Ship Builders

"Even if we follow them they will undoubtedly reach something before we do. Let's just wait here and see what happens first." Enzo told him.

His cautiousness was starting to shine through, but the rest of the group decided to agree with him and wait. He also just had a feeling that the jungle wasn't the correct way to go.

Enzo was very big on information gathering before taking risks. It is much better to make sure you know all you can just in case the knowledge is needed.

The group waited for the rest of the players to run to the jungle before moving. As they did so, Enzo looked up at the IDs of as many players as he could. The range of levels was just as wide as he assumed it would be.

There were many level 10s and 11s, some level 12s and 13s, but a very small number of level 14s and 15s. This was a good thing for them because of how many high leveled players were in their group. Jane was the lowest level in the group as she was level 12. Enzo, Kenny, and Hephaestus were all level 13. Bella was the only level 14 in the group. Lastly, Ivan, Juliet, and Vincent were all level 15 already.

The group was knocked around a bit by the stampede of thousands of players running past them, but they mostly ignored them. There was no reason to get mad and start fights with the other players when they all knew they were much more mature than that.

After 15 minutes the last groups of players finally ran into the jungle.

There were still a few other groups on the beach who had the same idea as Enzo, but there were still much fewer people than before.

'That's why I always trust my gut…'

What Enzo saw due to the lack of players blocking his vision assured him that he made the right decision.

Looking out into the distance where the ocean was located, another island could be seen.

It was so small that Enzo knew he would have never seen it with other players around them.

Even now he could barely make out the island without cupping his hands in a circle around his eye to block out his peripheral vision.

"Guys, look over there."

Enzo pointed to the island and they all turned to look.

It took a little while for them to be able to see what he was pointing to, but once they did they realized Enzo was once again correct in his hunch.

"You think we should go there?" Juliet asked.

"I want to say yes, but it might be smart to explore this island first. What do you guys want to do?" Enzo responded.

"Why don't we explore while we gather materials to sail to the island?" Bella suggested.

"Good idea." Enzo said.

"I can gather wood with my ax." Vincent responded.

"I'll help him." Hephaestus said.

"I'll get vines to use as rope." Ivan suggested.

"I'll go with him." Jane said.

"Same here." Kenny responded.

"I'll get material for sails. Eevie, and Pepper you two can join me." Enzo told them.

They all nodded their heads in agreement.

"Alright, we all have jobs so let's meet back here in two hours. If we find anything we can discuss it then. If not, we will need to first build a ship launch then a ship so get a lot more materials than you think we might need." Enzo instructed the group.

They all agreed before splitting up to do their various tasks.

It only took Enzo a few minutes to find leaves strong enough to handle being woven together. They were large tropical leaves that could even handle being pulled lightly by Enzo without tearing. They weren't necessarily light, but weren't heavy either so the material would be good to use for a sail.

Enzo and his group gathered as many of those leaves as they could during the 2 hour time limit. They didn't find anything out of the ordinary in the jungle, not even simple animals or monsters. This could have been because the groups who went in first killed them, but Enzo couldn't even hear or find a simple bird in the jungle.

This further solidified his idea that they were supposed to leave this island.

Not only were there no monsters or animals, there was nothing out of the ordinary in the jungle, at least thousands of players on the beach, but they were all teleported to the beach. If they were meant to explore the jungle it would have made more sense to start them off in the jungle and split up from the rest of the player parties.

Enzo had to go back to the beach to dump off bundles of leaves every so often so he met up with the others periodically. They weren't able to find anything either, so the group knew they would be going ahead with the ship plan.

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2 hours later Enzo scanned the supplies that were now piled on the beach.

There were thousands of planks of wood, thousands of strong leaves, and thousands of vine strands.

"How in the hell did you get so many planks of wood?" Enzo asked Vincent and his group.

"Well, don't forget we are stronger than usual now, Enzo. I can take a tree down with one swing. A few more swings and one tree is turned into many planks of wood. Then Hephaestus took the planks back here while I kept cutting."

"Ahhh, that makes sense."

Enzo did forget that menial tasks like that would be much easier in the game because they were all so much stronger than in real life.

"Alright let's get to building this ship. I think you should lead us since you are the artificer in the group Ivan." Enzo said.

"Agreed." He replied.

He then started giving instructions to the group as they connected the planks with the ropes and wove the leaves together to create a few sails that would be connected to the mast.