I died and was reincarnated as Warship in a fantasy world

We were following the seagulls deeper into the glacier.

Aside from a few frozen islands, where the ice was only a meter thick, the rest of the surroundings were a flat ice surface with occasional spikes and trenches.

Both Patricia and I have already lost our confidence that anything can be found in those deserted ices. The last discovery of a manmade object was three days ago, when we found an old whaleboat stuck in the ice.

With every step my compass was behaving weirder. Up to the point when the arrow did a complete 360 without the compass being moved anywhere.

“Patricia, did anybody ever try to reach the North Pole?”

“Why?” (P)

“As an achievement, for example?”

“Nobody gives a damn about this God-forsaken place. There were barbarian tribes to the North of Benezio but even they did not sail past the first ice fields. Benezio too had nothing to waste here, since the merchant ships would sink from icebergs, and there are no notable trading ports or settlements here.” I shifted my attention to Yuriko, since she might know why.

Instead of answering, she beckoned us to keep moving and continued forward.

I tried a few times more but she remained silent about the North.

[Maybe there is an alien base? I already imagine the space destroyer Kuronami…~]

While I was wondering what kind of a treasure we will find at the destination, the early warning radar picked up a couple of signals.

The signals were quite large, and flew towards us at high speed. When they entered the visual range, I saw that those were a couple of wyverns.

BANG BANG BANG

The 127mm shells flew right towards the monsters but the attack was evaded. I desperately wanted to avoid the wyverns entering the machine gun range. My AA might consists only of the main guns, and the 13mm machine guns would barely help.

BANG BANG BANG

After 15 shots I scored a good hit on the wyverns, shooting them down from the sky. They were still alive, however, I did not waste ammo on them anymore. I incapacitated them, so they won’t be a threat.

“Not bad.” Yuriko finally started talking.

“Then…”

“I am not answering.” My petty attempt was prevented immediately.

“At least can you say if you know what is there?”

“I have no idea.” She said it monotonously, making me suspect that she actually knows.

“Try better, Doll. I bear no interest what those children found there. It is their discovery, and they decided it might be of use to you.” I mentally smirked, and prepared to pull the answers out of Yuriko, since she loosened up.

“Why is my compass behaving weirdly?” I showed a pocket compass, the branch of my ship compass. Its arrow immediately did another 360-no-scope.

“For the same reason nobody sails North.” My face twitched, and I forced myself to smile, to cover for my annoyed expression.

We continued walking, and a day later we reached a mountain range.

The seagulls were still pointing there, so I continued walking until we reached the land.

The land soon turned into a gentle slope, which later became a mountain.

We were climbing further and further. Patricia gently refused my assistance by saying ‘Go to hell, I am no damsel in distress’. On the other hand, Yuriko shamelessly clung to my back, and was only concerned with maintaining grip to a two-heads-lower catgirl.

It took me two hours of climbing to reach the top, where the seagulls were already waiting. Little bastards… Patricia climbed an hour later.

The fatigue was so clear, that she didn’t even try to pretend to be strong. She just lied down on the ice.

‘Sho cowd… Sho hood…’ (P)

I sighed, and started exploring, until I reached an end of the cliff, and then I looked down.

“Jesus Christ! What is that supposed to be?!”

Yuriko approached me, and stood beside me. She breathed in the cold mountain air, and with a dignified expression said:

“Here is the End of the World. One of the four Ends.” Following her words, I looked into the black abyss below, and out of curiosity I threw a stone there.

I pricked up my ears, and listened.

One minute, three, five, ten…

There was no sound. The stone just fell into nothing.

“Wow… Okay, let’s look around.”

‘Pong’

Just as I stepped away from the Edge, I heard the ring of the stone reaching the bottom…

“Please, remind me not to fall there.” Yuriko nodded, and we started searching.