Pirate Kingship

"There is. Sixty nautical miles in a straight line, Miracle Battleship [Ying Ge], the captain is... [Love and Desire Elf] Salome, a Fourth-order Heroic [Dancer]."

Last time circumnavigating the Southern Continent, Delia was promoted to Third Order, and now a year has passed. As long as she can lead others through the "Second Circulation Belt," she can definitely be promoted to Fourth Order on the spot.

Except for the First Gear of the Lighthouse Union, of course, there is no capability issue.

Guest acting as radar communication system, utilizing [Lighthouse Matrix] for various communication services is also not a difficult task.

She flicked the whale oil lantern in her hand, and a string of coordinates along with the basic information of the other party were all presented.

Conveniently, she opened the ship traffic data transmitted to them by the Tower Guardians, comparing it with the ship information.

The data given by the Tower Guardians is compiled from multiple sources. Lighthouses are spread across the ports of all human countries and colonies, and as long as they dock, they absolutely cannot escape the detection of the Law Network.

"It is indeed not Mercurius, nor does it appear to have any connection.

But a... dancer? How come it’s another Hall Sequence?"

Byron first felt relieved, but then a slight doubt arose.

He hadn’t forgotten that it was the two clowns of the Hall Sequence who snatched the "Gospel of Heaven" from Storm Angel Andrea.

One of them was a Fifth Order who killed Church Night Watchmen as if slaughtering chickens, and the other, although only stomped on Andrea, was also a formidable Fourth Order.

After the two clowns handed the object to Mercurius, they disappeared like a magic trick, losing their traces and whereabouts unknown.

Plus, with Mercurius already being a [Novelist] in the Hall Sequence, Byron had become overly sensitive to this inspiration, having a conditioned response to the Hall Sequence that frequently attracted strange things.

Instinctively associating it with something negative.

"The information says that Miracle Battleship [Ying Ge] was the last adventure ship to pass through the lighthouse and enter the Second Circulation Belt half a month ago.

For other adventure ships, a month-long ocean voyage would take at most a week for a great fleet sailing at 30 knots.

Assuming a normal speed, even if the opponent departed ten days earlier, it could be explained if we caught up halfway.

But this feels a bit too coincidental."

Information on that adventure captain [Love and Desire Elf] Salome is also available.

She comes from the Remit people’s group living in the Netherland Kingdom and is the daughter of the Kingdom’s Guardian, yet walked a path completely different from her people in this extremely conservative group.

Instead of choosing the Gold Sequence, she followed the Hall Sequence and became a dancer, with a very good talent. Rumors a few years ago already labeled her a legendary seed.

She’s only one ceremony away: being able to stir up fiery destruction of a city or make a city’s residents become captivated by her "City-Toppling Dance" to be promoted to Legendary.

The Old Continent, unlike the secretive Eastern Continent, once reaching Fourth-order Heroic Rank, a series of titles, careers, age... all sorts of intelligence would be on the desks of various intelligence organizations.

Except for traitors like [the person who cannot be named], there’s never any middle-high sequence strong person emerging suddenly as if from a crack in the stone.

Though the intelligence might have omissions, and half a year or a year’s delay might lead to untimely updates, the general situation is usually not wrong.

Byron weighed the pros and cons in his heart but did not concern himself too much with the opponent’s identity.

He glanced at the "Mindless," soaking in the Blood River, whose breath was rapidly recovering and skeleton growing back, with a slight cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth:

"Thinking from another perspective, leaving Mercurius untouched until now was precisely to draw out other subordinates of the [Capricious Joker].

Even when the Blood Beast Nest under the Mother of Monsters sent two pseudo-gods, only two Legendary Warships were deployed to colonize the Old Continent.

[Capricious Joker] as a native-born demigod, however strong, would only foster four or five Fifth Order High Sequences at most, even with the advantage of the local terrain.

If we could seize this opportunity to wipe them out all at once, it would save us a lot of trouble.

The fact whether I or he acts first makes little difference.

The issue with [Love and Desire Elf] Salome may not necessarily be a bad thing."

As for Salome’s background in the Netherland Kingdom?

He was just short of an excuse to justifiably say "since ancient times" to someone over a "Han envoy being killed."

Then he waved his hand, ordering the Golden Deer to detour to the coordinates where the rescue signal was sent from.

Soon he realized, from Munin’s view, that Mercurius, on another direction, also appeared to have learned the rescue signal from the [Navigator] on his ship.

He also turned the ship’s heading towards those coordinates.

"Let me see what medicine you guys are selling in your gourds."

The width of the Second Circulation Belt exceeds one hundred kilometers, adventures may take different routes even if they start at the same time.

Moreover, coupled with the sea fog generated by temperature differences common in these ocean currents, a sailing ship here is like a sesame in the lake, with little chance of coincidental encounters.

[The Golden Deer] followed the rescue signal all the way, finally nearing an island shrouded in mist.

Before they could locate the [Ying Ge] through the fog,

the surrounding seawater suddenly started to churn, and countless dark green crabs emerged from the surrounding sea.

Some climbed swiftly along the ship’s hull onto the deck.

For the Golden Deer, this was just a minor inconvenience.

Bruh, Eight Fingers, and a variety of officers led the ship’s soldiers and some mass-produced [Soldier Persons] to easily knock them all down.