Chapter 398 Showing Off Gets Struck by Lightning
After Qin Mo crossed the doldrums, the inexplicable feeling of unease in her heart disappeared. Qin Mo breathed a sigh of relief, turned southeast, and sailed towards Ascension Island.
Ascension Island is located in the southern part of the Gold Coast in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is quite far from the mainland in any direction and hangs alone on the shipping route to Cape Town.
Ascension Island has few resources for survival, only a large number of seabirds and turtles. During the Age of Exploration, ships would also hunt seabirds and collect turtle eggs on the island to supplement their food supply.
Qin Mo was exhausted and needed to find a place to rest for a few days. He didn't believe that Isabel could find that small island in the vast South Atlantic.
At this point, Isabel could no longer find any trace of Qin Mo. Bourne had returned to his coffin and fallen into a deep sleep. As for when he would be awakened, that depended on the prince's mood.
To speed up the engraving of the magic array, Byrne had two young vampires engrave the basic array patterns for him, and then he would handle the important core at the end. This way, he could engrave three magic arrays at the same time, and it would only take one day to complete them.
When the "Crimson Rose" followed Qin Mo into the calm zone, the three magic arrays on the ship were unusable. It's easy to imagine how little speed a large ship could travel without sail power.
The "Crimson Rose" was very large, and the cabins on board were also very large. Isabel, sitting on a tall throne, appeared somewhat slender and frail.
Her slender, fair fingers slowly tapped the massive armrest of the throne, her pupils unfocused, as if she were half asleep and half awake.
The group of powerful vampires held their breath as much as possible, activating their bloodline talents to lower their heart rate to the lowest possible level, for fear of offending the prince and suffering the same misfortune as old Bourne.
In the end, Oakes gritted his teeth and stepped up. After all, he was the butler. When things are good, you're the first to enjoy them, and when things are bad, you're naturally the first to stand up for him.
"Your Highness...which direction should we sail now?"
Isabel remained silent with a cold expression, which frightened the group of vampire dukes, marquises, and earls into standing obediently below the throne, trembling with fear.
"Ox, where do you think the Elven royal court ended up?" Isabel suddenly spoke after a long time, making everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
“Your Highness, the Elven royal court left so suddenly that we didn’t even have time to react, but…” Oakes began cautiously, then suddenly realized, “Back then, the Elven royal court went to sea to live in seclusion, and Princess Qin Mo’s mother, Saint Luna, was a powerful Elven woman. Your Highness means…”
Isabel nodded slightly. When she and Qin Mo confronted Achilles in the Moon Palace in Oslo, Qin Mo had said that he went to the Moon Palace to look for his mother Luna. Later, he also obtained several books of the Elven race. So, could he have obtained some clues about the migration of the Elven race from them?
Isabel had been pondering this question for many days. On this continent south of the Western Continent, apart from a few civilized powers in the north, the rest of the land consisted of uncivilized and barren regions.
Human exploration has reached Altun and then stopped south, while the vampires have explored even further than humans. This is because the vampires, who live in unparalleled luxury, have no desire to suck the blood of those dark and shiny natives.
However, ancient vampire texts record that this vast continent extends south to the edge of the world, dividing it into two halves: one side is the Indian Ocean and the Eastern world, and the other side is the boundless Atlantic Ocean.
So what exactly is Qin Mo doing sailing so far into the middle of the ocean? Isabel guessed that he must want to go to the end of the ocean to find the secluded Elven Royal Court and his mother!
"Turn east and sail south along the coastline. Let's go see the ends of the earth!" Isabel's eyes sharpened as she coldly gave the order.
“Your Highness, we know nothing about this sea area, and we don’t know how far we have to sail… Our supplies may not be enough!” Oakes said through gritted teeth. Even the proud vampires felt fear in the face of the unknown world.
"Supplies are insufficient? Do you need to eat? Will you starve to death?"
Vampires can indeed go without food; they won't starve, at most they'll just fall into a deep sleep. But since they won't starve, they are not allowed to object.
The massive "Crimson Rose" slowly turned its bow and headed west, intending to explore southwards along the coastline after reaching it.
The Blood Rose sailed westward across the Valley Coast for a long time without seeing the expected coastline, as if the western coastline had suddenly disappeared, leaving only the boundless sea.
Unbeknownst to them, they had already crossed the eastern promontory of the African continent, were deep in the waters of the Gold Coast, and were heading towards the Gulf of Guinea, a region nearly three thousand kilometers wide.
Panic first broke out on the "Bloody Rose" as they were unable to determine their direction without detailed continental maps and nautical charts.
In the end, Isabel used forceful methods to subdue all the vampires. The ship continued to sail westward, and on the ninth day, they finally discovered land.
At this moment, all the vampires began to cheer and howl. They felt that they had explored an unknown world, a great discovery that would be written into the history of the vampires.
But they didn't know that as they resolutely sailed westward, just a few hundred miles south of their course, there was a small island where a small boat was resting and catching its breath.
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