Chapter 33: The Legend of the Captain (Part 1)

  For a moment, the two people were silent, as if both were lost in this quiet and peaceful atmosphere.

  After a while, Tang Jie said softly: "Where will we go next?"

  Nia said in a low voice, "Now that we have left the maritime sphere of influence of the Duchy of York, next we will enter the border port of the Duchy of Mata, Xixis."

  "What's Xixis? What kind of place is that?" Tong Jie tweaked Nia's golden hair tips and gently scratched her ear roots.

  "You'll know when you get there." Nia felt a bit itchy, giggled and turned over, one hand grasping Tang Jie's hand. She looked at him intently and said: "By the way, do you know? Father said that after you recover from your injury, he has a gift to give you."

  Tang Jie chuckled and said: "Oh? What gift would it be?"

  He said with feigned surprise in a loud voice: "You won't be thinking of giving her to me as a gift, will you? That's too sly, she was mine from the start!"

  Niya blushed and glared at him, "What nonsense! I'm not a gift to be given away here and there! I said it's a boat, a ship!"

  Tang Jie was taken aback: "What did you say?"

  Nina looked at him, smiling brightly, her deeply loved man was about to become the sole owner of a ship, she felt proud and proud of him from the bottom of her heart.

  Niya looked at Tang Jie's expression, thinking he was so happy that he was a bit stunned. She stretched out her two arms and hugged Tang Jie's neck, laughing softly: "It's a boat, your own boat! Are you happy?"

  Nina smiled, looking forward to seeing Tangie's ecstatic expression.

  However, she found that Tang Jie was calm and unruffled, but his eyes revealed a few hints of confusion.

  Having his own boat, Tanger didn't quite know what this meant.

  Maybe for him, having his own boat is like owning a car in his world.

  But in this world, countless people yearn to go to sea and pan for gold, they dream of having a ship of their own.

  On land, buying a horse costs about three silver coins, and buying a good horse costs around ten gold coins.

  If you want to be comfortable, buy a carriage, it takes about twenty gold coins, even if it's a luxurious noble four-horse carriage, with a luxurious and comfortable compartment, it's only about a thousand gold coins.

  However, if you want to buy a ship that can sail across the ocean on the sea, even if it's the most broken ship, as long as it can withstand the wind and waves and float, its lowest price is not less than 2,000 gold coins!

  Especially for ships like the Hellion, which appear to be merchant vessels but are actually warships with extremely high stealth and deception capabilities, although it is only a brig sloop, its price reaches as high as 4,000 gold coins!

  Four thousand gold coins is a astronomical figure that an ordinary family can't earn even if they don't eat or drink for several hundred years!

  Niya looked at Tang Jie with disappointment. She had just sold a riddle, wanting to make Tang Jie guess what kind of sea boat her father would give him.

  "Having a boat of one's own..." Tange scratched his head, looking at Nia's disappointed expression "I guess I should be more excited?"

  Nina Zhang opened her mouth wide: "You're going to be a captain, aren't you excited?"

  Tang Jie retorted: "Should becoming a captain be something to be happy about?"

  Nia was speechless.

  Wells followed Old Bal for seventeen years, one of his dreams was to become the captain of Hell's Gate.

  But William and Bill, who had followed Old Bailey for over a decade, never even dreamed of owning their own boat.

  If they knew that Tang Jie's reaction was like this after learning he could have a ship, they would definitely chop Tang Jie into pieces.

  Nia firmly believes in this point.

  She smiled wryly and sighed: "You look like this, it really gives people a sense of failure."

  Tang Jie smiled: "I'm really sorry, I indeed didn't react quickly enough."

  Nia smiled: "It seems that you don't know what it means for a person to have a ship of their own."

  "What does it mean?" Tang Jie asked back.

  Nia gently rested her head on Tangie's arm, curled up into a ball, and whispered: "When I was little, just starting to remember things, my father told me that I would inherit his ship in the future. At that time, I was as confused and ignorant as you."

  "The ocean, in my impression, is just a boundless blue gem that can't be seen at a glance. Everyone I met on the dock looked at the sea with eyes as if they were looking at gold and silver treasures, looking at their most beautiful dream. Everyone says that there are endless treasures in the ocean, and everyone yearns to go out to sea to dig for gold."

  "These people, they want to fulfill their dreams, but there is a prerequisite, that is, having a ship of their own, a real sea boat! Just this one point is enough to make their dreams never come true! Some of them, for their whole lives, or even several lifetimes, can't afford to buy a single boat!"

  Those who can afford to buy a boat are not necessarily able to sail it out to sea.

  Nia's words made Tang Jie feel a bit curious, he asked: "Why is that? Why can't you sail out to sea even if you have a boat?"

  Nia smiled: "The sea goddess Tira is the most merciful and loving deity in this world, but she is also the most eccentric deity. For those she favors, some people can turn misfortune into good fortune even in the midst of storms at sea. But for others, they may be buried by the ocean even on a calm and peaceful day."

  Tang Jie sneered: "Shouldn't this kind of thing depend on the sailor's own technical strength and their luck? What does it have to do with the sea god Tira?"

  "Don't be ridiculous!" Nia grabbed Tang Jie's hand, looking at him with a rather tense gaze, signaling for him to stop talking: "Are you crazy? On the ocean, the sea goddess Tira knows everything, no matter where you hide and whisper a word, she can hear it all!"

  Tang Jie smiled, just about to speak, but was gently covered by Nia's hand: "I know what you want to say, and later you will understand. At first, I didn't believe in the existence of the sea god Tira either. But now, I believe that the sea god Tira is omnipresent."

  "On the high seas, there is an ancient legend." Nia stared into Tang Jie's eyes and suddenly started talking about a very distant topic: "It is said that the creator god opened up the sky and earth, creating this world, and at the same time created his three children, namely the unruly Raphael, the silly Gaia, and the elegant Tira."

  "After the creation of this world, the Creator God fell into a deep sleep. Before falling asleep, the Creator God called his three children to his side and said: 'You are my incarnations in this world, help me manage it well.' Raphael, Gaia, and Thira nodded in agreement with the Creator God's request. The Creator God nodded in satisfaction and fell into a deep sleep. However, the all-powerful Creator God forgot one thing - he did not assign specific tasks to his three children."

  "So, after the Creator God fell asleep, Raphael, Gaia and Tira unfolded an endless dispute. The eldest son Raphael thought his power was the strongest, he should be the substitute of his father to dominate this world, the second sons Gaia and Tira should obey him."

  "But Tira thought that the world should be managed by the three of them together, and not dominated by Raphael alone. The arrogant Raphael was furious and threatened to teach this impudent younger sister a lesson. Tira knew she couldn't defeat him, so she persuaded the simple-minded Gaia to stand on her side and confront Raphael together."

  "Gaea is a man who doesn't care about the world, he's simple and honest. Whoever becomes the leader, it's all the same to him. But what he can't stand is Raphael's overbearing attitude and his bullying behavior towards younger people. So Gaea joined the battle. With Gaea's help, Tira and Raphael fought a fierce battle, with neither side giving in."

  "It is said that when the creation god had just created this world, there was green grass and flowers everywhere, and it was a paradise on earth. But after a great war between Raphael, Tira, and Gaia, the sky was no longer clear and sunny, and began to have terrible disasters such as heavy rain, hail, and storms. The land was no longer all green and flowery, but began to have deserts, swamps, and canyons - forgotten lands."

  "The perfect world created by the Creation God was destroyed by his three children. When the Creation God woke up from his sleep, he saw that the world he had created had been ravaged and disfigured beyond recognition, and the wounds it had suffered were irreparable. The Creation God thundered with rage, severely scolding his three children, and the sky was filled with his thunderous anger. From then on, lightning appeared in the sky."

  The Creator soon realized his mistake, so he sent the unruly Raphael to govern the sky, and the well-related Gaia and Thira to govern the earth and ocean respectively. The Creator's punishment for them was: let them create their own descendants. The Creator thought that in this way, they would be able to experience the hardships and difficulties of his creation of the world.

  "The Creator God did not expect that his three children had already formed unbreakable deep grudges in the previous Chaos War. After returning to their respective territories, the Sky God Raphael used his powerful magic to create the dragon tribe, winged people, elves and the powerful giant tribe; The Earth God Gaia used her own magic to create humans, beastmen and dwarves; Tira used her own magic to create sea fish, sea dragons and the powerful Naga tribe."

  "As the creator god forbade his three children from fighting each other, Raphael, Gaia and Tira instead manipulated their respective created races into one war after another."