WHOOSH—!
The sea breeze howled, billowing the sails of the ship.
The northeastern winds that prevailed throughout the year in the Bantaan Archipelago provided every sailboat heading out to sea and continuing southward with a perfect quartering wind.
It was not a headwind, nor a direct tailwind, but a quartering wind.
To every captain, there was nothing more delightful than sailing with favorable wind and currents.
If there was anything better, it would be for this quartering wind to blow on and on!
The World's Fastest Three-Master, the Golden Deer, had sailed south from its base at Torrent Fortress, arriving first at the Saint Clara Lighthouse at the southernmost point of Yucatan Island.
This place marked the end of the land territory of the Bantaan Archipelago and the boundary of the Taya Empire's sphere of influence for thousands of years.
Further south, one would venture into the vast and deep Sapphire Sea, reaching the edge of the Celestial Sphere Circulation.
