Out on the boundless sea, the azure sky was cloudless for ten thousand miles, and clouds drifted through it one after another. Beneath that blue sky and above that blue sea, a battered ship cut through the waves of the Great Sea.
From its black sails and the ugly skull on them, anyone could tell that this was a pirate ship through and through. On seas that still had little order, these fellows who made their living without capital were as plentiful as rats in a sewer. As long as they avoided the fleet of Kul Tiras, those with reasonably good luck could generally scrape together a living.
Judging by its course, this ship, named the Senxia Demon King, had probably departed from Booty Bay for Ratchet, the goblin port in Kalimdor. But that was not certain. In the waters near Ratchet was a pirate haven called Champion Island, where many pirates chose to sell their stolen goods.
Captain Senxia had not originally been called Senxia. He had once been the night watchman at the Westfall lighthouse, but during a raid by the Defias Brotherhood, which had caused considerable trouble in Westfall a few years earlier, he had been taken captive. After a series of strange, tortuous experiences and struggles, Senxia had finally become a pirate captain in the Defias Brotherhood. After this "highly educated" bandit, who could read, write, and do arithmetic, pulled off his first successful robbery, he changed his name to "Senxia." No one knew what the name meant.
Of course, the position did not amount to much. Compared with infamous pirate bands such as Blackfuse and the Bloodsail, the Defias Brotherhood was merely an up-and-comer. But as an organization plotting to overthrow Stormwind City, the Defias Brotherhood also needed supplies and heavy weapons, and the responsibility