Chapter 454: Fleet Sets Sail

The northern border of the Fairy Kingdom.

The end coast of Britain Island.

The sound of waves is incessant, the sea wind carries a faintly salty aura, the Atlantic Ocean also seems to be in perpetual motion, emitting bursts of tidal sound.

"Oh oh oh, are we departing from here?"

"How do we go? By ship or something else, it wouldn't be riding those Phantasmal Species, would it?"

Under the illumination of the bright moonlight, Team Leader clearly had her whole person fired up, her voice also filled with anticipation and excitement.

In her spirited words, it was as if every single character was jumping with cheerful notes.

She was just like a curious baby, eagerly running to the shore, raising her head to gaze at that vast boundless sea horizon, her face full of infinite reverie.

"..."

"..."

Then, no reply.

The girl subconsciously looked back toward the distant rear, looking at that youth walking over in a Slow Step, still separated by a long distance.

Her eyebrows couldn't help but raise slightly, a trace of anxiety flashing in her eyes.

Seemingly because of that fellow behind walking in a slow sluggish manner, making her a bit unable to bear watching.

However...

Perhaps considering that next, this fellow would take her out to sea on an adventure, so Team Leader very rarely did not speak bluntly.

She merely took a deep breath, then raised her arm waving repeatedly, urging loudly: "Come over quickly!"

"Come quickly, don't wait until the ship docks, you still won't have walked over by then——"

"..."

"..."

"I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious first, this isn't catching a flight, it won't be that if we arrive at the dot we can't catch it."

Xia Zhi was still Calm walking over step by step, neither fast nor slow.

That leisurely appearance made one feel he was simply strolling on some park path.

Finally arriving beside Miss Liang Gong, he Blinked, then asked with a beaming smile:

"Right, speaking of which, how did you know we're taking a ship? I remember I shouldn't have told you in Advance?"

"Eh eh? It really is taking a ship ah!"

Miss Liang Gong Hearing this, instantly beamed with joy, becoming happy all at once.

Immediately, she smugly put her hands on her hips, saying in a Divine Aura manner: "Hmph hmph, Indeed guessed by me right...... but this is also very obvious!"

After all, 【we】 specially came to this end coast.

If not for taking a ship, what other reason could there be?

——So to speak, this is simply a self-evident result.

"Ah, that's true too, what you say makes sense......" Xia Zhi laughed it off, noncommittal, merely smiling with Playfulness.

Put this way, the reason does seem very sufficient, is self-evident, actually there's nothing to say.

But the fact is otherwise.

Because Team Leader's performance just now, although seemed like guessing, however Actually, she undoubtedly Locked the correct answer.

It is that kind of using a guessing tone and sentence structure, stating a matter she had long been certain of in her heart.

That is to say——when Haruhi was guessing whether it was taking a ship, she had already Locked that result, directly excluding other Possibilities.

——Like some large aircraft, and Phantasmal Species that can conquer the Sky and such.

——Directly gave them a pass.

So to speak, this is ultimately an unscientific woman...... cough cough, Goddess's intuition?

Or did Haruhi secretly open a cheat again, using some kind of Meaning's omniscience?

So to speak, truly a tangled and Contradictory fellow......

On the Surface, she insists on this roleplay game, yearning with a Mortal body, with an Ordinary Person's way and perspective, to experience all kinds of novelty and freshness......

However, occasionally she will Quietly Activate those little tricks, for example a clairvoyance or something, to Ensure her experience won't have any Discount Tag......

Thoughts turning, Flashing through Geng Duo ideas.

Xia Zhi also no longer said anything, but walked to Team Leader's Beside, gazing at the boundless sea surface, opened his mouth to say a sentence——

"Wait a moment, the ship is coming right away."

"Oh oh......" Team Leader Hearing this, nodded repeatedly, showing unprecedented obedience, those bright spirited pupils Faintly containing jumping joy and anticipation.

Immediately, she seemed to think of something, hurriedly asking: "Right, does this need to Ticket ah!"

"..."

"..."

"... No need."

The youth thought for a bit, replied.

He just now really was Considering, if it said need to Ticket, and not using money, but need to complete a Condition to board——

If so, could fleece Haruhi's wool again.

As long as not too outrageous, able to be justified, probably wouldn't arouse Suspicion.

And for Smooth departure, to carry out the next adventure journey, Haruhi would probably not hesitate to activate her "I think" power, easily Suo Ding that Condition.

Just after Pondering a bit, he still felt a bit Conscience couldn't get over it.

This current adventure journey, is already fleecing wool, saying it's taking the other to adventure, Actually also creating an unprecedented Miracle in this process.

——An artificial shell world constructed encircling the Galactic Center supermassive black hole.

——This shell world will exist alone in space, orbiting no other celestial body, like a throne of creation, positioned at the absolute center.

But to complete this extremely grand megastructure, the amount of matter required is staggering.

Although Xia Zhi previously carved out a large star domain from the Outside World, he later returned the mass in equal proportion, turning it into a vast star river as a whole.

So...

He didn't want to keep laboriously mining.

Simply put, as always, he set his sights on the Team Leader, who seemed unaware yet seemed capable of anything.

So one must still control the degree, adhering to a strategy of sustainably draining the pond... never act impulsively and overdraw without regard for consequences.

Although the Team Leader seemed to cooperate enthusiastically, her subconscious was actually very clear.

If one over-shears the wool and keeps treating her as a fat sheep, it might backfire.

"Wait, why do you need to think before answering that..."

The girl frowned, eyeing him suspiciously: "I just feel something's off."

The youth remained calm, explaining breezily: "How could that be? I just didn't expect you to ask such a question, I was caught off guard for a moment."

"Hmph..." The Team Leader pouted her lips slightly. Though still doubtful in her heart, she didn't press further.

She withdrew her gaze, turned, and looked toward the far distance.

The land before her was precisely the boundary of the Land of the End, Onyx, bordering the northernmost end of Britain Island.

Looking back, that colossal tree supporting heaven and earth, as if presenting the entire world, still stood there, like a guardian deity silently watching over this land.

And further ahead was the coastline surrounded by the Sea of Nothingness.

In days of old, the entire planet was utterly dead silent, all things withered, leaving only a dead sea, quiet and soundless, without a ripple, as if time had frozen here, not even willing to let a wave leap up.

Because the earth was dead, the ocean was also gone...

Ocean currents and atmospheric movement had almost completely disappeared; on the entire planet's surface, only this small oasis of Britain Island was barely maintaining its internal ecological balance.

To a large extent, this oasis could be maintained thanks to the constant consumption of the fairies, this useful material—

They reclaimed land from the sea, transforming into forests, stone, soil... and so on and so forth.

Only in this way could it be maintained.

Not to the point of dwindling with use, eventually heading toward the same dead silent end, losing all vitality and hope.

Of course, those were things of the past. Under someone's management, the planet has now fully recovered, though one can no longer see the former appearance of Earth.

No longer the pattern of seven continents and four oceans...

But precisely because of this, the Team Leader could naturally feel that this was a magical other world.

The girl surveyed the scenery of the End's coastline with great interest, her gaze withdrawing from the World Tree behind her.

She then looked at the youth beside her, as if suddenly thinking of something—

"Eh, speaking of which, isn't Miss Meng acting together this time?"

"No, of course we're acting together... she'll come over with the ship later." Xia Zhi said nonchalantly.

"Ah, she's already here!"

As his voice fell.

The distant sea surface seemed to have some movement at the same time.

Suzumiya instinctively turned her head, only to see moonlight shining, falling on the sea surface, rippling, possessing an indescribable mystery and romance.

The next moment—

A rumbling sound echoed.

An object as heavy as tens of millions of tons of mountains was moving, bringing a certain shock between sea and sky.

At the end of the sea level, a white line appeared and disappeared; it was a heart-pounding tsunami, like a roaring giant beast, carrying tens of meters high waves, surging violently, as if to devour everything.

Amidst these raging waves, a large ship stood proudly, cutting through waves, sailing forth with the tsunami's surge.

It was an incomparably majestic great warship; the feeling of it sailing across the vast ocean was like a moving black mountain range.

"Wow, this is too spectacular—" Chunri's eyes almost shone; that was her expression when she saw something she was particularly interested in.

Her gaze fixed tightly on the great ship, feeling no fear at all, as if she wanted to see through it completely.

"What is such a huge ship used for? Even an aircraft carrier isn't that exaggerated, right? Is it specially made for giants to ride..."

The youth blinked, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth: "Strictly speaking, it indeed appeared to transport groups of giants and monsters..."

"Hm?" Chunri was stunned upon hearing this.

"Naglfar, haven't you heard of it? That underworld great ship in Norse mythology's Twilight of the Gods..." the youth explained.

"Wait, wait? Na... Naglfar?" Suzumiya was stunned for a moment, as if suddenly reacting, "That great ship built with... dead people's fingernails?"

After realizing the true identity of that great ship and its building materials, Suzumiya couldn't help but shiver, her face showing an expression of chill and rejection.

As if that ship had instantly changed from a target of her interest to her enemy.

"No, I don't want to board this ship, change one... I demand to change the mode of travel." She said urgently.

"Don't rush, mythology is just mythology; actually it's not... this ship has nothing to do with dead people's fingernails."

Xia Zhi laughed, his voice gentle and soothing.

At the same time, he lightly reached out and stroked the air, as if possessing magic power.

The tsunami howling toward them actually became calm under his fingertips.

That huge vertical tide capable of submerging land and shattering islands vanished without a sound.

And the great ship like a black mountain range also slowed its momentum at an unreasonable speed, finally slowly stopping by the coast, blocking the moonlight and casting a large shadow.

At the bow, the one-eyed pale-skinned girl calmly looked down at the coastline.

——This was her ship.

——An Astral Dress only used by Othinus, unrelated to Odin.

However, under the laws of this World, manifesting in the form of a Noble Phantasm naturally incorporated it into the corresponding fantasy and Concept's status.

Thus, it was ultimately defined as Naglfar, the Black Ship of the Underworld in Twilight of the Gods.

Able to cross any Ocean in the entire World in an Instant...

Not moving the User, but moving everything beyond the User...

(Chapter End)