"Ah! Thum, you bastard!"

With a scream, Kaisa grabbed her hair, helpless.

In fact, Kaisa's operational ideas and luck with the cards were pretty good, but his opponent was an even more outrageous guy, so he could only fail in the end.

After putting away the spirit card, the elf, who was already hundreds of years old, still muttered unwillingly:

"If I had better luck with cards..."

Seeing that Kaisa seemed a little unconvinced, Tum on the opposite side shuffled his cards and said, "How about another game?"

He wasn't satisfied yet, but he had already figured out Kaisa's combat strategy. Even if shuffling the cards would cause changes in the game, the final outcome would not be much different.

For Tum, Kai'Sa is now like a BOSS that he has defeated countless times. It may be a little difficult to beat her with his eyes closed, but it is easy to beat her with his eyes open.

As for the battle invitation from his companions, the long-destroyed Kaisa clearly rejected it.

"No! I want to go out hunting! I feel I can definitely condense a stronger spirit!"

Hearing this, Tum's expression changed slightly.

"But the food we have saved is enough to last until next year. If we continue to hunt wild animals, it will have a negative impact on the ecology!"

Because the environment of the area where Verena is located is somewhat similar to Egypt and the country is surrounded by a desert area, the elves of Verena also adhere to a more environmentally friendly concept.

Excessive hunting is prohibited.

"Tsk! Of course I'll go further! Do you think I'm one of those greedy adventurers? Xen'drik is so big, it won't be a big deal if I just walk around a little bit and hunt ten times as many monsters.

By the way, I remember those adventurers said that Storm Bay will hold a Spirit King Card Competition soon. Should we go and join in the fun?"

With the help of the special monitoring spell of the Verena Legion, even without leaving the house, Kassa can detect the movements in a certain area around the forest.

Naturally, she also heard the topics discussed by the adventurers who came to hunt.

"A competition? But the mission is to find the Rose Cult..."

Although Tum was very excited, the mission assigned to them by the High King had not made any progress so far, which made Tum dare not indulge himself too much.

"Ouch! I've been wanting to say this for a long time. Those people from Rose's sect will definitely go to Storm Bay to look for men. The probability of us running into them here is too small!

If we become the champion of the Spirit King Contest, we might be able to find out their whereabouts through the adventurers!"

With a strong tone of temptation, Kassadin gave a devilish whisper to his companions.

How could Tum, who was only over 200 years old, bear this? He wanted to see the Storm Bay players, but he was immediately led astray by Kaisa.

Tum gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, nodded, put away the deck and walked towards the base.

"Hey! Where are you going?!"

Seeing him like this, Kassa hurriedly chased after him.

"Pack your things and let's go to Storm Bay and buy a house to live in. You are right. With the way the Rose Cult does things, the probability of us encountering them in the wilderness is too low."

As if trying to convince himself, Tum repeated Kassa's suggestion.

Hearing this, Kassa's eyebrows gradually curved, and her whole body exuded a "scumbag" temperament that could lead good students astray.

…

North of Storm Bay, Thunder Sea.

Ordinary ships will become more vigilant when they arrive here, because compared to pirates who can communicate, natural disasters that cannot communicate are more dangerous.

However, for the captain who holds the Storm Dragon Mark, this is considered to be entering a comfort zone.

Although the Storm Dragon Mark cannot clear the weather, they can sense the storm in advance. Skilled sailors can even use the power of the storm and dragon-marked magic tools to allow the ship to reach its destination faster.

The captain of the steamship was far from reaching this level, but he was indeed able to predict the storm in advance and even avoid it to a certain extent.

So when they got here, both the sailors and the captain who was the holder of the Storm Dragon Mark relaxed their vigilance a little and began to enjoy the slightly boring sailing trip.

Because for them, as long as there are no pirates coming to harass them, the voyage is basically half completed.

"Wow, I didn't realize you're so good at playing cards!"

In the cockpit at the rear of the ship, the captain of the Linland family was playing spirit cards with the boatswain and the first mate.

He is considered a loyal player of this card game, but his card skills are not very good. Even the boatswain, who is considered by the sailors to have poor card skills, can beat him.

"Hehehe, Captain, those people you play with are too arrogant. You should go to the Next Life Bar and see for yourself. The card players there are really good. They have already begun to summarize tactics and develop schools of thought.

My style is called the Flash Strike Style, which is only used in the early stages. If I can't defeat you in the early stages, you can kill me when you recover. Your personality is quite suitable for playing the late stage style."

After all, he was his superior, and it was impossible for the boatswain to mock him right in front of his face. He felt secretly happy and began to tell the captain about his experiences in the Next Life Bar.

The captain didn't put on too much airs when there were no outsiders around.

This is mainly due to the changes in family customs brought about by the Linland family's repeated marriages with pirate kings.

Compared with other dragon pattern families, their style of doing things is more like the style of a mafia family in the stage of coming ashore and cleansing themselves up, with a management style that combines loyalty, status, and rules.

This also led to the fact that although ordinary sailors were a little afraid of the captain, they still recognized him very much.

"Hmm~, late-stage style? Okay, I'll study it. You guys can play first while I go downstairs to check."

The first mate and the boatswain nodded, and then they changed their opponents and continued playing cards.

None of them followed the captain, just like a group of young men addicted to playing cards.

But in fact, what the captain said just now was actually to remind them not to follow.

This is an unspoken rule on this ship.

Of course, the captain does not need to come in person to inspect the ship. This is just an excuse.

And his so-called solo inspection was actually for smuggling.

The tariffs in Port Sarn are really too high.

And shipping between Khorvaire and Xen'drik is indeed a profitable industry.

In order to make their own piggy banks richer, most captains would set up a "secret warehouse" on the ship that is not easily detected.

The goods stored here have relatively high profits but also high tariffs. This is considered a small theft by the captain under the protection of the Dragon Mark Family name.

Every time a transaction is successful, the captain will take out a portion of the profits and distribute them to the crew, so everyone is tacitly aware of this and no one will expose it.

But for security reasons, the captain does not allow anyone other than himself to know where the secret warehouse is.

(End of this chapter)