For Thousands of Years, My Weakest Brother Has Become a Demon King Chapter 157

   Chapter 157 Diana and the Mist

   "There is a medium sized barque to the northwest, Captain, what should we do?"

   "What flag is on that ship?"

   "No flags were hoisted, Captain."

  The bearded middle-aged man in a straight navy uniform and an eagle feather triangle hat heard the words, picked up the brass binoculars and looked at the black spot in the distance.

   After a while, he put down the telescope and said:

   "The hull is not the slender, pointed-eared hull. It looks a bit like a merchant ship on the east coast."

   "If it's just an ordinary merchant ship, we don't have to worry about it, right?"

   The sailor who reported the situation asked cautiously.

   Hearing this, the middle-aged man with a beard stared at him and said:

"Has your brain rusted in the sea? There are no ordinary merchant ships on this route. Where do they go to do business? It can't be to the Ruins of Ossis, right? Inform the wind controller to speed up the wind, and put that first. The ship was intercepted. I bet that ship was either smugglers smuggling supplies to Ava, or elf spies disguised as merchant ships."

   Hearing such a strong order, the sailor who understood what the captain was planning to do whispered:

   "But Lord Captain, what about Miss Diana..."

   This sentence made the captain tangled all of a sudden.

  If in normal times, he encountered such a smuggling ship without the flag of the Imperial Shipping Company, he said he would grab it. After all, he has a privateer's license issued by the royal family, and the other party is likely to be a smuggler who does illegal business with Awazhou... Well, even if it is not a smuggler, who would care about the disappearance of this vast sea. what about the ship?

  The Empire's naval system is very independent, with the exception of the priests accompanying the ship, the outside is basically unable to intervene. And the priest on the boat is also very easy to buy, it is really stinky and hard... There will always be some dangerous situations in the dangerous sea, right?

   In this way, they take over some of their own "private work". As long as their hands and feet are clean enough, they will basically have no trouble afterwards.

   But now, in his cabin, there is a troublesome woman with lace cuffs on her sleeves, who not only eats with silver knives and forks, but also lights candlesticks. And they can neither bribe this woman nor create an accident for her.

   After all, who would dare to bribe or harm a divine enlightener who had been certified by the Eighth Religion Priest Group and had caused a miracle?

   After hesitating, the captain still said:

   "I'm going to stabilize her, you go to inform the second officer, and hand over the command to him at the scene, let him move quickly and deal with it more cleanly."

   "This is bad luck..."

  Captain Hobbs muttered to himself as he watched the imperial warship appearing on the horizon.

   "It's still so far apart, can you be at peace with each other?"

   asked William.

   At this moment, he was covering his forehead with his hand, which looked like he was blocking the sunlight, but in fact he was covering up the amber halo that was flowing in his eyes when he released the [Eagle Eye Technique].

  The imperial battleship that appeared in the sky was a little different from what William imagined.

  Although it was also a barque of wood, it had no muzzles on the broadsides and no rams on the bow. Only in the center of the hull stood two conical wooden towers that were the same height as the masts, and the tops of the towers shone like a starry sky.

  In a world with highly mobile, small-target artillery arrays like the Magic Singer, there really was no incentive to develop artillery, which was a rather cumbersome weapon in the early days.

   "Are you okay?"

   Hearing William's question, Captain Hobbs laughed as if he had heard a joke.

   It's just that his face was a mixture of sarcasm and anguish.

   "There is no reason why the Empire can maintain such a large navy with such a small maritime budget."

   As he spoke, he raised his monocular, looked in the direction of the imperial battleship, and kept mumbling:

"The most vicious and well-known pirates in the sea are the pirates of the Daemon Continent. They do business in the area of ​​the White Sea. Eight out of ten ships have been hijacked by them. But generally speaking, as long as they cooperate with them, there is no one who resists or hurts them. , in most cases, those pirates will let the ship come back safely, which can be regarded as an inexhaustible fish. In contrast, the Imperial Navy is not famous at all, can you guess the reason?"

  William was silent.

   "Because few people can survive to tell their glorious deeds, as long as they are targeted, the fate of the ship is destroyed."

   Seeing that William did not answer, Hobbs said directly.

   said, he also raised his whalebone prosthesis and knocked on the deck.

"Even if you live to accuse them of doing good deeds, no one wants to meddle in their business. They will only advise you to join the Imperial Shipping Company, register your ship as an Imperial Merchant Ship, and pay huge taxes for each shipment. , there's no risk in hoisting their flag... ah, that warship has sped up."

William, who was using the [Eagle Eye Technique], also saw that the sail of the warship in the distance with the dragon sword emblem was bulging like a woman in six armors, and one of the wooden towers was shining with silver. light.

  Obviously, the other party was also using storm spells to speed up the ship.

   "Unfortunately, they have their eyes on us."

   Captain Hobbes came to a conclusion.

   Then he shouted to the sailors around him:

   "Let 'Big Steel Cannon' and 'Thunderfire' come to the deck as soon as possible. Let everyone prepare their weapons and prepare for the battle, we may have a tough battle to fight."

   After shouting, he looked back at William and said:

   "Mr. Ishma, please go ahead and hide in the cabin for a while. Also, please hide half of your cargo and keep half on you."

   "How long will you be hiding?"

  William asked with a frown.

   "Hide until we finish killing them, or until they finish killing us. Of course, what's even more dreamy is that we can negotiate terms with them, and the other party takes away more than half of the things on the ship. This matter has been revealed, and everyone is happy."

   "Which is more likely?"

   William continued to ask.

   In response, a bitter smile appeared on the other party's face.

   "My suggestion is that you can prepare a sharp enough dagger in advance, and it will be more enjoyable at that time."

  William hesitated for a while.

   In principle, William didn't want to make too much noise before he reached Ava, or even before he saw Remedios. And he wasn't quite sure whether the direct sinking of an imperial warship was a relatively big move.

   And if you just get out of trouble, you just need to directly release the storm spell to accelerate the whalebone and throw away the imperial warship.

but…

  William looked at Liz beside him.

   She blurted her figure with a faint mist around her, and Captain Hobbs, who was not far from her, did not perceive the existence of this witch.

   In this regard, Liz just reluctantly gave William a "no problem" gesture.

   "I'll stay on deck too."

   William said to the vicissitudes of life, the lame captain.

   Hobbs, who had turned around and planned to go back to set up the task, turned his head back. He looked at the Origin Quality Silver merchant who claimed to be from the Blackwater Province with a curious expression on his face.

   "What are you doing here? Are you a cannon fodder?"

   he asked very directly.

  William shook his head, a bright red flame ignited in his hands.

   Looking at the flames burning in the opponent's hands, Hobbs' pupils suddenly dilated.

   "Are you a magic caster?"

   "You don't really think that an ordinary person would dare to go to Avazhou to do business alone with dozens of kilograms of Origin Silver?"

  William answered thus, and went on to say:

   "I know a thing or two about magic. Don't worry, these pirates named the Navy won't steal anything from this ship."

   "I heard some noise outside, did something happen?"

   A female voice with no ups and downs in her tone came from the closed door.

   The middle-aged man with a beard on his face hesitated for a while, but in the end he didn't open the wooden door that was engraved with various runes.

   Ever since he received the task of escorting Diana's "God's Enlightenment" to Ava Continent from the Eighth Religion, rumors about her spread more and more on the ship.

  Some say that looking at her for too long will make her eyes blind, some say that her tears can cure all diseases, and some say that she can turn iron stone into gold just by touching it...

   At the beginning, the other party said that he did not want to be the so-called "God enlightener", and hoped to be able to eat and live with the sailors on the ship. As a result, there were three brawls on the ship the next day because of her, and the final tally was that she lost four fingers and one ear - just because the sailors competed for the right to sit next to her during dinner.

   And after that, as the captain, he had no choice but to give up his own separate room to the "Saint" Lord, and the meals and things were also arranged for her alone.

   "Miss Diana, our ship has just encountered a group of pirates, and now the deck is preparing for the next encounter..."

   After hearing a soft inhalation sound from behind the door, the captain immediately accelerated his speech and said:

   "But please rest assured that our force can completely protect you. But the premise is that you stay here and don't go out until everything is over. It's very dangerous outside."

   The man behind the door was silent for a while, and then said in an ethereal voice:

   "Since it's a pirate, there's nothing I can do."

   Hearing these words, the captain's dangling heart finally calmed down a little.

   As the imperial navy in the true sense of the sky and the emperor, it is not that the empire has not developed a method to restrict them from looting everywhere.

However, the cost of the effective means is too high, and the effect of the low-cost means is extremely limited. In the end, the empire had to force each ship to be equipped with a chaplain to influence and wash the souls of the crew members. It is estimated that they themselves do not Believing way to show that you have done your best.

   And for the pastors of the Holy Spirit Church, he has a joke that he never gets tired of telling.

   Piety, wisdom and sincerity, any priest can only possess two of these three excellent qualities at the same time.

   And as long as he discovers the quality they lack, he can easily control the priests who are sent on board to monitor them for his use.

   Now it seems that it is not only the pastor, but even the so-called "God enlightener" who claims to have used her mouth to predict the future through the mouth of the Eighth Holy Spirit, can't escape this pastor's law.

   She may be pious and sincere enough, but apparently wisdom or something has nothing to do with her.

   You must know that this is the Broken Sea. In the past 800 years, except for the storm helmsman who tied his head to the waistband of the smuggling business, no pirates would haunt such a place.

   But he just said so, and the other party believed it.

   The captain suppressed his complacent mood and glanced aside. The two sailors who had been waiting for the order for a long time came over and guarded the door of this room.

   "You guys stay in and protect Miss Diana."

   said the captain aloud.

   Then he added to the two sailors in a whisper-like voice:

   "Remember, don't let her step out of this room until I get back..."

   Before he could finish his words, the ethereal voice inside the door with no emotion suddenly sounded, which made him shudder.

   "Captain, in fact, I don't need to arrange additional protection on my side, or the battle outside is more dangerous."

   "Don't worry, the pirates are just a mob to us. Let them protect you here just to prevent the other party from having a thunder and lightning wizard. When the time comes, they will jump over the wall and use teleportation and other spells to help them in."

   The captain said perfunctorily, and then he hurried away without paying attention to the other party's answer.

   So he didn't hear Diana's last words

   "In the battle for a while, please pay attention to the fog..."

   "Can it work?"

   Taking advantage of the people around him focusing on the space in the warship, William quietly asked Liz who was flying behind him.

   "Small problem, if you want to send people over, there may be some risks. But it's not difficult for Witch's Mist to just lay the magic channel."

   Liz, who was flying behind him, replied energetically for some reason.

   William, who was far away in the Blackwater Swamp, wanted to use his clone to release spells on the Broken Sea. The most deadly problem was the decay of magic power.

   Now in the Blackwater Marsh and Nakuland, William has overcome the distance problem between several large cities by using reaction terminals inscribed with space spells as magic transmission bases.

   However, on this vast sea, he couldn't fix the reaction terminal as a magic power transmission base station - throwing it into the sea might be swept away by the ocean currents. Second, even if he has mastered the source-quality silver resources of the entire City of Thorns, he can't stand such profligacy. The distance between the Broken Sea and the Blackwater Swamp is bigger than the big cities in the Blackwater Swamp. Too much.

   But fortunately, William finally recalled that in addition to lightning spells, there is another way to pull distance across space.

   That is the magic of the witches, the witch's fog.

   Through the concept of blurring and confusing distance, the two places are connected. If the thunder and lightning spells are similar to space warping, the witch's fog is a bit like quantum entanglement.

   Of course, it is indeed inappropriate to use William's previous world where the underlying rules were extremely strict as a metaphor for a world where the rules were too casual.

   But in any case, for Witch Mist, the increase in distance will not increase the consumption of magic power like teleportation spells, but will only seriously reduce the success probability of transmission - the more complex the concept, the lower the success probability.

   But magic is the constituent substance of all things, and the effect of distance on them can be said to be negligible.

   As long as there are two extremely ambiguous places, the Witch's Mist can truly connect the magic path regardless of distance. During Liz's guidance of the Witch's Mist, William's clone can basically reach the strength of the original body.

   I wish everyone a Happy International Labor Day!

   Interne Schonal must be realized!

   (end of this chapter)

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