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Chapter 1490 No Loss

"Oh! Seeing it again still makes me feel so oppressed!"

Blaze stood at the Camelot fleet's berth and couldn't help but sigh.

A row of huge ships of uniform specifications are parked neatly in a lake. This lake, which looks boundless and almost like an ocean, seems small because of these ships.

The fleet that once chased here and was enough to make one's heart stop is now parked here quietly, like a group of tall soldiers.

Although the main ship, the Avalon, sank, the fleet did not lose any of its intimidation. There is no doubt that it is still the strongest naval force in the world, and all other naval forces need to be assembled to contend with it.

"We will convert most of the ships into salvage vessels to collect supplies from the ocean, and the Eternal Kingdom, as the nominal owner of these ships, will give priority to restoring the transmission tower network." Herby introduced while pointing at several ships.

Obviously, those ships will be converted into salvage ships first, and the foreigners who are the real owners of the ships don't seem to have any objections.

To outsiders, it seems romantic to transform weapons of war into farm tools.

"Won't other kingdoms and city-states have any objections? The teleportation tower network is one of the hubs of today's large kingdoms. Letting the Eternal Kingdom, no, letting any kingdom recover first will cause quite a bit of dispute," Blaze asked doubtfully.

"Do you want to hear an ideal answer first, or a realistic answer?"

"It's more ideal. I like sweetness first and bitterness later."

"The Eternal Kingdom has just put down the Red Dragon Rebellion, and is extremely unstable internally. It urgently needs a teleportation tower network as a convenient means of transportation to stabilize the power structure." Hebie shook his head, his words full of righteousness and morality.

"Moreover, the Eternal Kingdom was once an active region during the dark ages brought about by the chaebols. We must not allow the chaebols to take advantage of this opportunity to revive in the Eternal Kingdom."

"Peace is so hard-won. The Eternal Kingdom needs the teleportation tower network more than we do. Only when the Eternal Kingdom ends the chaos that has lasted for nearly a thousand years can the [Olympus Games] that benefits everyone be promoted."

"It sounds very touching. If I hadn't seen that the Eternal Kingdom's combat fleet was being transformed into salvage ships with only basic self-defense capabilities, I would have believed it." Blaze put his hands on his hips and sighed.

"Okay, I know what the answer is. Are you using the overwhelming naval force that the Eternal Kingdom now possesses to lobby other kingdoms?"

Herbie shrugged and didn't answer directly, but that was the best answer he could give.

This is actually lobbying mixed with threats. If other kingdoms do not agree to provide the [Ika Black Stone] to the Eternal Kingdom first, then the Eternal Kingdom can once again mobilize this terrifying fleet to carry out large-scale fishing, or even attack and plunder the salvage ships of other kingdoms at sea.

Although the Eternal Kingdom has experienced civil strife, the [Absolute Military Force] and the Knights Ranking Strangers have not been disbanded.

Now that the Eternal Kingdom is willing to voluntarily abandon part of its maritime military forces to salvage the [Ika Black Stone] and provide it to all kingdoms, this is enough to make any king with a little vision wake up with laughter in the middle of the night.

Of course, this would definitely be a loss-making deal for the Eternal Kingdom. As mentioned before, they can completely do the salvage themselves and even prevent other kingdoms from salvaging.

Unfortunately, the Eternal Kingdom also has its own difficulties, which is that the manpower available is almost zero.

Although the strangers in the Knight Ranking are still there, their mobilization efficiency is not as high as the high-pressure policy planned by the Goblin Minister.

It's okay for war, but simply sailing out to sea aimlessly to salvage things is not okay.

Camelot, the capital of the Eternal Kingdom, was previously home to only the commoners who had transformed into lake fairies. However, they were all melted into the water of life during the Aquarius incident, and were almost empty.

As for other kingdom city-states in the vast Third Kingdom area, they don’t even have teleportation towers now, and foreigners need to use expensive temporary teleportation towers to transfer them there.

The gains would not outweigh the losses, and Camelot's lack of ability would once again shake the already stabilized power structure.

Not to mention that even the hardworking knights and foreigners could not withstand the long-term sea salvage, let alone ordinary people who have not been trained.

The Eternal Kingdom's naval fleet is also a paper tiger.

At this time, the proposal of [Hermes's Traveling Hat] solved Camelot's urgent problem, or more precisely, it solved Morgan's troubles when he realized the crisis of the Eternal Kingdom.

Part of the fleet was scrapped and converted into salvage ships, and part of the fleet was equipped as frigates, which were then packaged and leased to [Hermes's Brigade Cap] in exchange for the priority right to obtain the [Ika Black Stone].

After that, whether it was the transformation of the fleet or the salvage of the [Ika Black Stone], all were the responsibility of [Hermes's Brigade Hat], and even [Hermes's Brigade Hat] had to pay the rental fee.

This was a business that was sure to make money. As a smart man, Morgan sorted out his thoughts in an instant and decisively chose to accept the cooperation.

"Making both sides feel that they have made a profit is the quality that a good businessman should have. It's a pity that this time it's another loss-making deal." Herbie raised his voice as if to vent his dissatisfaction. Blazer also knew that this was just Herbie's habit.

"So how long would it take to convert the fleet into salvage ships?"

"It won't be long. We just need to remove some of the weapons and replace them with some fishing nets for salvage." Herbie pointed to the huge black net that was being pulled into the salvage ship.

"The entire ocean can be considered an enormous mineral vein, and the Ica Stone is the gemstone in it. This fishing net is specially made to filter and screen the seawater to obtain trace amounts of the Ica Stone."

"We have considered the lack of islands in the ocean that the foreigners complained about, so we are considering making artificial islands. It is also possible to use world seeds, but it is too extravagant. Rather than making islands, it is better to use them to repair the vertical hell environment and the abyss hell environment."

"Oh~ So you plan to use several ships to connect together to create a drifting island." Blaze nodded in understanding, "Then if you want the drifting island to be stable as a teleportation point, you must have something heavy to use as an anchor to fix it."

"That's right. We can't find anything that heavy right now, so we decided to compromise and use chains to connect to the underwater reefs. As long as the coordinates of the teleportation tower don't move more than a certain value, the teleportation can be stable."

"So we decided to detonate an undersea volcano."

"I understand." Blaze nodded habitually.

"Wait!? What did you say you were going to detonate!?"

Chapter 1491 Trouble in the Ocean World

Seeing Herbie's "Think about it yourself" expression, Blaze touched the back of his head and laughed awkwardly. He realized that he had overreacted.

When a volcano erupts, it spews out magma. After the magma cools down, doesn't it become a crop similar to rock? Then, can't the eruption of a volcano create underwater reefs?

If a volcanic eruption is violent enough, it can directly form a volcanic island.

This is basically common sense, but Blaze just didn't think of it at the moment.

There was no way. He basically stayed on the mainland, and his brain's knowledge of the ocean was being compressed by the strange things he saw on the mainland. So when he heard about a volcanic eruption, he could only think of the disastrous scene of the volcanic eruption on the ground.

"It would be much more convenient if we could cause an undersea volcano to erupt. We would just need to use chains to secure it." Blaze coughed lightly and shamelessly repeated Herbie's words.

"But this is not something that can be done casually. The deep sea environment is quite terrifying."

If we talk about the most terrifying environment in this world, we seem to think of vertical hell and abyss hell directly, but in fact, the only environment that can be called the most terrifying is the deep sea environment.

Water pressure that can even bend steel, a dark environment with no vision, no air to breathe, and most importantly, a special negative condition called [Decompression Sickness].

This special negative state is a rare abnormal state that cannot generate resistance, because the reason for the birth of this special negative state is the generation of resistance skills.

Simply put, when you are in water, you have to withstand the pressure from the water. The deeper you are, the greater the pressure you have to withstand.

During the process of enduring damage, you will briefly gain [Stress Resistance State] and adapt to the deep water environment. The deeper the water, the higher your proficiency in the [Stress Resistance State] will gradually increase.

However, when you leave the current water depth and float up quickly, this [anti-compression state] will turn into a harmful state, that is, [decompression sickness]. The higher the proficiency of the [anti-compression state], the greater the damage caused by [decompression sickness].

Just like fish can only live in water and will soon die if they come onto land, the antibodies originally used to fight the surrounding environment turn into a deadly poison that kills the body the moment it leaves the environment.

This is an almost unsolvable abnormal state damage. The damage caused and the speed of floating up are linked to the proficiency of [Pressure Resistance]. In some cases, it will cause instant death.

The way to avoid it is very simple, that is to float up slowly and let the [stress resistance state] slowly reduce the proficiency.

But the problem is that when you are in the dangerous deep sea, your first reaction to danger is to retreat to an environment you are familiar with, that is, the surface of the water. The result is that you will be buried in the ocean due to [decompression sickness].

The only creatures that can directly resist decompression sickness are the giant beasts living in the ocean. Their structures are different from those of terrestrial creatures, and they have special organs to deal with it.

The plan to trigger an underwater volcanic eruption and then create underwater reefs and volcanic islands sounds simple, but the process is extremely difficult.

Only blessed ones can trigger the eruption of an underwater volcano. Ordinary people are excluded. Once you really reach the deep seabed alive, how to trigger the eruption of an underwater volcano is another problem.

The deep-sea environment is also an elemental environment with a special mechanism. Just like in front of the sun, all elements are meaningless. In the deep sea, almost all elements are meaningless, and strength and agility attributes will be greatly weakened.

"Think about it carefully... the probability of success of this plan is not high. Letting people go down is no different from suicide." Blaze pinched his chin, thinking about various possibilities.

He first ruled out the plan of humans diving in. It was not a question of inhumanity, but the probability of success was infinitely close to zero. Even foreigners would not do such a waste of life.

"Taming the sea beasts to assist in this seems to be the only method with a high probability of success."

"I've considered it, but unfortunately it's very difficult. The level of the sea monsters is too high. A monster that can freely travel between the sea surface and the seabed must be at least LV220. Monsters of this level are almost impossible to tame."

"It's the special ecological environment of the ocean that makes their levels inflated, their wisdom not proportional to their strength, and there is no possibility of communication." Herbie hit the point of the problem.

When Blaze appeared in the Golden Apple Tree Sea, he saw the sea monsters. Their levels were generally very high, almost 50 levels higher than the average level of monsters on land.

This is because the ocean is rich in resources, there is a lot of food, and the deep environment provides a lot of resistance skills. A giant sea beast can easily prey on a large number of sea monsters as long as it opens its mouth and swims forward, and it is also easy to obtain skills such as [Killing].

But on the other hand, monsters that can easily upgrade by relying on their racial characteristics and break through level limits are insufficient in intelligence.

It's not that they are not smart, they certainly have no shortage of conspiracies and tricks, they can even acquire the [Translation] skill to conduct conversations, what they lack is [Foresight].

They are cunning, but only in combat and catching food.

They would rack their brains and try to steal the crops in the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees, but they never thought that as long as they protected the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees in return, they could easily obtain the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees as guardians.

If you want a deep-sea beast to cooperate, you have to find one that is at least LV350 or above. The reason why it needs to be at such a high level is the same as quantity can lead to qualitative change. At this level, even a piece of wood can speak well.

"All we can do now is to take one step at a time and take all kinds of situations into consideration." Hebie had no idea at all. The ocean was such a tricky and unknown world that he was restricted in everything he did.

In fact, Blaze and Herbie both have a universal solution, a giant snake that can encircle the world, the Ouroboros.

With its help, it would be easy to trigger an underwater volcanic eruption to create underwater reefs and volcanic islands, fix drifting islands, or even collect the [Ica Black Stones].

But both of them tacitly did not mention this matter.

Because this is a matter on the human side, and every interest in it is only related to humans, and Ouroboros is a world-class existence. Such a great being should not and cannot commit itself to participating in these matters that are too small for it.

The two people who had once become great beings could vaguely and instinctively feel that something was wrong.

Human troubles are better solved by humans.

Chapter 1492 Drifting Island No.

In the end, [taking one step at a time] seems to be the only option. Adding an offshore teleportation tower to the Drifting Island is ultimately a matter for the future. The most important thing right now is to collect the [Ika Black Stone] first.

Thanks to the Knights' Ranking of Foreigners who uniformly manufactured ships, and the fact that Hebi had been eyeing the Eternal Kingdom's ships for a long time, the plan to salvage the ship had been listed in the archives early on, so the transformation was extremely smooth.

After a while, the rough outline of a drifting island ship had taken shape.

From the outside, it is just a square structure formed by four ships placed side by side, and a platform is built between the ships using huge building materials. In the middle is a huge square hole, which is used for casting nets.

All that’s left is to build some infrastructure on the platform before it can be put into use for the first time.

Camelot's anchorage is also very particular. This huge lake has a natural whirlpool, and the time of its appearance and the destination are fixed. This is not a rare situation. It is precisely because of this whirlpool that this is the anchorage chosen by strangers.

Herbie was the main person in charge of the project and was the first person to be put into use for the first time. Others on board were also quite experienced sailors, and the most reliable among them was undoubtedly the huntress Callisto.

She was originally responsible for guarding the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees, and came to support Herbie at Audrey's request.

Herbie's original plan also included Captain Barber, but unfortunately Captain Barber is still lying on the ship recuperating.

Blaze, who was passing by, was caught by Herbie and taken on board. The last person to board this simple drifting boat was a rather unexpected person.

"Master Had, why are you here?" Blaze looked at Had in surprise as he was carrying a bag.

After Harder completed the construction of the Hearth Monster Forging Center in the Giant House, he almost never left the Giant House. Occasionally, he would go to the Goblin Village to instruct the Goblin Forger, and then take the Goblin Forger to the Hearth Monster Forging Center.

The old lion sometimes complained to him, saying that Hader was like some kind of missionary organization, constantly luring goblin blacksmiths to leave. After leaving, the goblin blacksmiths were like they were brainwashed, and only their works were returned.

This cannot be blamed on the Goblin Blacksmith and Had. The fireplace monster built by the Fairy Kingdom is like a holy place for the blacksmiths. Once a blacksmith enters it, it is difficult for him to leave. They even want to bring more blacksmiths they recognize to the holy place to enjoy the atmosphere.

It is rare that Had would voluntarily leave the fireplace monster and appear in a place that has nothing to do with forging.

"This is really a strange thing, the sun is coughing." Blaze coughed twice, forcibly interrupting his metaphor.

[The sun rises in the west] is a commonly used expression to describe something abnormal, but since he carried Amaterasu on his back, this expression could no longer be used, because once he used this expression, Amaterasu would deliberately poke her head out from the west.

Just now, he could feel Amaterasu was eager to try.

"The material of [Ica Black Stone] is not suitable for forging. It is too broken. As a gemstone itself, it cannot provide any special skills. It is not worth embedding."

Blaze greeted him and reached out to pick up Hader's luggage.

The heavy feeling made him stunned. Hader had taken his entire fortune and life with him.

The so-called life and property are of course the hammer, furnace, and fire that Hader is accustomed to using as a blacksmith. These may be ordinary, but they have accompanied Hader's growth as a blacksmith.

"Indeed, the [Ica Stone] itself has no value as a forging material, and it is even a bit of a stretch to use it as a handicraft, but I didn't come here for the [Ica Stone]." Had stroked his beard, his face full of suppressed excitement.

“I’ve actually always wanted to go to sea.”

"Oh!?" Blaze became interested. Master Had was a forging madman. There was almost nothing else on his mind except forging. He had devoted all his time until now to forging, and planned to devote his time in the future to forging as well.

Such a Fire Rabbit Had actually has other things he wants to do.

"In fact, I wanted to go out to sea with you last time. I have always wanted to meet the Cyclops. It is said that they have mastered a very arbitrary forging technique. However, after the Cyclops Island was opened, I visited it. Unfortunately, their forging technique has been lost. It is really a pity."

Hader repeated what a pity it was twice, and must have repeated it many more times in his mind.

"There's nothing to worry about. As the strangers say, the purpose of losing something is to find it back." Blaze consoled him, "Look, the upper limit of the blacksmith was once sealed, but now it has been unlocked."

"What is lost will be found, what is sealed will be unlocked, and what does not exist will be even better, you can start trying to create it now."

"You are getting better and better at talking, kid." Hader shook his head with a smile, "Actually, my real goal is the legendary mermaid."