can go in and out of the ship while keeping water outside."
"Where did you...?" He looked around the item in curiosity.
"It's secret. Just get it done." I continued. "Can you further improve the ship's speed? It's not fast enough."
Aldeina answered this one first. "You should told me that earlier!"
"You know how to do it?"
"We have ship boosters stored in Atlantis! Those are way faster than using paddles with human hands."
"Really? You didn't mention it back in the warehouse."
"We didn't know, since you didn't ask. Did you look at our speedboats carefully? They're propelled by these boosters. I thought you already noticed them."
"Okay okay. Can you get me some of that?"
"They're too small for your Bi-Lin. Wait for some days if you're not hurry, I'll tell them to build a bigger one."
"Go then. Tell them I'll buy those boosters with additional energy crystals."
"Right away, master." She changed back her fish tail, jumped into the water and disappeared.
Now I kinda envy those convenient legs. I only know how to use dog-paddle underwater.
"I'll leave these to you." I pointed to the shield sticks I prepared. "Change the entire base level into one integrated area, I want to place some small boats in there. Leave four exits covered with shields, triple layer, just in case. Oh and, leave some space in the rear where I can install the boosters. Change all paddle rooms into cannon chambers. We don't need paddles anymore. Seal the windows with these shields too."
That will make the windows waterproof as well, so I don't have to worry about taking in water the next time I move gold blocks.
"One last thing, make sure you change all the ballast material (*) into movable parts so I can take them away when I want."
Ha, I can just use gold bricks as ballast when necessary. This will create an emergency gold reserve too, we might need something like this in the future.
"That should be it. How much?"
The old man kept his head lowered for a while.
"1.5 million crystals!"
"What?? Are you trying to tip me off?"
"I already gave you a discount!" He gave me a sad face. "Look at your ship's size, we need an overhaul from tip to tail! And you removed over half of the existing cabins! You know it's harder to modify something than to create something right? I would have simply rejected this offer if you're someone else!"
"Fine!!" I paid him anyway. Damn he's smart.
My next job is to ask for more energy crystals. I guess I'll need a lot more, considering the trade with Atlantis. As Clark mentioned, I should go find Domergor.
I turned to the rest of the people: "I'll try to find more energy crystals, you don't have to follow me now. Take the time to level up or something, I'll contact you guys when something happens."
"Alright!" Zirai responded first: "We'll be off then."
Most people followed her, while Yuri and Rose decided to follow me. Well, it's a bless to have beauties following around, why would I refuse?
I gave them two teleport scrolls to the Lost City, then activated my ring myself. I waited at the teleport station for a while but they didn't show up as expected.
Weird. Do you need several minutes to use a scroll?
When I almost lost my patience, two figures appeared in the station with a white flash. Yuri is holding onto one of Rose's arms, with her head leaning on Rose's shoulder. Something doesn't feel right yet I can't tell what it is.
"Let's go!" I summoned Night Shade, hopped on and pulled Yuri up. Before I gave my hand to Rose, she summoned her white wolf and climbed on herself.
"Three people on one horse won't be easy, you two go ahead. I'll take Chubby."
She ordered the wolf to run ahead. Wait, "Chubby"?
I told Night Shade to follow behind. Something must have happened during the interval, but I probably shouldn't ask, since they aren't telling me.
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(*) Ballast: heavy objects, such as sandbags, used for adjusting altitude for certain vehicles, like ships and air balloons.
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