The Steady Mage in the Pirate World

Just when Ace walked in front of the Aegwynn, Sabo and the four others had already sneaked into the woods next to the dock.

"I still think we should be careful. You also know that brother Kong Ming is a very cautious person."

"He's totally afraid of death," Xiaolu Fei said firmly.

"Please keep your voice down." Sabo, who had already started meditating and became a mage's apprentice, rushed forward and blocked Luffy's mouth. Then he carefully used his mental power to look around and made sure that Kong Ming was not scanning this place with his mental power. After walking through a forest, I felt relieved and took my hand away. "If you want to be punished, you can go to the boss and tell him directly."

"I think the boss has already heard what he said," little Usopp said weakly.

"I used my mental power to detect the surroundings, but there was no movement." Sabo turned to look at Kuina, "Did you find anything?"

"No," Guina, who also scanned the area with her own mental power, said with certainty.

Next, several people carefully followed the edge of the woods and walked around the location of the Aegwynn.

In the pirate world, it should be due to the special geographical environment. Many islands like Zhen Beast Island are not very large, but the forests on the island are as lush as tropical rain forests. There are moss on the ground, vines on the trees, and countless insects moving in the woods.

A few little guys were picking through the woods, trying their best to choose some easy places to walk. But even the most astute Sabo didn't notice that the road they were walking on was slowly, little by little, skewing towards the middle of the woods.

"Hey" Kuina, who was walking at the end, looked back and suddenly realized something was wrong, "Sabo, are we going in the right direction now? Why do I find that I can't even see the coastline of the island from here."

"It should be right, right?" Sabo confidently took out a compass from his arms, "Aren't we always sticking to the shore, etc. Is the compass broken?"

Several children leaned their heads closer and found that the compass in Sabo's hand was spinning desperately with no intention of stopping.

"I think we should go back the way we came," Guina backed down, "I have a very bad feeling."

"It doesn't matter, do you still remember the knowledge that the boss taught in class?" Sabo put away the rotating compass and smiled, "We can tell the direction based on the growth rings of trees, Kuina, you can use this tree cut down”

Kuina nodded, took the word Wandao seriously, walked to the small tree, then leaned over slightly, holding the knife in her right hand, looking at the waist of the small tree.

Iai cut

The light of the sword flashed by, and in an instant, Hedao Yiwen was unsheathed and then returned to his sheath. The small tree in front of him seemed to have not changed at all.

"Sister Kuina didn't hit her," Luffy blurted out.

Guina did not answer, but turned around and kicked the middle of the small tree. With a bang, the upper half of the tree fell towards the side where there was no one.

"So handsome" Luffy and Usopp clasped their hands at the same time, their eyes turning into stars.

"Well, let me take a look. The growth rings of the trees are narrow on this side and wide on this side. This means that the sun often shines from this angle, which means, um."

Sabo looked down at the tree stump chopped open by Kuina, began to mutter an analysis, and then came to a decisive conclusion.

"This is the direction we are going"

"Are you sure?" Kuina looked at the direction Sabo was pointing at. She was so dark and scary. "Why do I think the direction you mentioned is in the middle of the woods?"

"No problem, you have to trust our knowledge." Sabo grinned.

If Sabo and the others had clairvoyance, they would have been able to see that just when Kuina had just chopped down the tree, Kong Ming suddenly stopped the conversation with Ace, raised his head, and turned his gaze to them.

Then, Kong Ming’s face showed a mysterious smile

Under Sabo's words, the four little ones began to move in the direction pointed by Sabo. Just after they left, a projection of Kong Ming suddenly appeared next to the fallen tree stump, with the same mysterious smile on his face, looking at the four little ones leaving from behind.

"Sabo, you are sure you are heading in the right direction." After walking for a few more minutes, Kuina spoke again, "Why do I feel that the light around me is getting darker and darker? I must have walked into the woods."

Little Usopp looked around, then silently stood beside Kuina, nodded, and took practical actions to stand in line.

"Impossible?" Sabo took off his top hat with a confused look and scratched his hair. "The knowledge taught by the boss is correct, so the direction I mentioned should also be correct."

Luffy, the only one who didn't express any opinion on this matter, was looking around carelessly.

Hey, there seems to be a fruit over there. It looks delicious.

Luffy turned to look at Sabo and the three of them who were discussing the problem, and decided to kill the delicious fruit himself before anyone else noticed it.

After turning his head and looking at the other three little ones who didn't notice the delicious fruit, Luffy began to quietly touch the fruit. Well, it went very smoothly. Without alerting anyone else at all, Luffy touched the fruit, then stretched out his hand towards the fruit and grabbed it hard.

"It doesn't make sense."

Sabo is still confused now, "Look, my calculation is absolutely correct, right, Usopp?"

Little Usopp held a cloud-piercing arrow in his hand. After writing and drawing on the ground for a while, he nodded towards Sabo.

"So, why is the direction wrong?"

At this time, they suddenly heard Luffy's cry, "Come over quickly and see what I found."

"what"

The three of them turned their heads together and turned their attention to the position of little Luffy. They saw little Luffy standing there with his hands on his hips in an air of dignity. Next to Luffy was a clump of low bushes. On the branches of the bushes, there were still many trees. Holding a fruit that looks delicious.

"Look." Luffy waved to Sabo and the three of them, then jumped into the bushes, and then disappeared without a trace.

"How about it?" Luffy's voice came from the middle of the bushes, "You can't see me, you can't see me, hahahaha"

Then Luffy suddenly jumped out of the bushes again, "Can you see me now? How is it? Is it great?"

"This" Sabo said in disbelief as he looked at Luffy disappearing, "could it be?"

"The kind of illusion that the boss performed for us" Usopp answered affirmatively

"That is to say"

"The boss is always watching us"

"Boss heard everything I said just now."

"I have a bad feeling"

"What are you worried about?" Kuina looked at Sabo and Usopp with puzzled eyes, "Even if the boss really heard it, so what, the words were said by little Luffy, not us."

"That's right." Little Usopp let out a sigh of relief as he suddenly realized, "This matter has nothing to do with us."

Then the three of them looked at each other, and then at Luffy who was jumping out and in excitedly. After nodding in unison, they ended the topic.

"I understand." Sabo made a fist with his right hand and knocked it on the palm of his left hand. "We were heading in the right direction from the beginning."

"But the boss was in the woods and used illusions to create shrubs and other things to mislead us." Little Usopp continued his analysis. "Invisibly changed the direction of our progress"

"In other words, we have deviated from the direction just now, right?"

"That's it," Sabo said confidently, "The boss did it very cleverly. He probably used illusion to deceive our vision, making us feel that although we are not walking in a straight line, the general direction is correct."

"But in fact, our direction has long been skewed."

"Then what should we do now?" Guina then asked, "Having said so much, do you two know where we should go now?"

"This is simple." Sabo raised his head and looked at the beams of light cast by the sun passing through the canopy of trees above his head. "Usopp, do you still have the question that the boss taught you two days ago about how to judge your own position based on the angle between the sun and the ground? remember"

Little Usopp nodded blankly.

"Later, after class, I specially selected an afternoon to do some calculations by myself outside the Mage Tower." Sabo bared his teeth and showed a shining smile, "Although we don't have a protractor or anything like that now, this not a problem"

After little Usopp rummaged through the bow and arrow bag he was carrying, he silently took out a protractor and handed it to Sabo.

"You actually brought this." Sabo looked at little Usopp in surprise, and reached out to take the protractor, "Okay, the protractor problem is solved, we still need a watch, but this is also a small problem, we can use it alternative"

Little Usopp silently put his hand in front of Sabo, holding a pocket watch.

"Now that we have the watch," Sabo continued, "the last thing we need is the rope."

Sabo looked at little Usopp holding the rope and felt like he had nothing to say.

"Forget about the pocket watch, why are you carrying a protractor and rope with you?"

"My boss often teaches us that when we go out on adventures, we must be fully prepared."

"But we just go to the woods near our home."

"The boss said you can't take chances when doing things, and doesn't this come in handy?"

"Okay." Sabo, who found himself speechless, reached out and took the rope from little Usopp, "Now everything is ready. First, we need to wrap the rope around the tree above our head, so that the rope is in contact with the tree. The ground is vertical, this is very simple, although I have just learned the magic hand, but "

Before Sabo could finish his words, little Usopp had already tied a knot in the rope at the back of his Cloud-Piercing Arrow in a familiar way, then took off his Cloud-Piercing Bow and shot it out with a whoosh.

After the arrow branch with the rope flew over the branch of the tree that Sabo said he wanted to bypass, it magically turned a corner. After bypassing the branch with the rope, it plunged down and was struck by Xiaowu, who had been prepared for it. Thorpe reached out his hand and caught it easily.

"Okay" Sabo grinned, "I don't think we can use the mage's hands for the time being. Now we need to measure and wait. Have you noticed that there is something missing around us?"

Kuina and Usopp looked around suspiciously, and then turned their attention to Sabo.

“Too quiet”