Chapter 42: The Origin of Pirates
Xia He took the elixir from the talisman and combined with the rejuvenation technique, the injuries in his body quickly recovered.
The injury this time was not too serious, but the combat master was more dangerous than the enemy he faced at any time.
I looked at the magic clock and found that three hours had passed and I was a little hungry. Xia He got up, changed into a robe, and came to the living room. All rooms in this house have only one floor and no building is built. The living room and the dining room are connected, which is relatively simple.
The doors and windows were closed tightly, and the wind and rain hit the partitions, making a dull sound.
The restaurant was lighted, bread and bacon were placed on the table, sailors were gone, cotton Jack was staring blankly at the dining table.
"Jack." Xia He took the initiative to greet him.
"Asra..." Cotton Jack replied weakly, with deep sorrow on his young face.
Xia He sat down, took the knife, sliced the bread, and buttered it.
Cotton Jack looked at Xia He's calm posture and said anxiously: "Asla, we may have caused big trouble."
"Do you know where those bandits came from?" Xia He began to cut meat. The knife was sharp, with silver light flashing, without any pattern decoration, simple and practical. Xia He was accurate in the knife, and the weight of each piece of meat was almost the same. This technique was like a sophisticated assassin.
"Bloody Mary, have you heard of it?"
Xia He stopped, frowned, and said, "Are you scared?"
Jack cotton did not answer and continued: "More than two hundred years ago, there was a pirate fleet that was rampant on the southern routes, and no one could defeat them. These pirates were all wearing red armor, fierce and cruel. The prey they were targeting would completely disappear from this world."
Xia He began to chew bread, reached out and grabbed the teapot, and heated it with magic.
"They not only robbed at sea, but also attacked coastal cities. Green Forest and Leo continents were deeply harmed, and millions of people were robbed..."
"What are they catching so many people? They can't just use it to cut the sails, right?" Xia He couldn't help but complain.
"Asla, how do you know?"
"Nonsense, the more thrilling the legend, the better, otherwise how can you scare people?"
Jack Cotton smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe people on the mainland have forgotten it, but the pirates cannot. Many famous pirate ships disappeared during that period. On the southern route, do you know what pirates were praying for before the robbery? Never touch the Bloody Mary."
"Bloody Mary? The name is quite cool." Xia He seemed to disagree with it, but he believed it in his heart.
"The Holy Thunder Empire had not unified the south at that time, and the wars of the countries were in chaos, and it was not impossible for the Bloody Mary to take the opportunity to attack coastal cities." Cotton Jack explained.
"How did this fleet disappear later?"
"The Bloody Mary sank the ship of the Imperial Princess. The Emperor of the Holy Thunder Empire was furious and used his power to build a legendary battleship. The Bloody Mary was chased into the Antarctic waters and disappeared. The fleet commanded by the Pirate Queen was destroyed and killed without any of them."
"Red Armored Pirate, why didn't you expect it at the beginning?"
"Bloody Mary never leaves a living, those red-armored bandits, want money but don't live."
Xia He didn't agree, the Bloody Mary might exist, but the story might not be true. To deal with pirates, build a legendary warship? This thing is not something that you want to create, and it will definitely not be because of pirates.
If the legendary warship is so easy to build, why can't the empire on the Green Forest Continent be built? You can only watch the Holy Thunder Empire control the route.
After the Saint Thunder Empire had its legendary warships, it completely controlled the northern route and its national strength grew. It quickly unified the south. The troops pointed directly to the northern mountain pass and defeated the Orc Empire. All the Orcs fled to the northern wilderness. The Northern wilderness was where the Orc Empire started, but the population could be accommodated was too small. From then on, the Orc Empire was in a slump. The Holy Thunder Empire did not rush to unify the continent because it did not want to waste the lives of soldiers.
"Jack, even if we killed the Bloody Mary man, who knows?" Xia He forked the bacon and sent it to his mouth, as if he had really done nothing.
Only then did Cotton Jack remember that he had seen him and Asra die in a restaurant, and Asra didn't leave a single living thing. At that time, he was thinking about killing people to silence the truth? The magician seemed to be very skilled in this matter...
"That...there are a lot of people in the hotel opposite."
"All the windows have been partitioned, I have seen it, there is no gap. If this happens, who will stay there? Are you waiting for the bloody Mary's people to take revenge? Jack... don't worry too much. If they dare to stay, what is waiting for them is torture and confession, so no one will stay."
Cotton Jack suddenly felt that he was too simple, and as a pirate, he was really not cruel enough.
"The three giants in Storm Point will join forces to search." Cotton Jack was still very worried.
"This is a troublesome, but we just pretend to be poor."
"Pretending to be poor?"
"Well, my space equipment cannot be searched."
Jack cotton was a little sweaty. He and Xia He looked very low. When the Bloody Mary saw them, they would not think that two low-level mages could kill a combat master. The gap between the two was too big. But because of the low level, people would ignore the identity of a mage and want to take advantage of you.
The conflict with the Bloody Mary's people was because Xia He refused to hand over his things.
"You have to pretend to be poor..." Xia He thought about his own things. No matter how people who follow the rules, they would be moved when they see them. People's hearts cannot stand the test, let alone where is Storm Corner? Where is the king's law here?
Not to mention his pile of Taoist materials, just 2.5 cubic meters of gold, it is enough to make people crazy.
"Will you still do what the captain do?" Cotton Jack is most concerned about.
"Of course we have to do it. This is what we came to Storm Corner for. Jack. You don't have to worry too much about the search. No matter how meticulous the superiors are, they can't control everyone below. Those who come to search are all small fish and shrimp, which are easy to fool. You can leave this matter to me."
"Yes." After this battle, Cotton Jack had already followed Xia He's advice.
Xia He didn't take the bloody Mary's matter to heart. He was worried that the three giants in Storm Corner sent people to search on a large scale. He put away the gorgeous mage robe, and Freya refined ten sets of magic robes for him, all of which were modified by Taoist priests from the Taoist Palace.
Each magic robe has a different style. Xia He chose a robe that was so simple that it was undecorated. It looked very simple with his young face. For a magician, this dress is already very poor.
Xia He put two tables together, spread the alchemy stone slabs, and took out all the magical instruments.
Jack cotton was envious of Xiahe as he spliced stone slabs, set up crucibles, test tubes, flasks, and crystal furnaces. He was not unable to afford it, but this was only the lowest level. When the level was higher in the future, the equipment needed became more and more expensive, which made people sigh.
Xia He didn't have much experiments, and these things were OK to pretend. He mainly dealt with the materials of the ancient tree of life, cut them into pieces with the gold-dividing blade, so that they could be used to make arrows in the future. Because of the Elf Arrow Gate suit, Freya's Windspeople's short bow will not be used again in the future, and the specifications of feather arrows have also changed.
Refining arrow shafts is a boring job. Xia He said to Cotton Jack: "If you have any questions, you can ask me now, it will not affect my work."
Jack Cotton was overjoyed. He did not escape under the pressure of the battle master, but chose to fight side by side with Xia He because he did not want to give up. Asra is a huge opportunity for him. If he missed it, he might always be a poor wild mage.
His ambition was much greater than what Xia He saw.
"Asla, how do you think I should arrange equipment with my financial resources?" The first question of Cotton Jack was actually nothing to do with magic skills.
"This question is ahead of the question, Jack."
“Before ahead?”
"Well, take the magician of the Arcane Empire as an example. Unless you are born in a wealthy family, or your parents are wealthy magicians, the magician's equipment purchase can only be roughly completed until the legendary realm. Let me tell you what equipment should a level 20 magician have."
Cotton Jack held his breath and listened seriously.
"Space equipment is a must, why is it necessary?"
Cotton Jack shook his head. He only knew that there must be, and did not understand the deep reasons.
"First of all, the magician must be a scholar, and must maintain a learning state all year round. He must have magic books, alchemy slabs and equipment, and various research materials. If there is no space equipment, he will not be able to pull it out in a car."
Cotton Jack sighed as he listened.
Xia He shook the space ring in his hand and said to Cotton Jack: "The space inside is one cubic meter, which is a bit too small for the magician. The guy I killed should be very poor. But if this ring is purchased in the Magic Council, it will cost about 3,000 gold coins. Of course, this is a cheating price."
"After level 10, magicians have a greater demand for space. In the Arcane Empire, formal students in the Magic Academy will obtain space equipment through various tasks. The most basic configuration is four cubic meters and twelve cubic meters. The real price is not expensive, but magicians can only have one chance to buy it and cannot be used to resell it."
Cotton Jack understood that space equipment is so expensive, it is purely the result of the magician's control. Because professions other than magicians can also use space equipment, but they will not create it.
"If a magician is walking outside, the first standard configuration is a magic tent, alchemy slab, two sets of standard alchemy equipment, potion materials, scroll materials, and a set of standard containers. Magic books, private notes, equipment repair substances, meditation potions, healing potions, specialties, and gold coins that you have to read every day."
"Special products?" Cotton Jack was a little surprised.
"Of course it's a specialty of magical materials. Why do you think smoked chicken?"
Chapter completed!