Yu Lian couldn't help reflecting that all psychics really were favored by the Spirit of the Universe. Every one of them seemed to have the potential to jinx things.
"So, are we going to steal a ship?" Feifei asked with a grin. "Those two ships look pretty badly damaged to me."
"How could we? Even badly damaged, they're still a dreadnought and a battlecruiser... Uh, in Marauder terms, a large flamethrower ship, I guess? The Marauders have always packed far more crew and assault troops aboard than the standard navies of the nations. There might be a hundred thousand people between those two ships. How are we supposed to steal them?"
The Street Cauldron had twelve Terrabians, eight Gumeans, four Earthlings, and one Leg giant aboard. They were all either experienced, fully armed mercenaries and adventurers, or champions who had fought their way through the War God Festival. They also had a pretty high proportion of psychics. If they really turned to piracy, they could probably make a name for themselves within a few months, one that wouldn't be much less impressive than in his previous life. But trying to seize a heavily armed capital ship would be suicide.
Even famous, universe-renowned pirate kings like Gong Xiao and Plank would give any nation's capital warships a wide berth, let alone a cruise ship like theirs with fewer than thirty people aboard.
Of course, if Yu Lian had the strength he'd possessed in his previous life, he could try taking on ten thousand men alone. A seventh-ring psychic really could carve through a formation of super-battleships single-handedly. But as he'd said, killing people was one thing. Taking a ship was another.
"So we're really not going to steal one..." Yagnes's expression fell. She truly seemed disappointed, so much so that Yu