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Chapter 262: This fatty believes in the Beauty God

~14 min read 2,666 words

Ang stood at the stern of the ship, casting a pollination technique toward the sails in front. It was originally just a small spell for pollination, but because the frequency of casting was too fast, it produced an effect like spraying air outward: Huhu Huhu hu...

The sails that were originally full were groaning with the masts supporting them. Everyone felt a shock under their feet, and the airship was accelerating.

Ang continued to cast spells, the pollination technique continuously impacting the sails. When he was farming, he discovered that if a large number of small wind tornadoes rushed in one direction at the same time, it would guide more air to rush in one direction at the same time, forming a kind of siphon effect.

Large air volume would bring large propulsion force. The airship's masts screamed "creak creak," continuously accelerating. After accelerating to a certain degree, the whole airship suddenly became light.

Everyone on the ship had found a place to grab beforehand, stabilizing their bodies. They had never felt such rapid acceleration. Sister Jielisi even doubted whether the masts would break.

Originally, she felt heartache and wanted to say slow down, but then she thought, Ang was the big boss, the Chamber of Commerce was his asset, and the airship was naturally one too, so she immediately had no position to speak.

The airship suddenly became light, leaving the water surface. Losing the drag of the water, the airship's speed immediately soared, becoming a true "flying" ship.

Naigelis's intent probed outward, observing the flow of wind elements on both wings of the airship, and soon realized: So this is the ground-effect.

Because the ground-effect provided powerful lift, the airship over ten meters long could easily fly into the air without magic arrays, without gasbags, and without magic.

However, the strongest place for the ground-effect was at a height of two or three meters from the water surface. Ground-effect airships couldn't fly to high altitudes like Goblin airships, and could only slide on the water surface of two or three meters.

But this was already very powerful. The speed of a "ship" on the water and a "ship" in the air was simply not on the same level. The speed was at least seven or eight times, or even ten times higher. Once leaving the water surface, the airship's speed soared.

However, Ang didn't stop. With one hand virtually pressing forward, small wind tornadoes rushed forward continuously, carrying a large amount of air.

Sister Jielisi felt as if she were going to sea in a typhoon day. The wind blew so hard she couldn't open her eyes, and she couldn't help but shout at Ang: "Slow down, boss, slow down!"

The wind was blowing from back to front. Ang was in the upwind position, and Sister Jielisi's words couldn't pass over, but Ang saw her opening her mouth and shouting.

There was a sea monster behind, so she should be afraid of being caught up.

Ang nodded, and the other hand also stretched out. Both hands cast spells together, double the magic, double the wind power, double the happiness.

"Ah ah ah!!! Help!" Now not only Sister Jielisi was shouting, everyone was screaming.

The snake-fish person Gulu Gu and their clansmen sucked onto the sea monster. The snake-fish person's palms had suckers, able to suck onto smooth things, such as stones, ship bottoms, and the skin of large marine creatures.

With the ups and downs of the sea monster, Gulu Gu's head occasionally poked out of the water surface, and then shrank back into the water. Every time it poked out of the water surface, it could see the panicked airship in the distance.

"Gulu Gulu, human creation, so valuable, grab it. Good luck, may the sea monster bless us, hunting and returning home and encountering prey."

Previously, there were no humans in this plane. In the legends of the Gulu Gu tribe, it was only until two hundred years ago that records related to humans appeared. These humans entrenched on sandbars. The sea monster couldn't enter those shallow waters, but human airships could.

This world was very vast, on the water and under the water. Humans mainly operated on the water, and snake-fish people lived under the water, not interfering with each other. But if they happened to meet, snake-fish people didn't mind changing their taste.

Moreover, human creations were very valuable in the underwater world. Smooth and tight-fitting clothing was much more comfortable than their fish-skin water suits, and weapons were also sharper than their claws and teeth. Even the wood humans used to build airships was much harder and more regular than underwater plants.

Therefore, human creations were very popular in the underwater world. Being able to grab an airship, it was estimated that even the "toilet" humans used specifically for excretion could be sold for a high price.

"Really don't know what's wrong with these humans, actually having things specifically for pooping? Isn't it just a valley into the water? Really wasteful."

Gulu Gu muttered, diving under the water surface again with the sea monster. By the time it poked out of the water surface again, the airship was gone.

"Humans... where did they go?" Gulu Gu was stunned there for a long time, until the sunset took away its melancholy...

Tens of kilometers away, Ang finally stopped the magic before the airship's masts were about to break. The airship quickly descended to a normal speed, swaying and flying forward.

Sister Jielisi and the others had messy hair on their heads, their eyes dull. Whoever flew an airship for tens of kilometers would have this expression. They couldn't recover for a long time, and their legs were still shaking when they stood up.

Sister Jielisi, who had flown an airship for so long, probably never thought that one could sit on an airship until their legs went soft.

Sister Jielisi and the others who recovered took over the control of the airship and flew toward the place where they were staying. Not long after, a large area of snow-white islands appeared on the horizon.

Each island was a pile of snow-white sand, higher than the water surface, large and small, dotted like stars in this calm sea area. The number might be tens of thousands.

Each island was bare, with no plants and no people. Occasionally, a few islands grew some wild grass, but most were also malnourished.

Between the islands were shallow waterways. Small boats could sail in, and airships could fly in, but like the large sea monster over a hundred meters long seen before, it was impossible to enter this sea area.

With the deepening of the airship, some non-natural things slowly increased. Some islands had tents, low wooden houses or shacks, or some buildings made of large fish bones, etc.

While the airship was flying, Sister Jielisi was also introducing: "This is our camp—Ten Thousand Islands Shazhou. I heard there are tens of thousands of sandbars here. For the time being, no one has counted how many there are. No one is so idle."

"Most of the sandbars are very desolate. Everyone is concentrated on the most prosperous Bright Shazhou, going there to buy things and sell things."

Naigelis's voice sounded from Ang's body: "Listening to this name, it is estimated to be the territory of the Light Church, right? How is the power of the Light Church here?"

Sister Jielisi was already accustomed to Naigelis's existence, and also knew who this was. This was the Lord Nai Ge adult whom President Silver Coin respectfully called the Second Boss, and also her superior whom she couldn't reach even if she leveled up a dozen times, so Sister Jielisi's attitude was very correct.

"Yes, yes, boss is really amazing, guessed it right. It is indeed managed by the Light Church. How is the power? Let's put it this way, small things listen to them, big things no one pays attention to them." Sister Jielisi said with a correct attitude of flattery.

"Oh? How to say? In the place where they are, there are actually people who don't bird them?" Naigelis was curious.

With the urine nature of the Light Church, in the place where they are, it is impossible not to occupy the dominant position. Whoever dominates this place, tomorrow there will be divine officials and priests coming to persuade faith. Once you believe in the church, you have to donate, which is equivalent to religious tax.

If you don't believe in religion, you are a heretic. Immediately there will be holy knights and divine knights coming to talk to you about principles. If they can't talk, then saints, bishops, angels, and holy spirits will come to talk, until you believe.

Sister Jielisi said disapprovingly: "Everyone here is an adventurer, who cares about him? If forced, just kill him, find a sandbar to hide, or run back to the main plane, and come out after the matter fades. The number of people from the Light Church here is not very large, and generally won't provoke public anger."

"However, with them here, everyone gives some face. If there are disputes, they will also find them for arbitration. Material transactions, money exchanges, will also be placed in their territory, safer. Then they collect some transaction tax, etc."

Naigelis was stunned after listening. Why is this mode a bit familiar? The Abyss of Rest was also this situation back then.

When the World Transit Station was still operating back then, in the Abyss of Rest, the power of undead creatures was the greatest, but undead creatures didn't like to manage things much, unless it was murder, robbery, and disturbing the trade route. Other things were not very liked to be managed.

But among intelligent creatures, there were more various trivial matters. Stealing, fighting, hooking other people's mistresses, etc., were the most common occurrences. For this kind of thing, everyone generally wasn't willing to find undead creatures for arbitration. Their judgment was generally heavier, such as killing, searching souls, throwing into soul prison, etc.

So the Light Church filled this gap. Lisa back then did this work, wandering around the World Transit Station, fooling others into believing in the Light, and presiding over justice, etc.

There was a posture of major empires sending envoys to each other, which was managing more idle things.

This plane, it seems, is also a place where the power of the Light Church cannot penetrate, which led to this situation.

Clearing the context, Naigelis had new questions: "Everyone here is an adventurer, what attracted the adventurers here? You have so many void stones on the ship, could it be that the void stones were dug here?"

"Yes, there are void stones here, as well as sand gold, aquatic products, fish skin, and some special crystals in the bodies of sea monsters. Getting one or two is a fortune, so it attracted many adventurers." Sister Jielisi responded.

Naigelis was somewhat surprised. It thought void stones were produced in planes where wind elements were particularly active. Didn't expect it to be a water world.

However, thinking carefully, it was very reasonable. No matter how fierce the wind elements were, the density couldn't compare to water. If there were places where water elements were particularly active, it would also catalyze such special substances.

"What about you? Are you also because you want to get rich that you came to this plane?" Naigelis asked.

"No!" Sister Jielisi said proudly: "We are people with establishment. Our Moonlight Ship Mercenary Group belongs to the Silver Chamber of Commerce, with stable work and good treatment, and there are five insurances and one fund, death protection... used to saying it, boss, I said this when recruiting people."

"Recruiting? Then how many people does your Moonlight Ship Mercenary Group have now?" Naigelis asked.

Sister Jielisi scratched her nose tip embarrassedly: "Three... three."

"Three? Then he..." Naigelis's intent suspiciously swept over the four people on the ship, and finally fell on the damage control boy.

The damage control boy seemed to sense Naigelis's gaze, immediately stood straight and responded loudly: "Report to the adult, I am airship damage control officer Mark, belonging to the Chamber of Commerce, not from the Moonlight Ship. I am responsible for managing and protecting the Chamber of Commerce's assets, preventing people from intentionally damaging them, and responsible for throwing the annoying fatty down at dangerous moments."

Chubby Aiwei was so angry his face turned red, angrily glaring at Mark, but due to Ang and Naigelis being present, didn't dare to explode.

Naigelis looked confused. Intent swirled around Mark, Aiwei, and Lily who was persuading in a low voice. Why did they have a conflict for no reason? These young people's minds were really hard to understand.

However, since they didn't fight, Naigelis was too lazy to care, and continued to ask: "How many people does the Chamber of Commerce have here? When did Silver Coin send you over? Are you married and have children? How is the treatment? Is the diet okay? Do you have holidays? How is the year-end bonus issued? Is there anything dissatisfied? Say, say boldly, I am here to solve problems for you."

A landlord who went to the fields to comfort farmers.

The airship moved forward slowly. A large sandbar appeared in front, different from other bare sandbars. This sandbar had many trees, such as coconut palms, plants suitable for sandy soil growth, and even saw some malnourished jujube trees.

Ang felt malnourished, that was because he compared it with the jujube trees in the oasis desert. Chubby Aiwei and Lily didn't think so. When passing a jujube tree, chubby Aiwei's eyes were about to shine, muttering: "Really want to eat jujubes, compared to those rotten vegetable leaves, jujubes are the gift of the Beauty God!"

Chubby Aiwei said this paragraph very devoutly, so a soul flame floated toward the "Beauty God" swaying.

Didn't expect this fatty to be a believer of the Beauty God. Ang accepted the soul flame, flipped out a plump jujube and threw it over.

Chubby Aiwei caught the jujube in a flurry, blankly looked at Ang, then looked at the plump jujube in his hand, then looked at the shriveled fruit of the jujube tree on the shore, hesitantly swallowed his saliva.

Quietly retreated a few steps, and said to Lily and Mark who came over: "What does the boss mean? Reward me? Why don't you have it?"

Lily licked her lips and said: "The boss might feel you are too shameful, even envying those broken jujubes, so reward you with a big one, let you see and see."

"Hehe, then I can be thrown a few more times." After giggling a few times, he opened his mouth and was about to bite the jujube, but saw two pairs of eyes about to spray fire.

To avoid being beaten to death, Aiwei painfully divided the jujube into four parts. Everyone took a bite, and the ship immediately erupted with exclamations like "delicious," "too delicious," "the jujubes I ate before were *."

Just at this moment, the airship suddenly "clanged," as if it had been hit by something. The waterway was very wide, and there were not many ships. If it wasn't intentional, it was hard to hit together.

So after coming here, Sister Jielisi didn't pay much attention, didn't expect to be hit on the side of the airship by someone now.

What hit was a small sampan, with no impact, and the airship had no damage, but the people on the sampan shouted: "Can you drive a ship? You can hit it in such a wide waterway? My big brother fell into the water and choked on water. Hurry up and pay!"

Naigelis was stunned: "He hit you, but asked you to pay. Is this blackmailing you?"

Sister Jielisi's face was livid, gnashing her teeth and saying: "It's them again, really think I'm easy to bully?" ===== CHAPTER 263 =====

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