129. The ship touring the sky
129.
A boat cruising through the sky reads the wind direction while breaking through the clouds, and sets its direction by looking at the corals lying in the deep sea.
It was a truly romantic sentence, but the saintess had no time to rejoice that she had the qualities of a poet. The sentence she came up with was a very plain and metaphorical expression of the current situation.
The boat they were on was flying in the sky. Not joking, actually.
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-Splash – !
The extremely short ‘flight’ ended in about 5 seconds. On the temporal scale, it was embarrassing to call it flight, but on the spatial scale, it dared not be called flight.
What ship can swim a height of 12 cubits?
“Ahhhhh! I’m a knight!!”
The saintess of innocence seemed deeply impressed by the sight that almost transcended the limits of her belly, and she was very fervently expressing her admiration for what she had just experienced. She wasn’t the only one. It was clear that the saintess could not bear it, as she wanted to convey to others the impressions she felt.
Otherwise, there was no way I could use all of her limbs in the Death Knight’s arms and hug her. It was only natural that the Death Knight understood her sentiments as she witnessed her saintess try her new method of delivery, gradually becoming one with her own left arm.
The movement of the ship passed by as they prepared to take flight once more. This time, the small ship challenged the sea on an even bigger scale, as if to surpass her own limits before her battle.
The challenge of a ship was never worthless. The flight the ship made this time was 14 cubits.
-Splash – !
The sea water brushing the saintess’ cheeks was telling her that her ship had ended her understanding and that she was now in reality, not romance. However, no matter how you look at it, such a spirit of challenge could never be ignored. Zer Pied was so deeply impressed by the challenge to reach his limit that he looked at the saintess who was lost and spoke to Erben in a voice that sounded like her drool.
“Erben Ong! Are you okay-?!”
The words were almost like a roar. It was because the sound was muffled by the strong turbulence of the sea, so it was difficult to hear. Not only that, but also because the captain of the ship stood atop the mainmast. It was for that reason that the Death Knight talked to him.
Looking at Erben standing on her main mast, the Death Knight thought it was fortunate that her saintess had lost her mind. She wouldn’t have known that Esilia might have fainted if she had seen Erben leaning forward, holding her mainmast with one of her hands, not both.
Erben, who was being hit by things he didn’t know whether it was pouring rain or fragments of the crumbling waves, said with a broad smile.
“Hey! Sir Huchi!”
It was really absurd. The old sailor’s voice could be heard clearly even amidst the violent ensemble of heavy rain and strong waves. The light from the scars the lightning had cut through the sky added more depth to his sunken wrinkles.
Suddenly, Zerpied noticed that the old elf was quite thin. However, the strength of the grip holding the main mast was strong. His voice, as strong as his grip, passed Death Knight’s ears like his silver hair fluttering in the wind.
“Have you ever experienced something like this while traveling on the sea?!”
I felt like I was going to get goosebumps from the death knight’s ridiculous energy that was clearly felt in his voice. She is an old man of nearly ninety. An elf as old as Panbano Ong. At that age, it could be said to be close to death.
But what I felt from him was a certain life. A rough voice flowed from the Death Knight’s mouth.
“Roughly!”
Then a sharp laugh shook the boat. It sounded like it was thundering, but the Death Knight couldn’t hear it. Only the loud laughter of the old elf rang in his ears.
“Really? I’m curious as well, having wandered the seas for fifty years. Where can I tell you a story?”
Erben, who came down from the main mast to the deck with lightning, threw a nearby rope at Zerfied. The rope was tied to one of the mainmast’s multiple sails. Zerfied could see that Erben had not simply been on the main mast.
He was checking the condition of the sails. For that, the top of the main mast, where you can see the sails closest, would be the best place. By taking advantage of the relatively high altitude, the surrounding situation could also be grasped.
Catching the rope Erben threw, he pulled it tight. Zerfied immediately realized what the old elf was up to. Erben was setting the sail narrowly to the side. So that the wind could move their ships more easily.
Although she was holding her saintess in one arm, it was a small boat, not a huge sailboat like Pan Banoong’s boat in the first place. Moving it with one hand wasn’t too difficult.
As he watched him pull, Erben stood alongside him with a nimble movement. Pulling the rope with the old boatman, the Death Knight told him what he wanted.
“…… I’ve seen you blow a sea serpent’s head off with a single cannonball.”
As soon as he heard that, a chuckle escaped from the old man’s lips.
“It’s intense from the beginning! Blowing away the Sea Serpent with one cannon shot is something I’ve never done before! Seeing that there are cannons, it must have been so big that it couldn’t compare to my ship.”
“Yes, it was a big ship. Although smaller than the ship that followed us.”
“They’re ignorantly big.”
Listening to the grunting old man’s complaints, the Death Knight had no choice but to slightly raise the corner of his mouth.
“I even faced a Kraken. I was lucky to escape then……. I was once in a similar situation.”
“Similar situation?”
“It was like this heavy rain and lightning strike. Actually, more. A cyclone was raging. Did I just say I was ignorant? It’s not particularly insulting to the captain who did it, but it was a way that could be considered ignorant. Because it was a way to escape by riding the wind of a cyclone.”
Once again, the old man’s laughter, worthy of competing with thunder, shook the boat. The Death Knight, who was listening right next to him, could clearly see it. The laugh did not flow from absurdity or bewilderment.
The old elf’s laugh was none other than the expression of great confidence. Because of this, Zerfied almost missed the rope in an instant. Are you suddenly confident? He couldn’t understand why, when he heard the story he had told him, his confidence emanated from the sailor’s unique sense of humor or interest.
When he grabbed onto the rope he had almost missed and looked ahead, Zerfied could see why he was so confident. As if Erben also understood Zer Pied’s reaction, he raised the corners of his mouth and said clearly.
“Great. There are only adventures that are hard to experience while living together. Well, it must be that she is being chased by the Holy Knights with her saintess. But it is.”
Death Knight had an unbelievable feeling that she suddenly got goosebumps. He couldn’t understand why she suddenly felt that way. He blinked to find out why. Raindrops danced around his eyelids, but the figure of an old elf right next to him was strangely clear.
Erben was looking straight ahead.
I don’t know why. The Death Knight unknowingly moved his gaze to the place where the old elf was looking. And from the song of the pouring rain, the voice of an old elf came.
“Among all the captains who have been with you.”
Death Knight finally understood why he was so confident.
“No captain has ever experienced anything like this.”
What lay in front of them was a huge reef. The shape of the reef, which seemed to reach a height of almost twelve cubits, was strange. It was a shape built at an angle with a steep slope in the front, and it was a shape that became narrower toward the end like an awl. It looked like a cliff rising from the middle of the sea.
…… And it seemed like a precarious uphill road they had to head.
“Huh… ….”
It was only natural that exclamations of admiration flowed from the Death Knight’s mouth. Death Knight thought that the work he was doing to adjust the shape of the sail was to ride the wind more quickly. It was half the right idea. The other half was as he saw it now.
That work was just a precursor to riding the reef in front of you and crossing this reef and current zone all at once. Death Knight had to open his gear nose.
“Erben Ong.”
“Huh?”
“I don’t know how that sounds, but this is the craziest thing I’ve ever experienced at sea.”
Erben laughed out loud instead of answering. He pulled the rope taut with his strong grip. The ship that received his call slowly began to spread its wings called sails. As if it was for the sake of the present that I had been tilting it so far.
By the wind of the heavy rain blowing from behind, the boat moved forward. The sharp rise of the reef was not a problem either. It was now, only a road for the ship.
It was indeed a flight.
The boat was flying in the sky.
No one can dispute that fact. It’s already been a few minutes since they’ve been airborne. The tip of the huge reef that had run over was already moving away from their boat. It was only the calm buoyancy that kept their boat afloat. Perhaps recognizing that unique feeling, the saintess stood up while twisting her small body.
“Ah, Ecilia. Woke up…… ?”
There was no particular reason for the Death Knight to blur his words. Rubbing her eyes and coming to her senses, she gazed blankly at the sight outside her boat, at the sea rolling about twenty cubits below. After looking at them for a moment, the saintess turned her head toward her Death Knight. Her face was smiling wide. She said with a big nod of her head.
“I’ll faint for a moment, driver! I don’t know what it is, but tell me when you’re done!”
As always, the saintess never went against her own words.
-Kooung – !
With Erben’s big smile upon hearing that, their boat returned to the sea like a wild cat landing on land, but on a scale that is difficult to say lightly. Death Knight slowly turned her gaze back. The current, with its jaws open to devour them violently, and the toothy reef were far behind. All around were the waves moving gently.
The pouring rain slowly started to stop. Sunlight peeks through the clouds. The Death Knight could be seen where the blade of the sun shone sharply through the clouds.
Mountains towering high. The colors they wear are all dull. As if they were asking where they dare to climb on their own bodies, their stubbornness is so hard that you can’t even find a single blade of grass on their backs.
No matter how close to the sea, you can still see large rocky mountains and plateaus.
It was the western continent.