Extraordinary Sailing

The second part of the reward is permissions.

There are many privileges belonging to the "Navy Nova", such as priority enjoyment of supplies, priority selection of reserve crew members, participation in alliance-specific celebrations, and so on.

But what Ivan valued the most was the "free passage right to ports within the alliance"!

As a rare flag within the six countries of the alliance.

Aiwen and his warships can enjoy the right to freely travel to and from the local ports of various countries, including their overseas colonies, without any conditions. They only need to report afterwards and do not need any application procedures.

Also enjoy the treatment of the battleship level of the country.

In other words, Aiwen can use his face to enter and exit the alliance in the future!

Although this permission seems inconspicuous, it is just a lot of convenience, but the biggest advantage is that everyone knows it well but will never put it on the surface - warship smuggling!

In fact, smuggling by warships is nothing new. Highly profitable smuggling activities are a big piece of meat that both private businessmen and navy want to take a bite of.

In this case, the Ministry of the Navy turned a blind eye most of the time, and it had the right to give benefits to the navy.

As long as it does not affect the combat, it will generally not interfere excessively.

That's just the case of being an ordinary captain of a country, and how much profit can the "Storm Horn" gain from the alliance and the free passage of the colonies?

Simply immeasurable!

As long as you are diligent, it is easy to make more profits than the shares of the previous copper mines!

The third part is the highlight of the reward, the treasure promised by the kingdom of Ilia.

In fact, the list of treasures announced at the time was almost all treasures of the "Secret Treasures of the Sea" level. For the wealthy Ilya royal family, it was still easy to come up with a few low-level "Secret Treasures of the Sea" and top-quality extraordinary weapons.

But in the face of those treasures with different abilities, such as the extraordinary weapon "Bloody Lake Light" that can greatly increase the strength of knights! For warships, the "Ocean Secret Treasure - Katherai Bronze Cannon" bomb cyclone is extremely powerful!

Aiwen still chose this "golden compass" that didn't seem to have much effect without hesitation!

Many people in the sea know that the "Golden Compass" is not a secret treasure of the ocean, nor is it a creation of witchcraft, but a gift from the gods of the legendary "Golden Kingdom".

For hundreds of years, the total number of "Golden Compass" known to be obtained by adventurers and various forces in the whole world will not exceed 12.

It has only one function, that is, on the sea, no matter what kind of harsh situation it is, it can guide the ship holding him to the most feasible way of survival!

Compared with many "ocean secret treasures" with magical abilities, this mysterious passive ability is so small that it doesn't even have a sense of existence, but it is a treasure in the hands of adventurers who are brave enough to explore the unknown world.

On the surface, its ability seems to overlap with Milan's prophecy, but it has an advantage that prophecy witchcraft does not have.

That is the "absoluteness" from the perspective of mysticism!

What is Absoluteness?

Unconditional, without limitation. Contrary to "divination" which requires interpretation and guessing is often linked to probability.

Take a chestnut:

A deep-draft merchant ship full of precious cargo is being pursued by a ferocious pirate ship. In front of him is a dangerous sea area that is calm but full of hidden reefs.

As long as they can get through here safely, they can get rid of the fate of death.

If he has a "golden compass" in his hand, this treasure will take the fate of getting rid of death as the anchor, plan the route, and guide the merchant ship to an absolutely safe waterway.

Of course, the compass will not give you any lucky bonuses and assistance during this process. Whether you can escape from this definite way of life depends on your own ability.

If it is switched to divination, multiple guidelines may be generated for the purpose of survival.

For example: if you yaw 12 compass points, if you keep sailing, there is a certain probability that you will encounter an unexpected life-saving straw; if you surrender to the pirates, those who are protected by the horse head constellation can save their lives; is the largest.

Of course, there is the biggest possibility, there is no way out, just wait for death, and leave.

Where the gap is, it is clear at a glance.

However, although it is absolute, the "Golden Compass" is not a panacea.

Even if it is a gift from the gods and has magical powers, it is just a compass anyway, not the gods themselves with infinite power.

If you are surrounded by groups of large sea monsters, maybe it will give you a vertical upward guide.

As for whether you have the ability to go to heaven, it is not within the scope of its consideration.

However, the ability of the "Golden Compass" was not the reason why Ivan chose him.

Even if he never talked about it, he himself has always had a dream of exploring the sea and the secrets of the world. But he believes in his own power more than he believes in a "compass" to guide his way of life!

Pat——

Taking out the golden compass, which is about the size of a pocket watch, from a beautiful walnut box, thanks to the characteristics of a gift from the gods, there is no trace of wear and tear on it, just like a brand new one.

Open the gold flip cover engraved with a pattern that looks like a cosmic star map, and under the smooth crystal plate are scales and letter marks that are no different from normal compass.

In the middle is a magnetic needle in the shape of an arrow, half red and half golden. On the shore and when there is no danger, it is just an ordinary compass.

Obviously, the secret of the "Golden Compass" is not here.

Aiwen closed the flap and turned the compass over, and it was clear that the bottom of the compass was branded as part of a golden city-state.

It is said that the golden city-state on the back of each "Golden Compass" is different. Scholars speculate that this may be part of the legendary "Golden Kingdom", the residence of gods, based on very limited information.

But if they were asked to research which god it was, no one would be able to tell.

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Part of the miraculous story about the "Golden Compass" has been widely circulated, but some secrets are only circulated among its owners and inheritors!

In the seemingly seamless structure at its bottom, there is actually another universe.

This is a secret that very few people know. Fortunately, after the activation of Aiwen's mental power, his childhood memories have been fully recovered, otherwise he might not remember clearly.

Aiwen pressed the bottom cover hard with his thumb, and after sinking almost imperceptibly, he turned it clockwise for half a circle, and after releasing it, he turned it counterclockwise for a circle.

Click——

The bottom cover that seems to be integrated with the compass has bounced off by itself.

Inside is a complex mechanical structure different from ordinary nautical compasses, precise gears, springs, gems, and complicated small incantations. The precision is the mystery and mechanical beauty that anyone in this era can hardly imagine.

Aiwen's attention was not here. On the side of the inner shell, there was a line of "Garriott in the 12th year of the Haiyuan calendar" written in an unknown green pigment.

"Ha, it really is it!"

Finally confirming the initial guess, Aiwen is once again glad that he chose the path of the navy, so that this family-inherited treasure can be recovered.

If you choose to be a pirate at the beginning, let alone an ordinary official knight, even a third-tier great knight like your sister, it is impossible to snatch this "golden compass" from the kingdom's treasure house.

After a short period of joy, Ivan's emotions became complicated.

The joy of losing and regaining, the melancholy of seeing things and thinking about others, and the feeling that things are right and wrong, in the end, there is only a mixed feeling in my heart.

It took a long time to clean up and reinstall the bottom cover.

Aiwen caressed this "golden compass" that had been secretly passed on for nearly two hundred years only between the patriarch and heirs, and the legend about it resurfaced from the bottom of his heart.

In the stories handed down by the Garriott family.

When their ancestor, Garriott, was an uneducated and unsatisfactory civilian explorer (there are differences between captains, ship owners, and sponsors, civilians without money can't be explorers).

Once drinking in a tavern, I accidentally met a mysterious person who claimed to be from the other side of the sea.

Although offshore shipping has been very developed before this, ships have also been updated and undergone several revolutionary changes.

However, the first year of the Haiyuan calendar was the beginning of ocean exploration. The landmark event was that the Kingdom of Cyrus took the lead in "conquering" Zhenbaohai and discovered the southern continent.

So the young Garriott subconsciously believed that this mysterious person came from the Southern Continent across the Sea of ​​Treasures.

While the two were drinking, the mysterious visitor from afar heard the anguish in the explorer's words, and very generously offered a deal.

Among them, the bargaining chip paid by the mysterious person is this "golden compass", and the price that Garriott needs to pay is not money, life, or soul, but a "cowardly and comfortable" heart!

However, Garriott didn't take this inexplicable price to heart at all.

Garriott, who aspires to become a great adventurer, feels that he has never had such useless things since he went to sea, and can this illusory state of mind be used as a bargaining chip?

At that time, Garriott, whose extraordinary level was still too low, didn't think much at all, and agreed to this seemingly very good deal without hesitation.

The subsequent development was as he wished.

The "Golden Compass" helped Garriott successfully explore the optimal route in the Sea of ​​Treasures!

As a result, the Garriott family was canonized by the royal family of Ilia, and became a real hereditary baron family with forty knights in one fell swoop.

It was not until a long time later, as his status and extraordinary level rose, that Garriott, who was already a baron, learned the legend that the "Golden Compass" was a gift from the gods of the "Golden Kingdom".

As for where the "golden country" is, what is the purpose of sending out these "golden compass", and who are the other people who have a compass, no one can tell.

Nearly two hundred years passed in a hurry.

The "compass" of the Garriott family was lost in the night of blood and fire in Blackstone Town, and it was not returned to the hands of Ivan, a descendant of the Garriott family until today.

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