The pirate leader was a little surprised to see that Blade didn't pay attention to him, but looked at Stephanie with an inquiring expression.

He didn't expect that the woman who almost died in his hand just now turned out to be the person headed by the other party. He turned his eyes in his heart, immediately turned his head and smiled at Stephanie, and said, "This beautiful lady, I offended a lot just now, please forgive me!"

Stephanie snorted, ignoring the apology on the pirate leader's lips. She knew that if it weren't for the sharp blade showing his hand and making the pirate leader jealous, otherwise there would be no apology, and it would be good if she could get out of the way.

For this insincere apology, Stephanie simply scoffed.

However, the group of pirates in front of them not only have artillery warships, but also the pirate leader's martial arts are also extraordinary, so it is obvious that they have a lot of background.

Although the two sides had an unpleasant quarrel just now, the four Stephanies are now bent on getting out of the Palm Island, so they have to rely on this group of pirates. Judging from the current situation, if you want to rob the artillery warships of this group of pirates, the strength of your own side does not seem to be enough. In this way, it is imperative that there is no dispute with this group of pirates as much as possible, and that they take the opportunity to leave the Palm Island in their artillery ships.

The pirate leader was testing the details of Stephanie's people, and Stephanie was also trying to find out the bottom of this group of pirates, she immediately asked, "Where are you from?"

Hearing Stephanie's question, the pirate leader frowned: "Aren't you from the South China Sea countries?"

The countries of the South China Sea in the mouth of the pirate leaders refer to more than ten large and small island countries scattered throughout the South China Sea.

"We are indeed not from the South China Seas, we are from the Northumbered continent!" Stephanie said coldly.

"I see!" the pirate leader laughed darkly, "No wonder you didn't know who we were when you saw the skull markings on our clothes?"

Now it was Stephanie's turn to frown. Listening to the pirate leader's words, they seem to come from a group of pirates with a great reputation. However, she only knew that many pirate groups on the sea liked to use skulls or skull shelves as markers, and she didn't know what was different about the skull marks on the pirate clothes in front of her!

"Boss Stephanie, the pattern under the skulls on these guys' clothes is not a crossed human bone, but a crossed double knife!" Ward reminded Stephanie as if he remembered something.

Double Blade?

After Ward's reminder, Stephanie had a flash of inspiration, and the name of a legendary pirate giant who had crossed the seas suddenly came to her mind.

Because, the weapon used by the legendary pirate giant is a pair of twin knives.

"You're one of Rod's men?" exclaimed Stephanie.

"Yes, we are members of the 'Ocean of Dry Bones' pirate group under the command of Lord Rhodes!" The pirate leader said gloomily, "My name is Sema, and I am the commander of the Fifth Fleet of the 'Ocean of Dry Bones' pirate group! If you are willing to stop wading into this troubled water, our 'Ocean of Dry Bones' pirate group will not be to blame for the past! Otherwise, what will be the consequences of offending Lord Rhodes, I guess I don't need to say more, right?"

Stephanie fell silent.

In the past few years on the southern coast of the Byzantine Empire, Stephanie has heard of Rhodes' murderous reputation from time to time.

This well-known 'One Piece' is not only powerful in his own right, but also an eleventh-level powerhouse, and the 'Ocean of Dry Bones' pirate group under his command has gathered tens of thousands of people!

Rhodes once led the pirates of the 'Ocean of Dry Bone' pirate group to capture several small countries in the South China Sea more than once, coercing these small countries to pay tribute to him! At the same time, he also led the 'Ocean of Dry Bone' pirate group to fight several times with the Federation of Valencia, the most powerful country in the South China Sea, regardless of victory or defeat! First Chinese Network

In the last war with the Federation of Valencia, when the 'Ocean of Dry Bones' pirate group was about to be defeated due to the unfavorable initial battle, Rhodes broke away from the pirate army alone, single-handedly broke into the island Pearl Island, where the capital of the Federation of Valencia is located, and then entered the Valencian Palace in Red Coral City, forcing the Valencian Emperor Carlos VI to sign an alliance under the city, ordering the Valencian army on the front line to retreat, and finally single-handedly turned the entire tide of the war.

Stephanie asked herself that she couldn't afford to provoke a murderer like Rhodes no matter what!

Just as Stephanie was hesitating about Sema's request, a sharp voice suddenly came from one of the artillery battleships stationed in the waters near Palm Island!

"These landers must be killed, not left alive!"

As the sharp words rang out, a figure rose from the artillery battleship and flew in the direction of the Palm Island.

After the figure flew over the Palm Island, its figure suddenly fell downwards and stood beside Semar.

With a triangular head and a wide mouth, he was a shark of the Shakui tribe of the sea tribe. He had a staff in his hand, and judging by his outfit, he was supposed to be a magician. And since he was able to cross such a distance, he could hear the conversation between Stephanie and Semir on the beach from the artillery battleship, and it was obvious that he had used some kind of magic.

"Lord Vekirafa, it's you! It turns out that this conspiracy to collude with the Terran pirates to assassinate the princess was planned by your Demon Shark Clan!" Hans, the crab man officer, exclaimed in surprise as his face changed dramatically when he saw the shark man magician.

Princess Lucia's eyebrows twisted unconsciously.

"Hmph, that's right! This time it's true that our Demon Shark Clan intends to assassinate Lucia, and in order to avoid suspicion, we Demon Shark Clan can only spend a lot of money to invite these pirates to handle this matter! Now that you know about it, what can you do?" Vekirafa said with a sinister smile on his face.

Hans couldn't help but sink in his heart when he saw that Vekirafa had confessed to assassinating the princess so readily.

Obviously, Vekirafa must have the intention of killing everyone on Princess Lucia's side, so he would be so fearless. Only then would he not worry about the leakage of the information that the Demon Shark Clan was the main messenger behind it.

"Why are you Demon Shark Clan doing this?" Lucia asked in a cold voice as she glared at Vekirafa with her mouth open.

"It has been thousands of years since the mermaid clan founded the Longines Empire with your Haige family as the core, and then ruled the South China Sea, and now it's time to change the dynasty! It just so happens that the Haige family has reached your father's generation, and the people are thin, and there is only one daughter like you! This is clearly God helping my Demon Shark Clan!" Vekirafa said triumphantly: "We don't need an empress in the South China Sea! As long as you die, no one in the mermaid clan can rightfully inherit the unification, then your merfolk clan will definitely fall into chaos because of the battle for the throne!" At that time, our Demon Shark Clan will have the opportunity to take advantage of it and replace you merfolk clans, establish a new empire in the South China Sea, and become the royal family of the new empire at the same time!"

"Our mermaid clan is the descendant of the sea god, the clan of the heavenly family! you demon shark clan wolf son ambition, actually want to rebel?" Lucia heard Vekirafa's words, and immediately shocked and angry: "No wonder after Erwin became the new patriarch of your demon shark clan, your demon shark clan often disobeyed your father's will!" Elwin's mother is the sister of the current Emperor of the West Sea Tifna Empire, was Erwin favored by the Emperor Tifna, so that he wanted to emulate the betrayal of the Merfolk by the West Sea Demon Shark Clan and subvert the rule of our Merfolk Clan in the South China Sea?"

"Your Royal Highness the Princess, Wise!" Vekirafa laughed and said, "His Majesty the Emperor of the Tiffna Empire has promised Lord Erwin that as long as your merfolk clan is in turmoil due to the death of the rightful heir to the throne, he will send the army of the Western Sea into the South China Sea to help Lord Erwin seize the throne!"

"Aren't you afraid of luring wolves into the house and being taken over by the Tif's nest in the West Sea and annexing the South China Sea?" Lucia snorted coldly, "Among the four major sea empires, Emperor Tifna's heart to cut land is the strongest, but because the West Sea is close to the most powerful dragon territory among the land races, Emperor Tifna has never dared to send troops to march from the Western Continent to attack the land! Emperor Tifna has sent envoys to my father several times, asking for a way to cut down land through the South China Sea, but my father has refused!" Because my father knew that Emperor Tifna had always coveted the fact that the South China Sea was more abundant than the West Sea, and that the South China Sea was close to the prosperous south of the land race, if he sent a large army into the South China Sea on the pretext of using the excuse, he would definitely stay in the South China Sea, take the opportunity to annex the South China Sea, and then launch a land attack from the South China Sea! At that time, the South China Sea has become a battlefield for us to fight against the land races, and the entire South China Sea tribe will surely be miserable, and the people will not be able to make a living!"

Vekirafa was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he smiled and said: "Your Royal Highness, you don't need to sow discord anymore! Emperor Tifna and Lord Erwin are uncles and nephews, how can he annex his nephew's country? As for the matter of cutting down the land, our people are naturally happy to see it happen, so why can't the two join forces to cut down the land?"

"Lord Vekirafa, what you said is really light, if the battle of land cutting is as easy as you said, our sea clan will not never really succeed! In what battle in history did our sea clan not succeed in the end?" At this point, Lucia cleared her throat, and then said in a mocking tone, "A few years ago, your Demon Shark Clan sent troops to attack the hot sand port of the Beamon Empire without authorization, didn't you lose your troops and return defeated? Even your Demon Shark Clan's Holy Demon Master Hillis died on the battlefield in vain! ”

Vekirafa was ridiculed by Lucia, and his eyes suddenly surged with murderous intent, and he sneered in his mouth: "Princess Lucia, the lower officials have already told all the reasons why our clan assassinated you, even if you are dead now, you should be blind, right?"

After saying that, Vekirafa suddenly shouted: "Commander Sema, do it!"