As Adam's main body arrived in Backlund, Saiga officially moved into the Café in Tingen City.
Noah, the Decree Giver who had advanced to Sequence Seven, headed to the coast with Hikali, the Scroll Historian who had debuted as a Sequence Seven of the Knowledge pathway, to make the preparations needed to put to sea.
There was not much else to prepare, really. The main issue was recruiting crew members.
Adam could certainly mold an entire ship's crew himself, but where would the fun be in that?
As for Adam using magic to do the work himself, that was even less worth considering.
That was why wizards kept House-elves. If there was anything more effortless than using magic to complete a task, it was making someone else complete it.
They ordered two drinks at a dockside tavern, claimed a table for themselves, and set a sign on it that read, "The Argo Seeks Helmsmen, Sailors, Ship Doctors, Musicians..." With that, their simple recruitment station was complete.
Naturally, this method of recruitment drew plenty of amused attention from the other patrons, and quite a few openly snickered.
After all, their recruitment station looked nothing like something pirates would set up, and neither of them looked like pirates.
There was no need to mention Noah's face. It combined the appearances Adam and Mr. Reed had had at sixteen or seventeen, while Hikali had been modeled after a young Grindelwald.
The two of them sitting there looked exactly like young masters who had read too many pirate novels, run away from home, and decided to become pirates.
Just look at the positions they were hiring for. One glance was enough to show that this so-called Argo had practically nobody aboard. And musicians? Were these two serious?
Words like naïve, easy marks, and greenhorns