Old Hans took most of the non-combatants and ordinary sailors to work in the docks.

Salman led more than 30 members of the main battle to stay in a nearby hotel called Rosemary.

When Byron found him in a separate compound, he had just gone in a rage to chase away a warbler with heavy makeup.

"Phew, ignoring my charm, I don't think you can do it."

As they passed by, Byron turned a deaf ear to the woman's muttering and walked in without squinting.

After saluting, he explained to Salman the plan for the renovation that had been approved by Old Hans.

"Haha, Mr. Byron, I was not mistaken.

Although I don't know how to build a ship, I can see the potential of this new sail layout, and let the old Hans do it. ”

"Don't listen to the rumors on the ship, what is the position of a mere first mate?

Wait until the [Maneater] recruits and expands its personnel, grabs the second pirate ship, and truly becomes a pirate group.

You, Byron Tudor, will be my first captain! ”

As expected, when Salman saw this pirate ship renovation plan, he accepted it with great peace of mind.

But he was given no reward other than verbal encouragement.

"The captain is overcredited, and that's what I should do.

All for me, I for all, glory to the collective.

Compared with the overall situation of the pirate group, what is the gain or loss of my personal interests?

I'm going to move to the dock tonight after I've made you vermicelli scallops, braised prawns, and haggis soup with dark beer.

Supervise their work to make sure nothing goes wrong. ”

Byron was very "big-pictured", and without hesitation, he ate the flatbread painted by Salman, and even offered to put a burden on himself.

"By the way, I'm going to study Bloody Mary's Gourmet Recipe again while I have time.

The recipes above were really eye-opening, and there were more recipes than I could tell, so I missed them first. ”

After saluting respectfully, he turned and pushed the door open.

Looking at Byron's distant back, Salman, who began to suffer severe pain even before night, couldn't help but sigh deeply:

"The big picture, the big picture, what an exemplary crew member who takes the overall situation into account, ten thousand times stronger than the other crew members on the ship combined.

The more time passes, the more I feel inseparable from you.

How I wish I could find another good enough chef to be eaten by [Recipe] in your place, but my 'curse' can't wait. ”

If you weren't very sure that the other party wasn't a transcendent of a certain sequence.

He almost thought that this noble deacon was in fact a loyal knight who strictly adhered to all eight virtues and knightly proverbs.

At the moment, the mood is a little complicated, not only hoping to get the [Blood of Transmutation] soon, but also hoping that Byron can hold on for a long time.

The slower he is eaten by Bloody Mary's Gourmet Cookbook, the better the quality of Blood of Transmutation, and the more hopeful it is to help him out of his misery.

"Mr. Byron, you can't blame me for taking care of the overall situation so much, right?"

Unfortunately, this pirate captain, who only clumsily imitates the aristocratic demeanor, but has never learned the essence of aristocratic intrigues, does not know.

In this world ruled by the aristocracy and the law of the jungle, only those with vested interests will talk about "taking care of the overall situation" all day long.

If the person doesn't look like a vested interest on the surface.

Then he... It must be the big picture!

......

The clock was fast approaching evening.

In another corner of the pirate port, cloaked groups of people stepped out of their inn and joined the drunken flow of people in the streets.

Like countless pirates who linger in the sound and lustful places, they are not at all inconspicuous.

Stop at the seashore across the street from the Rosemary Inn and hurried into a run-down-looking windmill.

The huge windmill was spinning in a "squeak", and the noise it made completely muffled the whispered conversation of the group.

They were clearly cautious.

Arriving at the humble second floor of the mill made of wooden planks, the captain of the White Crystal, [Magic Mirror] West, immediately ordered his crew to clean the place thoroughly.

He leaned over to the window and looked condescendingly at another building not far away.

"Finger Monkey, is that there?"

There was an extra sword mark on his ugly face, and the short young man who looked more and more hideous immediately nodded:

"You can't be wrong, the brother who watched it double-checked, and it was the Rosemary inn a street away from us.

The distance in a straight line will not exceed a hundred meters, and here your spells can be used to their strongest power. ”

As they spoke, a few pirates they had brought with them had already swept the second floor clean.

Even with special potions, the broken wooden boards were polished to a shiny one, so that West, a heavy cleanliness addict, couldn't find fault at all.

"Okay, you don't need to stay here, everyone go out and be on guard, don't let anyone come and disturb my ceremony."

[Magic Mirror] West waved his hand and told the Finger Monkey and the rest of the crew to go downstairs.

He carried a canvas bag and arranged the ritual on the ground.

The essence of most forbidden knowledge is ritual witchcraft.

Through specific rituals, one's spirituality is connected to certain rules of the world, spirits, unknown higher beings, and so on.

The temporary retreat of the self-consciousness causes the spirit to resonate with the high position, and unleash powerful abilities that transcend one's own limitations and even those that oneself does not possess.

West first used sea salt mixed with white crystal powder to draw a pentagram on the ground.

In addition, five ritual candles of red, blue, yellow, green, and black are placed in the five corners, corresponding to fire, water, wind, earth, and the spirit of the fifth element.

He took out five bottles of plant essential oils with different symbolic properties and placed them in front of him.

Deer hoof grass, symbolizing: protection, healing, demon breaking.

Absinthe, symbol: spiritual power, protection, spiritual body calling.

Stink, symbol: legal event.

Mugwort, symbol: psychic power, prophetic dreams, starlight projection.

Wool grass, symbolizing: love, hunting.

Finally, he placed a half-human-high silver mirror in the middle of the pentagram, knelt down in front of the mirror, and slowly entered a meditative state.

By the time the bustling sounds of the pirate city outside had died down, the time had crept on.

[Magic Mirror] West's eyes suddenly opened, and the silver spiritual glow in his pupils illuminated the second floor of the mill.

"It's time."

Take out a silver lighter and light the ritual candles on each of the five corners.

The essential oils of the five herbs were also dropped on the flames of the five candles.

Phew——!

Spiritual winds swept through the mill, forming an invisible barrier from exploration on the occult plane.

The stinky stunk, a symbol of the "legal incident", is in effect, and the laws of Iron Anchor Bay have lost their most basic control over the area.

He took out a "blood-stained" white cloth from his canvas bag, which was the trophy of the monkey.

Alcohol evaporates much faster than water.

By the time the Assassin Monkey sprinted all the way to his captain, his body temperature had almost evaporated the alcohol.

The blood of transmutation dissolved in the wine and the blood of Salman with Bloody Eyes remained, only with a faint taste of alcohol.

Even West, who has a severe cleanliness fetish, is unaware of the anomaly.

After all, pirates smell of rum, shouldn't it be a normal thing?

Soaked in rose hydrosol with a white cloth, a perfect circle with fragrance and bloody smell was drawn on the surface of the silver mirror.

The entire second-floor space suddenly cooled down.

Although the candles were lit, the silver mirror quickly dimmed until it was pitch black, as if a shadow was rolling in another world behind the mirror.

The scenes in the surrounding mills were twisted and collapsed into the mirror by the light of the candles, as if they were all being pulled into the mirror.

West's expression remained unchanged, and he recited in Rune:

"The Magic Mirror tells me, where is my enemy?"

Three times in a row.

In the depths of the darkness that was so thick that it could not be dissolved, a pair of bright silver eyes suddenly opened.

That's a demon in the mirror!

Just as [Blood of Transmutation] is the core of the various [Blood] recipes of the same series.

All the means of [Magic Mirror Divination] are also based on this [Mirror Demon Spirit].

The moment he made eye contact with the demon spirit in the mirror, West's eyes closed and his body limped and fell.

The effects of the other four herbal essential oils: Spirit Body Summoning, Starlight Projection, Hunting, and Demon Breaking are presented in turn.

In the rich aroma, the [Demon Spirit in the Mirror] suddenly took on a humanoid form.

It flickered like a frame skip and plunged into the depths of the mirrored world.

In fact, it is a transit in the mirror world, entering another mirror across the street!