As the only professional with experience at sea, Lightning is obligated to serve as a navigator.

In fact, she was also interested in the barge, which was oddly shaped and made of strange materials. Although it looked crude, she had all the parts that a ship should have, and she wasn't sure if it could move. After all, she was mostly a spectator at sea, and her father always refused her requests to take the helm or raise the sails himself.

In keeping with the tradition of setting sail for a new ship, lightning smashed a jar of ale on the bow of the ship, and then ordered the sails to be raised. Carter, as the commander, was naturally reluctant to let the little girl take her place, so after she finished shouting, the knight would always add the same order.

The sails of the town are sewn from animal skins, with cowhide and sheepskin accounting for most of it, and some border town specialties such as wolf and bear skins. As a result, it looks like a patched rag in different shades of brown, white and gray. The sails are trapezoidal and separated by four sticks that act as beams in the middle, and the cable hangs down the deck through an iron ring at the top of the mast. Just pull the cable and the entire sail can be raised.

To make manoeuvring as simple as possible, the town's fore and rear sails are single, parallel to each other and perpendicular to the centerline. If the average brig is set up like this, one of the sails will have very little wind, which is almost useless. However, with Wendy's ability to control the wind, this design will make the power evenly distributed on both sides of the centerline, making it easier for the helmsman to operate in the direction.

Seeing that the sail was hoisted, Lightning instructed the workers on land to untie the hemp rope. The weather was not bad at this time, with the occasional snowflakes falling from the sky, and the boat slowly left the shore under the impetus of light winds and currents.

The little girl landed beside Brian and shouted, "Right full rudder!"

Carter also shouted, "Right full rudder!"

"Uh, what do you mean by a full right rudder?" Brian scratched his head, "How many turns to the right?"

"No, turn left to the end," Lightning said, holding his hand to his forehead, "Forget it, I'll do it." ”

She had forgotten that the men were piloting a sailboat for the first time, and they didn't even understand the basic commands. If it was a standard brig, I am afraid that it would not even have sails spread out now. Even if there are less than ten people, the stone ship can be smoothly offshore, and it can only be said that the design of the town is indeed unique.

She gripped the handle of the steering wheel, which was taller than herself, and spun her feet off the ground to one side - the huge transverse steering wheel was heavy for the average woman, and without mechanical assistance, it was equivalent to overcoming the resistance of the water, and pulling the entire iron rudder surface under the bottom of the boat. But all this is not a problem at all for the lightning that can fly. She noticed that there was a stop under the tiller to prevent her head from turning, and she couldn't help but wonder why he knew all the details of the ship when he heard that the ship was designed by His Royal Highness?

"Sister Wendy, get the wind up. ”

Wendy stood on the roof of the shed crying and laughing, and it turned out that His Highness asked if he had a fear of heights because of this. Pushing the sailboat with yourself? Thinking of the work I usually do, such as drying meat cuts, drying robes, etc., suddenly there is a subtle sense of contrast. She spreads her hands and gets into the usual practice, letting the wind blow evenly from under her feet and overhead, so that the two sails are as equal as possible.

To be honest, Wendy didn't expect this seemingly simple request to be so difficult to operate.

Despite awakening as a witch fifteen years ago, she has never attempted to penetrate and control her powers. Whether it's summoning a torrent of air to envelop stones to attack an enemy, or summoning a gust of wind to sweep enemies away, it's all about unleashing a lot of magic at once. And when it comes to chores at the camp, the wind is sometimes strong and sometimes light, as long as it can achieve the goal. Now thinking of Anna's serious appearance when practicing, Wendy suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"The first thing you have to do is to practice your ability over and over again until you have mastered it completely – just like Anna. 」

It turns out that this is not a cliché.

So let's start now...... She took a deep breath and focused all her attention on the sense of the wind.

Although the wind was not perfectly balanced, the sails were still bulging, and the constant thrust caused the mast to creak and the bow to the right.

"It really moved," Carter lamented.

"Your Highness has made a boat out of stone and made it float on the water," said Tigus, smiling as he touched his beard, "Is there anything he can't do?"

The town is getting farther and farther away from the riverbank, gradually driving in the middle of the river.

Wendy can only generate wind out of thin air, but she can't make the existing north wind disappear, under the action of the two winds, the direction of the ship's hull is not a straight line, and must be adjusted by turning the rudder. There is no way to explain this lightning, but Brian can only experience it himself. In order to let him grasp this feeling as soon as possible, the little girl first instructed him to make several large rudder changes, feeling the relationship between the rotation angle of the steering wheel and the swing amplitude of the bow of the ship, and then making further minor adjustments.

After sailing on the Chishui River for more than half an hour, Wendy couldn't hold it out at first.

It's not that the magic is exhausted, it's that the body has reached its limit.

Even if you wrap your body in the shape of a rice dumpling, you can't completely resist the cold wind. A thin layer of snowflakes had accumulated on her cotton hat, and her hands and feet were so cold that she was almost unconscious, and she was crumbling on the roof. If it weren't for the fact that lightning was cruising in the air, she might have held on until she passed out.

Lightning quickly flew to Wendy's side, grabbing her and screaming for Brian to land.

The latter killed the steering wheel to the right, and the bow slowly deflected to the left. The lightning also flew down with Wendy, and although only one sail could be blown on the deck, it could at least take shelter from the wind and cold, so as not to lose too much body temperature. And the work of docking, which requires fine control, Lightning does not dare to leave it to a newcomer who has just learned to take the helm - although she is also not very good at it.

After some tossing, the town finally landed, and the moment it collided with the riverbank, everyone's hearts were raised. There was a dull sound from the hull of the ship on impact, but it seemed to be fine. The group quickly gathered their sails and set up a springboard to go ashore.

Fortunately, the crew did not choose a straight line to the end during the trial, but turned around and practiced back and forth in the wide part of the river, so the town did not go too far from the starting point.

Lightning flew straight towards the castle with Wendy on his back, and Carter looked at the stone ship and sighed, without the help of the witch, they didn't want to drive the ship back to the docks.