"Raise the sails and set sail!"
After the storm ended, Elvin gave the order.
The two ships sailed side by side towards the sea. Standing on the stern of the 'Roaring Conch', Elvin watched as the island gradually disappeared from his sight. He had completely calmed down the waves of his chosen path as a sorcerer.
Before leaving, he ordered the marines to completely destroy the exposed man-made structures on the island. The wooden houses built by the 'Shark Tooth Pirates' were all burned down. Judging from the growth rate of the vegetation on the island, it wouldn't take long for this island to revert back to being a completely deserted island.
The power of nature would help him remove the last trace of human existence on the island.
After that, this island that changed his future would silently await his return in the sea. At that time, he would once again activate this colossal stone golem, the 'Mountain Giant'.
Next to the 'Roaring Conch' was naturally Elvin's spoils of war – the 'Thumb'.
Although this pirate ship wasn't a standard model like a class 6 warship, its size and firepower of 30 shipboard cannons was already quite impressive.
Although the hull of the ship was slightly damaged in the previous battle with the 'Reef', and the cannons on board were mainly 9-pounder, 6-pounder and 3-pounder calibre. Strictly speaking, it wasn't much inferior to the 6th class warship 'Conch'.
Based on the principle of making the best use of everything.
Elvin sent the only other field officer on the 'Roaring Conch', Milan, to be the temporary captain of the 'Thumb'.
Afterwards, he arranged for the officers and men of the 'Reef' who couldn't see his secrets to be transferred to him. He also transferred a group of sailors from the 'Roaring Conch' to support the fighting strength of the pirate ship.
Originally, he didn't want to act together with others. Firstly, it was unclear how to divide the merits, and secondly, he was afraid of exposing his own secrets. If he were to hunt down the 'One-eyed Becky' again, it would be a headache for him to be greedy for merits like the 'Warrior'. It was better not to have them.
But now that he had incorporated these marines, the situation was naturally different.
Although the increase in manpower wasn't much, and Elvin didn't care about their physical strength, it at least doubled the firepower of his warship.
However, the ammunition reserves of both warships were severely lacking. The top priority was to restore the warship's fighting strength.
"Target: St. Martin's naval base. Full speed ahead!"
.....
The largest military port in the Kingdom of Faletis, New Haven.
Inside the Shadow Library in Princeton's Sorcerer's Garden, Anthony scratched the last rune on a piece of parchment in his lab.
"Hu —"
The young apprentice let out a long sigh.
"This thesis is finally completed. Elvin's latest combat data came at just the right time. If it wasn't for this data, who knew how long it would take to complete the analysis of the Banshee's Song!
Finally, there was a complete result that could be presented to the school! This invention will definitely change the way the navy fights in the future, and even break the dominance of the sea monsters. Well, only the word 'great' can describe it! "
Anthony quickly checked it from top to bottom. After confirming that there were no problems, he deftly sealed it with a thick envelope, stamped it with his own magical seal, and placed it together with a small box containing a brass ball.
"I don't know how this guy's brain works. What's the next one for the Scurvy Control Plan and the Banshee's Song? If it wasn't for him, who would've thought that sound waves could be so powerful?
Hahaha, I guess I have the foresight after all. There are so many apprentices in the Alchemy and Enchantment Engineering branch in the school. If I didn't have a good relationship with this guy, I wouldn't have been able to make such a great contribution to the research. "
Anthony briskly walked out of the lab with the research results. This level of research results was enough to trigger the emergency procedure and be delivered directly to the president of Princeton.
.....
On the boundless sea.
There were no more accidents on the voyage this time. After three days of continuous sailing with two groups of sailors, the two warships crossed the sea boundary and successfully arrived at the St. Martin's naval base.
The warships docked on the snow-white beach, beautiful scenery, and sheltered harbor on the island. Elvin even saw the cultivated fields on the island filled with various crops to supplement the island's supplies.
The chief officer was holding the operation certificate issued by the Third Fleet's headquarters and was about to head to the base. His main task was to replenish ammunition, fresh food, and further maintain the 'Thumb' and change the sails.
To be honest, the sight of a naval warship and a pirate ship with black sails together was too much of an eyesore and could easily cause unnecessary misunderstandings.
"Take this!"
Elvin placed his' Black Iron Cross Medal 'blessed by the Goddess in a beautiful box and handed it to Borg. St. Martin's island was under the administration of the Tulip Duchy, so the main personnel were naturally part-time teachers.
As a 'devout' believer of the Goddess, Borg had to give the medal some face.
However, if the Goddess in the Divine Kingdom knew that this "Favored One" of hers had long equated her Divine Blessing Medal with a discount coupon, and was trying his best to take advantage of her own church, who knew what she would think of him …
Uh, she might not be too happy, right?
In fact, Elvin didn't think too much about it.
After all, this was a naval base under the control of another country.
Right now, he only wanted to smoothly complete the resupply and resume the hunting operation to ensure that he could obtain the 'Golden Compass' safely. He had no interest in the dirty and scheming between the kingdoms.
At this time, even if he was a little high-profile, as long as it could slightly reduce the trouble outside of the mission, it was nothing.
However, the importance of the 'Black Iron Cross Medal' in the base was obviously higher than he expected. Not long after Borg left, a colonel in charge of the base personally came to Elvin.
"Favored of the Goddess, Captain Elvin! Welcome to our St. Martin's Naval Base. Basking in the glory of the Goddess, we will provide you with the greatest convenience in this base.
By the way, congratulations on your current merit ranking of first place! The 'Spirit of the Eagle's' three thousand gold lions and the 'Thumb' 'two thousand five hundred gold lions. The total reward has reached five thousand five hundred gold lions.
This is the latest battle report, you can take a look …
I won't disturb you any longer, the Goddess is with you! "
After bowing to each other, Elvin sincerely thanked the colonel for his care.
With a briefing in his hand, he watched the colonel leave with his first mate and personally commanded the logistics staff to resupply his two ships.
The hunting operation had been going on for more than half a month, and the relevant progress of the operation had been reported by the naval bases distributed on the main routes.
From the briefing, the warships that went out to sea so far had different results. Among them, there were ships like the 'Roaring Conch' that had a great harvest, and there were also ships like the 'Reef' that had almost been completely wiped out.
Of course, most of the naval bases didn't even find the tail of the pirates.
Because in this hunt that included the entire eastern coast of the Black Sea, the most difficult part was not how to defeat the pirates. After all, although there were many pirate ships that participated in the massacre, most of them were just small fries like the 'Blood Anchor Zach' that weren't Transcendents.
Even if the direct subordinates of the Pirate King were included, there were only a few dozen pirate ships with Transcendents in charge.
Instead, how to find the more than 200 pirate ships on the wanted list in the boundless sea was the most difficult part!
Even within the sphere of influence of the 'Tulip Alliance', there were densely packed naval bases and some patrol ships that could monitor the major routes to a limited extent and provide some intelligence for the naval forces that carried out the mission.
But looking at it from an analogy, it was like looking for 200 beans in a lake. Even if the battleship that went out could reduce the opponent to powder in one blow, it would be useless if the target couldn't be found.
Elvin was the only one who was so "lucky" to encounter two pirate ships with high bounties in less than a month and still be able to win.
However, compared to the results, he was more concerned about the names behind him. Without the assistance of Milan and the seabird reconnaissance network, the results were still very close, and could be called a strong opponent!
First place: Elvin Garrett of the Kingdom of Faletis, 16 years old, official Knight class, captain of the Level 6 ship 'Roaring Conch'. Pirates with a total bounty of 5,500 Gold Lions.
Second place: Thomas Gregory of the Kingdom of Ilya, 25 years old, veteran Knight class, captain of the Level 5 ship 'Snow Lake'. Pirates with a total bounty of 4,200 Gold Lions.
Third place: Bertram Solomon of the Kingdom of Tyro, 28 years old, veteran Knight class, captain of the battleship 'Royal Guard'. Pirates with a total bounty of 3,500 Gold Lions.
“.....”
Although the people behind could also be hidden dragons and crouching tigers, the gap between them and the three people in front was a bit too big.
However, there were still more than two months before the mission deadline. In such a long time, anything could happen. A temporary lead was not a reason for him to take it lightly.
There was a delay in the transmission of information at sea. Now, someone might have hunted another great pirate. If he was not careful and was squeezed out of the top six, it would be too late for regrets.
So.
With the sailors working overtime and the full cooperation of the base personnel, the two battleships under Elvin's command quickly recovered to their peak combat strength after a full supply of supplies, a new set of sails, and some simple maintenance.
Without the slightest hesitation, the 'Roaring Conch' and the 'Thumb' returned to the sea together!
After confirming through Milan's divination that there was likely to be another harvest on the route to the neutral port 'Attilan', the two battleships went all the way north, once again spreading a large net, waiting for the next prey to arrive.
Next was … hunting time!
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