Extraordinary Sailing

The night was thick.

In a slightly cramped room, the teenager lying on the bed was sweating profusely, his eyes rolling under his closed eyelids, and even his face was distorted, but he couldn't wake up.

Obviously his dream tonight was not wonderful, or it would be more appropriate to call it a nightmare.

"call--!"

Sitting up suddenly from the bed, the boy who had just escaped from the nightmare had a very bad expression on his face, his chest was heaving like a bellows and he was panting violently. Silently holding his head with both hands, it took a while to recover from the day-to-day panic.

Not wanting to sleep anymore, Aiwen got up and got out of bed in his linen pajamas, poured himself a glass of cold water, and stood in front of the window with dark eyes.

"It's that nightmare again."

Alvin Garriott's identity is a descendant of a fallen nobleman, more precisely, a former descendant of a fallen nobleman. Since that night of blood and fire three years ago, the former honor, wealth and even his family have been far away from this young man.

As the traditional feudal nobles of the island country Ilia Kingdom, the Garriott family with the title of baron was also prominent in those days.

The starting point of the family is legendary. As one of the pioneers in the era of great voyages, Garriott, a commoner explorer, drove his own expedition ship, defeated reefs, storms, and ferocious sea beasts to cross the Treasure Sea, and took the lead in exploring the safe arrival in the shortest time. A new route to the southern continent.

The opening of the new sea route allowed the southern continent to enrich the kingdom with an endless supply of precious metals, spices, agricultural products, and raw materials, and benefited Ilya, who was at the bottom of the Tulip Alliance at the time, and became a regional power.

With this feat, the explorer Garriott was conferred the title of baron by the royal family of Ilia, and he jumped from a penniless commoner to a fief noble. It also added a new family named "Gariot family" to the aristocratic lineage of the Kingdom of Ilia. member.

It's a pity that this great explorer and navigator's ability to manage the territory is far from his nautical exploration ability. The Garriott family under his leadership not only failed to achieve greater glory in the Kingdom of Ilia, but has been on the decline.

And since him, the successive Barons Garriott are worthy of being his descendants, all of them are adventurers in their bones, thinking all day long about gaining benefits in the just-opened age of exploration, but no one wants to go Manage your own territory well.

How can ocean exploration be an activity that ordinary people can afford? Huge benefits naturally come with huge risks. The wealth of the family and even the land are gradually filled into the bottomless pit of ocean exploration!

Ocean exploration is not only based on ideals and persistence, but also strength and luck. This family seems to have exhausted all their luck in the battle of their rise, and there has never been a single expedition since then that can bring this family the glory and wealth that would turn them around.

After more than a hundred years and eight generations of Barons Garriott, there was only one remote town left in the fief which was equivalent to at least forty knights - Blackstone Town. If it weren't for Ilya's lack of knighthood restrictions linked to fiefs and titles, it would be difficult to retain the title of the empty baron.

In this generation, the entire Garriott family has only one father who bears the title of baron, living with two siblings who lost their mother when they were young. The only aristocratic ostentation was probably the meticulous old butler Leo who took care of himself even though he was down and out.

Maybe the gods in the sky couldn't stand it anymore, and when they were about to run out of water, things ushered in a turning point.

A huge iron-rich mine was discovered underground in Blackstone Town! You can imagine how ecstatic they were at that time.

It's just that it's too early to be happy.

Even though legally even the king cannot deny the Garriott family's ownership of this iron mine, the extremely weak Garriott family simply does not have enough force and assistance to keep the wealth that fell from the sky.

As long as you are willing to use your brains, there are always loopholes in the rules made by humans, not to mention the negligible price.

At this time in the Kingdom of Ilia, the emerging commercial aristocracy had risen strongly, the personal liberation movement had intensified, and the power of the traditional feudal nobles and even the king was not as good as before.

A new revolution is brewing. Who is an ally and who is an enemy in this storm is difficult for even the most seasoned politicians to say.

A large group of hungry hyenas are already eyeing the lonely Garriott. Among them are new nobles, but there are also "old friends" from the previous family.

The ferocious predators are all waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that will not break the nerves of other opponents.

Therefore, after the father of the house, Furman Garriott, died suddenly of an illness due to old injuries and heavy pressure from his early expeditions.

While Ai Wen and his sister were young, the title was temporarily vacant. The small town of Heishi, which lost its legal protection, was stormed by a group of well-equipped "bandits" in lightning speed.

The last foundation of the family will be destroyed!

The subsequent changes took place so naturally, the "robbers" who dared to attack the aristocratic territory were wiped out by the enthusiastic aristocrats. After some kind of transaction behind the scenes, the iron ore fell into the hands of this "good-hearted man", and he called it the Garriott family's escrow.

As for the search for the two legal heirs of the Garriott family who disappeared in this accident: Anita Garriott and Ivan Garriott, no one mentioned it tacitly.

In fact, at this time, the overall situation has been settled, and no one cares about their life or death anymore.

Ai Wen drank the clear water in the glass in one gulp, suppressing the surging thoughts in his heart. In fact, even if the family's property is ten times larger, Aiwen can't be bothered. What makes him have nightmares is that he escaped from birth, but his sister Anita, who is three years older than him, disappeared during the turmoil.

The old housekeeper who didn't dare to expose to find the eldest lady escaped from Ilia with Aiwen, who survived by chance, and came to Leopold, a seaside town of Phalatis Kingdom, which also belongs to the Tulip Alliance.

The old butler, Leo, threw away most of the items on the two that might reveal him, and opened a pharmacy with the wealth he brought out at the end and the knowledge of herbal medicine when he was young. He settled down in the small town and lived an ordinary life until today.

But just the day before yesterday, the old butler, who was seriously injured the night of his escape and left the root cause of his illness, could no longer hold on, and slowly closed his eyes while holding Aiwen's hand.

The last relative passed away, and Ivan, who was overly sad, was so distraught that he cried and passed out.

When he woke up again, the consciousness of the traveler who had been silent in the boy's body for thirteen years was revived, and he merged with Aiwen, the surface personality, into one again.

Unlike other soul wearers who drive halfway and lack a sense of substitution for the experience of their predecessors, Aiwen is a time-traveler. A time-traveler is Aiwen, and Aiwen's experience is actually his own.

It is only because the body was too weak in the past to bear the huge soul and memory of an adult that there is a difference between the superficial personality Aiwen and the silent consciousness traveler.

The combined Aiwen will not be as weak as the boy he once was, no longer afraid of loneliness and no longer confused about the future. With a strong enough heart and a broad enough experience, he has a clear understanding of what he wants and where his path lies.

"I will live well!"

The handsome boy with brown hair, black eyes and fair skin looked at his own shadow on the window and said to himself softly.

At this time, the night sky outside the window was still full of stars, and the seaside town named Leopold had woken up and gradually became busy.

There are many Gothic buildings dominated by black tones, and the gas lamps along the street cast warm yellow lights, and there are curls of steam floating in the streets, which is a prosperous scene of a Victorian port city.

The era of great navigation has begun for two hundred years, and the navigation industry and ocean trade have become an important part of the country's assets. The invention of the steam engine seems to have added a powerful engine to the world, and everything is accelerating towards a bright future.

Well, at least that's how it looks on the surface, doesn't it?