Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 481 Conversation before the war

At dusk, the "Blue Avengers", whose voyage was delayed due to the encounter with Vice Admiral Dusk, finally arrived at Hakata Port. They would replenish fresh water and food here, rest for a night, and then go deep into the unexplored waters the next day to find Angel's target. ——The island where the "Gazeers" wander.

Moreover, Angel also has to make some final preparations to capture this extraordinary creature that can travel through the spiritual world.

The sailors on duty pretended to pull the cables and hung up the sails. The "Blue Avenger" lightly docked on the pier. The spiral staircase seemed to fall on its own and hit the covered bridge, frightening the passers-by who were passing by. He cursed a few words in a local language that he didn't quite understand.

"We will spend the night in the port tonight, meet up early tomorrow morning, and set off for the unknown island in the southwest."

"The Hanged Man" Alger ordered on the deck, and all the sailors cheered. After a while, they walked down the spiral staircase, left the pier, went into the port town, and went to have fun everywhere.

Although they are all Storm believers and are half of the "organized" armed personnel, whether it is to keep in line with other pirates or to relieve the pressure of working for a long time at sea, the church has tacitly allowed them to do some things that do not violate the law. , but something contrary to doctrine.

Seeing "The World" and "Queen" also leaving the ghost ship among the sailors, Alger chuckled secretly and looked away.

The two had obviously shown a close relationship in the past few days, but they slept in separate rooms at night, probably sensing the prying eyes of the ghost ship. This is the self-defense mechanism of the "Blue Avenger", and even Captain Alger cannot stop it. Therefore, taking a "night off" after docking in port today can be regarded as giving the two of them some private time.

"I am truly a qualified ally..."

Originally, when she and Klein got off the ship, in order to reduce the time it took for the "hypocrisy" ring to change its appearance, she only wore a wig without changing her face shape or eye color. But as soon as she entered the port town, the sign on the roadside I saw my brand new wanted poster.

"Captain, do you want to go down together to release yourself? I know a good place."

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This change in attitude can be seen from the sailor's courage to come up and invite Alger. Usually, whether out of fear or subconscious alienation from superiors, they rarely invite their captain when disembarking for entertainment.

When they first left Backlund and embarked on the journey to the Five Seas, the two of them had agreed to "compare the bounty amount." Although this bet was not done because Angel was rising steadily, so much so that he was a little worried about the bounty amount. Mention it again, but when it comes to 18000 pounds, a figure that can enter the first echelon of pirates, the introverted yet crazy character of "crazy adventurer" Germann begins to get ready to take action again.

Of course, as a port that deviates from the main waterway, Hakata Port does not belong to any country. It is a paradise for various pirates. The wanted order here is more of a comparison and negotiation among pirates. It can be regarded as a well-known pirate worth tens of thousands of pounds. When they appear here, I'm afraid there will be many people with the idea of ​​"returning to evil" and taking their heads in exchange for bounties.

This is an amount close to the value of a pirate general's head. If it weren't for Mr. Fool's intimidation, I'm afraid "The Hanged Man" Alger wouldn't be able to help but report it to the Church of Storms...

"Remember to keep someone on duty."

He added, following the sailor off the ship, his back straight, as if he had been relieved of some kind of burden.

Klein rubbed out a trace of flame, lit the wanted poster, watched it turn into ashes on the table, and said with a chuckle.

He solved flying heads and headless monsters in Bansi Port, killed "Iron" Maiviti in Bayam, and helped the garrison clean up the fanatic believers of "Poseidon" and the rebels who attacked indiscriminately. He also did a lot of publicity. However, it either turned into the gratitude of Donna's family, or turned into a bounty and a reward from the military. However, it did not appear on the bounty list, and it became something that could be discussed by people across the five seas. "legend".

Alger subconsciously wanted to refuse, but looking at the retreating figures on the pier, he opened his mouth and finally said:

"Then go have a drink.

There is a reward of 18000 pounds on it.

He put his hands on his hips and looked at the gradually brightening lights of the port town on the deck. He sighed and prepared to go back to the captain's cabin to study tomorrow's route.

"It's probably about the 'Black Death'. If the official Beyonders or the navy had arrived in time, it would be easy to connect its sinking with the 'City Breaker' incident, and the latter was already your fault in the eyes of the Church of Storms. That’s it.”

Without hesitation, she activated "hypocrisy", changed her appearance, and then tore off the wanted poster and took it away without anyone noticing.

Suddenly a rivalry thought came to his mind.

"The reward has actually... increased again..."

Looking at the wanted poster with "Angelica Sage" written on the table, Angel pursed his lips and murmured in disbelief.

A sailor who had not yet left saw Alger standing alone in the sea breeze, leaned over and asked with a smile, while winking, hinting at the true meaning of "release".

There was a reward of 600 pounds on the surface for this "mission", of which 300 pounds had already been paid by Angel in advance, and a large portion was distributed to all the sailors through Alger. This generous reward made every sailor who went to sea feel a little itchy. , and have more respect for this usually unsmiling captain.

Next time, you can try to be more assertive and arrogant, and grasp the characteristics of the role you play...

Klein, who had already summarized the rules of acting and was not worried about being affected by "Gehrman", was thinking about it when his waist was suddenly poked. The unbearable memories of the past few days on "Blue Avenger" instantly began to attack him, making him He jumped out of his chair nervously.

"What are you thinking about?" Angel smiled and retracted his finger, "Are you interested in my bounty?"

In fact, it’s for you... Klein hadn’t changed from the “crazy adventurer” way of thinking for a while, and he really didn’t have the nerve to say that, so he coughed lightly and changed the subject:

"I'm wondering if I should use that radio receiver to ask the mechanical heart's sealed object, 'Arrods', before going to find the Gazer to see if it has a better way to deal with these things." Spiritual creatures.”

"Well, although I have some other ideas, it's not bad to ask it, but are you sure it will contact you?" "You have to try it first."

Klein took out the telegraph receiver that he had put in the gray fog in advance from his suitcase, connected the complicated lines, and placed it in the living room window of the hotel suite, letting the dim moonlight shine on its surface.

Of course, based on last experience, the ticker will not turn into "Humble Arrodes" immediately, and Klein has also conducted divination on the gray fog and confirmed the safety of this contact, so he feels at ease. We left the room and went to the restaurant downstairs to have dinner.

About half an hour later, the two returned upstairs. The moment they pushed the door open and entered, as if they had been waiting for a long time, the ticker's letter firing pin immediately struck, and an illusory piece of translucent white paper spit out from below.

"The loyal servant Arrodes has been waiting for a long time. Are you two masters?"

There is also a simple smiley face drawn on it. It must have taken Arolds a lot of thought to spell out such a "kaomoji" with monotonous letters.

This is too... humbling. Is it really a sealed artifact controlled by official Beyonders?

Angel was stunned, but Klein replied as if he had expected it:

"It's us.

"What I want to ask is, is the 'Gazeer' on the small island southwest of this port?"

This is an issue that the two of them have already discussed.

"If you ask this question, I only need to answer 'yes' to end the question. I have modified it for you and changed it to 'Where is the specific location of the gazer on the southwest island?' Do you think it is okay?"

The ticker was running at an almost smoking speed, completely ignoring that it was not replenishing any power under the hand-cranked generator.

"can."

Even though he had seen Arrods' behavior many times, the expression on Klein's face was barely tense.

"Their locations are as shown in the picture below. They have been making a lot of noise recently. They seem to have been frightened in some way. The overflowing breath has reached the spirit world, so it can be captured by me. Please go and capture it as soon as possible, otherwise these spirit world creatures will soon They will change their residence.”

Attached to the illusory page is a map drawn with simple lines and black dots, marking the relative position of Hakata Port and the island, as well as the approximate location of the "Gazeer" on the island.

This is equivalent to answering two questions at once. It not only confirms that the Gazer is on the island, but also provides the location, and also reminds us to hurry up... Angel wants to step forward and dismantle the machine to see if there is a " "Fire Flame" Danitz.

"Now it's my turn to answer the question."

Seeing Angel writing down the map information, Klein said calmly.

"You've already answered it and I'm satisfied with the answer."

Another piece of white paper came out, and the flattery of the other party could be seen through the line of Rune text.

Answered?

Moving his eyes upward, Klein felt a little unexpected when he saw the sentence "Can you see it" at the beginning of the question, but looking back at the character of this sealed artifact, he thought it was very reasonable.

"Second question, what is the activity pattern and ability of the 'Gazeer'?"

As if he was planning to spend all of tonight's Q&A on solving Angel's doubts, Klein continued to ask questions without hesitation.

"They can freely travel between the spiritual world and reality, and are very mobile. Once they penetrate into the ground or mountains, they are almost impossible to attack. If the target is included in their eyes, they will have negative effects such as slowness, weakness, and disease. If not promptly If they are out of sight, they will become more and more serious and eventually die. In addition, they will also use some abilities of the same path, that is, the 'Witch' path, such as substitutes. Once they feel that the outcome of the battle will be unfavorable to them, the Gazer will immediately get in The spirit world leaves. To deal with them, it is best to have a means of entering the spirit world at any time.

"'Gazeers' often live in groups in small settlements, but rarely help each other. If the enemy shows a certain strength and only targets one of them, the rest will choose to escape rather than help their companions. In terms of tactical choices , you can take advantage of this.

"It's my turn to ask, did you know that certain friendly and communicative spiritual creatures can be temporarily contracted to serve as helpers in battle?"

Combined with the previous question and the current situation that both of them can summon the messenger, the direction of this rhetorical question could not be clearer.

"I didn't know that before."

Klein replied and glanced at Angel, who also happened to look over, with the same emotion in their eyes:

This Sealed Artifact, this "Arrods", is too good at it, right?

"last question."

After a long time, Angel finally breathed out, took two steps closer, almost stood beside the ticker, and asked:

"How to get a 'ghost ship' of your own?"

(End of this chapter)