[Although you successfully upgraded to a Level 2 Reinforced Wooden Raft, you were certain that you weren’t the first to do so.]
[After all, the requirement was merely 20 driftwood/wood. Anyone lucky enough could acquire such materials early on, just like those who claimed to have found and opened a wooden chest.]
["Hmm, a Level 2 Reinforced Wooden Raft is still not enough to traverse the sea for the Fairy Fruit. I might have to check Level 3’s upgrade requirements."]
[With that plan in mind, you used your survivor authority to check the upgrade requirements from Level 2 Reinforced Wooden Raft to Level 3 Small Boat.]
[The upgrade requirements were 40 Hardwood Planks, 20 Reinforced Rope, 10 Tar /Waterproof Coating, 5 Metal Fasteners, and 2 Float Barrels.]
[The only resource you didn’t have was metal fasteners, but they could be crafted using 3 Scrap Fasteners and 1 Metal Scrap into 1 Metal Fastener. Since you have 912 Scrap Fasteners and Metal Scrap, you easily crafted 5 Metal Fasteners.]
[Weirdly enough, the Survivor Authority granted by the World Will allowed survivors to not craft with a crafting table.]
[Only advanced materials that needed forging would require a furnace, but for simple and slightly advanced crafting, the Survivor Authority was more than enough.]
[Of course, raw food couldn’t be crafted and needs to be cooked manually. However, the cooking station and campfire can be crafted at a much more expensive material requirement via Survivor Authority.]
[Those who could start a campfire on their own or create their cooking station could craft it without Survivor Authority, and it’s much cheaper that way.]
[After obtaining all the needed materials to upgrade your Level 2 Reinforced Wooden Raft to Level 3 Small Boat, you didn’t hesitate to use Survivor Authority to upgrade it.]
[After confirming the upgrade, the reinforced raft started shifting beneath you.]
[The flat deck slowly curved, forming a shallow hull, while the beams underneath realigned and extended, giving it a proper keel. The side planks rose until they reached waist height, locking into place and creating a small barrier against the waves.]
[A rudder-like plank slid into position at the back, and mounts for a mast appeared along the centerline. The barrels and extra reinforcements below settled firmly, raising the boat slightly higher above the water.]
[When it finally stopped moving, it no longer felt like a raft. It was a small boat, stable, solid, and ready to actually move across the ocean.]
[With a Level 3 Small Boat, you felt more confident in voyaging for your Fairy Fruit.]
[With no worries about food, you decided, "I’ll row this damn boat and see if I can get that Fairy Fruit in under a week."]
[Although you could have asked the Absolute Compass for the nearest Fairy Fruit, you didn’t want to eat a weak one. For your first Fairy Fruit, you wanted to eat the strongest and most suitable one for you.]
[Moreover, according to King King, he didn’t know if it was possible to eat more than one Fairy Fruit, as the information he acquired from his innate talent didn’t specify any limits, so it was unknown if a limit existed or not.]
[With that in mind, it was better to eat the strongest and most suitable Fairy Fruit for him. It’s either you get it in this simulation, or the next doomsday life simulation.]
[Having made that decision, you started rowing your small boat northeast.]
[You kept rowing, rowing, and rowing. Until eight days have passed since you started sailing northeast.]
[During those eight days, a lot had happened among the survivors. The nearly hundred thousand survivors had drastically dropped to 77,621.]
[In other words, approximately 22 thousand survivors had died in the Global Ocean Survival. Some of them died due to starvation, but most had died due to disasters on the ocean, such as storms, sea predators, or whirlpools.]
[During those eight days, a lot of survivors who resorted to moral blackmail kept on requesting you to send food to them for free. You had ignored their excuses and blocked them without any hesitation.]
[However, sensible ones like a certain old sailor, you had given them food in exchange for their knowledge, experience, and whatever they knew about sailing and the ocean.]
[Because of that, while you weren’t skilled in sailing yet, you no longer looked like an amateur.]
[Aside from that, there were also a few survivors who managed to eat a Fairy Fruit. As expected, they hid the abilities of their Fairy Fruit except for King King, who had relied on his information-based talent to find one.]
[King King had hidden his Fairy Fruit in public but had told you about it in a private message. According to King King, what he got seemed to be an Elemental-Type Fairy Fruit called the Water Sprite Fruit.]
[The Water Sprite Fruit allowed him to control water and even turn into an elemental water form, which makes him intangible to physical attacks. Relying on that, he survived to this day.]
[He had also given you information about the location of other Fairy Fruits, but none of those Fairy Fruits interested you, so you declined them. With your Absolute Compass (Orange), you can get any Fairy Fruit you want and even specify what type or ability it possesses.]
[However, your slow progress in finding your ideal Fairy Fruit had made it so that other survivors who ate Fairy Fruits were now stronger than you.]
[Despite that, none of them had surpassed you in raft level as your raft was now a Level 4 Advanced Small Boat.]
[If not for the limitations of rare materials that even a few top survivors have barely acquired, you would have already been able to upgrade to a Level 5 Medium Ship.]
[Rare upgrade materials were what limited you since the Global Ocean Survival had only started for 8 days, so the resources of most survivors within your ocean region weren’t that much.]
[As you were sailing the ocean for hours, you soon spotted an island. The Absolute Compass seemed to be pointing towards it!]
["Finally! I can have my Fairy Fruit!"]