The night sky on the island is wider than that seen in Constantiniya.
This is an outpost leading to the mysterious pirate kingdom. After Hestein came here with his defeated army, he sent a ship to report to the Pirate Kingdom, and he stationed himself here with the remaining troops, waiting for instructions from the Hero King of the Pirate Kingdom.
"After sailing for such a long time, the position of the planet is obviously different from what was observed in Constantiniya, but its position on the ecliptic has not changed at all..."
Ella Cornelius Scipio looked at the starry sky thoughtfully, while using a plant stick dipped in ink to write down notes in his notebook. She is Baselisa of the Seven Hills Empire, the most noble person in the entire continent. Due to various reasons, she has now become the shield maiden of the pirate gang "Haystein War Army".
Several pirates were drinking and approaching drunkenly. But after seeing the people in front of them clearly, their drunkenness was suddenly frightened away, and they ran away with panic on their faces.
Ella's face twitched. In addition to the "Shield Girl", there seems to be a strange rumor circulating among the pirates, saying that Ella is a "berserker" who goes crazy and can even kill his own people. In addition to her, the reason why the pirates were panicking was because of the person who was sitting in front of Ella and teaching Ella seriously - Ella's maid, Amy. According to the rumors among the pirates, Amy is a terrible slut who will take off all the clothes of the man standing in front of her regardless of the occasion, and then eat them clean one by one. They are afraid to avoid her.
But there are benefits. Except for Dan, who continued to read Ella's memory of alchemy regularly, the other pirates stopped bothering them.
"Your Majesty! Are you listening carefully?"
Amy angrily scratched Ella's face with the plant pole in her hand, pulling Ella's soul back.
"Your Majesty, please repeat what I just taught you!"
"...When a baby is born, his horizon circle will intersect the ecliptic at two points on the east and west, called the east rising point and the west setting point."
Satisfied with Ella's answer, Amy nodded and continued to talk while shaking her head:
"Yes, the position of the east rising point determines the starting point of the first house of the twelfth house in the personal horoscope. The first house is also called the life palace, and the god corresponding to the ruling star of the constellation where the life palace is located is the guardian of this person God. For example, if a person's life palace is in Scorpio, and we know that the ruling star of Scorpio is Ares, then his patron saint is Ares. This person will be more likely to get the protection of Ares. The power of Si Jiahu will become even more powerful... Ah Sneeze!"
Amy sneezed heavily, and due to Amy's infection, Ella also sneezed heavily.
"Your Majesty, would your Majesty want to add some more clothes?"
"Give me... three more pieces."
Beside the two of them, there was a pile of clothes piled as high as a hill. These are the trophies that Amy took off from the prisoners of war in the Qi Qiu Empire one by one. This is also the reason why Amy is called "The Slut". But Amy didn't know which thread was wrong, and she kept guarding these clothes like a dragon guarding gold.
"Ai...Amy, what clothes are we wearing now?"
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, if you include these three, this is the seventeenth one..."
The clothes Ella and Amy brought or picked up from Constantiniya could hardly keep out the cold, because they had now reached the northernmost point of the continent - the North Sea.
Originally, it would take more than double the time to get from Qiqiu Empire to Beihai.
Ella made a bit of a miscalculation here. She originally thought that since the pirates came to plunder the Qi Qiu Empire, their stronghold must be not far from the Qi Qiu Empire. She guessed that it should be somewhere in the Mediterranean. Unexpectedly, after the Hestein war army was defeated in Brusis, the pirates boarded the pre-prepared ships and sailed into the Black Sea.
The Black Sea is an inland sea surrounded by land. Except for the border of the Seven Hills Empire on the southernmost side, the remaining three sides are undeveloped steppes. Ella instead judged that Hestein's stronghold was somewhere in the prairie, but who knew that after the entire fleet crossed the Black Sea, it sailed straight into the Volga River on the prairie - where Hestein's war army was located. The boats were relatively long and narrow, which allowed the fleet to sail into the river smoothly.
The tributaries of the Volga River are densely distributed throughout the land on the northeastern side of the continent, extending from the Black Sea to the northernmost tribes. However, there is no direct river connection between these two points.
It is for this reason that the Qiqiu Empire has always believed that it is impossible to travel directly from the Black Sea to the northern tribes by water.
But who would have thought that the Hestein War Army actually installed rollers on the bottom of the ship. Whenever they reached the end of a river, they used ropes and rollers to pull the boat along the ground until it was pushed into the next river. After walking alternately in rivers and on land, a month later, they miraculously crossed the continent by boat and reached the North Sea.
In Ella's eyes, the scenery on the ground has been changing: at first it was a vast prairie, with horses running on the ground, and eagles hovering in the sky; then there was a dense forest, with unknown birds and insects chirping all day long. the sound; and finally the coniferous forest in the cold zone, which allowed Ella to see elk and snowshoe hare that she had never seen before. In these few months, Ella has seen more about nature than in the previous seventeen years combined. This kind of journey made Ella feel happy, and at the same time, it also made Ella have a strong interest in this group of pirates from the northern tribe-how many oceans did they explore and how much land did they travel with these small boats? And what kind of thrilling adventures does their leader Hestein have?
"Your Majesty! Are you listening to my explanation? I am working very hard to help you learn magic as soon as possible!"
"But, I have a lot of questions... You said that the position of the twelve constellations is based on the sun at the vernal equinox, but the position of the sun at the vernal equinox shifts every year, so it is very troublesome to calculate. Is not it……"
"There is no such offset! Remember that the constellation corresponding to the sun at the vernal equinox is Aries, and then counterclockwise upward are Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer... Just draw the horoscope like this!"
"But...according to my research on previous observation records and my own observations, the position of the sun at the vernal equinox retrogrades westward every year. Well, it goes retrograde for about 50 arc seconds..."
"So, you can't learn magic like this!" Amy yelled angrily, "The secret of the planet must be felt with the 'heart', and only with the 'heart' can one establish a link with the planet, and Not with observation and mathematics! It has been several months! Your Majesty! It has been several months! We are surrounded by a group of pirates every day! If Your Majesty never learns magic, the situation may become bad one day stand up!"
"Ah? Did I hear wrongly? Doesn't the Shield Girl know magic?"
A sudden voice startled both of them. When I looked up, I saw that the owner of the voice was Gan, the only child in the army. When he was in Brusis, he once delivered a message to Bjorn. Ella and Amy met him at that time and knew that although he was only twelve years old, he had the protection of Hermes, and his level "Natural" has been achieved.
Such a child is now staring at Ella with interest, his eyes filled with fighting spirit for some reason, and his hands are restlessly touching the dagger on his waist. Instinct tells Ella that the "bad situation" Amy just mentioned is coming!
