Chapter 106: The Sailor Is Not Old
"Thank you for saving us, but I can't agree to your request, offending Curcos means that you have no chance with the sea, although you have an advantage over him on land, but when you get to sea, it is completely his home field, your spells may hit the sky in the bumpy waves, and his artillery can hit you from a distance of thousands of meters, and he doesn't even need to make direct contact with you to send you to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.
Therefore, I can't take you to death. β
Sylvia sincerely thanked Lear and explained in detail what power Kurkos had at sea, but her rejection of Lear was unwavering.
"If you say so, you won't have to go to sea again? β
Lear smiled noncommittally.
"I have my own way. β
Sylvia turned her head away from Lear, but her sluggish eyes revealed the confusion in her heart, her trusted sailors and first mate were killed and wounded in this battle, although she still had a sea ship, but she could not support it with only one bare-bones commander left, and as Lear said, after completely offending Kursko, it was difficult for her to have a foothold on that sea.
Unlike other pirates, Kursko is not alone, and his gang of pirates has even formed a faction with the Kraken Kraken, whose kingdom is entrenched on a huge island in the deep sea, and calls themselves the Port Clan.
And even among the vast port clans, Kursk is famous, and the reason why he failed this time is simply because he is careless, so the next time he meets at sea, those crazy witches will also wipe out Lear's mage advantage.
"In this way, I did find the wrong person, originally I thought I met a female knight of the sea, but I didn't expect it to be a cowardly female pirate, so don't say goodbye, there will be no time in the future. β
After saying this, Lear turned around and left, of course, he didn't hide his disappointment and disdain, and at the same time he was a little self-deprecating, pinning his hopes on this Christine's future little lover is really a joke, and he may really have watched too much of the background plot and ignored one point, that is, when he came to this world, everything was slowly changing.
Whether it's a person or a story, the trajectory is no longer the same.
"Please wait. β
Behind him, Landrig's voice came, and Sylvia looked at the man beside her in surprise, with her understanding of Landrig, she naturally understood what he wanted to do at this time.
"Huh?"
Lear stopped and turned his face slightly, but he didn't immediately turn around.
"May I venture to ask why you are so insistent on going to sea, and so insistent on Sylvia's assistance, as far as I know, you have never seen her before, and she is not well known on land. β
Landrig asked with a solemn face, he gently pushed away Sylvia's hand that was holding him, but because of this action, many wounds on his body were involved, and some liquid in the darkness immediately gushed out from all over his body, and the severe pain only made him frown heavily, but he didn't even make a muffled snort, Lear saw that a blue light flashed on his hand, and Landrig felt that the injuries on his body began to heal at a rapid speed.
Lear healed him.
"Fame, power, wealth, all these things that I can't get on land, I want to get in that ocean, it's not as simple as you think, I need more, at least enough to build a town, so I need a place to stay, an island, I don't mind fighting or even war, as long as it gives me what I want. As for why I need this, I can't tell you yet. What, are you going to join?"
"With all due respect, I've never seen a young man like you, you have ambitions and strength that don't match your age at all, it had nothing to do with me, but now you saved our lives, although I originally planned to leave the sea and live the rest of my life in peace, but I can't bear such a great kindness and choose to live in secret, so if you don't mind my useless old bones, I can help you, but I'm not joining, until the day I feel that I have repaid your kindness, I will leaveγ β
Landriger looked calm, as if he wasn't talking about something that would put him on the brink of life and death again in order to repay the favor of saving his life, and the tone sounded more casual, "Let's go, let's go this way".
"You're crazy! You insisted on leaving when I begged you so bitterly, and now you have to go back to your old business in order to repay your kindness, don't you say that you are tired of the sea and fighting, we can choose another way to repay the favor, there are so many sailors on this sea, I can even give them my ship, if your decision today is that you still want to take risks, then why did you leave us so firmly in the first place! And you have been away from the sea for so many years, do you know that it is completely different there?"
Sylvia was suddenly agitated, for Landrig had made a decision without warning, and it was clear from her concerned look that they had worked together in more than just a boat.
"That's different, if it weren't for today's events, I might have been guarding that tavern until I died of old age, although I left that sea, but I haven't lost the sailor's spirit and ancestral teachings, let me bear the life-saving grace and choose to steal my life instead of repaying it, it's better to kill me, and don't forget, even if you are now called the "Daughter of the Sea", but your navigation skills are still taught by me, I am old, but it is still a little useful, how about young man, are you willing to accept my advice?"
Smiling and explaining to Sylvia, Landrig finally asks Lear for an inquiry, the firelight jumping in his face like a great sailor who stood under a lighthouse in the beginning.
"Welcome to the Crazy Ride. β
Lear smiled and held out his right hand to Landrig.
A large, time-scarred hand and a sparkling magical palm met in the air, then clasped tightly, their shadows cast by flames on the ground at their sides, looking like a gateway to a new world.
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Three days later, the city of border passes.
As the main city of the Earldom of Palrington, not only does the Earl himself live here, but also has the largest dock in Eri outside the city, and unlike the other two lords, the Earl of Parrington also conducts maritime trade, so although his strength is not the strongest among the three lords, it is the richest, and as long as he has money, it is only a matter of time before he becomes the strongest.
Lear: Their destination is the shipyard.
It was impossible to go to sea without a solid sea ship, and Lear still had to go across the sea instead of doing business, and coupled with the already potential established enemy port clan, according to his original idea that a whole battleship would not be an exaggeration, but after inquiring about the price of a large frigate, he had to give up this idea - a medium-sized merchant and guard dual-purpose ship with four guns on the left and right would cost as much as 10,000 gold coins, and the displacement was only a few tons.
His current full fortune is only a little more than 30,000, plus he still needs to recruit sailors to buy supplies, and he will consume half of his family before he goes to sea, which means that when he successfully occupies an island, he basically has nothing to do.
As for the use of those precious resources in his hands to monetize, it is even more impossible, if he still wants to build his own power, those resources are more valuable than gold coins, otherwise the Earl of Parrington will not be able to build a cloud city with a mountain of gold.
Fortunately, these things were not difficult for Landrig, and he soon contacted a second-order dealer and bought a merchant ship that had been damaged in the storm for five thousand gold coins, and it was also equipped with two small cannons - this kind of thing was currently only popular among pirates and caravans, because of its complex operation and insecurity (if one is not good, it will be blown up), and even the Earl of Parrington himself only symbolically placed a few doors at the head of the border city, so this terrible killing weapon did not flow into the Central Plains to be used in war.
Everyone was used to magic and trebuchets, but when Lear saw the two black creatures in front of him, the weird smile on his lips clearly indicated that he had something different.
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