Stopping the sail boat when he was at a little distance from Myr, Alec saw the giant figure of the spire's keeper starting to crumble. The pieces of the giant statue fell away and Alec waited until an object the size of the head with a face remained.
After a few minutes passed by like this with Alec keeping the boat still, soon another figure was walking from a distance. The figure was headless and looked to be carved from stone with folds perfectly resembling a cloak. Similar to the appearance that Alec knew the spire keeper liked to keep. This was the replacement body that Myr required to move with.
Walking through the stone platforms one step at a time, that were created by borrowing the stone from the spire directly. Rather than raising them up from the sea bed, as it would be far too tedious in effort and quantity. Even the stone spears that were thrown away by the spire's keeper tended to return after getting dislodged from the target.
The reason why the new body was walking this distance, and not by their side some time ago, was due to the keeper of the spire could only have one body at a time. It was self imposed restriction that Myr had set in motion, in order to not create confusion and then develop multiple personalities.
Soon the head was reattached to a body and both parties headed back to the spire. Only once reaching the entrance Alec did not entered inside. Staying by the door with his sail boat, first removing the parts that were least damaged. Myr had already gone inside the spire, soon coming back with a few stationary items.
Out of which Alec first borrowed a pen and paper from the spire keeper, starting to draw a front facing diagram of his sail boat. Then using borrowing a scale he made a three lines, one at the drawing's centre and other two at either sides. Using the reference from it he then went to the backside of the boat and drew it from there this time.
Next he did that for the side views, the top view, and through the help of the spire keeper the underside as well. Finishing the six drawings, that he put inside a transparent cover. Turning back to look at Myr, Alec then spoke with a gaze much calmer than he had before.
"Today I had an encounter with a monster I could not kill, run, or seperate myself from. This made me learn how little control I possess over this boat."
There was a subtle change in the air around him. A sort of invisible force that Alec did not realise he was creating, as he uttered the next words not unlike a vow to himself.
"For the entire time until my final departure to the sea, I will try to learn everything I possible can use this sea vessel. Only upon succeeding with that will I name it, and then take it with me to the end of this sea. It may be a bit conceited of me, but only with a boat that works the best for me do I see any chance of crossing the sea. I'll make one and sail on it, so please aid me through that."
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Bending his forward to show respect, Alec then put his focus back on the work. Hammering away at parts that needed to be broken due to being stuck, sawing the parts which needed to removed in that manner. It took more than two days, without including time taken for eating and the necessary exercises, he finally fixed the boat to it's previous condition.
Checking every nook and cranny for any faults, Alec finally found none and he nodded at himself. Then using the pull from the ropes that he had fixed to the spire, he lifted it up and crashed it down to the ground heavily.
Doing so with enough force to break it badly, then after that he took a day to fix it. Repeating the same arduous process for a week, Alec replaced some tools learned wherever he could use Invocation. Including how to join broken parts together, by taking in account which part was the weakest. Then making it so that while it may break easily, it is without causing any actual damage to the part.
This was a complicated process, as the structural integrity of the ship could suffer due to this. If the boat was to break down like that when a large wave is carrying it, then the chance of it sinking it are much higher. So Alec had to find a way to control simultaneously how or when it may happen. Then also a way to return the boat to it's normal sea fairing state.
In order to do that he spent a full week breaking and restoring it, two weeks passed until it took him to shorten the time from two days into a single one and now half a day. His progress increased furthermore when he reinforced certain parts of the boat even more. Not having done so earlier due to the total weight balance, that he had more of a leeway now.
Next he made tests for traps made with spring lock mechanism, which he fitted at different parts of the boat. It was there to act as a line of defence if he were to escape the ship, and the smaller monsters would not run rampant inside it.
Although Alec had a different solution for that, which he did not test due to the current focus being only on boat. It involved a method of using monsters against each other in a repeatable manner. That was for later though, as three weeks in this project, Alec finished had removed all the parts leaving just a wooden skeleton of the boat.
That he worked further by cleanly cutting the beam of wood creating and adding some more into it. After that he attached it with a holder that allowed for a back and forth movement. One that made the beams to stretch out, and then come close while bypassing each other without touching.
Most of this would have not functioned, if Alec had no support from Myr. Who helped a lot with design calculations, and guided his effort in execution of his ideas.
While another reason that this boat even functioned in this way, or at all, was through materials that functioned better than anything he could find back at Home Depot. And if he thought seriously for a moment, than any lumberyard in every corner of the world back home.
Then there was the invaluable support from his powers. Which could be seen as how the skeleton of the boat expanded, and then compressed. Using this a fundamental Alec then tested various shapes he could mold it into on top of the sea body that still kept the vessel afloat.
During a couple of which the structure of the boat broke, but it was easier to fix than the completed one. After multiple such tests Alec settled on three shapes for now.
One was like a prison that enclosed the boat in a conical shape, turning it secure but much slower than before. Another was by giving it shape like an open jaw under ship's stern, this did cause the front side of the deck to be much steeper.
The last one he had thought of, without causing the boat to be unmanned, was separating the boat into parts connected by ropes. That he could quickly fix together in a makeshift form at first, but later properly even in the midst of sailing. When testing all of this, Alec did not sail at all only sitting there with the boat on the sea.
Through this restriction it brought him in a flow like state, that allowed him to keep going at it. So much that he even slept and ate two of his meals inside the boat. Only using a few instruments, the music box, and playing board games with Myr to cure himself of his boredom.
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A month had passed since Alec's last sail, as he was present on the sea alongside Myr who moved his boat. Not setting sail on it yet, due to it not being the best he could make right now. This was simply meant to be a test to check it's durability and prove a conjecture he had.