LOL: The dark goddess covets me!

Chapter 99 Returning to Hylia

The negotiation process between Ahri and Abigail was simple and quick.

Businessmen are profit-seeking, and even though Fortune and his wife have a certain degree of integrity, Abigail still wavers in the face of Ahri's rich conditions.

First, the family didn't need to move from Ross Island, their long-standing home, and could continue to run their business.

The Sentinel of Light will not interfere, or collect a share, and even sponsor them to expand their workshops.

Secondly, the Bright Sentinels will provide protection for the Fortune family. They no longer need to pay protection taxes to the local gangs, and they no longer need to worry about the harassment of local hooligans. It is safer than before.

In addition, if they agree, Ahri also promised to take Sarah to Demacia to receive noble education, or go to Piltover to enter a higher institution, and learn from the principal of Piltover University who is also connected with the Bright Sentinel. Inventor Heimerdinger.

And the Fortunes only had to pay a small price:
Ari will provide them with a batch of native holy stones from Fuguang Island, and they need to make them into holy stone guns as soon as possible.

If the Sentinel finds a new holy stone in the ruins of the Shadow Isles in the future, the Fortune couple will also need to build new guns for it.

Of course, these Ahri will pay them market rates.

But although the Sentinel organization has a good reputation and the Kingdom of Demacia is behind it, it is natural that such a major event that may be related to the future cannot be rashly decided.

Abigail thought about it again and again, but decided to discuss it with her husband and think about it for a while.

However, they promised Ahri to customize a batch of holy stone weapons for the Bright Sentinels.

The goal is half achieved for the time being, and there is no point in continuing to stay in Fortune's workshop.

Before leaving, Josh specifically inquired about the big order that the Fortune and his wife were about to deliver.

Sure enough, as Josh expected, the owner of the order was the pirate king Plank, and there was only more than one month left before the delivery date agreed by Abigail and Plank.

Josh didn't know that the world line changed, and whether Plank, who became the king of pirates earlier than before, would still be brazen and plan to rob Fortune's workshop.

But the probability of this should be very high, because Planck's temperament is still brutal and tyrannical, and he did not pay the Fortune couple a deposit.

Out of the consideration of being prepared for danger in times of peace, Josh first warned Abigail to be careful of Planck's backlash.

After leaving the workshop, he also asked Ari to send a sentry to keep an eye on the family secretly, especially when the date of the transaction was approaching.

The reputation of the pirates is almost zero, and Ahri doesn't trust Plank, so after arriving at the port of Ross Island, he sends a sailor belonging to the sentinel to the stronghold to inform the local sentinel to protect Fortune's family.

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Sword Eagle rides the wind and waves.

Temporarily reaching an agreement with the Fortune couple, their next destination is Shadow Isle.

Ahri sent sentries before leaving not only to investigate the reason for the early arrival of the soul-eating night.

Josh returned with world rune fragments, another high-end combat force that rivaled or even surpassed Ryze, and the probability of success in defeating the Ruined King was greatly improved.

Light Sentinel has been developed for thousands of years, Ahri believes that now is almost the time to launch a counterattack against the Curse of Ruin.

Just fighting against the black mist with a mortal body, the casualties of the sentries are inevitable.

Before launching the general attack, they still need to test the possible new dangerous areas of Shadow Island again, so as to avoid the casualties of the sentinels as much as possible.

The deck of the Sword Eagle.

Gwen was excitedly looking at the turbulent ocean from the side of the boat, while Josh and Ahri stood at the bow and talked.

Josh put his hands on the side of the boat and looked at the sky, "Speaking of which, we've never been out on a boat together like this before."

"Now we have a chance." Ahri played with a Kraken coin in his hand, maintaining a calm smile, "We still have a lot of things to do, and when we solve the rundown..."

"Stop, stop talking, don't set a flag!"

Josh didn't give Ahri a chance to finish speaking, so he directly raised his palm and made a "stop" gesture.

Ahri was stunned for a moment, her golden eyes flashed with doubt, "Fu... what?"

"Don't worry about it, this is something I learned in the cracks of time... Before doing something, don't swear that you can do it, otherwise it will easily have the opposite result."

【ah?How come I don't know about this? ] Lunisia was equally confused.

"How many times have I said, there are so many things you don't know." Josh responded.

[Cut, pretending. 】

In reality, Ari tilted his head, "It's weird...what happened to you in the crack of time?"

She paused for a moment, grabbed the gold coin rolling between her fingers with one hand, and leaned forward to get closer to Josh, her golden vertical pupils were full of scrutiny.

"I've told you my story, why didn't you tell me yours?"

Josh reluctantly scratched Ahri's nose, which made her pout to express her dissatisfaction.

Ari pinched Josh's waist, opened a little distance and warned: "I said, don't mess around outside, did you really ignore my words? I wasn't back then..."

Josh didn't care, and grabbed Ahri's shoulder abruptly, hugged her in his arms, and kissed her lightly on the forehead.

After a few symbolic struggles, Ari's body softened, and he lightly hammered Josh's chest, complaining:

"You bastard, there are other people watching here! Do you want my image, which I have maintained for so long, to be ruined and my face discredited?"

"The Sword Eagle has no other sentries, do these sailors dare to talk nonsense?"

"It's because I'm a sailor that I dare to talk nonsense!"

The Sword Eagle was about to leave the waters of Bilgewater, but Ahri still broke free from his embrace, with the gold coin in his palm resting on his thumb.

Then, with a flick of a finger, the golden Siren coin fell into the ocean in an arc.

This is the tithe tax paid to Ms. Beard. Every captain who goes to sea must do a big thing before leaving Piraeus.

This kind of thing originated from one of the four legends of Bilgewater - Nautilus.

It is said that Naga Kaporos will punish those captains who are too greedy to offer tribute to the vast sea, so they sent the Abyss Titan.

Although the Baru people would pay tithes to the sea when they went to sea, they never personally admitted that Nautilus was the envoy sent by Naga Kapolos.

Like another of Bilgewater's four horror tales, the Beard Lady resurrects the Ghost of Bloodport, lurking in the shadows, ready to slay any treacherous captain or sailor.

Whether or not these horrific monsters actually exist is irrelevant.

But the fact that they are the "messenger" of Naga Kaporos is just a fabrication of the Bilgewater people and an insult to the bearded lady.

Baru people don't care what those "little pink faces" think, they only teach those idiots who dare to speak rudely in person.

But Illaoi is different.

She had already said a few years ago that if she saw the ghost of Blood Harbor committing an attack, she would definitely summon the power of Naga Kaporos to purify the water ghost.

As for the Deep Sea Titan...

Anyway, what the captains offered to the sea was basically the same as offering to the bearded lady, which happened to be in line with Baju's philosophy, but Illaoi had no intention of targeting Nautilus.

Staring at the gold coins being quickly swallowed by the tumbling waves, Ari thought that Josh didn't understand his intention of doing so, so he quickly explained the tithe and the legend of the deep-sea Titan.

Then, she turned her eyes to Josh and returned to the topic just now: "By the way, were you avoiding my question just now?"

"I'm thinking, you didn't give me a chance to say it these three days..." Josh felt even more helpless, "I just talked to you a few things about me today, but you didn't let me finish."

"Really?" Ari recalled the almost uninterrupted demands and madness in the past three days, her fair cheeks were slightly hot, "Well...it seems to be true."

She cooled her face with the cool back of her hand, "Okay, okay, it's my problem... But we still have a long sea trip from Shadow Island, and we have plenty of time, tell me what happened to you thing."

At this time, Gwen, who was watching from the side of the ship, returned to Josh and Ari, "Are you going to tell a story? I want to listen too!"

"Oh~~ I almost forgot, and Gwen." Ari smiled at the questioning Gwen, "I also want to hear more stories about you."

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The Sword Eagle is a fast ship, and it takes less than half a day to reach the edge of Shadow Isle from Bilgewater.

However, the place Ahri intends to go to is Hailiya, and it will take several hours of sailing.

It was late at night, and the already dark and terrifying black mist was even more frightening against the vast darkness.

The Sword Eagle stayed near the sea and did not go deep into the black mist, lest the fog walkers submerged in the tide would cut through the bottom of the ship.

The captain and sailors put on necklaces of sacred stones for protection, and lowered a small sailboat.

Three sailors acted as oarsmen and sent Josh, Ahri and Gwen to the shore.

The sentinels had already established a temporary camp on the edge of the former ship port.

Seeing the leader in person, many sentinels who were already nervous were overjoyed.

Ari nodded to them one by one, and then entered the camp.

Levi, the head of the Bilgewater Sentinel Sanctuary, was sitting around the table with several other female sentinels, discussing something.

From the corner of his eyes, he saw the three approaching, and Levi raised his face and greeted them: "Chief, Master Russell, Miss Gwen."

Ari was also polite, walked directly to the table, looked down at the spread out map, "How is the situation?"

　Thanks for the 1000 point reward from the baker who loves to eat salted fish!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)