<h4>Chapter 868: gue</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios


    ” <i>Cough cough </i>...”


    ckbeard spat out some seawater. He was in bad shape. The explosion hadpletely destroyed a number of defensive magic tools that he had on him. Now that he was on Specter Ship’s deck, its cold aura prated his body, causing even more damage to his wounds.


    After seeing several undead creatures close in on him, especially the Ghoul Tyrant in the lead, ckbeard chuckled wryly and gave up any attempt at resistance.


    However, after he was brought before the captain of Specter Ship, his jaw dropped in surprise. “Why are you here?!”


    In horror, ckbeard saw that Specter Ship’s captain, who was surrounded by various undead creatures, was the pirate who he had hunted down and had let escape into the Golden Ocean, Arcane Trickster Roche!


    In less than a month, he had transformed from an outcast to the captain of Specter Ship. The change was so fast that ckbeard did not even know how to react.


    “We meet again, Governor ckbeard!”


    Fang Yuan looked handsome and fashionable, even donning a Death cloak. He looked condescendingly at the pirate governor that had once hunted him down.


    After he had endured the tests on that day, he had automatically obtained the authority to be the captain of Specter Ship.


    All the undead creatures on the ship, including the Ghoul Tyrant and the Demigod Lich, were bound to his orders under the contract’s power.


    With them under hismand, he had more than enough to escape from the wrath of the Raging Thunder God, who was not yet fully unsealed.


    After all, the opponent had not yet attainedplete freedom either. In fact, he was unable to pursue Feng Yuan after he had left the Hell of Lightning


    However, even though he had obtained Specter Ship and the ability to travel across realms, Fang Yuan’s original body was unable to exist in the real world immediately. On top of that, he had to start fulfilling the captain’s responsibility—guiding all kinds of shipwrecked souls to the afterlife.


    Otherwise, even with his intrinsic quality, he would not be able to bear all the grudges of Specter Ship for too long.


    <i>ording to the agreement, the two Demigods will only obey my orders for three years. After that, I will return their freedom to them. Furthermore, Specter Ship is responsible for guiding souls to the afterlife at all times. While it can be summoned asionally into battle, it doesn’t really work as a gship... The average pirate won’t be able to live on Specter Ship either.</i>


    Every living man on Specter Ship could very well turn undead after spending too much time on it, and even Fang Yuan would not be able to reverse the process.


    <i>Therefore, I need to obtain another legendary pirate ship. ckbeard will be useful in that regard... </i>Fang Yuan thought as he looked at his prisoner.


    Not only did ckbeard have thest fragment of the treasure map, but there were the riches of the entire ckbeard Pirates as well.


    They could very well have more than one extraordinary ship on top of that.


    Even if there wasn’t, just a portion of their riches would be enough to start building a first-ss extraordinary ship.


    This was why Fang Yuan had saved ckbeard’s life.


    “Fire!”


    “Even Specter Ship must sumb to the great Ettoman g!”


    Victory had excited the entire royal fleet, and it decided to attack even after finding out that it was facing Specter Ship.


    “Spiritualize!” Fang Yuanmanded at the same time as the cannons fired.


    The entire Specter Ship instantly turned phantasmal. The huge cannonballs flew right through the ship and eventually exploded on the surface of the sea.


    “Pure physical attacks, while powerful, do have their ws. For example... the Spiritualize ability of Specter Ship renders all physical attacks ineffective!”


    It was a peculiarity of Specter Ship, but it was limited to only pure physical attacks.


    If the cannonballs had been Monster’s Annihtion, the only thing Fang Yuan could have done was to run away.


    All things had their strengths and weaknesses.


    “Lich! It appears that these sailors have taken our kindness for weakness. They’ve even forgotten to fear Specter Ship!” Fang Yuan said to the Demigod Lich as he sneered.


    “Captain, as long as youmand it, I can remind them of the terror of Specter Ship!” replied the Demigod Lich with a weirdugh.


    “Okay, go ahead!” Fang Yuan waved his hand. Immediately, a dark green mist surrounded the Lich and carried it into midair. “Death Cloud!”


    A giant dark green cloud appeared and enveloped the surrounding ironds.


    The poison was apanied by the sound of erosion.


    Undead monsters released freaky screams as they floated about, killing the sailors who had drifted apart from their crew.


    “All right!” Fang Yuan no longer paid any attention to the battlefield and looked straight at ckbeard. “Shall we begin our negotiations?”


    “Heh... are you lusting after the riches I’ve umted over the years?” ckbeardughed weirdly, removed the seaweed on himself, and slowly rose. “That’s right... As the Nightmare Ocean’s governor for so many years, I have indeed umted a huge amount of riches. Unfortunately, they were all left on those inds. Lucky Ettoman!”


    “Those are only the treasures from your public treasury. I don’t believe that you, as the leader, didn’t keep any personal treasures.” Fang Yuanughed mischievously. “Or would you rather I ask you after turning you into a specter?”


    As the captain of Specter Ship, he had even more ways to deal with specters than live people.


    ckbeard’s expression changed immediately.


    Currently, his situation was not much better than dying at sea.


    The high-level undead creatures would not fear his magic. Furthermore, his greatest fear was exactly the situation that Fang Yuan had described.


    ckbeard finally decided to spill the beans after staring at Fang Yuan for a long time. “Fine! I do have a secret stash. I’ve hidden priceless treasures there. If you let me go, I’ll give you the map!”


    “We’ll discuss thatter! I need that treasure map fragment first!”


    A light shed on Fang Yuan’s hand, and a treasure map with a section missing appeared. “Don’t tell me that you don’t know what this is!”


    “The Soro Pirates’ treasure map... My god, you managed to collect three pieces of it?”


    ckbeard looked shocked.


    “Pfft... your ve trader subordinate had done many deeds behind your back.” Fang Yuanughed mockingly. “So how about it? You have to first present that fragment to me as a token of your sincerity!”


    ckbeard’s face twitched as he reached into his shirt and tore his clothes apart.


    A treasure map fragment that emanated a curious radiation appeared on his hand.


    Fang Yuan grabbed it without missing a beat and put the two pieces together.


    A light shed, and the two pieces slowly fused together. The lines on the map seemed alive as they moved about. Finally, they marked out the treasure’s location and a route leading to it.


    At the spot where the treasure was marked, an additional symbol that represented a ship also appeared.


    “ording to the rumors... the Soro Pirates left their treasures and an excellent legendary ship in the depths of where they hid it. That’s why I valued the treasure map so much...”


    ckbeard could feel his heart bleeding.


    His fragment was crucial since it marked the treasure’s location. After collecting information, he had a good idea of what exactly the treasure contained.


    But now, someone else had imed all the fruits of hisbor.


    He was furious at the thought.


    “gue!”


    The Demigod Lich was cleaning up the battlefield.


    After trapping the enemy inside the Death Cloud, it immediately used the gue spell that struck terror into the hearts of pirates.


    In fact, in terms of purebat ability, the Demigod Lich was leagues above ckbeard.


    With the incantation’s sound, the royal fleet’s marines instantly started to foam at the mouth, falling onto the deck and coughing relentlessly.


    The more unfortunate ones even saw ck spots appear all over their bodies and two egg-sized cysts appear under their armpits.


    “It’s the Death Sickle!!!”


    All the sailors started to scream in terror and back away at this sight. Some even chose to plunge into the sea and swim toward allied ships.


    It was obvious that the Demigod Lich’s gue reminded the Ettoman marines of something extremely unpleasant, as they now looked at the Lich in fear.


    A massive translucent specter army also marched out from Specter Ship, killing marines at will.


    They werepletely immune to physical attacks. Only attacks imbued with extraordinary attributes were able to damage them and make them disappear temporarily. Some of the specters were even able to suck the life out of the living.


    The ships immediately start to flee. An irond even hung up a white shirt as a sign of surrender.


    “It seems that... I’ve taken things a bit too far!”


    Fang Yuan rubbed his forehead. He suddenly felt that it was a mistake to promise these guys freedom after a mere three years.


    It was not a matter of not having enough underlings but the possibility of them turning the world into a living hell.


    “Time to go!”


    He pped.


    “Let’s go!”


    Like a receding tide, the white specters returned to Specter Ship.


    Under a thick cloud of smoke, Specter Ship slowly left the battlefield.


    “Investigate!


    “Why did Specter Ship appear here? Investigate everything!”


    After returning to Fearless, Norton saw Philip in a rage.


    <i>Specter Ship was indeed unounted for, but it’s merely a single ship. It can’t possibly change anything... </i>Norton thought to himself. He immediately suggested to Admiral Philip, “Our primary course of action should be to take over ckbeard Ind and seize the treasures... We need to remember to seize everything! Then we need to win over one or two pirate governors to our side using this victory. They don’t necessarily need to produce any results. Just a slight uncertainty on their part in critical moments would go a long way.”