Chapter 487: No Way to Salvage

To get the fallen sky ship as quickly as possible, Liszt closely monitored the carpenters in the carpentry workshop as they made the wheelbarrow.

Using thorn ironwood and rubber water, the carpenters only needed to make and assemble the right parts to form a wheelbarrow.

However, accuracy was a big problem.

The first wheelbarrow took two days to make, but it was unattractive and too stiff when pushed.

Isaiah was already amazed: "Is this the wheelbarrow, my lord? It’s amazing! It’s easier to maneuver than a cart, and one person can push it around everywhere. The serfs can move goods with hardly any effort using this wheelbarrow!"

"It’s too crude, not polished enough. Carpenters, keep at it. I want to produce a qualified wheelbarrow!" Liszt was not satisfied.

There was no other option; the smoke task hadn’t marked it as done.

This showed the wheelbarrow was flawed, unapproved, or perhaps Liszt didn’t truly accept it. After all, the smoke task mirrored his thoughts. He saw task progress and assignments as reflections of his mind.

The smoke dragon’s fate power blended with his mental energy to create the smoke task.

Whether this was true or not didn’t matter; what mattered was that the carpenters had to remake a better wheelbarrow. Using lessons from the first, the second needed only small tweaks to improve the precision of the parts. So, in under a day, a new wheelbarrow was ready.

When the carpenter pushed the wheelbarrow smoothly around the carpentry workshop,

Liszt called up the smoke task and smiled with satisfaction: "Task done, reward: the fallen sky ship."

With the task completed, he quickly ordered the workshop to make wheelbarrows nonstop and then left. Back at the town office, he told the patrols to step up their searches, attempting to find the fallen sky ship.

Beyond that, he didn’t need to do anything else.

Because the new task, like last year’s New Year’s task, was: "After another exhausting year, I, as the lord, can finally unwind and enjoy the upcoming New Year, but I still need to deeply consider the development of the territory for the next year, prepare for the training of the sky knight, and plan for the nurturing of the magic power seed. Just wait patiently for the New Year to end. Reward: unknown reward."

Every New Year and after wars, there were unknown rewards, and they were always very valuable.

This made him eager to quickly pass this New Year, but it was only December 26th, and there were still four days until the New Year.

...

The patrol teams of Flower Town and Black Horse Island had not found the fallen sky ship.

The ones who truly discovered it were a group of sailors involved in developing the new port. The new port town at the northwest corner of Black Horse Island had not yet been built, but its affiliated new port dock had already begun surveying the waters. Even though the winter sea water was icy cold, for sailors accustomed to the severe cold, it was just a winter swim.

While they were surveying the depth of the sea, they discovered a huge shipwreck at the bottom of the sea and quickly relayed the news to the castle, reaching Liszt’s ears.

"A huge shipwreck found in the new port waters?" Liszt’s face was calm, but his heart was extremely excited.

This shipwreck was undoubtedly the fallen sky ship.

"The descendants of Philip, the exiled children of the sun, have not been forgotten. The people of the Sun Child civilization sent a sky ship to bring them home, but it sank." Liszt quickly dispatched the Flower ship, preparing to sail to the new port waters of Black Horse Island.

At the same time, he took out that message in a bottle, used a bit of old Phil’s blood to open the bottle cap, and poured out the piece of paper with the Sun script.

"The tower has fallen, the tree city is burning, XX has perished, the children of the sun will rise with the flames, the children wandering outside, you are free."

Comparing the Sun script on the paper, Liszt speculated in his heart: "The Sun Child clearly sent a sky ship, why did they also send a message in a bottle?" If there was a ship to pick them up, of course, there was no need to send a message in a bottle, unless they knew the sky ship had sunk.

But there were still many logical obstacles that could not be explained.

Liszt was not in a hurry to speculate; after all, the sky ship was soaking in the new port waters and could be salvaged at any time. Then, from the ship’s remains, he could search for secrets.

A brand new world was about to unfold before his eyes.

He was beyond excited.

Before he left, he found Acheronides, the mermaid, who was reading in the seaside villa: "Acheronides, I've discovered a sunken ship in the waters of the new port at Black Horse Island and am preparing to salvage it. To make sure nothing gets left behind, I hope you can come along and help retrieve any missed items."

Acheronides nodded right away: "Yes!"

She never said no to Liszt.

After sailing all night to the new port, it was already the morning of the 28th when they arrived. They saw the Thorn Ship heading out to salvage the sunken ship.

"Sir, the sunken ship is huge, like a castle dropped into the sea. The Thorn Ship can barely pull it up from the seabed, and our sailors can't dive deep enough to cut the ship into pieces," reported Advisor Gort. "We’ll need more ships to help with the salvage."

"Then dispatch the Flower Ship, the Pearl Ship, and the Red Tree Ship to help salvage the sunken ship," Liszt waved his hand and decided.

He then added, "Oh, and Advisor Gort, I just got a bunch of gold coins, about five thousand, which have been allocated for the construction of the new town. There’s still a thousand left, and I hope you can use this thousand to acquire three more cargo ships to add to the Black Horse Island fleet."

He got the gold coins from Levis and his wife, who were doing well selling black pearls and had started to make a profit, so they could repay part of the loan before the New Year.

They were even thinking of ordering more black pearls, but unfortunately, Liszt had no extra black pearls to spare.

With the gold coins, he intended to purchase ships, as the freight between Black Horse Island and Flower Town would gradually become busier, and without a large number of ships, it would be hard to meet the demand. Moreover, he hoped to train a batch of qualified sailors and assemble a sufficient number of ships to participate in the future expansion wars.

Borrowing ships always felt off.

By noon.

Several ships stopped their cargo runs and sailed to the new port waters. After the sailors dove down to tie the cables, the four ships sailed together, dragging the half-buried sunken ship from the seabed. However, to Liszt's dismay, the four ships still couldn't pull the sunken ship out of the mud.

After struggling until evening, the sunken ship remained submerged, showing no signs of surfacing.

Captain Kosto shook his head and sighed, "Sir, the sunken ship is located quite deep, and the ships' pulling power is insufficient. We need more ships to participate in the salvage."

After some thought.

Liszt decided, "Forget it, we’ll wait until after the New Year to salvage the ship. For now, let it stay in the sea a bit longer. It's been sunken for who knows how many years, so there's no rush. You must keep this secret and not disclose the news of the sunken ship here."

"Understood, sir!"

However, unbeknownst to everyone except Liszt, a large white shell was searching for this fallen sky ship on the seabed.

The real treasure and secrets were something only Acheronides could handle.