“Tch… a suicide attack, huh…” Mr. Vogue squeezed out those words through gritted teeth as he watched the actions of the cultists.

“Hmm…” Feng Bujue’s focus was elsewhere. “Something’s not right… the Illusory Demon Church’s cultists aren’t usually the type to ‘sacrifice themselves unconditionally for the faith’.”

“I don’t care about that…” Honghu interjected at this point. “What I’m concerned about is… in about a minute, we’ll be surrounded by nearly a hundred Wang Dragons… what are we going to do?”

“You have to leave here.” The next second, Blackbeard preemptively answered the question.

The word he used was “have to”, not “should”; that alone alerted the three players to something.

“Heh…” Feng Bujue laughed immediately. “Captain, are you about to go all-out…”

“Whatever I’m about to do, you lot will only get in the way if you stay here.” Blackbeard replied without a hint of politeness, then looked at Nessru, saying, “Nessru, take them up into the sky and come back down after I’ve dealt with these trash.”

“Yes.” Nessru responded, then turned his head to address the others. “Alright folks, you all heard him, gather around me…”

Although the players weren’t entirely sure what this guy was planning to do, they still followed his instructions, because… the surrounding situation didn’t allow them any more delays.

“Everyone…” A dozen seconds later, once all seven people besides Blackbeard had gathered around Nessru and stood their ground, Nessru spoke again, “Watch your feet.”

Before Jue-ge could even ask “what do you mean watch our feet”, his feet had already left the ground.

In that instant, he only heard a strange “poof” sound in his ears; when he came to his senses, he was ascending into the sky like a rocket…

“What’s going on?” As he rose into the air, Honghu, who was relatively stationary in relation to Feng Bujue, took the opportunity to ask him.

Honghu would ask this because he knew that Feng Bujue could analyze the skill by seeing through the data.

And Jue-ge didn’t intend to hide anything from his teammates. After looking down at the data stream, he replied, “Hmm… using the point where we’re standing as the center, he’s turning the ground within a few meters radius into a substance similar to a ‘trampoline’; at the moment the skill is activated, creatures standing on the surface of this ‘trampoline’ will be ‘bounced’ up, gradually losing weight, and then fly towards outer space at a very slow speed… until they escape the planet’s gravity, or the caster voluntarily ends the skill’s effect…”

“Whoa, whoa…” Hearing this, Snow couldn’t help but interject, “Isn’t this ability a little too imBA?”

“It’s alright… it’s not as useful as you think.” Feng Bujue continued, “Because the caster will also fly up with you, which means… if he wants to throw the enemy into outer space, he’ll have to go out there himself.”

The three of them were nonchalantly discussing the other’s ability right in front of Nessru.

Nessru and the others weren’t too surprised by this, after all… the name “Feng Bujue” was already a legendary existence in the main universe; in the eyes of others, his status was almost equal to that of a world-destroying demon king like Blackbeard; it was normal for such a demon… to be able to see through other people’s abilities.

On the other hand, at the same time that these eight were “ascending into the sky”, Blackbeard’s dragon-slaying operation had also begun.

He didn’t “go all-out” as Feng Bujue had predicted; he simply… held his Trident of Triton and used the most basic close combat methods… to kill those Wang Dragons one by one.

Looking down from the sky, Blackbeard was clearly putting on a veritable “Pirate Musou” show amidst a pile of monsters. Facing the powerful creatures “Wang Dragons”, known for their physical combat prowess, Blackbeard maintained a reaping efficiency like cutting wheat. Comparing that to the trouble the three executives had gone through to kill a single Wang Dragon… Blackbeard’s unfathomable strength was truly hair-raising.

“Oh, right, Mad Eye.” After watching for a while, Feng Bujue shifted his attention away from the battlefield below. He spoke to Mad Eye, who was flying upwards with him, “Just now, Blackbeard said that Weston was a ‘despicable villain who killed the Queen’, what exactly does that mean?”

“Didn’t I tell you that it has nothing to do with you?” Mad Eye’s answer was the same as last time.

“Heh… I was just asking out of curiosity…” Feng Bujue replied with a smile.

“Actually, there’s no harm in telling you.” At this moment, Mr. Vogue interjected, and his tone even revealed a hint of sorrow, “That… is just an old scar buried in the hearts of us old pirates.”

“Oh?” Jue-ge seized the opportunity and asked, “I’d like to hear the details.”

“Hmm…” Mr. Vogue pondered for a moment, then continued, “Many years ago, when Blackbeard, Mad Eye, and of course myself… when our generation was still young, there was a pirate who once successfully dominated the Sea of Chaos…” He paused for half a second, then said, “She was the one and only ‘Pirate Queen’ in this sea, recognized by all the pirates.”

“Even Blackbeard, at the height of his power, was never able to command the awe and submission that she did.

“There were even many people who joined the pirate life simply for the chance to catch a glimpse of her on the sea.

“No one knew her real age, name, or where she came from, but we all knew her name as a pirate—Queen, Anna.”

Hearing this, the three players instantly reacted and asked the same question in unison.

“That Anna of the Queen Anna’s Revenge?”

Mr. Vogue paused, then replied, “Yes… it’s what you think…” His tone was very low, just like the mood he was in when recalling this past event, “Like the fate of the Four Pillar Gods rising to prominence, the Nine Gods also had their era, and the person who stood in front of that wave of the times… was Anna.”

“Back then, she led the strongest pirate alliance in the Sea of Chaos and went to war with the Nine Gods who had just entered the Sea of Chaos.

“In terms of strength, the two sides should have been evenly matched; but in terms of strategy… not every pirate captain was so clever…

“Under Weston’s instigation, two pirate groups who were usually at odds began to stand by and watch each other, preserving their strength. This became the fuse… that triggered the internal collapse of the entire alliance.

“From then on, the battle situation completely shifted to the side of the Nine Gods. Seeing that defeat was certain, Anna decided to sacrifice herself… she stayed alone on the ‘Queen Pirate Gang’s’ ‘Pursuit’, resisting the Nine Gods in order to cover the retreat of the defeated alliance.

“It wasn’t until they were fleeing in a panic that those pirate alliances realized their stupidity and mistakes… but by that time, Anna and the Pursuit had already been annihilated by the combined attack of the Nine Gods and sunk to the bottom of the sea…”

At this point in Vogue’s words, Mad Eye finally couldn’t hold back and took over the other’s words, saying, “After that… a few years passed, and Blackbeard’s power rose. That guy believed… that he was the closest existence to inheriting the ‘throne’, so he went to salvage the wreckage of the ‘Pursuit’, and rebuilt a pirate ship on the ship’s ‘indestructible keel’, and named it the ‘Queen Anna’s Revenge’. Hmph… and what happened? Did he avenge the Nine Gods? No! He just used the Queen’s name to constantly strengthen his own power, collecting treasures in the Sea of Chaos… until the era of the Four Pillar Gods arrived, he simply ran away to the ‘End of Chaos’ out of fear, and only came back now…”

“Mad Eye, the Captain isn’t like what you’re saying…” Mr. Vogue interrupted Mad Eye, “If you don’t understand, don’t talk nonsense.”

“Bah!” Even as a prisoner, Mad Eye retorted without showing any weakness, “You should save that kind of crap for the newbies who just got on your ship… who do you think I am?”

Just as the argument between these two was gradually escalating, suddenly, another change occurred!

In that instant, a dark purple beam of light shot up from the night, dyeing the sea illuminated by the blood moon into an even more eerie color.

“What’s this time…” Honghu turned his head to look at the base of the light beam, the point of its eruption was clearly on the ‘South Island’, opposite to the ‘North Island’ where they were located.

“Something’s coming…” Two seconds later, Feng Bujue, who was also looking in that direction, added, “Something similar to ‘Weston’… but far more powerful than him.”