"Humph, some fucking pirate captain you are to lose your crew to some snobby northern kid. They are practically naked after crossing the void line"
Marina snickered, showing her disappointment in Packard 'Chameleon' Crain. His defeat brought great shame to all the other pirate captains serving Pirate Lord Corey 'Witch' Drachen, one of the three Pirates Lords.
The Pirate Lords controlled most of the southern sea. They practically ruled the ocean as well as the many islands in the sea. The three Pirate Lords had combined naval power higher than the southern continent kingdoms, hence, the senate avoided crossing them even though the pirates kept plundering many merchant ships.
Each Pirate Lord had several pirate captains serving them. The pirates who don't serve anyone such as the Silent Reaper were called the rogues. The pirate captain serving a pirate lord was free to plunder the rogues as they wished. If a pirate captain serving a pirate lord attacked another pirate who served another pirate lord, the pirate lords would investigate the attack until they found the wrongdoer. The wrongdoer would then get the punishment called the sinner's funeral. This was the only time one could see the pirate lords appear together in their ships.
No one got the sinner's funeral in the last hundred years which showed that the pirates could follow the rules unlike the Southerners believe. One could even say that the pirates had a miniature version of democracy within them.
Just like the sinner's funeral, no outsider has killed the pirate crew of a pirate lord in many decades until Michael massacred them mercilessly. Which was the reason Marina appeared to avenge the crew under the orders of Pirate Lord Corey. In the hierarchy of pirate captains, Maria stood at the top. She was one of the most feared pirate captains of the Southern sea.
"Captain Marina, he was not normal. How could a normal human being heal himself just like that?"
Pachard had been blabbering running his mouth about Michael's healing ability to everyone on the witch island. The matter even reached the ears of Corey herself. To see if Packard's been telling the truth, Corey ordered Marina to capture Michael alive.
"Let's see if he can heal like you said when I'm done with him " she crunched her knuckles with an evil smile on her face. Something sparkled in her eyes.
"Is this gonna be another disappointment?" Marina asked herself.
They were sailing towards Ross's ship without an idea of Michael following them from above.
"Remember our task at hand maggots, we want the one called David alive. The rest of them could go to hell"
"Aye aye, captain" the muffled cries of Marina's pirates reverberated the ship.
The pirates quickly moved towards their posts to start the ambush. The three galleons began to circle Ross's ship, they were going to flank the ship in a triangle shape.
"Don't kill them" Michael glanced at the two ships in the near distance, telling Gaya to take care of them.
"You sure you don't want me to kill them? It's no fun" she pouted before flying towards the two ships. For a few moments, he just kept hovering over Marina's ship before slowly descending from the sky.
"Huh? What is that?" The pirate standing on the crow's nest noticed a black figure moving towards them. He couldn't clearly identify the object due to the darkness.
"A ghost?" the pirate's hands shivered as he slowly reached for the lantern hanging on the wooden pole. He wanted to light the lantern to see the object in light.
But before he could light the lantern, the object got too close to the ship. Since the pirates firmly believe in superstitious things, the first thing that came to his mind is the ghost.
"Ghost!" the pirate screamed until his throat hurt. Immediately Marina's gaze turned towards the crow's nest. The word ghost made the other pirates shudder in fear.
"Intruder!"
When Michael landed on the deck, they could see that they weren't dealing with a ghost but another human being.
"Are you looking for me?" they only heard his voice. The night's darkness prevented them from clearly seeing his face.
But that changed when Michael conjured his green alchemy flames in his hand. The green flames were bright enough to light up the entire ship.
"It's him!" Packard pointed his finger at Michael, screaming frantically because of the sudden fear he just experienced.
"How...how did he?"
"Fire"
"What kind of fire is that?"
"Where did he come from?"
Many questions were running through their heads after seeing him suddenly appear on the deck before them. Marina left the helm while a pirate in her ship lit a lantern to signal the other two ships to stop.
"Well well well, I'll be honest. I have no idea how did you manage to come here but I'd say this, you have some balls"
"Two actually" Marina saw no fear on his face. He leaned on the wooden pole leisurely while the green flames somehow hovered beside him lighting the ship jade green.
Even from standing ten meters away from him, she could feel the heat being emitted by the orb of jade-green fire. Marina slowly walked down the stairs adjusting her shirt.
The pirates slowly reached for their cutlasses before unsheathing them. Michael still remained calm because no matter how many cutlasses or crews they have, he could defeat them with a couple of wind blasts.
He was curious about what Marina could do. The pirates looked so afraid of her and Michael wanted to know why they are for a woman without any weapons.
"I've been hearing some weird things about you kid. It seems some of them might actually be true" Just like Marina saw no fear on Michael's face, he too saw no fear on her face which surprised Michael.
"I bet that armor of yours will fetch us a nice amount of gold. After all, that's the least you can do for us for dragging me this far"
"Didn't he say I literally crushed his crew to death?" a hint of fear emerged in Packard's eyes when Michael said that. He also noticed some pirates clenching their teeth in anger. He figured that there might be some relatives among the pirates he killed.
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