Chapter 84: Chapter 84: Severe Weather, Full Speed Ahead!
The sea ship continued to advance, covering a distance of three thousand nautical miles. During this journey, Fang Yu’s experience finally reached the level required to upgrade to level 11.
Finally, leveled up!
Level: 10→11 (10/13000)
This time, the experience needed to reach level 12 is even more exaggerated. The usual experience cannot satisfy Fang Yu anymore. It is urgent to upgrade the power level and take on higher-level tasks!
Fortunately, Fang Yu’s Ocean Court power level has now reached F-tier, and the task he has taken at this moment is likely a special task exceeding F-tier. The rewards should be higher than normal F-level tasks.
"Lord Points, roll the dice!"
As Fang Yu tossed the dice into the void, it quickly rolled around and gradually landed on a number:
6!
Awesome!
Fang Yu felt quite pleased.
Even though we don’t have much money, we have plenty of Lord Points, which is enough.
Without hesitation, Fang Yu invested 1 point in himself.
Lord Ability Level: 9.6→10.6
Energy level entered the 10-level threshold.
As for the remaining 5 Lord Points, Fang Yu added three of them to his new skill [Shadow Substitute].
Immediately, on Fang Yu’s panel, the [Shadow Substitute] skill underwent a series of changes:
[Shadow Substitute lv.1→4]
Skill Effects:
1. Release 1 shadow to head to a specified location, quantity limit: 1→4, shadow speed: 1→4X ship captain speed.
2. Kill an enemy to generate a shadow, within 20 seconds→50 seconds, gain 10%→16% of the enemy’s energy level.
Max distance for shadow replacement: 2000 meters→4000 meters.
As for the remaining 2 Lord Points...
Fang Yu directly chose to add them to Ma.
After reaching level 10, Fang Yu clearly felt that his upgrading speed and resource acquisition speed gradually couldn’t keep up with the level progress.
So besides enhancing his combat power, he also prepared to invest in crew resource-type skills.
Ma:
Leadership Skill [Shared Wealth lv.1→3]
[When the ship completes tasks or discovers treasures, the captain receives extra wealth: 200→2000→20000 Copper Coins, crew members receive extra wealth: 100→1000→10000 Copper Coins]
As the level increases, the effect of the leadership skill directly increases tenfold.
Fang Yu took a cold breath as he looked at the resource-type leadership skill that rewards twenty thousand Copper Coins in one settlement.
He suddenly realized...while his own strength is crucial, the cost-effectiveness of crew leadership skills is indeed very appealing.
In a certain sense, resource-type leadership skills somewhat represent growth speed.
Moreover, once crew members’ leadership skills exceed level 5, a second effect will be generated.
The second effect is often experience-based, which paired with power level advancement, can solve Fang Yu’s current issue of experience lagging behind level.
"Young man, keep it up, I have high hopes for you!"
Fang Yu patted Ma’s shoulder. This kid is going to be the ship’s money tree in the future...
...
The sea ship continued forward, gradually leaving Qiyun Port farther behind and getting closer to the destination.
Everyone had slightly serious expressions as they gazed at the sea ahead.
"Boom!"
Bolts of lightning erupted from the clouds, carrying a terrifying momentum as they struck the sea surface directly.
These bolts of lightning are far more frightening than those on Blue Star, containing a power that can tear everything apart, thick and dazzling.
At the moment they struck the sea surface, the lightning somehow caused a chain reaction with the energy in the seawater, completely igniting the water.
"Bang!! Boom!!"
A massive collision sound accompanied by a horrible explosion suddenly blasted the seawater in this area dozens of meters high, magnificent and awe-inspiring.
Gusts of sea wind, or should we say the aftershock of the explosion, even from far away, reached the Salted Fish which just entered the Cyan Tree Strait boundary.
Everyone felt a chilling sensation on their foreheads, casting worried glances at the road ahead.
"Dreadful, Cyan Tree Strait is now caught in thunderstorm weather, under such conditions, the already dangerous sea will turn even more perilous!"
"If normally, armor with an energy level of 50 could withstand the issues from the seawater below, then in thunderstorm weather, the demands on sea ship armor might multiply several times over."
Luu Yuan cast a worried glance at Fang Yu:
"Captain, what should we do? Should we wait outside Cyan Tree Strait for a while?"
"Wait until this storm passes, then go in to rescue?"
Upon hearing Luu Yuan’s words, Fang Yu raised his head, looking at the sky, a note of disbelief flashed in his eyes.
While he had heard about it on forums, encountering this situation for the first time, Fang Yu was still astonished by the world’s physical laws surpassing those of Blue Star.
In the sky, inside Cyan Tree Strait, the area within and the area outside formed two distinct weather patterns.
Inside Cyan Tree Strait, there were storms and lightning, covered by dark clouds, everywhere was an extremely oppressive atmosphere.
Meanwhile, outside Cyan Tree Strait, where everyone had just sailed and passed through, was bright and sunny, without a single cloud in sight.
Not even 10 nautical miles apart, yet such bizarre environmental differences existed, this is a strange aspect of Ocean World.
"No!"
Listening to the voices of the crew, Fang Yu shook his head and looked into Cyan Tree Strait.
"In such extreme weather, the person we are rescuing, even if on a sea island, is very likely to encounter danger."
"If a bolt of lightning happens to strike near his island, it might trigger a small-scale tsunami."
"Once the tsunami shapes up and crashes into the island, it could cause an explosion."
There is energy hidden in the seawater, when it crashes down from above, collides with the rocks, it can cause an explosion.
If the target gets slammed by the waves, the mission will be considered a failure.
Fang Yu glanced at his panel space, after selling off the surplus scrolls, there were still 10 Sea Ship Repair Scrolls left.
scrolls...it should be enough!
Thinking of this, Fang Yu couldn’t help but stand up, pointed at the sea ahead, and loudly declared, "Proceed into Cyan Tree Strait!"
"Captain!"
Surrounding crew members were taken aback, seemingly about to say something.
But when these crew members saw Fang Yu’s determined profile, they hesitated slightly, and then swallowed back what they were about to say.
Everyone looked ahead at the extremely adverse environment and only felt adrenaline starting to rise at this moment, with the fear and worry in their hearts gradually dissipating.
Instead, it was replaced by a sense of thrill!
"Move forward!"
They excitedly shouted, not intimidated by the wind and waves ahead.
Adventure is always humanity’s strongest struggle against fear.
Sailors should be a brave group of adventurers, not cowardly people who stand still.
When my sea ship moves forward at full steam, even the wind and waves cannot stop it!
"Salted Fish, advance!!"