Chapter 82: Dancing with the Sharks
"My crown ......," wailed Vajkel as he rested on deck. My Crown......"
"I know, Your Majesty." Manlin Victor assures him, while his undead dwarf retinue keeps an eye on the pirates. After salvaging as much as possible from the wreck and resurrecting their dead minions with the power of the Victor's Cup, the adventurers spent hours in that devil's triangle with no coast in sight. "We'll buy you another one!"
"It's better to be you, minion!" After the pirate kindly "gifted" the captain's hat to him, Winkel took the captain's hat instead. His accommodation is also not suitable for his status!
The pirates gave the ship to Winkel out of kindness, and the dragon climbed the deck and managed to get between the two masts. It was very uncomfortable, but when the minions could transport him over, the dragon felt too good to fly.
Still, he mourned the destruction of the piggy bank with all his heart.
So he renamed the ship "Piggy Bank II".
"Troll Barnabas has to make another crown from scratch, and it's even brighter!"
"I'll contact him again as soon as we leave the triangle," said friend Victor, turning to the two pirates who were trying to rob him. "How far are we from civilization?"
"I don't know, it's weird to travel around the Triangle," the bird muttered. "Electricity, magnetism, and even the sky are all random!"
"We rarely venture there, and we only go there after a storm destroys the ship."
"If our ship hadn't been overweight, it would have been much faster." Bird bird glanced at the dragon and said. The emperor wanted to know if he should understand something before he erased it.
"That's not the answer." Winkel replied, his pain making his voice sound harsher.
"Give us a few days until we find a way out again," the bird said hurriedly. "Then we can get to Port Dennier, the pirate city, and resupply there."
"And then you're going to let us go?" The orc pleaded.
"Of course not," Winkel replied. "A servant relationship is a matter of life and death"
"I used to think egalitarianism was the only form of equality," muttered a woke dwarf. "I admit my mistake. Egalitarianism of equality in death is the purest form of equality. ”
"How about we turn everyone into immortals?" Another dwarf added. Like his companions, he looks the same as he did when he was alive, except that his skin is whiter.
"Be patient, my companion. Patience. All come to death. ”
Obviously, this exchange makes the living work harder to reach civilization.
"I tell you, friend Victor, Wotan will pay ten times the price for your humiliation." Haven't Van Kle wanted revenge so much since the big battle against Lafrey.
"Who the hell is that guy?" Friend Victor asked. "We got lucky to survive one round, but I'm pretty sure he'll have another round."
"He's an ex-who calls himself the 'King of Wotan.'" Winkel hated the title because he had copied it from a dragon. "When they were young, when fairies and dragons were fighting, my grandfather told him what to do and took his eyes."
"I guess they didn't see eye to eye later," Manlin Victor joked.
"Since then, he has been hunting down my loved ones so that he can get revenge on his targets," Winkel said. He used to contemptuously say that his predecessor's victims were all disabled dragons, but now he understood. "By using a false princess called Valkyrie, he has lured many of my people to death. We nicknamed him the Dragon's Calamity, but after the fairies sued for peace, he returned to his northern realms......"
"Until His Majesty declares war on them again," Victor continued, "I am astonished that he did not break his promise, as Merodius did. ”
"Wotan has many characteristics, but he is both cunning and treacherous. He does what he says, and he only believes in power. "Winkel remembers the fight, remembers the pain he suffered when he was struck by lightning." If he could hurt my primordial scales, he would have gotten stronger. ”
But his previous strategy only worked because it was unexpected. The next time they meet, the dragon will kill him.
"There's something that bothers me about this," said my friend Victor. "He used [Charged Attack] before using the Devastating Lightning Attack."
"It's like my breath." Wacker nodded.
"Yes, like you."
The intelligence check was successful.
"You believe Wotan copied my lesson?!" The thought made Van Kerr fidget, enough to shake the entire ship.
"It's impossible, because as far as I know, you need a soul to level up, and orcs don't have souls."
"Minions, before I came, didn't everyone believe that dragons can't be upgraded?" Wankel reminded his servant. As a true detective who cracked the Furiben conspiracy, he knew that it could not be ruled out because a possibility invalidated the previous facts.
"Yes, and copycats can create corrupted (badges)," Manlin Victor added. "Even if it seems hard to believe...... They may have taken advantage of a flaw in the system to give themselves classes. "If I'm right, then the worst is yet to come......"
"I will not tolerate fairies stealing from a system made by dragons," Wankel declared. "With or without classes, I beat them and I'll do it again."
"We need to get back to Mervyn and prepare to defend—"
“No.”
Victor paused. "Didn't you?"
"It is clear that Frebon has sent Wotan to delay our actions so that he can destroy El Dorado as he destroys the entire Moon." "We gave up on exploring, which was exactly what he wanted."
His minister, in awe of his master's ability to reason, remained silent, and then put his hand on his helmet as a sign of respect. "Your Majesty, leave Mervyn—"
"My minions will take care of themselves." Winkel ignored the servant's concerns. "How can we feel safe if we can't count on them to protect my treasure and empire in our absence?" You have to learn to trust, my dear Victor. ”
"Yes, but-"
When the night watchman sounded the alarm, the bell interrupted the chief of staff. “We
esha
We have sharks in the water!"
Van Kerr glanced over the deck and saw at least thirty shark fins rapidly surrounding the ship from all sides. While Manlin Victor and the undead remain calm, the pirates panic, like real minions.
"Dagon's Fang!" The orc pirates panicked. "We are doomed!"
"Look, we can repel them." Victor replied, enchanting himself. "Winkel cook, I'll cut it, you nail it-"
"They have a (fisherman) in the lead!" The bird roared at him.
Van Kerl snickered, but to his surprise, his face froze in fright. "(Fisherman)?" he repeated fearfully. How many floors are there?"
"Twenty!" The bird, saying that he was not worthy of being a Minion, tried to fly out of the boat and abandoned it. He had barely flown a few meters before being hacked from underneath by a harpoon and dragged under the waves screaming.
"Beep!" Victor looked up at his master. "Your Majesty, don't hide anything! It's a battle of life and death!"
"Minions, why should I be afraid of one fish preying on others?" Winkel asked, nonchalantly reaching into the water and grabbing a humanoid shark with his fingers. The animal tried to bite his hand, but his teeth were bitten off by the dragon's scales.
"Because they have a hat (fisherman)!" Victor dodged the teeth of one of the sharks, one of whom jumped overboard and tried to bite off his head. The chief of staff spun around and threw him into the sea. However, six blue sharks climbed aboard the boat and attacked the crew with fangs and tridents.
A huge white-skinned shark jumped out of the water, shaking the entire deck. His skin was covered with blasphemous markings, and he wore a sparkling necklace of fangs around his neck. "You mammals will fear the wrath of Jajambe, chosen by Lord Dagon! He roared, waving the harpoon that had killed the bird. "I'm going to rip your legs apart with my shearling t-shirt—"
“Jaja ?” Manlin Victor said, seemingly recognizing the creature.
Captain Shark immediately stopped his ranting threat, and his crimson eyes squinted at the sight of the Chief of Staff. "Vic? Vic, is that you?"
“Jaja !” Victor rushes to the shark man's side, and his fear turns to joy.
"Vic, you son of a bitch!" The chief of staff of the big shark and Winkel immediately had a strange fraternal hug. "What are you doing here?" Wait, is that your boss over there?"
"We crashed on a nearby island, and we 'recruited' the crew of the ship. Indeed, the dragon is my master. Van Kerr noticed something strange about his friend's voice coming out of the word, but he guessed that his minions needed to take the pressure off.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Lord Wen. Vic keeps saying how much he misses you. "The shark turned to his companions, who stopped attacking in the confusion." Stop attacking, he's my friend!" We went to school together!"
"School?" Winkel asked his chief of staff, and when the others stopped harassing his entourage, he let go of the shark-man in his hand. With the exception of the leader, both groups glared at each other viciously.
"Scholars," said Victor's friend, without explanation. "We had the same (ritual magic) lesson."
"I'm making up lessons to learn how to wake up my very own monster lord, the great Gon, from his sleep under the waves," Shark explained. "Vic helped me practice and we had a lot of fun." Remember that shogoth?"
"How can I not remember this?" Wait, wait, don't tell me it's your master who caused the field effect?"
"Then I won't tell you," Jia Jambe replied with a smug smile. Seeing his three rows of teeth, Van Kkel's new minions flinched. "We woke him up, and I could almost smell the blood in the water. It's a pity that the ship is yours, or I would have taken it long ago. ”
"I can only respect this conscientiousness of the Chief of Staff, even if not my own," Winkel said. "I don't see any help from attacking your master, though."
"Oh, we need a sentimental tribute to sacrifice," the shark replied. "Since it's a slave ship, I don't think anyone will notice."
"Saliva boat?" Van Kerr squinted at the fish.
"Why, is it? I mean, I can smell the blood of all the elves in the cabin from fifty miles away. ”
Winkel and Victor exchanged glances, then glared at the pirates.
It turned out that the ship had more than a hundred locked "slaves" in the hold, crammed into space that could only accommodate half the number of people. Since Winkel was too big for him to see, he sent his servants down, and they brought back a group of elves who were sick, beaten, and scared like rats.
They probably thought he was going to eat them.
"Apparently, the crew preys on and enslaves those would-be colonists or exploration ships that run aground in the Devil's Triangle," Victor said to his master, clearly disgusted. "Special attention to endangered species."
"Port Dennis is a pirate port for the slave trade, and the elves can sell it for a lot of money there." Said one of the sharks.
"I'm just saying if you need to lighten your ship," Shark Jajambe glanced at the pirate's minions, who stood in a straight line and peed. "I can help."
"Don't eat slaves, Jaja," Victor told him to shut up immediately.
"We are not spirit slaves," Shark Jajambe protested. "They have very little flesh on them, like gnawing on bones. We are not dogs. I can arrange a crew. ”
Winkel grew impatient with his ignorance. "Minions, what is slavery?"
His chief of staff looked up at him. "Your Majesty doesn't know?"
"I've been hearing this from smaller species and they all seem to agree that it's bad...... But I don't understand why they did that. ”
"Because of the high salary!" One of the pirates shouted, as if that would save him from punishment.
"Shut up!" Victor denounced him for speaking out of place, even though it piqued Winkel's curiosity and greed. "Slave ...... They're like Minions, only worse for them. ”
"Servile relations can't be a bad thing," Winkel replied. After all, the only option is food. How could anyone refuse this promotion?" So why do these creatures ...... Disheveled?" Are they not being taken care of?"
"No, because slaves are commodities," explained friend Victor. "They can be bought and sold as their owners wish."
"You can't buy a Minion!" Vai
queu
protested. "You have to win them over, you have to win their adoration!"
"Moreover, they have no rights, no pay, no care, no holidays, never."
"They don't have a holiday?"
"No," Victor said ominously.
"Well, if they have no gold, no rights, no time to rest, then what do they have?" Winkel asked, confused.
"Nothing. Nothing, that's the problem. ”
The more he heard, the more the dragon didn't like it. After Victor's friends explain the ins and outs of slavery, the dragon has only one reaction.
"In the name of the old maggot, that's i
d
ago
!” Winkel blamed the pirates. "You make me ashamed to be your master!"
The pirates bowed their heads and repented of their crimes.
"But I forgive you," Winkel said, guiding him with the spirit of maggot's forgiveness. "For I perceive that the evil which thou hast committed is out of ignorance. Ignorance of the dragon's way of life, which is the purest and truest way of life, as our elder dragon ancestors taught us. For true servants are those who take care of them, as if they were part of their treasure. Because the Minions' feelings are beyond the wishes of their masters!"
[President El] activates! The charm test is successful!
His friend Victor, frightened by Winkel's passion, remained eerily silent.
"It is clear that this 'enslavement' is the depraved corruption of the slave system," Long continues to enlighten his audience. "Minions are not something that can be worn and thrown away!" Minions are people with feelings, and they have to be taken care of so much that they want to be Minions! They need to be respected, even honored, because for their contribution to the treasure, and the dragon cannot eat them without a valid reason. This is not Praitan! I haven't even violated the worst consequences of slavery......"
"Is there anything worse?" One of the sharks asked curiously.
"Yes! Slavers hunt elves to extinction, abuse them, and make it harder for new princesses to be born!" Van Kerr shook his head. "As an environmentally responsible dragon, I won't sit idly by!"
"So...... What does Your Majesty recommend?" Victor asked.
"First of all, you have to untie the chains of all these 'slaves' so that they can be freed, healed, and cared for. Then on the way to El Dorado, we set sail to this "Port Dannell" and immediately bring it the civilization of the dragon. I cannot tolerate the abuse of my minions during my tenure. ”
"Oh, that should be fun," Shark Jajambe was delighted to think of here. "If you can leave us a few captives for us to do (the Ascension Ceremony), we can show you the way."
Winkel glanced at the horizon, unable to see the wild lawlessness. In the land without dragons, there is also hope for a better life.
Vai
queu
The liberator of the Minions.
This new title sounds like a fitting fit.
"Minions?" Winkel asked, suddenly realizing something worrying.
"What's the matter, Your Majesty?"
"Am I going to be a cattle breeder?"