(Girls' Literature) (Girls' Literature) The plank under him shook slightly, and Harold suddenly woke up from his sleep.

He opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was the thick clouds on the sea from the small window.

It's time for the sun to rise, and the golden morning sun pierces the thick clouds over the sea and sprinkles on the azure sea.

He twisted and accidentally touched the empty wine bottle at the head of the bed, which rolled off the board and rolled around with the jolting of the sailboat.

The bitter morning wind blew into the cabin through the small window, and Harold instantly woke up from the morning confusion.

It had been fourteen days since the ship was embarkation in College City, and York Corral, who had been called over by Harold every day for a drink, had disembarked at a port in the middle of the empire three days earlier.

The voyage went smoothly without storms or pirates, and Harold estimated that he would be able to reach the Elma-controlled port of Redwood Harbor by noon today, where he would disembark.

Harold sat on the bed, his arms on the windowsill, looking out the window at the expansive view of the ocean, and suddenly wondered if the shock that had just woken him up was not right.

Just as Harold was about to put on his clothes and go outside the cabin, the sailboat was hit by another sudden and powerful earthquake, accompanied by a loud "boom".

However, this time Harold was on guard, he immediately put on his clothes, put on his boots and socks, picked up his two knives and rushed out of the hatch.

There is no storm on the ocean, and it cannot be thunder. Then a strong earthquake and a loud noise could only come from the artillery attack of the pirate ship.

Sure enough, upon reaching the deck, Harold spotted a pirate clipper in hot pursuit of the passenger ship on the sea about two nautical miles to the south.

The pirate clipper had just fired its guns, apparently intending to force the passenger ship to stop.

On deck, the sailors shouted for the passengers who had come up from the cabin to return to the cabin for shelter.

The captain was anxiously directing the crew, ordering them to deploy the two small-caliber guns for self-defense on the passenger ship to the appropriate positions.

However, the crew was a little scared of Harold, and he was the only one of the passengers who walked onto the deck.

"The territorial waters of the Salga Empire are infested with pirates, it seems that it is really weakened, and no one cares about the territorial waters!" The captain muttered, and Harold heard the words clearly.

Harold beckoned, "Mr. Captain." You might as well push the ship's baggage and two guns into the sea. ”

The captain of the passenger ship turned around, and after seeing the appearance of the person behind him, he asked rhetorically, "Why?" To abandon artillery now is to hand over the ship to the pirates. ”

"No, two small-caliber guns won't do much. You might as well throw all this useless weight away. A few kilometers further north, we will reach an area frequented by armed merchant ships of the Elma, where we will be able to get rid of the pirate ships. ”

"Irma? Their area of activity is a little further north. Even if we throw away our artillery now, we will have to sail unsuspecting for at least three more hours before we have a good chance of running into their fleet. ”

"Nope." Harold smiled and shook his head. "The navy of the Salga Empire has recently abandoned a large area of patrolling the sea, and it is natural that someone will take on the vacancy in this area. The pirates swarmed like flies that saw a piece of meat. However, the safety of this route is of great interest to the northern seaports, and the merchants of Irma naturally have a reason to expand the scope of the sea area under their control........"

Before Harold could finish speaking, there was a loud trumpet, which came from the north and resounded through the sea.

"It's a boat, there's a ship to the north!"

The sailor who climbed the mast shouted, he was looking around with a telescope, and then he saw the flag of the sailing ship coming from the north, and immediately shouted again: "It's the antler flag!!" From the north, two galleons of the Irma came, six nautical miles away. ”

The captain of the passenger ship wiped the sweat from his head, and he immediately ordered: "Hurry, hurry up and throw away the excess cargo, and the two guns also hurry into the sea." We sailed north with all our strength to join the sailing ships of the Elma. ”

The sailors immediately opened the movable hatch of the ship's hull, and together they pushed the two guns into the sea, and threw the ship's useless boxes and cheap bottles and cans into the sea.

The passenger ship was full sails and sailed north.

The northern galleons also spotted the passenger ship being chased by a pirate clipper, and a galleon immediately fired a yellow flare into the sky, signaling that it would come to the rescue.

"Whoosh!" From the south, there was the sound of cannonballs breaking through the air, and a cannonball fell on the sea only seven or eight meters from the stern of the passenger ship, causing a splash three or four meters high.

The captain immediately went to the upper deck, and he shouted: "Pay attention to the rudder, we take the S-shaped route to avoid the shells." ”

The helmsman immediately understood, and he swung the rudder to the right, sometimes to the left, and did his best to make the sailing ship irregular, but on the whole it was swift to the north.

Harold walked alone to the stern of the boat, and he attached wind magic to the two Hidden Arrows on his forearms.

And he stood on the stern deck of the ship like a god of the door.

In less than three minutes, the pirate clipper opened fire again, and Harold could even see tongues of fire from the corsair's guns.

Harold's sense of sight and hearing worked together, and in an instant, he could tell that the pirate ship had fired four cannonballs in a salvo.

His eyes rolled sharply, his ears pricked up, and in a short time he estimated the trajectory and approximate landing point of the shell.

One of the four shells had a high probability of hitting the hull of the passenger ship.

It seems that the pirates are also impatient, and they do not plan to keep their prey intact this time, probably thinking that after this shooting, they will force the passenger ship to slow down, and it will be a bit rewarding for their own people to rush up and tie up a few meat tickets.

Harold raised his arm, adjusted the angle again, and struck his right fist on the trap of the left arm's Hidden Arrow.

When you touch the mechanism, the Hidden Arrow on your forearm fires instantly, and the Wind Bullet magic attached to the Hidden Arrow also takes effect.

At the moment when the Hidden Arrow was about to reach its maximum range, the wind pressure of the Hidden Arrow just grazed the edge of the shell, changing the trajectory of the shell.

As a result, the Hidden Arrow, which was about to hit the passenger ship, was changed its trajectory and fell into the sea by grazing the starboard side of the passenger ship, stirring up a white wave.

The shot failed again, and the passenger ship sailed a considerable distance north.

The next round of firing by the pirate clipper will be bitten by the two galleons of the Irma, even if it can force the passenger ship to stop.

The pirate clipper immediately changed course, turned its bow and headed south.

When the two galleons saw the pirate ship depart, one immediately turned its bow to the north, and the other quickly rounded the passenger ship and then turned around and headed north.

Two schooners escorted the passenger ship north for half an hour, one after the other.

After this half hour, the galleons of the Irma people blew their horns and signaled to the passenger ship that they would leave and would continue their patrol along the fixed course.

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