Night Raven Master

Chapter 247 The figure under the mast
On the deck, the captain of the Sea Wave, who was wearing warm clothes, relaxed his frown slightly.

Like a giant's powerful arm, the port of the small island gradually moved away, and the Sea Wave also left that excellent, white deep-water port.

Although it was the first time he experienced the cold winter, he didn't panic.

His merchant ship is not a big ship, and he has no capital, so he can't afford to lose it, and he doesn't dare to park the ship in White Harbor for a long-term repair like other chambers of commerce. After a short repair, he sails Leaving White Harbor, let's talk about repairs after we arrive at the other port.

White Harbor is a port established on the outermost edge of the ice layer after the beginning of winter.

It was originally a group of hunters and fishermen - or a port established by a group of fishermen on a small island outside Congobert. It was a temporary resting place for them to hunt and fish in the sea. Some unique hunters will use Make it home here.

Usually only some merchant ships that buy fish come here, but after the cold winter freezes the Congobert port, this port located at the outermost edge of the winter ring has become a place where merchant ships from many chambers of commerce stop.

The Ring of Winter is the name given to the ice layer by the sailors, because the ice layer surrounds the Kingdom of Allen in an arc. Although I have never seen it before, if they are all arcs, they can form a circle—— Ring of Winter.

These ice layers, unless it is the kind of fleet with powerful extraordinary people, who can rely on extraordinary professionals or rely on spell props bought at a large price to break the ice all the way and leave from the port of Congobert, most merchant ships will Stop at White Harbor.

Not only Kangobert, but ports in other regions will also be temporarily idle before the end of winter.

Speaking of hunters, the group of hunters in Bai Harbor more or less have the characteristics of monsters.

I heard that many of the hunters and fishermen living there have the blood of monsters.

Usually, he would also hear sailors talking about a fisherman with superb hunting skills like a monster or something.

Ordinary people are not like wizards, who can accurately distinguish the concepts of aliens and monsters. In their eyes, as long as they are not human, they are all monsters.

The same is true for this young captain. He has the ability to accurately sense the wind direction. Relying on this ability, he has changed from a freeman to the captain of a medium-sized merchant ship within ten years.

When sailing on the sea, they have encountered many monsters, and there are many alien races, but none of them were able to negotiate successfully.

There is no difference between aliens and monsters.

Both are dangerous.

The only difference is the price, right?

The price of living monsters and living alien races is relatively high.

Humans with alien blood, if confirmed, can be sold at a relatively high price on the black market.

According to the laws of the Kingdom of Allen, human trafficking is prohibited. Even if it is a war between two lords, the subjects of the defeated lord will only be reduced from civilians to serfs.

There is a difference between serfs and slaves.

Alien races are also prohibited by law from being sold.

But the sale of monsters is not prohibited.

Many monster dealers will use word games to sell the captured aliens as monsters, and some humans with alien blood will be targeted if they have obvious alien characteristics in appearance.

However, it has never been heard that the fisherman in White Harbor was caught as a foreigner and sold on the black market.

Because of this kind of thing, it was rumored in the tavern that the fishermen on White Harbor were all created by the Marquis of Congobert.

With the name of the Marquis of Congobert, the fisherman who is suspected to have the blood of a monster, it makes sense that no one will do anything to them.

In addition to this, there are many other versions. Basically, there is a powerful force behind the hunters and fishermen, and there are even sayings that the hunters are protected by monsters.

The last one is too outrageous. How can a fisherman who has been hunting monsters be protected by monsters?
The news circulating in the tavern really shouldn't be believed too much, just listen to it as a story.

Compared to these, being able to successfully cross this vast ocean and reach the Basatona Empire on the other side is what he needs to care most about.

There are three main types of danger at sea:

Trek, storm, sea beast, ship.

Getting lost is an extremely dangerous thing for any ship. Even if you buy a spell item that can indicate the direction, you may encounter damage to the item or interference, leading to getting lost.

Storms, or to be precise, wind and waves, have destroyed countless ships by wind and waves.

Sea beasts, powerful beasts and monsters in the sea, compared to the land where humans gather, are not suitable for human habitation. In the ocean, there are a large number of powerful sea beasts that destroy the hull, kill the crew, and damage the cargo, no matter what kind The occurrence of the situation is fatal to small and medium-sized merchant ships like them.

And the ships.
Pirate Ship.

On land, there are tripartite forces such as the lord, the Holy See of the Holy Light, and the mercenary guild to intimidate them. If they commit crimes of robbery, the possibility of missing is very high.

But at sea, these three forces do not exist.

If you encounter a pirate ship, it is a fatal crisis.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, each merchant ship will try to avoid encountering unfamiliar merchant ships, and at the same time recruit some mercenaries from the mercenary guild for protection.

For the storm, his own extraordinary ability is enough, and for sea beasts and trek problems, he has a good helper.

When the young captain of the Sea Wave was thinking this way, a voice came from his ear:
"captain!"

A young man with a sunny smile and his age appeared beside him.

"Aino!"

The captain also smiled when he saw the person coming.

The other party was wearing warm clothes similar to his, with a short stick on his waist.

This is his good friend, a guy who likes to call himself a fisherman. When he was a child, he also learned the name of the nobles to give himself a surname.

Obviously only nobles can have surnames. For ordinary people, unless they have great strength, the so-called surnames are just fantasies of self-satisfaction.

"Captain! If you follow these routes, the chance of encountering sea beasts is relatively small."

The other party leaned over and handed him a nautical map. Six crooked lines with slightly different colors and backgrounds connected White Harbor with the three lowest ports of the Bassatona Empire.

After watching carefully for a while, the captain asked aloud:

"Which route do you think is the best?"

The sailor named Ainuo pointed to the third item:
"Based on my 20 years of experience as a fisherman, this route has the least chance of encountering sea beasts!"

He seemed quite proud of his experience as a fisherman.

"I grew up by the sea since I was a child, and worked as a crew member for six merchant ships for 12 years!"

Ainuo yelled on his own, completely oblivious to the contradiction in his words:

"If you go from here, it is definitely the most difficult route to encounter sea beasts!"

After finishing speaking, he raised his neck and patted his chest: "This is the intuition of fishermen."

Seeing his expression, the captain smiled helplessly.

This guy's extraordinary ability is to perceive changes in the water flow. With this ability, the other party is able to be a sailor on various merchant ships. Because the previous ship that Ainuo was on was sold to another chamber of commerce, Ainuo left that ship.

As for coming to this ship, the reason why he became his deputy was not because of anything else, but because the two had been friends since childhood.

Although he couldn't give much, the treatment was still very good, so Ainuo stayed.

Ainuo, who has a lot of experience with ships, is also very familiar with the movement rules of sea beasts on several waterways.

It can be said that Ainuo is one of the most important characters on this boat.

Just as he was about to say something, he heard panicked footsteps.

What was blowing head-on was still the familiar sea breeze. After getting away from the Ring of Winter, the coldness gradually faded away, and the spring that had arrived was not so cold.

His face was a little pale at this time.

The white seagulls following behind their ship disappeared at some point.

What came from a distance was a faint, sad melody in the style of Lansu, similar to playing bagpipes.

Even though the sound was torn apart by the howling sea wind, it still gave him the illusion of melancholy and emptiness.

About five or six nautical miles away, a huge black shadow embraced the sea surface like a giant's arm, and then several huge, ancient giant sailboats emerged from under the sea surface, as if they were drilled out of the sea surface. Huge sea beast.

Seeing those huge sailboats, the young captain's face became extremely pale, his heart suddenly seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible claw, and the fear of dullness and death made him instinctively take a deep breath Take a breath of air, as if this can relieve the suffocation.

The other sailors, including Ainuo who had a sunny face just now, were also very pale.

After those giant sailboats appeared from the sea, sharp-eyed people saw the dilapidated huge masts and broken sails that could not ride the wind at all.

The gray wooden hut looked very dilapidated, and all kinds of dilapidated items were intertwined in a disorderly manner, giving people a dark and decayed feeling.

A dense crowd of human-shaped black figures, dressed in sailor clothes and covered with gray or light blue turbans, shuttled across the decks of those huge sailing ships like ants.

Although I have seen many ships, even giant ships made of steel, but.
The hugeness of these three ships is still extremely shocking.

And they seem to have souls, like living things!
They just stayed in place quietly like this, and the foaming, vast and endless turbulent sea beat against the dilapidated hull.

"Ruined."

Although at least the distance in a straight line is far away, the rather obvious features made the captain aware of the situation, he muttered to himself with a wry smile on his face.

These three huge old sailing ships are
Ghost Ship.

(End of this chapter)