Chapter 707 Arrives Here
Crazy?
Admiral of the Stars, Cattleya, was closest to the door and immediately stood up from her chair. She glanced past the side of the tall "Giant Shark" Jorg and looked outside the door.
Noise, cursing, and shouting came into her ears from outside, and people were running everywhere within her sight, just like pirates who had gone crazy after a carnival and were chasing and fighting each other.
Is this the kind of madness he's talking about?
Cattleya frowned.
The other pirate generals also left their seats. Hal Constantine, the captain of the "Giant Shark" and "Vice Admiral of the Deep Sea", who looked like a half-blood sea monster, came to the door first, pushed his men aside, and walked straight out of the room. Including Cattleya, everyone else followed suit to avoid conflict in the small room.
The dock outside the two-story building was in chaos. What Cattleya saw was not the drunken brawls that often occurred in the past, but a more bloody, violent, and ugly scene.
In the distance, several warehouses used to store beer, dried fish, and bread were already on fire. The smoke rose into the clouds, dyeing the already cloudy sky black. On the ground, countless pirates drew their blades or used their extraordinary abilities to kill each other frantically, without any rationality at all. The roars and noise came from the battles between them.
From time to time, Extraordinary people covered in blood would lose control due to serious injuries and madness, growing scales and hair on their bodies, acting like madmen and attacking all living things around them.
More ordinary pirates, with festering bodies and bleeding mouths and noses, fell on the dock or fell directly into the sea, having lost their lives in unknown attacks.
A deadly disease? A maddening curse? Or a deeper contamination?
Several possibilities flashed through Cattleya's mind. She was about to take off her glasses and use the "Eye of Prying Secrets" to gather more information, but she ultimately decided not to do so.
Beside her, Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina whispered to her first mate, Blue Walls:
"What happened? Why didn't you report it in time?"
The latter frowned, his monocle almost pressed into his eye socket by his facial muscles. He looked into the distance and answered quickly:
"It happened so fast. Screams were heard from the wooden house in the distance, followed by an explosion. Within a few seconds of Giant Shark entering the room to announce it, things had already developed like this..."
After a pause, he added:
"From what I've observed, almost all of the pirates who went crazy or died drank the ale that was stored here in advance."
If so, the possibility of some deadly toxin or disease being transmitted through the ale is…
"It's not a disease, and they're not poisoned."
At this time, "Lieutenant General of Disease" Tracy, who had just walked out of the room, quickly glanced at the messy dock and asserted.
That's a curse, or pollution... Cattleya thought immediately, her eyes fixed, and she made a decision immediately:
"Let's get out of here right now."
It wasn't difficult to kill these crazy pirates. Most of them were subordinates of captains with bounties on their names but low Sequences. Most of them weren't even Beyonders. Not to mention that all five pirate generals were present, even "Vice Admiral of Disease" Tracy could easily kill everyone present with a deadly disease.
But this bizarre situation would make any knowledgeable Beyonder retreat. What would come after the curse and pollution? Would there be other changes later?
No one dares to gamble.
As soon as she finished speaking, Cattleya faced the "Future" floating on the sea, raised her hands, and recited a few short spells in ancient Hermetic language.
A little bit of bright starlight immediately appeared in front of her, falling like a waterfall, forming a long transparent bridge on the dock, extending to the "Future" several hundred meters away.
At the same time, the same light appeared on the giant magic ship, and the other half of the bridge with the same shape appeared from the bow and quickly advanced towards this side.
Seeing that in less than a minute, this star bridge that could pass through the chaotic dock and fly over the sea full of corpses and blood would be formed, the other pirate generals and cadres breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, they were somewhat glad that in order to guard against other pirate generals, they had left most of the crew on their own ship and only brought the necessary and strongest Beyonder subordinates. Otherwise, there would be people they knew in the chaotic scene before them.
"Protect the 'Admiral of the Stars'!"
Suddenly, "Lieutenant General Dusk" Bulatov shouted loudly, and a dim light flashed on his body. His tall and burly body was covered with a shiny armor. The "Sword of Dawn" appeared in his hand, and he swung the sword at an out-of-control pirate who had turned into a werewolf and was rushing towards several people with all four limbs.
As he moved, a more chaotic battle began.
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Nast, the "King of the Five Seas," had clearly made a well-thought-out speech, and combined with his extraordinary ability, it was easy to inspire people. But in the final analysis, there was only one problem:
He believed that the Loen Kingdom Navy's ironclad ships had posed a serious threat to the pirates' living environment. Although only one ship, the "Pritz," had been built and put into service, its powerful firepower and hard armor, which were beyond its time, had already made all the pirates, who were accustomed to sailing warships exchanging blows for half an hour before engaging in boarding battle, feel extremely terrified.
Even Nast, the "King of the Five Seas" who owns the "Black Emperor" and is himself a saint, feels powerless against the "Iron Turtle", which is also equipped with demigods and can weaken the surrounding mystical power.
According to Nast's suggestion, the Five Kings should either concentrate their forces to eliminate the only ship in service, the "Pritz", and delay the navy's control of the ocean, or redivide the territory, leave the busy Rorsted Archipelago route, and retreat to the Sonia Sea and the Misty Sea, or even go to the southern continent where the Orthodox Church and the navy are out of reach.
Neither of these two options received much response from others. Angel was not a pirate himself, so naturally he didn't care about the threat of territory or navy. The "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette seemed to be always busy with some secret goals. Her "Dawn" was not so much a pirate ship as it was a ghost ship that usually only appeared on the west side of the Misty Sea. The "Death Notice" wandered around the Sonia Sea and rarely approached busy shipping lanes. As for the "King of the Black Seat", Angel had little impression of him at all.
Only the "King of the Five Seas" who was at odds with Intis and had no connection with Loen, and whose sphere of influence in the Rorsted Archipelago was severely compressed, was the most anxious... Angel smiled secretly, watched Nast fall silent for a moment, and then started to discuss the next topic.
"Are you interested in the 'Ghost Empire' that recently appeared in the Sonia Sea?"
Following Nast's words, the drowsy Angel perked up and looked at Earl Baifeng who was wearing a crown.
How could she not be interested in the "Ghost Empire", one of the legends on the sea!
But this legend has been around for over a thousand years, and countless people have claimed to have seen this huge city-sized ghost ship, but in the end they were all proved to be either an uninhabited desert island, other ships, or even just rumors spread by real "hunters" who were targeting treasure hunters.
After all, even the Queen Anne's Revenge was once considered a "ghost empire."
Seeing that everyone else had changed their sitting postures, whether they believed it or not, Nast chuckled and continued in a low voice:
"I recently received accurate information that the ghost ship built by the Trunsost Empire does exist, and its activities have become increasingly frequent. However, it cannot be located by divination, and even the Twisted Code is ineffective against it. Therefore, I suspect that it is related to Sequence 2 or even higher Beyonder characteristics...
"If we want to obtain the Trunsoest Empire's heritage on it, we must work together to have a chance of 'capturing' it."
As he spoke, Nast's black eyes looked at Angel, with a deep red light flashing in his eyes.
No, he was looking at Anne next to me... Because he needed the help of this angel to be sure of locking onto the "Ghost Empire"?
Angel was thinking, and glanced at the girl next to her, who was a head shorter than her and whose head was almost under the table because she was sitting far back. Seeing that she not only did not react, but even began to lose her concentration, a smile quietly appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Nast, the King of the Five Seas, did not get discouraged after receiving no response. He looked at Bernadette on the other side and continued to ask:
"'Mysterious Queen', what you are looking for may be within that 'Ghost Ship'..."
Looking for something?
Questions popped up in Angel's mind, and he also looked at Bernadette, whose chestnut hair was draped behind her back and whose blue eyes were a little out of focus. He was thinking whether to ask her later or speak now, when he suddenly felt a warm touch on his left arm.
Anne grabbed her forearm.
This action immediately made her lose interest in asking questions. Her whole body tensed up and she entered a fighting state.
She still remembered Bernadette's reminder before she came to the "Black Emperor": there is a conspiracy against her here!
Subconsciously turning his gaze towards Nast who was sitting at the head of the long table, Angel was somewhat puzzled when he saw the king of the sea. He raised his hand and shook it gently, and the twisted power released the "confinement" of the room.
A figure, transformed from illusion to reality, immediately appeared beside the black door. Angel recognized it as Mr. Wrathful Spirit, the man who had previously sent her the invitation. A frightened face appeared beneath his gray cloak. He looked at Nast and quickly said,
"Count, there's something strange happening at the dock on the other side of the island. You'd better come out and take a look."
But including Nast, the five kings attending the meeting had no intention of listening to his "suggestions". Everyone felt a heart-pounding breath coming from outside the captain's room after he was released from confinement.
Compared to the others, Angel was more familiar with this aura. She had felt it outside Bayam City. It was a strange giant hand that killed countless lives on the spot, almost made her and Klein lose control, and even the "Sea King" and the messenger Renette could not resist it.
That was the breath of the "evil god" Su'a.
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