"Your Highness, when you and teacher A Qi explore the new islands, can you take me and my sister with you?" Ruth asked with her big, cute eyes.
Lucy hurriedly scolded, "Ruth, don't make rude requests to His Highness!"
Although Ruth was a little bold, she did not dare to defy her sister. She could only bow to Liszt and apologize, "I'm sorry, Your Highness. Ruth was too reckless. Please forgive me."
Liszt waved his hand, "Don't be nervous, Lucy, Ruth. If your teacher A Qi doesn't refuse, there's nothing wrong with taking you with her." It was a pleasant and interesting thing to have two cute little lolis companions on a voyage, not to mention that they could control the magic stage.
Therefore, A Qi, who was researching how a Dragon Turtle could mutate into a Lightning Dragon Turtle from Dragon Turtle Island, quickly agreed to the sisters' request.
Under Liszt's urging, she had already accepted Lucy and Ruth as her magic apprentices. The twins' former teacher, Kris Truth, did not object to this at all. She even envied the twins for being able to listen to the Magic Shooter's teachings at any time.
Of course.
Kris actually thought too much. A Qi was the twins' teacher in name, but she had no intention of teaching them in private. She only liked to study magic on her own, or assign some research tasks to mages. She did not like to communicate with others, let alone teach.
It was indeed a waste for a Magic Shooter to teach magic apprentices. Any ordinary mage from the Guild of Magic could complete the teaching.
"Thank you, teacher. Thank you, Your Highness." The twins cheered excitedly.
Liszt nodded and said, "Go and pack your luggage. We'll leave at any time." He and A Qi's sailing trip was to leave as soon as they said they would, without the slightest delay.
At this time.
Nami's weak cry came from a jade box hanging on the ceiling. "Chirp."
It flew out of the box and landed on A Qi's palm, looking at A Qi pitifully. It had not gone out to work for a while, but stayed in the laboratory, waiting for A Qi's return, seeking the care of the owner of the contract. At this time, its expression was sad, still fighting against the hindrance of evolution.
A Qi holds Nami in her hand and smiles, "Don't worry, Nami. A Qi will take you with me. We are going to explore the new world in the archipelago discovered by my brother."
"Tweet." Nami rubbed her head against A Qi's fingers and dozed off with satisfaction.
One day later.
Liszt arranged the affairs around him properly, and A Qi handed over the busy magic experiments one by one, before setting off for the New Islands.
Rumble!
Hualala!
"Off we go, sea!" cried the twins merrily from the bow.
Before coming to Black Horse Island, they were the children of serfs in the countryside of the Kingdom of Eagle and had never seen the sea in their lives.
Coming to Black Horse Island to live, sailing is a common occurrence. He has long overcome his fear of the sea, but he still does not dare to swim in it.
The Blazing Flame, loaded with fruits, vegetables, magic potions, and other supplies, followed the planned route and braved the wind and waves at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
The New Islands are about 4,000 kilometers away from Black Horse Island – according to Earth's data, it is probably the distance between the northernmost Bohai Sea in China and the southernmost South China Sea.
The average speed of the palace fast sailing ship is about 10 knots, or 18 kilometers per hour, and can sail up to 400 kilometers a day with a downwind. The Sapphire Family relied on the palace fast sailing ship to dominate the Aquamarine Sea, but there is a lot of headwind and windless sailing on the sea, so it can travel up to 200 kilometers a day.
From Black Horse Island to the New Islands, it takes 20 days for the palace fast sailing ship to sail. If it is replaced by a merchant ship with a speed of 3 knots, it will probably take two months, and that is if the sailing is smooth.
However.
For the Blazing Flame, there is no such thing as headwind, downwind, or windless. A Qi controlled the waterspout to push and raced directly on the sea. Eight hours later, they had arrived at the location recorded on the nautical chart. Then Liszt called out the little fire dragon Leo, flew into the blue sky and white clouds, and searched for land.
The search went smoothly, and it took only 15 minutes to find the island – this was also the reason for the increasing accuracy of the nautical chart.
A Qi has been studying "astrology" for a long time, and combined with telescope technology, developed a set of devices that can measure the angle between the sun or other stars and the sea level or ground level. She also wrote a book "Star Orientation Light Measurement in Navigation" to direct the application of the device.
After seeing this device, Liszt directly grabbed the naming rights: "Call it a sextant!" In fact, it is a different version of a sextant.
With a sextant, it is more accurate to measure the position of a ship during the voyage.
Basically, to prevent the situation of getting lost at sea, the fleet from the Flame Territory used a sextant during the day and night, and only when it was cloudy would they look at the nautical compass – a device similar to a compass, which also pointed in one direction, but not in a north-south direction, but in a direction of 15 degrees west by north.
There is no theoretical explanation as to why it points in this direction.
"A Qi, set off in the 195-degree direction, the island is just ahead!" After finding the island, Liszt immediately contacted A Qi. As for the "195-degree", it was Liszt's invention. He combined it with the nautical compass, divided the position coordinates into 360 degrees, and clearly indicated each direction.
195 degrees was a little west by south.
This invention originated from the game "PlayerUnknown's Battleground: Battle Royale" that he played on Earth. There was a 360-degree direction indicator, which was very convenient for reminding teammates of the enemy's position.
However, before the Flame could approach the island.
Lucy and Lucy shouted loudly, "Your Highness, Teacher, the magic platform has sent a message. The Discovery has encountered an unknown large whirlpool and is being swallowed by the whirlpool. It is calling for help!"
A Qi immediately said, "Coordinates, direction!"
After the twins reported the Discovery's position, the Flame immediately changed direction and rushed towards the sea where the Discovery was located. Along the way, they maintained communication with the magic platform. The Discovery was still struggling, and the Exploration and Opportunity were too far away to rescue them, so they could only wait for the Flame.
Unfortunately, when A Qi continuously adjusted the direction and finally reached the vicinity of the large whirlpool, the Discovery's signal had disappeared from the magic platform.
"Your Highness, Teacher …" Lucy said sadly, "I can't find the magic platform signal of the Discovery."
Liszt walked up to the bow of the Flame. He was in a bad mood, but he still comforted himself. "Accidents are inevitable when exploring the sea. They were the pioneers of a new country, and the new country will not forget their contributions." He looked up at the large whirlpool that seemed to be able to swallow the entire world.
With A Qi controlling the waterspout, the Flame slowly approached the large whirlpool.
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