Just as the New World does not have a unified public name, the oceans between the old and new worlds also do not have a unified name.

In fact, the issue of the name was raised as early as the first phase of the Great Migration, which has been around for hundreds of years, but the name has not been decided until now after hundreds of discussions. Even the meetings to discuss the name of the ocean have been held regularly every year, making it seem that countries and churches are no longer in a hurry to set the name down.

The reason why this name is so difficult to determine is mainly due to the interests of all parties. Everyone wants to make a name for this ocean according to their own ideas, so that at least nominally they have the right to belong to this sea area.

This is true for the country and the church, because for the church, the name of a certain area means the expansion of the theocracy and the expansion of the church's power. No one is willing to give up such a big piece of interest.

For the people, it doesn't matter whether this ocean has a name or not. Through time and various stories circulating, this ocean has long been divided into areas by the people, and a customary name that will not be recorded in any public document is just passed down by the people.

Although there are various folk names in different seas of this ocean, three names are fixed and unchanged. The sea areas represented by these three names divide this ocean into three, and the people also recognize this division.

Among them, the sea area close to the coastline of the New World and to the Pirate Bay Island Chain is called the Sea of ​​Freedom and also called the Sea of ​​Pirates. Almost 80% of pirates appear in this sea area. This sea area is also the freest place in the whole world. There is no legal constraint here, and there is only its own strength.

However, as various sea power countries along the coast of the New World changed their steam-powered warships, it was difficult for pirates in this sea to sail in this sea as arrogantly as before. Except for a very small number of pirates who still maintained the tradition of robbery, most of them transformed into various part-time smuggling ships like the beloved Heresa.

On the other side of the ocean, a large tract of seas from the coastline to the island chain of Slave Bay is called the Sea of ​​Prisoners.

In the early and middle stages of the Great Migration, the New World needed a lot of labor, and the wages and subsequent benefits required to be paid for wage workers were too expensive, so slavery began to be re-implemented in various parts of the New World, and the source of slaves was various prisoners of war after the war in various countries in the Old World.

If some countries fail to redeem their prisoners of war in time after the war, these prisoners of war will be transported by the enemy country to some islands in the outer island chain and sold to slave merchants who have been squatting here for many years. A large number of slaves were transported to the New World to engage in the most difficult labor. Only a few slaves could eventually gain the status of free people, and the rest died of fatigue and illness. The island chain composed of islands specializing in slave trading is called the Slave Bay Island Chain by the people, which just corresponds to the Pirate Bay Island Chain.

The sea area between the Slave Bay Island Chain and the coastline of the Old Continent is called the Sea of ​​Prisoners, because most of the sold slaves are prisoners and prisoners of war from the Old Continent.

Now the Slave Bay Island Chain is no longer engaged in the slave trade, but has formed several island countries. These island countries spare no effort to crack down on the slave trading industry, and even offend some powerful countries in the old continent.

The reason for this is mainly because the island countries established by the Slave Bay Island Chain were all formed by slave resistance. Almost all the citizens of the country were slaves, so the hatred of slave trade in the entire country has been integrated into the bones and blood, and basically involves slave trade. These countries will not give any possibility of negotiation at all.

The real ocean between the Slave Bay Island Chain and the Pirate Bay Island Chain is named as the Sea of ​​Divine Realm by the people, because there are a large number of mysterious existences as powerful as gods in this ocean, among which there are gods like Daru. Moreover, adventurers and navigators in the whole world always explore this ocean only on the surrounding line, and their understanding of this ocean is only superficial, just like humans know about gods.

There are now three routes in total, along with the new and old continents. One is to walk on two northernmost seas of the continent. Because this route can often see icebergs floating on the sea, it is also called an iceberg route. This route usually does not encounter any major dangers. As long as you carefully avoid the icebergs on the water surface and the bottom of the water, you can reach the safe haven in time when a blizzard blows in the north, there will usually be no problems. Generally, as long as the itinerary is not too fast, you will choose to take this route.

Another route is to directly cross the ocean from the island of Golden Island, the easternmost island of Pirate Bay, and arrive at the Liberator Island, the westernmost island of Slave Bay. This route is also the shortest route. Usually, as long as the direction is not wrong, you can cross the sea of ​​the divine realm in the middle for about ten days.

Although this route is still on the edge of the Divine Realm Sea, unlike the northern iceberg route, this route is already within the scope of the Divine Realm Sea. Sailing in this sea area often encounters some unpredictable dangers, such as thick fog that will cause disorientation, mysterious existences that will appear that will be powerful and terrifyingly powerful, and ghost ships that have sunk in this sea area in the past.

However, although these dangers are terrifying, they can be avoided as long as they are carefully dealt with. For ships sailing in this sea area, the real danger is the huge storms that storms surround the sea. Almost as long as they encounter storms in this sea area, unless they are rescued by gods like Daru, there is almost no possibility of survival.

The storms in this sea are not the same as those that appear in the Sea of ​​Freedom and the Sea of ​​Prisoners. The difference in power between the two is like the difference in combat power between a newly born fragile baby and a veteran soldier who has been through the battlefield. In such a powerful storm, a hundred-meter wave is just ordinary. Is it a thousand-meter wave sweeping down, and even the hardest ship will be photographed into pieces?

Therefore, almost all ships taking this route will choose to go before the arrival of the storm season and after the end of the storm season, because only during this period can this route not have any storms and be the safest.

As for the last route, the latest route opened, located at the southern end of the old and new continents, this route is not a public route, but belongs to the largest churches in the world, because this route is a route created by their gods.

There were no islands in the sea area where this route was located. The route distance was very long, and it usually took about 60 days to complete the voyage. There were many accidents and dangers that might be encountered in the middle. At first, it was just some outlaws who wanted to make a fortune through smuggling and some fugitives who were evading the pursuit and would choose to take such a dangerous route. These people rarely reached the other end of the route alive, and most of them were accidents and sank into the bottom of the sea.

It was not until later that the largest churches in the world borrowed the power of the gods through rituals such as God's descending, and pulled out more than a dozen islands from the seabed at more than a dozen key locations on this route. By building these islands into transit stations and supply points, the danger level of this route was able to plummet and become the exclusive route for these churches.

Most of the ships on this route are exclusive fleets of several churches, and some noble cruise ships are willing to pay high navigation taxes to obtain protection from the church fleet.

The route Leo took was not the route with the shortest distance in the middle, but the route with the longest distance in the Southern Church.

The reason I chose this is not because the storm period is approaching and the intermediate route is unsafe. In fact, there is still about a month left before the storm period of the Divine Realm Sea, which is long enough to have a round trip for the pampering number.

The real reason was that the nobles of a certain country in the Central Kingdom area where they took their servants and bodyguards to travel to the New World, and they asked the ship to take the church route in the south.

If Heresa had encountered this situation before, he would not obey the passenger's request. No matter how reasonable the passenger's request was, he would not change the route he had set before departure.

But this time he quickly gave up his persistence and chose to obey the passenger's request. All this was because the passenger took out a toll tax certificate issued by the church route, and it was the highest level toll tax certificate.

With this proof, the passenger can sail back and forth on the church route without restrictions this year, and all cargoes carried do not require additional tax filing and inspections. He can also require a warship full of church-armed troops to escort when taking this route.

There is no doubt that for Heresa, this toll certificate will allow him to completely avoid worrying about being inspected by anti-smuggling ships. He can dock in the church routes and the harbours in the old continent that are closely related to several major churches, which will undoubtedly make his mission as easy as playing in the back garden.

So half a day after the Petty departed from the Port of St. Perria, Heresa changed the route he had previously formulated, and lost it along the Pirate Bay Island chain toward the church route starting port of Trident Island in the south. His process of changing the route did not even consider the idea of ​​another group of passengers on the ship.

When Petty changed the route, Leo already knew it. Even the whole process happened under the surveillance of Leo's mental network. Leo also knew very well why Heresa changed the route. The password lock box that he hid in another passenger cabin mezzanine was completely blocked and would never take it out if he did not leave the location.

"Take him a lesson!" Sylvia, who also knew the change of the route, was a little angry with the captain's approach of not making any notification or negotiation, so he suggested.

Sylvia also knew such a box from Leo. She was curious about what was contained in the box, but the box was made through special methods. In addition, some metal containing special power should be mixed in the metal used in the box, which made the box shell have a very strong interference power, and Leo's spiritual net could not penetrate it.

Although Leo also had other ways to force the box to break, such as the spiritual net that fuses the power of the crystal snake, which is extremely corrosive and permeable, he did not do this because he felt that the things in the box should not be good things. If he came into contact with it rashly, it might cause some trouble.

Regarding Sylvia's suggestion, Leo just smiled and shook his head, saying, "Don't you think this pass was too coincidental? The captain of this ship most needed such a pass to ensure that the items he smuggled could avoid inspections. As a result, this pass appeared in front of him and could be used at will."

Sylvia couldn't help but shook her head and said, "How could it be impossible to see such a strange coincidence? I'm afraid that not only the two bystanders could see it, but even the captain of the ship should be able to see it. It's just that this matter is not a bad thing for him, so he prefers to pretend to be deaf and dumb, as if he doesn't know anything." As she said, she looked at the waves outside the window and said, "What should I do now? Change the ship or..."

"We are not in a hurry." Leo responded: "If this route is really created by several gods as the church said, then the power of those gods must still be retained on the islands where the gods rise from the bottom of the sea. Even after so many years, it will definitely not completely dissipate. We can just feel in advance how powerful the gods believed in by the largest churches."

Sylvia nodded, which was also the decision she wanted.

In this way, neither Leo nor Sylvia pursued Heresa's arbitrary change of the route, and Heresa was lucky enough to escape.

At night, Heresa didn't know whether he was worried about Leo and Sylvia's investigation afterwards, or whether he felt that his behavior of changing the route without authorization was inappropriate. He took the opportunity of delivering food to personally come to Leo and his cabin to explain the reasons for the change of the route to the two, and also said that if Leo and the other four did not want to take this route, he could also find a long-distance ship for Leo and the others that meets their identity conditions and travels to the Divine Realm Sea Route when he arrived at the next port.

Faced with Heresa's proactive apology, Leo did not show any emotion, but said indifferently that he knew, and let the smuggling captain who looked like an honest fisherman leave.

Afterwards, Leo and the others stayed in the cabin and did not come out. Instead, the family in the cabin next to them seemed to relax. When the weather was clear, they would run to the deck to enjoy the soft sea breeze, warm sunshine, and some seafood that was hard to eat inland, looking like an ordinary traveler.

However, while the two children in this family were playing, an accident caused the cable buckle on the sail to fall off and hit the heads of the two children. Neither the bodyguards and servants who were caring for the children saw the danger, and the sailors on the boat did not notice the situation above their heads.
Chapter completed!