Chapter 539: Additional Technique: Indestructible
"It's just ahead, less than a mile." Shark Chili poked his head out of the sea. He had just gone into the water again to confirm the location of the surging ocean current.
After estimating the time, Shark Chili looked at Wendy and asked, "How's Jidiyun?"
Wendy closed her eyes and felt it carefully: "I will pass by here in about half an hour."
There are some differences between the Emperor Cloud and ordinary weather phenomena. Even Wendy cannot make a prediction accurate to the minute for the time being.
Not long after, Rui Mengmeng on the observation tower shouted: "'Night' has appeared! Over there..."
She looked at the direction of the compass bird's head and continued, "Southwest!"
Everyone looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a darkness appearing where the sea and the sky met. Above the darkness was a layer of gray-white clouds that was more than several hundred or several thousand meters thick - that was the Jidi Cloud.
The clouds are so thick that they block all direct sunlight, so that it looks like night below the clouds. The area covered by the clouds far exceeds the scope of Gaya Island. Perhaps even the area of a big country like Alabasta cannot be compared with this sea of clouds.
The clouds covering the sky were getting closer and closer, and the dark area below seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, giving people the feeling that the villain boss was about to appear. Tom was so scared that he hugged Zhang Daye's thigh and trembled.
Zhang Da also felt that telling a horror story at this time would be effective.
Ye Yan protested: "Why does darkness represent the appearance of villains? Even a righteous hero like me appears with darkness, okay?"
Zhang Da also perfunctorily said: "Okay, hero, the task of navigating in the dark will be left to you."
Ye Yan said dissatisfiedly: "You actually treat me perfunctorily in the same way you treated Perona. Are you looking down on my intelligence?"
Perona, who was innocently caught in the crossfire, was stunned for a moment before reacting: "Who are you calling low IQ?"
Ye Yan retorted: "People with low IQ have low IQ."
The two people who usually disliked each other started arguing again, without any tension at all.
More than ten minutes later, Ji Diyun had arrived above the Amber Tour Group. The sky had become completely dark, and Shark Chili had returned to the boat.
Ye Yan stopped arguing with Perona and observed the situation on the sea seriously. There were not many people on the boat who could maintain normal vision in such darkness, and he felt that he should take some responsibility.
But just as he was about to speak to indicate the change in the sea, Tom, unable to see in the darkness, struck a match.
The darkness on the ship was instantly dispelled, and wherever Tom wanted to see, it was illuminated by the little match.
Comrade Ye Yan, the navigator who had just been appointed by Zhang Daye, became unemployed as soon as he took up the post.
"Here we go, catch that whirlpool! Everyone hold on tight!" Shark Chili reminded.
Artoria turned the steering wheel, allowing the Amber to catch the huge whirlpool that had just appeared on the sea at the most appropriate angle, and the entire ship immediately began to spin rapidly around the whirlpool.
"Wow wow wow...are you sure you want to ride the whirlpool?" Jackie Chan exclaimed.
The last time it was so exciting was when I followed a warship on a ride on the government's special triangular ocean current vortex. But this time, this vortex seemed to be even more violent than the last one, and it was getting faster and faster as if it was gathering energy. It was completely different from the stable one last time.
"Wow~~" Weiwei also shouted, but her shout was somewhat filled with happiness.
Thanks to Shark Chili's reminder, everyone fastened their safety ropes and grabbed the railings with their hands, so they didn't fall down.
A few minutes later, the whirlpool suddenly disappeared and the sea returned to silence, as if nothing had happened.
"Don't be careless! The disappearance of the whirlpool means the power has accumulated. The sky-high current is coming soon !" Shark Chili shouted, "Boss Tatsuya, Wendy!"
"Got it!" *2
Zhang Daye and Wendy stood at the stern and bow respectively. They both opened their arms at the same time, turned their palms outward, and chanted the same magic spell. A huge magic circle enveloped the entire Amber.
The magic light shone brightly, and Wendy shouted, "Additional Spell: Indestructible!"
The magic circle gradually disappeared, but the Amber seemed to be coated with a faint fluorescence.
This spell, as its name suggests, enhances the strength of an object. Given Zhang Tatsuya and Wendy's current magical abilities, calling it indestructible might be a bit of an exaggeration, but it could at least make wood harder than steel.
This is what Zhang Da also told Kulikai that they had other preparations. The Straw Hat Pirates' ship Merry could withstand the ocean current with a slight strengthening. After the Amber received the additional technique, its keel should not be damaged like Merry's.
Shrouded in a faint fluorescent light, the statue on the bow felt less frightened than before. It seemed as if it had been... strengthened.
"Alright!" Shark Chili stared at the sea, "Everyone get ready for the impact, ready—coming!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a bulge appeared on the sea surface, and the Amber was lifted up by the bulge. Everyone nervously grabbed the railing, and Artoria held the steering wheel calmly.
Boom!!!
A sound like thunder rang out from below, and the bulge on the sea surface exploded in an instant, turning into a spiral rising water column, carrying the sound of splashing water and whistling wind straight into the sky.
The Amber sailed upwards along the erupting water flow as if it was turning the mountain upside down, but this time the water flow was like an extremely steep winding mountain road, circling the center of the water column upwards, making the Amber almost perpendicular to the horizontal plane!
"Waaaaaaahh ..." Uncle Long and Perona, the two relatively normal people, screamed subconsciously, holding on to the railings tightly to stabilize
Now they understood why Zhang Da asked them to wear safety ropes. They had thought that the Amber would be pushed up by the surging ocean current like riding a fountain, but they didn't expect it to sail almost straight up and down!
"It's incredible, but the ship is indeed sailing along the upward current. I can't understand it. 'Too~' Misaka said in shock."
"It's the wind!" Wendy was very sensitive to changes in the wind. "It's not just the ocean current that's carrying the Amber upward, but also the strong wind driven by the surging ocean current. Sister Artoria, adjusting the sails right now may be more important than the rudder!"
"I understand." Artoria 's riding skills allowed her to quickly determine the most advantageous course of action. She quickly turned the rudder to the left and shouted, "Turn the sail to starboard!"
When everyone chose to fix their positions, they had already taken into account the possibility of manipulating the sails in the air, so there were people at every necessary position.
At this time, Rui Mengmeng and Weiwei cooperated with each other and quickly adjusted the sail.
In this way, the Amber was able to truly catch the surging ocean current and head towards the Sky Island.
