Chapter 82 - Zi
While the three big pirates were plotting secretly in the cabin, in a secluded room inside the Flying Dutchman.
Four shadowy figures in cloaks were standing in alert while focusing on the door, seemingly waiting for someone.
After a little while the door opened, and three more shadowy figures wearing dark cloaks entered the room.
All of the shadowy figures stood together in a circle, and one by one removed the cloaks from their head.
5 of them were man and two were women.
One man was the tallest of them all, standing at a height of 6 feet and 5 inches, his clothes seemed to burst out at any moment because of his explosive muscles hidden beneath them.
Another male was 6 feet in height with average build, but he had good looking face and dark green eyes.
Beside these two were three males, with average features. None of them exceeded 5 foot 5 inches in height while one of them was only 4'11.
On the other hand were two women, one of them had long and luscious silky black hair, she had navy blue eyes which seemed like two precious emeralds, full of charm but if that wasn't enough inside both of her navy blue pupils, there was a soft light hue that increased the charm of her eyes even more but an unique pressure was being radiated from her eyes all the time which seemed to attack the soul of a person directly.
Although she was wearing a loose black robe but it couldn't hide the curvaceous body hidden beneath it.
Beside her stood another woman, who had slightly brown hair, pale brown eyes and strawberry red lips. She had fair skin and her voluptuous body could be seen easily even through her loose robe. She could easily become a top model in modern times with her sharp facial features but because she was standing beside the soul stirring beauty, her charm got shadowed by a large margin.
From the way of standing, the girl with the navy blue eyes seemed to be the leader of this strange group. She glanced at everyone present in the room before stopping at the smallest guy in the group and spoke.
"Peckar, why did you summon us in such a hurry?"
"Just a little while ago, i received news from the pirates that the castle of fokke family was attacked yesterday." The small guy called peckar replied in a hurried tone with sweat on his head.
"It should have been done by some other contestants, so what?" The 6 feet guy interjected.
"In this attack, not only little lord fokke but his horse and all the soldiers belonging to fokke family died without any survivor." Peckar looked up at the 6 feet tall guy and continued in a weak voice.
"What! What did you say!?" The brunette girl exclaimed in shock and asked hastily.
Other people present at the scene also showed various expressions mixed with shock, anger and worry.
"What about the other members of fokke family?" The blue eyed girl asked after calming down herself.
"No news about them but most probably dead too." Peckar replied.
"Damn it, who did this! Where did this new party emerge from!?" The tallest guy spoke while clenching his teeth in anger.
"Without the members of fokke family, our plan is completely ruined." The other short guy spoke.
"How strong is this party, they actually managed to completely annihilate the fokke family, even if lady Zi wasn't supressend in this world and had all her strength, we still would have to run away in the face of that little lord fokke and this party actually managed to kill him along with all the soldiers." The other short guy added with shock visible on his face.
"Doesn't matter who they are, don't let me find them or I will fking pin them to the mast of this ship to dry, because of them we will suffer such a heavy lose." The 6 feet guy spoke while gnashing his teeth.
"Silence" at this time, the girl with blue eyes opened her mouth and spoke lightly.
All the figures fell silent and focused on the blue eyed girl.
"What's done is done, we can't change it, we paid a huge to enter this world, although our original plan might be ruined but we still need to earn back the cost to enter this world." The blue eyes girl spoke calmly.
"What do you suggest Lady Zi?" Pecker asked after calming himself down like the rest.
"We didn't join the Flying Dutchman man crew officially before because of the plan, but since the plan is ruined let's join the crew officially and earn reputation points. Next time we can have a better starting point with the high reputation status. And try to buy things from the NPCs to sell in the nightmare realm." Zi the blue eyed girl replied.
"That's better than nothing atleast." The 6 feet guy spoke in a dejected tone.
"As expected of Zi, even in such a situation, you can still remain calm and give a good way to reduce our losses." The brunette girl spoke with a smile.
Zi nodded at the girl before speaking again.
"And it's not like our plan is ruined for sure."
"What? What do you mean Zi?" The 6 feet guy exclaimed, a little light appeared in his eyes.
"Lady Zi still knows a way to implement the plan?" Pecker asked with excitement.
"As pecker said, there is no news about the other members of the Fokke family, that means it's possible that they are still alive. And if they are alive then they should be captured by this new party, might be for a mission or something else. If we can meet up with this party then we can negotiate with them to give us a member of fokke family. As long as we have one person from Fokke lineage, our plan can be implemented." Zi spoke lightly.
"This! Yes this is very feasible." The members voiced their aggreement.
"Miss zi really deserves to be the reserve duty limit breaker of our party." The muscular guy complimented with a big smile.
"Now I will distribute new tasks to all of you. Bowen, Peckar, glow streak. You three need to find more information about this party as soon as possible and try to set a meeting with them." Zi pointed at the muscular guy 'Bowen', peckar and the other short guy 'Glow streak'.
"Yuan zhan, saber, Demondream will interact with Flying Dutchman's crew to increase our chances in joining them and connect with NPCs to buy the local items." Zi pointed at the 6 feet guy 'Yuan zhan', the other short guy with mini umps 'saber' and the brunette girl 'Demondream'.
"Understood." The members replied.
"I won't be participating in these tasks because I have some other things to do, Now desperse, the Spanish fleet should be arriving very soon, these tasks would be easier to complete during that time." Zi spoke and exited the room.
After sometime the other members also divided into two groups and exited the room to do their given tasks.
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On the eastern sea area of the turtuga port....
Scarlett Twilight swayed lightly with the waves as fishes and other acquatic species circled around it in a pious manner.
All the pirates were discussing about the battle they will be fighting any time now in hushed voices.
On the main deck, luxurious chair was placed right in the middle and on the chair sat Sheyan.
Sheyan was enjoying the morning sun with closed eyes, Charl and Krist stood beside him attentively.
"Charl how much time til noon?" Suddenly Sheyan asked.
"34 minutes and 35 seconds sir." Charl replied.
Sheyan stretched his body and slowly got up from his chair.
"Hmm, then our huge loot should be arriving any time now." Sheyan mumbled while looking towards the sea.
All of a sudden, the 3 stationary legendary ships brazenly raised their jolly rogers! Following that, they loudly opened fire! The fire sounds were systematic, 3 long and 2 short ones, as the smoke dispersed upwards. Next, the individual ships stationed around the turtuga port started signalling out their respective bugle horn sounds, and only the 'Flying Dutchman' used a huge sea snail shell to blow out their sound.
Whole Turtuga port fell in a momentary chaos after this sudden event, Pirates scattered around in the Turtuga port quickly rushed back to their respective ships as fast as they could.
A huge smile appeared on Sheyan's face when the sound of different buggle horns rang in his ears.
"Hahahaha, Open the sails, little ones! Our big treasure trove has appeared hahahaha!" Sheyan laughed loudly and ordered the pirates.
All the pirates cheered loudly and quickly opened sails skillfully, awaiting Sheyan's orders.
At this time, Sheyan's nightmare imprint rang.
[ Verifying identity status… ]
[ Contestant no. 1018 has obtained a divine ship, current status: Captain of the Scarlett Twilight pirates'. ]
[ Contestant no.1018 has acquired the rights to enter the historic storyline battle: Destruction of the Paragon fleet (Preface chapter). ]
[ Contestant no.1018, do you wish to enter this historic storyline battle: Destruction of the Paragon fleet (Preface chapter) as the captain of 'Scarlett Twilight pirates''? Yes/ No. ]
[ Historic storyline description: As the era of the great oceans approaches, Spain had relied on its navy to plunder and accumulate a huge wealth. At the end of the 16th century, Spain was in possession of 83% of the world's precious metal extracts. These huge wealth substantially stimulated a domestic booming economy. To safeguard their overseas interest and monopolize maritime sea routes, Spain has established a formidable maritime fleet with approximately a hundred warships, 3000 extra cannons, and over ten thousand soldiers. Such a formidable fleet rampaged through the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Proudly hailing themselves as the 'Paragon fleet.' ]
[ Following the sudden emergence of Britain, it massively threatened Spain's colony and its monopoly position. Hence, the king of Spain, Philip the second, harboured great animosity. At the time, Britain's maritime powers were not great, struggling to match their rival, the Spanish fleet. Thus, they could only rely on cooperating with the pirates to organize skirmishes, intercepting and looting Spanish vessels carrying gold and silver. Through these pirate activities, the royal family of Britain gradually gained strength. The two parties conflicts were unable to reach a compromise. ]
[ In order to achieve maritime supremacy, Spain and Britain engaged in an intense and spectacular naval battle which gathered worldwide attention. In this naval battle, the spanish fleet held overwhelming superiority. However, to everyone's surprise, this battle's concluded with Spain's devastating defeat and eventual end. The 'Paragon fleet' was utterly wiped-out. Ever since then, Spain had rapidly declined, and consigned their 'Naval supremacy' status to Britain. ]
[ Therefore, this impending historic storyline battle, is a prequel involving a huge naval battle of such grandeur! ]
Faced with nightmare realm's question , Sheyan without hesitation selected 'Yes', as a list of notifications followed.
[ History storyline battle: Destruction of the Paragon fleet (Prequel chapter) ]
[ Three merchant ships sailing from the New World are currently navigating a hundred nautical miles from here, the ships are fully packed with stolen loots of gold, jadeites and precious minerals from the New World. Because the ship draws quite deeply, their speed is extremely slow, even the slowest pirate ships can easily catch up. ]
(A/N: a ship drawing deeply means their body is sunk deeper into the water mainly due to heavy load, therefore there is a greater risk of water entering from the sides)
[ The merchant ship owner Fernandez is an exceedingly shrewd man, before sailing, he already recognized the immense danger within this voyage. Therefore, he spent a huge amount to hire 4 battleships from the 'Paragon fleet' to escort him. After a long voyage covering more than half of the distance, regrettably it was discovered by a British Royal navy speedy sail boat. This piece of information had travelled rapidly and leaked to the British Royal navy warship, HMS Victory that was anchored at Turtuga port. The HMS Victory quickly conveyed this news to the nearby pirates in Turtuga port, reaching a mutual agreement, to set sail in pursue of the Spanish fleet…. ]
[ Due to unforeseen events, the HMS victory has disappeared from this world, but the pirates who had recieved the news about this grand feast won't care if the navy is with them or not and will still attack this big fleet. ]
[ There are many individual contestants and parties who will be participating in this event, at the end of this event, individual performance and party performance will be evaluated and rewards will be distributed based on the performance. All the best contestant no. 1018.]
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Yeah this chapter might seem info dump at the end, but it was needed and the rest of the chapter contains 1800+ words, with info dump it exceeds 2100+ words. But don't worry next chapter is gonna be lit.
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