The Thousand Year Dynasty
05. Head to the Beach
Two days after the group split, Aksa's entourage and 50 workers began to leave the northern encampment towards the Sekai mountain region across the eastern sea. Crossing from the coast south of Baltra known as Mado beach.
They set out to use 4 iron trains that pulled each of the 4 train cars filled with tools and materials. Aksa, Couran, and Lily are riding in a horse-drawn carriage. The new train that Aksa calls 'Epoc Mk 4.0 Extended Version'. While the trio of hunters and their aunts ride their horses.
"Why do we carry so many iron chariots? Isn't one or two enough, after all we have a lot of carriages to carry the equipment we need" Go asked shortly before they crossed the northern valley bridge.
"That's because we carry more equipment than we should" Aksa replied.
"True, we carry stones, sand, and wood" Couran added.
"And also a ship!" Saut Aksa later.
"Why do we need to carry such a lot of material?"
"Because we will build a lot along the way" Couran replied.
"Build up? Along the way?" Looks Go did not understand the meaning of Couran's words.
"True, because we will simultaneously create a road facility that accommodates for the delivery of mining materials in the future" Couran explained.
"Oh, and also we will use two of the iron chariots as tools to help us when we get there" Aksa added later.
"meaning?"
"We will dismantle the locomotives of the two iron trains to make new equipment that will help when we are there" Aksa explained. "It's like Lego but it's real" he added later on with an antisyasm that no one else could understand.
"So you always think about things in the future" said Go who was seen watching Aksa very seriously.
"Because I am the messenger of the gods" Aksa replied later.
With these words, Go simply turned his eyes away from Aksa without reacting. It seemed that he was getting used to Aksa's words like that.
"And because of this, our journey will be longer than it should be" said Couran later.
"How long will it take for us to arrive at the beach using this iron kerta, Mr Couran?" Go ask.
"The journey to Mado Beach should only take one day. We've tried it" replied Couran.
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It took them three days to reach Mado's beach. The road, with its piles of rocks and compacted soil, stretched along the northern gate of Pharos to the coast. From the road was also made a branch leading to the village of Baltra. In order to make it easier for villagers to go to the beach.
Their company arrived when dusk came. The view of the white sandy beach with some coconut trees set in the sea and orange sky that makes Aksa excited.
"Well, beach. I miss the sound of the waves" said Aksa with sparkling eyes staring at the glint of afternoon light reflected on the ocean.
"Have you seen the sea in the dock town yesterday?" Couran said next to him.
"That's the pier, not Mr. Couran's beach. Those are two different things. By the way is this beach safe to just be made to play water?" Aksa continued with a question.
"You want to play water?" Asked Castan who answered a quick nod by Aksa. "Yes, the beach is safe. Even made for swimming though" continued Couran with a resigned face.
"Guys!" Shouted Aksa while running towards the lips of his beach.
"What do you see, bi?" Deuxter asked as he passed his aunt while carrying a pile of wood.
"The young man was not at all like an important person who had to be protected by the Oracle's dispatch guards" Go answered Duexter's question while still staring at Aksa who was playing water on the beach.
"Lily, come here. The water is fresh" cried Aksa invites Lily who stands a little further from the beach.
Deuxter simply smiled without answering, then walked away, which was then followed by Go petrifying the others.
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The next morning they had already begun assembling the parts of the ship they had brought from the camp, on the guidance of Aksa. The ship was carried separately eighty parts. Made of iron. And once intact, the ship was almost three times the size of an iron chariot.
It has a chimney and three wheels. Two wheels are located side to left and right of the body of the ship. The size is so large that it goes beyond the body of the ship itself. The other one was on the tail of the ship, which was much smaller than the one on the side of the ship. It took me half a day to assemble it.
After that they began to install two wooden sticks lined up, extending to the beach. Then they lifted the iron ship on the two logs. Which is used as a path to facilitate pushing iron vessels into the sea.
"Are you sure this ship won't sink Aks? All of his body was made of iron. Even need all of us to shift it when raising it on the wood earlier" seen Couran began to worry when he saw the size and weight of the ship.
"No way, Mr. Couran. That's because the density of sea water is heavier than the density of the ship. I've counted it" Aksa replied casually.
"You count what? And what is the time of the sea?" Couran looked confused by Aksa's words.
"It's kind of the weight of the characteristics of the sea water" Aksa tried to explain.
"Weight from the characteristics of sea water? Wait a minute, do you know how much sea water weighs?" Couran doesn't understand anymore.
"Massa type water is relative density. So easy to remember. That is a thousand kilos per cubic meter" Aksa answered by puffing his chest, as he often did when bragging that he was a messenger of the gods.
"What are relative, kilos, and cubic meters?"
"That is. later you ask Nata, I find it hard to explain. But by knowing this, we can even make a ship that can dive in the sea without fear of being shipwrecked or unable to climb to the surface" Aksa said later.
"Certainly that?" Couran heard nothing more from Aksa.
"One day we will make it. Just be patient" replied Aksa lightly while returning to the iron ship.
Then they began to dismantle two of the four iron trains they were carrying and began to install one of the locomotives on the iron ship.
It was back in the afternoon when they were ready to push the iron ship that had been installed by the locomotive furnace in it to the sea. Not a few wonder if the ship will sink or float.
Then with the help of one of the iron chariots, the iron ship was pushed into the water. And the ship floated. Everyone seemed to be cheering to find the heavy and large iron ship able to float on the sea.
"Tonight I want to spend the night on the boat, ah" Aksa said later as he headed towards his tent.
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While in the land of Pharos, the development of techniques and methods also continues to go hand in hand with the availability of materials and tools needed.
Like the weavers who began to make yarn from cotton when Luna managed to bring it from the southern plains and its seedlings a month later. And then the seamstresses began to produce many clothes, after the mechanical sewing machine had been completed by Haldin two days later.
Now they have cheap and comfortable cotton clothes. And not from tree fibers or animal skins that are cheap but less comfortable to wear. Or silk that only the nobility and wealthy merchants could afford.
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