Pillar of Yita

This brings up extremely high requirements for the safety standards of the utility room.

After discussion, it was unanimously decided that the utility room should at least use a level two or higher safety standard. The reason not to use a higher one is because there aren’t any higher-level craftsmen on the ship. Even the level two standard requires the utility room to specifically use iron wood compartments and an alchemical partition design method.

Just this one utility room would cost at least fifteen thousand Lycel if purchased and hired built on the market.

Fortunately, they did it themselves, saving a lot.

Then there is the anchor room; small boats can do without heavy anchor stones, which can save a considerable amount of money. But the longer the anchor chain, the more it can ensure that the ship can drop the anchor into the windless layer in more areas, making it easier for the ship to find good anchor points.

However, a long anchor chain also has its disadvantages: its self-weight would burden the ship and impose material requirements on the chain itself. Ultimately, Fang Hong chose an ordinary enchanted copper anchor, using the sinews of a bipedal flying dragon as the traction rope of the capstan room—simply because it was cheap.

Regarding the anchor stone itself, it is a special magical product from Eteliria, whose characteristics are the opposite of the Guy Crystal, possessing the ability to anchor the ship in the Cloud Sea, provided it’s lowered into the windless layer with an anchor chain.

The Xinsas Serpentfolk had been using this special magic stone as the cornerstone to build floating fortresses in the windless layer thousands of years ago, constructing many magnificent floating cities with it.

However, around their era, this mineral was almost consumed completely, so much so that anchor stones are now very expensive; the anchor stone of a large ship is often several times more costly than a small boat itself.

Fang Hong’s anchor stone was gifted by the Elfendo Council, about the size of a human head. No surprise, as Alchemists are indeed wealthy.

Outside the windless layer, an anchor stone is so light that it almost has no weight and can be easily stored. But once lowered into the windless layer, isolated from the wind element, a special magical effect will render it stable and heavy as a thousand pounds.

As for the living quarters, dining room, activity room, ship workers’ room, and cargo hold are almost worthless, made from ordinary magic blackwood or white oak wood. Of course, ”worthless” is relative—nothing on a floating ship is truly cheap, and magic blackwood itself is quite valuable.

Additionally, previously confirmed were the infirmary, Milaila’s altar needing Holy Relics blessing, Saint Blood and Holy Crystal; the recovery bed needs Soothing Crystal, Regenerating Vines, and Vitality Wood; the potion room requires a Magic Culture Dish, Inert Crystal, and a wooden assistant like a Dryad.

Ideally, the assistant would be a dexterous wood-element Fairy—but Miss Tata is a Dragon Soul, not a true Fairy.

As for making Nini the assistant, that’s out of the question.

Fang Hong now gets a headache just thinking of this little one who calls him ”Papa” in a baby voice all day long.

All in all, these are significant expenses.

Buying everything on the market is virtually impossible; they don’t have such a budget. They have to gather the rest themselves, and for the stuff they can’t find, they’d have to shamelessly ask their teacher for some. As an Artisan Master, Ande might not be fabulously wealthy, but he does have some savings for these little things.

However, Fang Hong didn’t want to trouble his teacher unless absolutely necessary.

Then, in their discussions, they identified the final three special chambers—

Originally, according to the specifications of the ’Seven Seas Traveler’, besides the onboard Alchemist, Magic Guided Conductor Chief, cook, Supply Officer, Ship’s Officer, and even the captain, doctor, and Navigation Officer these posts they can assume themselves, they at least would need ten to fifteen sailors to sail the ship smoothly.

However, the ’Seven Seas Traveler’ is a ship with special significance—it may not yet embody the true form of a Fairy Dragon Knight, but with the Heart of Fairy and Tata, the Dragon Soul, it is quite different from a typical floating ship.

With Tata as the main controller, the ship’s sail handling, steering, and even some daily maintenance no longer require ordinary sailors, and thus they only need one Bakins to handle emergencies.

Without sailors, the ship has fewer daily life compartments for them, and these vacated spaces—if it were a merchant ship—would naturally expand its cargo hold greatly.

But as adventurers, they don’t need such a large cargo hold, so they could use the extra space for special chambers.

There are quite a lot of special chambers on a floating ship, to be honest.

As mentioned earlier, there are not just the cannon deck, crow’s hang, construct deployment pod, magic guided amplification deck, central workshop, etc., indeed, on Eteliria, most professions could have their own special chambers on the ship.

For instance, a Natural Historian might have a Magic Guided Tower; a Paladin or Priest might have a Prayer Room; a Druid could have a cultivation room or beast pens; a Nightingale could have a Poison Room; and a Poet could have large instruments, to name a few.

But for the ’Seven Seas Travel Group’, the professions are diverse: Combat Artisan, Paladin, Druid, Crossbow Shooter, among others; and those who later joined include Elisa, a Nightingale, Luo Yu as an Elementalist, Gita as a Natural Historian, and Tianlan as a Poet.

Xiangzi is both a Magic Guided Conductor and a Dual-Wielding Swordsman.

Additionally, they also have an Iron Guard, a Healer, a Dual Blade Ranger (Ai Xiaoxiao), a Gunslinger, plus Fighter Xiesta, and Bakins, who knows a bit of everything but is primarily a Musketeer.