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With Cariosa in the lead, the Eastern knights charged forward in a wedge shape, and I followed them, pulling Arinth with me.
Within a short time they appeared on a gentle slope.
“Car, Cariosa?”
“Daughter of the Storm!”
“How about here?”
The pirate admirals and fish-man warriors all froze in fear.
As I looked at the crab with its scaly body and huge pincers, memories from before my return came flooding back.
We defeated Cariosa, who had rebelled, but the pirates and fishmen she had been suppressing had all exploded and devastated the eastern coast.
After traveling inland up the river, pirates, fishmen, and greenskins fought each other for the right to pillage the city.
'It's mine!'
'It's our turn!'
'Chwiiik! Chwiiik!'
As someone who had to protect the city, I was truly terrified.
'Everyone get out!'
“Everyone die!”
I summoned my spear of fire, delighted at the sight of them swarming together.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
In the cavern of soft darkness, flames rose up, forming a spear shape and shooting out with a dizzying sound.
Wedge!
Then, a fish-man sorcerer who had been among the fish-man warriors came out and swung his coral staff and recited a spell.
“Karrrrr…… A curtain of water, a breath of waves, a shield of the sea.”
It didn't seem like I had casted very long before a giant shield made of water appeared out of thin air and blocked my spear.
The spear of fire struck the water shield, and with a bang, the spear exploded.
Cheeeeek!
A mixture of black smoke and steam spread through the cave, and several pirate admirals coughed.
I frowned and looked at the purple-scaled sorcerer.
There was no way that a mere sorcerer, let alone a priest of the fish tribe, could block my fire spear so easily.
Cariosa glanced at me and shouted.
“Valanianus! That basket is full of reagents!”
“!”
The purple-scaled sorcerers all carried large baskets at their sides.
"world!"
It seemed like it would take dozens of minutes of defensive battles to use them all up.
“Let’s do it! You people-eating monsters.”
I fired a spear of fire into the air, spitting out the six characters.
Hwaruruk! Hwaruruk! Hwarururuk!
Flames rose and spears of fire flew across the sky.
“A curtain of water, a breath of waves, a shield of the sea!”
The fish-tribe shamans chanted spells, created layer upon layer of water shields, and blessed the warriors.
“Shell armor, ten-layered scales, legs of land.”
The scales of the blessed fish-men grew hard barnacles, their scales became thicker, and their legs became slightly longer, making them suitable for walking on land.
The fish-man warriors came running down the slope, screaming in horror.
“Karrrrr!”
“Keeeeeek!”
“Tender, meaty!”
A giant crab as big as a carriage was in the lead.
“We will go to the deepest part!”
The bastard was foaming at the mouth and hissing in a horrible voice.
Cariosa shouted as she drew her magic sword, Storm and Tailwind.
“I’ll dismember those fish bastards, you, Valencian, catch the pirate bastards!”
Cariosa was a better commander than I was, I was better at killing people than monsters, and there was no time for bickering.
"I get it."
Saaaaah-!
Four Eastern Knights swung their Mana Blades at the Straight Path, and Cariosa ran out alone.
Percussion!
The rough magic sword Storm and the smooth magic sword Tailwind glowed with a soft blue light, and white mana blades were added in a spiral shape.
With his blue hair and his crocodile skin coat fluttering and his two swords hanging from his body, he truly looked like a man-eating shark leaping for its prey.
The crab armored warrior swung his crab claws, which were larger than a long spear, in a big swing.
Phew!
A red aura rose like a mist, and the pincers aimed for Cariosa's head.
It was an attack that seemed capable of breaking even a huge rock with one blow.
Cariosa jumped into the air while watching it.
Percussion!
The moment the claws brushed the hem of her coat, the shards of her armor glowed blue and swelled into a gigantic, translucent force field.
Charrrr!
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The claw struck the stationmaster.
earth!
White sparks flew, the giant pincers bounced like a ball hit by a bat, and the force field scattered like a lie.
And Cariosa climbed up gently onto the back of the crab warrior.
“In the abyss! A monster deserving to wander forever!”
She raised her storm sword and thrust it deeply into the Nongge Musa's snout.
Pagagagag-!
A long, one-handed straight sword as long as a longsword was buried inside it up to the handle, the crab warrior opened his eyes wide, and the fish-tribe warriors raised their harpoons a beat late.
Cariosa vented her anger on them all, infusing mana into her magic sword storm.
“How dare you! Step into my sea!”
Woohoo!
The blade slightly visible in front of the Storm Handle glowed blue, the Nongge Warrior's huge body trembled, and then exploded in the next moment.
pop-!
Giant pincers flew into the walls and stuck themselves in, shattered shell fragments rained down on the fishmen and pirates like shotgun shells, and foul entrails splattered up to the ceiling.
It was like endlessly pushing wind into the crab's body, causing it to burst.
The next moment, the Eastern knights who had been waiting at the bottom of the slope charged in earnest.
“Hit!”
“Follow Cariosa!”
“Where did those useless things come from, even as fertilizer!”
“Let’s teach those fish the dignity of the food chain!”
They were deliberately keeping their distance to avoid being caught in the explosion.
Tsukaaaaak-!
The blue mana blade glowed intensely.
One of the fish-man warriors, who was brushing the remains of the crab off his face, had his head cut off.
“Karrrrruk-!”
That was the signal for the hunt to begin.
* * *
While the Cariosawa knights were trying to turn the fish-people into fish-people, the pirates were running for their lives.
“Jump!”
“No matter how fast you run, you can never run faster than Cariosa.”
“You idiot. Just run faster than those fish!”
“!”
None of them were clueless, and few were loyal.
Having come this far, I had a rough idea of the route, and I figured that if I went to the beach, I would somehow find a way to survive.
“Let’s go for now!”
“Let’s go out!”
“Let’s live and see! If you die, you’re an idiot!”
The pirate admirals and Pagen, who had been there, hardened their faces when they saw Inyoung standing in front of the waterway leading to the sea.
“Why are you all coming down now?”
Inyoung called them in a bright voice.
“Ugh-!”
“I’ve been waiting for you.”
It was a cavernous cavity filled with barnacles, seaweed, starfish, stone pillars, and pools of salt water everywhere.
In the middle of the intricate maze of tunnels extending in all directions stood the Archduke Valencian.
His golden eyes, which were extremely arrogant yet slightly tired, glowed dangerously in the darkness.
He was dressed in a flashy uniform that was completely out of place in this gloomy setting.
Even though he had clearly just come out of the sea, his hair was fluffy and neatly swept back.
Page asked, his brown face turning a shade of earthy.
“I don’t know this place. How did I get here?”
Valencian did not answer the question, but laughed as he remembered Arinth, who had been hidden in a crevice of the rock with his leg jointed out.
'They say that if you show a little mercy, things will work out well.'
“The strict imperial law punishes all privateering with death.”
Srrrrrr.
He pulled out the blacksmith's sword, spun it around elegantly, and aimed it forward.
“As His Majesty the Emperor’s Chief of Police, I will bring justice to you pirates.”
Page gritted his teeth, and the pirate admirals ground their teeth as well.
But no one ran out shouting and cheering.
Saaaaah-.
The white-haired, golden-eyed boy of the royal family had an eerie aura about him that made him seem like he was not from this world.
Even if I just watched it, my hands and feet would tremble and the hairs on my head would stand on end.
'That's not a person. Absolutely not.'
'They say he's the Dragon Blood Emperor… … Is he really like a dragon?'
'I heard that some idiot attacked the cruise ship that Cariosa was on, and now I feel like the main character in that horror story.'
The pirate admirals all let out a sigh.
Cold sweat ran down my forehead and the back of my neck.
“……!”
“……! ……!”
There was a terrible silence, and one admiral, unable to overcome the tension, ran out first.
“Ahhhhh!”
Jan Sher was a southerner, a turbaned man, and an unrivaled expert at cutting human throats with a heavy curved sword.
He was also a big shot with both guts and skills, to the point where he once captured six merchant ships with just one ship.
Woohoo!
A blue mana blade faintly glowed on his curve, and he charged at Valencianus.
Valencian did not even take a defensive stance with his black tower, but simply stood still.
And the moment Jan Scher arrived in front of Valencianus.
with a plop!
He seemed to stagger, and then, as if by magic, he fell to the floor.
“Cough!”
The fate of the man who ran at full speed and fell onto a rock full of barnacles was horrific.
Jan Sher was covered in blood, trembling in pain, and Valencianus stabbed him in the back with his sword.
Phew!
Page blinked several times before he understood what had just happened.
'There was a puddle, there was a puddle.'
Valencian stood with one foot in a small but deep pool of water.
'It's Tarti's magic tool. He was pretending to stand on flat ground with it. Jan Sher ran without knowing anything and fell into the water.'
The pirate admirals trembled at the brutality, and Valencian laughed heartily.
“Isn’t anyone coming?”
It was a truly hopeless laugh.
“Then I will go!”
The moment he hit the ground, all the admirals started running into the caves on all sides.
* * *
There was one thing I misunderstood.
Even so, since they called themselves kings and had amassed a great power, I thought that these pirates would have some sense of camaraderie and loyalty or something like that.
“Run! Run!”
“Your Majesty! May you live long and prosper~!”
“Let’s all live and see! Hahahaha!”
I looked at the backs of the pirates, feeling like a cat covering a mouse hole.
“What kind of ridiculous kids are these!”
I was beyond embarrassed, I was so shocked I couldn't even speak.
“Oh my, this is worse than a dog…….”
I had to catch at least one of them before I could see Cariosa's face, so I looked for the one that looked the flashiest.
Page was running towards the left tunnel with the admiral wearing a gold coat.
“A blue coat embroidered with gold thread, a magnificent captain’s hat, a majestic face… Aquila.”
It was definitely the Pirate King that Tarti had spoken of.
I kicked the ground and chased after the bastard.
“Stop… No. There’s no way I can hear you.”
Pound, pound, pound!
I ran over puddles of water, jumped over shipwrecks that I didn't know where or how they came from, and ran through walls of seaweed.
There were occasional uphill sections, and several thick stone pillars extending from the ceiling to the floor began to appear.
It wasn't as big as the place we were in before, but it was a fairly large space.
There were several deep-looking puddles of water here and there on the floor.
I don't know where the light was coming from, but it was bright enough to distinguish colors.
“!”
At that moment, I kicked the ground like the wind and moved away from the stone pillar.
Choaaaak-!
An invisible blade cut through the air.
The space where Seokju and I were standing was cut off at the same time.
“Oh! What a movement not befitting a Grand Duke. I am very satisfied.”
“Aquila…….”
The bastard was hiding in a crevice in the rocks, waiting for me.
For the first time, I looked the bastard straight in the face.
As rumored, he was a mixed race of a citizen of the Eastern Continent and a citizen of the Empire. He was very handsome, and the dark circles under his eyes were even darker than mine.
He wore a wide-brimmed blue hat, a breastplate, probably a magic tool, and a coat over it.
In his hand he held a sword with only a hilt and a cross guard, from which grew a long blade made of almost perfectly transparent wind.
If I hadn't felt Mana's unique aura, I would have been taken advantage of without knowing anything.
I still don't know the exact length.
He asked leisurely.
“How did you know I was here?”
I answered, lighting a firework behind my back.
“Aiming for the light in a dark place is the most basic of basics.”
“You really are a famous scoundrel. You know the basics of surprise attacks. You’ll be more than capable of taking on this Pirate King.”
It had an old-fashioned tone, like opera.
I looked at him with contempt, knowing very well the bourgeois who were obsessed with such things.
“I guess you were originally a slave.”
“!”
A convulsion occurred in the bastard's face.
Since it seemed like he had hit the nail on the head, he provoked me once more.
“Even the sound of breathing is vulgar.”