Daidoji Estate Ahead

It had to be said that Gabriel's idea was indeed something Adam had never considered.

This mainly stemmed from the difference in their ways of thinking, shaped by different experiences.

Although Adam had grown accustomed to being a hands-off boss, he had never entrusted his life and fortune to anyone else. Ever since entering the world of magic, he had never lived under someone else's roof.

Therefore, relying on someone else's power for his own safety had never been a direction Adam would consider.

But for Gabriel, who had been a homeless child ever since he could remember, if he had not learned to borrow the strength of others, that frail child would have died in some unknown corner long ago.

"How do you plan to deal with Hans's freezing?"

The Black Pearl was indeed as ridiculously fast as the other ship that shared its name, but it still could not sail through ice.

Facing Adam's question, Gabriel gave him a thumbs-up.

"I tested it. The Black Pearl is light, so Jack's Beanstalk can directly lift it away. We might not be able to move very far during battle, but it will be more than enough to break free from the frozen area."

After all, he had to freeze the sea, and not merely a thin layer of its surface. That was quite difficult for Hans as well. Once he cast that spell, he basically had no strength left to do anything else.

If he could casually cast ice magic powerful enough to rival Aokiji's Ice Age, and he was still only the first mate, then those brothers would not have ended up as pirates collecting monthly protection fees at sea.

Slow to cast and costly to maintain, Hans secretly freezing a ship's hull into the ice was fatal to