A few days passed in the blink of an eye. The giant ship was floating on the sea and did not set sail. Instead, it was waiting for the arrival of other wooden ships recruiting students.
Three days later, two more wooden boats joined the giant ship, each carrying dozens of students.
In the end, four real wizards, several wizard apprentices, nearly two hundred students and an unknown number of sailors gathered on the giant ship before setting sail.
The four wizards came from three wooden boats that recruited students, and Sif was one of them, responsible for recruiting students along the Emerald River. The remaining two wooden ships are responsible for recruiting students along the other two rivers of Smans Island. The last wizard has been guarding the giant ship, and it is said that he is the strongest.
The four wizards rarely show their faces on weekdays. Except for Richard, who had contact with Sifu, he had never seen any of the other wizards.
The wizard apprentices are basically the direct students of four wizards, some are one, some are two, but in the end there are no more than three. The wizards brought them here for the purpose of training. Everyone is very strong. It is a piece of cake to deal with some ordinary students who have not yet started. Therefore, they are responsible for some of the order on the ship.
Compared with wizard apprentices, the newly recruited students are naturally much inferior. Most of them have only empty talents and no fighting ability. Most of them have not completed three life reshapings. Even so, it does not mean that there is no powerful presence here.
As the two wooden boats merged, the number of students on the giant ship reached nearly two hundred. Among them, those with advanced talents have exceeded double digits, fifteen to be precise - the quality of the students on the other two boats is higher than that of the Emerald River one. Boat.
Among the fifteen highly gifted people, a girl named "Nancy" stands out.
The opponent is only sixteen years old, but his talent is the strongest among high-level talents. According to some rumors, this talent is called the "golden seed". Even some wizard apprentices and even wizards, few can achieve it. Having such a high talent does not necessarily mean that you will become a very powerful wizard, but the chance is very high.
According to rumors, the other party was a princess from a small country. There had been wizards in her ancestors. Due to the influence of her bloodline, her talent was extremely outstanding. In addition, his understanding and learning ability are also extremely amazing. Without the guidance of others, the other party has mastered several simple and practical spells and can be called a first-level apprentice.
The reason why the other party followed the White Stone Tower to the mainland was, on the one hand, to learn more, and on the other hand, to find the inheritance of his ancestors. The future was limitless.
Therefore, Nancy was favored by the four wizards on the ship. The four wizards indirectly or directly proposed the idea of accepting each other as their direct students, but Nancy politely refused one by one. Nancy's vision is obviously very high, she knows more things, and she doesn't want to tie her to the wizards who recruit students.
This made the other students, who didn't even have a chance to meet the wizard, envious and jealous of Nancy.
But to Richard, everything didn't matter.
For several days, I stayed in the cabin, thinking about some things, and occasionally curious about some secrets of the giant ship.
For example, how can a giant ship with a displacement of several thousand tons surge through the sea at a speed of more than 25 knots (1 knot = 1 nautical mile/hour = 1.852 kilometers/hour, 25 knots = 46.3 kilometers/hour).
Although there is a sail on the giant ship, it is impossible to reach this speed just by wind power. It is difficult to break through 20 knots unless there are other power sources.
On modern earth, the power source of ships is generally diesel engines, so what will it be in the current world? Is it a wizard's spell? But how does this spell keep working
Richard was thinking about these things in the cabin and rubbed the white jade piece in his hand. The white jade piece was engraved with complicated magic patterns, which were more complex and dense than the previous magic patterns. This is Richard conducting some tests, preparing to make the magic pattern more compact and centralized. Only by accomplishing this can magic patterns be carved onto smaller objects.
With a flash of his eyes, Richard took out the silver ring he bought at the auction, thoughtfully.
At this moment, dense footsteps and noises sounded from the corridor outside the cabin door, as if many people were running towards the deck in a hurry.
Pandora, who was sleeping on the bed, frowned, murmured angrily, turned over and continued to sleep.
Richard raised his eyebrows, put everything away, opened the cabin door and walked out.
When I walked out, I saw people hurriedly running out of the doors on both sides of the corridor and running up the stairs towards the upper floor.
Looking not far away, Richard saw Gro at the door of another cabin.
"What's going on?" Richard asked.
"Um." Gro said, scratching his head, "Sir Richard, I don't know much about it. I just know that something seems to be happening on the deck, and everyone is anxious to go and see it."
"Is this so..."
"Sir Richard, do you want to go up?" Gro asked, having already closed the cabin door and followed the crowd towards the stairs.
Richard thought for a moment and went to see what was going on. It wouldn't hurt to take a breather. He said, "Okay, I'll go with you." As he spoke, Richard followed Gro's footsteps. He climbed the stairs and quickly climbed onto the deck.
…
When he got on the deck, Richard saw a dark crowd of people gathered here, crowded at the edge of the deck, looking up at the sea in one direction.
Richard's eyes flashed, and he looked in the direction of the crowd and saw not far away, a sea-going ship with a displacement of several hundred tons heading towards the giant ship.
Another wooden boat recruiting students
Obviously not.
Richard shook his head in his heart.
If so, the giant ship will wait until it meets the other party before setting sail.
Is that an ordinary ship sailing on the sea
What's so good about an ordinary sailing ship
Richard pursed his lips.
Looking carefully, Richard found that the other party was not an ordinary sea ship. The other party's deck was also full of people, holding various swords, waving and shouting.
A faint voice came: "Stop the boat! Stop the boat!"
It turns out... it's a pirate ship.
No wonder.
Richard raised his eyebrows.
Pirate Ship!
Encountering a pirate ship, the students on board did have reason to be excited. Yes, it's excitement, not fear. After all, there are four real wizards on the giant ship. If the pirates rush up, are they looking for death
Everyone had a premonition that they would see the wizard take action soon, so they gathered on the deck with great excitement to wait for the show.
The pirates apparently didn't realize what they were facing and just kept driving closer.
The skull and crossbones flag representing robbery and killing has been hoisted, the sails are full, and the sailors are rowing desperately, cutting the course of the giant ship at an oblique angle, and the distance is getting closer.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
Everyone could clearly see the pirate standing on the deck of the ship, and had a premonition that the wizard was about to take action.
But... the wizard didn't take action, didn't even show up, and even the wizard apprentice who usually maintained order was missing.
After a while, everyone noticed something was wrong.
"Hey, where is the wizard?"
"Don't the wizards know that there are pirates planning to rob us?"
"We should tell the wizard about this, otherwise we will be in danger."
"But where is the wizard? I can't find him at all."
"Can't find it?"
"Can't find it!"
In an instant, the situation changed. It was no longer the viewing program "A Thousand Ways to Die for a Pirate", but the suspense program "Where Are the Wizards?"