Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 702 Tracy and Elaine
"This is a dead volcanic island northwest of Toscat Island, near the Gargas Islands."

Elaine, who had been on the sea for several years and was familiar with most of the unnamed islands, explained.

Angel faced the suddenly stronger sea breeze and squinted his eyes to look towards the island.

The location where the Queen Anne's Revenge appeared was less than two nautical miles away from the island. Even in the sea covered with dark clouds and fog, this High-Sequence Beyonder could easily see the coastline.

There, in a natural depression, next to a not-so-big dock, there were already a number of ships of different sizes and ages docked. There were three-masted sailing ships with their sails furled, hybrid ships with both sails and chimneys, and fast battleships with a lot of armor on the outside, disguising themselves as ironclad ships, which left Angel stunned.

It's simply a ship museum. No one knows how some of the ships float on the water without sinking. It's very mystical... She complained in her heart, and moved her eyes horizontally. She found that more ships did not dock but gathered near the coast. They were in groups of two or three, or alone and far away from other ships. It was obvious that they did not want to mix with the "miscellaneous troops".

Among them, she saw the "Golden Dream" with golden cannons on top and gold coins such as gold pounds, gold horns, and fel gold painted on its sails, which was like an iceberg that refused to allow other ships to approach; she saw the "Vice Admiral Dusk" fleet, which was guarded by two slender fast warships and was closely packed together like a formation; she saw the "Future", the flagship of the "Admiral of the Stars", which was highly recognizable, with only one frigate and was shrouded in mysterious starlight.

Most of them are familiar faces, I have seen them at least once, and why did they all bring the fleet with them...

Angel's expression was a little stiff. He subconsciously looked at the empty deck where he was and felt himself lagging behind in momentum again.

"According to the request of the 'King of the Five Seas', the pirate kings only allow the flagship to arrive, and the generals can bring no more than two frigates. This is because they are worried that someone will bring the entire fleet and pose a threat to other participants."

Elaine explained quietly beside her.

"No wonder Vice Admiral Dusk only brought two ships. He has an entire militarized fleet. Allowing him to bring a small number of ships would allow him to compete with Vice Admiral Iceberg, who only has one flagship..." Angel nodded and suddenly asked, "How do you know so much? Did Tracy tell you?"

"She... I just attended the last pirate conference and heard some rumors!"

Elaine turned her head away and answered in an unnatural tone.

Even if it is... Angel smiled and stopped asking this question. He continued to look for other ships on the sea.

As Anne piloted the ghost ship that did not require any crew members and quickly approached the island, the pirate generals waiting near the coast and the pirate ships docked at the pier discovered the silhouette of this behemoth in the mist on the sea, and the commotion quickly spread to every corner.

The fleet of "Vice Admiral Dusk" retreated cautiously for a distance, but the gun ports on both sides of the ship were not opened to show that they would not take the initiative to provoke a fight. The two generals belonging to "Future" and "Golden Dream" had contact with Angel and were familiar with her. They did not retreat with Bulatov. Angel soon saw Cattleya in a black robe and Edwina in a beige coat with a command knife on her waist on the decks of the two ships.

As for the other pirates whose names could not be told, they were either terrified or excited, and they all stayed at the dock. No ship dared to leave the main force and approach this mysterious ghost ship.

After the ships offshore changed their directions, a three-masted sailing ship appeared in the fog. It was completely black with a skull and crossbones flag on its mast. It seemed that it originally wanted to approach the dock, but was a little panicked by the sudden appearance of the "Queen Anne's Revenge". It turned the rudder, raised the sails, and quickly sailed to the other side.

"It's Tracy's flag... She really came to the Pirate Conference, but she changed her flagship and came alone without a fleet.

"Do you think she is here to see you?"

Angel said with interest, looking at Elaine beside him whose expression changed several times and finally looked lost.

With a chuckle, she forcefully pulled the red-haired hunter's timid shoulders and walked to the side of the ship, letting her flamboyant red hair flutter in the sea breeze, like a bright red spot on an oil painting with a black hull as the background and a gray sky as the cover.

Instantly, Angel felt a gaze falling on him.

Those were the blue eyes that were vaguely visible behind a porthole of the new "Black Death" that was sailing sideways, staring at this side.

Ah--

Angel gave a provocative smile, tightened his right hand, and hugged Elaine in his arms before she could react.

At that moment, she was even prepared for "Vice Admiral Disease" Tracy to become desperate and crash into her with her flagship.

But in the end, those blue eyes, like those of most members of the "Witch Family", just closed in despair and disappeared into the shadows behind the porthole.

The sailboat, which was a whole circle smaller than the "Black Death" destroyed by Angel, just quietly passed in front of the "Queen Anne's Revenge". The pirates on it looked over here nervously, and no one had the courage to start a fight. She was still calm. If she attacked me first, even the "King of the Five Seas" would have no reason to save her. However, I felt that the "Despair" potion had been digested to a considerable extent. Was it because the action just now made Tracy fall into real despair, or because she had almost completed the role of "Pain" and was qualified to attack the demigod?
Angel was thinking, and suddenly remembered that he was still hugging Elaine. He hurriedly left the side of the ship, and after entering the blind spot of the outside world's sight, he loosened his arm which had been soaked in the other's body temperature and was a little hot.

"You, you..." The red-haired female hunter's face had become the same color as her hair, and she stuttered as she spoke, "Ah... Tracy will definitely, will misunderstand."

"What misunderstanding? Between you and me? Didn't you want to take revenge on her before? Didn't you want to contact the navy to arrest her? Isn't letting her misunderstand also a form of revenge?"

Angel asked back, pretending to be curious.

"I want to... take revenge on her, but not in this way, at this time..."

Elaine murmured, her expression becoming more and more ruddy, and I don’t know what kind of revenge she was thinking of.

She wouldn't wait until she becomes the "Iron-Blooded Knight" to retaliate in another identity and method... Angel suddenly thought of a possibility, quietly took two steps back, felt Annie's gaze in the center of the deck, and turned around to look.

This "girl" who had survived the Fourth Epoch to this day was looking at the two of them, especially Angel, with a strange look.

The latter seemed to see a word in Anne's golden eyes:
"childish."

Being evaluated like this by a girl who was over 2,000 years old, Angel looked away guiltily and returned to the sea where the noise was gradually dying down.

Beneath the sea, a black shadow was moving quickly, and soon passed in front of the ghost ship and came near the island.

It gradually became larger and its color deepened, like a huge monster rapidly approaching the surface of the sea from the deep sea.

wow——

Amid a loud noise, a strangely shaped ship floated to the surface of the water. Its iron-black metal surface that kept sliding down the sea water formed a slightly raised oval shape. In the center was a metal pipe pointing to the sky, which bent into a right angle near the end and stretched forward.

This, isn't this a submarine?
Angel immediately forgot what happened just now and stared at the newly appeared "battleship".

The reason why Angel was so surprised was simple. In her previous life, she had seen a vehicle that looked like this and could dive into water.

It is a deadly weapon powered by nuclear energy, hidden beneath the water, and capable of delivering a fatal blow to ships at any time.

Although the oval-shaped steel monster in front of him was even more crude, with traces of steel plates being spliced ​​together, rust and wear visible on its surface, and its shape not being completely streamlined and elegant, the technological level it contained was still far superior to those sailing warships or steamships in the distance, as if it was not a product of the same era as them.

As Angel was studying the "submarine" in front of him in some shock, the metal pipes on the top of the steel monster slowly retracted into the interior of the hull. Then, at about one-third of the height, the upper half of the elliptical hull cracked into several regular gaps, and the thick steel plates spread out to the sides, revealing the flat deck inside, pointing at the cannons all around, the sailors operating them, and even raising the mast.

Swah——

Several sails were spread out, and the metal machinery that was far ahead of its time just a moment ago suddenly turned into a sailing warship. Under the control of the helmsman, it sailed towards the port following the sea breeze.

Seeing the huge steel ship that instantly regressed from futuristic style to the pre-steam era, Angel felt his eyes become dull.

"This is the flagship of 'Vice Admiral of the Deep Sea' Hal Constantine. It has the same name as the 'Lost Newnes' in the maritime legend. It is said to be able to sneak underwater for hundreds of miles, suddenly appear from the side of the target to launch an attack, catching the target off guard, and then leave in the same way afterwards, making it difficult for the navy to capture it."

Red-haired Elaine calmed her agitated mood, came to the side of the ship, and spoke in a low voice, as if she was worried that the pirate admiral on the "News" who was not far away would hear it.

No wonder he was called "Vice Admiral of the Deep Sea". It seemed that he had the right nickname... And this stealth ship looked too much like a submarine from his previous life. Could it be the legacy of Emperor Roselle, which was eventually made by the craftsmen of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery and fell into the hands of this pirate admiral? Or maybe he was simply a collaborator of the Church of Steam, just like the cooperation between Vice Admiral Iceberg and the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom...

Of course, compared with the target that Russell was imitating, the "News", which still needed the help of wind to sail on the sea, was still far behind.

Angel thought about it and watched the "News" leave. He met up with other pirate generals outside the dock and did not approach the chaotic coast.

(End of this chapter)