate.

…… If it's food.

It was a long, strip-shaped creature that slowly swung on a plate with some spices dipped in it.

It's only about a finger long.

The creature's skin has disgusting markings, and it looks unappetizing.

Even if it exudes a faint fragrance, it is a little unacceptable.

But Jason, who knew that he couldn't escape, silently pinched the tail of the long creature with his fingers.

Lift it up.

As it was lifted, the long creature swayed rapidly, and the twisted markings on its body exuded visual deception as it swayed.

It makes people feel dizzy easily.

But for Jason, naturally, it didn't work.

But such a writhing can be extremely uncomfortable.

Pinching his nose, he ate it into his mouth in one go.

"Hmm...... Well? Jason chewed twice, as if savoring.

"Not bad? It's just that the taste is a little weird, and it can't be considered unpalatable. ”

Receiving Jason's evaluation, Juan Lu nodded.

"Looks like we need to improve it." Leave with a plate.

"You actually won the lottery." Arka said beside him.

Poloro also looked unhappy next to him.

Looking at the expressions of the two, Jason smiled sneeringly: "No way, luck." ”

At this stage, Juan Lu often uses all kinds of weird, even disgusting foods, to make dishes.

Let the people on the boat help taste it and get to the conclusion.

At that time, I didn't know that everyone was full of promises, after all, Juan Lu's cooking skills were there, even if it was an experimental trial, how could it be unpalatable?

Then they all regretted it.

Because these prototypes are not only sometimes unpalatable, but even mentally and visually tortured.

Sometimes even the three are together, and the visual, spiritual, and gustatory senses are difficult to accept.

If it tastes good once, it will be treated as a winner.

Because in that case, at least it tastes good.

Watching Juan Lu enter the busy figure of the kitchen.

Arka sighed and said, "Maybe this is also the price of progress." ”

In the past, Juan Lu hated strange food the most, and he always used serious ingredients to make food.

Alca, for example, sometimes has some suggestions to experiment with whether certain strange ingredients can be eaten, and Juanlu will refuse.

But if it were now, he would definitely be very interested in starting production.

But now Arka doesn't dare to make some weird comments if he has nothing to do.

Because then it will be the other people on the ship who will suffer.

I don't know if it's an improvement.

……

"According to the time estimates we said earlier, we should be almost there." Shadetti said as he looked at the flag of guidance fluttering on the rudder.

According to Nova when Arka took over the flag of guidance before, Nova said.

The so-called Twin Islands they traveled to were less than 20 days and nights away from the Island of Trials.

It is relatively close in the voyage at sea.

"I guess, haven't you seen ships passing by lately?" Arka said.

In the vast expanse of the sea, it is a great fate to want to meet other ships in the normal voyage.

Unless it's next to some islands.

And they have met many times in the past few days, which means that there is a signpost island around this sea area.

This is only the case when the Signpost Island and the other islands linked around it form a sea area.

Because then there will be enough people in this area to sail in this area.

And in the past few days, they have encountered a total of more than a dozen ships.

This shows that the signpost islands around here are obviously the more famous ones.

"Look ahead! Look at that ship! ”

Jason's voice came from overhead, and he was visibly excited to hear his voice.

Only a short moment later, a ship came ahead.

Arka looked closely.

It was a golden-green three-masted galleon that was more than 60 meters long.

As soon as I saw this colorway, I felt a sense of intimacy.

Because the Church of Our Lady often uses ships of this color.

Sure enough, as the ship drew nearer, everyone saw the coat of arms of the Church of Our Lady on the huge sail.

How long has it been?

It's been several years since I left my homeland.

Seeing the coat of arms of the Church of Our Lady again, it makes people feel intimate.

When the sound of dawn passed by the ship a few hundred meters away.

A ray of light inexplicably appeared on the hull of the Sound of Dawn.

The speed of the entire ship increased by one knot in an instant.

There was the sound of dawn, some cheerful music.

Feel the familiarity in this light.

The Arka people on the boat couldn't help but smile.

This is obviously the buff that the ship of the Church of Our Lady next to them just now.

Obviously, it is impossible for every ship encountered, and this ship of the Church of Our Lady will be like this.

Either Alka, they're lucky.

Either someone on this ship is aware of some of the characteristics of Arka's ship.

Let them be sure that there are believers in the Virgin Mary, or even apostles, on this ship.

"Looks like we're not far from the Twin Islands."

Arka said and looked ahead, feeling very good.

It didn't take long.

Probably as soon as it was getting dark, they had already seen the island in the distance.

There are also a lot more ships around.

Come and go, but keep a safe distance from each other.

"Ah, this place is so prosperous."

Xia Daiti couldn't help but say as he looked at the ships around him.

Because she already has glasses on her face to scout the data.

The glasses are extremely stealthy, and they are mainly used to detect fluctuations in magical power, rather than to spy on individuals.

So in general, very few people are aware that they are being spied.

And if you look at the ships around you with these glasses, you can see it.

None of these ships were ordinary ships, all of them were spell ships, and the most outrageous thing was that there were already more than a dozen ghost ships among the ships that came and went.

In the glasses, the ghost ship has a much more energy response than the spell ship, and it is very easy to identify.

The voyage is getting closer and closer.

Everyone finally had an unobstructed view of the twin islands.

The island is indeed large, connected on both sides and stretching to the end of the view.

The sky darkened for a moment, and the black starry sky covered the blue sky and white clouds.

The surface of the sea was plunged into darkness for a moment.

A large number of lights came from the island in front of them, and two huge pillars of light suddenly shone into the sky.

The two pillars of light could be seen in the distance.

There must have been two lighthouses shining from the light, guiding the ships sailing around in the darkness of the night.

Look at it.

There is something strange about the structure of the twin islands.

It's hard to imagine such islands in nature.

He is made up of two islands that are almost close together.

The whole island resembles a regular circle, which is split in two in the middle of the round island, and a hole is dug in the middle again.

This results in a straight current channel that runs through the entire island, and in the center of the channel there is a large circular inland sea.

The inland sea is a common port between the two islands.

The direction they face is the side out to sea.

All the ships were moving in one direction, exiting from this exit in front of them.

Not a single ship was seen moving in the opposite direction.

As you can see from the ships sailing in this channel, there are too many ships around.

In this way, if they want to land on this island, they have to go around to the other side of the island. Enter through another entrance and stop at the harbor in the Central Inland Sea.

A small ship sailed over, and the color scheme of this ship was a little peculiar.

The whole ship is in a gray and black color, and when they sail over, they realize that it is not a color scheme at all, but the material of the whole ship, because this is a steel ship.

And the style is unusually peculiar, and the bow is very sharp. There is no structure of the first and last buildings. Only in the center of the ship there was a command tower.

Looking at such a shape, Arka can't help but think back to the past.

How similar the ships of the world were to this ship.

There was a flag on top of the ship, and you could clearly see the logo of the gears printed on it.

This is the ship of the Holy Machine Church.

Some shrill sirens sounded on the ship and stopped in front of them.

Voices came from afar.

The sound is not a specific language, but a strange syllable.

I don't understand it, but I can understand the meaning.

"This is the exit, if you want to enter the island, please enter the inland sea port through the entrance on the other side."

Although everyone had already noticed this, they were stopped before they could make adjustments.

The sound of dawn quickly turned the ship's bow.

Seeing the bow of the Sound of Dawn turn, the steel ship left.

"Is that the Church of the Holy Machine's steel ship?" Shadetti looked at the departing steel ship, turned his head and asked Simon who was not far away.

Simon nodded: "Yes, but it's strange, why is it exactly the same as the standard ship used by the church in the Confusion Sea?" ”

After all, the two churches are so far apart, but they use the same technology.

"It's normal, isn't it, why do you think it's weird?" Jason asked suspiciously.

"Because the technology of this ship was still an experimental product when I left, and it was not used in actual manufacturing, and many of the technologies on it were newly researched.

I have also met many researchers of new technologies, and I have even been involved in some of the research on some technologies. ”

In other words, some of the ship's techniques are unique to the four gods' sea areas, and they are calculated according to the time he left his own sea area.

It's not surprising that the ship is fitted.

It's strange why the Infinite Sea was able to be implemented so quickly.

Because it was able to determine the technology, it was indeed derived from the Four Gods Sea.

It stands to reason that this would not be the case.

"Maybe the church-to-church connection is much stronger than we think.

After all, the four gods hold the most primitive secrets of this world, don't they? They certainly have connections that we don't know about.

For them, the Infinite Sea may not be as difficult as ours.

Maybe there is an internal passage. ”

Because Arka has always had such suspicions.

For example, the biggest suspicion is that the strength of His Excellency the Pope of the Homeland Sea is much weaker than that of the Boundless Sea.

These don't quite make sense.

You can say that the homeland sea restricts the development of strength, but such a weak strength will be known when Arka really understands it.

It's not just about being weak.

A lot of things need to be supported by strength.

Includes some comprehension techniques and ideas.

And the most outrageous is the [Scepter]-level spell.

At that time, he already had two treasures, and he could clearly feel that the archbishop must have a [scepter]-level treasure on his body.

Is that an existence that a person who doesn't even have a second stage can control?

Obviously unlikely.

The crowd chatted, waiting for the sound of dawn to travel along the edge of the island, around the other side.

The island they are circling seems to be the Left Sub-Island, which is occupied by the Holy Machine Church.

You can see all kinds of strange steel buildings on it.

In Alka's words, it looks a bit steampunk.

In addition to a few simple wooden houses, there are quite a few large buildings made of steel, somewhat similar to factories.

"Look in the sky, there are ships flying in the sky?" Lucilia pointed to the heavens and said loudly.

Be a man and look up.

You can see a huge oval-shaped object with a ship-like structure attached to it, flying slowly in the sky.

Airboats, very conspicuous airboat constructions.

Arka had heard Simon say that there were already airships in their area.

However, it is said that even in the Homeland Sea, this thing is not very practical.

"It's an empty boat, see that huge cone-shaped balloon on its head? It contained some kind of gas that could propel objects to float. ”

"But that thing really doesn't work, and a little bit of chaos at sea can turn it to pieces."

"It can only be used on this kind of island, at most to scout information from afar."

Indeed, they saw only this one in heaven, and no more.

Indeed, in this endless marine world, the existence of airships does not have much effect.

Especially in the boundless sea, the severity of the weather is obvious to all.

Even the presence of Signpost Island, and the large number of people congregating on it, will make the misty creatures of the dream world a priority in this area.

But it still can't stop it from the problem of bad weather, because even in the sea area of the four gods, bad weather is a topic that cannot be bypassed.

So this thing doesn't have a lot of utility.

(End of chapter)