"Brother Ed, why do we need so much mithril? It's hard to get rid of this thing. Ordinary people don't use that much, and big guilds generally don't purchase it from individuals. If the discount is too much, then we will lose money.
Already."
After Catherine left, Tian Lan asked.
"No, we don't have to take action," Fang Plover shook his head. He actually had a plan in mind, and he took this opportunity to explain to everyone: "I plan to transform the Seven Seas Traveler."
"Renovate the Seven Seas Traveler?"
The attention of others was also attracted.
"If I remember correctly," Alyssa asked, "Seven Sea Traveler was born just over a year ago."
"That's true. We put a lot of effort into building the Seven Seas Traveler in Tansnir, but after all, it was the first time we built a fairy-type aerostat. The first version of the Seven Seas Traveler was not actually a ship.
A sailboat suitable for exploration and oceangoing.”
"So after receiving a large amount of funds, the captain has new ideas?"
"Yes, this money is more than enough to update the equipment of the 1st and 2nd regiments of the Seven Seas Brigade, but after much thought, I think the remaining part is most suitable for rebuilding the Seven Seas Traveler."
Fang Yu looked at everyone. "The Seven Seas Traveler is the common property of all of us, and it is also the basis for the existence of the Seven Seas Brigade. Now we have to cross the continental bridge and travel to the second world. The original Seven Seas Traveler seems too cramped.
Some, various preparations are also insufficient.”
Alyssa shook her head slightly: "Captain, you don't need to explain to us, we just want to know what you think?"
Fang Yu was startled, then looked at the others, and saw that everyone agreed - including Parker, who didn't object, but just snorted disdainfully.
It was the first time for Trixis and Daryl to participate in the discussion related to the Seven Seas Traveler. Daryl did not understand technology, but Trixis seemed very interested.
Fang Plover nodded and waved for everyone to gather over.
"Everyone, please look over here."
He took out a roll of drawings from his backpack, spread it out in front of everyone, and flattened it on the table. Everyone saw that his backpack was full of rolls of parchment, most of which contained the designs of various types of sailboats.
, naturally understood that Fang Plover had been prepared for it.
"I have an idea to use mithril to replace magic wood as the keel of the next version of the Seven Seas Traveler. Mithril is a lightweight metal. Three tons plus the mithril in stock on the ship should be more than enough."
"Use mithril to replace magic wood?" Cui Xisi couldn't help showing surprise when she saw the ship on the design drawing. "The reason why the sailboat can sail in the air and sea is precisely because of the balance of the wind element in its keel and ship ribs.
, the only material in this world that is better and lighter than magic wood is element-friendly, but mithril is the only one left, but..."
"Just a little too extravagant?"
"Yes." She nodded slightly.
She looked at the drawing and said: "This is the Imperial Storm. It is also the first dragon knight battleship in the world, and the first floating ship with a keel forged with mithril... But the reason why the imperial people use mithril is also
Because of the limitations of technology at that time..."
"Only mithril can support the huge elemental power required by the Dragon Knight battleship. Later, the empire's second and third generation new main battleships no longer use this technology. Firstly, it is too expensive. Secondly,
Even the Imperial Tempest only had about one-third of the mithril mixed in its keel."
"That's because the empire needs an entire fleet, but we don't. The Seven Seas Traveler is our home, so naturally the stronger the better," Alyssa asked as if she saw what Fang Plover was thinking: "
Is that what the captain thinks?"
Fang Plover nodded lightly.
"The elemental suitability of mithril is three times that of magic wood, and its weight is less than 80% of magic wood of the same volume. It can almost be regarded as more than twice the buoyancy, which means that the new Seven Seas Traveler can be built larger
, and having stronger armor——"
"But that would require more manpower."
"We can indeed recruit some manpower," Fang Plover replied to Cui Xisi: "I plan to set up a central workshop. Everyone's level has been upgraded for more than one round. Next, we need to update equipment above AA level, even legendary. Inspiration can be
It’s rare to find it, but secondary legendary equipment can be mass-produced through high-level workshops, but that requires a lot of manpower - you and I will definitely be too busy, even if Luo Yu is added."
The Seven Seas Troupe really needs to expand.
Their logistics personnel are too few, and other ships usually have thirty or forty people. Even though Miss Tata can replace some of the sailors' work, she still seems to be stretched thin on a daily basis.
And if the Seven Seas Traveler expands further, the gap in the crew on the ship will only become larger. They will definitely not be able to hire ordinary people as sailors. There are too many secrets on the Seven Seas Traveler. Ordinary sailors come and go, and it is difficult to hide them.
secret.
He had earlier inspected Cuisi to join the team and become one of them, more or less out of this consideration.
What's more, Miss Attila's greenhouse and garden can be further expanded. Many guilds have their own alchemy workshops and pharmaceutical production, but the Seven Seas Brigade does not have a fixed base, so they can only find a way to put all these on the ship.
Just like Loofah, there is a legendary alchemy workshop 'Triprism' on the Angel, which is world-famous.
Moreover, as the number of personnel increases, the supply of materials must also keep up. This requires the new Seven Seas Traveler to have a larger warehouse and load. In addition to basic rations, it is best to provide food with rich flavors to maintain morale——
If they choose the selector to be a sailor, the selector is well-known for being picky about the quality of life. Although this is not the most important part, morale and emotion are also important guarantees of combat effectiveness.
After all, even big guilds such as Ragnarok and Silver Vislan have had big troubles, including crew protests, passive strikes and even civil strife.
Generally, sailboats will replenish fresh food when docked, but it will be quickly consumed during the long voyage, or it will naturally decay. Aitaria has certain refrigeration technology, but it is still not as good as Earth.
What's more, high-precision cold storage is generally used to preserve alchemical materials.
Therefore, the solution for most ship groups is to raise livestock, poultry, milk-producing artiodactyl mammals and others on board. If there are excellent druids and animal trainers on board, a good positive cycle can often be formed.
In this regard, because of the existence of magic technology, Aitalia's level is even far higher than that of the other side of the Star Gate.
But these all require manpower and space. The other part is the combat-related cabin and the artillery deck. The first version of the Seven Seas Traveler sacrificed too much to install the Fairy Heart, and in the end it was not able to install a magic cannon on the deck.
.
Usually when they encounter the enemy, they rely on Miss Tata and Fang Plover to launch air combat structures themselves. However, this tactical method is good when the distance is wide. Once it enters the close combat range, the Seven Seas Traveler will be very passive.
.
But combat-related cabins require a lot of space——
Several layers of artillery decks often span the entire middle and lower decks of the sailboat. Fang Plover also plans to use gear-controlled mechanical artillery, which can save some gunners and allow Ms. Tata to act as the fire control center on the Seven Seas Traveler.
He laid out his ideas one by one, and everyone could not help but be fascinated.
As Fang Pliong said, it was 'their ship'.
"...But the reserved transmission device, as well as the channels for transporting artillery shells - as well as the unique construction compartment and air combat deck of the Elf-type aerostat, will make the entire ship bloated. If the traditional structure is used, it will
Protection must be sacrificed.”
Trixis questioned.
"That's why I thought of using mithril to build the new hull structure of the Seven Seas Traveler," Fang Plover replied: "The same volume of mithril can provide nearly double or even triple the elemental suitability. We don't need it at all.
Using heavy white oak as hull armor—"
"We use pure gold."
The others were stunned for a moment.
Trixis immediately retorted: "Wait, adamantine is the strongest metal in the world, and it also has strong magic resistance. This is true... but the reason why it can obtain magic resistance is because it has
It has elemental shielding properties..."
Her voice gradually became lower...
The girl gradually looked at Fang Plover with a suspicious look——
Adamantine will weaken the elemental adaptability of the structure. Generally speaking, in the construction of sailboats, we generally try to avoid using similar materials mixed with it, but the strong elemental affinity of mithril makes up for this.
It is not that the predecessors have not considered this, but it is too extravagant, too extravagant. The Imperial people almost went bankrupt when they used mithril to build an Imperial Storm - that's because they used the Magic Emperor to
The ship was built too large.
Use fully constructed mithril to build a medium-sized fast sailing ship?
If it uses adamantine as its hull——
"An all-metal sailboat?" Even Parker came back to his senses, "Did I hear you right? Isn't this whimsical?"
"The specific ratio needs to be calculated, how much mithril is invested, how thick the fine gold shell needs to be, and the empty weight of the entire ship all need to be recalculated," Dan Fang plover affirmed: "But the possibility does exist.
"
"I……"
Trixis swallowed, and she felt a strong shock - how could she not have thought of it? This idea is not actually crazy, but is it really not crazy? A ship made of gold may be just an exaggeration.
——
However, this is a genuine aerostat made of precious metals.
This idea is much crazier than that of the Oshurs.
"It's too expensive... Do we really have that much money?" Tian Lan couldn't believe it.
"Little by little," Fang Plover replied: "If we can get so much mithril, then everything will at least have a foundation. We don't need to get it right at the first step. We can use the method of attaching fine gold armor.
"
"I have calculated that fine gold less than two millimeters thick is almost equivalent to thirty millimeters of homogeneous steel armor, which has exceeded the protection of most magic wood and white oak - it is definitely not enough for the main battleships of the Empire of God.
, but it is almost impossible to penetrate our protection against opponents of the same level."
"What's more, the main warships may not be able to keep up with the speed of caravels like ours. Ships faster than us are no match for us, and sailboats that can penetrate our protection may not be able to catch up with us."
He looked at Cui Xisi: "Cui Xisi, don't you want to participate in such a project?"
Cui Xisi nodded vigorously, how could she not want to?
Except for those mediocre people, no craftsman would refuse such a crazy request. She even felt that if Fang Plover was willing to issue an invitation, Ms. Ming and Virus might also be interested. These two people had a good relationship with the Seven Seas Troupe.
.
Tianlan wants to say something else, but her head is a bit big.
Mithril's keel might be okay, after all, Mithril is a light metal, and two or three tons might be enough, but she always felt that Fang Yu was oversimplifying it, as the price of fine gold was even more expensive than Mithril.
She felt that the captain was deceiving her. Although this plan sounded very good, once she jumped into this trap, she and Miss Silverd would never have peace as logisticians. There must be a bottomless pit hidden behind this plan.
.
No, no, this matter must not be left to the captain's temper. He is like a child sometimes.
She must discuss it with Miss Sylvide.
She instinctively wanted to retort, but Fang Yu suddenly raised his head and made a silencing gesture to her.
He turned his head sideways.
In fact, Alyssa and Parker had already reacted first. They both heard a strange sound of footsteps coming from the corridor outside the room. The footsteps were familiar to them. It was the sound of wooden prosthetics rubbing against the wooden board.
The footsteps stopped outside the door.
Then there was a knock on the door, and a man's voice came from outside the door: "Everyone, are you free? Something unexpected happened."
That was that Edward's voice.
The others looked at Fang Plover, "The door is unlocked," Fang Plover said, "Mr. Edward can push the door in by himself."
The doorknob made a slight noise, twisted to the side, and then opened with a click. Edward stood outside the door. Before he could speak, he saw the short Paparal and Ms. Nightingale beside him raising their hands to his.
hand crossbow.
A bit of cold light came into his field of vision, and there were two muffled sounds of "bang, bang", and the two crossbow arrows plunged straight into the throats of the two people dressed as imperial soldiers behind him, leaving only the tail feathers of the arrow-tailed buzzard trembling slightly.
The two people were caught off guard and their eyes widened. They subconsciously covered the arrows on their throats with their hands. They seemed to want to scream, but they only made a gurgling sound. They stepped back, hit the wall hard, and then turned their backs.
Fell down.
Edward almost froze, but he reacted after a moment and looked at everyone in the room with a strange look: "...Everyone, we are in trouble."
"You'd better make it clearer, Mr. Edward," Fang Plover said to Tianlan: "Tianlan, accent."
Miss Poet understood it, rushed to the sofa, opened her suitcase, took out the lyre, plucked it with her hand, and threw a note into the ground.
There was a soft buzzing sound, and the whole room seemed to tremble. Edward's eyes only felt blurred. The next moment, the cold sword in Darier's hand was placed on his neck. The one-eyed man was so frightened that he quickly raised his hand:
"Everyone, please listen to my explanation."
"Long story short."
"These people are not imperial troops, they are blood shark pirates pretending to be pirates. I don't know how they found them, but my identity was exposed." Edward explained quickly.
"Blood shark pirates?" Fang Yu was startled, and couldn't help but think of the news that Catherine told them before - such a coincidence? "Mr. Edward, you are a local gangster in Guimana Port. I heard that you also have official connections, you will be afraid.
These outlaws?”
"Isn't this an urgent decision, everyone," Edward spread his hands, "Besides, I'm going to inform the Imperial Army now. Can you accept it?"
"Of course not," Dariel showed his fangs at him and added a little more force, "You're so cheap and you behave so well."
"Madam, madam, be gentle." Edward said quickly: "Their people are still in the hall. What are you going to do?"
"How many of them are there?"
"Not many, about ten, but they already attracted attention when they came. I was worried that the Imperial Army was already on their way... They asked me if there were any other special guests in the hotel, and I revealed it to them.
I know your whereabouts..."
"Of course, this, this is actually to inform you."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Edward."
"You're welcome, you're welcome."
Fang Plover has changed his mind. Although he doesn't know why these blood shark pirates are interested in the guests in the hotel. They have never dealt with these cold-blooded hyenas on Kukai, but the Seven Seas Brigade cannot see the light, and they can't
Meet the Imperial Army.
It may not be difficult to deal with a dozen or so people, but if a fight breaks out, it may not be able to end.
He looked out the window and asked: "Mr. Edward, we have a warehouse in Guimana Port."
"I understand, I understand, I know that place. After passing through the woods behind, there is a path leading to the port. There is an underground cave there that can lead directly to the dock where you are. Everyone, please let me guide you and take you to that place.
place."
Fang Yu looked at this man and nodded with satisfaction. It was easy to communicate with smart people.
After a while, the door to the room burst open again, but this time the visitors were obviously not so polite. Two people knocked the door open from the outside, and the tattered wooden door hung crookedly on the damaged door shaft.
A man wearing an imperial army coat and a sinewy face walked in from outside. He was looking fiercely at the empty room. The ugly scar across the bridge of his nose was twisted, and his eyes fell on the window that was shaking in the wind and rain.
.
"They ran away," he spat in a rough voice: "Chase, there is definitely something wrong with those people. Let 'Little Thumb' and 'Harpist' come over. It's Ecstasy. There are bards on the other side, maybe there will be something wrong with them."
There are other spellcasters."
The crowd immediately dispersed.
…
Fang Yu was leading others through the apple forest. Only then did he have time to turn around and question Edward: "Mr. Edward, you are Ms. Catherine's friend, but you are not our friend. You'd better explain clearly that this is
What's going on?"
His tone was not cold, but the condescending majesty made Edward shudder. It sounded very much like that woman - the latter couldn't help but take it seriously: "No, no, I don't know...that woman...I mean
Catherine should have told you about the Blood Shark Pirates. They may have come for Barossa, but somehow they found me."
"Does that mean we suffered an unreasonable disaster from you?"
"You can't say that. Everyone, they are here to find someone in the hotel, and they will bump into you sooner or later. And as I said, they made too much noise. If they attract the Imperial Army, you don't want to
Did you run into such a scene without knowing it?"
"So we still have to thank you?"
Because of what happened to Jita before, Tianlan didn't have a good impression of this man and immediately made a mockery of him.
"No, no," Edward smiled bitterly, "Let's help each other, everyone."
While they were discussing, they had reached the end of the orchard, where there was a low stone wall made of large pebbles. Dalil, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around, pointed outside the wall and shouted: "Ai
Virtue!"
She put the big sword on her shoulder and pointed in the direction of Guimana Port. The promontory stretched out to the sea of clouds like a claw, connecting the trestle, lighthouse and warehouse area. At the end of the skyline, a shadow of a sail appeared on the sea of clouds.
.
The three three-masted sailing ships lined up in a straight line, opened their densely packed gunports, and pointed in the direction of the port.
Imperial Army? Fang Plover was slightly startled, no, there was no Imperial eagle emblem on the sail.
Edward on the side was already chattering with his teeth, "Yes, it's the Blood Shark Pirates. They are indeed here..."
"Is that the blood shark's ship?" Fang Plover turned around and looked at the pale-faced guy, "How can you see it?"
"I, I recognize it." Edward stammered. He was the one who got off those ships. The woman helped him a lot in that matter, and he was once proud of his golden cicada's escape from the shell.
But the other party still came to the door and found him. No matter what, he also understood that he was a traitor, and as a former member of the Blood Shark, he knew very well how those people treated traitors.
He only felt dizzy for a while, and his heels felt a little weak.
But Fang Yu only felt novel - it must be at least a fourth-class battleship or above. The Blood Shark Pirates actually have such a big ship. No wonder they can make waves in the air and sea, which makes people change their minds.
However, the Blood Shark Pirates are still not as good as the Pale Pirates in their most powerful era. They are now just on a par with the Pale Pirates, and there is nothing anyone can do about them. Fang Yu couldn't help but think about what the Gray Fleet in Rodrigo's era had.
How terrible.
No wonder it is a difficult opponent for the Imperial Navy.
But what do blood shark pirates mean? Blockade the empire's ports? This is a bit too bold. You must know that the nearest Fletcher squadron is only a day's voyage away. This can be regarded as provocation under the nose of the empire.
.
Could it be that what Catherine said was true, that the current Pirate King was really on this island? Fang Plover couldn't help but frown, why could he always encounter such troubles and couldn't he complete the transaction smoothly?
Just as I was thinking about it, a group of blood shark pirates appeared on the side of the orchard. These people came around from the hotel. They were probably originally arranged outside the hotel. When they saw Fang Plover and others, they shouted:
stand up:
"Found them, there they are!"
But no one in the Nanami Brigade even looked at these rabble. Only Miss Mei came forward with a large shield.
When the members of the Blood Shark Pirates saw a sweet and cute little girl walking towards them, they couldn't help but be a little surprised and even whistled, but the knight lady said nothing and stuck the big shield on the ground with a bang.
"In the name of Ori——"
She shouted loudly, and a ray of light penetrated the clouds and shone on the halberd in her hand, and the runes on it lit up one by one.
She threw it forward with all her strength - everyone saw a flash of lightning at that moment, and the halberd penetrated the blood shark pirates like a beam of light, piercing the bodies of five or six people in a row, and led them towards
Then it flew away and penetrated a stone wall behind it with a loud bang.
Even before the remaining strength was gone, the spear shaft was still vibrating slightly and making a buzzing sound.
"Ms. Mei," Fang Plover called back, "Follow me as soon as possible."
"Okay, Mr. Ed."
Mei Yi waved her hand, and the halberd turned into a ray of light and returned to her hand. The blood shark pirates were so frightened that they almost froze. The weapons in many people's hands clinked and fell to the ground, "Gu,
Ancient training knight!"
I don't know who screamed strangely, and the remaining people immediately dispersed.
Those people are the most ordinary members of the Blood Shark Pirates. The captains of each squad hope that they will delay for a while, but who knows that they will encounter such a group of monsters. The free paladins of Ori and Malan are traveling around the world, and among ordinary people
The eyes are slightly rigid——
But in the eyes of those who do evil, these two are simply nightmares.
In fact, the ancient knight is a nightmare within a nightmare.
It’s really bloody bad. How can there be a genuine ancient knight in a small place like Quemana Port?
May then put away her spear and chased after the others. Edward was already dumbfounded and frightened for a while - fortunately Catherine stopped him, otherwise those who were nailed to the wall might not be his former colleagues.
Maybe it's him.
He couldn't help but look at these people again, and the more he looked, the more frightened he became. A high-level alchemist, a professional nightingale, and an ancient knight. What kind of combination is this? The others also looked simple, including that one
Miss Catman.
That seems to be the Holy Knight of Malland too.
He shuddered, and suddenly thought of the woman's purpose, and thought of the identities of these people - where did she find these people? Wait, that woman didn't have this idea, right?
"Mr. Edward, you seem to have something on your mind?"
Alyssa glanced at him from the side and asked.
"No, no, of course I didn't... Everyone is going this way. The entrance to the secret passage is not far away. I will take you to your destination first. If you have any other opinions, we can wait until we get there to chat.
.”
Fang Yu nodded. This was also his idea. Although he didn't know how there were so many blood shark pirates on the island, now was not the time to cause trouble.
Over there, Tianlan was praising Miss Knight with admiration: "Sister Mei, you are too handsome. What about those blood shark pirates? I thought they were so powerful, but the result is nothing more than this! In my opinion, we
There is absolutely no need to run away.”
As she spoke, she squinted at the former Blood Shark Pirate member.
What else could Edward say, he could only raise his hands and smile in apology.
He was not a core member of the Blood Shark Pirates in the past, but there are actually some powerful people among the Blood Shark Pirates, such as the twelve team captains of Barossa and the captains of their subordinate teams. There are also powerful people in those elite teams.
.
He had only met the team captain, who was also the first mate and boatswain of their ship. In his opinion, the strength of the other party was far inferior to the young people he saw in front of him.
The Chosen Ones.
Mei Yi blushed slightly after hearing this, and replied in a low voice with embarrassment: "This is what Mei Yi should do, and Tian Lan, what you see are only peripheral members of the Blood Shark Pirates. I have fought with their squad leader.
When it comes to dealing with each other, the opponent's strength is almost equal to mine."
After hearing this, Edward became even more impressed with this ancient knight lady.