364 Locating the ancestral grounds (1/2)
Regretfully, I was too pressed for time to just relax and enjoy my adventurous nature. Only now it started to dawn on me that growing in strength and influence brought not only the benefits but also responsibility!
Taking a look at the remaining distance from the island I was aiming for, I released a deep sigh and picked the oars. Despite covering barely half of the distance I had to travel by sea, if I wanted to change my landing spot, I had to free myself from the current way earlier. For some reason that I was too unknowledgeable to understand, the closer I got to the land, the stronger the force of the current was!
At least, compared to moving the entire fleet of the canopies, changing the direction fo a single boat was far easier. In just a few moments, I felt the force pushing me towards the island slowly weaken, only to fully subsidize with about a quarter of the distance to the island remaining.
With how fragile the canopies were, I couldn't risk taking any sharp turns. Limited to just angling out of the current, I had to paddle the remaining distance completely by myself.
Considering how easy it was to create new boats, as soon as I reached about two hundred meters from the shore, I simply jumped out of the canopy, covering half of the remaining distance by just riding on top of my shockwaves.
I couldn't wait for the time when I would master a proper way of flying!
Even if utilizing my abilities in this quirky way allowed me to soar in the skies for as long as I had enough mana to cast yet another shockwave, when it came to precise control of my trajectory, I was powerless.
While I could easily cope with the rebound of landing on the land, I still decided to hold my explosions and ended up in the water. A considerable splash would disappear in a mere moment, but a crater in the earth would remain as the hint for anyone who would ever want to for some reason track my steps.
Just a little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone!
And it didn't have anything to do with the fact that the weather was pleasantly warm, with the water being as clear as in those rare places on the earth that remained unpolluted! It wasn't like I just wanted to play in the water for a tiny bit!
After swimming through the remaining one hundred meters, I finally stepped on the land. No matter how nice the weather was, I still had to use a firewall of mine in order to dry my clothes a bit. Even with my maxed resistance stat, moving in wet clothes could lead to uncomfortable blisters!
If I were to be late for the ceremony, I would have no other choice than to go with the flow and improvise. While in the worst-case scenario, I could settle on gathering slaves from other islands, it would pose way more challenges than just poaching them from the closest island to my own.
With no other way than to push forward, I finally resolved myself to just figure out the solutions to any problems that would appear on the spot. WIth how little information I had, trying to predict the outcome before even checking the ancestral grounds would be as stupid as trying to predict the outcome of the lottery without even knowing its rules.