Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 104: Echidna Triangle Circulation
It's a rare sunny day in late November.

White sails! White sails!
Two hundred sailboats of all sizes set sail together.

The white sails that blocked out the sun stretched from the front to the end of the sight. Even a seabird could not cross such a huge fleet in a short time.

The largest number of merchant ships were loaded with various goods such as blankets, cloth, ironware, and wine. Some of them belonged to the York family, while others belonged to great nobles and large trading companies.

Then came the colony ships loaded with immigrants, indentured servants, and the dream of getting rich overnight in a new land.

Many of them are descendants of fallen nobles like Vincent, the "Royal Hound", whose families have declined and who are ready to make a name for themselves overseas and rise again.

The fleet's flagship is a level 4 ship, the Support, equipped with a figurehead of a rare artifact.

The displacement is 1088 tons, the length of the gun deck is 44.5 meters, the number of guns carried is 50, including 22 24-pound guns on the lower deck, 22 12-pound guns on the upper deck, 4 6-pound guns on the poop, and 2 6-pound guns on the forecastle.

Similar to Violet's [Flaming Rose], it is a very standard Portland-class 50-gun fourth-level ship.

In the navy, first- and second-class battleships have always been scarce, and most of the battleships that truly serve as the main force of the navy and participate in sea battles are third-class battleships.

Even third-level battleships mostly operate only in the waters near their own country and rarely go to the open ocean.

After all, whether in terms of self-sustaining power at sea or navigation capability, battleships above level three are too large, too slow and have too low self-sustaining power.

The captain dared to go on a long voyage simply because he was tired of living.

On overseas routes, the naval warships encountered by various countries are at most nominal battleship level 4 ships.

However, the strange items and even holy relics equipped on the ships may enable them to exert terrifying combat power far beyond that of ordinary battleships.

After obtaining the "Privateer License", he officially joined dozens of pirate ships under York's command, using his speed advantage to cruise on the outside and act as a cruiser for the escort fleet.

The Golden Deer is naturally among them.

Not far away were the Greenville family's two merchant ships, the Osprey and the Kitty Hawk, which were loaded with wealth.

“Tsk, if anything happens to them during this voyage, Catherine might just die.

However, although these gold, silver and treasures seem to be a lot, they are actually floating wealth without a source.

Land, minerals, estates, ranches, and other golden gooses that lay eggs have all become colonies that have never been seen in the Bantaan Islands.

I don’t know what our future base will look like, and whether it can support the finances, infrastructure, and population of a privateering fleet.

In terms of the hierarchy of misers, Guts, who loves dignity and freedom, can only be regarded as a small mole, while Catherine is the greedy dragon.

If we want to get a penny out of her hand, the two of us combined are not enough for her to beat us."

Although he didn't even know the location of the territory now, Captain Byron had already set his sights on his own cabbage industry.

"Captain, please stop talking, it makes me feel pain all over.

However, I believe it will be fine if it is you.

Miss Catherine is too straightforward. As long as it is not real money that can be seen and touched, it will not stimulate her dragon nature.

When the time comes, you will roll on the ground crying, and then utter the secret spell that always works: 'I want it, I want it, and I won't get up unless you give it to me.'

Miss Catherine always relents."

A gentle smile appeared on Bruch's face, which was as cold and hard as granite and hidden under the mask.

Although there were only two of them near the helm.

Byron still gave the latter a stern look, telling him not to talk about such embarrassing things that could easily lead to social demise.

However, the suggestion itself is relatively constructive and feasible, and this captain will consider it carefully.

He turned his head and took another look at the Osprey which was traveling side by side with him, and felt a little uneasy.

“The speed of the Grand Fleet is far too slow, only one-third of that of the Golden Deer.

This is the effect of having a stern wind from north to south.

Only after officially entering the first circulation belt can the collective speed be increased to a constant speed of more than 6 knots and reach the Bantaan Islands within a month.

It should be about time.

Only when we truly leave the Old World, where the church’s tentacles are everywhere, and completely embark on overseas routes, will we dare to be a little more unbridled.

Even though they were so close now, it was difficult for me to even say a word to Catherine.

If I hadn't given one of the pair of [echo conches] I seized from Little Norwich to Willie...

Another gust of cold wind blew along the sea.

Byron tightened his cashmere coat and didn't feel too cold.

The merchant ships nearby have already spread out all their sails.

The captains of full-rigged square-rigged ships prefer a "bow astern" rather than a "stern".

In this state, except for the main mast and mainsail, which needs to fold the windward half to prevent obstruction, almost all other sails can be opened.

They will not block the wind for each other, and the wingsails can be opened to accelerate.

However, during ultra-long-distance ocean voyages, wind power cannot be continuously output, and at this time, the power of ocean currents is needed.

Byron happened to be talking to Bruch about the First Gyre.

clang clang clang.
The flagship [Support] in the front suddenly sounded the alarm and hoisted the signal flag.

Every ship in the fleet followed suit, passing the message one level at a time to the rear of the fleet.

It was not a warning, but: "Be prepared, the fleet is about to enter the ocean current."

Soon, a huge ocean current appeared in front of the fleet, which was clearly distinguishable from the sea water beside it. The sailors who were sailing on an ocean voyage for the first time could not help but lie on the bulwark and open their mouths wide when they saw this wonder.

"This looks like a river in the sea!"

"Amazing."

Catherine on the Osprey next door also ran out after hearing the news.

He leaned out half of his body, raised half of his white legs, and scooped around with his hands, trying to touch the current.

Unfortunately, my hands are too short to reach it.

In fact, this kind of "river in the sea" is everywhere in the ocean. Some can be distinguished by the naked eye, while others are completely imperceptible.

The temperature, salinity, size and length vary, and there are both mainstreams and tributaries.

They all deliver salt, oxygen and heat to every corner of the world.

Wherever it passes, it will stir up underwater nutrients to feed plankton and may even further create world-famous large fishing grounds.

Naturalists from the Tower Sequence have specifically measured that this first circulation zone, which connects the Old World and the Bantaan Islands, is like a river in the sea and is hundreds of kilometers wide and thousands of kilometers long.

It is the best in the discovered world.

The moment Byron drove the Golden Hind into this ocean current.

The log book in the right eye reads:
“Captain, you have continued to improve your strength, seize your own pirate ship, and build your own team.

Now we have finally set sail and embarked on the first leg of the Echidna Delta Gyre. Please keep up the good work, for endless unknowns and secrets will soon open up to you.

Spirituality increased by 0.2!"

[Secret: Prophecy, Kingship, and the prophecy of racial revival by the god of the Wild Hunt, Woden, historical influence 69] The decoding density also jumped from 15% to 17%.

Byron glanced at the suddenly changing logbook and realized that he seemed to have accidentally taken a key milestone.

And
"The Echidna Triangle? Is the triangular circulation of the Sea of ​​Monsters related to this secret that has a historical influence of 69 and is almost enough to overturn the world order?

This... covers more than just the Old World!"

Of course Byron knew what the Echidna Delta was.

Just leave the North Sea between the Channel Islands and the Old Continent.

It is the dangerous, mysterious, vast, and unconquered "Sea of ​​Echidna", which means: the mother of monsters.

This sea is also called the Sea of ​​Monsters.

Because any ship that dared to sail into the depths of this ocean has never returned alive.

This is why it has such a fierce name.

In addition, according to scholars' observations, surrounding this sea is an extremely large counterclockwise triangular circulation system - the Echidna Triangle.

The ocean current below the ship, connecting the Old World and the Bantaan Islands, is one side of the triangle: the First Gyre.

The circulation zone is also one of the few safe passages in the Sea of ​​Monsters.

Sailors all know this common sense.

The Storm Riders are unrivalled in their study of storm systems.

Byron, with the legacy of the Lancastrian family, knew a little more than others.

There was once a Lancaster ancestor who reached the fifth-order legendary level. He used the triangular circulation data compiled by his predecessors and rushed to high altitudes to sense and explore it personally.

It is asserted that except for the Bantaan Islands which have not yet been fully explored.

To the east, opposite the "Sea of ​​Echidna", there must be another extremely large continent!

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the current direction of ocean currents in this large triangle.

It’s a pity that due to the restricted area and circulation of the Sea of ​​Monsters, it is difficult to reach there directly.

The expedition ship must first head southeast to the end of the Bantaan Islands, then step onto the second circulation belt and turn northeast.

If the inference is reasonable, as long as we reach the end of that continent and then pass through the third circulation belt, we may be able to return to the Old World.

The destination is exactly at the Anchor Bay of the Bay People!

According to the information displayed in the logbook.

In order to truly unravel the secret of the prophecy of the Wild Hunt, Byron probably really needs to accomplish the feat of conquering the "Echidna Triangle".

“Let’s take it slow.

We have only taken a small step on our long journey, and have not even touched the boundaries of human explorers’ current exploration. It is a bit too ambitious to consider this.”

As we continued to move deeper into the first circulation zone, the sun gradually set below the sea level.

Due to changes in salinity and temperature, large amounts of white fog rose from the water surface and visibility dropped sharply.

Byron suddenly turned his head and nodded to Bruch beside him:

"it's time."

When the two exchanged positions, Bruch unexpectedly turned into the appearance of pirate General Bill and took over the steering wheel from Byron.

Byron himself took advantage of the fog to climb over the bulwark and leap into the sea, where he was caught by a man-eating shark, which streaked across the water and disappeared into the fog.

(End of this chapter)