The little pastor is taking care of the weirdness of divinity

Chapter 170 Two Versions of a Story

Although rum-drinking sailors and frolicking guests in taverns in coastal cities all like to talk about the Pirate King's treasures after dinner, even every once in a while someone claims to have successfully set foot on the mysterious island of Atlantis and found Among them is the treasure of the Pirate King.But the crew members on the Mercury Crown all know that Miss Heloise, the storm warlock and ship witch who controls the wind direction on the ship, has always scorned this mythical legend.

But they didn't know that this was actually because Heloise Howl knew the legend of the Pirate King better than they did.

Living with storm magic, she knew from the beginning that the "Pirate King's Treasure" probably didn't exist at all!
Just like the blue-haired girl's surname, Heloise Hustling came from the warlock family in the northern part of the Star Vault Kingdom in the Western Continent——the Hustling family.But few people know that the ancestor of the Wind Howl family, the prince of the wind element who injected the heart of the storm into the body of a mortal, is an old friend of the Pirate King.This Howling Wind lived through the centuries and knew the fabled pirate king better than almost any mortal in this world.

Having experienced the trauma of war on the elemental plane, the former wind elemental prince no longer has the whistling appearance of the past.In Heloise's childhood, the weak ancestor turned into a small whirling breeze of harmony, living in a crystal bottle and protected in the forbidden area of ​​​​the Howling family. Occasionally, he could briefly regain consciousness and tell his past.

As a gifted sorcerer, Heloise Whistling almost spent her entire childhood in the family forbidden area with the little whirlwind in the crystal bottle.It was a breeze that had created the entire Howling family, and would often talk about the past.This slight sound of wind from a thousand years ago was the lullaby of Heloise Hurling when she was a child, and the young girl quietly fell asleep with this whisper in the wind.

Of all the true bedtime stories, the one that most attracted Heloise was the story about a navigator named Nemo. This story was told by Nemo himself to the Prince of the Air Elemental:

In the last era, human beings were not the real masters of the earth, and the nations on the earth were not what they are today.Giants and dragons ended the Millennium Crusade, and other powerful monsters ruled many land and sea kingdoms.

At the junction of the Sea of ​​Storms and the Mist, a beautiful island named Krisiga is ruled by a giant dragon tyrant.The dragon lord extorted money, and demanded offerings from the residents of the island insatiably.Under the power of the dragon, people died of hunger everywhere.

A navigator named Nemo is also a fighter with a stormy and unruly wild heart. He goes to sea again and again to defeat the terrifying sea monsters and sea monsters, salvage treasures from lost shipwrecks and ancient giant ruins, in order to satisfy the dragon. The greed of the tyrant.

Later, the navigator Nemo heard that the center of the Sea of ​​Storms buried treasures of super ancient civilizations.So he made a contract with the dragon, buying the freedom of the island from the dragon lord with a mountain of treasure.Nemo then set off for the storm-ravaged seas.

At that time, sea adventures were prohibited in most areas. For unknown reasons, dragons and giants were afraid of creatures that were much smaller than them from setting foot on oceans that they could not control, and ships were prohibited from passing through them. controlled sea areas.Those who go to sea illegally will be considered pirates, so Nemo became the king of pirates.

In this way, many years and many years passed, and people said that Nemo was dead.Finally one day, people on the island heard Nemo's voice again - that day, Nemo found his [Legendary Destiny], the whole world was shrouded in dark clouds, and lightning and thunderstorms echoed in the skies of all countries.

In the roar of thunder, he announced to the world that there was a mysterious island in the center of the Sea of ​​Storms and named the island Atlantis. It was in the ancient ruins of this island that Nemo found his destiny.

What happened next, that wisp of breeze in a bottle, is not very clear.Heloise Howl only knew that Nemo returned to his hometown and confirmed that the dragon lord had no intention of keeping his promise from the beginning——

Contrary to what many people know, what the dragon desires is not only the absolute value of wealth itself, but also the relative value of cherished things to people.The dragon will not only snatch gold from the hands of the rich, but also snatch the last copper plate and the last morsel of grain from the hands of the beggar - because they are equally important to the beggar.Dragons derive pleasure, excitement, and even power from the loss of something cherished by mortals.

Nemo marched alone in the storm and thunder, easily killing the dragon tyrant and his entire half-dragon army...

Later, Heloise Whistle grew up, went abroad to gain experience, and ran to the ocean. She became an outstanding ship wizard through her ability to sense the weather and control the wind direction.The sea is the destination of storm magic.

In the coastal city, the warlock girl heard another version of this story - the two sides of the story were so different that it took her many years to finally determine that the pirate king people said was Breeze. The story told by Nemo the Navigator.The changes in civilization as time and eras changed finally reduced history to illusory legends.

The difference is that in another version of the story, the Pirate King's name and hometown are never mentioned, and even the reason why he went to sea is omitted.It is emphasized that the unnamed pirate king buried his life's treasure in the mysterious island, and this legendary treasure is worth the treasury of an entire kingdom.

But Heloise Howl knew that the opposite might be true - Nemo was attracted to the center of the Storm Sea by the treasure. If there really is a treasure in the mysterious island, there is no reason why the Pirate King should not take it and give it back to his hometown. , and there is no reason to bury the treasure there.

The "Pirate King's Treasure" may not exist at all, or maybe even the Pirate King took the treasure, and later people can only return home.

But Heloise Whistling saw with her own eyes that it was such an illusory legend that caused many people to be buried in the thunder of endless storms.
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As the sun set, Chabron said in the twilight on the street corner:
"In our homeland, the Starry Kingdom of the Western Continent, the research team I participated in has secretly developed a brand-new technology to replicate the Pirate King of the last era!

"Of course, we cannot copy the Pirate King who has found his own [Legendary Destiny]. We can only look for the Pirate King's traces in the long river of history and copy a younger version."

Immediately, Chabran used [thaumaturgy] to create a series of sharp birdsong.A few minutes later, according to plan, the elf archer Shava Liaton came with the young man Nemo.

Chabran pointed at Nemo and winked at Nemo.Nemo nodded, and strode forward according to the steps agreed in advance.

Only Shava Liadon, the elf archer behind Chabran, was uneasy. The elf lady looked at Nemo, and then at Chabran.Their hands were rubbing each other behind their backs.

She quietly approached Chabron's ear and whispered:

"Are you sure you can deceive people with such words?"

Chabron shrugged his shoulders, annoyed and funny. He originally wanted to say "I remember you believed it before", but the words turned into:
"Let's wait and see!"

(End of this chapter)