The three-masted ship approached.

"Red Scar" and his pirates were almost ready to laugh out loud, the beautiful ship they regarded as prey had no vigilance, perhaps its captain was just a little guy who had heard too much of the bard's poetry and wanted to smell the sea breeze, he had never held a knife or drunk human blood, he knew nothing about the dangers of man and the sea, and only wanted to add a page of glory to his diary— The sailors were walking up and down the deck unobstructed, and some were untying the ropes holding the gangplanks in place and dragging them to the side of the ship, unaware that what they were erecting was their own path to death.

As the leader of the pirates, "Red Scar" has much sharper eyes than other pirates, and can discern the price of "goods" with just one glance, the sailors are strong and young, and can be sold for a good price on the Dragonfire Islands, and the ship doctor can be sold as a slave with special skills, although his height makes "Red Scar" He and one of the men beside him were nearly a head taller than the other sailors, probably northerners, and the men of the north were generally taller and more contoured than the men of the south, and if they hadn't foolishly tried to resist and be killed in the battles that followed, they might have paid much more than the sailors - this kind of cargo was somehow very popular with the lords of the Dragonfire Islands.

"Red Scar" only allowed his thoughts to wander for a moment, but just a moment, the gray-robed ship doctor was blocked by his companion, and when his companion walked away and revealed the "ship doctor" again, "Red Scar" suddenly ran through his back with an icy electric current, and he could even feel his hair stand up straight like the thorns of a sea urchin— The warning signs that had taken him through countless sneak attacks and fights gripped him to the heart, and he didn't think much of it, jerking his body back and rolling on the spot with a non-elegant but very useful one. Hiding himself behind a barrel of water - an act that saved his life.

What Red Scar didn't see was that the Ship Medic, no, more accurately, the Mage Gavin meditated under the Knight's cover and made a spell gesture, all he had to do was "pull the trigger" and throw several hot fireballs onto the strange ship as the Knight got out of sight.

Disguised as corpses, pirates let out shrill screams amidst dull rumbling and whistling, leaping from deck and scurrying around with their blazing flames. Or fall to the ground and roll around, even if "Red Scar" shouted commands, and brandished a knife to kill two pirates who almost set the sails on fire, the pain and fear of being burned by the flames is unimaginable to anyone who has never experienced it, and the humanoid fireball spread to the foremast and the bow of the ship in an instant- The white smoke from the flames made the pirates hiding in the cabin cough impatiently, and they crawled out of the cabin, and several pirates grabbed buckets and poured water on the first accomplice they saw on fire. After a brief period of confusion, Red Scar managed to regain control of the situation, and he withdrew the rune disk, after all, the spells it contained were magically driven. A mage had told Red Scar that the power was getting less and less unless he could ask a mage or warlock to inject magic into it again, but you know. Mages and warlocks, especially spellcasters who are willing to refill a vicious pirate with magic in general, are not a good thing, and they are always paid extremely highly.

The magic in the Rune Disk can create the illusion that Red Scar wants. But they couldn't resist the invasion and interference of smoke and flames, so keeping it was just a joke, although "Red Scar" couldn't understand how they noticed something was wrong.

"Red wine and blood are two very different things," said Xiu, taking the longbow, which was hidden under the chest that served as a bed, and after receiving the captain's hint they found the weapon in the chest, new and smelling of rust grease, "Do they think we don't have noses?"

"Don't make me laugh now, Xiu. Gavin grumbled, muttering as he began to prepare for the next spell.

Gavin was not a ship doctor, he was a Norman exile from the Highlands, and although he was a mage, he refused Dylan Doncleray's generous offer to leave Thundercastle with his companions— Maybe it's because the girl he likes is Xiu's sister, but unfortunately, in the wasteland that spreads for nearly a thousand miles outside Thunder Castle, Xiu's sister was first scratched in the abdomen by the orcs, and then became feverish from drinking the water in the mire, despite Adelle's herbs and the best possible care, the poor girl finally left them quietly at dawn.

Xiu had persuaded Gavin to return to Castle Thunder, or to work for other knights, mages were a rare resource, not to mention a mage like Gavin who had experienced actual combat, he would be treated and cared for everywhere he went, and he didn't have to go with them - Gavin decided to stay, he was willing to stay with them, even though he knew that life would become very difficult for the rest of the day, especially for a spellcaster, the lack of spellcasting materials, scrolls, and ink might make him a mortal.

However, these things were fully replenished in the fortress, and the mage Alva selflessly gave all the help he could, like the whale skin coats that could be used as soft armor, and according to the abundant food, tents, and other necessary supplies sent three times a day, although they had to stay outside the castle, they were even better supplied than Thundercastle, which made them quickly return some of the muscles and strength they had to shrink in their previous exile, so that they could now raise their longbows.

When the smoke cleared, "Red Scar" opened his eyes wide in shock and anger to see what was on the other side, it was a whole line of strong and majestic northerners—he had hoped that there would be as many of such tall northerners as possible, but now he hoped that there would be as few of them as possible, and he had no doubt that they had tasted blood, and that the cold and determined eyes, the motionless arms, the iron-cast fingers, and the neat queue had said it all—"Red Scar" It is almost certain that if there was a sharp arrow with a string on it from one end to the other, it would definitely be able to thread these people together, like fish on a rope.

They weren't sailors, they weren't mercenaries, they were soldiers, and Red Scar had seen the military. The army is arguably the most feared by pirates, and rangers like Colbert and Kerryburn are sharp daggers. The soldiers of kings and lords are an irresistible battering ram, and any pirate ship will be crushed to pieces under such a sledgehammer, even the Sea Devil.

There wasn't much time left for him to think, and the moment the smoke cleared, the arrows of the northerners rained down like a torrential rain, and they had faced fierce and fierce, thick-skinned orcs, so they never kept their strength, and the weapons that were hidden in the box by Colbert were quite elite, and the strings of the longbow were steel wire or cow tendons. The arrows were all triangular steel, which was more lethal than ordinary arrows, and the pirates wore simple soft armor under their shirts in order to disguise themselves as ordinary merchants, which could not resist such arrows at all.

Gavin cast a second spell, a lightning spell, but it didn't work as well as the previous fireballs, after all, the pirates were almost always lying on the ground, at the mercy of the ravages. And they're all in hiding now.

"Drop the springboard!" shouted the knight.

"I still have spells. Gavin argued, "I could burn that ship." ”

"They were ready to flee. "After the illusion was removed, they were able to see the ship clearly—like the new Sparrow, it was a three-masted ship. But the hull was elongated, and the bow was equipped with black, dull iron rammings, and the bow looked like a statue of the devil, with a mouth full of fangs biting human stumps. The hull is painted black, the most common color used by pirate ships, and a pennant sits proudly from the top of the mast. The banner depicts the emblems of Musk and Talos.

Corbett had also ordered his sailors to lower the gangplank, which was hated by countless pirates, and the gangplank prepared on it was the same as the pirate ship, with a large copper nail on the top, and the sailors spun one end of it with the help of pulleys and levers and lifted it high, and the Sparrow rushed towards the ship of "Red Scar", and the lookout at the top of the mast shouted hoarsely to warn everyone of the impending collision - the two ships collided violently in the next moment, but not as "Red Scar" As expected, the ramming horn of his ship pierced deep into the hull of the Sparrow, but the bow of the Sparrow slammed into the pirate ship and thrust it out.

There were fallen men on both ships, but the sailors who clung to the gangplank, although they inevitably crashed into the deck, remembered their duty, and the gangplank with the brass nails was nailed into the deck of the pirate ship with a bang, and now the two ships could be turned into conjoined babies, and no one could leave until the battle was over.

Xiu and his soldiers had picked out their usual broadsword from the chest, and while they were shooting arrows, another weapon lay quietly at their feet.

They jumped onto the gangplank, the narrow plank undulating, but not one of them fell into the water because of the misstep, and one of the pirates shot the last man with a crossbow, and he shook it, glanced nonchalantly over his shoulder as the pirate let out a cheer, pinched the short crossbow arrow, and easily pulled it out and threw it into the deep black water.

There is no suspense about the outcome of the battle, the Normans in the Highlands have faced orcs before, they not only have tough skin, huge bodies and thick hair, the hair is coated with grease and pine resin, and the general sword slash on it will either be biased or bounce off, so the soldiers of Thunder Fort have the strength that soldiers elsewhere do not have. Sharp eyes and quick reactions, often they slash with a sword, compared to the orcs delicate and weak pirates either fly away their heads or their bodies are cut in two, seeing that the situation is not good, some of the more nimble guys in the pirates will also kneel down and beg for forgiveness, what they didn't expect is that these terrible people don't seem to know what mercy is (please forgive them for never seeing orcs kneeling to humans before), and in the end they will only die faster than their accomplices.

When Captain Cobbert's sailors jumped off the pirate ship and found that they had nothing to do, Captain Colbert sighed inwardly and told himself that the pirates would be sent to Cape Castle to be hanged anyway, but he was more worried about the black-haired little mage.

"He's the leader of the pirates. Xiu said, his clothes and cheeks were stained with human blood, and when he walked over to Captain Coubert, the two sailors couldn't help but put their hands on the crossbow at their waists - the heavy smell of blood almost made them vomit, Xiu found out about this, and smiled apologetically at them: "He said," he frowned slightly, "He has something important to report to Master Alva at Cape Castle, about ...... His friend Kerribben, and Master Kremar ......"

"What's the matter?" asked Cowbett.

"Swap!" "Red Scar" miraculously did not suffer any injuries, and he saved himself well: "Swap!" he trembled and shouted viciously, "My life, and my ship!"

"No way," said Cowbett, "your ship will sink and you will be hanged." ”

"Or now," Xiu said, "and save money on a piece of twine." ”

"Is it more important than the life of Alva's mage friend?!"

"What do you know?"

"I know you, you are Corbert, swear to your god Suron, and then to Styx. "Red Scar" said nervously, the scar on his face glowing red, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have said anything, and Master Alva would have to wait to pay his respects to his friends." ”

"Give me a little time," said Xiu, "and I can make him remember when he was a baby before dawn comes." ”

"Red Scar" laughed when he heard this, "Before dawn?" he mocked, "You don't have to wait until then, just cook a pot of broth, and everything will be over." ”

"I swear. Colbert said.

"Include everybody. "Red Scar" said, "I don't want a bunch of people to shoot arrows at me after my ass." ”

"Only today. Colbert said, "I can prevent them from chasing you." ”

"No kidding, seven days," Red Scar also knew that it would be impossible to keep Colbert and his friends from pursuing him forever, "Seven days, at least, don't bargain with me, Alva's friends don't have much time to grind." ”

"Seven days," said Corbett, "but don't fool me, you won't want to know the consequences—you won't be hanged, but I'll give you to him." He looked at Xiu. "My new friend is ingenious, you won't want to try it. ”

"Red Scar" cursed, "Alright," he said, "the Golden Lady and the Sea Devil are heading for the side islands." (To be continued.) )