The fleet followed the river and sailed southeast for about a month. Then, they encountered a huge bend in the river and the fleet turned southwest.
After the turn, the fleet sailed for another half a month before Feng Chou could finally see both sides of the river.
At this position, the width of the Amazon River had shrunk to about two hundred kilometers.
The fleet suddenly turned into a tributary of the Amazon River.
Compared to the majestic Amazon River, this river that was only seven to eight kilometers wide was like an unremarkable stream.
When the fleet entered this tributary, Feng Chou understood why Princess Nala chose such a small boat as the main force for this voyage.
The Amazon sailboat was a typical sailboat at sea. In order to pursue speed, the draft was very deep. This type of boat allowed the sailboat to be more stable and it was easier to convert the wind into the power of the boat. However, if the draft was too deep, they would not be able to sail into the shallow river.
A small sailboat that was twenty meters long could enter this tributary. If it was a medium-sized sailboat that was thirty to forty meters long, it would be stranded if it was not careful.
After the fleet entered the tributary, they sailed upstream for a week before finally anchoring. It seemed like they had arrived at their destination.
The fleet anchored forty to fifty meters away from the riverbank because the water depth would not be enough if they reached the riverbank.
After the fleet anchored, each sailboat lowered a small boat. A few high-ranked Amazon warriors led more than a hundred logisticians onto the riverbank.
Among this group of logisticians, more than half of them were mages invited by the Seventh Princess.
After the group of mages came ashore, some of the high-ranked mages took out engineering constructs from their spatial rings and distributed them to some of the intermediate mages. They controlled more than ten high-ranked constructs and started to clean up the riverbank.
More than ten high-ranked mages controlled more than ten constructs and went into the river to clean up the riverbed. They planned to build a deep waterway that would lead to the riverbank.
After three days of hard work, the mages built a simple pier on the riverbank that could accommodate the entire fleet. They also built a deep waterway that was more than ten meters wide in the middle of the river that led to the pier on the riverbank.
After the waterway was built, the fleet could finally reach the riverbank.
After the fleet reached the riverbank, some of the logisticians and some of the sailors started to get busy. They kept moving the goods from the sailboats.
Some of the logisticians, with the help of the mages, started to build a camp on a small platform behind the port.
With an abundance of resources and the help of mages and automatons, a sizable camp appeared behind the docks in a short week.
The outermost perimeter of the camp was a wooden fence that was seven to eight meters tall. Inside the fence, there was a sentry tower that was taller than the fence every forty meters.
The outermost perimeter of the wall was a circle of barracks for logistics personnel. The inner circle of the barracks was a circle of warehouses that stored some of the supplies unloaded from the ship.
Inside the warehouse was a circle of advanced barracks divided into independent rooms, where high-level professionals lived.
The core of the town was a small castle built with magic. This castle naturally belonged to Princess Nala.
Around the castle, there were three small stone castles and some independent wooden houses. The three small stone castles were naturally the residences of the three legendary professions. The independent wooden houses were the barracks of some of the master professions under Princess Nala.
When Feng Chou saw the Amazons unload boxes of supplies from the ship, he understood why the seventh princess spent so much time and effort to lead the fleet to hunt instead of directly opening a portal to reach the destination.
The level-nine spell, Portal, could open a door to a distant place. The spellcaster could control the size of the door, but the bigger the door, the shorter the duration of the portal.
A level-nine mage could create a three-meter-by-five-meter-tall portal, which could only last for three minutes.
To use a portal that could only last for three minutes to transport more than a dozen ships of supplies, it would probably take hundreds of portals. In the southern continent, the price of a level-nine "portal" spell was as high as one hundred thousand crowns. Hundreds of spells would probably cost tens of millions of crowns. Compared to shipping, although it was faster, the cost was too high.
However, Feng Chou wondered why Princess Nala transported so many supplies to the rainforest.
According to Qiankun Pagoda's scan, in addition to food, there was a large number of weapons and equipment. There was a lot of magic equipment, a large number of divine potions, magic scrolls, some cloth, steel, and even some expensive luxury goods.
The weapons and equipment in the supplies were all large and obviously not suitable for the Amazons' size. Besides, the hunting team led by Princess Nala this time were all elites under her command. They were all armed to the teeth and did not need so much backup equipment.
Then what were these supplies for?
Early the next morning, a handsome middle-aged man in a black robe, accompanied by a group of attendants and a personal guard of the seventh princess, entered the camp and Princess Nala's castle.
He did not know if the others saw anything, but as a descendant of the golden dragon, Feng Chou could tell at a glance that the middle-aged man in the black robe was actually a black dragon. A legendary black dragon who had used a transformation spell to change into a human's appearance.
Under Feng Chou's True Sight, the more than ten transformed black dragon attendants around the legendary black dragon could not hide.
Seeing the black dragon and his black dragon attendants, Feng Chou suddenly realized why Princess Nala had transported so many supplies.
These supplies were most likely used to hire or bribe the legendary black dragon.
Feathered serpents rarely lived alone. Most of these creatures would coexist with the Troll tribe and accept the worship of the Troll tribe as their totems. At the same time, they would provide protection for the Troll tribe.
And a Troll tribe that could worship a legendary feathered serpent would definitely not be small.
To hunt down a Giant Demon tribe's totem beast right under their noses was no different from seeking death. You would have to face tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Giant Demons that would crazily attack you one after another.
Feng Chou had always thought that Princess Nala had a good way to lure the feathered serpent out of the Troll tribe and behead it.
Although the information collected by Feng Chou showed that the feathered serpent almost never left the protection of the Troll tribe that worshipped them, he still insisted that Princess Nala had a way because he felt that there was no other way other than luring the enemy away and beheading it. Could it be that they had to forcefully attack a Troll tribe of tens of thousands?
The Amazon rainforest was not the home ground of the Amazon warriors. The special environment in the rainforest was extremely disadvantageous even for the Amazons.
If Princess Nala dared to do such a stupid thing to the Troll tribe that had an obvious home ground advantage in the rainforest, she would immediately lose her inheritance rights.
It was not until he saw the black dragon that Feng Chou suddenly understood that Princess Nala really intended to attack a powerful Troll tribe. However, she did not launch an expedition of Amazon warriors, but hired the dragon and its attendants to help.
In the Southern Continent, almost everyone knew that there must be a powerful dragon tribe under the feet of every adult dragon.