Volume 4 Chapter 120 - Black Rice Harbour (1/2)

Volume 4 The Unfolding Wings Ship stopped at Caraska Island for a night.

The next morning, the materials worth over thirty thousand and the various military magic machines were carried off. The Unfolding Wings set off again, heading around eighty kilometers north of Carasaka Island, passing an island that was even bigger than Caraska Island and heading east.

This was already two hundred kilometers away from the shore and with the speed of the Unfolding Wings, they saw the black line that represented the coast by the afternoon.

Narvil put down the telescope in his hand and said to Xu Yi beside him with a smile, “Sir chairman, we should arrive at our destination smoothly. This long range sea voyage can be considered half a success.”

Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, he couldn’t help looking up at the sky that was a bit dark since it was approaching dusk.

This long range sea voyage’s goal other than testing the sailing ability of the Unfolding Wings, was to let Narvil and the crew get some experience with longer sailing voyages.

On the Sines Continent that wasn’t technologically advanced, navigating on the boundless seas depended on experience to judge direction. They couldn’t rely on using a GPS like on earth.

Narvil was this happy when he saw the coastline because even for a captain that was familiar with the seas in this area like him, he wasn’t completely confident that the Unfolding Wings could accurately reach their destination.

The technology of this world was far from the precise pinpointing of satellites, so Xu Yi couldn’t nitpick any part of Narvil’s work.

Even if he felt helpless over the situation, he still had to give honest praise to Narvil’s work.

It had to be known, Xu Yi had spent quite a bit of time finding a captain like Narvil.

To have a crew that was skilled in sailing on the sea, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had to slowly train them themselves.

“What is the consumption so far?” Xu Yi thought about it before asking Narvil this.

“It’s still good.” Narvil replied with a relaxed look, “It’s the same as the test voyages that we took, it currently consumed around seventy three tons of Magic Crystals. With the calculation for the course, it should be around one hundred and fifty kilograms of Magic Crystal for each kilometer.”

“Around one hundred and fifty kilograms?” Xu Yi thought about it before nodding, “Un, this isn’t bad. This consumption is acceptable.”

According to the new standard of Magic Crystals the magic research facility put out, a kilogram of Magic Crystal refined by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce contained one Ev of magic.

One Ev of magic, it was enough to power the newest model of Frestech Brand Magic Fan for three days.

This Unfolding Wings took countless times more magic than the Magic Fan, so just sailing one kilometer on the sea took one hundred and fifty Ev of magic.

With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s cost of twenty gold coins per ton of refined magic crystal, it meant that they were spending three gold coins at a rate of one kilometer per one hundred and fifty kilograms of Magic Crystal.

To Xu Yi, such a large transport ship only took three gold coins of resources for each kilometer, this was simply equal to having no cost.

If this was placed on earth, this would become a fantasy.

Of course, this was because Magic Crystals could be found all over the Sines Continent. So these things weren’t valuable and normal Magic Crystals were the same as rocks to people.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce currently had seventeen different Magic Crystals mines under them, which they only paid less than a million gold coins for.

And the cost of refining magic crystals was mainly focused on mining the Magic Crystals, there were no other investments, so it was quite cheap.

Based on this, the Unfolding Wings Ship which had a carry capacity of three thousand tons had a terrifyingly low transport cost.

But in the past two years, as the magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the other companies became popular, people began to care about the consumption of Magic Crystals.

The price of the normal Magic Crystals on the market didn’t change, but for medium and high quality Magic Crystals, there were some clear changes.

Based on these signs, the people of the Sines Continent began gradually to notice the importance of Magic Crystals.

Xu Yi naturally could see this trend, so he wildly purchased Magic Crystal mines in these two years. He encouraged Evita to continue the Magic Crystal refinement research just to prepare for the fight over energy in the future.

Coming back to the Unfolding Wings, other than using power to move, there were naturally other places that cost them on this large ship.

As for these other costs, other than the daily needs of the crew, they were mainly featured on the various details of the cabins.

For example, there was a gate to a warehouse that wouldn’t open yesterday and the reason for that was a loose screw.

When he heard this report, Xu Yi’s face sank, “Who was the one responsible for the screws to the warehouse? Write down their name and give them a second grade warning, as well as taking away their bonus for this month. As for the person who was in charge of that person, they will also lose their bonus this month and receive a third grade warning.”