Chapter 62 - Alchemist

Edited by: Tony_Stark_3000

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Next morning

Sheyan's eyes moved a little before opening up.

Sheyan looked around and found himself tied up between two red heads, memories about last night surfaced, he had gone really crazy last night after those sucti... Ahem.

"Time to get up, got work to do." Sheyan muttered to himself, Charl and Krist opened their eyes too.

"Both of you get ready too." Sheyan spoke to them with a smile.

All three of them got up from the bed and clothes appeared on their bodies again.

Sheyan walked out of the cabin, Krist and Charl followed behind.

"Aye! who will be our target today!"

"Hahaha just choose any big ship at random, no one is our opponent anyway."

"Yes as long as the captain is with us, we are invincible hahahaha."

Pirates hollering instantly rang in Sheyan's ears as he appeared on deck.

"Looks like you all are really energetic." A calm voice rang in the ears of hollering pirates.

Everyone fell silent for a moment before everyone looked towards the direction of the captain's cabin simultaneously.

"Captain! You are awake."

"Long live captain."

Pirates quickly greeted Sheyan with their enthusiasm practically leaking out of their voice.

"Okay be quiet, I got something to say." Sheyan waved his hand and spoke with a smile.

Everyone quietened up and waited for Sheyan to speak.

"Today I will be going to Turtuga port to deal with some things, 50 people can follow me." Sheyan spoke slowly.

"Captain let me follow you." Mongor the muscular pirate instantly stepped up and spoke while giving a British bow.

"You can decide who will follow between yourself, it isn't some important stuff anyway." Sheyan replied.

Mongor nodded then looked behind at the pirates with a sharp gaze as if saying 'I will be following the captain for sure, you all can fight for the other 49 spots.'

"Captain, I have something to report." At this time, Dory the young pirate came up and bowed towards Sheyan.

"What is it?" Sheyan asked.

"Last night after captain went inside the cabin, we defeated one more ship, and took in 15 new members and corpses of the dead pirates had been placed at the back of the ship, all the treasure found on that ship is also placed there." Dory spoke as clearly as possible.

"Hmm good job, but didn't I tell you that all of you can divide the treasure of the next pirate ship you attack between yourselves." Sheyan nodded in satisfaction before asking.

"Captain, loot distribution should be done only when captain is present, so we waited for captain." Dory replied while bowing even below.

"Oh is it, no problem I will distribute the loot personally then." Sheyan replied after nodding in understanding.

"Except this, there is one more thing captain, a small pirate group came to us on their own initiative and requested to join our pirate group, their captain even took out all his treasure willingly to join us." Dory continued.

"Oh where are they?" Sheyan asked with interest, a pirate group surrendering on its own that's interesting.

"Sir they are still on their own ship behind us." Dory replied.

"Okay let's go and meet them while I distribute the loot." Sheyan nodded and walked towards the back of the ship with Charl and Krist.

Pirates quickly followed behind Sheyan and the girls.

Sheyan came to the back of the ship and saw 17 corpses lying there on one side and 3 treasure chests on the other side, there were also five pirates standing guard beside the loot.

When the pirates saw Sheyan they quickly bowed and greeted Sheyan.

Sheyan nodded at them and came to the corpses first.

Other Pirates also came at this time and saw Sheyan taking things from the corpses once again.

"I don't know how captain makes these useless things into mysterious treasures." A pirate mumbled.

"Captain is a god, his methods how can we humans understand." Another pirate replied with a fanatic look in his eyes.

Pirates who heard his words nodded in agreement.

Sheyan finished looting the corpses for unique storyline equipments then came to the treasure chest and opened them, two of the chests were filled with guineas while the last one had 3 wine jars inside it. Sheyan lifted the chest containing guineas and weighed it.

"Each of you can take 80 guineas each, if there are still guineas left in the chest after all of you get 80 guineas then each of you take one more guinea and keep doing it til nothing is left." Sheyan spoke while looking towards the pirates, each of these chest could hold atleast 5000 guineas and Sheyan's current pirate group had 120 members, so Normally 83 guineas for each person should divide this loot almost equally but he wasn't sure both of these held exact 10000 guineas so he asked them to take 80 each.

Pirates looked stunned, none of them could believe their ears at all after some time they came back to their senses, their eyes shone with fanaticism once again as they looked at Sheyan.

"Captain's generosity is as big as this sea." Pirates exclaimed loudly.

In this era, pirates usually get only 5 or so sterling after looting a ship and that is if the target of their loot is some big merchant ship otherwise getting 2 3 guineas is already the best outcome since most of the loot goes into captain's pocket, then the second one to get the most loot is ship's first mate then navigator of the ship, other pirates get their share only after the upper rank of the group has gotten their loot.

Yesterday they defeated 11 pirates ships, Normally they would have gotten 50 or so guineas at most, but looting other Pirate ship wasn't some daily thing, after all other pirates weren't some lamb waiting to be slaughtered, attacking other pirates always resulted in casualties, defeating 11 pirates ships is a feat to behold even for a large well known pirate group let alone for this small group of Pirates and they didn't suffer a single causality.

"Okay, now call those pirates." Sheyan spoke while pointing at the ship swaying just a little bit away from them.

"Yes sir." Dory answered loudly still excited from the excessive share in loot.

"Actually, just deal with them on your own, tell them they can join us, I am going to the Turtuga port, 50 of you take your loot and quickly follow me." Sheyan spoke after thinking for a moment.

He didn't have much time in this world, time allotted of his main mission 'Known pirate' was only 24 hours, he arrived in this world at 5 pm yesterday, he had to become the captain of a legendary ship before 5 or he would fail his mission.

Normally such a mission will never be given to a mere contestant, even for a 'Limit breaker' this mission would be difficult after all a deadline of only 24 hours is too short for such a mission, after all to become the first officer of a ship, one need to be trusted by the captain of that ship, attaining this trust in just one day is too difficult.

This Mission fell on Sheyan because the nightmare realm is never partial, it calculates all the attributes of a contestant before allotting a mission, total number of Sheyan's current attributes has already exceeded all the contestants, only a limit breaker could be compared with Sheyan and nightmare realm should have calculated the strength of his two servants too before allotting this mission.

But the nightmare realm never gives an impossible mission, even if Sheyan didn't have the cheat of another overpowered system at his disposal and the abilities he got from that system, there would still be a way for Sheyan to complete this mission.

"Aye aye captain!" Pirates answered Sheyan and quickly dealt with the loots.

Sheyan stored the chest with wine jars inside his storage.

After 5 minutes, Sheyan came to the side of the ship with 50 pirates behind him.

They boarded three small ships and rowed towards the shore.

After some time, they reached the shore and Sheyan once again stepped foot on the Turtuga port.

"Go and ask around the locals if they know about an alchemist and if they do then where does he live." Sheyan instructed the pirates.

Pirates quickly spread around to ask about the Alchemist.

'This alchemist appeared in the original novel, he has many magical abilities but the most important point is a contestant can go to this Alchemist and upgrade his weapon and equipments as long as he have enough Guineas or utility points.' Sheyan thought to himself.

After Sheyan waited for some time, pirates soon came back and shared the information they got.

"Captain there is an alchemist called Peigan, his workshop is at the east end of the port." Dory who has also followed Sheyan to the Turtuga port replied as soon as he came back.

"Good, let's go there." Sheyan nodded and asked Dory to lead the way.

Under Dory's lead, Sheyan and the pirates followed the motley flagstones as they walked towards the east end of the port.

After walking for a while the group reached its destination, Ahead of Sheyan lies a typical house that an alchemist would stay in. Its covered with dense windows which would allow the poisonous gas to rapidly disperse outside through it. The pointed roof which provided an enlarged attic which almost certainly where the materials were stored. The surrounding mottled and chaffed walls suggested that fire was common here, but it seemed that the fire was extinguished as fast as starting it up.

Mongor went ahead and knocked on the door of the house. A burst of fluttering wing sounded from the inside before the door opened silently, it produced no such creaking sound that Mongor was expecting, welcoming him was an owl inside a beech wooden birdcage hung in front of the door. It tilted its head, using a pair of emerald pupils to stare at Mongor.

Sheyan came to the door, Mongor made way for Sheyan and the ladies to enter first and followed behind them.

An old man wearing a pointed black hat was sitting 5 metres away on an experiment platform at the back. Hearing the sound he raised his head, he looked through the filthy test tubes which contained dark green sediments, assisted by the combusting spirit lamp and glanced at Sheyan's face.

Sheyan's high charm and his undisguised aura did its work and the old man immediately stood up and came up to Sheyan.

"Esteemed lord, what brings you to this humble one's dwelling" Peigan gave a flattering expression and spoke while rubbing his palms together.

"I heard about your ability that you can strengthen the weapons." Sheyan replied with a smile, he remembered that in the original novel, Sheyan's charm always stayed all time low, almost all the storyline characters treated him like a nuisance, even this Alchemist Peigan almost chased him out when he entered the house for the first time but now this Alchemist was revealing such a flattering expression to him.

"Yes yes my lord, you came to the right place, let me show you the pamphlet of the services this Peigan's humble adobe can give you." Peigan replied and quickly looked around before taking out a yellowish paper and handing it to Sheyan.

As Sheyan held the paper a notification rang from the nightmare Imprint.

Sheyan opened the notification.

[ Welcome to the laboratory of the grand alchemist Mr. Peigan, every equipment enhancement effect can only exist on one item, incapable of coexisting with other alchemy effects of additional enchantment(Magic) effect. ]

[ You have the privilege to obtain the following alchemist services:

Enhancing 11 equipment damage. (Payment of 100 guineas or 1000 utility points.)

Defense enhancement of absorbing additional 1 damage ability. (Payment of 100 guineas or 1000 utility points.)

Enhancing 20 points of movement speed for your footwear. (Payment of 500 guineas or 5000 utility points.)

Enhance firearm class equipments to add an additional round chamber. (Payment of 1000 guineas or 10000 utility points)

(This enhancement nature to submachine gun class firearms is worthless, however in this world of manual muskets, it is definitely an essential upgrade)

Presently you can only acquire services up to here. ]

Sheyan read the notification and checked the enhancement available.

'Some of the storyline characters with unique identities are affected by the nightmare realm or one can say, are arranged by the nightmare realm, such as this Alchemist, for this type of storyline characters, a contestant can pay with utility points to attain their services.' Sheyan thought to himself.

'Luckily the only thing I don't lack is utility points.' A big smile appeared on Sheyan's face as he thought of this.