Chapters 78 - Sword fight

"I am a snow fairy." Sheyan spoke as a sweet and innocent smile adorned his face.

"Snow fairy?" Cater Beckett repeated back in confusion.

"Yes." Sheyan replied and nodded with the sweet and innocent smile still adorned on his face.

"Damn you, Doesn't matter if you are a fairy or a monster since you dared to go against the empire then die!!!!" Cater Beckett hid his fear and confusion behind anger and cursed.

Cater Beckett once again gripped his sword tightly and eyed Sheyan sharply.

Sheyan glanced at the sword in Beckett's hand and lifted his palm upward.

"Let's see how strong the weapons made of ice are." Sheyan muttered and operated his ice powers.

A chilly air exuded from his palm before small crystals of ice appeared in the air. Those small crystals grew longer and thinner as they slowly merged together and an icy long sword appeared in Sheyan's hand.

Sheyan glanced at the icy sword and waved it lightly in the air.

Water particles in the air froze as Sheyan waved the sword and small icy crystals fell down on the floor.

Cater Beckett looked at this scene with trepidation and decided to attack without wasting any more time.

Beckett rushed at sheyan quickly and slashed his sword at Sheyan's neck.

Sheyan looked at the incoming sword and also slashed back with his icy sword.

*CLANK*

Both swords clashed together and made a loud metal colliding sound.

Sheyan and Beckett both took two steps back and stabilized their figure.

Sheyan glanced at the icy sword to see if it cracked.

'Hmm nothing happened to it, looks like it's as strong as any other real sword.' Sheyan thought.

"You are strong." Beckett spoke.

"But..." Beckett continued and once again rushed to Sheyan.

Beckett pulled his sword back and slashed at Sheyan vertically.

'Too slow' Sheyan thought and moved the icy sword above his head to block the incoming slash.

A smirk appeared on Beckett's face and he gripped the sword tighter and his attacking speed increased.

"You are not strong enough to contend against me!" Beckett muttered and stopped his attack before it touched Sheyan's sword and changed the attack trajectory to the downward right side, when his sword appeared directly proportional to Sheyan's neck he once again changed the trajectory of his sword and slashed to his left targeting Sheyan's neck.

Sheyan's pupil dilated and his expression turned serious. He made full use of his agility and quickly bent his elbow and flicked his wrist to position his icy sword to his left.

*CLANK!!!*

Once again the two swords clashed and made a loud sound.

Cater backed away after the slash and looked at Sheyan seriously.

"I underestimated you." Beckett spoke.

"That was a good attack." Sheyan replied.

Sheyan and Beckett held their sword once again and got ready to attack.

'Let's end this now.' Sheyan thought and gripped his icy sword with both hands and placed his right foot ahead of his body.

"Hah!" Beckett rushed at Sheyan once again and slashed horizontally at Sheyan.

Sheyan glanced at the attack from the corner of his eye and bowed down to dodge the attack as he pulled his hands backward so that wrist were resting at his waist making his icy sword point forward.

Beckett's eyes flickered and the horizontal slash suddenly stopped in the middle and turned into a vertical slash to attack Sheyan's head.

Sheyan felt the change in attack pattern without even looking and smiled.

'Saw this coming from miles away.'

Sheyan placed his weight on his left leg making him bent down on his left knee, his upper body fell to left side, successfully moving out of the sword's attack trajectory.

Before Cater could react to the sudden change, Sheyan's hands holding the icy sword pushed forward.

*Puchi* *Pak*

Sheyan's sword pierced Cater Beckett's heart and came out of his back while Beckett's sword landed on the wooden floor.

"You-" Cater Beckett opened his mouth to speak but blood gushed out of his mouth and blocked his words.

Sheyan pulled out his sword from Beckett's body and stood up.

Cater grabbed his chest to block the blood from leaking out but the blood kept gushing out his chest and mouth.

"Farewell and thanks for the ship." Sheyan spoke and dissolved the icy sword.

*Plap*

Cater Beckett fell down and slowly closed his eyes.

Sheyan operated his invisible arm to collect three unique Storyline equipments and the loot key from Beckett's body before turning around to go back to the main deck.

'That wasn't bad, I should fight with different weapons every once in a while lest my skills start rusting.' Sheyan thought.

'From the test just now, ice ice fruit is much more practical than fluid state, although it requires a large amount of stamina while fluid state doesn't require any stamina at all but fluid state can be used only 3 times a day while elementalized state can be used any time however much I want as long as I have stamina to spare. And If all my stamina gets depleted I can still turn on Fluid state to become invincible against physical attacks for 5 minutes.' Sheyan analysed.

'The structures made from ice are also very hard and won't break easily at all, I should develop this power in my free time.' Sheyan thought and soon appeared on the main deck.

"Let's wait here, those guys should be enough to deal with the rest of the people on the ship." Sheyan muttered and walked to the ship's bow and stood there to enjoy the sea breeze.

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In the lower deck.

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

Ten pirates stood in front of a door and shot at the door.

"Shoot to the left and the right." A pirate spoke.

*BANG⁶*

"My turn." A tall man with big muscles spoke and kicked the door heavily.

*BOOM*

Door sprung open and the tall man quickly rushed inside and ran to the other side of the room.

The other people stood at the door and looked inside vigilantly.

*Rustle*

Three people wearing soldier uniforms emerged from different corners with flintlock muskets and aimed at the tall man.

But before their muskets could fire, the pirates standing at the door pulled the trigger of their guns.

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

All three soldiers dropped down with bloody holes in their bodies.

"Hahaha Captain is really a god, by following the captain's word we already killed three groups of these sneaky bastards without any problem." The tall pirate laughed loudly.

"Hahaha, let's hunt more of these bastards, we will present their corpses to captain later." Another pirate spoke happily.

After speaking, all of them rushed towards the next room.

Same scene was happening everywhere on the lower deck, by using the simple strategy taught by Sheyan, pirates were killing soldiers hiding in the rooms on the lower deck just like harvesting crops.

Gunshots of pirates and screams of soldiers rang all around the ship for a full thirty minutes before everything fell silent.

In thirty minutes, Pirates managed to kill all the soldiers.

"Jiejiejie, captain's formation is really great, we really managed to kill all of those sneaky fuckers without losing a single brother." An old pirate spoke.

"After all captain is a god, how can his words be false." Another pirate spoke with a fanatic look in his eyes.

"Let's take these corpses to the main deck for the captain." Another pirate spoke.

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On the main deck.

Sheyan was looking at the ocean and enjoying the sea breeze when suddenly his nightmare imprint glowed and notifications rang in his ears.

[ You have defeated the crew of a legendary ship. ]

[ You have achieved a legendary feat. ]

[ You receive 50000 utility points. ]

[ You receive 50 potential points. ]

[ You receive 10 Achievement points. ]

[ You receive 50000 reputation points. ]

[ Your current reputation status among pirates is legendary 20000/50000 ]

[ Main mission: A known pirate is completed. ]

[ You can submit the mission any time you want and return to the nightmare realm in 5 minutes or you can stay in the world for the rest of your stay period. ]

[ You have achieved the hidden milestone 'Pirate Ringleader'. ]

[ You receive the title 'Pirate Ringleader'. ]

Sheyan looked at the long line of notifications and checked them one by one.

"Except reputation points, other rewards don't pique my interest at all." Sheyan muttered to himself.

"One more milestone achieved, For the rest of my stay period, my main focus will be to complete as many milestones as possible." Sheyan spoke after reading the notification about the title.

"But nightmare realms rewards are always consistent with the risk factor, although I managed to defeat this legendary crew easily but for other contestants it would be almost an unachievable thing and the reward given right now is very minute compared to the risk." Sheyan spoke his thoughts and looked back.

Suddenly his eyes fell on a decorated door of a cabin.

"Ohh so that's how it is, the real reward for defeating a legendary crew is the treasure and equipment you can get from the ship and the legendary ship will also belong to the person who defeated the crew. That's why my main mission got completed on its own since right now I am considered the owner of this legendary ship or captain of this ship." Sheyan analysed and a smile appeared on his face.

*Plak*

Doors leading to the lower deck opened one by one and pirates came out while carrying the corpses of soldiers.

They neatly placed the corpses on the msin deck before moving to the side of the ship, ready to jump in the sea anytime.

"Captain, we have dealt with the soldiers hiding inside the ship and all of the bodies have been brought here." Billy spoke to Sheyan after all of the pirates came out.

"Sir we are back too." Charl Krist and Sheryll also came back and stood beside Sheyan.

"Good job." Sheyan nodded at Billy.

"You three go search that cabin and bring anything valuable you find inside." Sheyan turned to the girls and spoke.

"Yes sir." Girls answered and moved towards the cabin pointed by Sheyan.

"All of you, I think you already know what to do, so be quick." Sheyan turned to pirates and spoke.

"Aye aye captain." Pirates answered and quickly jumped in the ocean and swam a little further away from the ships.

Finally Sheyan turned to the corpses lying on the deck and operated his invisible arms to loot the keys and unique storyline equipments.

After sometime, he managed to loot all the corpses and the girls also came back while carrying some things.

"Sir, We found three silver storyline equipment inside the cabin, a chest filled with golden series guineas and this treasure map." Sheryll reported, since she is a contestant she could easily identify the equipments along with their rarity.

"A treasure map?" Sheyan took the things from the girls and stored them inside his storage except the treasure map.

"I don't know where it leads to but it was inside the travel dairy of the ship and when I touched it I received 1 achievement point." Sheryll replied.

"1 Achievement point just to touch it... Then what will we receive if we found the treasure this map is showing." Sheyan spoke in surprise.

"It should be very valuable." Sheryll replied with excitement.

"Okay, let's deal with this later, you three take the small boat and pull a little distance from the ships." Sheyan stored the map inside the storage too after looking at it for a moment.

"Why? What happened sir?" Sheryll asked in confusion.

"You will find out in a while, seeing it with your own eyes is better than listening to my explanation." Sheyan replied with a smile.

"Okay sir." Sheryll answered and walked towards the small boat although still confused about what Sheyan wanted to do.

Charl and Krist followed her too and boarded the small boat before letting it down in the sea.

Sheyan looked on as they rowed away from the ship.

"Now, it's time for some fusion." Sheyan spoke to himself.

'Although Scarlett has already been strengthened to the maximum degree and cannot be repaired anymore but HMS victory hasn't been strengthened at all so it shouldn't be a problem to repair the HMS victory with Scarlett.'

'I don't know how strong this ship will become after this repair hehehe.' Sheyan thought as he glanced at the two ships floating alongside each other.

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Again a lil bit late but here it is, I won't be posting for the next two days now because I got to prepare for the oral tests. ✌️