Extraordinary Voyage

2020-11-02

Chapter 244 Lost and Found

The second part of the reward is permissions.

There are many privileges belonging to “Navy Rising Stars”, such as priority access to supplies, priority selection of reserve crew, participation in alliance-specific celebrations, and more.

But what Alwin values most is the “free passage of ports within the alliance”!

As rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns within the Six Nations of the Alliance.

Alwin and his warships can unconditionally enjoy the right to freely travel to and from the home ports of various countries, including their overseas colonies. They only need to report after the fact and do not need any application procedures.

Also enjoy the treatment of the national battleship class.

In other words, Alwin can swipe his face in and out of the alliance in the future!

Although this permission seems unremarkable, it is just a lot more convenient, but the biggest advantage is that everyone knows it well but will never put it on the surface – warship smuggling !

In fact, smuggling with warships is nothing new. The highly profitable smuggling activities are big fat meat that both civilian businessmen and the navy want to bite.

In this case, the Admiralty also turns a blind eye most of the time, and the right to give benefits to the Navy.

As long as it doesn’t affect the combat, it generally doesn’t interfere too much.

That’s just as an ordinary captain of a country, how much profit can the “Cape Storm” that has obtained the right of free passage in the alliance and various colonies?

It’s simply immeasurable!

As long as you are diligent, you can earn more than the shares of the previous copper mine with no difficulty!

The third part is the highlight of the reward, the treasure promised by the Kingdom of Elijah.

In fact, almost all of the treasure list announced at the beginning were “ocean treasures” at the level of treasure. For the rich and imposing Ilya royal family, there were several low-level “ocean treasures” And the super weapons of Top Grade are still with no difficulty.

But in the face of those treasures with different abilities, such as the extraordinary weapon ‘Scarlet Lake Light’ that can greatly increase Knight’s strength! The “Ocean Treasure Kacere Bronze Cannon” that can be used as a trump card means for battleship is a bomb cyclone formidable power that is perfect!

Alwin chose this “Golden Compass” without hesitation!

Many people on the sea know that the “Golden Compass” is not a treasure of the ocean, nor is it a witchcraft creation, but a gift from the gods of the legendary “Golden Kingdom”.

For hundreds of years, the total number of “Golden Compass” known to have been obtained by adventurers and various forces in the entire world will not exceed 12.

It has only one function, that is, on the sea, no matter what the bad situation is, it can guide the most feasible way of life for the ship holding him!

Compared with many “ocean treasures” with magical abilities, this mysterious passive ability is so small that it doesn’t even have a sense of existence, but it is a piece in the hands of adventurers who are brave enough to explore the unknown world. Supreme Treasure.

On the surface, its ability seems to overlap with Milan’s prophecy, but it has an advantage that prophecy magic does not have.

That’s the “absoluteness” of the mysticism perspective!

What is absoluteness?

Unconditional, unlimited. It is opposite to the “Divination Technique” that requires interpretation and guessing, which is often linked to probability.

Take a chestnut:

A merchant ship with a deep draft full of precious cargo is pursued by a vicious pirate ship, and there is a surface of calm in front of him But the dangerous Sea Territory is covered with reefs.

As long as they can survive here, they can escape the fate of death.

If he has a “golden compass” in his hand, this treasure will use the fate of getting rid of death as an anchor, plan a route, and guide a completely safe waterway for the merchant ship.

Of course, in this process, the compass will not give you any lucky bonuses and assistance. Whether you can escape from this definite life path depends on your own ability.

If you switch to Divination Technique, you may have multiple guidelines for the purpose of survival.

For example: yaw 12 compass points, there is a certain probability of encountering unexpected life-saving straws when sailing all the way; surrender to pirates, and those who are sheltered by the horse head constellation can save their lives; A route has the highest probability of being out of danger.

Of course, there is still the biggest possibility.

Where is the gap, obvious at a glance.

However, although it is absolute, the “Golden Compass” is not a panacea.

Even if it is a gift from God and has magical powers, it is just a compass anyway, not the Spiritual God itself with infinite power.

If you’re surrounded by hordes of large krakens, it might give you a vertical guide.

As for whether you have the ability to go to heaven, it is not within the scope of its consideration.

However, the ability of the “Golden Compass” is not the reason why Alwin chose him.

Even if he never talks about it, he himself has always had a dream of exploring the secrets of the sea and the world. But instead of believing in the way of life guided by a “compass”, he believed in his own power more!

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I took out the golden compass, which is about the size of a pocket watch, from a beautiful walnut wooden box. Thanks to the gift of God, there is no Any signs of wear and tear are like brand new.

Open the gold flip cover engraved with the same pattern as the cosmic star pattern. Under the smooth crystal surface are the scales and letter marks that are no different from the normal compass.

In the middle is a magnetic needle in the shape of an arrow, half red and half golden. On the shore and when there is no danger, it is just an ordinary compass.

Obviously, the secret of the “Golden Compass” is not here.

Alwin closed the flap and turned the compass over, and it was clear that part of a golden city-state was branded on the bottom of the compass.

It is said that the golden city-state on the back of each “golden compass” is different. Scholars speculate with very limited information that this may be part of the legendary “Golden State” where the gods reside.

But if they were asked to verify which god they were, no one would be able to tell.

Among them.

Part of the magical story about the “Golden Compass” is well-known, but part of the secret is only shared among its owners and Inheritors!

In its seemingly seamless structure at the bottom, there is actually something else.

This is a secret that very few people know. Fortunately, after the activation of Alwin spirit strength, the memory of childhood has been fully recovered.

Alwin presses the bottom cover firmly with his thumb, sinks almost imperceptibly, then turns it half a turn clockwise, then releases it, and then turns it counterclockwise one turn.

Click——

The bottom cover, which seems to be integrated with the compass, has popped open by itself.

There is a complex mechanical structure that is different from the ordinary nautical compass, precise gears, clockwork, gems, and complicated small incantations. The precision is the unimaginable mystery and mechanical beauty of this era. .

Alwin’s attention is not here. On the side of the inner shell, there is a line of small handwriting “Garriott in the 12th year of the Haiyuan calendar” written in unknown green paint.

“Ha, it really is!”

Finally confirmed the initial guess, Alwin was once again glad that he chose the path of the navy, and this treasure of family inheritance can be recovered.

If you choose to be a pirate at first, let alone an ordinary official Knight, even a third rank Great Knight powerhouse like the elder sister, it is impossible to give this “Golden Compass” from the treasure house of the kingdom to him. Grab it.

After a brief period of joy, Alwin’s emotions were mixed.

The joy of being lost and found, the melancholy of seeing things and thinking of people, the feeling that things have remained the same, but people have changed, in the end, there is only one mixed feelings in my heart.

It took a long time to clear up and put the bottom cover back on.

Alwin rubbed the “golden compass” which had only been hidden between the patriarch and the heir for nearly two hundred years, and the legend about it resurfaced from the bottom of his heart.

In the tales passed down by the Garriott family.

Their ancestor, Garriott, was still a humble and unwilling civilian explorer (there are differences between captain, ship owner, sponsor, and civilians who have no money can’t be an explorer).

I was drinking in a tavern once, but unexpectedly met a mysterious person who claimed to be from the other side of the sea.

Although offshore shipping has been very developed before this, the ships have also undergone several revolutionary changes.

But the first year of the Haiyuan calendar was the beginning of ocean exploration. The landmark event was that the Kingdom of Cyrus took the lead in “conquering” the treasure sea and discovered the Southern Continent.

So the young Garriott subconsciously believed that this mysterious person was from the Southern Continent across the sea of treasures.

While the two were drinking, the mysterious visitor from afar heard the explorer’s distress, and very generously offered a deal.

Among them, the bargaining chip paid by the mysterious person is this “golden compass”, and the price Garriott needs to pay is not money, life, soul and other things, but a “cowardly and comfortable” heart!

However, Garriott doesn’t take the cost of this unfathomable mystery seriously.

Garriott, who is determined to become a great adventurer, feels that he has no such useless things since he went to sea, and that this illusory mood can also be used as a bargaining chip?

At that time, Garriott, whose extraordinary level was still too low, simply did not think much about it, and without the slightest hesitation agreed to this seemingly very cost-effective deal.

The subsequent development was as he wished.

The “Golden Compass” helped Garriott successfully explore the best route to the Sea of Treasures!

And the Garriott family also got the canonization of the Ilya royal family, and it jumped into a real hereditary Baron family with forty knights.

It was not until much later, with the promotion of status and extraordinary level, that Garriott, who was already Baron, learned the legend that the “Golden Compass” was a gift from the “Golden State” god.

As for where the “Golden Country” is, and what is the purpose of sending these “Golden Compass”, no one can tell who else has a compass.

Nearly two hundred years have passed in a hurry.

This “compass” of the Garriott family was lost in the night of blood and fire in Blackrock Town, and it was not returned to Alwin, a descendant of the Garriott family until today.

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