That Sea God's Necklace truly was a divine artifact for seafaring!
With its help, Queen Catherine's fleet, which had been sailing home for her father's funeral and would otherwise have needed at least another six or seven days to reach Erathia, sighted Erathia's coastline on the morning just two days after she activated the necklace.
For some reason, however, Christian noticed that the queen did not seem particularly fond of the necklace. After channeling a small amount of mana into it to activate it, she locked it away in a box rather than wearing it.
Of course, whether the queen wore a necklace was certainly none of General Christian's business, and he had no intention of interfering.
In any case, by noon that day, they had begun landing directly at a disordered wharf that had somehow become deserted and almost entirely empty.
Less than half an hour later, Catherine and her thousand soldiers had all disembarked. The soldiers and sailors had even carried a great many supplies, including weapons, armor, and food, from the wharf to an equally abandoned outpost camp nearby.
The soldiers then began repairing the outpost's walls, barricades, and archer towers, easily establishing basic defenses far faster than they could have built a camp from scratch.
Throughout all this, Queen Catherine's expression remained grim!
The abandoned wharf, deserted outpost, and uninhabited surroundings already gave her a fair idea of what had happened in Erathia.
Still, despite what she suspected, Catherine ordered Christian to send out the force's few knights as scouts, hoping to obtain precise information about the surrounding area and Karyad, the city closest to the harbor, as quickly as possible.
It was not until evening that Christian finished compiling the latest reports brought back by all the returning knights. Parchment in hand, he immediately went