This light fell on Angel, and she couldn't help but take two steps back, unwilling and unable to disturb the sacred scene as if she were making a law.

When the words of the ancient Phosak appeared, the aura of majesty that appeared made her almost kneel and worship.

Angel knew that this was not something that Anne did on purpose, but a trace of power that spilled out when drafting the "contract", but this fraction of power alone made it impossible for a Sequence 5 extraordinary person to even look directly.

Anne, or "Queen Anne's Revenge", is it really just Sequence 4?

Doubts began to flow through her mind.

The light faded, and several lines of substantial gilt writing were fixed in the air in front of Anne, listing several contract terms.

For five years, Angel will be the interim commander of the Queen Anne's Revenge, and will receive the help of the ghost ship that is not beyond its capabilities, and Angel will not be allowed to use this authority to involve it in dangers that can harm its own existence, and Anne and the ghost ship will not deliberately act against Angel.

As a corresponding obligation, Angel needs to do his best to improve his sequence. Over the course of five years, once she is promoted to the ranks, she must return to the "Queen Anne's Revenge" and attempt to use the "Calamity" spell with maximum power, at a time specified by Anne, and once the ship is successfully destroyed, Angel will receive that "Judgment" card, as well as the extraordinary trait left behind.

Other detailed clauses stipulate that the parties shall not disclose the contents of the agreement to a third party at will, and the contract will be automatically terminated if one party dies.

In the end, Anne added an add-on: during the contract, Angel needed to help her find Russell's eldest daughter, "Bernardette".

Knowing the dangers of the "Devil's Contract", Angel read these terms repeatedly, and even asked Anne to write them again in the Rune language she was most familiar with, forming a bilingual document to ensure that the contract had no obvious loopholes or unfavorable terms.

Acute, she spotted a problem with the terms: the timing of the use of "scourge" after promotion was specified by Anne, which meant that she could request a postponement or even abandonment of her "self-destructive" behavior.

Although she couldn't explicitly disobey the orders of Russell the Great, she was shaken to seek death when she learned that Bernadette was still alive...... Angel smirked and glanced at Anne, who was standing still.

Of course, the terms are not simply beneficial to the other party, and the "automatic termination of the contract upon death" is a way to get out of Angel without Anne's knowledge.

After all, it is still too rare to come back from the dead.

"How do I sign the contract?"

After double-checking, Angel breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Anne behind the glittering golden text.

"A drop of blood is enough."

The latter replied softly, and his face once again regained the indifferent smile of the first sight, and he no longer sought death excitedly, nor did he become sad in the memory.

Angel slashed her fingertips with her fingernails, and a drop of bright red blood floated up in an invisible force, approaching the lines of Gufsak and Runn, absorbed by the golden words, and then, her name appeared in the lower right corner: Angel Granger.

It's not Angelica...... Angel looked at the other signature spot, where the names of both Anne and Queen Anne's Revenge appeared, indicating that both she and the ship had to abide by the contract.

After the two sides signed the payment, these words burst out with a golden glow that was even more powerful than before, and quickly coalesced into a light as bright as the sun, illuminating the ghost ship in the spirit realm and the two people on deck.

In the light, Angel felt layers of indescribable but powerful binding restrictions appear in her body, and at the same time, she formed a solid connection with the girl in front of her and the ghost ship under her feet.

Previously, she had only felt similar when she made a vow with the power of a holy relic in the presence of Her Excellency Sesima, the Sword of the Goddess, but this time the power of the "contract" was stronger and more ostentatious than that kind of secret and invisible connection.

The girl in front of her was also shrouded in the same brilliance, which made her originally golden eyes shine even more, and the expression on her face became relaxed.

"The contract is complete."

She muttered, as if convincing herself.

Angel also felt a sense of relief, at least for five years, the "arbiter" could not easily do it to himself, and the two even formed a relationship similar to an alliance.

"Why not the captain, but the interim command? Are you still ......?"

Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Anne.

"It's okay to know it in your heart, you don't have to say it." The incarnation of the ghost ship had a somewhat strange expression, but quickly returned to normal, "Do you want to go deep into my body and take a look?" ”

I always feel that she has become a little weird under the influence of Russell the Great, and she doesn't even have the reserve of ordinary women, well, it seems that I am not qualified to speak of her, after all, she is just a boat, and I am ......

Angel muttered to herself, and was about to say yes, when she suddenly noticed that Anne's expression had become serious, looking to the side of the ship.

The guns on the deck were haphazardly placed as if they had come to life, and they quickly gathered to the side of the ship, entered the gun mount, fixed themselves, and held their barrels high, pointing into the air.

Where they were aiming, a black shadow quickly floated in the cascading color patches and gray mist of the spirit world.

After seeing the comer, Angel immediately shouted:

"Stop attacking, that's someone I know!"

Anne had already squinted at the figure in the height at this time, raised one hand, and took aim, but when she heard Angel's command, she frowned and lowered her arm.

The figure approached quickly, Mr. Azik, wearing a shirt and trousers, a bronzed complexion, and no top hat, with one hand on the wet Klein's shoulder, and the other hand had dissolved into nothingness, in which the breath of death and destruction surged wildly.

His brown eyes looked straight at the girl on the deck, who had her head tilted, her white neck exposed, her golden pupils shining with strange colors.

"Archon of Death!"

A shrill shout came out of her mouth, mixed with an emotion never before seen when talking to Angel: anger.

"I didn't expect to see you after the Pale Plague, the Byron Empire has been destroyed, the Grim Reaper you believe in has fallen, this raging ocean is his burial place, this is the end of provoking war!"

Looking at Azik and Crane floating above the deck with dazed faces on their faces, and feeling the rising anger on Anne beside him, Angel felt bad in his heart.

You won't have the same situation on the Black Death where Caterina knew Azik, but Azik didn't remember anything...... And according to the time when the "Queen Anne's Revenge" was built, it should have survived the "Pale Plague", and it is very likely that it participated in the war against the Reaper army as a member of the Northern Continent, and even fought with Mr. Azik......

"Wait, Annie, stop attacking, this is, order!"

She reacted to the fact that Anne, who saw the enemy, was afraid that she would not hesitate to attack, and immediately opened her mouth to stop it.

"He's lost the memories of the Quaternary and doesn't pose a threat to you."

Thinking of the terms of the contract that had just been signed, Angel added.

Anne, who had black hair and no wind and was almost off the ground with her bare feet, did not answer with a cold face, but all the guns on the deck aimed at the sky did not fire.

Azik, who was being targeted, also did not move, and Crane, who was floating beside him, seemed to understand the current situation, and looked at Angel without anxiety, only tenderness.

After a long stalemate, Azik spoke:

"I'm sorry, I have almost no memory of the Pale Calamity, but I still remember you, the ship to be precise, the Black Reaper, and I didn't expect you to survive to this day, like me, an old antique."

His right hand, which had become ethereal, returned to its normal form.

Mr. Azik has seen the essence of Anne? Fortunately, he admitted that he did not have a specific memory of that time, otherwise I don't know if a contract would have been able to bind Anne who wanted revenge...... Angel cautiously looked at the girl beside her, and saw that the other party was still looking up at the sky with a straight face.

Slowly, the guns on the deck lowered their heads and no longer pointed at the "Archon of Death" in the sky.

……

"So, this ghost ship belongs to you now?"

Looking at Anne, who was standing on the side of the ship not far away, looking at the endless spirit world outside the ship, Crane asked quietly.

"For the time being, and we are in a cooperative relationship, not subordinate, she actually belongs to the dead Russell the Great...... By the way, no matter how low our voices are on the boat, she should be able to hear them. Angel hadn't learned him to keep his voice down.

"Russell the Great...... No wonder the ship had such a strange name, it was, indeed, something he could do. ”

"yes, I think the name looks a lot like a ...... Ahem, not so much like the name of a battleship. ”

Both of them quietly looked away, not daring to look at each other.

"In the Quaternary Period, the 'Black Death' was a very famous warship, even the spirit creatures had heard of its name, and it was not at all that the spirit creatures in this vicinity dared to appear."

Azik on the side interjected.

"I don't call that bad name anymore!"

In the distance, Anne's voice was still indignant, causing all three of them to look stiff.

It seems that she still has a grudge against the Grim Reaper and against Mr. Azik, the "Archon of Death...... Angel glanced at Anne, who had turned her head again, and proposed:

"Let's get out first, this ship shouldn't stop us."

With Mr. Azik present, it should be unlikely that the plan to visit the ship will go ahead, and looking at Anne, who may have an emotional outburst at any moment, Angel decisively decides to leave the spirit world immediately.

"Wait!"

Annie, who seemed to have looked away, said again, running halfway across the deck with smooth feet and coming to Angel, whose behavior was quite inconsistent with the identity of the "Black Death" made both Azik and Angel force the corners of their mouths, only Crane remained indifferent through the control of the "Faceling".

Ignoring the expressions of several people, Anne stretched out her right hand, and a drop of golden blood quickly oozed from the tip of her index finger, floating in the air.

There seemed to be countless flashes of brilliance in the blood, and just looking at it made Angel feel dizzy, and she just wanted to give up thinking and bow down.

"It has been preliminarily sealed, and further sealing it with your method of sealing extraordinary materials and properties will allow me to locate you at any time, and vice versa, you can also contact me, and if there is danger, you can call for help through it. I need to reconnect with the real-world hull here, and I'm not going to leave anytime soon. ”

Anne said indifferently, and immediately turned her head away, no longer looking at the three men, especially Mr. Azik.

Fortunately, I prepared a lot of containers before I came to the desert island, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to hold it...... Angel hurriedly took out a metal bottle and filled it with this drop of golden blood, building a simple spiritual wall to completely isolate it from the outside world.

In the next second, she felt the air under her feet, and the "Queen Anne's Revenge" was sinking at such a rapid speed that the three people above were suspended in the air, and Mr. Azik immediately held one of them on the shoulder with one hand, protecting her and Klein beside him.

Below the three of them, the ghost ship with a pitch-black body quickly disappeared into the cascading color blocks, turning into a black that could not be seen, and disappeared from the sight of the three of them.

"Let's go, I'll send you back to Byam first."

After a moment of silence, Mr. Azik said, carrying Angel and Crane in the other direction.

(End of chapter)