Old Hans worked in the dock with most of the non-combatants and ordinary sailors.
Salman led more than 30 main battle members and checked into a nearby hotel called Rosemary.
When Byron found him in a separate courtyard, he had just furiously chased away a wandering warbler with heavy makeup.
"Bah, you actually ignored my charm. I guess you can't do it."
As they passed by, Byron turned a deaf ear to the woman's mutterings and walked in without looking back.
After saluting, he explained to Salman the transformation plan that had been approved by Old Hans.
"Haha, Mr. Byron, I really saw you right.
Although I don't understand shipbuilding, I can still see the potential of this new sail layout. I just need to let Old Hans and the others go ahead and do it. "
"Don't listen to the rumors on the ship. What does the position of a mere first mate mean?
Wait until the [Man-Eating Shark] recruits more troops to expand its personnel, seizes a second pirate ship, and truly becomes a pirate group.
You, Byron Tudor, will definitely be my first captain! "
As expected, when Salman saw this pirate ship renovation plan, he accepted it with great peace of mind.
But apart from verbal encouragement, no reward was given to him.
"The captain has given me too much credit, this is what I should do.
Everyone is for me, I am for everyone, glory goes to the collective.
Compared with the overall situation of the pirate group, what does my personal gains and losses mean?
I plan to move to the dock after cooking you vermicelli scallops, braised prawns, haggis soup with dark beer tonight.
Supervise their construction to ensure that nothing goes wrong. "
Byron was very "aware of the overall situation" and ate the pie Salman drew without hesitation, and even took the initiative to ask for more burdens for himself.
"By the way, I'm going to study "Bloody Mary's Gourmet Recipes" again while I have time.
The recipes above are really eye-opening to me, and there are actually more recipes than I know, so I’ll excuse you for now. "
After bowing respectfully as always, he turned around and opened the door to leave.
Looking at Byron's retreating back, Salman, who was feeling severe pain all over his body even though it was not evening, couldn't help but sigh deeply:
"The overall situation, the overall situation, he is really a model crew member who takes the overall situation into consideration, and he is ten thousand times better than the other crew members on the ship put together.
The longer time passes, the more I feel that I can't live without you.
How I wish I could find another chef who is good enough to be eaten by the [recipe] instead of you, but my 'curse' really can't wait. "
If you are not very sure that the other party is not a transcendent of a certain sequence.
He almost thought that this noble deacon was actually a loyal knight who strictly abided by all eight virtues and the knight's motto.
My mood is a bit complicated at the moment. I hope I can get the [Transmutation Blood] quickly, but I also hope Byron can hold on for a longer time.
The slower he is eaten by "Bloody Mary's Gourmet Recipe", the better the quality of the [Transformed Blood], and the more likely it is to help him escape from the sea of suffering.
"Mr. Byron, if you take the overall situation into consideration, you won't blame me, right?"
Unfortunately, this pirate captain, who could only parody the aristocratic style but never learned the essence of aristocratic tactics, didn't know this.
In this world ruled by aristocrats and dominated by the weak and the strong, only those with vested interests will talk about "taking care of the overall situation" all day long.
If this person does not look like a vested interest on the surface.
Then he... must be the overall situation!
...
Time soon came to night.
In another corner of this pirate port, a group of people in cloaks walked out of the hotel where they were staying and merged with the drunken people on the street.
Like countless pirates who hang out in sensual places, they are inconspicuous at all.
Stopping at the seaside across the street from the Rosemary Hotel, we hurriedly walked into a very dilapidated-looking wind mill.
The huge windmill kept rotating "squeaking", and the noise it made completely covered up the low conversation of the group.
They were obviously very cautious.
Arriving at the simple second floor of the mill built with wooden planks, the captain of the White Crystal, [Magic Mirror] West, immediately ordered his crew to clean the place thoroughly.
He moved to the window and looked down at another building not far away.
"Aye-aye, is that there?"
There was a sword mark on his ugly face, and the short young man, who looked even more ferocious, nodded immediately:
"It's not wrong. The following brother has confirmed it repeatedly. It's the Rosemary Hotel just a street away from us.
There is no more than a hundred meters in a straight line, where your spells are most powerful. "
While they were talking, the pirates they brought had already cleaned the second floor.
They even used special chemicals to make the broken wooden boards sparkle, so that West, a severe mysophobia, couldn't find any fault at all.
"Okay, you don't need to stay here. Everyone should go out and be on guard. Don't let anyone come and disturb my ceremony."
[Magic Mirror] West waved his hand and asked the aye-aye and other crew members to go downstairs.
While he was carrying a canvas bag, he arranged rituals on the ground.
The essence of most [forbidden knowledge] is ritual magic.
Through specific rituals, one's own spirituality can be connected with certain world rules, spiritual bodies, unknown high-level existences, etc.
The temporary surrender of self-awareness allows the spirit to resonate with higher beings and activate powerful abilities that exceed one's own limitations or even those that one does not possess.
West first used sea salt mixed with white crystal powder to draw a five-pointed star on the ground.
Ritual candles of five colors, red, blue, yellow, green, and black, are placed in the five corners, respectively, corresponding to fire, water, wind, earth, and the fifth element spirit.
He took out five bottles of plant essential oils with different symbolic meanings and placed them in front of him.
Wintergreen symbolizes: protection, healing, and defeating evil spirits.
Wormwood symbolizes: spiritual power, protection, and summoning of the spiritual body.
Skunk cabbage symbolizes: legal events.
Mugwort, symbol: psychic power, precognitive dreams, astral projection.
Hairy grass symbolizes: love and hunting.
Finally, he placed a silver mirror half a person's height in the middle of the five-pointed star. He also knelt down in front of the mirror and slowly entered a meditative state.
When the bustling sounds in the pirate city outside gradually subsided, the time quietly came to one o'clock in the morning.
[Magic Mirror] West suddenly opened his eyes, and the silver spiritual glow in his pupils illuminated the second floor of the mill.
"Time is up."
Take out a silver tinder box and light the ceremonial candles on the five corners.
Then drop the essential oils of five kinds of herbs on the flames of five candles.
call--!
The spiritual wind blows through the mill, forming an invisible barrier against exploration on a mystical level.
The skunk cabbage symbolizing "legal events" has taken effect, and the laws of Anchor Bay have lost their most basic control over this area.
Then he took out a "blood-stained" white cloth from the canvas bag, which was the aye-aye's trophy.
Alcohol evaporates much faster than water.
When the assassin [Aye-aye] sprinted all the way to find his captain, his body temperature had already almost evaporated the alcohol.
The [Transmutation Blood] and Blood-Eyed Salman's blood dissolved in the wine remained, with only a faint smell of alcohol remaining.
Even West, who has severe mysophobia, didn't notice the abnormality.
After all, shouldn't it be normal for pirates to smell like rum?
Soak a white cloth with rose hydrosol and draw a perfect circle with the scent of fragrance and blood on the surface of the silver mirror.
The entire second floor space suddenly became cold.
Although the candle was 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 distorted and collapsed toward the mirror with the light of the candles, as if they were all being pulled into the mirror.
West's expression remained unchanged, and he chanted in Rune language:
"Mirror, mirror, tell me, where is my enemy?"
Three times in a row.
The darkness in the mirror, which was so thick that it couldn't be dissolved, suddenly opened a pair of bright silver eyes.
That's a mirror monster!
Just like [Transmutation Blood] is the core of various [Blood Brew] recipes in the same series.
All methods of [Magic Mirror Divination] are also based on this [Magic Spirit in the Mirror].
The moment he looked at the demon in the mirror, West closed his eyes and fell softly.
The effects of the other four herbal essential oils: spiritual body summoning, astral projection, hunting, and demon-breaking are presented in sequence.
In the rich aroma, the [Devil in the Mirror] suddenly took on a humanoid form.
It flickered like a frame skip and plunged into the depths of the mirror world.
In fact, it uses the mirror world as a transit and enters another mirror across the street!
