Chapter 14 more

The sky is beautiful I couldn't help but reminisce as I lay on the deck of our boat. It's been 8 months since we started traveling.We are using a boat that is a combination of technology and magic, although it's not a yart it's the culmination of almost 8 months of work .It is made to look like a regular wooden small ship, though not super impressive on the inside it is a fully functional home with a single bedroom, gym, practice room, lab, kitchen and dining room, all thanks to space expansion charms and the outside

plastered in disillusion charms and the like . Although it not super impressive since we can enter our inner world anytime, it is a good temporary home.

This world is fascinating from random island filled to ruins of forgotten times, others covered completely in black sand and rock formations, unexplored caves covered in crystals and stalactites...We consider ourselves professional treasure hunters and achiologists. We have managed to retrieve a chest of various treasure and some stone gryphs from a half destroyed city, a dreadful place that seemed to still be haunted. We had to take care of that first. It seemed to be some kind of island city that existed 50 thousand years ago that was sacked by pirates. Mostly seems to be a fishing community sacked by several hundreds of pirates through we are unsure from where they came BUT we assume there four other islands in the place that were strangely sank and that was their origin. I would have wanted to confirm but this is the age of Gods the oceans are the most mysterious . Although I'm sure I could handle whatever is down there, Nina didn't want we taking chances especially with so little to gain . We have determined these were just an ordinary communities, the islands were probably sank by sea quakes. I moved most of the structures to our home coz I felt it would be a waste to leave it, collected a few interesting new plans and trees and transplanted them to our gardens. We have determined that most of the gryphs are about mandan medicine and plants they are not really effective but they may be of some use. I had decided to collect ruins whenever I find them and restore them later. It's sad when a culture is completely lost.

We we discovered our fifth island after 25 months at sea. You see the island is made up of a single huge mountain, it's years of high tide smoothed out the presumably ones rocky beach to a single smooth reflective rock, the violent waves continously crashed the rocks to make sand which mixed with whatever soil and plan life was to create its small forest and at the middle of it you see a mountain. Now why is this fascinating? Well the mountain in the middle.... the beach... the forest.... All that is actually the peak of one giant mountain under the sea.... But thats not all every river, stream, pond and every other water source is sea water with an extreme amount of salt and acidity impossible to purify even without the most advanced technology . So how is the ecosystem surviving ? How is the first tribe we met so far surviving surrounded about the ocean with no drinkable water source. Let's start with the plans, they are all dry, hard and taste bitter and salty. What of the animals and people? Magic!

Our first encounter of magic is not the people, the plants or animals but the mountain. Basically the mountain releases mana particles at a frequency have termed harmony. It is similar to compulsion from the Harry Potter universe only instead of mental effect it has physical. Basically allowing the water and plans to be consumed as if regular diet.This is magic by nature itself. No not magic not really, but similar to a will of sorts. As if nature commanded thus it shall be, regardless of any laws. Nature deemed that this impossible environment shall sustain life and so it did. The people we met are an isolated tribe with a unique language, culture and knowledge . They are questionably welcoming, which is to be expected really! Too few for internal wars and external wars never happen and frankly never will - who would want to conquer a clearly unlivable rock with barely any minerals? After crossing the angry storms that constantly surround the island. No one!

Through they have little knowledge to offer, we taught each other what we could and after a few day Nina and I left again, sadly unable figure out the harmony magic.

Nina has been enjoying our voyage so far and even I can't help but be excited of the wonders of this new world. The more we travel, the more I realize how different this world is, The ocean is more vast, the seas impossibly deep, the land is richer, the world is bigger. And magical !