"Algae Scale" Dodd?
Xia Nan mulled over the name, which carried a rather rough-and-ready adventurer air, but nothing related to it came to mind. Clearly, he was a local figure in Barracuda Bay.
The middle-aged man in charge of intelligence ahead of him explained at just the right moment, "'Algae Scale' Dodd. Dragonborn. Born an adventurer in Barracuda Bay. Midway through a mission, he plundered a royal cargo ship of the Servia Kingdom. After a bounty was put on his head, he took his subordinate ship crew and disappeared into the Southern Islands. He's now a well-known pirate in the nearby sea area."
Although adventurers in different regions had their own ecosystems and wildly different unspoken rules, to a certain extent, because they possessed Transcendent Power far beyond ordinary civilians and because local oversight systems were severely lacking, they shared certain similarities in how they acted.
For example, those low-level adventurers in River Valley Town might have been respectable fathers supporting their families at home, hardworking husbands out earning a living, or witty fellow adventurers at the next table in a tavern;
But once they entered unregulated dense forests and wilderness, to the villagers of those remote settlements, they became vicious, brutal bandits and cold-blooded executioners.
The adventurers of Barracuda Bay were the same.
On this vast, boundless sea area filled with chaos and violence, the line between "adventurer" and so-called "pirate" became extremely blurred.
When they happened to come across a cargo ship on the return voyage, most adventurer fleets did not mind raising the Skull Flag that usually lay pressed at the bottom of the hold, playing pirates for a while and doing some dirty work in the form of plundering.
—Of course, the premise was that the cargo ship did not belong to the Servia Kingdom or