After dinner, Andasu took the extra parts she had bought back to prepare The Howling Wolf, while Li Ang walked over to check the progress of his own ship.

"Wow, the progress is really fast!" Zoe marveled as she gazed at the hull.

"Yeah, just last night only the keel was done," Alulu said.

From the frame to the hull installation, because the view was flush or depressed, they hadn't felt how fast it would be to build this ship with the shipbuilding treasure wood blessed by Diana. But now that the hull's lower parts were already up and taller than them, they could feel how large their ship was.

Neil called over some workers to move the extra branches cut from the blessed treasure wood. Their life force was so abundant that it was piling up around the dock.

The large components selected for the ship today, the hovercraft and the ramming horn, have all been ordered for production, but Li Ang decided to use the system's functions to craft the ship's figurehead himself.

The manufacture and equipment of the ramming horn, the ship's figurehead, and the guardian divine object are similar to equipment creation and benefit from his tier in equipment creation, so he wanted to try making it himself.

There are ready-made guardian divine objects, and a ramming horn is useful for close-quarter combat of the ship, but since the external armor hasn't been made yet, the ship can't be used for close combat. However strong it is, it has no place to be used, so he placed an order for an ordinary one.

He plans to try making the ship's figurehead himself to feel the intricacies of such an object.

Ordinarily, ship's figureheads are magical creatures, some originating from ancient ruins, and people cannot analyze where their power comes from.

Opening a dimensional rift, Li Ang took out the materials he had purchased one by one, including those acquired from Mengze Island.

"What's Li Ang doing?" Zoe ran over, touching here and there, "Creating equipment? But there's no Magic Furnace here?"

Unlike equipment creation, crafting a ship's figurehead doesn't require a Magic Furnace.

"No, it's the figurehead."

"Ah, that's that crocodile."

Li Ang chose the main part to be the skull of a demon resembling a dragon's head. The skull was about two meters wide and over three meters long. To humans, it seemed like a bloody mouth, but it had been taken down by the Star Flower Travel Corps girls and now could only be silently placed on the ground.

[Skull of the Mossback Swamp Crocodile]

[Head of a Water Demon, a good material for a ship's figurehead]

[Tier: 6]

[Spirituality: Contains most of this demon's spirituality]

[Purpose: Equipment creation, casting materials, alchemy, shipbuilding]

This one was bigger and a higher tier than the one the girls first encountered on the island, which came from the later demon tide.

"This one really took some effort back then," Alulu said as she helped Li Ang move the skull to his prepared workspace with one hand.

Did it really take a lot of effort? Li Ang thought as he watched her easily move the huge object.

Let's assume she was referring to the battle process.

After leaving Mengze Island, although there wasn't a specific sense of it, Xiaoniu seemed to have gotten stronger.

Li Ang started processing the materials with a Magic Blade, reducing the scale armor and eroding the flesh until only the skull was left.

Sensing the magic power and spirituality within, he began carving, guiding the power of other Water Attribute materials into the carved patterns.

"What is this for?" Zoe asked.

"Setting up a Magic Array. The magical power of the ship's figurehead relies on the engraving of the Magic Array, closer to the method of making enhancement arrays on the ship."

"So this is the Magic Array? Li Ang really knows everything."

Li Ang didn't respond much. Previously, he only had a general understanding of Magic Arrays and didn't know how to make them. In The Soul Apex, his work hadn't reached that level yet.

However, the system-provided function was hard to explain. If Andasu were here, he guessed she would say, "As expected of the master."

The girls quietly watched him crafting the figurehead. Leviathan floated asleep in a bubble, and the little dragon only gave the crocodile demon, this sub-dragon demon, a glance at the beginning and then ignored it.

Once the Magic Array was carved, what needed to be done next was both simple and complex. Simple because it just required adjusting magic power and spirituality. Complex because the process needed a lot of effort to ensure the outcome met his needs.

Li Ang closed his eyes and focused, starting the adjustments following the path provided by the system.

The girls didn't interrupt him, but even with system assistance, the post-dinner time was entirely consumed by this task.

"Alright, it's done," Li Ang exhaled deeply. When he was in the utmost concentration, he sometimes held his breath.

The crocodile skull in front was covered in runes, faintly glowing with the brilliance of magic power.

"Finally finished?" Zoe yawned; she was almost asleep from watching beside him.

"Didn't I tell you to go back?"

Halfway through, Li Ang had mentioned that they could go back and rest first.

"I thought it would be quick, but it took so long."

Neil grinned from a side.

"Your captain... really quite surprising."

For workers proficient in ship construction, their opinion was different from that of the clueless Wild Cat.

Neil chuckled, "If you tell others he can make a ship's figurehead in one night, they either won't believe it or will cling to him, wanting to get something out of him."

"How will you attach it to the ship?" Alulu walked around and didn't see any fixtures.

"That'll be done in coordination when our ship is built."

Li Ang stretched, opened the panel, and was ready to explain this thing's information to the girls.

The bubble beside bounced, Leviathan swam out and landed on Li Ang's shoulder, spitting a water wave at the skull.

Li Ang hadn't had time to sense the pure magic power contained in the water before it poured over the figurehead. Magic power quickly charged into the Magic Array on it.

The crocodile skull emitted a bright light, with magic power turbulence around it, faint lightning flashing, and more power from the magic power dimension was drawn into the skull.

Protrusions appeared on the crocodile's brow ridge, and similar changes occurred on its gills and back of the skull. Even the longest two protrusions extended back like dragon horns before thrusting forward again.

[Dragon God's Blessing Ship Figurehead]

[Originally made from the skull of the Mossback Swamp Crocodile, this figurehead was elevated to a stronger existence during the Sea Serpent Ancestor's blessing, washed by the magic spring from deep within the Magic Power Dimension.]

[Tier: 7]

[Category: Ship's Figurehead]

[Provides Skills: [Dragon Wave Charge][Sea Serpent Shield]]

Hmm, this is more like it; I didn't want to be on a ship decorated with a sub-dragon's head. Leviathan nodded with satisfaction.

This little guy, Li Ang mused, truly remains the Dragon Ancestor, with pride not inferior to Akuya's.

Initially planning just to experiment, the unexpectedly strong result caught Li Ang by surprise.

After explaining what Leviathan did to the girls, they surrounded it, chatting on various topics, enjoying the interaction with the little sea serpent even though they couldn't understand its thoughts.

Li Ang took a closer look at the skills of the dragon-transformed crocodile bone figurehead. The first skill uses the Power of Dragon and Water Element to reinforce the ship, allowing it to speed up and collide powerfully in a short time, unleashing an impact comparable to a tier 7 gigantic water attribute demon's attack.

As for the Sea Serpent Shield, it uses these two powers to create a Pure Magic Water Sea Serpent to circle the ship, temporarily blocking external forces.

This enhancement effect truly exceeded expectations.

Li Ang thanked Leviathan, stroking its chin, and the little dragon closed its eyes, relaxing and allowing him to pet it, seeming to enjoy it very much.

"Alright, let's rest for today, there's still a lot to do in the days ahead."

The boat building progress continued, each joyful member went back happily.

Early the next morning, Li Ang's door was hit by loud noises, a combination of doorbell and knocking.

It sounded like more than one person made the noise, and he recognized, besides Zoe, there were several others.

Is something wrong? It shouldn't be bad news, right?

Li Ang quickly got up to clear his head, got up, and opened the door.

As the sliding door opened, Zoe rushed into him, gesturing frantically without speaking clearly, pointing aside.

Dorothy said, "Just take him to see."

Taking the cue, Zoe, who couldn't form words for a while, grabbed Li Ang and led him to her room.

Inside her room, a large golden eggshell lay shattered all over, and right in the center sat an unfamiliar young girl.