The weather was fine and the visibility was high. The team waded across the Shuohe Galaxy from a shallow shoal in the south. On the way across the river, they were attacked by several jackals, but there were no casualties.’
Below is another line of small words, marked in eye-catching red ink:
‘Tomorrow is Sylvain’s birthday’
'On May 11th, the weather was fine and it was Sylvain's birthday. We held a small banquet——'
‘On May 12th, the weather is cloudy and we have a regular meeting.’
There are a few spots of ink on the spread diary, which are actually a line of Nini's naughty little footprints, and the words recorded on it are very neat, showing the seriousness and responsibility of its owner.
After the team passed through the Shuohe Galaxy, there was no longer any obstacle to the north to Idos, and the scenery on both sides of the river began to change. From the lush green carpet-like forest in the south to the steep sandstone cliffs along both sides of the river.
wall.
The forest trees have obviously become sparse, revealing the red sandy soil below, and the huge shadows of the clouds slowly flow southward along the river valley, giving people a sense of vastness.
After a few days of quarrel between Tian Lan and Luo Yu, the two reconciled. However, after the little girl caught a cold in the forest that night a few days ago, she fell ill with a cold.
I couldn't attend the birthday party either.
So far, he is still under the meticulous care of Etila and is waiting for recovery.
Today is the adventure group's regular internal meeting every Monday, and the topic is to continue discussing the construction issues of the 'Seven Sea Traveler' that have not yet been discussed several times before.
Such meetings in the adventure group had become a habit before Grande and his party, and this was one of the main results of the ship officer's team building and shipboard rules and regulations.
However, since the birth of this gathering, the main discussion has been on the construction plan of the Seven Seas Traveler. There were only a few discussions related to the Dragon Worship Cult, and one was related to the situation in the southern border, and Sophie participated in all those discussions.
During his stay in Vanrich, the group meetings were interrupted twice, and after leaving Vanrich, they were resumed.
And the topic naturally returned to the construction of the Seven Seas Traveler.
After all, for any adventure group, how to design its own floating ship is a big problem.
Unless you have no conditions and can only buy a second-hand boat, the equipment and cabins required on the boat will depend on the staffing of different adventure groups.
For example, if the members on the ship are mainly spellcasters, you need a magic amplification deck; if the melee profession is the core, you need to consider jumping gangs and boarding battles; or if there are many long-range professions, you need to set up a shooting deck and counterboarding.
device of war.
Or if there is more than one combat craftsman in the group, it is necessary to consider whether to add a lower structure delivery bay. In addition, there are workshops, laboratories, crystal detection rooms for various life occupations, and even animal stables and upper greenhouses.
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In the last discussion, thanks to the participation of Tang Xin and Ai Xiaoxiao, everyone finally decided how the infirmary should be set up - after all, healers have different beliefs, so determining what altar to configure in the recovery room on the ship is the first priority.
Mirela's priests are good at recovery and disease removal, but weak at recovery and detoxification. Therefore, the recovery bed and pharmacy can effectively improve its treatment efficiency.
However, Tang Xin had some different opinions on this. After all, she couldn't stay in Aitaria for too long and she still had to take the graduation exam.
It was only Aitila who persuaded her: Mirela's followers are mainstream therapists, and finding another one wouldn't be a big problem. Then she no longer objected.
Fang Plover got up early that day and went up and down to perform routine maintenance on the platform. He first tied on the safety rope and climbed along the rope net to the bottom of the 'stern', because Baggins mentioned it to him a few days ago.
There is an abnormal sound in the cooling duct behind the platform.
As soon as he opened the cover of the radiator at the back, Fang Plover found that it was filled with a 'surprise' - dried fruits and tree roots.
He was suddenly speechless.
At the same time, I also realized that there was a new 'guest' on the ship, which seemed to be a little guy, and the deck was Delise's territory, so it had to live down here.
Fang Plover hung on the rope net and looked down, thinking that the other party should have come up from Mr. Huiyan's back.
He originally planned to clean these things up, but then he thought about it and gave up on this decision.
So he climbed back on the deck, took some boards and nails from his workshop, picked up a hammer and banged a small house out. Naturally, his carpentry skills were far behind Luo Yu's, and the final product was very crooked.
It's ugly, but Fang Plover doesn't feel it at all.
At this time, other people were getting up one after another. Jita and Ai Xiaoxiao looked at the things in his hands curiously and asked in a low voice what they were used for. Fang Yu told them about this matter, and the two Xiaoxiao
The girls were all a little surprised.
After all, little girls are inherently immune to these little creatures.
Ai Xiaoxiao guessed it was a gray squirrel, while Jita stood on the side of the square plover as always, thinking it was a red-necked tit. Both small creatures are common creatures in this area.
Ai Xiaoxiao looked at the 'box' in Fang Yu's hand and asked:
"Cousin, is this the mousetrap you made?"
Fang Yu looked at the so-called 'house' in his hand and couldn't help but blush:
"...This is the house I built for it."
"ah?"
On the platform, Rhett was trimming his claws. He raised his head and sniffed the wind coming down from the upper river valley, and the gold ring on his beard jingled.
Delis was lazily basking in the sun on the side, occasionally sticking out her pink tongue to lick her paws, and looking at these boring humans below with her beautiful jewel-like eyes.
The two ‘cats’, one big and one small, really complement each other.
After Fang Plover nailed the house at the stern of the boat, it was almost noon. I don't know if it was because the 'little guest' was too afraid of people, but he was never able to see its lineup. Therefore, the debate about red-necked tits and pine trees,
It can only be put aside for the time being.
After everyone ate some dry food, they started the afternoon activities.
After Mr. Huiyan passed through Shuohe Galaxy, it became difficult to supply food in this area. There was not much prey to be found on the barren red stone sand, and there were only a few types of vegetation, most of which were inaccessible.
Etila also canceled the afternoon tea party that was originally held every two days, which the big cat people were not used to.
In the afternoon, Tianlan's fever had subsided a lot, and she went to the deck to blow in the wind for a while. The little girl now regained some energy, and gave some angry orders to Parker who was scrubbing the deck, making the latter very angry.
A little jump.
After three o'clock, Mr. Gray Rock slowly entered the shadow of a canyon.
To the east here you can see the towering crimson ridges, which are the vast wind-eroded landforms formed by the wind and sand of Istania day after day.
After passing through the canyon, you enter the territory of Idos.
Only then did Fang Yu send someone to wake up Shesta and Luo Yu, who had been sleeping until now. Everyone came to the conference room one by one, and announced that the day's intra-group meeting had officially begun.
Tianlan sat in the corner, with Aitila and Luo Yu accompanying her on the left and right.
Her face was sickly pale, with a slight blush. While coughing, she asked curiously: "Sister Sylvide, what are we discussing today...ahem?"
Miss Elf then patted her back gently and handed a cup of hot water to her hand.
"I'm not thirsty."
"Drink more water."
Attila's words were somewhat irrefutable.
It seems that both worlds at least have the same strategies for dealing with colds.
Sylvide held a small notebook and said to everyone with a smile:
"Today we are still discussing issues related to cabin layout and sails."
Regarding the general structure of the Seven Seas Traveler, everyone has almost reached a conclusion.
After all, they have no shipbuilding experience, so it is best not to make the ship too big for the first time, so that even if there are any major mistakes during the construction process, it can be easily overthrown. So in the end - the first generation of the 'Seven Sea Traveler' was determined to be
A sloop (sail-type structure).
This type of boat is very common in coastal areas and is the main style of small expedition boats and fishing boats. It is especially good at sailing in coastal areas with complicated wind directions, and can also go deep into the land. However, it is not as good at ocean sailing compared to square sailing ships.
The final design of the "Seven Sea Traveler" is about 19 meters long, with the highest point of the mast 25.4 meters, and a width of about 4 meters amidships. Its maximum passenger capacity is 30 people, and the speed is Level 4 - that is, under full wind and no load.
It can reach a speed of seven knots and can sail one hundred and sixty miles per day.
The air mileage of Aitaria is about 1.9 kilometers, so under ideal circumstances, the Seven Seas Traveler can sail nearly 300 kilometers in one day, which is much faster than Mr. Gray Rock.
As for the cabins on the ship, in addition to the core lift compartment, the medical room, the utility room, the boatman's room (used to store ship repair materials and spare sails), the grain storehouse and the lower warehouse, there are also kitchens, restaurants, and activity rooms.
It is also fully equipped with a winch room.
In addition, there is a dedicated armory. The captain's cabin is still located at the stern and has been merged with the chart room to save space.
Originally, a ship like this could have been equipped with an artillery deck and four to six cannons for self-defense. However, the alchemy cannon that Kukai could use was too expensive, so they could only install one cannon on the bow.
Besides, as adventurers, they had no intention of engaging in aerial combat with anyone.
According to Aitaria's classification of aerospace ships.
The "Seven Sea Traveler" is slightly larger than the seventh-level miscellaneous ships and small boats, but it is far from catching up with the sixth-level frigates. In the eyes of the Grand Guild, it is not enough. But for everyone in the adventure group
For people, even just talking about building it -
Everyone is also full of enthusiasm.
After all, this is their ship, and with the average level of the adventure group being less than twenty-five, they are extremely lucky to have a floating ship.
So Fang Yu first asked the first question:
'Standards for utility rooms.'
Even though it is a small utility room, it also occupies a pivotal position on the ship.
After all, the utility room is different from the lower cargo warehouse - generally speaking, the lower cargo warehouse will run across the bottom of the ship and is used to store bulky and huge quantities of trade goods, or to store grain and drinking water. The utility room is delicate.
Much more, it is generally used to store more important materials - such as the central workshop on the ship, where all kinds of alchemy materials needed on daily basis are stored.
Most of the alchemical materials are dangerous, flammable and explosive, and even have different magical properties. Therefore, there are certain safety risks under normal storage conditions. Moreover, in the air and sea environment, it is not the same as being on Mr. Gray Rock's back.
Differently, they will encounter storms, various weather conditions, and be eroded by the wind element.
As a result, extremely high requirements have been placed on the safety standards of utility rooms.
After discussion, everyone unanimously decided that the utility room must adopt at least a safety standard of level two or above. The reason why it does not need to be higher is because there are not such high-level craftsmen on the ship. The level two standard also requires that the utility room be specially made of iron.
The wooden cabin section, and the way the Alchemy compartment was designed.
If this utility room alone were to be purchased on the market and hired to be built, the cost would be at least 150,000 Lissels.
Fortunately, they can save a lot by doing it themselves.
Then there is the anchor room. The boat does not need to use heavy anchor stones, which can save a lot of money. But the longer the anchor chain, the more areas the ship can ensure that the anchor can be lowered to the windless layer, so that the ship will be more stable.
Good anchorage is easy to find.
The long anchor chain does not only have advantages. Its dead weight will put a burden on the ship, and it also imposes requirements on the material of the anchor chain itself. In the end, Fang Plover chose an ordinary enchanted copper anchor, using the tendons of the flying dragon as the traction of the winch room.
Rope - without it, cheap.
As for the anchor stone itself, it is a special magical product of Aitaria. Its characteristics are exactly the opposite of Guy's crystal. It has the ability to anchor a ship in the sea of clouds, provided that it is lowered to the windless layer with an anchor chain.
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Thousands of years ago, the Sinsas snake people began to use this special magic stone as the cornerstone to build floating fortresses in the windless layer, and used it to build many magnificent floating cities.
However, this mineral was almost exhausted in their time, so that today's anchor stones are very expensive. Anchor stones for large ships are often many times more expensive than a small ship itself.
The anchor stone for Fang Plover was given by the Elfendor Council. It is about the size of a human head. There is nothing we can do about it because the alchemists are very wealthy.
When not in the windless layer, the anchor stone is almost weightless and can be easily placed in the storage room. Once it descends to the windless layer and isolates the wind element, the special magic effect will make it stable and as heavy as a thousand.
Jun.
As for the living room, dining room, activity room, boatman's room and warehouse, they are almost worthless. Just use ordinary magic black wood or white oak. Of course, worthless is relative, and there are almost no cheap things on the floating ship.
The magic black wood itself is valuable.
In addition, in the previously determined infirmary, Mirela's altar requires the blessing of holy objects, blood of saints and sacred crystals, the recovery bed requires tranquility crystals, regenerative vines and vitality wood, and the apothecary room requires magic petri dishes and inert crystals.
And a wood spirit that acts as an assistant.
Of course, it would be best to be a clever wood fairy - and Miss Tata is a dragon soul, not a real fairy.
As for letting Nini be an assistant, forget it.
Fang Yu now has a headache when he thinks about this little guy who calls him "Papa" all day long.
All in all, this is a lot of money.
It's almost impossible to buy them all in the market, they don't have that much budget. The rest can only be collected by themselves, and if they really can't find it, they have to shyly ask their teacher for some. As a master craftsman, Ander
, I can’t say that I am as rich as the country, but I still have this small amount of savings.
It's just that Fang Piao didn't really want to trouble his teacher unless he had to.
Then during everyone's discussion, they determined the last three special cabins——
Originally, according to the specifications of "Seven Sea Travelers", in addition to the alchemist, wizard master, chef, supply officer, ship officer, captain and even doctor and navigation officer on the ship, they at least need
It takes ten to fifteen sailors to make this ship sail smoothly.
However, the 'Seven Sea Traveler' is a ship with special significance after all - although it is not currently in the form of a true fairy dragon knight, with the fairy heart and the dragon soul of Tata, it can at least be
It is very different from ordinary aerospace ships.
With Tata as the master controller, ordinary sailors no longer need to carry out the sailing, steering and other activities of the ship, as well as some daily maintenance. In this way, they only need one Baggins to deal with emergencies.
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Without sailors, the ship would be missing a lot of living quarters for sailors' daily living. If it is a merchant ship, these free spaces can naturally be used to greatly expand its cargo hold capacity.
But they are adventurers and do not need such a large warehouse, so the extra space can be used to build special cabins.
Seriously, there are many special cabins on the floating ship.
As mentioned before, it is not just the artillery deck, crow crane, construct delivery bay, magic amplification deck, central workshop, etc., in fact, most of the professions in Aitalia can have their own on the ship.
Special cabin.
For example, naturalists can have a magic tower, paladins and priests can have a prayer room, a druid's cultivation room, a stable, a nightingale's poison room, a poet's large musical instrument, etc.
But the 'Seven Seas Brigade' has many professions, including combat craftsmen, paladins, druids, and crossbow shooters. Later additions include Alyssa who is a nightingale, Luo Yu who is an elementalist, and Jita who is a naturalist.
Tianlan is a poet.
The box is both a magician and a dual-wielding swordsman.
In addition, there is an iron guard, a healer, a double-sword ranger (Ai Xiaoxiao) and a gunslinger, plus a fighter, Shesta, and Baggins, who is good at a little bit of everything, but his main occupation is a musketeer.
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With so many professions, it is obviously impossible for everyone on the Seven Seas Traveler to have their own exclusive cabin, so determining which cabins are necessary for them is an important issue.
This is actually an elimination method.
Elisa's Nightingale's poison chamber and alchemy workshop can actually replace some of its functions. Poisons at least level three and below can be completed within the scope of potions, so they are excluded first.
Then there is the prayer room. This building can provide a certain buff to the entire ship, enhance the effect of the ship's bow, and provide a certain morale bonus to the sailors. It is not necessary for everyone.
The magic tower, crow crane, shooting and artillery deck, and structure delivery bay are all necessary items for air combat and are not considered by everyone.
Finally, they settled on the animal pen, a central chamber that housed a large pipe organ and a crystal installation.
With animal stables, animal trainers can care for some special creatures on the ship. For expedition ships, various types of beasts of burden are indispensable. Moreover, the animal stables can also bear part of the supply of fresh poultry, eggs, and milk. After all,
No one wants to be stuck on a ship eating wormy biscuits and dried meat.
Especially in areas with poor supply, like the current situation.
As for the large musical instruments on the ship, they are a necessary guarantee for the poet's combat effectiveness, especially when the level of Tianlan is not high.
Furthermore, Tian Lan heard that he had his own pipe organ. His face, which had been depressed due to the double blow of homesickness and illness, regained its luster. Everyone understood that this decision must be a cost-effective one.
After all, an adventure group must first have people, and people are often the core of an adventure group.
The last crystal device is actually a large wind element radar, which is a standard feature on many battleships. Fang Yu wanted this thing purely because he had been famous for it for a long time and was very curious about it.
So he used his power as captain to make a decision directly - plus this thing itself was somewhat useful, so Etila, the big cat man and Baggins didn't object.
"In the end it's a matter of sails."
Today's topic went very smoothly, and Fang Yu was very satisfied.
He looked at the others and asked the last question:
"Do you think the Seven Seas Traveler needs to install wing sails?"
The so-called wing sail is actually the biggest difference between a floating ship and an ordinary sailboat.
Because the aerostat does not need to sail on the water, its 'sail' naturally does not need to be located just above the ship.
Therefore, for aerospace ships, several types of special-shaped sails have been derived - the feather-like sails located on the left and right sides of the ship are called wing sails. The wing sails can open and close at a certain angle.
Can increase the speed of the ship in downwind.
The sail located on the bottom of the ship, called a fin sail, is generally used to assist steering and longitudinal stability of the ship.
There are also small wings located on the bow to increase the ability to sail upwind.
Tail sail, lateral stability and enhanced small radius turning ability.
The fish-like scale sails that line the side of the ship are a more special type of sail, usually only found on large battleships.
The wing sails proposed by Fang Plover are to supplement the ship's maneuverability. After all, the Seven Seas Traveler is too small and not suitable for long-distance sailing. However, wing sails are expensive. Generally speaking, if it is not a warship, few aerospace ships will consider it.
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Of course, when Fang Yu raised this question, it was not because he had not considered their affordability - the sail mast did not require expensive magic oak or black wood, solid mahogany would do the job. And Ms. Kuisu and her team of lumberjacks would do the job.
Providing them with a steady stream of high-quality mahogany, this demand is simply not a concern.
As for the material of the sail, Fang Plover actually has an idea.
The enchanted canvas made by alchemy is very expensive, but it can also be replaced by natural materials. As far as he knows, not far from the grand canyon in front of him, there are many silver-maned giant spiders living in Panier Red Mountain.
The silk they weave, after being debonded, becomes a natural and tough canvas material——
Although it is not as durable as enchanted canvas, it is cheaper and lighter. They can definitely prepare more.
Of course, it's just that these 'big guys' are not so hospitable.