Pillars of Ita

Chapter 1193 Arrival at Norishien

After joining the Second Regiment, the Trade Wind and the Seven Seas Traveler quickly set off and disappeared into the night. The two ships will cruise around Norrisian until they complete their mission and leave.

Catherine's ship had 85 crew members at full capacity, half of whom were combatants. The core crew usually accounted for a quarter, plus two-thirds of this number of technical and maintenance personnel - including wizards, craftsmen, and logistical support personnel. During this voyage, the Second Regiment only left half of its personnel, enough to cope with short-term missions. Considering that their stay in Norrisianen was only one or two days, the need for rest, gathering information, and purchasing supplies was relatively small, and the ship did not require complex maintenance for the time being, so the core crew left behind was enough to keep the ship running.

As for the Seven Seas Traveler, it was almost an empty ship, with Miss Fairy in full charge, leaving only the boatswain Baggins on board to assist her.

The others stayed on the ground to escort Mr. Graystone. This place was about 17 air miles away from Norisianen, equivalent to about 35 kilometers. Judging from Mr. Graystone's pace, as long as they maintained a steady speed, they were expected to reach their destination the next morning.

The adventure group was walking right under a hollow hill. These hills formed by arched branches looked like masterpieces of this world from any angle - magnificent and mysterious - but they were particularly spectacular when viewed from this direction. In fact, they were walking on another root branch, which was more than a hundred meters wide and passed under the branch, like a natural bridge.

Mr. Graystone's steps were unsteady, but he did not feel uncomfortable because of the thick roots under his feet. Instead, he seemed very happy to reunite with Tianlan, Jita and others, even though there was a deep abyss on one side.

Tianlan was walking beside him, chattering with him about his travels, regardless of whether he could understand or not. But Mr. Graystone would occasionally let out a low moo, as if he was really responding.

The little girl laughed out loud.

Beneath the branches were more intertwined root systems, like an intricate web, forming the path they had walked along. The vines were covered with layers of giant leaves, which spread out like giant umbrellas, forming a dense jungle.

However, the entire forest is parasitic on the holy white giant tree Terraka. They are not independent vegetation, but more like a symbiotic whole.

Huge mushrooms also grow on the roots of the giant tree. The cap is almost the size of a platform, extending into layers of natural stairs.

The air bags hanging on Mr. Gray Rock's shoulders swayed gently, occasionally brushing against the broad leaves, disturbing the small animals living on them. Colorful birds and animals flew by one after another, bringing a slight noise.

The dew in the middle of the night was condensing, and the water drops rolled down from the tall leaves, forming small waterfalls, and from time to time there were splashes of water hitting the people below. At first, everyone felt a little bit of novelty about these unexpected water flows, but soon, the gradually humid environment began to become disturbing.

Ian was walking when suddenly a drop of water rolled down and hit him on the head, instantly pouring all over his face. The water slid down his hair like beads, flowed down his cheeks, and almost completely soaked his upper body clothes. Seeing this scene, Marigold burst into laughter and laughed so hard that she fell backwards.

"Hahaha!"

Unfortunately, the magician's gloating did not last long. A moment later, another sudden "waterfall" poured down from the leaves mercilessly, turning her into a drowned chicken. The laughter stopped abruptly, replaced by a scream.

The lark wiped the water drops from his forehead with his hand, looked at his two companions and shook his head helplessly.

The female military summoner was standing a little further away. She couldn't help laughing after seeing all this. She then took out a few dry towels from her backpack and handed them to them.

"Thank you." The lark took the towel, thanked him, wiped the water droplets on his forehead, and looked back.

"Including the three new members, Ian, the Second Regiment now has exactly thirty people." There, Ms. Kuisu was talking to Fang He.

Fang He nodded, but he knew in his heart that the troops in front of him were still far from enough. Even if half of them were left on the Tradewind, the manpower on the ship was still stretched to the limit, and they could only barely maintain the basic operation of the ship.

If you want to truly deal with potential risks or emergencies, this amount of manpower is really a drop in the bucket.

Ms. Catherine was a thoughtful person. She did not leave anyone on the Trade Wind except the members of the Second Regiment. Along the way, she taught these newcomers how to operate the ship. Although there were some bumps along the way and it took a longer time to reach the Giant Tree Hill, the members of the Second Regiment gradually mastered the basic skills of sailing in the process.

They are now barely qualified as Konghai adventurers.

From this perspective, Fang He was quite grateful to the female pirate. She understood his plan without him having to tell her. For the first time, he felt comfortable working with her and had expectations for a longer-term cooperation.

Seriously speaking, he really needs an experienced captain, so that the Seven Seas Brigade can have two ships, the Seven Seas Traveler as the main force, and the other ship as a training ship, so that they can train newcomers well.

On the one hand, after the Seven Seas Traveler expands further, they may need more manpower, and the Seven Seas Traveler itself also needs certain reserve personnel.

After all, I have never heard of anyone going to the second world alone. Even someone like Loofah has his own fleet.

It's a pity that Catherine also has her own ambitions. She may not stay in the Seven Seas Brigade for a long time. Fang He can only hope that during the cooperation with this female pirate, she can help him train a qualified captain or ship officer.

However, he did not plan to keep all the people from the Second Regiment on the ship. He planned to keep the other half with him at all times, and the First Regiment would take them for training.

In this way, the two groups can rotate, allowing the members of the second group to grow as quickly as possible.

Fang He did not expect these people to grow to the same level as the First Group in a short period of time, but the Seven Seas Brigade was rich now, and he himself was an excellent alchemist. With these two conditions met, he could quickly upgrade the level of the Second Group members at any cost.

This is actually the usual routine of large guilds, and since the levels of the second group members are not high, with an average level of only over ten, the expenses are actually not particularly large.

Fang He looked at the noisy crowd in front of him, but he didn't care too much. Now with Cui Xisi keeping alert, she even deployed some clockwork fairies outside the sky, so it was unlikely that the adventure team would encounter a sudden attack.

He has recently been teaching Cui Xisi to learn margin techniques and multiple parallelism. She learns very quickly and is worthy of being a member of the SOLID youth training team. She has shown considerable talent.

However, Cui Xisi was actually a little surprised. The Sacred Guild of the Residual Technique also had some tutorials, and this technology was gradually spreading from the Second World to the First World. But she found that the residual technique in Fang He's hands was very special - it was not the same as the Empire's, and it was also different from what they got from Jed Ham.

Her computing power has grown very rapidly recently as she has studied more deeply, which shocked Cui Xisi because she has never heard of any skill in the world that can improve the basic computing power of a craftsman.

She wanted to ask Fang He several times where his multiple parallel and margin techniques came from, but in the end she thought better of it and didn't ask.

After all, in her opinion, Fang He never mentioned the origin of his surplus skills to others, which meant that this should be the other party's core secret.

He was willing to teach her these things, so she couldn't be so ignorant.

She also regarded herself as Fang He's deputy, and usually took the initiative to take on the guard work to help him save some trouble.

She was actually in charge of this in the youth team in the past, so this was not an unbearable task for her.

Fang He was also happy and relaxed, and for the first time he experienced the privileges of the leader. However, he did not think too much about it. His learning system of residual skills mainly came from the key chapter, and the key chapter was given to him by Shana and R.

In fact, he had noticed that the remaining technique of the Key Chapter was very different from Adeney - or the legacy left by Miss Nia Linstern's father, but the directions of the two were quite different, so he didn't think too much about it.

The legacy left by Jade Ham seems like a subject worth studying.

It is mainly responsible for the problem of flexible construction of automatic logic, which is more like an upgraded closed-loop device, and the Imperials call it the Star Device.

The Empire's margin technique also moves in this direction. They applied this technology to the Knight Annihilator, proving that their idea is to save computing power.

Jed Ham's is a direct descendant of three geniuses, taking the pure artificial soul route.

As for the residual technique of the Key Chapter, it is more like a training program. Fang He has been honing his skills in this area, and it is this training method that he taught Cui Xisi.

He had also discovered that the training techniques of the Key Chapter could increase calculation ability, but Fang He thought it was no big deal.

  Since it is a training technique, it must be able to increase the craftsman's abilities, right? Otherwise, what is the meaning of this technique?

There are actually many similar courses, which can more or less improve a craftsman's ability in a certain aspect, but none of them are as advanced as the remaining skills.

As he answered Ms. Quesu's questions, he walked forward, and the leaves on both sides automatically curled up to the side when they saw him.

In addition, someone had just walked by here not long ago, so there was no splash of water on his head, and he seemed extremely calm. The same was true for Ms. Quesu and Sylvie beside him.

That's because Ailuoya cast a spell of natural blessing for them, allowing the vegetation on the sacred tree to automatically avoid the three people.

This scene made Aljan extremely envious, and he went to find Eloya to ask her to cast the same spell on other people, but the elf girl spread her hands and said that she could only cast this spell three times a day.

"Then it can't be that only Captain Ed has it, right?"

"Aren't there Ms. Quesu and Ms. Sylvie?" Ailuoya replied, "They are the leaders of the Seven Seas Brigade. What's wrong with having some privileges?" "What about me?"

"Why don't you go find Meryl? Isn't she there?"

But when it comes to Meryl, Al's face turns red. He lowers his voice and says, "How can I trouble her, Ailuoya? I treat you well, don't I?"

"Then I have no magic anymore." Ailuoya said that she could do nothing to help.

In the end, the young ranger was too embarrassed to go find Merrill, so he had to continue going forward in the rain alone.

Among the crowd, only Miss Nightingale managed to escape. She seemed to have spider sense, and she would dodge as soon as the leaves above her head moved.

Several nightingales from the Second Regiment looked at this scene with envy and admiration.

As for Miss May, she raised the big shield above her head. This new shield was not as strong as the previous one, but it was more than enough to keep out the rain.

Luo Hao followed suit, but unfortunately he forgot about the variable of height. As soon as the water fell, Parker's angry shout came from beside him:

"What are you doing!"

The fat man from the military had no choice but to put down his shield and looked at the other party helplessly.

However, in this drizzle, there was one person who was completely unaffected by it.

Drops of water fell from Mia's head, but before they touched her wolf-like pointed ears, they were quietly pushed away by the invisible power of laws, slid straight to the side, and merged into the abyss below.

Water splashed down from the cliffs outside the roots, disappearing into the night like a veil.

Tianlan and Jita happened to see this scene, so they quietly left Mr. Graystone, walked to her hand in hand, and hid under her protective circle.

Just think of her as a natural human umbrella.

Mia lowered her head slightly and glanced at the two little ones curiously.

Jita felt a little uneasy under her gaze, her cheeks slightly red, and she lowered her head. But our poet lady seemed unrestrained and said openly: "Sister Miya, can we hide for a while?"

The wolf girl nodded gently, her tone calm but gentle: "Then don't stay too far away from me."

"Yeah, Sister Miya is the best!" Tianlan cheered.

Fang He looked at this scene and shook his head.

As early as when he was in Dawn Star, he discovered that the other party was not as difficult to approach as outsiders thought. Not only was she easy to talk to, but she also did not have the condescending attitude of ordinary superiors.

But perhaps it was because of the pair of wolf ears, or perhaps it was because of the cold gaze, she always had a faint aura of "keep away from strangers", like a lone wolf in the moonlight.

This always makes others feel a sense of distance involuntarily and dare not approach easily.

Fortunately, there is sky blue.

However, Miya's arrival did make Fang He feel relieved.

Although the wolf girl cannot freely use the dragon knight's abilities at the moment - according to her, her dragon soul has been sleeping, but she is at least at a stable silver level.

Moreover, he is the most powerful one among the Silver Rank, even close to the threshold of Dragon Knight.

People are generally accustomed to calling the final stage of the Silver Rank the Gold Rank, or the Apprentice Dragon Knight, but that is not actually a real stage.

Similar concepts are often confused in different regions.

However, according to the general standards of Ataria, Silver Rank X is the pinnacle of the Silver Rank, and its last four levels VII, VIII, IX, and X are actually Gold Rank.

Miya's current strength is roughly maintained at the stage before this stage, which is almost Silver Rank VI. What she mainly lacks at this stage is the breadth and depth of dragon soul and laws.

It just fits her current situation.

But even with this level of strength, on paper alone it is more than enough to beat one and a half AshClaws.

But in fact, it is far more than that.

If necessary, Catherine could be added. That female pirate is at least at the Silver Rank II level, and as a native who has reached this level at this age, she is a genius among geniuses.

Compared with AshClaw, Star Weaver and this young lady, they are just rotten wood. Even the elites of a big guild like Minmir may not be able to compare with them.

In addition, the Seven Seas Traveler is also nearby. With the support of Miss Tata and the Seven Seas Traveler, the next time the Silver Wind Watcher comes to him, he won't be so powerless in the fight.

The Seven Seas Brigade arrived at Norisian earlier than expected because they found the legendary 'Bridge of Dunon' - a root several miles long, spanning several tree trunks.

The route leads straight to New Norrisian, saving a lot of detours.

However, when you get off the bridge, you can see that this settlement, which was built only a few years ago, now looks more like a huge market.

Camps of varying sizes surround the settlement. In the center, there is a very small area with permanent buildings that doesn't even have walls. A vertical street runs through the entire town.

It's a town of about a few thousand people.

The good news is that the town is not big, so it should be easy to get information.

The bad news is that this place is crowded with adventurers. As the entrance to the Scar of Yasa, the floating population here is more exaggerated than they imagined.

It may not be easy to find a specific person.

Fang He even saw the camp where the advance team was stationed. It was much larger than he had imagined, with at least more than a thousand people.

The other party even built an airship tower in the camp, and there are two liaison ships docked there at the moment, which also explains why this advance team can be stationed here.

Xin Nori Xian'en is definitely unable to supply the logistics for more than a thousand people, but no one knows where the other party's supplies come from.

This army is here probably not only to monitor the direction of the Scar of Yasha, but also to monitor the movements of the Elf Court and Roshar.

Fortunately, they didn't have to deal with these people. The advance team was stationed outside the city and no checkpoints were set up - after all, there were too many Chosen Ones here and they couldn't handle them all.

The Seven Seas Brigade did not encounter any checkpoints set up by Silver Wind Port along the way. It seemed that, just as he expected, the parliament was not united.

Some people don't want to make a big deal about this. Although they have imprisoned Walter Stonehill, those people don't want to make the affairs of the investigation team public.

This is good news for them.

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