Natural God's Gift

Time flew by, and it was now November. The lifeblood crops within everyone's territories had mostly been harvested. Some Flame Spider traveling merchants who ventured relatively close on the Myriad Races Continent had also begun to return one after another.

However, unlike usual, Fourleaf wasn't staying within its territory. At this moment, it led a group of spiders to Boss Small Thistle's territory, or rather, to the place where Boss Small Thistle built ships.

When Fourleaf and the others arrived, Boss Small Thistle was still working.

"Boss Small Thistle, the ship can be towed out of the dockyard."

"Alright." Boss Small Thistle had known for a while that Fourleaf would need a ship for the winter, so he wasn't flustered. He directly returned to the dockyard to prepare for launching the ship.

Inside the dockyard was a channel diverted from the great river. Usually, this channel was closed off and dry.

After all, if there was nothing to do, the ship couldn't just stay in the water all the time.

Now, Boss Small Thistle opened the valve of this channel, and the river water flowed continuously into the dockyard, filling the channel and lifting the massive ship.

The ship floated on the water's surface, sliding straight down the dockyard's slope towards the great river.

With a loud boom, the ship plunged into the water, splashing water everywhere.

"Yay!" Upon seeing the ship enter the water, the Flame Spider warriors cheered.

Just as the ship was about to follow the current down the river towards the sea, Boss Small Thistle stood on the ship and dropped a huge anchor made of iron chains. The anchor sank to the riverbed, slowly holding the ship in place.

"Fourleaf, are you planning to set sail for the Coast Water Louse Tribe now?"

"Yes, I want to take advantage of the fact that there aren't any typhoons in winter to test the waters first."

"Alright, I'll accompany you on this trip to see how the ship performs on a long voyage."

"That works too." Boss Small Thistle had built this ship, and although it had sailed a few times in the sea, it had never been on a long voyage after all.

Taking a long voyage to see how it performs is normal. If there are any areas for improvement, they can be maintained and repaired during the voyage.

To put it another way, if it wasn't test-sailed and there was a problem halfway, who would be responsible if the ship sank?

Fourleaf said, "Have the wooden planks and other things we prepared before been moved up?"

"They've been moved up. I even specially made a loading boom based on the lever principle, which will be useful for transferring the iron frames later."

"Alright, then can we set sail if there are no problems?"

"We can. Let everyone board the ship."

"Everyone, get on the ship, get on the ship." Fourleaf sent out a mental command to summon everyone.

The spiders below heard Fourleaf's order and boarded the ship one after another.

For this voyage, Fourleaf brought the entire combat squad, even Black Trigram and Oil Spot had returned from the Star Sand Islands.

This wasn't to say that the trade on the Star Sand Islands was no longer being done, it was just that they had nothing to do in the winter. They couldn't possibly stay outside all year round. They would return once a year at the end of the year, and then go back to work in the spring.

In addition to that, it also brought ten Advanced Round Violet Flame Spiders who were initially able to control wind energy to serve as sailors on the ship.

And on Boss Small Thistle's side, it wasn't just a single spider who came. The five Mountain Lord level Flame Spiders who built the ship with it also followed along to facilitate checking for ship problems along the way.

Under Boss Small Thistle's guidance, the combat squad stowed the anchor, and the Round Violet Flame Spiders climbed onto the masts, opening the sails hanging above. The sails were made of five layers of spider silk, and each sail was extremely large, with an area of thousands of square meters. When unfolded, they resembled a tower, with a huge image of an original Flame Spider painted on them.

There were a total of three of these mainsails. Depending on the wind direction, different sails were used to guide the ship. In addition, there were many smaller sails, all used for sailing with the wind.

Boss Small Thistle guided the Round Violet Flame Spider warriors to adjust the angles, allowing the wind to blow into the sails and drive the ship forward.

Boss Small Thistle directed everyone to sail according to the characteristics of the ship, while Fourleaf silently learned from the side, also letting Attached Earth and Windflower learn along with it. They would definitely need it in the future, after all, it had three ships, so there must be spiders to control them.

In the beginning, everyone was learning to sail, learning bit by bit. Although there were many problems, they were all getting familiar with the ship. However, at this time, most of the time they still had to rely on Cloud Solid to tow the ship.

With the empty ship, Cloud Solid could tow it, and its huge size could still handle it.

They went north all the way, and first arrived at the Black Veined Butterfly Kingdom coast. Fortunately, it was relatively peaceful along the way, and there weren't any major problems.

The Black Veined Butterfly warriors patrolling the coastline were stunned when they saw the 150-meter-long ship, and saw the towering masts and sails that reached into the clouds, and hurriedly flew towards the interior of the kingdom.

While flying, they also conveyed mental messages to the kingdom: "It's not good, a monster has come to our kingdom, it's here to eat insects, help!"

The spiders on the ship: "...."

"These silly insects."

Fourleaf didn't care too much. It directed the ship to head towards the estuary of the Black Veined Butterfly Kingdom's river.

Near the estuary, it had the ship stop there first, while it went to notify Lord Pointed Pagoda Tree that they had come to transport the iron frames.

In fact, from the sea, they could already see the busy Black Veined Butterfly warriors on the beach, and the iron frames piled up like mountains.

Fourleaf jumped off the ship and walked on the sea, soon arriving at the beach at the estuary.

Fourleaf had come here two or three times, and the butterflies here already recognized it after seeing the spider, and weren't as alarmed as the butterflies on the other side of the coast.

"Lord Fourleaf, you've come." A Mountain Lord level Black Veined Butterfly put down the work in its claws and came over to greet it: "Lord Pointed Pagoda Tree is currently discussing matters in the kingdom. I'll send a butterfly to call it over."

"Thank you." Fourleaf didn't have much of an impression of the other party, but it could call out its name, so it should also know about its kingdom's transaction with it.

Fourleaf said: "Lord Mountain, how many of the iron frames I requested have been made?"

That Mountain Lord instructed a High level Black Veined Butterfly to call Lord Pointed Pagoda Tree, and then flew eagerly to Fourleaf's side to introduce itself: "My name is Red Pagoda Tree, Lord Fourleaf. We've been working from the beginning of spring until now. Because we were preparing materials in the early stages, the progress was a bit slow at the beginning.

However, after the materials were prepared, our speed of making iron frames became much faster. As of now, we have already made more than 1,300 frames. Before the beginning of spring next year, we will definitely be able to complete all the iron frames."

"That's good, that's good."

Fourleaf pointed to the ship parked on the sea and said: "Lord Red Pagoda Tree, the ship I'm using to transport the iron frames has already arrived,

Is it convenient to sail it over?"

"This—" Lord Red Pagoda Tree hesitated for a moment, and then said: "No problem, but this ship can't be sailed into our kingdom."

"That's natural, my ship is very big, and it's not easy to sail in."

"Then I'll call them over." Fourleaf took out the Sea God Horn and played it, sending a signal to the spiders on the ship.

The mental message played by the Sea God Horn spread in all directions, and the Coast Water Louse warriors who sensed this special mental message were all shaken.

Then, the huge ship approached the estuary, and several spiders with water-based talents went into the water to find a suitable anchorage.

The Black Vein Powder Butterfly warriors were startled again by the sight of so many spiders coming and going on the ship.

Red Locust Mountain Master stammered, "Four Leaf Mountain Master, how can there be so many spiders on this ship?"

Could it be that Four Leaf Mountain Master and the others really intend to attack their kingdom?

"Oh," Four Leaf explained, "because this is the first voyage for this large ship, our shipbuilders are also on board, as well as the sailors we hired and the spiders who need to work, so it seems like there are quite a few."

"That's what you call 'quite a few'?" Red Locust Mountain Master was speechless. There were already twenty-some spiders. Some small tribes didn't even have that many insects. However, after hearing Four Leaf's explanation, it reluctantly accepted it.

While Four Leaf and Red Locust Mountain Master were chatting, the spiders on the ship finally found a suitable mooring point, parked the ship there, and lowered the sails.

At this time, Pointed Locust Lord also arrived after being notified.

It looked at the big ship, then at Four Leaf. After all, it was a lord who had lived for hundreds of years. It didn't make a fuss like ordinary Black Vein Powder Butterfly warriors, but still looked at Four Leaf questioningly, "Four Leaf Mountain Master, what is this about?"

Four Leaf said, "I want to transport iron frames away, Pointed Locust Lord. We need to build a pier and also temporarily make some tools. Is that okay?"

"This..." Pointed Locust Lord hesitated.

Four Leaf said, "Pointed Locust Lord, don't worry. We will dismantle it when we leave."

"Alright then." Pointed Locust Lord reluctantly agreed. Actually, it didn't really want other insects to move earth in their kingdom, but when doing business, of course, you have to meet the customer's needs.

Four Leaf didn't care so much. Hearing Pointed Locust Lord agree, it immediately summoned the spiders to start working.

Four Leaf, Black Trigram, Creeping Groundsel, and five or six other Mountain Masters with earth-type talents used their earth and stone manipulation abilities to control sand and stones to gather in one place.

Then they used their earth and stone solidification abilities to condense these sand and stones into one piece, and continuously extended it towards the sea, quickly forming a stone pier, directly connecting to the side of the big ship.

Next, Boss Small Thistle led the remaining spiders, opened the deck, revealing the cabin inside, transported various parts for assembling the crane off the ship, and then began assembling them on the pier, quickly creating a tower crane-like existence with lever capabilities.

They also used earth and stone solidification abilities to create two earth and stone tracks, connecting the beach where the iron frames were placed and the newly made pier. Rollers were also arranged on the tracks to facilitate pushing.

The work of the spiders dazzled the Black Vein Powder Butterfly warriors, who exclaimed in amazement.

Pointed Locust Lord noticed a detail that everyone had overlooked. It discovered that among these Flame Spider warriors, many possessed at least dual-type talents.

It couldn't help but be secretly shocked, wondering how these Flame Spiders managed to possess so many talents?

The Flame Spider warriors didn't care what it was thinking. After busying themselves for most of the day and getting all the procedures done, Four Leaf said, "Pointed Locust Lord, can we transport the iron frames now?"

Hearing Four Leaf's words, Pointed Locust Lord reacted and quickly said, "Yes, yes. Let's transport these iron frames away now. So many piled up here are also taking up space."

Hearing Pointed Locust Lord's words, Four Leaf immediately began to call the spiders, "Start working."

At this time, Pointed Locust Lord also took the initiative to say, "I'll have the Black Vein Powder Butterfly warriors help you work together."

Saying that, it also called the Black Vein Powder Butterfly warriors to help them move the iron frames onto the track with built-in rollers.

Then just push the iron frame down, and the iron frame will roll straight towards the big ship under the guidance of the rollers along the slight slope on the beach until it reaches the end of the pier and stops with a clank.

With the help of the Black Vein Powder Butterfly warriors, Four Leaf and the others' work efficiency was much faster. They only needed to hang the iron frame that rolled to the end of the pier with iron hooks and chains, then directly lift it up, turn it around, and put it into the cabin.

According to Boss Small Thistle's design, this tower crane used an iron frame as the bone and utilized the principle of leverage. One spider could easily lift an iron frame filled with earth and stones, let alone an empty iron frame.

With the help of hundreds of insect warriors, they transported a thousand iron frames onto the ship in less than half a day.

Four Leaf's ship is 150 meters long, 80 meters wide at its widest point, and 15 meters high. After removing the space for things like sails and the engine at the stern, it still has 110,000 cubic meters of loading space.

The reason why it is said that it can only hold 70,000 cubic meters is because the fertilizer is relatively heavy. If it exceeds this weight, the ship will be in danger of capsizing.

But now they are empty frames, so it doesn't matter if you load a little more or a little less.

However, although there was still loading space, Four Leaf only loaded a thousand frames and stopped.

Four Leaf said, "Pointed Locust Lord, for the sake of easy accounting, we will load 1,000 frames this time, and we will come back to load the remaining 1,000 frames next spring. At that time, I will give you the remaining money together."

Pointed Locust Lord was very satisfied to hear this and said politely, "No rush, no rush."

Four Leaf said, "By the way, Pointed Locust Lord, what about the tools I asked you to make? Are they ready yet?"

"Ready, ready." Pointed Locust Lord quickly called other butterfly generals to send the tools to the ship.

"This is the work done by different butterflies, right?" Four Leaf took out the metal cylinder containing the spider silk roll and handed six Spider King credit scrolls with a face value of one thousand to Pointed Locust Lord, "I, Four Leaf, am fair and just in my work and will never delay wages. If they do their job well, I will settle their wages."

"Good, good, good," Pointed Locust Lord accepted the money and was even happier. Although the money was not much, Four Leaf Mountain Master's attitude made it very satisfied.

Seeing that everything was packed up, Four Leaf looked at the temporary pier and the track for transporting iron frames.

It asked, "Pointed Locust Lord, should I help you dismantle these things after you have finished making the remaining 1,000 iron frames? Or should we dismantle them now?"

Pointed Locust Lord said, "Let's keep them for now. We can use them later."

Seeing that Four Leaf built this pier indeed for transporting iron frames, Pointed Locust Lord felt much relieved.

"Then we'll leave first. The jib will be left here, and we'll disassemble it next spring after we've transported the remaining 1,000 iron frames."

"So urgent?" Pointed Locust Lord was a little surprised and said, "I haven't had a chance to entertain you properly yet. Would you like to stay and eat something before leaving?"

"No need." Four Leaf said, "We are also in a hurry. After all, it's the end of the year, and everyone doesn't want to stay outside."

"Alright then, I wish you all a smooth journey." Four Leaf had said everything to this point, and Pointed Locust Lord no longer insisted.