Chapter 109: A Feast of Terror
Keston was standing right behind him, his face pale.
"Mr. Aaron, you’ve misunderstood. The person Justin was talking about just now was Keston," Joseph quickly explained.
Black Knight Aaron turned to look at Keston. When he saw Keston desperately rolling his eyes, he understood at once.
He grinned and looked at Bella.
"I forgot to tell you, my hearing is very good. I heard everything you said in the cockpit just now, word for word."
As he said this, Aaron watched with interest as Bella and the others turned even paler. Then he smiled and said,
"As a knight, I’m always happy to accept a challenge. It’s one of the few pleasures I have on this terrifying sea."
He glanced at Justin and grinned.
"Perfect timing. I haven’t had a good meal in a long time. Tonight, you can strengthen yourself however you like. I promise that when you challenge me, all you’ll feel is the same despair."
Hearing this, Justin looked unconvinced.
"Then you can try."
Black Knight Aaron turned and walked out of the cabin, leaving only one sentence behind.
"I’ll be waiting. But you’d better hurry. I’m still waiting to enjoy a full meal tonight."
"A full meal? What are you going to eat? There’s plenty of food in the kitchen," Bella said, trying to change the subject and ease the tension.
But Black Knight Aaron did not accept her kindness.
As he walked away, he shook his head and said,
"Sorry, but food with such poor energy is not on my menu."
Bella frowned when she heard this.
Thinking back, Black Knight Aaron had indeed not eaten anything over the past few days. Curiosity rose in her heart.
"Mr. Aaron, as companions, I think it would be better for us to get along peacefully. What kind of dishes are on your menu? Maybe we can provide them for you."
Black Knight Aaron grinned.
"Forget it. It wouldn’t be right for me to eat you. Darius would cause trouble for me."
He turned and looked toward the more than thirty ships in the distance. A fierce look appeared in his eyes.
"There are ready-made ingredients over there. Eating them is fine."
At this point, Black Knight Aaron turned to Justin, whose face had gone pale.
"I heard you can grow stronger by bathing in the blood of Eldritch Entities. That’s a very nice ability. It happens to be quite similar to mine."
Black Knight Aaron opened his mouth in a wide grin, revealing a pair of sharp fangs.
"I forgot to tell you. I’m a vampire. I grow stronger by drinking human blood."
As soon as he finished speaking, Black Knight Aaron’s ears suddenly became pointed. Behind his pitch-black armor, a pair of bat wings spread open.
When Joseph and Justin saw this, they immediately stepped in front of Bella, their faces full of caution.
"What are you trying to do?"
Black Knight Aaron licked his lips and smiled.
"Don’t be nervous. I only came to say hello. If you don’t mind, I’ll allow you to join me in this feast."
Aaron glanced at Justin and Joseph, then turned and flew out of the cabin.
On the deck of one of the distant ships, a sailor had just lowered the anchor chain and was about to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
But the moment he looked up, he saw a dark, Eldritch-like shadow in the sky, rushing toward him at high speed.
"What the hell? What’s going on? It’s not even dark yet. Why are the Eldritch Entities attacking already?"
Before he could finish speaking, the sailor felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. In the next instant, his whole body was lifted into the air.
Black Knight Aaron held the sailor in front of him, opened his mouth, and bit down on the man’s neck.
"Ahhh!"
A painful scream rang out.
The sailor’s body quickly shriveled like a deflated balloon.
All the essence of his flesh and blood flowed through Black Knight Aaron’s fangs and into Aaron’s body.
Seeing this, the Survivors on the deck all swallowed hard.
A moment later, the Survivor on lookout duty hurriedly sounded the alarm.
Soon, the nearby ships all noticed Black Knight Aaron.
But when the Captains climbed up to the lookout platforms and raised their binoculars, Black Knight Aaron had already left the spot where he had been hovering.
Only a dried-up human skin was left in the air, fluttering in the wind before slowly falling onto the deck.
Then a second Survivor was dragged into the sky by Black Knight Aaron.
Then a third.
A fourth...
It was not until every ship was on high alert that the Survivors finally grabbed their weapons and tried to kill Aaron.
But whether they used knives, axes, arrows, or Bullets, none of them could leave a real bleeding wound on Black Knight Aaron.
One warship even fired a cannon into the air. The Artillery Shell hit Black Knight Aaron directly, but it only scraped off a thin layer of skin.
And after Aaron drained another Survivor dry, that small wound healed on its own.
Seeing this, all the Captains became extremely cautious.
At first, they had planned to spread out and deal with the Eldritch Entities’ attacks separately. But now, that plan was changed at once.
In an instant, the scattered ships began to move closer together, forming a tight battle formation.
When Black Knight Aaron saw this, he grinned.
"Good. That saves me the trouble of flying around."
Black Knight Aaron no longer stayed in the air. Instead, he dived down onto the deck.
The Survivors were helpless against him, like children facing a trained special forces soldier.
Other than flying and drinking blood, Black Knight Aaron did not have any other special abilities.
However, his strength, speed, toughness, healing, and stamina were all terrifyingly high. In particular, the black armor he wore was almost impossible to break through. It blocked ninety-nine percent of the damage for him.
On the luxury yacht, Joseph and Justin watched this scene with shocked expressions.
"If this guy wanted to kill us, it would be far too easy," Joseph said coldly.
"Joseph, there’s no point thinking about that now. Hurry and steer the ship over there. I want to join this slaughter too," Justin said urgently.
Joseph wanted to stop his younger brother, but Bella stopped him first.
"Listen to him. Only by growing stronger quickly can you escape that man’s threat."
Keston, who was standing nearby, nodded as well.
"Right. We have to grow stronger fast. Otherwise, once that guy catches Nova, he may silence all of us."
After hearing this, Joseph no longer tried to stop him. He stepped up to the control console, pushed the engine to full power, and rushed toward the fleet ahead.
As soon as Justin and Keston got close, they both jumped off the luxury yacht.
Keston floated in midair, and a large number of tentacles spread out from his body.
The tentacles wove together like threads, forming a keel, a hull, cabins, a deck, a helm, and sails.
In the blink of an eye, Keston’s Spectral Corsair Vessel appeared once again on the terrifying sea.
Justin landed on the deck of the Spectral Corsair Vessel, his body swaying slightly.
It was his first time seeing Keston’s Spectral Corsair Vessel, and his face was full of shock.
"You actually merged with that pirate ship?"
Keston glanced at Justin.
"Don’t think your Talent is the only powerful one. Mine isn’t any worse than yours."
Keston steered the Spectral Corsair Vessel into the battlefield at an even faster speed.
He did not join the fight directly. Instead, he kept moving between the ships.
Whenever he found a Survivor who had fallen into the water, been left alone, or was injured and had not yet been drained by Black Knight Aaron, Keston would immediately summon his tentacles and drag them into the cabin of the Spectral Corsair Vessel.
Seeing the look of pleasure on Keston’s face, Justin clearly felt that this man he had always looked down on was slowly growing stronger.
"So you can also grow stronger by devouring corpses and blood," Justin said coldly.
Keston ignored Justin and continued doing as he pleased.
Justin knew that if he did not hurry, most of the Survivors here would be taken by Black Knight Aaron and Keston.
By then, if there was not enough blood from the Eldritch Entities, Justin’s plan to grow stronger would be impossible.
In anger, he shouted, "All of you, stop! If you kill them all, the Eldritch Entities I need won’t come!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Justin kicked off with both legs and leaped straight onto one of the ships.
The Survivors had already been attacked by Black Knight Aaron and Keston. They no longer trusted Justin at all.
The moment Justin landed on the deck, the Survivors attacked him.
A huge axe struck Justin in the chest, knocking him back three steps.
Justin clutched his chest and felt a burst of pain. He was furious.
"You bastards! If you won’t listen, I’ll use you as bait to lure the Eldritch Entities here!"
Like a strongman, Justin grabbed a Survivor in each hand.
Before the two of them could react, Justin swung his arms hard and threw both living Survivors straight into the sea.
At once, thick smoke rose from the surface of the water. The attack of the Eldritch Entities, which should have come close to midnight, was brought forward.
Justin felt the mist in front of him and took an excited deep breath.
"Come on. Come on! It’s time for me to enjoy my feast too."
For a moment, the Survivor fleet turned into a battlefield of slaughter.
Franky and Nami, who were leading the fleet, noticed what was happening. Their faces darkened at the same time.
Some fleets had already been wiped out. Even if there were survivors, most of them were left with only their Captains, completely alone.
They desperately sent distress calls to Franky and Nami.
Some Captains did not even have time to finish speaking before Black Knight Aaron dragged them into the air and drained their blood in front of everyone.
The most miserable one was a Captain who was also wearing a set of medieval knight armor.
The back of his neck was extremely thick. Even Black Knight Aaron could not tear it open.
In anger, Black Knight Aaron pulled down the Captain’s pants in front of everyone. Then he bared his fangs and bit toward the Captain’s crotch.
This scene left all the Survivors completely stunned.
"Holy shit! That vampire really will suck blood from anywhere."
"That’s insane! Does anyone have iron underwear? Lend me a pair. I’m scared."
"Can someone tell me how to kill that guy? I have garlic and a cross here."
"Don’t believe that nonsense. Our Captain ate two whole strings of garlic, and that guy still bit into his neck."