Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 707 Arrives Here
crazy?

"Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya was closest to the door, and she immediately stood up from her chair, looking past the side of the tall "Giant Shark" Jorg and looked outside the door.

Noise, cursing, and shouting came into her ears from outside, and people were running everywhere within her sight, just like pirates who had gone crazy after a carnival and were chasing and fighting each other.

Is this the kind of madness he's talking about?
Cattleya frowned.

The other pirate generals also left their seats. Hal Constantine, the captain of the "Giant Shark", the "Vice Admiral of the Deep Sea", who looked like a half-blood sea monster, came to the door first, pushed his men aside, and walked out of the room. Including Cattleya, everyone else followed suit to avoid conflict in the small room.

The dock outside the two-story building was in chaos. What Cattleya saw was not the drunken conflicts that often happened in the past, but a more bloody, violent and ugly scene.

In the distance, several warehouses used to store beer, dried fish, and bread were on fire. The smoke rose straight into the clouds, dyeing the already cloudy sky black. On the ground, countless pirates drew their blades or used their extraordinary abilities to kill each other frantically without any rationality. The roars and noise came from the battles between them.

From time to time, Extraordinary Beings covered in blood would lose control due to severe injuries and madness, with scales and hair growing on their bodies. They would act like madmen and attack all living things around them.

More ordinary pirates, with festering bodies and bleeding mouths and noses, fell on the dock or directly fell into the sea, having lost their lives in unknown attacks.

A deadly disease? A maddening curse? Or a deeper contamination?
Several possibilities flashed through Cattleya's mind. She was about to take off her glasses and use the "Eye of Prying Eyes" to collect more information, but she didn't do it in the end.

Beside her, Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina whispered to her first mate Blue Walls:

"What happened? Why didn't you report it in time?"

The latter frowned, his monocle almost pressed into his eye socket by his facial muscles, and he quickly answered while looking into the distance:

"It happened too fast. There were screams coming from the wooden house in the distance, and then there was an explosion. Just a few seconds after 'Giant Shark' came in to notify us, it had already developed like this..."

After a pause, he added:
"According to my observation, almost all the pirates who went crazy or died drank the ale stored here in advance."

If so, the possibility of some deadly toxin or disease being transmitted through the ale is…

"It's not a disease, and they're not poisoned."

At this time, "Lieutenant General of Disease" Tracy, who had just walked out of the room, quickly glanced at the messy dock and asserted.

That is a curse, or pollution... Cattleya thought immediately, her eyes fixed, and she immediately made a decision:

"Let's get out of here right now."

It was not difficult to kill these crazy pirates. Most of them were subordinates of captains who were listed on the bounty list but had low sequences. Most of them were not even extraordinary. Not to mention that the five pirate generals were all here, even "Vice Admiral of Disease" Tracy could easily kill everyone present with a fatal disease.

However, this strange situation would make any knowledgeable Beyonder retreat. What will happen after the curse and pollution? Will there be other changes in the future?
No one dares to bet.

As soon as she finished speaking, Cattleya faced the "Future" floating on the sea, raised her hands, and recited a few short spells in ancient Hermetic language.

A little bit of bright starlight immediately appeared in front of her, falling like a waterfall, forming a long transparent bridge on the dock, extending to the "Future" several hundred meters away.

At the same time, the same light appeared on the giant magic ship, and the other half of the bridge with the same shape appeared from the bow and quickly moved towards this side.

Seeing that in less than a minute, this star bridge that could pass through the chaotic dock and fly over the sea full of corpses and blood would be completed, the other pirate generals and cadres breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, they were somewhat glad that they had kept most of the crew on their own ship in order to guard against other pirate generals, and only brought the necessary and strongest Beyonder subordinates. Otherwise, there would be people they knew in the chaotic scene before them.

"Protect the 'Admiral of the Stars'!"

Suddenly, "Vice Admiral Dusk" Bulatov shouted loudly, and a dim light flashed on his body. His tall and burly body was covered with a shiny armor, and the "Sword of Dawn" in his hand appeared. He slashed at a pirate who had turned into a werewolf and was rushing towards the few people with all four limbs. With his actions, a more chaotic battle began.

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The speech of "King of the Five Seas" Nast was obviously well thought out, and combined with his extraordinary ability, it was very easy to inspire people, but in the final analysis there was only one problem:
He believed that the ironclad ships of the Loen Kingdom Navy had seriously threatened the pirates' living environment. Although only one ship, the "Pritz", had been built and put into service, its powerful firepower and hard armor that surpassed this era had already made all the pirates, who were accustomed to sailing warships bombarding each other for half an hour before engaging in boarding battles, feel extremely terrified.

Even Nast, the "King of the Five Seas" who owns the "Black Emperor" and is himself a saint, feels powerless against the "Iron Turtle", which is also equipped with demigods and can weaken the surrounding mystical power.

According to Nast's suggestion, the five kings should either concentrate their forces to eliminate the only ship in service, the "Pritz", and delay the navy's control of the ocean, or redivide the territory, leave the busy Rorsted Archipelago route, and retreat to the Sonia Sea and the Misty Sea, or even go to the southern continent that is beyond the reach of the Orthodox Church and the navy.

Neither of these two choices received a response from others. Angel was not a pirate himself, so he naturally did not care about the threat of territory and navy. The "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette seemed to be busy with some secret goals. Her "Dawn" was not so much a pirate ship as it was a ghost ship that usually only appeared on the west side of the Misty Sea. The "Death Announcement" wandered around the Sonia Sea and rarely approached busy waterways. And the "King of the Black Seat"... Angel had little impression of him at all.

Only the "King of the Five Seas", who was at odds with Intis and had no connection with Loen, and whose sphere of influence in the Rorsted Archipelago was severely compressed, was the most anxious... Angel smiled secretly, watched Nast being silent for a moment, and began to discuss the next topic.

"Are you interested in the 'Ghost Empire' that recently appeared in the Sonia Sea?"

Following Nast's words, the drowsy Angel perked up and looked at Earl Baifeng who was wearing a crown.

How could she not be interested in the "Ghost Empire", one of the maritime legends!

But this legend has been around for more than a thousand years, and countless people have claimed to have seen this huge city-sized ghost ship, but in the end they were all proved to be either an uninhabited desert island, other ships, or even just rumors spread by real "hunters" who targeted treasure hunters.

After all, even the Queen Anne’s Revenge was once considered a “ghost empire.”

Seeing that the others had changed their sitting postures regardless of whether they believed it or not, Nast chuckled and continued in a low voice:
"Recently, I received accurate information that the ghost ship built by the Trunsost Empire does exist, and its activities have become more frequent recently. But it cannot be located by divination, and even the twisted rules are ineffective against it. Therefore, I suspect that it is related to Sequence 2 or even higher Beyonder characteristics...

"If we want to obtain the Trunsoste Empire's heritage on it, we must work together to have a chance to 'capture' it."

As he spoke, Nast's black eyes looked at Angel, with a deep red light flashing in them.

No, he was looking at Anne next to me...Because he needed the help of this angel to be sure of locking onto the "Ghost Empire"?
Angel was thinking, and glanced at the girl next to her, who was a head shorter than her and whose head was almost under the table because of her sitting back. Seeing that she not only did not react, but even began to distract herself, a smile quietly appeared at the corner of her mouth.

There was no response, and Nast, the King of the Five Seas, was not discouraged. He looked at Bernadette on the other side and continued to ask:
"'Mysterious Queen', what you are looking for may be inside that 'ghost ship'..."

Looking for something?
Questions popped up in Angel's mind, and he also looked at Bernadette, whose chestnut hair was draped behind her back and whose blue eyes were a little out of focus. He was thinking whether to ask her later or now, when he suddenly felt a warm touch on his left arm.

Anne grabbed her by the forearm.

This action made her immediately lose interest in asking questions. Her whole body tensed up and she entered a fighting state.

She still remembered Bernadette's reminder before she came to the "Black Emperor": there is a conspiracy against her here!
Subconsciously turning his gaze towards Nast who was sitting at the head of the long table, Angel was somewhat puzzled when he saw this sea king. He raised his hand and shook it gently, and the twisted force released the "confinement" of the room.

A figure that turned from an illusion into reality immediately appeared beside the black door. Angel recognized that it was Mr. "Ghost" who had sent her the invitation letter before. Under the grey cloak, he had a panicked face. He looked at Nast and said quickly:
"Count, there is something strange happening at the dock on the other side of the island. You'd better come out and take a look."

But including Nestor, the five kings attending the meeting had no intention of listening to his "suggestions". Everyone felt a heart-pounding breath coming from outside the captain's room after he was released from confinement.

Compared to others, Angel was more familiar with this aura. She had felt it outside Bayam City. It was a strange giant hand that killed countless lives on the spot and made her and Klein almost lose control. Even the "Sea King" and the messenger Renette could not resist it.

That was the breath of the "evil god" Su'a.

(End of this chapter)