Chapter 466: Leading Party

The holographic images marked the last 20 voyage routes of the fleet sent by the guild. These route maps were like crooked lines, full of seas of miracles, crooked and irregular, and looked like A simple voyage around the Sea of ​​Miracles.

But this situation is completely different in the sea area marked by Ada. No matter how chaotic and distorted the previous route is, once they reach this area, the guild's fleet will enter the same area very accurately.

"Betty has revealed before that after their students arrive at the Sea of ​​Miracles, they have to go to this area to complete the assessment, which means that the so-called end point is here."

It is certainly not a coincidence that the guild's fleet frequents this sea area.

"Is there still a continuous connection between the guild and the empire?"

No one can be sure of this. Although the information Ada found reveals that the guild has not been in contact with the empire for a long time, maybe they have been trying to find something.

Like the legacy left by the empire in this world?

"If this is actually a training ground, that is, a facility...then is the guild looking for a control room?"

Hill's words are very reasonable. Everyone really didn't think about this aspect before. Ethan is used to seeing this place as a world, and his point of view has not been reversed, ignoring this aspect of the situation.

Logan and the others were similar, but Mordred didn't think of this aspect at all: their worldview didn't change.

Ada might have thought about it, but she didn't say it, and she would have pointed it out if Hill hadn't brought it up.

"If there are any locals in this world who know the truth about this world, then they must be members of the guild. After losing contact with the empire for a long time, it is not uncommon for them to miss the control of this world."

That way, things will be clearer.

The empire didn't know what had happened, and seemed to have abandoned the training ground. It was likely that a more critical situation had occurred, which made Betty, who sent out a distress signal and waited for rescue, not wait for the rescue team that should have appeared.

"Based on the information collected so far, this situation is obviously more beneficial to us."

If the empire has abandoned this place, no matter what the reason is, then Ethan's actions here will not be subject to any restrictions, and if it is just the guild, it will not threaten them.

The brief meeting ended here, and Ethan then asked Ida to chat with Betty, revealing to her a little about the current situation collected on the ship.

As Ethan expected, when Ethan casually found a reason to blow on the deck, Betty found him.

Betty's expression was embarrassing. Although she was young and didn't have rich life experience, it didn't mean she was an idiot.

On the contrary, being able to become a student of the Imperial Military Academy itself means that she is excellent, after all, it is not an academy that just anyone can enter.

When Ada revealed some news to her for a while, she realized that she had unknowingly revealed a lot of news to the 'natives' on the ship.

The other party also sorted out and summarized the information based on the information they leaked, and finally 'stolen' more information from the guild, and got more information.

From this point of view, Betty is really not a qualified military practitioner, and now she is only at the level of a student.

After gaining a clear understanding of herself, Betty felt that it was meaningless to hide those things. The other party had been very kind to her these past few months, and she was the one who saved her, so she finally made a decision to send her Tell Ethan what you know without reservation.

"You made a right choice."

"I don't know if it's right or not, I just think it makes me feel better."

She has been struggling with the question of 'to say or not to say' all this time, and now that she has made up her mind, she doesn't have to continue to struggle, and she doesn't have to suffer in her heart anymore.

"Before we set out and came here, some seniors gave advice: at the critical moment of danger, we can properly rely on the help of 'locals' to get out of trouble, or even directly rely on the strength of 'locals' to complete the task." Second test!"

Betty paused and explained: "I didn't intend to use you. I originally wanted to ask you to send me to the island, and then I would find a way to get a boat to the destination."

Ethan nodded, he was aware of this from the very beginning, and he was able to guess that those local people who helped the candidates might end up with bad results.

Betty's next words also confirmed this point. Even if some "locals" showed very noble moral qualities, what awaited them would not be kindness, gratitude, or even the promise of "getting rid of the shackles of this world" that some people promised. Class return, but a clean clean.

For the managers of the training ground, these locals are just props to help them train new students. The props know what they should not know, and they are trying to get rid of the identity of the props, so the only thing waiting for "them" is to destroy them.

From Betty's words, we can know that many students have used similar methods over the years, but Betty did not directly take it for granted, and there are still entanglements in her heart; Will leave, and then go to the finish line alone, which is actually implying that everyone should not 'send her to the finish line', from which we can know that she is a kind girl.

"These are no longer a problem now... The problem now is that your country seems to have abandoned this training ground, so your distress signal has been ignored for more than 800 years, and this place has gradually developed some own technology."

Ethan pointed to a ship in the distance between an ironclad ship and a sailing ship. That ship should belong to a relatively weak adventurer in this sea area.

With his strong vision, he could see that the ship was not entirely made of metal, and that the sails were retained, which proved that the opponent could not afford the pure magic stone propulsion device, which also meant that the opponent did not have a magic heart as a permanent power source.

Some time ago, because he was close to Miracle Island, Ethan also saw a lot of ships in this sea area. The appearance is between the age of sail and the age of ironclad ships. Occasionally, there are one or two warships close to the era of pre-dreadnoughts. It belongs to relatively powerful adventurers.

In comparison, the Prinz Eugen is simply a terrifying giant. Even if no one knows how powerful the firepower and protection are on the Prinz Eugen, no one is willing to provoke it just by looking at its huge appearance—it can push The power of such a large steel battleship must be a very powerful demon heart, which means that the opponent has a powerful firepower output.

In this sea area, this is almost a common sense!

It's just that Ethan has been letting the Prinz Eugen turn on the radar to scan the surrounding situation, so as to prevent the Prinz Eugen from being noticed by people in this sea area. Except for the frequent use of invisibility when it was close to Miracle Island a while ago, they have been able to Avoid the surrounding adventurers by changing the route.

After continuing to sail for a period of time, Ethan and the others are going to sail in the "outer" sea area of ​​the ring sea. He thinks that there should be relatively few people coming to this area, and he can go to observe what is going on at the edge of the world.

Betty also looked at the ship in the distance. During this period of time, she also saw many local ships. Although she hadn't boarded for a close look and took a ride, she could tell that the Prinz Eugen she was on And those ships are not a product of an era at all.

The Prinz Eugen is at least a hundred years ahead of those ships, and it will take several big bang-style technological developments before it can catch up to this gap. According to the level of development from sailing warships to those ships in the past 800 years, it may take another 800 years for them to build a warship of the same level as this one.

So Betty was curious, why is Ethan's team so special? Could it be that they are actually scouts sent by another advanced civilization?

With such doubts in mind, Betty and Ethan casually chatted about the empire and this training ground. Ethan knew that the empire had a vast territory, and similar training grounds were spread all over the empire, and there were indeed training grounds The situation of being abandoned, but it is rare for such a sudden situation to leave regardless.

According to Betty, this kind of military training ground hides a lot of high-end technology. Even if the empire gives up, it will take away or destroy the technology instead of just throwing it there.

So it can be easily concluded that something happened to the empire!

It's okay if something goes wrong, so no one will come to stare at them and this group of people.

Ethan is happy and Betty is unhappy.

She felt that the future was at a loss, and she didn't know what to do. If she finally found the end point and found that there were no teachers, no examiners, and nothing else, what would she do?

"Don't worry, I can take you back then."

Betty returned a forced smile, and she took Ethan's words as comfort.

"Although I know that you possess technology far superior to other people in this place, interstellar navigation...is not that simple."

She originally wanted to say something about the difficulties of interstellar navigation, but in the end she could only sum it up in this sentence. She was not sure if the other party could understand if she said too much.

Unless, Ethan is really an outpost scout sent by other civilizations, who came here specifically to investigate the situation, and took the opportunity to learn about the empire's various intelligence.

In that case, the other party must have the ability of interstellar navigation, but in this case, will he become the guide of these invaders? Traitor to the Empire?