"Next time I am so impulsive, remember to stop me."
The "Red Haired Woman", with one third of its main mast broken and its sails swaying in the wind, finally arrived at the port of Oravi Island before nightfall on Wednesday and docked next to the pier equipped with a repair dock.
Looking at the deck covered with sawdust and half of the ship's sides already bare, Angel whispered to Helene beside him.
"I'll try my best."
The brown-haired woman murmured in reply.
She also looked tired, half of it was due to various accidents and battles on the road, and the other half was the negative effect caused by her "Madness Ring".
As soon as it left the private port of Bayam, the "Red Haired Woman" encountered a storm that was not large in scale and went away quickly. The sailboat was blown away from the scheduled route. It also reminded Angel: she was also wearing a Mystical Item that can bring bad luck.
Fortunately, Grazing got "Wind-blessed", and Angel has certain Gale Control abilities. By using a method that is not scientific at all, but very mysterious, she stood on the deck and blew the sail hard, and she managed to make the ship that almost yawed and hit the reef return to the deep water area, avoiding the tragic ending of sinking immediately after setting sail.
This act of revealing Beyonder Ability not only did not scare the hired Sailors, but instead quickly brought their morale, which had begun to decline, back to the best level. After all, the enemy's Beyonders were terrifying, and the Beyonders we had were the most reliable teammates.
Under the command of Helene, who has considerable navigation experience, the deviated "Red Haired Woman" quickly returned to the normal channel and rushed towards Oravi Island. However, the original plan to arrive before Klein was quickly ruined because of an encounter with a pirate ship. Angel, who had been depressed for a long time and full of anger, finally found an opportunity to vent.
Worried that Loen Military's armored ships will enter Five Seas, pirates will be swept out of this sea area in batches. The pirates near the Rhoside Islands have been very active in recent months. They want to work day and night to steal all the supplies they see and make the last profit before "washing hands in the golden basin". The same is true for the pirate ships targeting Angel.
As soon as they fired a few demonstrative cannons and broke the mast of the new ship painted red, the pirates on the ship found that they began to suffer from dizziness, vomiting, fever and other symptoms. They soon staggered and lay all over the deck. The only captain who could barely survive the "disease" had no time to order a retreat, and his head was separated under the Bone Blade sticking out from behind.
Until Angel, who was holding the captain's head, swam back to the "Red Haired Woman" and ordered to continue moving towards Oravi Island in the fearful eyes of the Sailors, the pirate ship was still uncontrollable.
Although no fatal germs were spread, the various minor illnesses were enough to make these plunderers uncomfortable for a long time. Maybe when discovered by the patrolling navy, no one on the ship would be able to stand up.
After several twists and turns, the "red-haired girl" finally brought a boatload of sailors to the Port of Olavi. Angel could see that the two-day thrilling voyage had made all the sailors exhausted physically and mentally. She discussed with Elaine in a low voice and gave the sailors three days' leave. The ship was going to be overhauled anyway, and I was afraid that they would not be able to leave the port again for a week.
The two of them carried the pirate captain's head wrapped in black cloth and left the dock to the port authority. There, Helene, who was familiar with various procedures, would follow the formal procedures to report the encounter, collect the possible bounty, and arrange maintenance for "Red Haired Woman".
"Hopefully this pirate's bounty will cover the cost of this repair."
Angel murmured, stepping into the busy port authority, and quickly glanced around. He found nothing special, and then let Helene come in.
When the latter went to go through the formalities, Angel stood in front of the notice board, habitually looking for her wanted order. In full view of the public, she did not dare to tear up the wanted order, but it was still necessary to understand it in advance.
Oravi Island is the transfer station from Blue Mountain Island, where Bayam is located, to the many colonial islands of the Sonia Sea. It was originally a desert island, but gradually became a busy port city through continuous development. It has long been connected with wired telegraphs, so the update speed of various wanted orders is much faster than in small places with little information.
Angel soon found his wanted notice on an inconspicuous corner of the notice board. It also only had a simple physical description, making it almost impossible to pinpoint him. However, the huge reward of 18,000 pounds was still very dazzling, making people want to snatch the paper away.
"Oh, I can't even figure out Church of Storms's intention. Among the wanted posters with a bounty of more than 2,000 pounds, I am the only one without a portrait, and the text description is also very vague, as if it is perfunctory.
"'Vice Admiral of Ailment' Tracy lost her flagship, and the reward was increased to 30,000 pounds, surpassing Vice Admiral Dusk. Is it because the sinking scene of 'Black Death' was too weird, and her worth increased because of it? Then she still has to thank me...
"'Fire Flame' is still the same as before. He has stopped working hard after leaving us..."
Looking at the wanted notices of familiar people one by one, Angel felt a sense of comparison that she had not seen for a long time. She was happy that her worth was still three times that of Danitz, and felt that her defeated opponent Tracy was so much more expensive than her that it was unworthy of his name, until her eyes stopped on a newspaper clipping.
Telegraphs cannot transmit newspapers, so this must be an old newspaper brought by the nearest ship. It contains the crazy deeds of a Adventurer: he fired randomly in a crowded bar and attacked the pirates on the wanted list. After killing them, he threatened to come to collect the bounty and then walked away. Dozens of people, including the pirate's friends, watched the whole process, but no one dared to join the fight.
In the corner of the newspaper clipping, there was a portrait of a thin, angular face, with his name written in cursive letters below:
Gehrman Sparrow!
Klein This guy...
... You didn't call me for such an interesting thing?
Thinking of the exhilarating feeling of breaking their inner moral constraints after Damir Harbor and Klein beat up the bartender and escaped from the scene when they first arrived at sea, Angel felt that the blood flow in his whole body had accelerated.
However, he was not wanted for doing such a thing. It seems that colonial officials quite encouraged this violent behavior of killing pirates in the street... She thought about it, and out of the corner of her eye she saw Helene in disguise walking out of the room with a faint smile on his face.
"Have you got the bounty?" she asked in a low voice after approaching. There were many people around her. Although they were not worried about revenge, they still understood that wealth should not be revealed.
"Not yet. They want to verify the information. They can come down as soon as tomorrow. The total is 800 pounds. You killed a famous pirate."
Helene also lowered his voice and replied, Red Light's face flashed with excitement, feeling happy because of this unexpected income.
"It sounds like the level of 'Red Skull Pirate Gang'..."
Angel didn't take it seriously. A pirate with the most Sequence 9 would be killed if he killed him. The only regret was that he was in a hurry and didn't have time to wait for the other party's Beyonder Characteristic to separate out, so he suffered a small loss.
After leaving the port authority, Helene planned to stay at a nearby hotel to prepare for collecting the bounty and repairing the ship tomorrow. Angel said goodbye to her and came to the port city next to the dock, preparing to look for traces of Klein.
According to the speed of the Passenger Ship, he should have arrived at the Oravi Island a few hours earlier than he had deviated and was attacked by pirates.
Hiding in an alley, Angel used Magic Mirror to conduct a divination. She originally thought that she had become a divination expert, but she was surprised to find that the divination failed. After a difficult confrontation between black and gray, the mirror surface was covered again.
"Why do I feel that my timing is not working? Because I have been separated from him for too long, so the 'clues' for divination are insufficient and are interfered by his Anti-Divination?"
Muttering, Angel quickly thought of another method. She set the target of divination as Darkwill who was traveling with Klein. This time the divination quickly showed a picture. Fat Apothecary was throwing chips in a casino, completely unlike the miser she originally knew.
And in less than a minute when the screen was displayed, Darkwill had already won more than ten pounds, which made Klein, who was carrying his luggage at the side, stunned.
Haha, it is so cruel to let Klein, who is bound to lose every bet, see this scene... Angel secretly laughed in the alley for a while, and then divined the location of the two of them and found the casino with good business.
"595 pounds...600 pounds."
Seeing Darkwill gathering the chips in front of him and preparing to cash in and leave, Klein once again doubted his luck.
"That 'fate Councilor' added Luck to me, but it was of no use at all. It also caused me to lose 30 pounds in ten minutes at the casino. How could it be so effective when it was used on Darkwill? In less than two hours, he had already won 600 pounds in three casinos... If I hadn't been worried about being seen, and had to change locations frequently, I would have been able to take the money and leave now."
After he escorted Darkwill with the "monsters" Pathway Uniqueness and "Dice of Probability" to Oravi Island, he wanted to rush back to Bayam after asking for the reward, lest Angel He continued to be sulky for leaving without saying goodbye. Unexpectedly, the stingy Apothecary only had 300 pounds on him, and the remaining 700 pounds had to be paid by someone else. The councilor Ricciardo of "School of Life" let him earn it back by himself through "Luck".
"Obviously, his Luck is indeed very effective, but it has no effect on me. Could it be that after I was promoted, the gray-white mist surrounding me could isolate the influence on my 'destiny'? This includes not only malicious ones, but also good intentions... Angel said that after being with me, the effect of her 'Luck' revolver became worse. Was it also affected by me?"
While watching Darkwill exchange the cash with a smile on his face and prepare to leave, Klein analyzed it in his mind.
"If I were you, I would hide the money immediately to avoid dying in a deserted alley in the middle of the night."
Still remembering his identity, he casually reminded Fat Apothecary.
"When I give you all the money, you will be the one to worry about."
Darkwill, who was evaluated by his owl as being more suitable for "Hunter" Potion, replied, but still listened to the opinion and carefully hid the banknotes in the inner pocket of his robe.
Will I be worried? I'm just worried that the thieves and robbers who come don't have reward amounts, so they won't be able to make extra money...
Klein, whose thinking had completely switched to Gehrman mode, chuckled, turned around and prepared to take Darkwill out of the casino and win the remaining money somewhere else.
Behind him, Angel was standing with his chest crossed with a sneer on his face.
Bang——
Fat Apothecary, who was hiding the money, bumped into Klein's back, which was not very broad but was now very stiff. The owl on his shoulder, which was pretending not to understand anything, made a "croak" and flew away from the three of them.