Departure

The day of departure soon arrived, Max seemed a little sad to say goodbye to his friends but at the same time he seemed a little excited to travel by ship, the group stood on the dock and looked at the ship they would be traveling with, to Mercury this looking like an early steamship, or in other words: an ironclad, the main batteries peaked out from the upper part of the hull, the ship seemed to be outfitted with both a boiler and two masts with a smokestack standing in the middle of the ship, currently, the ship lay anchored to the harbor

"Come let's go"

Julia lead the way forwards, the two crusaders seemed oddly serious as they escorted Julia to the boarding ramp where an elderly man with the spirit of youth and a face covered in a white beard stood with his back straight as he greeted Julia

"Greetings princess"

"Hey old man Darius, this is Mercury, my boyfriend"