Red Hair jumped in fright and hurried out. "I-I'm here."
"When will we run into some other pirates?"
"Well..."
Red Hair wiped away his sweat and explained, "The chances of running into other pirates out at sea are too low, but... but we could visit some islands that pirates frequent."
"All right, you arrange it."
Edward walked to the side of the ship and gazed at the shimmering sea, making up his mind. If we run into a new batch of pirates, I won't have to rush into taking the risk of teaching them knowledge about Outer Deities. If we keep failing to find any... then all I can say is, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained.'
Although it wasn't his first time watching a sunset at sea, Edward still found the sight of the orange-red sun sinking, half submerged in the water and staining both sea and sky red, quite spectacular.
Lilith sat on the railing, chin in hand, watching the flying fish that occasionally shot out of the water. She tried to catch them with the Summoning Charm, but unfortunately never succeeded.
Edward suddenly remembered how many people online in his previous life had said that the sun rising in the east and setting in the west every day in the Lord of Mysteries World might actually be the Eternal Blazing Sun. He couldn't help finding it absurd.
Aucuses, you backstabbed the Ancient Sun God, devoured His flesh and blood raw, and schemed against the other Six Deities, all just to hang yourself in the sky and become a workhorse with no days off, 365 days a year.
So is that why you make your believers praise and worship you so fanatically-to feel a little better about yourself?
Just then, a rift suddenly tore open in the air. Accompanied