Extraordinary Voyage-Chapter 695 - 597: Driving the Trend! World’s Favor!_2

Chapter 695: Chapter 597: Driving the Trend! World’s Favor!_2

But the place directly facing this star is not the pole; it is just very close. Similarly, the geomagnetic North Pole that Aiven can clearly sense with the "Life Magnetic Field" does not coincide with the true pole.

In fact.

The simplest and most straightforward way to determine the pole is to use a sextant to measure 90° north latitude, but the error in this method is about ±0.2° to ±1°, which in reality can mean tens to hundreds of kilometers.

A more precise method is to take a long-exposure photograph of the sky near the celestial North Pole; one will find that the photo is a series of concentric circles. These concentric circles are star trails, the tracks left by the fixed stars in the north sky as the planet rotates.

The center of these concentric circles is the "celestial North Pole."

Then, by standing on the sea or ice near the pole and measuring the altitude angle of that "celestial North Pole," when the altitude angle reaches 90 degrees, the location of the observer is the North Pole of the planet beneath their feet.

However, currently, the polar circle is in the period of the midnight sun. While they have avoided the severe cold of minus 70° in the winter, they have also avoided the polar night and the sky full of stars, along with what many consider the ultimate romance—the aurora.

However.

For Aiven, who possesses "Data Visualization," the matter is not so complicated. He merely glanced at the sun and had already determined the location of the North Pole.

Holding his sister with one hand and Olivia with the other, he activated the [King’s Rook Castle].

Swoosh——

In the blink of an eye, they had arrived at a place twenty kilometers away in a straight line.

"Aiven, is this the North Pole you were talking about?"

Olivia looked at the ice cap, which was no different from anywhere else, and couldn’t feel any peculiarities. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Hmm, at least for now, it is."

Because the ice cap is constantly moving, in a few days, this large block of ice might no longer be the pole. This place is almost meaningless, like marking the boat for a submerged sword.

However, Aiven had no other intentions, only wanting to verify what Jelos’ words truly meant. In his view, whatever a person intends to do, there must always be some kind of driving force behind it.

For the adventurers funded by the country, overseas interests and the king’s orders are their driving forces, but what about a powerful Great Wizard like Jelos? It couldn’t possibly be purely for a hobby, right?

Such "unexpected rewards" might be one of the driving forces.

Bam——

Aiven took out a stone monument carved with "Life Tree" from the [Witchcraft Garden] and set it on the ground. "Erecting a monument to commemorate achievements" is the common practice of all adventurers, and also the ritual for conquering uncharted territories.

Suddenly, Aiven slapped his forehead, as if he had thought of something.

Gently raising his hand, a massive piece of ice, five meters thick next to him, silently opened a large hole. He then tossed a one-ton stone sphere engraved with "I came, I witnessed!" and the names of three people into the seawater.

Subsequently, Aiven clapped his hands, turned his head to look at Anita and Olivia, just about to ask them if they sensed anything unusual, when his body suddenly stiffened.

Because.

At this moment, using the [True Name] as a "Secret Key" deeply connected to the World Root Source, he suddenly felt the presence of something indescribable, ethereal, that his inner spirit craved madly for all around him.

Aiven, who had been exposed to many high-level energy "authorities," spiritual origins, titles... was well aware that this was not a higher-level world origin, but rather more akin to the power that inspires awe among all beings like the "Nation Destroyer."

Only, this time the object was different, it came from the attention of the "World Will," which could even be described with an Eastern term as the "World’s Favor"!

This was indeed the unexpected reward that Jelos had mentioned.

"What a fortunate turn of events! Is this because I’ve aligned with the trend of the Great Navigation? Great Navigation! Great Expansion! Geographical Discoveries!"

Aiven’s face was full of fascinating expressions, and, in a flash of thought, many ideas flooded his mind.

The meaning behind Rogers’ words probably isn’t just about exploring completely untouched wastelands, but also expanding the concept of humanity as a whole to enable a fusion of material and spirit.

For example, in the original understanding of everyone on the Old Continent, the whole world consisted of Nimansite People and Peacock Islands People.

Then, as the Age of Navigation began, the geographical map and human concept expanded successively to include the Anuma People of the Southern Continent and Atrean People of the New Continent.

And during this process, it seemed that the Sea Hegemon Hilus was always leading the charge.

The "Supreme Knight," "Steel Melting Furnace," "Thorny Fire," "Bone Shattering Warhammer"—besides "Supreme Knight," said to be created by the ancestor who founded Supreme Swordsmanship from the Hilus Royal Family, the other three all emerged like comets after the start of the Great Navigation.

Because "Titled Knights" can gain power from titles, this trait made them or their respective officials never stingy in recording with a flourish the illustrious feats of "Titled Knights" in the past.

It’s not hard to see that both "Thorny Fire" and "Steel Melting Furnace" have records as Great Navigators, even the least sophisticated "Bone Shattering Warhammer" had experiences as a Sea Hunter across the seas.

To say there is no connection would be impossible for Aiven to believe.

Many scholars have examined this question: Given the Nimansite People share the same natural endowment, why do the Hilus People claim to be invincible in close combat, becoming the overlord of the Age of Navigation?

In the past, Aiven believed, like most, that besides having indeed advanced training methods and management concepts, their most crucial factor was plundering resources worldwide to support their troops.

With adequate resource supply, even though Hilus itself did not have a large population base, it was able to continuously cultivate numbers of Extraordinary individuals far exceeding others.

Below Tier 3, using resources indeed worked, but with such a meager population base, producing four Titled Knights could not simply be explained by resource utilization.

Seeing it from this "World’s Favor" perspective, it seems the greatest benefit of the Geographical Discoveries had been reaped by them!

Aiven also knew that during the previous wave of "Renaissance."

While the Church was in relentless battles with the Wizards, a group of demigods from his own backyard emerged like mushrooms after rain because of humanity’s craving for the "Renaissance" and "thought liberation."

Some were directly born from human belief, while others ascended from Peak Transcendents; the number of demigods that appeared in just two centuries exceeded what had emerged over millennia in the past.

Human belief is one aspect, but the more fundamental essence is: "Driving the trend, gaining the World’s Favor!"

To Anita and Olivia beside him, who also sensed something but were far less perceptive than him as an Upper-Rank Wizard, Aiven murmured, "It looks like we simply must become adventurers in the future!"