The Count of Renault stood leisurely on a merchant ship, watching the waves hit in the distance.

This is the open sea, the lifeline of the Emerald City.

Here, the battle between humans and aliens, between humans and deep-sea fishmen, is fought here almost every moment.

He was once here, as a small soldier, and unexpectedly became a full-fledged professional, a waning knight of revenge.

On the battlefield of bloody battles and brutal deaths, relying on the characteristics of a revenge knight, he gradually grew up and became a high-level professional at the cost of decades.

This is the end of the dream of the vast majority of professionals, who can enjoy the glory and wealth and explore the higher secrets when they become famous.

Count Reynolds hated his delusion and withdrew from here and returned to the Emerald City to become a Captain there.

At the same time, he accepted the canonization and became a noble earl.

But in the rear, although he became a master, he was in a safe and stable life all day long, and his strength did not improve much, and he spent decades in a state of confusion.

He is more than 100 years old this year, and he is still very young, and the life span brought by high-level professionals is as long as 500 years, and he still has a lot of time.

But his strength has not improved, it is a piece of his heart, he sometimes dreams of returning to the open sea to fight, in danger and fear, strengthen himself, bring more power.

The open sea is an extremely terrifying place, and it is not safe for high-level professionals here, and many accidents can kill a high-level professional.

However, this is only the starting point of the open sea, and it is still very safe.

Only human fleets patrol here, providing safe shelter for merchant ships.

All the way. No one found that Count Reynaud was a noble and high-ranking professional, and he did not dare to go out and be recognized at will.

High-level professionals are a very important high-end combat force in the open sea. Any high-level professional who has not reported is immediately hostile. and even under attack.

Because it is very likely that alien races and deep-sea fish-people have changed into human appearances, and it seems that they have mixed into human society to carry out sabotage operations.

Historically, such acts have been carried out many times, and human beings have suffered a lot of losses, so that a whole set of emergency response systems has been formed.

Count Renault has not dared to go down to any island along the way, not only the central island will have such a system, he has not been to the open sea for a long time, and the island has added a detection system. He himself didn't know.

In order to avoid such detection, he had to jump ship before he could enter the island, and he would not climb back up until the merchant ship left the island.

Although nothing happened when he was detected, he was a real human nobleman, and it was not a big deal to explain what was going on.

But in this way, his information will be exposed immediately, and the purpose of his coming here will naturally not be achieved.

He was sure that the bunch would come over and stop him!

Count Renault came to the open sea. It's for one person.

Link? Ex!

This upstart he once wanted to kill, but was saved by the old dean of the Warlord Academy!

Yes, nouveau riche!

Count Reynaud could clearly see that this Link was just an upstart. The feeling of throwing out a lot of money is no different from those people who are rich in the Emerald City.

But that Count Dracula is going to stop himself!

Count Renault had no way, at that time. The other high-level professionals are basically graduates of the Warlord Academy. It is bound to sell the old guy's face, even if he vetoes the other party's request. Nor is it supported by others.

Moreover, the other party also moved out the title of War Lord, as well as the Jade Grand Duke.

So Count Renault could only admit it, drop a cruel word and leave.

If there is no accident, Count Renault will grit his teeth and suffer this loss.

But unfortunately, there was a big accident.

Because Count Renault had already made a declaration of revenge, he impulsively used this ability the moment he saw Link.

The Declaration of Vengeance is the core ability of the Vengeful Knight, and it is also a necessary skill to gain power after completing revenge.

If you declare revenge on a hated target, you will inevitably kill the target, thus achieving the end of revenge.

If you can't kill the other party, the revenge declaration will always remind yourself and speed up the revenge plan, if you can't achieve the revenge plan for a long time, the inner impulse will become bigger and bigger, until you can't control yourself and lose all your sanity.

This is also an important reason for the gradual decline of the Vengeance Knights, not all of them can complete the revenge declaration, and the Vengeance Knights who have lost their minds and died occupy the majority.

And before that, there will be more losses due to the loss of the vengeful knight's mind.

Therefore, there are strict rules on the use of the Vengeance Declaration, and the Vengeance Knight needs to build a detailed and sufficient plan with the help of others before he is allowed to perform the Vengeance Declaration.

To use it without permission is to make a big mistake, and Count Reynolds may lose his most important position as commander.

So he didn't dare to say that he had used a declaration of revenge against Link, he could only resist the impulse in his heart and leave with hatred.

In the days that followed, he made frequent mistakes under this impulse, until a month later, he could no longer bear this urge and made up his mind - to kill Link and complete his declaration of revenge!

As long as you can kill him quietly, it doesn't matter if you are found out afterwards, after all, a person who has not taken an oath is not worthy of so much attention.

And he is a high-level professional, and his importance is much higher than him.

Count Renault tightened his grip on the railing, took a deep breath, looked at the island in the distance, and wondered how to get closer.

He didn't know where the islands in the open sea where the War Lord was trained.

But based on the detailed groping and side-knocking in the past month, he also got a few rough areas.

It's a big deal that he carefully touches and arranges, and it won't take a few days.

The other party is just a high-level apprentice, plus a few strong professionals, but in front of the power of no high-level professionals, he is an invincible existence.

It may not take much time after meeting to achieve your goals on your own.

After quietly leaving, he returned to the Emerald City, unaware, waiting for the news of the other party's death to come out.

After a wave continued to crash, a merchant ship's escort passed by, but he didn't pay attention to Count Renault, who was beside him, and after a while, Count Renault's figure shook and disappeared silently.

At this time, the merchant ship gradually approached the nearby island, and after the whistle sounded, the docks of the island began to be busy. (To be continued.) )