No wonder Hill had this question. Whether it was Logan or Ethan, last time they said they were going to find a world to play in. After they came back, one of them buried himself in the laboratory, busy nonstop, seemingly having obtained some excellent materials.
The other's strength inexplicably increased greatly. Hill even suspected that these few people might have secretly gone to some special world to train without her knowledge.
"We did go to play, but we had some unexpected gains. I found that sometimes performing random teleportations can lead to unexpected surprises."
Hill nodded, understanding what was going on this time. At the same time, she was thinking in her heart if she should change her way of doing things.
Her current way of doing things is a bit incompatible with Ethan's team.
The others on the ship treat the Prinz Eugen as their home, and at home, they naturally want to relax and enjoy themselves, which is why Ethan and the others suddenly went to a certain world to play.
Hill, on the other hand, has always treated this place as a workplace, and everything she does here are tasks that must be completed.
This makes it impossible for her to truly relax. Even when occasionally drinking and chatting with everyone, she cannot truly relax. When Ethan suggested going out to play, what she thought was not wanting to waste time for nothing.
She is different from the others on the ship. Because she has not undergone enhancement, Hill's current lifespan is still at a normal human level. If she often follows Ethan running around various worlds, her age will increase rapidly.
Although she can get lifespan-increasing potions from Ethan, the various experiments currently underway cannot be continued.
But this situation made her understand something.
Ethan's place is completely different from the environment she worked in before, especially Ethan, the captain, who does things as he pleases. Even if he has established goals and plans, he will not be like their S.H.I.E.L.D., making very detailed plans and then meticulously completing each specified item step by step to finally complete the mission.
Here, Ethan at most sets a final goal: We are going to conquer the stars and the sea, so let's all work hard together.
How to work hard? Ethan did not say, nor would he tell everyone what they needed to do. Ethan himself, as the captain, would not consider those details. He just sets a big goal, and then determines the small goals that need to be completed in front of him. The next step is to do it.
How to do it? How to achieve this small goal? There are no restrictions either. It is even possible that while occasionally going out to play, they casually do something that happens to solve this small goal. Of course, it might not be solved, in which case they will go back and deal with it specifically, or if they cannot deal with it temporarily, they will wait for a suitable opportunity.
Or the current goal was not achieved, but because of this casual action, subsequent events become very smooth, which is equivalent to solving future problems in advance.
This is how Ethan handles things most of the time. Hill is not very used to it and does not particularly like it, but if she wants to integrate into this team, she must adapt to this lifestyle.
Just like this time Ethan went out to play, it was a spur-of-the-moment action, but he did gain benefits. Hill also learned from Ada that Ada took this opportunity to test the effect of her long-term training in actual combat.
Ethan also sent Laura and the other young people to a world full of monsters to play and incidentally gain some combat experience. Hill was very clear about Laura and their situation, as she was present at the meeting then.
"So you will often use this method to train the team in the future?"
"It does not necessarily have to have a training effect, there is nothing wrong with just going to play." Ethan spread his hands. "It is just that for us now, games that we find interesting more or less have some of this kind of effect."
As the strength of the people on the ship continues to increase, ordinary entertainment activities are indeed no longer satisfying everyone. Even various electronic games have become very simple due to improved reflexes and excellent hand-brain coordination.
When games become simple, they become boring, and playing them for a while leads to feeling tired of them. It is not strange that Laura's enthusiasm for electronic games has significantly decreased in recent years, and she has instead started to like real-life games.
After chatting with Hill for a while longer, Ethan left the bridge and prepared to return to his room to rest.
Even if he does not rest now, he can ensure his energy and physical strength are abundant, but being busy in the laboratory for a long time has made him a little psychologically weary, so he wants to go back and rest.
But as he walked, he found himself outside the compartment containing the island world.
"Let's see what changes have occurred."
He was curious about what Logan and the others had done to this island during the time he was busy.
Opening the cabin door, Ethan first entered a small ordinary wooden house. Behind him was a seemingly ordinary wooden door. In reality, this wooden door was the entrance and exit connecting the two worlds.
From the outside, it looks like an ordinary cabin door. From the inside, it looks like an ordinary wooden door, but essentially it is still the cabin door of the ship. This is not a very profound spell, and this spell was not even cast by Ethan.
As for this small wooden house, it should have been built using the wood stored on the Prinz Eugen. As a passage for everyone to enter and exit this world, this small wooden house is very ordinary, with no advanced facilities, and it was not built too large.
There is a fireplace, a square table, and a wooden bed in the corner.
Additionally, there is a cabinet in the wooden house, right next to the door Ethan entered through, containing things like fishing rods, fishing nets, and axes.
"It is set up quite nicely."
This hut is like some common shelters in the mountains and forests, providing some basic equipment and facilities for people who are lost or trapped and temporarily unable to leave to rest and take shelter.
There are two windows in the wooden house, one on each side of the other wooden door, which is in the direction opposite the door Ethan entered through.
Standing in front of the window, one can see the white sandy beach in the distance and the clear blue sea.
Ethan came out of the wooden house and walked around. The wooden house is not far from the beach, located on slightly higher ground. This area is a plain covered with green grass.
After observing the surroundings for a while longer, besides the green grass nearby, there are also a few large trees. Ethan could not tell what kind of trees they were, but they looked healthy and were already suitable for use as material for building wooden houses.
Coming to the back of the wooden house, Ethan saw an open grassland extending to the foot of the distant mountains. At the same time, there was a forest to his upper right, and a wooden house in the area between the forest and the plain.
"Did Logan build the wooden house next to the forest?"
After a period of development, this island is now finalized. The size of the island will no longer change.
The island after it was finally formed is not particularly large, but it has enough space for everyone to live happily on the island, do what they want to do, and even build their own house and have their own private space.
As Ethan got closer, he found that Logan had not only built a wooden house but had also opened up a vegetable garden, and planted a few fruit trees on the side of the house near the forest.
At this time, Logan was casting nature spells on the vegetable garden he had opened up, likely wanting these crops to grow healthily.
"It seems you are really enjoying this pastoral life."
"There is nothing wrong with this, it has always been the life I like." Logan never puts down his cigar, even when using magic to farm, he has one in his mouth. "I once thought that if one day you no longer needed my help, I would find a world with good scenery and sufficiently fresh air, build a house like this, and live a quiet and peaceful life."
"That sounds pretty good, but I hope that day never comes."
Logan has been on the ship the longest and is Ethan's most trusted partner. He does not want Logan to leave.
"As for building a nice little house and living a quiet life, you already have it." The current life does not make Logan feel tired either. Although he still has to accompany Ethan sailing on the sea, and even fly into space to continue adventuring in unknown areas, it is generally very peaceful, and occasional minor troubles can be seen as a seasoning for life.
"Yeah, I actually really like the current life."
Logan stopped casting the spell and looked back at his hut and vegetable patch.
"Although building a wooden house like this is no longer a difficult task for me now, it still feels a bit regrettable to think that I will soon give up this place."
Ethan was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Logan meant.
"You do not need to worry, even if we get a new ship, this island will not be abandoned. This space can be completely transferred to the new ship."
"Oh? Can it be transferred?"
Logan is no longer ignorant of magic. Spells that expand specific spaces like this are usually fixed in a specific area, so he never thought Ethan could transfer this island world.
"When I was expanding this space, I deliberately made some adjustments, so this small world can be transferred to the new ship."
When he was creating this space, he deliberately designed it to be relatively independent and separated, so strictly speaking, it is still slightly different from the space expansion spells in the mage tower.
However, even if it can be transferred, it requires almost double the magic power and time, and ordinary mages rarely do such a laborious thing, after all, this is just a very ordinary small world.
But for Ethan, as long as everyone likes it here, it does not matter how much time and magic power is spent.
He has plenty of time, and magic power can be replenished. A place that everyone likes and that carries beautiful memories is not easy to find.
(To be continued.)
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