Chapter 30 Voyage! Target Zandalar!
For the next week, Li De stayed at Hope Port for office. The reason why the port has always touched his nerves was that the warship transformation work of the sea ship was about to be completed.
When they came back from Kezan, the transformation of the ship had reached the final stage of assembling weapons. After a week of debugging, the ship finally became a third-class warship!
This sail battleship has a double deck, equipped with a total of 70 artillery pieces! Among them, 60 are conventional light and heavy artillery pieces, used for combat at different distances, and 10 goblin artillery pieces with super firepower are on the upper deck, with a total displacement of an astonishing 2,000 tons!
According to Nogfog, the third-level battleship is already the main battleship at sea. Hanhai Dudu uses this third-level sail battleship as the flagship, paired with two six-level battleships, and eight frigates, and has already had the minimum self-protection ability at sea.
Of course, such a fleet with a total tonnage of less than 10,000 is still very weak compared to other top fleets. For example, the Hot Sand King, the total tonnage of fleets he owns exceeds 100,000 tons!
Li De did not have the idea of competing with those top fleets. As long as he had the ability to sail at sea and protect himself, he could meet his current needs.
Next, he just waited for the troll to prepare and set out to go out to sea next time.
After the meeting that day, Li De issued a decree about faith:
First of all, we do not force everyone to believe in the light of civilization. On the contrary, the light of belief in the light of civilization must undergo strict review, must have excellent performance in this position, and must also have good morals.
Of course, Li De did not block all the beliefs of trolls. He would help Zul Farak regain the troll's Loa tradition.
In the past week, a propaganda team composed of Sethers and Veresa and others have been preaching this matter to the trolls everywhere in Zul Farak.
After learning the details of this decree, even the old troll who was stubborn and traditional, he praised Li De.
Li De certainly wouldn't just say it. After laying the foundation for public opinion, he took Nibule, Sethers and a 200-man team composed of trolls from three tribes to board the Shanghai ship to find the traditional beliefs of trolls.
Their destination for this trip is of course Zandala, a troll empire that has never been interrupted since ancient times!
In ancient times, Kalimdo, the eastern kingdom, the Northende continent in the north, the Pandalia continent in the south, and a series of other islands were once a complete continent, called the "Goldimdo continent", and its name means "the land of eternal starlight".
On the Gukalimdo continent, when the Guardians dismantled the Dark Empire of the Ancient Gods, after a long period of peace, the first rising mortal race was the troll.
The trolls originated among the Zandala mountains in the middle of the ancient continent. At that time, the trolls maintained a long period of internal struggle in order to compete for the dominance of Zandala.
But later, such infighting was aborted due to the revival of the remnants of the Dark Empire.
In order to resist the terrifying "faceless man", namely the ancient god's minions, and the Zergs they led, the trolls decided: other tribes gave up the dominance of Zandala and left the Zandala mountains to the most noble Zandala trolls.
The other three most powerful tribes: Amani, Gulabashi and Dakale own all the lands outside Zandala and establish a powerful empire.
Among them, Dakale pursued a Zerg branch and came to the northern edge of the ancient continent, gradually cutting off contact with other tribes in the central part of the continent. The remaining two tribes established the powerful Amani Empire and the Gurabash Empire respectively.
Among them, the main control area of the Amani Empire was lush forests, and the Amani trolls evolved into forest trolls; the main control area of the Gurabash Empire was vast jungles, and the Gurabash trolls became jungle trolls.
As for Zulfarak, he was originally subordinate to the Gula Bash Empire. But later, with the replacement of the Troll Empire by the Night Elf Empire, coupled with climate change and the division of the continent.
Zulfarak's trolls were sealed in the desert, and the trolls there in life became sand trolls, and the names of their tribes became the "Sand Fury Tribe" that contained millions of years of suffering.
This ancient tribe, which had been closed for thousands of years, gradually declined because of the misconception of evil gods in the middle.
Now, Zulfarak surrenders to Li De. As their leader, Li De decided to take Nipur to visit Zandala for investigation.
If he could, he would bring back the orthodox Loa culture from Zandala, and after eclectics and inclusiveness, he would combine it with the light of civilization to shape a new culture.
It is not difficult to find Zandala. Ten thousand years ago when the Gukalimdo continent split, under the protection of a group of Loa, the Zandala mountains did not suffer much damage, but instead turned into an island hanging alone in the endless sea.
During these ten thousand years, Zandala not only did not decline, but also developed a higher navigation technology. It was during this historical period that the colonial history of Zandala against Kozan was started, and the slaughter of goblins mined Kaya ore for them, inadvertently promoted the rise of goblins.
The goblins had long been exposed to Kaya ore and gained extremely high intelligence. They developed advanced engineering technology in underground mines and created a large number of weapons. Finally, the goblins rushed out of the mine and overthrew Zandala's colonial rule with the advanced weapons in their hands.
During this period, both sides experienced a war that was not long, and in the end Zandala could only pinch her nose and acknowledge the independence of the colony.
After Kozan's independence, the goblins had a civil strife for a period of time before they laid the foundation for the chaebol rule. It was said that as the former colony of Zandala, Kozan's goblins of course knew the location of Zandala Island. Li De and his friends arrived at Kozan first on this trip. They only needed to spend a small amount of gold coins to get a navigation chart to Zandala.
"Teacher, do you think our trip will go smoothly?"
Standing on the deck of the "Dinghai", Nibull couldn't help but ask with some concerns.
"Dinghai" is the name given by Li De for the transformed sail battleship. He purchased two six-class battleships from the trade king Resha, which were also named "Fenwei" and "Fenyuan" respectively.
Li De could understand Nibuer's psychology. As the saying goes, the feeling of being close to home is even more timid. Although the long-term closure almost disappeared the culture of the sand trolls, the name "Zandala" was still preserved. However, in the Shafu tribe, it changed from a real existence to the "promised land" in the myth.
Now that I learned that Zandala really exists, how could Nibule not be excited? But after I learned that Zandala still lives in a troll tribe and is very strong, a kind of inferiority complex arises naturally.
Nibull agrees with the hometown of all the trolls ten thousand years ago, but will Zandala's troll recognize him as a poor relative who came out of the desert?
"Relax and be confident. You are my student, the chief of Zulfarak, and the general of the Hanhai Protector. It is a good thing to maintain respect for your distant relatives of Zandala, but there is really no need to be inferior."
Li De patted Nibuer's arm and comforted him. After hearing Li De's words, Nibuer did relax a lot. Yes, under the leadership of his teacher, he represented a vigorous emerging civilization and visited Zandala on a battleship, and did not flee on a small sampan.
"Publican, according to the instructions of the chart, we should arrive at Zandalah in three more days."
At this time, as the commander-in-chief of the voyage, Anderson walked to the deck to report to Li De, and Li De was puzzled.
"Why do we need three days? We have been sailing for nearly two weeks? I remember it took only a week to travel through the endless sea from the Eastern Kingdom to Kalimdo."
When Anderson heard Li De ask such an amateur question, he couldn't help but smile with a wry smile.
"About this, I also asked the goblin navigator in Kozan. We were really lucky to enter a magical sea called the 'Titan Road'.
It is a relatively safe and fast route. Once you enter that area, you can take a fast current to reach another continent in one week.
It is said that between the two continents, there are three or four similar routes, and the directions of ocean currents are opposite to each other. Most of the goblins' sea ships rely on them to travel between the two continents.
And this time we went to Zandala, there was no help from the 'Titan Road', and it would take half a month to sail normally."
Only then did Li De suddenly realize it, and at the same time he had a deeper understanding of the endless sea. This ocean produced by the explosion of the Eternal Well could indeed not be guessed by common sense.
To put it short, three days passed quickly. The "Dinghai Ship" finally arrived at the waters near Zandala. As long as you pass through a thick fog in front of you, you can see the true appearance of Zandala Island!
But what everyone unexpected was that they had just crossed the sea fog. What greeted them was a huge crossbow arrow burning with flames!
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Chapter completed!