Jeremiah lazily stretched, gazing at the sun already high in the sky. The past few days had been the most comfortable days of his life.
A pirate's life might have looked glamorous, but the wind and rain at sea, the same bland food day after day, fresh water that always carried a moldy stench, and storms that could arrive at any moment made even a good night's sleep a luxury for these men.
He had already been staying in Castel for three days.
Ever since he had delivered that sample of nitroglycerin to Gem Bay, the entire Pirate King's Court had been thrown into an uproar.
A genuine uproar. Apparently, the pirate who had taken it for testing had not thought much of it. He and an entire stretch of reef had been blown into the sky together, blasting out a huge school of Horse-faced Fish.
The blast could be heard across nearly all of Gem Bay.
At the time, a great many pirates had excitedly raised their sails and gathered around. Ever since the Pirate King had unified the Storm Ocean and founded the Pirate King's Court, pirates had not had many good battles to fight. They had been bored out of their minds all day.
When they arrived and learned what had happened, they grew even more excited.
Something loud and powerful was perfectly suited to pirate tastes. Jeremiah had never been so popular before. In an instant, a whole crowd of captains came up to throw their arms around his shoulders. The pirates practically wished he could grow four more shoulders for them to latch onto, and even pirates who could not squeeze close enough to him patted his backside a few times.
The matter had even alarmed several great pirates. After they argued for a while,