Having obtained the Eternal Pose of the Anu Country, Lily immediately ordered the ship to turn around and proceed in the direction indicated by the compass.
The location of the Anu Country is not on this route; it's closer to the Calm Belt adjacent to the leftmost route of the Grand Line. To get there, one needs to traverse halfway across the Grand Line.
After a day's voyage, they were currently on an island abundant with coconut trees, making resupplies while the crew searched for suitable beasts to hunt and collected coconuts along the way.
This island's tropical climate also made the storm shrouding the Death Star disappear, giving them a rare opportunity to rest on the island.
"In just two more days, we'll reach it!"
Lily declared decisively, holding a general sea map of the Grand Line as well as a detailed chart.
"So soon?"
At this moment, Sage was sitting on a large rock, watching Renedia dash past him. He casually snatched the large coconut she was holding, and with his other hand shaped like a blade, he sliced it open from the top and poured it into his mouth.
"Sage! I found that coconut with great difficulty, if you want one, go pick it yourself!" Renedia bared her little canine teeth and shouted.
"There's no mistake. Our current route is the middle of the seven routes. Now heading to the left, it only took us a day to reach this coconut island, which belongs to the magnetic island of the third route. According to intelligence, at this pace, we'll reach the Anu Country in a total of three days."
Lily flipped the sea map, pointing at one of the islands on the third route counted from the left and said: "This is the coconut island; we're not far from our target."
The sea map she held depicted the general routes of the seven lines of the Grand Line, leading to the Red Earth Continent. The position she pointed at was precisely the third route.
"After all, we're making a crossing, so it's normal for the speed to be fast." Sage nodded.
The Grand Line is not small, and it can even be considered gigantic; after all, a place as large as Alabasta is merely one major island of a single route.
But the key is, on this vast sea, even normal ships don't sail slowly.
In his previous life back home, he had never been on a ship and didn't know how fast they could go, but in the East Sea he had commandeered a battleship, achieving high speed when the sails had enough wind.
The speed of the Death Star, however, was even faster. Crossing half the distance of the Grand Line, a few days would surely be enough.
Feeling an urge to grab coconuts, Renedia, suddenly stopped when Sage held her head with one hand and stated: "The sea is so vast, yet sailing is so fast? I feel that each island is so large, and there are so many unknown islands..."
"Yes, it's vast, but simply sailing is different."
Sage said: "In the Grand Line, if sailing normally, just going from island to island connected by magnetic fields, the first half can be completed in two or three months. Even the entire Grand Line wouldn't take that long."
"Pirate King Gol D. Roger circumnavigated the world, including the time it took to find Laugh Tale, took a total of just one year. However, he spent quite a few years as a pirate."
Circumnavigating the world and being a pirate on the sea are not the same concept.
"Ah, does that count as being the Pirate King?" Marika asked, walking up while dragging a net full of coconuts almost resembling a small mountain. She laughed when she heard it: "Sounds like it's not as hard..."
"That's not the Pirate King I aim to be!" Sage laughed.
Simply picking a route, circumnavigating the world, and then finding Laugh Tale, that makes someone the Pirate King?
That can't possibly count as conquering the seas...
At the very least, Sage doesn't want to be that kind of king.
"Captain Sage, we've caught some good prey!"
At this moment, Gin approached, dragging a gigantic bull-horned beast, which left a deep furrow in the ground as it was dragged along.
Compared to this gigantic beast, Gin only stood as tall as its head.
"It's too big to carry back as it is."
Marika said with a smile: "It sure looks like a cow... Lily, can you slice off a part, maybe starting from the shoulder area?"
Shwing!
As soon as she finished speaking, a flash of light like thunder appeared, and a large gash opened on the beast's shoulder, spilling copious amounts of blood.
Lily herself didn't seem to move other than gripping the sword hilt with her right hand; she stayed standing by Sage's side.
"Hmm..."
Marika looked at the sliced meat texture, reached out with alabaster-like fingers to dab some blood, licked it off her tongue, and held her face in one hand with an enchanted look, "Prime, the taste of blood is nice, and the texture is good too; it can be cooked like beef..."
She turned to look at the crew, who were carrying coconuts onto the ship, and warmly smiled, "May I trouble you to go to the kitchen and fetch the largest chef's knife?"
Soon, several crew members approached Marika with a massive knife over three meters long.
It was a typical chef's knife. The handle was thin, suitable for a normal person's grip, but the blade was enormous, gleaming with a sharp, cold light.
Marika easily lifted the three-meter-long huge chef's knife single-handedly and smiled at the cattle beast: "So, how should we plan this... We can't take it all."
The Death Star isn't small, and fitting this beast wouldn't be an issue, but it wasn't necessary. Slicing it down and storing it in the specially designed cold storage in the ship's hold was enough.
Constructed as a special purpose by Renedia, the ship not only has a regular fridge for day-to-day use but also a custom-built cold storage in the hold, powered to maintain temperature, capable of storing a large amount of easily spoiled food.