Khedal was a unit of a Minotaur, even as they reckoned such things.

??? Unique? Quinsettensial? Exemplary?

I know at this point there will never be a rewrite, but man it would be nice because this plotline is really damn good.

All the ships were following them already and had been since the beginning.

The shadows that are cast from the Flame of Glory

“running though his enchanted blade”
pretty sure you meant running through.

The issue isn’t about the trip, it’s about the final fight, and how 200+ ships show up inside a minute. On a very, very large (or flat) world, visibility would be practically unlimited. Plus, how you could be close enough to get hit by a melee weapon, but not realize you were in Minos territory. Sea skills in this world seem to only let you sneak up on ppl, they apparently don’t let you detect 80,000 tons of sea monsters 60′ ft away from you.

Sorry. I don’t mean to complain, I do LOVE this series. This is my first comment. But I lost suspension of disbelief halfway through a super magical sea fight on a high-fantasy world, so it was a lot. And it makes the characters seem more fake after the experience.

Keep writing forever! but maybe less sea battles with whiney elite strategists.

Not gonna repost the entire comment I’ve made before, but given average daily sailing distances for these kinds of ships, plus magic, Skills, enchantments, etc. available in Innworld, they could have rather easily traveled around 9,000 total miles over this trip. That’s more than a round trip between North America and Europe. More than enough distance to investigate 8.5 wrecks that kikely all would have been along established sea routes.

Zeres could take the blades… and then they’d make an enemy of Khelt, a nation that has possibly been around longer than their walled city has been. From what we’ve seen of Fetohep, he would not take kindly to them trying to steal the blades, and probably wouldn’t hesitate to drown them in undead.

They’d also potentially make enemies of a Terandrian kingdom, Minotaurs, and one of the larger gnoll tribes. And probably the Titan.

Sailing ships like the kind described in the story could average 100-140+ miles per day with fair conditions. And that is an average, so accounting for calm winds and headwinds slowing things greatly. Much of the time spent traveling long distances was also due to having the total travel distance increased greatly by needing to tack back and forth.

In Innworld, you’d have magic letting you avoid virtually all calm winds, and never having to deal with headwinds. There are likely also direct movement skills that apply to ships, just as there are for runners. Enchantments as well on the ships.

Thus, a ship in Innworld could probably average significantly greater distance per day. At a month and a half or so of sailing, at say 200 miles per day, they’d be able to cover about 9,000 miles. That is longer than a round trip between North America and Europe.

Getting to 8.5 wrecks over a distance of 9,000 miles is very possible. Most of those ships are likely going to have been traveling in standard sea lanes, following known currents. Thus, they would all be relatively within the range of those currents, not in random locations everywhere, willy-nilly.