Inside the carriage, Odys handed Bazel two shields. "This shield can withstand one round of their volley. A second round would be pushing it.
"So we need to seize complete control before they can fire two volleys.
"The specific tactic is this: I'll launch the first attack, and you'll help block their volley.
"Then I'll deal with those two Sequence 7s, while you handle everyone else."
Bazel froze. "You..."
"Don't worry, I'm confident." Odys smiled. "Oh, right. If there's a huge explosion, don't panic. I made it."
Bazel said nothing more, but inwardly reassessed the strength of the man before him.
"We've talked for quite a while, and it seems you still don't know my name." Odys said, "You can call me Captain Gal... though my ship hasn't been built yet.
"But it should be ready to sail soon."
Bazel immediately felt that this sounded rather unreliable. The ship had not even been built, yet he was already calling himself captain?
But there were plenty of oddballs at sea, so he did not dwell on it. Instead, he asked, "Why did you want to invite me to join your crew?"
"I don't know whether those rumors at sea are true, but I believe you must have had some reason for constantly fighting the Red Lion pirate crew," Odys said.
Bazel took a deep breath before replying, "I'm not entirely avenging Severed Finger, because he wasn't a good father. But he was a good captain.
"Compared with him, the other crew members were more like family to me. The first mate even died covering my escape during Red Lion Taylor's pursuit.
"I... I think I have to do something for them."
Odys smiled. "Loyalty. That is precisely what is scarce at sea.
"In my view, if someone is so cold-blooded that