After more than half a month at sea, the attacks from the sawtooth shark schools had left the Oath of Vengeance Blades battered and scarred. Although the crew had carried out simple repairs on Rabbit Island, they would definitely need to conduct a thorough inspection after returning to Barracuda Bay, just to be safe.
Now that they had docked at Breaking Waves Wharf, Gordon—who had stayed behind to watch the ship during the battle against the Shark Beast and thus had not been injured much—had already taken the initiative to contact the shipyard.
"Are you free tonight?"
Aken, his tattoo-covered bare upper body wrapped in bandages, grinned as he asked Xia Nan, who was packing his luggage beside him.
"My treat! How about drinks with the brothers at the Three-Legged Sea Dog?"
Xia Nan naturally had no intention of spoiling the mood.
For the vast majority of common crew members and adventurers, every completed mission and safe return meant they had reclaimed another life from the danger-filled sea.
Celebration and revelry were also ways for them to vent their stress.
After returning from a mission, drinking and dining together at the Three-Legged Sea Dog could practically be called a tradition of the Oath of Vengeance Blades Fleet.
Although Xia Nan was nominally only a temporary member who had recently joined the crew, after this mission, he had thoroughly earned the recognition of every crew member and was regarded as one of the Oath of Vengeance Squad.
As for Xia Nan himself, on one hand, there were still more than two months until the Moon Tide Feast. Unless something unexpected happened, he would be acting as a member of the Oath of Vengeance Squad for the next sixty or seventy days, making the others his teammates.
On the other hand, they