Chapter Seventy-Five: A Hostile Gaze
The six men boarded the boat in turn along the gangway. The smooth deck, which reflects the sun's rays, is so bright that it has clearly been carefully brushed.
However, the fishy smell here not only did not weaken, but became thicker and thicker, making the only female Leia frown. However, she also knew that the voyage would inevitably endure such a situation, so she had to endure it.
It was still some time before they set sail, but the Reventon Academy was not the first to arrive, the academy that boarded the ship before them was the last to arrive at the St. Laurent Academy of Magic yesterday. At this moment, these people who think very highly of themselves can't hold back their curiosity about to sail, and they all look into the distance from the bow of the ship.
Neither Siriman nor Rubersky had any interest in greeting them, and followed the crew straight down the deck, ready to pick out the cabin.
I have to admit that even in the Golden Docks, where there are countless ships, the Beauty is still the largest of all ships, and it has a total of three floors of space below deck, with seventy or eighty independent rooms.
Leo roughly calculated that the big ship could easily carry four or five hundred people. At the moment, the eight Academy teams, including the staff and crew of the Magire Council, will not exceed 100 people at most, so the cabins are quite spacious.
As the team leader, Siriman and Rubersky were each given a single room, and as a woman, Leia was also given this treatment. If there are three people left, they can share two rooms.
Of course, Sanders wanted to share a room with Leo, but he didn't expect Sibberton Wiggins to give up the treatment of being in a room alone and have to squeeze together with the two.
Pulling open the door, the room was immediately revealed to the three of them.
The room was not big, but it was not small, with a few hammocks hanging in mid-air, and other than that, there was only a cabinet fixed to the cabin, and nothing else.
Due to the fact that there are often winds and waves when sailing. Therefore, in order to be safe, there are basically not many moving objects on the ship, so as not to jump when it is bumpy, and even the sliding doors and hammocks are designed for this reason.
After all, no one wants to be knocked out of the nose by a door that suddenly opens, or fall from a bed to a hard floor while sleeping.
Fortunately, the three of them didn't have much to store, so they just stuffed the packages issued by the academy into the cabinet.
Next, not to mention Sanders and Sibton, even Leo had never slept in a hammock, so they all climbed up at once, wanting to get a feel for the life of the seafarers.
But Leo soon discovered. Hammocks aren't at all as fun as you think. On the contrary, lying on it, the whole person has to be squeezed by the net pockets on both sides, and the waist must also be bent at all times, which is really uncomfortable at all.
So just half a minute later, all three of them climbed off the wooden bed.
"It seems that the next 20 days or so of the journey may be very difficult. Sieberton said with a bitter face.
Sanders stared at the rope of the hammock and muttered worriedly, "Is this thing sturdy, what if it breaks?"
Leo, on the other hand, wondered if he could open his mage's mansion here. Then he hurriedly threw this unrealistic idea out of his mind.
An hour passed quickly, and all the people from the eight colleges were all there, and they were all focused on working overtime.
The first mate with the big brimmed hat clapped his hands and said loudly, "The time is just right." Captain, we can set sail!"
On any ship, the first mate is the captain's main assistant. Under the leadership of the captain, he is responsible for the daily work of the deck department, performs the duties of navigation watch and assists the captain in safe navigation, and is in charge of cargo stowage, loading and unloading, handover and other transportation management work. and the maintenance of the equipment belonging to the deck department.
The captain of the Beauty is a small but rather stocky middle-aged man, with a blindfold on one eye, and the whole person reveals a fierce temperament. It even made Leo secretly guess if this guy had been a pirate before.
He is the most senior seafaring commander and is responsible for maintaining the safe and efficient operation of the ship, including the management and maintenance of cargo, navigation, crew management, etc.
Hearing the first mate's prompt, the captain standing on the bridge first nodded to Hiddink and Kesfee, the representatives of the Magi's Council, before raising his hand and shouting in an extremely loud voice, "Boys, sail!"
"Whew!"
"Whew!"
"Whew!"
Sailors with white towels on their heads screamed and jumped up and down the mast like monkeys, raising the huge sails in just a few minutes.
At this time, gusts of wind blow, the sails meet the wind, making a "creaking" sound, and the entire hull slowly begins to move, breaking away from the trestle.
Sanders muttered a little puzzled, "We're all mages, do we really have to sail in the sea by the wind?"
Hiddink, who was not far away, happened to hear it, so he smiled and said, "Of course not, but don't worry, when you drive out of the port, there will be changes." ”
"Do you mean magic-driven?" asked Leo tentatively.
Hiddink glanced at Leo in surprise and nodded, "That's right, this ship is the property of the Magi's Society, of course, it can't rely only on sails." How did you find out it had a magic drive, though?"
Leo thought for a moment and replied, "I have felt very subtle fluctuations in magic power since I boarded the ship, and this should be some kind of magic array in a state of activation, so I have such a guess. ”
"Oh, a keen sense of perception, a rare talent, I hope you can put it to good use. Casfeld said kindly to Leo.
No matter how you look at it, this is just an inconsequential compliment, because with Kesfee's strength and status, it is impossible to know anything about Leo.
But Leo found that his subconscious answer just now attracted a lot of hostile eyes. Several St. Laurent students began to discuss the many forms and applications of magic drives.
"Now the competition begins?" Leo smiled bitterly in his heart, which of the people who can come to the competition will be ordinary people, and their competitiveness must be very strong.
Thinking of this, Leo simply closed his mouth and said no more.
In a few moments, the Beauty had sailed out of the harbor and into the open sea.
The captain also shouted again: "Second mate, activate the magic array, sail at the highest speed!"
As soon as the words fell, a buzz came, and the hull of the ship suddenly accelerated, at least three times faster than before. (To be continued.) )