Extraordinary Voyage Chapter 244: Lost and Recovering
The second part of the reward is permissions.
There are many privileges that belong to the "Navy Rising Stars", such as priority enjoyment of supplies, priority selection of reserve crew, participation in alliance specific celebrations, and so on.
But the most important thing for Aiwen is the "free passage of ports in the alliance"! is one of the rarest flags in the six nations of the alliance.
Aiwen 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 afterwards and do not need any application procedures.
also enjoy the treatment of their own battleship class.
In other words, Ivan will be able to enter and exit the league in the future! Although this authority seems unremarkable, it is just a lot more convenient, but the biggest advantage is that everyone knows that they will never put it on the surface-warship smuggling! In fact, smuggling with warships is nothing new. The highly profitable smuggling activities are the big fat meat that both civilian merchants and the navy want to take a bite of.
In response to this situation, the Admiralty also closes one eye most of the time, and the right to grant benefits to the Navy.
As long as it does not affect operations, it will generally not interfere excessively.
As an ordinary captain of a country, how much can the "horn of storm" gain free access to the alliance and the colonies? is simply incalculable! As long as you are diligent, it is easy to make more profits than the shares of the previous copper mines! The third part is the highlight of the reward, the treasure once promised by the Kingdom of Ilya.
In fact, almost all the treasures in the list of treasures announced at the time were treasures of the "ocean secret treasure" level. For the wealthy Ilya royal family, several low-level "ocean treasures" and superb weapons of the highest quality were still It's easy.
But in the face of treasures with different abilities, such as the extraordinary weapon "Blood Lake Light" that can greatly increase the strength of the knight! For battleships, the "Marine Treasure·Caselle Bronze Cannon" bomb cyclone that can be used as a means of pressing the bottom of the box is invaluable! .... Aiwen still chose this "golden compass" that didn't seem to be very useful! 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 known "golden compasses" 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 kind of bad conditions, it can guide the ship holding him a way out! Compared with many "ocean treasures" with magical abilities, this mysterious passive ability is so small that it has no sense of existence, but it is a treasure in the hands of adventurers who have the courage to explore the unknown world.
On the surface, its abilities seem to overlap with Milan’s prophecy, but it has an advantage that prophecy witchcraft does not have.
That is the "absoluteness" of the occult perspective! What is absoluteness? Unconditional and unlimited.
Compared with "divination" which requires interpretation and guessing is often linked to probability.
Give a chestnut: A merchant ship with a very deep draft and full of precious cargo is being chased by a vicious pirate ship, and in front of him there is a calm surface but densely covered sea.
As long as they can get through here safely, 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 merchant ships to an absolutely safe waterway.
Of course, in this process, the compass will not give you any lucky bonuses and boosts. It is your own ability to escape from this definite way of life.
If you switch to divination, you may have multiple guidelines for the purpose of survival.
For example: yaw 12 compass points, there is a certain probability that you will encounter unexpected life-saving straws when you have been sailing; surrender to the pirates, and those who are protected by the horse head constellation can save their lives; if you walk in this waters, a certain route will escape danger The probability may be the greatest.
Of course, there is the biggest possibility. It's hopeless, so let's die and say goodbye.
Where is the gap, it's clear at a glance.
However, although absolute, the "golden compass" is not a panacea.
Even if it is a gift from a god, it has magical power, but no matter what, it is just a compass, not a **** with infinite power.
If you are surrounded by hordes of large sea monsters, maybe it will give you a vertical upward direction.
As for whether you have the ability to go to heaven or not, it is not within the scope of its consideration... However, the ability of the "golden compass" is not the reason why Ivan 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 he believes in his own power more than he believes in the life guided by a "compass"! Pata—— took out the golden compass about the size of a pocket watch from a beautiful walnut box. Thanks to the gift of God, there is no trace of wear on it, just like a brand new one.
open the gold flip cover engraved like a cosmic star pattern. Under the smooth crystal plate, there are scales and letters that are indistinguishable from the normal compass.
is an arrow-shaped magnetic needle in the middle, half red and half gold. 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.
Aiwen covered the flip and turned the compass over. You can clearly see that the bottom of the compass is part of a golden city-state.
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 Kingdom", the residence of the gods.
But if they are asked to verify which deity it is, no one can tell.
Among them.
part of the magical story about the "Golden Compass" is widely circulated, but some secrets are only circulated among its owners and inheritors! In the seemingly seamless structure at the bottom of it, there is actually something else.
This is a secret that very few people know. Fortunately, after Ivan’s mental power was activated, his childhood memories have fully recovered, otherwise it would really be impossible to remember them.
Ivan pressed the bottom cover with his thumb, and after it sank almost undetectably, first turned it half a turn clockwise, and after releasing it, turned it counterclockwise again.
click—— The bottom cover, which seems to be integrated with the compass, has already popped open by itself.
is a complex mechanical structure different from ordinary nautical compasses, precision gears, clockwork, gems, complicated and small incantations, the precision of which is the mystery and mechanical beauty that no one can imagine in this era.
Aiwen’s attention is not here. On the side of the inner shell, there is a line of tiny handwriting “Galliott 12th year of Haiyuan calendar” written in an unknown green paint.
"Ha, it really is it!" finally confirmed the initial guess. Ivan was once again thankful that he had chosen the road of the navy, and this treasure of the family heritage was lost and recovered.
If you choose to be a pirate in the first place, let alone an ordinary official knight, even a Tier 3 great knight like my sister, it is impossible to **** this "golden compass" from the treasure house of the kingdom. .
After a brief period of joy, Irvine's emotions became complicated.
The joy of losing and regaining, the melancholy of seeing things and thinking about people, the feeling of being wrong...In the end, there is only a mixture of five flavors in my heart.
It took a long time to clean up and reinstall the bottom cover.
Aiwen touched this "golden compass" secretly passed down between the patriarch and heir for nearly two hundred years, and the legend about it resurfaced from the bottom of my heart.
The story passed down by the Galliot family.
Their ancestor, Galliot, was still an unscrupulous civilian explorer (there are differences between captain, shipowner, and funder, and civilians without money can't be explorers).
Once while drinking in a tavern, he accidentally met a mysterious figure who claimed to be from the other side of the sea.
Although the offshore shipping has been very developed before this, the ship has also undergone several revolutionary changes.
However, the first year of the Haiyuan calendar is the beginning of ocean exploration~IndoMTL.com~ The iconic event is that the Kingdom of Sirius took the lead in "conquering" the treasure sea and discovered the southern continent.
So the young Garriott subconsciously thought that this mysterious man came from the southern continent on the opposite side of the Treasure Sea.
While the two were drinking, the mysterious visitor from afar heard the distress in the explorer's words, so he generously offered a deal.
The bargaining chip of the mysterious person is this "golden compass", and the price that Galliot needs to pay is not money, life, soul, etc., but a "cowardly and comfortable" heart! However, Galliot did not take this inexplicable price in his heart at all.
Galliott, who is determined to become a great adventurer, feels that he has never had such useless things since he went to sea, and can this kind of illusory mood be used as a bargaining chip? At that time, Galliot, whose transcendent level was too low, didn't think much about it, and he agreed to this seemingly cost-effective deal without hesitation.
The following development is as he wishes.
"Golden Compass" helped Galliot successfully explore the best route to the Treasure Sea! And the Garriott family also received the canonization of the Ilya royal family, and jumped into a real hereditary baronial family with forty knights.
It was not until a long time later, with the improvement of his status and extraordinary level, that Garriot, who was already a baron, learned that the "Golden Compass" was a gift from the "Golden Kingdom".
As for where the "golden country" is, what is the purpose of sending these "golden compasses", and who else has compasses, no one can tell.
Nearly two hundred years have passed in a hurry. The "compass" of the Garriott family was lost in the night of blood and fire in the town of Blackstone. To this day, the compass has returned to the hands of Irvine, a descendant of the Garriott family.