Chapter 44: Scarlet Dawn
As the light of dawn pierced the dark sky, Rhodes and Caroline woke up from the rickety cabin. The Flying Giant staggered like a drunk on spirits. Inside the cabin, the deck was tinkling and clanging. The screams and screams of the crew could be faintly heard.
"What's going on out there?"
Caroline casually grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on her body, asking curiously.
"I don't know, it looks like someone is hijacking the ship. ”
The Talon Sea and Kislev Bay were often infested with Norscar pirates, and Rhodes was not surprised. It's just that I was extremely lucky, and I actually encountered pirates the first time I went to sea. In addition, there is a witch who can't cast spells around, and it's like the existence of an oil bottle.
"You stay here, I'll wake up Lawrence. ”
Rod said, carefully pushing the door open, just in time to meet a crew member running through the hallway in a panic.
"What happened?"
Rod grabbed him and asked.
"Devil!
The crew member panicked, his face covered in blood, and before Rhodes could finish asking, he ran away. Demon...... Usually the crew of the empire referred to the Norscar pirates as demons, and Rhodes guessed that nine times out of ten, he could not be wrong. Just as he was about to knock on Lawrence's room, the Jungle Ranger ran down the hallway.
"Pirates, my lord, are pirates, the ship has been hijacked, and the lifeboat has been controlled by the pirates. ”
Apparently, as a master of scouting, Lawrence detected the danger before Rhodes, and immediately after the hijacking, he jumped out of the room and went to the deck to observe the situation.
"How many?"
Rod asked, frowning.
"Dozen, if not more. ”
Lawrence replied breathlessly. Although there were more than fifty men on board, they were beaten and fled by pirates who numbered less than half of them. Rhodes could only sigh that the pirates of the north and the commoners of the empire were really two different species......
"What do we do now?"
Lawrence asked, surprised to see a man standing behind Rod - the Frost Witch he had seen earlier on the shore.
"Go out and see where they're going to take this ship. ”
Rod spoke.
Blood flowed down the corridors of the aisles, and outside, the sound of fighting became more and more obvious, it should be said that it was the sound of slaughter, and Rod's keen hearing could barely hear the sound of any weapons clashing, only the sound of flesh and blood being torn apart by iron weapons.
Soon, they were on deck.
The entire ship was almost slaughtered. The captain and his first mate were shivering as they were tied up in a corner by a group of bare-armed pirates. They were covered in blood. On the deck, the burly pirate warriors were dragging corpses into the sea. The blood behind him was like a staggered ribbon plastering the deck.
Seeing that there were still three fish that slipped through the net, the pirates directly surrounded them. Sharp spears and sharp swords pressed against the throats of Rhodes and his party. They spoke their own language, and the lead pirate soon approached.
He had a fat face like lard, a thick beard that stretched from the corners of his mouth to his cheeks, and his hair hung down like straw on his face, and it was stained with fresh blood because of the killing. Lawrence's weapons were quickly confiscated, as was Rod's longsword, which was confiscated as trophies.
The pirates waved their weapons excitedly, as if they had picked up a treasure, and in fact, compared to their weapons, Rod's sword was indeed considered to be of the highest quality.
Unlike the others, perhaps because they felt that the identity of Rhodes and his party was suspicious, the pirates did not immediately execute them. After all, if they tie up some noble children, they can get a good ransom. Lawrence and Rod don't look expensive, but they are also very human. The sharp two-handed broadsword proves that they caught at least one knight. It's just that knights generally have subordinates, but this captive, this man, doesn't seem to have subordinates......
"Aristocrats. ”
"Pirates. ”
The pirate captain walked up to Rhodes with a cold eyebrow and called out in a disdainful tone. Unexpectedly, Rod responded with the same pronunciation. They stared at each other like two beasts. It's just that, at first glance, Rhodes is unarmed and seems to have no possibility of resisting.
"Tell me, weak reptile, where are you from?"
The pirate captain continued to interrogate. Rhodes noticed that their emblem was a raging saber-toothed tiger. It's safe to assume that these men are the Norscar pirates. Their strong arms are even as thick as the thighs of southern humans, and their violent and predatory character is fully revealed. While the pirate captain was interrogating Rod, another crew member was cut in two and thrown into the sea. Like killing a fish, blood flowed all over the deck under Rod's feet, and the thick smell of blood permeated his nostrils, which was disgusting.
But what Rhodes has experienced is far bloodier than this, and such a picture is nothing. He just stood up straight and replied calmly - "Kislev, the Great Wall of the North." ”
As soon as Rhodes finished speaking, all the pirates who were slaughtering the crew immediately turned their heads and glared at him. Lady Keighrie is a sworn enemy of the Norscans. The Kishley Lady hated the Norskar for invading their homeland, and the Norscans hated the Kiskar for slaughtering their warriors and children. These two people are incompatible. Rhodes wasn't unaware, but he wasn't going to compromise with the pirates.
"Get on your knees! Tell your origins, your family, your territory, or I will slit your throat and throw you into the sea to feed the fish. ”
The pirate captain roared. His face was hideous, as terrifying as a sea beast.
However, just halfway through the cross-examination, the Norscar pirates behind him seemed to have discovered something new. They circled around Caroline, interested in her fair skin and slightly bulging breasts.
The Norskas were robbers and rapists, and Rhodes knew that Caroline was a Frost Witch and that it would not be difficult to deal with three or two pirates. But she promised Rhodes not to cast spells outside of Kislev.
"Girl, girl, captain!"
Suddenly, a Norscan pirate shouted in an excited and obscene voice as if he had discovered a new continent.
It was already obvious to Rhodes that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and just as the two pirates were about to attack Caroline, Rhodes struck. He roared and slammed into the Norscar pirates beside him, smashing his eyeballs with a punch before they could react. Blood and slurry spurted from the eye sockets of the obscene pirate.
The other two pirates who were close immediately pounced, and they hugged Rhodes like tigers, and Rod roared in anger and forcibly threw the man who was holding him to the ground. A sharp axe slashed from above, but Rhodes only nimbly dodged it, drawing the dagger from the pirate's waist and stabbing him in the head.
In an instant, three Norscans, as strong as oxen, fell at the feet of this human nobleman, and everyone was blindfolded, and the pirate leader immediately drew his battle axe and slashed it with a roar.
This wild blow seemed to Rhodes to be ordinary, he stepped slightly sideways, and the tomahawk with a skull head fell against Rode's chest, and the moment the tomahawk fell, Rod roared and clenched his fists to attack. An iron fist slammed into the pirate leader's face. In an instant, blood and broken teeth flew out of the mouth of the Norscar pirate captain.
The pirate captain was bloodied, but took a step back and immediately fought back, drawing his battle axe, the massive battle axe in a wild arc in the air. Rod bent out of the way as a strong fist slammed into his lower abdomen. At the same time as the other party screamed, Rhodes had already flashed behind the pirate captain. A pair of arms thicker than the Norscans grabbed the neck of the pirate leader.
Only the sound of bones shattering could be heard in the air, and the Norscar pirate leader had his neck broken by Rhodes...... The corpses lay on the deck like dead fish. The whole process happened so fast that people didn't even see what was going on. All they knew was that their leader was dead, and in less than a minute, four pirates in a row fell at the hands of this bare-handed northern human. The atmosphere on the field was tense to the extreme, and they stared at Rhodes, motionless, except for the sound of beastly gasps and the rolling of the waves......