"Captain, what's going on during the day?" The light of the magical crystal lamp barely illuminated the captain's cabin. Oliver lowered his head slightly and looked at the brand new desktop.
There are four chairs in the captain's cabin, but only two people are sitting on them at the moment.
Martin leaned back in his chair and stared at Austin's back with narrowed eyes.
"Why didn't you shoot at that time?" Oliver glanced at the revolver placed on the table. It was a new weapon that the Royal Army officers had just equipped last year. The naval unit's replacement was still in the planning stage. The entire new First Fleet might only have Austin has one on him.
Austin leaned on the window sill with both hands and looked at the rolling sea outside the window.
"You should know that he was no longer Seeley at that time, he was Shadow Demon." Martin looked at an empty chair, his tone was very indifferent, as if the person who died was just a stranger.
"Shut up, Martin, you didn't kill him with a knife immediately." Oliver knocked on the table lightly.
Austin closed his eyes and carefully recalled the situation.
He was indeed the first person to raise the gun, and he would not hesitate because of his friendship with Seeley. In fact, when he saw "Seeley's" facial features begin to fluctuate, Austin's index finger was already on the trigger. But when "Silay's" facial features turned into more than a dozen eyes, Austin lost consciousness as if he had been hit hard on the back of the head, until the sound of Oliver's shot woke him up.
"Is that your ability?" Seeing that Austin didn't speak, Oliver changed the question, "The shot fired at the bow of the ship, the shot that killed Shadow Demon, and the quick identification of Shadow Demon from behind. The first two Both should be similar to danger perception, but what about the latter? Is it weakness recognition? Or is it visual enhancement?”
Oliver was worthy of being an old navy man who had served for many years. He could guess something just based on Austin's reaction at that time.
"It's danger perception and sea monster illustrations." Austin sighed, pulled out a chair and sat down.
"You have just been baptized, how can you have two abilities?" Second Officer Martin stood up suddenly, his eyes became fierce, "Whose believer are you!"
"Sit down, you bastard!" Oliver took out his flintlock and slammed it on the table. He glared at Martin first, then turned to look at Austin, "Why does the recently baptized God's Favorite have two abilities? "
"I believe in the great Poseidon." Austin stared into Martin's eyes without fear. "It was Cardinal Meledo who presided over the baptism ceremony."
"This..." Martin and Oliver both choked. There are very few cases where a cardinal presides over a baptism ceremony, so something like this might happen. And if the Poseidon Church knew that Austin could obtain two baptisms in a short time, Who or even more was able to allow the cardinal to preside over his baptism ceremony in person?
"The average person favored by God can only receive two or three blessings in his life. Those who can receive more blessings are the God's servants or divine envoys who are specially trained within the church. Maybe the church takes a fancy to your specialness and will let the cardinal The bishop personally presided over the baptism ceremony." Oliver sighed, and then looked at Austin with strange eyes.
Austin also breathed a sigh of relief. He was very worried about being reported by others after his problem was exposed, so he could only take advantage of today's opportunity to show off the two abilities that he would frequently use in the future, and use the cardinal's excuse to baptize him in person to fool him. .
"So, you didn't fire in time because you were affected by the corresponding negative effects, right?"
Austin nodded.
Oliver wisely did not ask further - the negative qualities of the God's Favored were easier to target than the abilities they acquired.
"Did you only know the negative effects that affect you today?" Martin was a little confused.
"I really just found out." Austin said the truth.
According to the research of theologians, the negative qualities attached to divine gifts often do not immediately affect the favored by God, but subtly transform the favored by God into being consistent with the gods. This process is very secretive. Without a suitable opportunity, the favored by God will It is difficult for them to find out that they have been affected.
As a combat unit, the God's Favorite usually spends a period of time looking for their own negative traits after receiving the God's gift, so as not to be tricked to death by themselves in battle.
But Austin has received too many blessings from the gods, and due to his status, it is impossible for him to search for the negative traits he has obtained one by one. In the two years since he became a favored one by the gods, he has only tested out one. Then He is just afraid of nagging. To be precise, nagging will give him a splitting headache.
By chance during the day today, he found another one, which may be related to trypophobia or too many eyes. Further experiments are needed to confirm.
"I'm sorry about what happened today." Austin sighed, and stopped thinking about the oracle and the price, and changed the topic.
After killing the Shadow Demon, a sailor discovered Boatswain Seeley's glass eye in the corner of the storeroom.
"This is his own destiny. Anyone who goes to sea knows that he is always in danger." Oliver played with the flintlock gun and said in a weak tone, "That's why I asked you to be mentally prepared."
Martin also sat down, drank a whole bottle of rum at the foot of the table, and said dullly: "We can easily defeat the mythical species with our magical and alchemical technology, but if we are not careful, the mythical species can also easily defeat it." Kill us."
"Of course, we may also die in other weird events, the sea is like this." Oliver added.
After saying that, the old sailor who had been drifting on the sea for more than ten years suddenly laughed: "In this regard, the sea is fair. The next person to die may be an ordinary sailor, or it may be me, Martin or even you. I Captain."
Austin nodded and said seriously: "I will try my best to bring the entire crew back to Fleming Port intact."
Martin and Oliver didn't react much, just shrugged indifferently.
When Austin became thoroughly familiar with the helm and could complete the eight-hour rotation independently, the outline of Bahar Island appeared at the end of the sea level.
Two peaks, one tall and one short, occupy the entire island. The short peak faces the warm tidal inland sea, and the tall one faces Telementsu. This island was established by the Kingdom of Meletni at the junction of the warm tidal inland sea and Telementsu. One of the small strongholds on the island. Due to the inability to build a deep-water port and its lack of strategic value, no troops were sent to garrison on the island. Instead, a small dock was built as a kingdom office.
There is not much population on the island, and in terms of commerce, there is only one "mobile" small business that provides supplies and resting place for small merchant ships that come to the dock - usually played by merchant ships that give up going to Meletni because of the devaluation of their goods.
"It's such a sterile place, and I don't know what those pirates are planning to do?" Ma Fei, the newly appointed boatswain, approached the first mate and while speaking, his eyes peeked at Martin, who was learning how to make charts. of Austin.
He is the talkative one among all the sailors. Everyone on the ship likes this young boy very much. The former boatswain Seeley often joked that he would pass the position to him, so after Seeley's death, Austin promoted him He was appointed boatswain - the formal appointment would have to wait until he returned to Fleming Harbor.
"We were ordered to kill those pirates from above, so we just loaded our guns and fired. Also, what are you doing here?"
"Ao Ao Ao, I'm here to report the situation to the captain."
Fleming glanced at Maffei. Ever since Austin promoted him to serve as boatswain, this kid seemed to have become the captain's confidant and would come to the captain's cabin from time to time.
"If you have anything to say, just say it there. It just so happens that the first mate and the others will also listen." Austin rubbed his temples, "Didn't I ask you to go to the observation post? Why did you come down so quickly?"
Ma Fei smiled and said, "I noticed something was wrong as soon as I got up there, so I hurriedly reported it."
"You tell me."
Ma Fei put away his smile when he heard this, stood up straight, and said loudly: "Report to the captain, there is something abnormal at the dock of Bahar Island!"
"There's so much nonsense, hurry up and say it!" Martin was a little impatient.
"In addition to one pirate ship, there were many small boats docked at the dock. Visually, they were large merchant ships. They seemed to be transporting slaves to pirates."
"Slave? Are you sure?"
"Captain, my eyes are famously good, I will never make a mistake!"
Austin glanced at the first mate, who nodded slightly.
He ordered Maffei to continue to observe, to keep the sailors and gunners on alert to guard against pirate ship sneak attacks, and then called the first mate into the captain's cabin.
"There are no mineral deposits on Bahar Island, and it has no strategic value. What do those pirates want with so many slaves?" Austin first raised his own question.
Martin touched the top of his head and made a simple and rough suggestion; "Those merchant ships sent small boats to transport slaves for trade. They were probably afraid of losing their reputation. I guess they docked on the other side of the island. Let's go and arrest two people and ask them." Isn’t it all over in one go?”
Although Oliver and Austin felt something was wrong, they had no better way at the moment, so they adopted Martin's suggestion and did not approach rashly. Instead, they went around to the other side of Bahar Island to inquire about information first.
"Lower the flag of Meletni and replace it with the flag of the Kingdom of Dofreira." Austin gave the order to the crew through the copper pipe.
The Kingdom of Dofreira is located to the south of the Kingdom of Meletni. The two countries are separated by the narrowest part of Telemonsu. There is a lot of trade. Changing the flag of the Kingdom of Dofreira in this sea area can be well hidden. identity.
At the other end of Bahar Island, Captain Poble of the "Golden Earl" was standing at the bow of the ship, looking at the groups of slaves being driven onto the boat. The fat and white captain seemed to have heard the sound of gold coins colliding.
Although he was doing business with pirates, the documents the other party produced were formal. As long as he was not caught red-handed, he could claim he had no knowledge.
"Damn cripple, you didn't tell me earlier about such a good thing." Boble turned to look at another merchant ship that had unloaded its "cargo" and was about to leave, and cursed bitterly. If he hadn't accidentally broken up the deal between the cripple and the pirates, how could he have encountered such a good thing.
"Huh?" Bobr narrowed his eyes. There seemed to be a ship coming here behind Lame's merchant ship. Why didn't that damn observation post react at all? .
Ordering the crew to drive the slaves back to the cabin first, Poble sneered and shouted: "Open the gun door on the starboard side, do you see that ship? Fire as soon as you enter the shooting range! Give this blind guy some color!"
At the same time, Cripple's merchant ship also adjusted its position and re-anchored, and Poble could see the sailors pushing cannons onto the deck.
"Hmph! It seems that you don't want to share this cake with one more person."
The guy who didn't have long eyes seemed to notice something. The power sail began to glow, the bow began to turn, and then the three cannons on the side were revealed in the shocked eyes of Lame and Boble.
"Fire!" Austin ordered coldly.
