Chapter. 20. Off-Road (9)
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“Captain! “The boat is going over!”
“It’s not about going over, it’s about rolling!”
“what?! “You crazy-”
“I’m going to flip over a few times so hang on to your death!!”
“Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
Waves as big as a house or as if they could easily jump over a castle wall.
“Wow. “Be pretty.”
“Gwok. “Why are you doing that?”
“No, look over there. “It’s like a red veil flowing over the deep blue sea.”
“Ugh! “What did you just say?”
“Hey there. It’s quite far away, but it’s clearly visible. Has a merchant ship been wrecked somewhere? “The amount is very-”
“That’s not fabric! Adrift crab! “It’s a guy that gnaws on whatever floats in the sea!”
Clink ding ding ding ding!
Adrift crab.
A colony of floating crustaceans the size of a small island that is said to be capable of making a hole in the bottom of a metal steamer in 5 minutes.
Kuoooooooo!
“It’s an ambush tornado!”
“This damn place is so bad!”
A tornado suddenly rises without any warning or warning and a
do-dad-dad-dad!
“Aaaah!”
“Everyone get into the dock!”
“My tree is outside!”
“Hyde! Get Tarimus!”
“Let go! Salt water is fatal to trees-”
“Tie them up!”
“Ugh! “Off!!”
Even fish resembling awls get caught in the tornado, fall, and get stuck on the deck!
“Wasn’t that the iron plate on the deck of the Whale?” “Thanks to that, I can just quietly hide like this now.”
“…What if I didn’t do it?”
“You’re going to go outside and risk your life to catch a shower of fish, right? “If there is a hole in the body, there is a high probability that you will die, but if the ship breaks here, you will die for sure.”
oh my god.
I’ve heard a lot of people say that the sea here is hell and all that, but I never thought it would go this crazy.
“Let’s go out and clean up the boat and get ready to dock.”
“Are we there already?”
“We have to go a little further in, but if we go any further, the anchor won’t reach the seabed. “The boat ride ends here.”
About two and a half days from the port to the border where the anchor touches the sea floor. I feel like I’m already exhausted before I even go into the dive.
There were other problems besides the sea.
“Hey captain.”
“If you don’t want to sew sails, go and pull out some barracuda. That’s because it’s sold by cutting off the head and using the arrowhead.”
“No, not that one. “I said this a few days ago-” “
If you experience unreasonable anxiety and nervousness, including auditory hallucinations while sailing, a feeling that your physical balance is lost, and a feeling that you shouldn’t be here- that’s right. Just do it because that’s the way it is. “Because it’s that kind of sea.”
“I see…”
My condition hasn’t been very good since I came out to sea.
I keep getting on my nerves because I keep feeling like someone is watching me.
If something like a sudden cardiac arrest occurs like this, your heart will beat so fast that it won’t be strange, your blood pressure will rise and you’ll feel a headache, or you’ll feel strangely restless and make mistakes you wouldn’t normally make.
“I keep feeling like I want to jump into the sea… Is that also a symptom that happens when you go out to sea?”
“What, did you meet a monk or a siren? “You didn’t take any strange candy from the elf, did you?”
Or, you may be suffering from a strange urge to jump into the ocean.
‘I… am I not supposed to come to the sea?’
This feeling. This strange impulse that seems to tug on your toes!
It was something I clearly knew, and that made me even more anxious.
At first, the captain said it was a symptom of not being used to the sea, but as he spoke in more detail, he began to suspect that he had been sharing Tarimus’ drugs.
This means that it is not a common phenomenon. Shit!
‘If I think about it calmly, I guess it has to do with my personal condition.’
When I compared it to my experience, I felt a similar vein to the ‘compulsion to explore’ that had tormented me my whole life.
Well, let’s just say the kid got a little excited because he was heading towards the Warlord. If you run around like this just because you’ve come this far, you’ll be blown away when you stand in front of the Warlord! I’m anxious because I think it might explode. Anyway, it’s a phenomenon I know about, so I’ll pass.
As the captain said, the dizziness, auditory hallucinations, and inexplicable gaze could be attributed to poor physical condition. I wonder what kind of Oranite would hallucinate and hallucinate due to seasickness. Anyway, let’s say that! It must be because your blood pressure rises because of your heart! Hit it like that! There is a possibility that this is a common phenomenon!
But
shoot-
….wince!
Slap, clang!
flinch! Trembling!
How on earth can I explain the urge I keep having to jump into the sea every time I see it?
‘Could it be that another desire I was unaware of, like the desire to explore that has tormented me for 28 years, has now been discovered?’
no. The wandering life alone is already overwhelming. Along with the urge to explore, anxiety, and insomnia, I’ve recently been caught up in something that I don’t know if it’s a memory or a fantasy of Warlord, and I definitely don’t want another mental issue to get involved.
What if I jump into the sea and feel as comfortable as when I left my hometown? Like crazy water wizards, ‘Hee hee! ‘I like water, water!’ What if I end up never being able to get out of the water like this?
“Hey… Eggwill?”
“Gwok. You put your diving equipment out there. “Take it and wear it.”
“No, not that. “You know the story about the cursed captain who wandered the sea forever?”
“know.”
“By any chance, was there anything about the captain… that he kept saying he needed to find something or that he suffered from such impulses? “I had the urge to find something, or I wandered like that after I came out to sea during my wandering life…”
“Hyde is talking nonsense. “Did you eat the candy Tarim gave you?”
No, that’s right. If this is on the same level as my ‘compulsion to explore’ and continues to haunt me forever, I may have no choice but to leave my hometown and wander the sea forever, just like I became a wanderer. The cursed captain in that story may have been patient number one with symptoms similar to mine.
Excited, Excited!
flinch! Trembling!
Shit. While I was hesitating, the diving equipment came right in front of me. It became difficult to take a break from the sea.
“Hey, I feel like my blood pressure is a little high today… My head hurts and, um, my body feels creepy-” “
It’s okay. I often saw new recruits shrinking before joining the team. Today’s diving area was chosen as a relatively confirmed area that had been explored several times for Hyde. You just have to learn well. “If you learn well.”
“No, that’s not it…”
“Don’t be scared, priest. “Where has all the spirit you showed when you beat us gone?”
“Crrrrrrr. “If necessary, I will wait for you to pray.”
“…That’s not it, you bastards!”
I tried my best to resist the urge to go into the sea right away, but logically and rationally, it made no sense to come this far and give up just because I felt anxious. The bankruptcy sword needs to be fixed, everyone is risking their lives, and participation in the salvage work is strictly a condition of getting on the ship, so it doesn’t make sense to leave it out.
I want to go in.
Oh, I guess I have to go into that sea!
It’s almost 90% similar to my exploration impulse, but if I fall into it, my life will be ruined again!
“I can’t stand it anymore!”
“Uh oh. Wear it slowly. “If there is a gap left and seawater comes in, you will die.”
In the end, I couldn’t resist the temptation and hurriedly put on my equipment.
When I came to my senses, I was standing on the railing of the ship with the crew members who were ready.
“…Maybe life at sea isn’t that bad. Wandering aimlessly on the sea for eternity… hehe hehehe….”
“Uhm… I think the newbie has gotten used to it, so take care of him when he goes in. Come on, let’s finish it quickly when the weather is nice! Let’s see, wetsuit! check!”
“Yay~”
“Respiratory equipment! “Water breathing magic board and magic stone!”
“No problem.”
“Gwok. “I’m either a fool or a fool, but I take at least as much as my life depends on it.”
“Hook, Buoy, Dry Balloon Hmm… I think it’s almost done! Then everyone, don’t die! Enjoy the meat of rough sea lamb today! Violently! “Do your best!”
The captain shouts out slogans in a familiar manner, as if soldiers were about to go to war.
“Go ahead and follow Hyde too. It’s like a pre-dive ritual. “Do your best!”
“Huh ….
I don’t know what you’re doing with your sincerity.
My mind was already full of worries that another impulse might ruin my life.
I have no choice but to check it first.
with a plop!
Plop plop!
Starting with me, who entered the sea as if I was collapsing, the sailors began jumping into the sea one by one.
Salvage ship whale operation begins.
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Fuha!
“Hey! Captain! “Pull it up!”
Day 1 of fishing.
The area commonly referred to as the ‘entrance’ right in front of the deep blue line’s underwater valley.
“What, is it up already? It’s because the priest is not very composed….”
“I didn’t jump out because I was scared, I came up using all my hooks, so wrap the hook and chain!”
Just as I had worried, the problem of ‘another impulse’ that I didn’t know about seemed to have been resolved.
My heart is still racing, my head is pounding, and I keep wanting to go deeper, but the worst situation has been avoided in that it hasn’t resolved everything even after I dived. When the
magic
engine, which was used as the ship’s power source during the voyage, started winding up five chains, the salvage items that the salvagers had collected and hung on hooks began to be dragged out to sea one by one.
Contrary to the captain’s expectations of the junk that beginners would excitedly bring, it was full of old items of considerable value.
“…It’s been four hours since we started fishing? “What did you do?”
“It was similar to searching through imperial ruins.”
“Are you really an Oranite who was playing cards? “Not a monk?”
“Think about it yourself and throw the remaining hooks. “Because there is some left below.”
“Did you find more?”
“There were a lot? So, I’ve said it time and time again! I have a different level of observation than you! Do you think it’s easy to find relics in decayed and ruined imperial ruins? “I’m a master, a master!”
Personally, I found it difficult to understand why people were so anxious about not being able to find relics. I was just like, ‘I guess it’s here?’ When I looked at the spot I wanted, there were relics rolling around.
Now I was thinking that it was because I had good observation skills. Undersea salvage is a similar task to exploring imperial ruins, except that the stage is the sea.
Rather, since it was a relic that no one could sweep away, the task of selecting valuable items and hanging them on hooks was an easy task.
“Ugh… I don’t know if you’re a priest or a knight, but you have to be a salvageer! must! forever!”
“Don’t be a damn thing.”
Of course, to a captain who doesn’t know my circumstances, I might seem like a heaven-sent talent for salvaging.
The operation continued until dinner, skipping lunch. The dinner menu is fish with fist-sized eyes caught by Tarimus.
As for the taste, it was excellent. Just chewy. The rest, if I had to put it into words, is the taste of soaking a worker’s clothes in sea water for three days and then washing them.
It was a time when I was able to deeply understand with my tongue and throat why seafood is not exported from port cities to other cities when there are so many fish in the sea.
That night, the captain studied the charts all night and began making a new salvage plan.
Day 2 of fishing.
If you think of the Deep Blue Line Trench as a mountain range turned upside down, it is the beginning of a mountain range with gentle slopes.
Gurgling-
[Gwok. Can you hear me?]
[Uh-huh. But isn’t this just a short-range communication device sold on the market? It wouldn’t be easy to make magic equipment of this high quality unless it was requested by a noble family, right?]
[So, whenever the captain drinks, he swears at me for buying it at a high price. There is a lot of unrefined mana in the sea here, so any half-made items will not work.]
[I see.]
[Because of the price of magicite, I only use it when working inside the trench. If you work here, you can easily exceed the cost of the communicator magicite.]
‘Why bother… for this?’ Unlike yesterday, when I thought, I started to see things that could make money at a glance.
Huge magic crystals were seen embedded between the gently sloping cliffs, and the
remains of fishing boats, intercontinental sailing ships, and others that had sunk in unfortunate accidents were scattered here and there in the valley,
and wow
!
“Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr?!”
I also learned why all the seniors who came first left their keepsakes around here.
[It is a type of sea deer. On the boat, open the bag that Tarimus gave you, throw it in, and put on the respirator again. If you drink too much water here, you will die.]
[Whoops! deer? The one that went extinct? That? There was a bit of mana sticking out above the fangs?]
[Gwok. The name comes from the roughly similar shape of the head. They like internal organs, so they use them as bait to escape.]
[Fuck, God.]
The reason the marine life I encountered on the way here, such as drifting crabs and barracuda, was so polarizing was to avoid the sea-class creatures located in the center of the Deep Blue Line. This is because they flocked to the outer sea.
Just as the mountain range Blue Line of the past raised all kinds of magical beasts and evil undead with its magical mana, the Blue Line on the ocean floor raised monster-like sea beasts with the mana of the scattered dragon veins.
This was the reason why the basic condition for salvageers was a minimum of knight-level combat power and why the survival rate of knight-level new recruits gathered in that way was less than 30%.
The day’s fishing ended early, and a large circle called ‘Sea Deer Habitat’ was added to Grim Rock’s chart. In the meantime, I brought along a fist-sized magic stone and a couple of unidentifiable relics, so the captain praised me for my achievements all evening. .
Dinner was preserved food brought on board the ship.
-Crispy!
“….hey. Yaya, number 3, the youngest. “Pinch my cheek.”
“Gladly!”
Ouch!
“Ugh! I raised this baby nail! Let go! “Let go!!”
Looking at the severe pain, it appears that he is not experiencing hallucinations due to the sea water he drank during the day.
Something happened that couldn’t have happened unless it was a dream.
“…Am I crazy? Or has my tongue finally given up on its sense of taste?”
“Isn’t that Hyde already looking like a seaman?”
The dried mushrooms tasted delicious.
The damn fish ruined my tongue.
.
.
.
4th day of fishing. Day 5.
“Do your best!”
[With all my sincerity~]
Plop!
Moving around the area we first checked, we were gradually adjusting to the ‘gentle’ area of the trench and gradually moving deeper.
I was struck by the fact that the price of the salvage I had secured over the two days was roughly close to 1 million shillings, and the rest of the crew was also concentrating on their own work rather than taking care of me.
At some point, the captain appeared quite excited, as if he was concentrating on something other than the salvaged object, and I was able to clearly distinguish the sensations I had felt before the first dive.
[Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu)
.) Take it easy.]
[No, that’s not it, Mr. Ugh – I can’t explain this…]
The strangely attractive energy split into two!
The usual anxiety and nervousness, ‘Warlord Reaction’, is the same as before… or is it a bit different? Anyway, in a familiar direction.
The urge I felt after coming to the sea was to go down that deep trench.
[Keuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Tarim: Are there any medications you have that make you feel calmer? A sedative or something?]
[Yes. If the person who ate it is the type that becomes calm forever.]
[Hey.]
It jumps up and down as if the heart is split into two and beating, and I’m worried that it’s actually splitting into left and right and beating separately.
It went smoothly, except that the youngest of the three fishermen almost lost his left foot.
The piece of dragon vein I originally targeted was said to have a distinctive green glow, so even though I couldn’t even see the snout, I felt really good about making a lot of money anyway.
The fishing operation usually lasts about 14 days, and the plan is to gradually descend further by securing chain extension points. They say that there are better quality magic stones in deeper places, so you will find them as you go down.
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