I Created Scientific Magic

Chapter 51: Chapter 48: Rushing into the Great Maelstrom! (Please follow)

The rocking cabin and the continuous screams from above interrupted the conversation between Lynn and Johnny, who exchanged a glance before rushing up together.

As they opened the cabin door, the biting gale howled, and cold raindrops poured down like a dense barrage on the deck, heralding the onset of a storm…

The previously calm sea surface was now churning fiercely, with the relentless beating of the water against the ship’s hull causing the sail warship to rock incessantly.

The continuous strong wind had thinned the initially thick fog considerably, doubling the visible range, but the fog was no longer pure white; it had turned an eerie shade of gray…

“Quick, tighten the sails, everyone, get moving, we must escape this area as soon as possible!”

Chaos reigned on the deck as hundreds of sailors from the “Ship Gang” ran around in disarray. Laud’s face was extremely unsightly as he yelled loudly, but to no avail. Many sailors were kneeling on the deck in despair, crying out endlessly.

“Mr. Laud, have we hit a reef, or is it the storm’s effect?” Lynn approached quickly and asked.

“No, it’s the maelstrom, the Death’s Eye!” Laud shouted back in panic.

The maelstrom?

Suddenly Lynn recalled the intelligence he had gathered earlier in the harbor town. He looked again at the turbulent sea and realized what he had previously overlooked. The rolling waves were surging in the same direction, and the sail ship beneath him was gradually being pulled towards the center of the vortex.

But the diameter of this vortex was simply too vast, and with the sea covered in fog and no point of reference, it gave him the illusion that the ship had been sailing normally!

Hisss~ how big is this thing exactly?

Lynn couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat, while Laud, as if suddenly thinking of something, turned to Lynn with an intensely eager look and asked excitedly, “Wizard Lord, do you have a way to freeze the entire maelstrom?”

“Are you kidding me?” Lynn frowned. The diameter of this maelstrom had to be several kilometers to create such a visual error. What kind of force could freeze such a vast ocean?

“Then we’re doomed; it’s too late to escape now!” The spark of hope in Laud’s eyes extinguished instantly, and he sat on the deck, deflated as if boneless, muttering to himself.

The Mist Sea was so dreaded not only because of the dense fog that enveloped the entire region and could lead one completely astray, but more importantly because of the maelstrom known as Death’s Eye!

It was an existence that filled countless seafarers with dread, like the Grim Reaper wandering through the vast Mist Sea, appearing without warning in any corner of the area, unpredictable and with no pattern. And once encountered, sailors were sentenced to death! n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

For the terrifying suction of the maelstrom far exceeded any sailing ship’s speed. It was rumored that those ultimately drawn into the vortex not only faced certain death, but their souls would also fall into the abyss, hence the origin of the name Death’s Eye…

The only way to traverse the Mist Sea safely was to wait until Moonday when the Death’s Eye maelstrom would briefly subside. Taking advantage of that time, ships sailed as far away from the area where Death’s Eye often occurred, and the rest was left to luck.

That’s why in previous years when transporting goods, they would always try to set sail in the first few days of Moonday to avoid a direct collision with the maelstrom…

But this year was different, the church had blockaded the port town, causing their departure to be a bit too late!

Lynn didn’t pay it any mind, strode quickly to the cargo stacked on the deck, picked up a few barrels, weighed them by tipping them, and threw them down in different directions, at different angles, then extended his right hand to measure the relative distances of these objects.

On an individual level, just using a few floating barrels as reference points to calculate the diameter and flow rate of a giant vortex was complete nonsense.

But for a smart brain, this level of computing power was child’s play…

“The vortex’s diameter is seven kilometers, the escape velocity is… twenty knots! To avoid being sucked into the vortex, we need at least a speed of twenty knots!” Lynn quickly received the analysis from the smart brain, and couldn’t help but frown.

In his former world, a mere twenty knots of speed was something any small craft could achieve, and after the energy reform, these antiques could only be left collecting dust in the warehouse.

But now he was in the evil alternate world, and the sailing warship they were on seemed to have a maximum speed of… seven knots?

“This is impossible! Even the best alchemy ship from Wizard Land couldn’t possibly have a speed of twenty knots!” Laud also heard Lynn’s words and shouted in despair.

Although he didn’t understand what escape velocity actually was, he was very clear about what twenty knots entailed!

“No, it is possible!” Lynn said very seriously, tossing the helmsman who had collapsed on the ground aside, and looking towards the people around him. “I’ll take the helm, everyone go back to your posts, follow my command, and raise all the sails!”

“Do you even understand ships! With such large waves, once we raise all the sails, this ship will capsize in no time, and we’ll all die!” The helmsman previously pushed aside by Lynn immediately jumped up and screamed, with the current situation, he didn’t care about any Wizard or not.

But the next moment, his words were swallowed back down his throat, because a huge fireball was condensing in Lynn’s palm.

“Do it, or you’ll die right now!” Lynn’s tone was very cold.

The yellow-white White Phosphorus Fire flames made all the sailors on the deck shiver uncontrollably, and the helmsman was even frightened into sitting down on the deck with a thud.

However, in an already certain death situation, with desperation, there were hardly any who obeyed the order, and some even felt it better to die under witchcraft than to have their souls swallowed into the giant vortex.

Just then, the sound of the capstan turning violently came over, Lynn and the others turned their heads to see, and the person taking action was Johnny!

The girl at that moment was tightly gripping a sail rope, looping it around the capstan, continuous raindrops falling from above her head, flowing over her hair tips and delicate profile, drenching her robe, but Johnny didn’t care in the slightest, pulling even harder on the rope until the last loop was securely fastened to the capstan.

“Since you have no other solutions, sitting here is just waiting to die!” Johnny’s eyes, like sapphires, stared at the people present, and she spoke out with determination.

Laud quickly snapped out of it too, drew the long whip from his waist, and viciously lashed it on a sailor kneeling on the ground praying, angrily shouting.

“Do it, do as I say, raise all the sails!”

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