'On the morning of May 10—

The weather was fine and visibility was good, and the team waded across the Milky Way from a shallow southern shoal, where they were attacked by several gnolls on the way, but there were no casualties. ’

Below is a line of small print, marked in striking red ink:

'Tomorrow is Sylvede's birthday'

'On the 11th of May, the weather was fine, and it was Sylvede's birthday, and we had a small party—'

'On May 12th, the weather was cloudy, and the meeting was held. ’

There are a few ink stains on the spread out diary, which is actually a line of Nini's naughty little footprints, and the text on it is very neat, showing the seriousness and responsibility of its owner.

After passing through the Milky Way, the way north to Idus was unobstructed, and the landscape on both sides of the river began to change. From the lush green carpet of southern forests to the steep sandstone cliffs that rise along the banks of the river.

The trees have noticeably thinned out, revealing the crimson sandy soil below, and the vast shadows of the clouds slowly flow south along the river valley, giving the impression that the sky is high and the earth is wide.

After Tianlan and Luo Yu had an awkward quarrel for a few days, the two got back together. However, the little girl had caught a cold in the forest a few days earlier, and she had not even been able to attend Sylvid's birthday party on the platform.

So far, he is still under the meticulous care of Attila and is waiting for recovery.

Today is the group's regular internal meeting every Monday, and the topic is to continue the discussion on the construction of the Seven Seas Traveler, which has not been discussed in previous years.

Such meetings in the adventuring group had become a habit before Golland's party, and it was one of the main results of the ship's work on team building and the construction of the ship's rules and regulations.

However, since its inception, the main discussion of the construction of the Seven Seas Traveler has been the main discussion, and only a few discussions have been related to the worship of the dragons, and once to the situation in the south, and on those occasions Sufism participated.

During Van Rik's time, the regimental meeting was interrupted twice, and after leaving Van Rik, it was resumed.

And naturally, the topic returned to the construction of the 'Seven Seas Traveler'.

After all, for any adventuring group, how to design their own exclusive floating ship is a big question.

Unless there are no conditions to buy only a second-hand boat. Otherwise, the equipment and cabins required on board will depend on the staffing of different expedition groups.

For example, if the ship's members are mainly spellcasters, you will need a magic guide to amplify the deck; If the melee class is the core, you should consider gang jumping and securing combat; Or if there are many ranged classes, you need to set up a shooting deck and a device for reverse broadside combat.

Or if there is more than one combat craftsman in the regiment, it is necessary to consider whether to add a lower-level structure drop-off cabin. In addition, there are workshops for various life occupations, laboratories, crystal detection rooms, and even animal pens and upper greenhouses, to name a few.

In the last discussion, thanks to the participation of Tang Xin and Ai Xiaoxiao, everyone finally finalized how the infirmary should be set up - after all, the healers have different beliefs, and determining what altar to configure in the recovery room on the ship is the first priority.

However, Milera's priest is good at recovery and dispelling diseases, and weak at recovery and detoxification, so the rehabilitation bed and pharmacy can effectively improve the efficiency of its treatment.

However, Tang Xin had some different opinions on this, after all, she couldn't stay in Aitaria for too long, and she still had a final exam to take.

It's just that Atira persuaded that Milella's followers were mainstream healers, and it wouldn't be a big trouble to find another one. She didn't object anymore.

On this day, Fang Yu got up early in the morning and routinely overhauled the platform up and down. He first fastened the safety rope and climbed down the rope net to the 'stern' of the boat, because Baggins had mentioned to him the other day that there was an unusual noise in the cooling pipe behind the platform.

As soon as he opened the lid of the radiator at the back, Fang Yu found that it was stuffed with 'surprises' - dried fruits and tree roots.

He was a little speechless.

At the same time, I also realized that there was a new 'guest' on the ship, and it seemed that it should be a little one, and the deck was Delis's territory, so it had to live below.

Fang Yu hung on the rope net and looked down, thinking that the other party should have come up from Mr. Limestone's back.

He had planned to clean it up, but on second thought, he gave up on the decision.

So he climbed back onto the deck, took some planks and nails from his workshop, picked up a hammer and ping-pong and knocked a small room out. His carpentry skills were naturally far behind Luo Yu, and his final product was very ugly, but Fang Yu himself didn't think it at all.

By this time, the others had already gotten up one after another, and Kita and Ai Xiao looked at the things in his hands curiously, and whispered to ask what they were for. Fang Yu told the two of them about this, and the two little girls were a little surprised.

After all, little girls are inherently resistant to these little creatures.

Ai Xiaoxiao guessed that it was a gray squirrel, and Kita stood on the side of the plover as always, thinking that it was a red-necked chickadee, both of which were common creatures in the area.

And Ai Xiaoxiao looked at the 'box' in Fang Yuan's hand and asked:

"Big cousin, is this the rat trap you made?"

Fang Yu looked at the so-called 'house' in his hand, and his face couldn't help but blush:

“…… This is the house I built for it. ”

"Huh?"

Rhett was trimming his paws on the platform, and it looked up and sniffed the wind coming down from the valley, the gold rings on its beard clanging.

And Delis was lazily basking in the sun on the side, occasionally sticking out her little pink tongue and licking her paws, looking at the boring humans below with beautiful eyes like jewels.

Two 'cats', one big and one small, complement each other.

After Fang Yu nailed the house at the stern of the boat, it was almost noon, and I don't know if it was because the 'little guest' was too afraid of people, and he had never been able to see its lineup. Therefore, the controversy over red-necked and pine trees can only be put on hold for the time being.

After everyone had eaten a little dry food, they began their afternoon activities.

After Mr. Greystone passed through the Milky Way, it became difficult to get food in the area, and there was not much prey to be found on the barren red stone sand, and there were only a few types of vegetation, most of which were uninhabitable.

Atira also canceled the afternoon tea party that was originally held every two days, which was very uncomfortable for the big cat people.

In the afternoon, the fever of the sky blue subsided a lot, and only then did I come to the deck and blow the wind for a while. The little girl had regained some of her spirits, and she gave an angry command to Parker, who was scrubbing the deck, until the latter was so angry that she almost jumped to her feet.

After three o'clock, Mr. Limestone slowly entered the shadow of a canyon.

To the east, you can see the crimson ridges that stand and are the result of the wind-eroded landscapes of Istania that blow day after day.

And through the gorge, you enter the realm of Idus.

Fang Yu then asked people to wake up Xie Sita and Luo Yu, who had been sleeping until now, and everyone came to the conference room one by one, so they announced the official start of the meeting in the group on this day.

Sky Blue sat in the corner, Attila and Luo Yu by her side.

Her face was a little sickly pale, with a faint flush, and while coughing, she asked curiously, "Sister Sylvide, what are you discussing today...... Ahem? ”

Miss Elf patted her on the back and handed her a cup of hot water.

"I'm not thirsty."

"Drink plenty of water."

Attila's words had a slight hint of irrefutable flavor.

It seems that the two worlds at least have the same coping strategies for colds.

And Sylvid took a small notebook, smiled and said to everyone:

"Today we are still discussing the layout of the cabin and the sails."

As for the general structure of the 'Seven Seas Traveler', everyone has almost already decided on it.

After all, they have no experience in shipbuilding, so it is better not to build a ship too big for the first time, so that even if there is a major mistake in the construction process, it is easy to start over. So in the end - the first generation of the 'Seven Seas Traveler' was identified as a sloop mainship (sail structure).

Such boats are very common in coastal areas and are the main style of small expedition and fishing boats, especially good at navigating bay areas with difficult winds, and can also go deep into land, although they are not as good at ocean sailing as sailing ships.

The final design of the 'Seven Seas Traveler' was about 19 meters long, with a mast of 25.4 meters at its highest point and a width of about 4 meters, with a maximum capacity of 30 people and a speed of four knots, which can reach a speed of seven knots when the wind is full and empty, and can sail 160 miles a day.

The empty space of Aitalia is about 1.9 kilometers, so ideally, the Seven Seas Traveler could travel close to 300 kilometers in a day, which is much faster than Mr. Limestone.

In addition to the core lift section, the infirmary, utility room, ship's room (used to store supplies for ship repair and spare sails), the grain warehouse and the lower cargo compartment, the kitchen, dining room, activity room and winch room are also available.

There is also a dedicated armory, and the captain's quarters are still located at the stern, which has been merged with the chart room to save space.

Originally, such a ship could also be equipped with a gun deck and four or six guns for self-defense, but the alchemical artillery that Kukai could use was too expensive, so everyone had to install one meaning on the bow of the ship.

Besides, as adventurers, they didn't plan to engage in air combat with people.

And according to Aitalia's classification of floating ships.

The 'Seven Seas Traveler' is about a little bigger than the seventh-level miscellaneous ships and a group of small boats, but it is still far from catching up with the sixth-level frigates, and in the eyes of the Grand Guild, it is not enough to see at all. But for everyone in the party, even if it's just a discussion of building it—

Everyone was also full of enthusiasm.

After all, this is their ship, and with the average level of the adventure group being less than twenty-five, it is already extremely lucky to have a floating ship.

So Fang Yu first came up with the first question:

'Standard for utility rooms. ’

Not to mention the small utility room, it also occupies a pivotal position on the ship.

After all, the utility room is different from the lower storage compartment - the lower storage compartment usually runs across the ship's bilge, and is used to house the bulky and large quantities of trade goods, or to store food and water. The utility room, on the other hand, is much more elaborate and is usually used to store more important materials - such as the ship's central workshop, where all kinds of alchemical materials are stored on a daily basis.

Most of the alchemical materials are dangerous, flammable and explosive, and even have different magical properties, so there are certain safety hazards under the usual storage conditions. And in the Kukai environment, unlike on Mr. Limestone's back, they will encounter storms, all kinds of weather, and there will be wind element erosion.

As a result, there are extremely high requirements for the safety standards of the utility room.

After discussion, everyone unanimously decided that the utility room should at least adopt a safety standard of two or higher, and the reason why it should not be higher is because there are not such high-level craftsmen on the ship. As for the second-level standard, the utility room also needs to be specially designed with ironwood cabins and alchemical compartments.

This utility room alone, if it were procured and built on the market, would cost at least more than 150,000 miles.

Fortunately, they can save a lot by doing it themselves.

Then there is the anchor room, where the boat can save a lot of money without heavy anchor stones. However, the longer the anchor chain, the more areas the ship can lower to the windless level, so that the ship will be easier to find a good anchorage.

The long anchor chain is not only an advantage, its own weight will form a burden on the ship, and the material of the anchor chain itself is required. In the end, Fang Yu chose an ordinary enchanted copper anchor, using the tendons of the bipedal wyvern as the tow rope for the winch chamber - without it, it was cheap.

As for the Anchor Stone itself, it is a special magical artifact of Aitalia, and its qualities are the opposite of the Guy Crystal, which has the ability to anchor ships in a sea of clouds, provided that it is lowered to the windless level with an anchor chain.

The Sinsas have been using this particular magic stone for thousands of years as a cornerstone for building floating fortresses in the windless layer, and have built many magnificent floating cities in this way.

However, it was around their time that the mineral was almost depleted, so that the anchorstones are now very expensive, and the anchorstones of large ships are often many times more expensive than a small ship itself.

The anchor stone of the Fang Plover was given by the Council of Alffindor, about the size of a human head, there is no way, the alchemists are rich.

The anchor stone is light and almost weightless and can be easily placed in the storage room. Once descended to the windless layer and isolated from the wind elemental, a special magical effect will make it stable and heavy.

As for the living quarters, dining room, activity room, boatman's room, and cargo compartment, they are almost worthless, and ordinary magic black or white oak will do. Of course, worthlessness is relative, there are almost no cheap things on the floating ship, and the magic Kuroki itself is worth a lot of money.

In addition, in the previously determined infirmary, Mirera's altar needs the blessing of holy relics, as well as the blood of the saint and the sacred crystal, the tranquilization crystal, regeneration vines and vitality wood for the recuperation bed, and the magic petri dish, inert crystal and a wood spirit to act as an assistant in the potion room.

Of course, it's better to be a clever wood-type goblin - and Miss Tata is a dragon soul, not a real goblin.

As for letting Nini be an assistant, forget it.

Fang Yuan now has a headache when he thinks of this little guy who has been milking all day long, and his name is 'Papa'.

All in all, that's a lot of money.

It's almost impossible to buy them all on the market, they don't have that much budget. The rest can only be collected by yourself, and if you can't find it, you have to ask your teacher for some with a shy face. As a master craftsman, Ender is not as rich as a country, but he still has this small savings.

It's just that Fang Yu is not a last resort, and he doesn't really want to trouble his teacher.

Then, in the midst of everyone's discussion, they identified the last three special cabins-

Originally, according to the specifications of the 'Seven Seas Traveler', in addition to the alchemists, magicians, cooks, supply officers, ship officers, captains, and even doctors and navigators on the ship, they needed at least ten to fifteen sailors to make the ship sail smoothly.

However, the 'Seven Seas Traveler' is a ship with a special meaning - although it is not yet in the form of a fairy dragon knight in the true sense of the word, with the fairy heart and the dragon soul of Tata, it is at least very different from ordinary floating ships.

With Tata as the master, the ship's sailing, steering, and some daily maintenance activities are no longer carried out by ordinary sailors, so that they only need a Baggins to deal with emergencies.

Without sailors, there would be fewer living quarters for sailors' daily lives, and the space that was left up could be used to greatly expand the capacity of its cargo holds, if it were a merchant ship.

But they are adventurers and don't need such a large cargo compartment, so the extra space can be used to build special cabins.

Seriously, there are a lot of special compartments on the floating ship.

As mentioned earlier, not only the Gun Deck, Raven Hang, Construct Drop Cabin, Magic Amplification Deck, Central Workshop, etc., but in fact most classes in Aitaria can have their own special cabins on the ship.

For example, naturalists can have magic towers, paladins and priests can have prayer rooms, druids' cultivation rooms, animal pens, nightingale's poison rooms, poets' large musical instruments, and so on.

However, the 'Seven Seas Brigade' has a wide variety of professions, including battle craftsmen, paladins, druids, crossbowers, and later joined Alyssa is a nightingale, Luo Yu is an elemental, Kita is a naturalist, and Sky Blue is a poet.

The chest is both a sorcerer and a dual-wielding swordsman.

There's also an Iron Guard, a Healer, a Twin Blade Ranger (Ai Tiny) and a Gunner, plus the Martial Artist Shesta, and Baggins, who knows a little bit of everything, but is primarily a musketeer.

With so many professions, it was clear that it was impossible for everyone on the Seven Seas Traveler to have their own cabins, so it was an important question to determine which cabins they needed.

This is actually an elimination.

Alyssa's Nightingale's Poison Chamber, Alchemy Workshop can actually replace some of the effects, at least poisons below level 3 can be completed within the scope of Potions, so they are the first to be excluded.

Then there's the Prayer Room, which gives a buff to the entire ship, increases the Ship's Bow effect, and gives sailors a morale bonus, which is not necessary for everyone.

Magic Towers, Raven Cranes, Shooting and Artillery Decks, and Structuring Drop Modules are all necessary items for air combat, and are not considered by everyone.

Eventually, they settled on the animal pen, a central chamber with a large pipe organ, and a crystal installation.

With a pen of animals, the trainer can maintain some special creatures on the ship, and for the expedition ship, such as all kinds of pack beasts are indispensable. Moreover, the animal pen can also bear a part of the supply of fresh poultry meat, eggs and milk, after all, no one wants to eat wormed biscuits and dried meat on the ship all the time.

Especially in areas where supplies are scarce, as is the case right now.

As for the large musical instruments on the ship, they are a necessary guarantee of the poet's combat effectiveness, especially when the sky blue level is not high.

Let's take a look at Tianlan heard that he has his own organ, originally because of the double blow of homesickness and illness, his somewhat depressed face regained his brilliance. It was clear to everyone that this decision must be a good deal.

After all, an adventure party must first have people, and people are often the core of an adventure group.

The final crystal device is actually a large wind element radar, which is standard on many warships. Fang Yu wanted this thing purely because he had been known for a long time and was very curious.

So he used his captain's power to make a decision directly - plus the thing itself was somewhat useful, so Attila, the big cat man, and Baggins didn't object.

"Finally, there's the issue of the sails."

Today's topic went very smoothly, and Fang Yu was very satisfied.

He looked at the others and asked one last question:

"Do you think the Seven Seas Traveler needs to be fitted with wingsails?"

The so-called wing sail, this is actually the biggest difference between the floating ship and the ordinary sailboat.

Because the float does not need to sail on the water, its 'sails' do not need to be located only above the ship.

Therefore, for floating ships, several types of special-shaped sails are derived - the wing-like sails located on the left and right sides of the ship are called wing sails. The wing sail can be opened and closed at a certain angle, which can increase the speed of the boat downwind.

The sail located on the bottom of the boat, called the fin sail, is generally used as an auxiliary steering and longitudinal stability of the boat.

There are also winglets located in the bow of the ship to increase the ability to sail against the wind.

Tail sail, lateral stabilization and enhanced steering ability in small radius.

The fish-scale-like sails, whose subjects are laid across the side of the ship, are a more special type of sail that usually only appears on large warships.

Fang Yuan's proposed winged sails were to complement the ship's maneuverability, after all, the 'Seven Seas Traveler' was too small to be suitable for long-distance voyages. However, wing sails are expensive, and if they are generally not warships, few floating ships will consider them.

Of course, Fang Yu asked this question not without considering their affordability—the sail mast did not require expensive magic oak or dark wood, and sturdy mahogany would do the job. Ms. Quesu and her team of lumberjacks provide them with a constant supply of high-quality rosewood, which is not a concern.

As for the material of the sail, Fang Yuan actually has an eyebrow.

Enchanted canvas made of alchemy was expensive, but it could also be replaced with natural materials, and as far as he knew, not far from the Grand Canyon in front of him, there were many silver-maned spiders inhabiting the Red Mountain of Panir.

The silk they weave, after being detacked, is a natural tough canvas raw material -

It's not as durable as enchanted canvas, but it's cheap and lightweight, and they can have a little more.

Of course, it's just that these 'big guys' aren't so hospitable.

……