Humans at the End of the Third Era

The Legendary Warship was over three hundred meters long, a pleasant surprise for William.

He rode Little Black down to a nearby shoal and told him not to wander off. Then William flew to the deck. It made no creaking sound beneath his feet; if anything, it felt a little soft.

After all, no matter how impressive a warship was, if no one repaired or cleaned it and half the vessel sat in seawater, algae would eventually cover it.

Now the ship looked like a huge green monster coated in algae.

Still, William wanted to see whether he could find anything valuable aboard.

He entered the captain's cabin first. He could just make out marks where murals had once hung on the walls. A glance at the desk suggested there had been handwritten documents there, but they had long since crumbled away.

"That's frustrating. Did nothing survive?" William stomped hard on the deck again.

Boom.

His foot punched a hole through the deck.

He dropped into the hold, making enough noise to send the crabs living there scuttling away.

One crab even raised both claws and fled sideways. William could not tell whether he had scared it senseless or the creatures here simply liked doing things differently.

Several sea snakes were coiled around a pillar, hissing sharply at him.

The Prince ignored the harmless creatures. Even the teeth of a High-Tier Monster could not pierce his skin now, much less those of ordinary animals.

"Gunports, but no Magic Cannons. Someone must have taken them." William spotted signs that they had been removed.

What he did not understand was why the people who had accidentally fallen into this space had removed the cannons but left the Legendary-Quality Warship intact.

Back then, its deck and hull should have been extremely sturdy. They