Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

The Sirius is proceeding on schedule at a light speed. It is not the highest speed because it also investigates wind direction, current data acquisition, and the presence or absence of demons, but as far as the current position of the globe at the light point, it could be said to be a smooth journey.

But the Quartet is the sea, the sea and the sea as far as we can see. On a normal voyage where there is currently no map showing the location, I still think it would go hand in hand with anxiety.

There is hardly any land if only the outer ocean goes too far through the relay point. Because if there is no landmark, the current position will have to look at the compass, the stars and the moon, and calculate it.

Normally, a long sailing journey is… harder than you can imagine, more harsh.

For example, if you look at one piece of water or food, you don't want an environment like the Sirius, where magicians can eat fresh and safe without sailors. No help can be called to unforeseen circumstances, and only the sailors can rely on them.

So if you can take the hand from port to port along land, that's the easiest, and there's definitely demand because you can carry people and things from base to base.

"Maybe we should have another base or two somewhere on the detour."

"Base...... There's nothing on the ocean, is there?

Forceto leans his neck against my whine.

"Yeah. Is there a way to prepare something like a big ship and keep it down so it doesn't move, or to raise the seabed using earthly magic to create an artificial island? As with the islands for bases, it's easier to navigate detours if you leave them with landmark magic tools. If you put a water-generated magic prop there, you can use fresh water, and you can evacuate and wait in an emergency."

Then we will have to equip ourselves with communicative magic equipment that will send out evacuation signals. We can manage to outrun food for a little while, but even days without water is life-threatening.

It's hard inside to secure food in the middle of the ocean... right. It might be a good idea to keep stockpiles of well-preserved items.

"I see. Is it an artificial base? I'm not bright in the ocean, but water really matters."

"It's inconvenient to have so much water that you can't drink it as it is"

Forceto gives a bright look, Marceska peeks into the monitor and squeals, as if the point was made. The surroundings of Halvaronis are desert areas if they pass through local forests. The importance of water must be well understood by both Forceto and the three Scions.

"No problem with the Sirius, but on regular ships, the detour voyage gets overwhelmed, and that's all it takes."

The more such supply, rest and evacuation bases are dotted, the safer they will be.

If we take into account, for example, the normal ship's navigation speed and wind direction… one or two other relay islands. Wouldn't it make getting around a lot easier if we had artificial bases on the detour streets?

Proposed amendments to the route east at the moment. Well, thank you for keeping things going.

Continuing, the magical creatures monitor the monitor. The Sirius moves on towards the East.

"Mm-hmm. Something's wrong with demons."

"Because it's the outer ocean, I thought there might be some strong demons... but it seems surprisingly important."

Illumhilt tilts his neck at Sheila's words.

Right. Sometimes I saw a few less well-known sea demons along the way, but they didn't attack me.

If this is a ferocious demon, the target may be a big ship, but I don't care... but the people I see aren't interested in this one in the first place.

"The same goes for Teal's faint vigilance towards humans, because the demons of the ocean are not dependent on humans at all...? You won't want to feed something you can't be stable, you won't be too alert because you're not hostile," he said.

There's nothing like aggressive attacks on humans by dolphins and shathies. You think it's basically intriguing for even a squirrel to come close to a human being? I guess it's because I don't even see this as a threat to food.

"You can tell me that. Leave the goblins and the orcs alone, they'll attack us from the other side."

Rosemary and Grace agree when Stephania says as she does her hand to her jaw and conceives.

"Hostile is because interests run into each other."

"Goblins and orcs feel like plundering from humans is also an option from the start"

Right. It doesn't matter because it's a land habitat or because it's a water habitat. It will matter if the living area is close or far to humans.

Along the river and in the marshes today, there are species hostile and dangerous to humans, around the Kelpies of half-fish horses and the gigantic frog pedigree Bojanoi. Is this... like Pyrania if you compare it on Earth? A creature with a lifestyle of attacking and feeding land creatures as they try to cross the river.

Naturally, even at sea, there are quite a few species that are aggressive towards humans where land is close. Turn around, the outer ocean is full of people who are not interested in humans, and in that sense, there are many safe areas.

On the other hand - demons like Sarpent and Kraken who are strong in power and sense of territory will most likely be the Lord of magic accumulation, so if you don't get close to the danger zone from yourself, you will most likely never meet people.

Exceptionally… there are cases where high demons collide with each other and the defeated escape the magic buildup. This is pretty dangerous because I wander off looking for my next magic accumulation.

It is a threat at a level where countries and adventurers' guilds consider dispatching large crusaders, depending on where they appear… it may be considered "rare" in terms of frequency, since it is an exception.

This means that if we can get around the magic buildup, we can basically focus on dealing with nature, such as weather, sea roughness, currents and wind direction...? I guess that's hard, but I get the feeling that the detour isn't surprisingly bad.

"-Think it might have been nice to meet Teal."

Explain those thoughts before seeing Teal, the winner.

Teal seems to be somewhat intimate with Corliss, who was upright near Corliss sitting down with Petan. I'll try to stretch my neck and look back at this one because my name came up.

But... you look a lot softer in the neck joint. Although it is natural to do various things with your mouth, such as repairing hair.

In the meantime, Corliss also doesn't seem to dislike Teal even if he comes close, and the relationship between the two looks good inside. As Corliss waves toward us, Teal also waves the flipper. Mm-hmm. Let's wave this one back.

"Sure, you can say that it reveals the nature of demons that don't really interact with people."

Claudia grinned bitterly at the appearance of such teal, and Mallane and Ashley smiled joyfully.

The route seems surprisingly safe from the point of view of demons, and there seems to be no problem with teal. When that happens, the focus shifts to the Eastern investigation next.

Even on a step-by-step globe, the East is approaching. I'm going to moor the Sirius offshore to some extent first, send in a seeker to see how it goes, but I don't know what's going to happen.

There is no more public support in the East than the very existence of the country itself is not known. I want to be cautious until I get some facts.