This counted as the Sea Wolf's most troublesome problem at present...
Captain Relf had killed countless people aboard this ship.
—Of course, quite a few elves and Naga Sea Clan members were among them.
Some of the dead had been filled with resentment. They neither ascended to the God Country nor fell into the underworld, instead becoming lingering souls aboard the ship. These souls did not possess much Soul Fire and would dissipate on their own once their soul power was exhausted.
But some souls had possessed tremendous spiritual power before death. Carrying their resentment, they wandered the Sea Wolf and occasionally absorbed the dissipating soul power of other spirits.
Such souls could remain aboard the Sea Wolf for a very long time.
Nearly all the souls had held deep resentment toward Captain Relf before dying. After death, they haunted him at every moment.
These souls lacked powerful spiritual strength and therefore could not cause Captain Relf any substantial harm. Yet they plagued him every day, filling his nights with nightmares and leaving him drained each morning, turning him increasingly irritable and volatile...
It was under such circumstances that Captain Relf had begun collecting items related to lingering souls.
Captain Relf kept three magical items in his bedroom year-round, though they were merely excellent quality magical items.
The most effective magical items against lingering souls were four floor-standing Bronze Mirrors.
Each mirror was nearly two meters tall, but only sixty centimeters wide.
The frames along the edges of the Bronze Mirrors were made of pure copper and connected seamlessly to the polished mirror surfaces.
Fine relief carvings of human figures covered the frames. However, the figures looked as though they were struggling amid piles of corpses; their savage expressions and clawing poses were enough to inspire fear.
These Bronze