Extraordinary Voyage-Chapter 693 - 596: The End of Eternal White Land

The vibrant Witchcraft Garden is filled with bird song and floral fragrance.

Trees, shrubs, flowers, herbs... are arranged in a well-organized manner. Carefully managed by the Vitalist School, this place is already a bona fide grand garden, one that even the royal palace gardens of various kingdoms cannot rival.

Enjoying the sunlight of the Spirit Realm, within a unique and spirit-rich environment, all sorts of mundane and extraordinary plants thrive.

Fruit trees that would take three to five years to reach maturity outside can grow into towering trees laden with fruit in just a few months here. Moreover, the quality of both fruits and herbs far surpasses those outside.

Even without Angie’s Talent Magic: Recovery, one can achieve rapid breeding here, easily accomplishing targeted cultivation of various specialty plants.

Although animals have not been experimented on yet, one would expect similar effects. All these derive from the gradually apparent trait of Aiven’s Witchcraft Garden—Nature’s Favor.

The distinctive Witchcraft Garden is not only the strongest fortress for an Upper-Rank Wizard but also an extremely important logistical base, regarded as one of the most significant foundations of the Wizard School.

Swoosh—

The gentle wind lightly brushes through, filling the entire Witchcraft Garden with an enchanting fragrance of flowers and plants, making one feel as if they’ve entered a paradise.

At the top layer of the three-layered rectangular city, under the sole non-physical and illusory Life Tree in the small world.

Amidst various flowers and herbs with both medicinal and ornamental value, a two-story building made of wood, steel, and glass quietly stands. Its style is simple and bright, completely different from the architectural styles of the Old Continent or the New Continent.

On the ground floor, facing outward, is an elegantly adorned tea room.

A few slender bamboos are planted outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and sunlight filters through the glass onto a low couch made of cherry wood, where Aiven, dressed in loose white loungewear, leisurely brews a pot of green tea.

The tea set is a high-grade white porcelain from his own Ceramic Town, and the tea leaves are the top-notch green tea grown in the Witchcraft Garden.

Raising a hand, he poured a cup of tender-bud-colored tea for Anita, who was sitting opposite on the low couch and dressed similarly.

Even before tasting, the aroma of the tea has already filled the entire room.

Compared to the smooth and mellow taste of black tea, green tea carries a hint of bitterness amidst its sweetness, offering a more refreshing taste that particularly appeals to Aiven as a wizard.

Especially since he personally transplanted the tea trees, the experience of drinking it now is even more special.

The two of them admired the ever-changing view outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and a cup of tea wasn’t even half-finished.

Having just woken up and simply tidied herself up, Olivia entered and greeted Anita: 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Good morning, sister!"

"Good morning, Hesi! Come, have a seat, Aiven just brewed this pot of tea."

The girl kicked off her slippers without any inhibition, flopped down barefoot on the low couch, and lazily leaned against Aiven, taking a light sip from his cup: "Ah, the original-flavored tea is indeed the best."

Black tea, with its warm characteristic, promotes blood circulation and metabolism, while green tea is cool in nature, clearing heat and relieves summer’s heat, thus there is a clear preference among different audiences.

In this era, on the Old Continent with a relatively higher dimension, black tea almost entirely dominates.

However, in the Phaletis Colony of the New Continent, where most places aren’t at very high latitudes, especially in tropical and subtropical areas like the Far Sails Territory and Georgia, drinking black tea was just a habit adopted from the Kingdom Mainland.

Yet, as Aiven took the lead in drinking green tea, a new fashion has gradually emerged.

"Captain, Miss Olivia, Miss Anita, the pastries are ready, please enjoy."

Soon, a capable woman in a black-and-white maid’s dress knocked and entered, presenting them with a plate of sumptuous pastries. At this point, everyone within the Witchcraft Garden had gathered in this tea room.

"Thank you, Mei!"

"Hmm, Miss Mei’s skills are amazing, hard to believe you’ve only learned cooking for three days."

Undoubtedly, this temporary maid is the ship spirit of the Crown of Miracles.

After a lot of persuasive (not entirely voluntary) encouragement from Aiven, driven by his strong survival instinct, she finally changed her address from "Master" to "Captain."

Because the humanized form of the Life Tree’s First Essence "Crown" is named: Metatron, Aiven simply gave this artificial being a name: Mei, which fits her long, straight black-haired appearance very well.

Unlike a typical spirit body, she can touch physical objects directly, her body feels just like a normal person’s, but she doesn’t need to eat or drink, only relying on the energy supply from the warship itself.

Her energy intensity is only about Tier 2, which doesn’t offer much help to the ship’s direct combat power, yet she is a brilliant managerial talent born for the ship.

In intense battles, with her coordination, the legendary battleship can be maneuvered precisely, unleashing two hundred percent of its combat power!

Moreover, with an extremely strong learning ability, after just spending time with the ship’s crew during the sea trial, she has already behaved no differently from a mature human female, despite being somewhat three-less. Her variety of life skills are also full.

Additionally.

Olivia is very interested in Mei’s existential form and mode of behavior. Besides Aiven, her "master," she quickly became the human most familiar to this "ship spirit."

The "soul" is a topic that wizards cannot avoid, especially concerning the ultimate creation of the "Gem School" — the "Rose Mother," which can permanently bestow any material with an independent soul and formidable power, also involves the secrets of the soul.

To be able to use witchcraft to create an alternative life form from a pile of dead matter, how could Olivia not be curious?

Mei quietly held a silver tray until her master’s family finished breakfast before she spoke again to report:

"Captain, sir, we reached the predetermined location five minutes ago."

The eyes of the three people brightened simultaneously.

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Wooo wooo wooo...

By the end of July, while other places were already in the season of midsummer, the northernmost part of the continent, the "Eternal White Land," was still howling with cold winds, and the temperature lingered around freezing.

Even the sun only hung distantly on the southern horizon, emitting a bleak white light. This prolonged daylight would continue for half a year.

About 60% of the central location was covered by perennial ice caps, which were not contiguous but consisted of ice clusters ranging from one to several dozen square kilometers. Their thickness ranged from 2.5 to 5 meters, with surfaces undulating like water waves.

Many large icebergs and islands also floated in the surrounding seas, drifting constantly with the currents.

At this moment.

Near the pole, within the endless ice caps, a Unicorne Whale of enormous size, reaching the standards of a sea monster, lay quietly on a piece of open water free of ice blocks. Though its body continued to swim slowly, its eyes were closed, and its breathing was steady, clearly in a sweet dream.

Suddenly.

Fluttering green, luminescent butterflies flew out from the void near it.

Subsequently, a huge, illusory shadow seemed to overflow from its dream. Gradually taking form, it was the black warship, the "Crown of Miracles," surrounded by countless green butterflies.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Three figures clad in winter clothes leaped onto the ice cap from the warship.

As the luminescent butterflies soared, the warship disappeared once more, already docked autonomously in the Witchcraft Garden under Mei’s control.

"Such a journey is truly miraculous."

"Yes, and quite pleasant."

The two girls marveled at the boundless ice field.

One moment they were in the warm, spring-like Witchcraft Garden, and the next, they found themselves in a chilling, icy world.

With Mei’s automatic piloting, they had arrived at their destination in the time it took to take a nap.

This vast ice cap, which could impede ordinary ships, was no obstacle to them; they could come and go freely anywhere there was life.

In the dream realm, the Crown of Miracles could navigate normally as if on the sea. The only limitation was that passengers could not disembark from the ship in the dream realm because this capability was inherent to the warship and only affected it.

After completing the construction of the legendary battleship, Aiven obtained the ability to move freely regardless of terrain and brought along the most core crew members he had selected, who were also the other two owners of Adventurer’s Blood, to this place.

The origin was Roger’s past advice to him: "If you get a chance in the future, explore a land where humans have never set foot. You might find unexpected gains."

Once the warship was complete, the greatest trump card was in hand, ensuring his invincibility. Apart from maintaining constant communication with the Kingdom Mainland and keeping an eye on Ilya Kingdom’s movements, the rest was about enhancing his own power.

Especially as intelligence gradually accumulated, the kingdom began to realize the undercurrents beneath the surface of the Ilya Kingdom. Behind this group of imminent usurpers weren’t merely a group of powerful ghouls.

Some intelligence officers even reported witnessing a figure resembling the Pirate King — the Tier 4 Lawless, the Octopus Ghost Hawkins, roaming the capital, Vina, adding another variable to the event’s development.

Thus, the somewhat mysterious advice from Jelos resurfaced in his mind. If one is to face someone like Hawkins, a Tier 4 powerhouse at the apex of the extraordinary world, any slight increase in strength would be beneficial.

The exploration target Aiven chose was the very end of the unconquered "Eternal White Land," which was also the North Pole of this world!