I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 813 - 813 812. Sea of Tranquility

Chapter 813: 812. Sea of Tranquility Chapter 813: 812. Sea of Tranquility Many people find the experience of sailing exhilarating and novel.

The first few days just after boarding the ship are indeed like that, whether it’s the surging waves, the azure sky, or the seagulls soaring alongside the ship’s hull, all giving a sense of boundless freedom.

But when more than half of the voyage is over, facing the world of only endless waves under the same-colored sky, even the most curious individuals grow weary.

Not to mention the limited food reserves on board; to extend the use of resources as much as possible, the sailors mostly fish for their dinner.

Eating freshly caught sea fish for a meal or two is enjoyable, but after a while, paired with the barren seasonings from He Dao, it becomes torture.

Even Lu Ban had started to brew soy sauce and developed a way to eat fish raw, much better than spoiling the fish meat with various seasonings.

Lu Ban realized at this time that in some places where people eat raw food, it’s not because they are savage; it may just be because there aren’t any good chefs around. Survival of the fittest, leaving everyone to freely choose, ultimately leading to the tradition of eating raw.

Anyway, his stomach wasn’t afraid of parasites, so even if the fish were wriggling with dark yellow worms, he could eat them without changing his expression.

Compared to wheat and bread, the advantage of rice lies in its convenient storage, and when it’s time to eat, just add water, heat it, and cook.

Even when he was too lazy, it was convenient to throw it into the fish soup to make a rice porridge.

Lu Ban sat on the deck, eating two big bowls of rice with soy sauce and raw fish slices.

“The weather isn’t looking good, we’re about to enter the Windless Belt, and it seems a storm is brewing,”

Scholar Ah Xiang looked at the gloomy sky ahead and said.

“A storm in the Windless Belt?”

Lu Ban couldn’t help but ask.

He wasn’t very familiar with the Windless Belt and wasn’t sure if it was the same thing in this era as in the future, but since it was called the Windless Belt, was it scientifically reasonable to still have atmospheric movements like storms?

Well, a lot of things in the Foreign Domain aren’t exactly scientific, after all.

“In fact, a storm in the Windless Belt is good for us because as long as the wind direction is favorable, we can travel a great distance within it,”

Ah Xiang did not show a very tense expression, but seemed rather relaxed.

“I remember that we’re supposed to take down the sails in a storm,” Shia glanced at the white sails being blown by the wind on the mainmast.

If the sails weren’t taken down during a gale, the ship could quickly capsize due to the airflow, or the mast could break under the force of the strong wind.

Most typhoons perceived by humans have undergone long journeys and land weakening. The real typhoons can only be seen at sea.

Under the effect of seawater, the pressure in the center of these typhoons is extremely low, breaking the limits of human understanding.

Like the one Lu Ban saw in front of him.

Inside the Windless Belt, a huge cloud had been gathering for the past two days, and now it formed a dark cloud layer that blocked out the sky.

The sea’s surface started to ripple, making the ship’s journey no longer smooth.

Looking ahead, one could see a pitch-dark cloud bank, with countless flashes of lightning, thick bolts striking the ocean, spreading wildfire down in the deep, dim waters, illuminating the dark depths.

Lu Ban finished his meal and went to the bow to look ahead.

There was a clear boundary line in the ocean.

On this side of the boundary, waves surged, riding the wind.

Inside the boundary, the water was still, without a single wave, like a mirror.

Even lightning entering the boundary seemed pale and feeble, as if some extraordinary power within neutralized all conflict and contradiction, reducing everything to nothingness.

Boom—

Amidst the succession of thunder, Lu Ban saw the lightning that tried to break the silence within the boundary start to slow down upon entering the realm, its original swiftness nowhere to be found, leaving only a slow current gradually taking shape in the air, finally falling into the sea like a firework, diffusing, and fading into nothingness.

The Windless Belt seemed to be more than just an absence of wind.

It appeared to completely defy the laws of science, causing everything that entered the Windless Belt to fall into a state of stagnation and stillness.

“I’ll try.”

Shia came to Lu Ban’s side, her hands condensing a ball of invisible magical force, and an arrow shot forth towards the boundary of the Windless Belt.

Moments later, the invisible arrow entered the Windless Belt, it struggled onwards but ultimately faded away after traveling a few hundred meters into the Windless Belt.

“It’s not just stopping the wind, all movement is gradually coming to a halt, this is the result of the Pollution,” Shia murmured.

If one didn’t have the ability to resist the Pollution, then upon entering the Windless Belt, first the airflow would stagnate, then the ship would be unable to move, and finally the physiological functions of humans would diminish, even bacteria’s growth and reproduction would tend to stop.

This was the true space of stagnation.

For Shia and Lu Ban, this Pollution shouldn’t be an issue.

But it could be troublesome for the people on the ship.

Shia glanced at the sailors then spoke to Captain Zhang Zheng.

“Captain, let’s wait until nighttime to enter the Windless Belt.”

“Night? Why?”

Zhang Zheng didn’t quite understand, the tempest seemed to be spreading quickly, and if they wanted to use the wind to enter the Windless Belt, now was the best time. By evening, they might miss the chance.

The sea’s typhoons moved fast and could be gone in a blink. It was still noon, and by midnight the typhoon might truly be gone from them.

But since it was Shia who spoke, Zhang Zheng didn’t dare to ask too many questions.

He had never really been to the Windless Belt himself, it was all what he had heard from his predecessors, and he was a little excited now.

“Take down the sails, secure everything on the deck.”

Commanded Captain Zhang Zheng, the sailors got busy.

Lu Ban was clear that Shia must be planning to wait until midnight to call upon the appropriate spell to resist the Pollution of the Windless Belt, though this task could also be left to Baobao, it felt somewhat off to let an avatar of the Outer Gods protect humans.

As the sailors cleared the deck and gradually retreated to the cabins, rain began to fall.

At first, it was a light drizzle, but soon, the rain intensified, lightning flashed, thunder roared, accompanied by the waves.

If they dropped anchor now, the ship might not withstand the strain and could snap in two, their only choice was to drift with the waves, relying on the ship’s weight and stability to combat the storm.

“Let the gale come fiercer!”

Captain Zhang Zheng stood by the helm, controlling the ship’s direction with his steering, making the bow face the direction of the surging waves, because if the ship were parallel with the waves, it would be prone to capsizing.

With no power from the sails now, only Zhang Zheng’s steering could determine the fate of the ship.

The wind howled, lightning snaked through the clouds, and the sailors sat in their cabins with eyes closed, praying to gods whose whereabouts they did not know.

In the lowest part of the cabin, Shia likewise had her eyes tightly closed, but she was waiting.

At midnight, the ship enveloped by the storm had come to the edge of the boundary between the Deep Sea and the Foreign Domain, on the verge of smashing into the Windless Belt.

Captain Zhang Zheng, soaked to the bone, saw ahead a world of stillness, where in that Silence, madness and terror were brewing.

Without any room for resistance, the whole ship plunged into the Windless Belt.

At the same moment, within the cabin, Shia opened her eyes.