The New Civilization of Witches

Chapter 82: The First Journey of a Small Town

Since Lightning was the only one who had practical experience sailing, he was assigned as a navigator.

In addition, he is also interested in barges that are strange in shape and unique construction materials.

Although it looked very rough, it had every essential part needed for a ship and could move, but he was not allowed to drive it himself.

After all, for most of his time at sea, he had only been an observer because his father had always refused his request to pilot the ship.

In keeping with tradition, Lightning broke a bottle of wheat wine on the bow of the ship for the first departure of the ship, and then he gave the order to sail.

Carter, as the captain, was naturally reluctant to let the little girl seize her position as commander,

so every time he gave the order, the knight would follow through with the same order.

The Little Town screen was sewn from animal skin, with cowhide and sheepskin dominating most of the screen, the,

but it was also mixed with some Border Town specialties, such as wolf skin, bear skin, and the like.

So the screen had a wide variety of colors - brown, gray and white, like a screen patched of many fabrics.

The screen is trapezoidal, and is divided by four separate beams. At the top of the screen, the cable passes through an iron ring to connect it with a pole, the,

the bottom falls to the deck. One only needed to pull the cable to raise the entire screen.

To make the operation of the ship as simple as possible, the Little City only had two sails that were parallel to each other and perpendicular to the centerline.

In general, if a two-masted sailboat was to be built this way, it would only be able to catch very little wind, almost making the second mast irrelevant.

But with Wendy's ability to control the wind, this design would allow her to evenly distribute her powers on both sides of the midline,

so it is more convenient for the helmsman to change the direction of the ship.

When Lightning saw that the screen was already attached, she ordered the dock workers on the ground to remove the rope.

Right now, the weather is great. The snow that fell occasionally was pushed by the gentle breeze like water as the ship slowly left the shore.

The little girl went down to Brian's side and ordered,

“Just at full wheel! Carter also shouted,

"Just at full wheel!" "Uh, what does this right-hand drive mean?"

Brian scratched his head and asked,

"How many right circles?"

“No, you have to turn the steering wheel to the left,” says

Lightning, while walking away.

"Come, or should I come?"

He had forgotten that this was the first time these people controlled the ship, so they did not even understand the basics of any instructions.

If this was a standard brig, I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to launch the screen.

With less than ten people, they can still drive the ship offshore, which is only possible due to the ship's unique design.

Lightning took the steering handle that was even higher than her, and with her feet off the ground, she turned it to the left of –

this huge transverse steering wheel was extremely heavy for ordinary women to turn.

In the absence of mechanical power and less equal power transmission, he had to overcome the overall water resistance while driving the large iron rudder.

However, since Lightning could fly, this was not a problem for him.

He noticed that there was a thin cut installed at the base of the steering wheel to prevent the steering from overturning, he said,

so he couldn't help but wonder, I heard that the ship was the Prince's original design, so how could he even know these details?

Even sailors who have lived at sea all year do not necessarily know the structure of the various parts of the ship.

"Sister Wendy, you can start producing your wind."

Wendy, who was standing on top of the cabin, didn't know if she should laugh or cry, so this was the real reason why Her Majesty asked if I was afraid of heights.

So now, I have to ignite the ship with my abilities?

He opened his hands, got into his usual training state, and let the wind blow from his feet to his head evenly, balancing as much wind as possible while blowing it to both sides of the screen.

To be honest, Wendy did not expect that this seemingly simple task would be so difficult to execute.

Although she woke up as a witch fifteen years ago, she had never tried to gain a deeper understanding and control over her powers.

Whether it was to summon the wind to attack the enemy or to summon a storm to sweep through the enemy, it was a one-time release of a large amount of magic.

At the campground, when doing chores, he would only occasionally have to use a lot of strength, but as long as his goal could be achieved, he would not use much.

Now thinking of Anna, who had always been earnestly using her strength, Wendy suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

“The first thing you have to do is train your abilities over and over again until you can control them completely – just like Anna.”

These are not empty words. Then from now on I will begin to take a deep breath and focus all his attention on creating the wind.

Although the wind was not perfectly balanced, the sails were still protruding, and under the steady flow of the wind, the mast of the ship let out a squeaking sound, and the bow began to turn right.

"It's really moving!" exciting Carter.

"Your Majesty was able to turn the rock into a boat, and let it float on the water,"

Sir Pyne laughed and asked, Sir,

"Is there anything he can't do?"

The Little City moved further and further away from the shore, gradually moving towards the middle of the river.

Wendy can produce wind from nothing, but she can't eliminate the existing North wind,

so the wind came from both directions, making it impossible for the ship to move straight just by using its power.

So, they also had to rely on steering to set the direction of the ship.

Lightning could not teach Brian with words alone, this was something Brian had to experience on his own.

To get her to master this feeling as soon as possible, the little girl's first order was to change the direction of the ship as often as possible

so that he could learn the relationship between the angle of rotation of the steering wheel and the swing of the bow as he himself only made small adjustments.

After navigating for more than an hour over the Chishui River, Wendy was unable to survive any longer.

It was not that he had run out of magic power, but that his body had reached its limit.

Even though his body was wrapped in so many layers that he looked like a dumpling, it was still unable to fully resist the invasion of the cold wind.

A layer of snow had piled up on his cotton hat and he could no longer feel his hands and feet while standing on the wobbly roof.

If it wasn't for Lightning seeing him swaying strangely, perhaps he would have fallen into a coma.

So Lightning quickly flies towards Wendy and catches her body while yelling to Brian that she should sail back to the dock.

The latter pointed the rudder in the right direction, letting the ship slowly turn left.

Lightning flew down from the cabin while carrying Wendy.

On the deck, they only had a screen to save them from the wind, but it was at least not as cold as before so they could save their body temperature.

Moreover, when they wanted to reach the shore, it would require someone with good control,

and Lightning will never dare to let a newbie take over this important task – even though he never did it himself.

When they finally landed and the riverbank collided with the hull of the ship, creating a loud noise, all the hearts of the people on the ship started racing.

Although it sounds alarming when the hull collides with the beach, it doesn't look too bad in the end.

Sailors quickly folded the screen and installed a ladder board to climb ashore.

Fortunately, they were unable to sail in a straight line during their trial journey,

so thanks to their turning training in the vast river, they were not so far away from Border Town.

Lightning flew towards the castle while carrying Wendy. Carter looked at the stone ship and sighed loudly.

Without the help of a witch, she would not try to sail the ship back to the dock.