Nature's AIDS

"Silent Mary..."

Gabriel looked at one of the few intact parts of that ship—the figurehead.

"Her name is Mary?"

"To be precise, the ship is named Mary."

Adam stroked the skeletal ship, and the figurehead nodded at Adam and Gabriel.

"Mary is a living ship, so there's no need to worry about a manager. Mary will take care of everything."

The pirates who had died earlier had their bodies transformed into Inferi and assigned to the Flying Dutchman, while their souls were gathered together to create Mary.

Originally, Adam had not considered how Silent Mary would operate either, but now that it had occurred to him, after thinking it over, the only option was to let Mary take care of herself—the ship was nothing but a skeleton now. Even marine life would struggle to adapt to such an environment.

After somewhat awkwardly greeting the figurehead, Gabriel looked at Adam.

"Looks like this ship's crew won't be ordinary people either, will they?"

It was obvious that ordinary people could never live or fight aboard a ship like this...

"That's right. This ship's crew is likewise made from modified corpses."

Unlike the previous modifications based on Inferi, Silent Mary's crew was based on Zombies—

The former's main traits were that their combat ability was not diminished in water at all, along with their immortality, which allowed them to continuously repair themselves after being damaged.

The latter, meanwhile, were impervious to blades and bullets, possessed extremely high defenses, and were poisonous from head to toe. Once injured by them, one would be corroded by Corpse Poison.

"By the way, this Corpse Poison has a particularly special effect. It's a mixture of many different toxins."

At that, Adam once again wore a proud expression.

"It contains not only conventional neurotoxins and circulatory toxins, but