Chapter 1 Aboard the North Wind

A little over half a day later, aboard the North Wind.

After boarding, Suren and Kama stayed in their cabin to meditate, not wandering around.

The cabin was noisy and chaotic.

Those treasure hunters with dreams of getting rich were still tirelessly bragging about the news they had gathered from all sides.

"Oh, you didn't see it, but last night the Flying Fish Gang's ship was almost sunk by the treasure."

"Yeah, I heard that each of their crew members got at least several hundred million Riso, enough to enjoy for the rest of their lives."

"What several hundred million? I heard they got tens of billions each. I'm so jealous! It's all thanks to our 'North Wind' captain having connections and getting an original sea chart. Otherwise, we would have missed this chance to get rich."

"..."

They were quite far from the coastline, but still many days away from Devil's Island.

The adventurers on board could only kill time by chatting and playing cards.

But suddenly, the speed dropped.

"Huh... why are they furling the sails?"

"Heard the North Sea Fleet's ship is coming up behind us. Don't know why."

"..."

Hearing the noise in the cabin, Suren opened his eyes and muttered to himself, "They're finally here."

They hadn't deliberately concealed themselves when they boarded, so it was normal to be noticed and pursued.

Probably someone on the ship leaked their whereabouts, but it didn't matter.

This wasn't the city, so the threat to Suren wasn't as great.

Besides, the Dawn was nearby.

Kama also heard the crew members' words. Her face showed concern. She looked at Suren and asked, "Teacher?"

The North Sea Fleet's reputation was thunderous. In the North Sea, no force dared to oppose them.

Although she thought her teacher should be very powerful, he was only one person. If the enemy sent a squad, there would be nowhere to escape at sea.

Moreover, once they fought, even if they won this time, being enemies with the North Sea Fleet meant there would be no place to stand in the vast North Sea.

It would be an endless chase, almost a dead end.

"It's fine."

Suren shook his head with a light smile. "That guy is just returning your puppet."

Kama listened, and though worried, said nothing more.

From the moment she became a disciple, she was prepared to live or die with her teacher.

.......

Not long after the North Wind slowed down, the North Sea Fleet warship caught up.

Pirate ships were of much better quality than ordinary adventurer ships, especially the warships in the North Sea Fleet, which were the fastest light warships in the North Sea, and very fast.

Suren and Kama also went to the deck and watched the distant warship among the crowd. The sub-flag on the warship had a "Puppet Doll Skull Flag".

Kama obviously recognized this flag, and said with worry, "Teacher, that is the Seventh Squad of the Third Fleet. The squad leader is 'Thousand Machine Puppet Hand' Vasily Tyermidor. He is very strong. He has a very strong mechanical puppet [Thousand Hand Mechanical War Demon] in his hand, which used to be the heirloom of my Boyle family. Vasily once used that puppet to wipe out the 'Venom Fang Pirate Gang,' which had a Fifth-Order professional. He also has many puppet masters under him, whose combat power is unknown. But the outside world says that the strength of the Seventh Squad can rank in the top three among the Third Fleet's dozen or so squads."

"Oh."

Suren only raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and responded without any surprise.

Looking into the distance at the sea, he murmured in his heart, "Only one squad came..."

There were many temporary adventurers on the North Wind. They were vaguely panicked when they saw the notorious pirate group approaching.

"What are the people from the North Sea Fleet doing here?"

"Who knows? Those pirates don't look like they have good intentions. Could it be..."

"..."

The crowd whispered to each other. At this time, the ship's first mate did not forget to comfort them, "Everyone, don't panic. It's just a routine inspection."

Suren knew this was a lie, and pretended not to know, watching quietly.

At this moment, probably because they were afraid that their ship would escape, the pirate ship behind them lowered three assault boats.

These imported goods from Mafa were very popular among the pirates. As soon as the steam boiler roared, the speedboats drew a white wave on the sea and rushed over quickly.

Approaching the North Wind, a dozen pirates from the three assault boats jumped up and landed on the deck.

Suren saw that the faces were all familiar. The fair-skinned young man leading the group was naturally Eber, who had made things difficult for them in the city.

......

As soon as these dozen pirates boarded the ship, they immediately roared, "Where are that dog couple?!"

The bearded captain's eyes glanced over, and the crowd watching the excitement on the deck immediately parted to form a gap.

Suren and Kama were revealed in front of everyone.

Only then did everyone understand that those people were looking for these two. They quickly left a large circle, as if avoiding a plague god.

Eber looked at Suren, whom he had intercepted at sea, as if he saw a lot of treasure waving at him, and sneered: "I suspect that you have a major connection with the attack in the city last night! I am now ordered to take you back for investigation."

The sea was not the city, and no one could control it if a few people were really killed.

Suren didn't think that this guy really guessed that he was a suspect. It was just a random excuse. Otherwise, these lackeys wouldn't have come to the door. At least... there would have to be a Sixth-Order.

Since he had revealed his killing intent, Suren would not be polite to the enemy.

But he was not interested in dealing with this level of lackeys, and without saying anything more, he glanced at Kama next to him and said lightly, "Kill them."

"?"

Kama was slightly stunned when she heard this.

She was still thinking about some words to see if she could avoid this conflict.

But she didn't expect her teacher's intention to be a real fight?

Without even talking?

Hearing Suren's cold tone, Kama also reacted instantly. Her teacher was also testing her.

Kama also made a decisive decision immediately. Her expression was stern, and she pinched a mage seal with both hands. Suddenly, four alchemical implants appeared behind her, like the arms of some rare arthropod.

At the same time, she also waved one hand, and almost at the same time, took out ten mechanical puppets from the storage ring.

These were her own mechanical puppets. As soon as the thread was pulled, the jaws of the ten puppets suddenly opened.

"Whoosh", "whoosh", "whoosh", "whoosh"...

A series of dense sounds of breaking wind rang out.

Poisoned steel needles were fired at the opposite group of pirates like a rainstorm.

......

Eber and his pirate group never expected that the other party would suddenly attack!

Damn it, did they meet two fools?

What gives you the confidence to attack us first?

"Damn bitch!"

Eber cursed in his heart. This posture was a sign of a killing move.

Fortunately, he was also a half-assed Second-Order and came from the same sect.

When he saw Kama pinching the mage seal, he knew that she was using some kind of magic.

When the "Poison Needle Rain" struck, Eber reacted very quickly. He also pinched a mage seal, raised his hand and pulled, and seven or eight puppets blocked him.

Two of them were Fourth-Order Rune Puppets that he had snatched before!

"Tuk!"

"Tuk!"

"Tuk!"

"..."

The steel needles hit the puppet's body, making a dense crisp sound.

The poisoned needles pierced the low-level puppets, and immediately emitted corrosive black smoke. The strong poison quickly spread, dyeing the puppets pitch black. Like rotten lotus roots, they quickly withered visibly.

"Ah...!!!"

Several pirates who were hit instantly let out painful wails, rolling and screaming on the deck in agony.

The sound made everyone's scalp tingle, and they retreated far away in an instant.

But even such powerful poisoned needles, when hitting those two Fourth-Order puppets, did not even penetrate the coating layer, and fell down one after another, without sticking to the puppet's body.

Eber was originally startled when he saw the horror of the poisoned needle rain, but when he turned around and saw that the two puppets in front of him completely blocked the poisoned needles, he was immediately overjoyed, and then shouted: "Damn bitch! How dare you kill my brothers?!"

He manipulated the puppets and began to counterattack.

The few Fourth-Order Rune Puppets that Suren gave to Kama were functional puppets, which could be group-controlled and had strong combat power. Obviously, this guy hadn't figured out their effectiveness and only knew how to use them as ordinary puppets. But even so, when the Fourth-Order puppet rushed over, it still blasted Kama's heavy-duty defense puppet with one punch.

With a "clang" sound, the broken puppet fragments scattered all over the ground.

Countless precision gears and springs rolled everywhere.

However, there was no fear on Kama's face, and she took out a spare one to complete the formation.

It could be seen that the limit of her control was about ten puppets.

The key point of mechanical puppets was the various functional and ingenious mechanisms. Kama, as a descendant of the Boyle family, was naturally not bad at these housekeeping skills.

Steel cables, flying claws, hinges, strange thorns, poisonous gas, and even cannons... the mechanical puppets had all kinds of functional hidden weapons.

The two sides fought back and forth, very lively.

The battle between the two puppet masters turned into a battle of dozens of people.

.......

Suren watched from the sidelines the whole time, without any intention of intervening.

He also wanted to see how his newly accepted disciple performed.

After seeing this, the evaluation in his heart was not bad.

Combat awareness A+, skill control B, puppet cooperation B, but that was obviously due to insufficient combat experience, and there was room for improvement later.

What was rare was the courage and decisiveness to take action.

Suren thought she would ask something just now, but he didn't expect to take action so decisively.

Seeing this, Suren also had some thoughts in his heart. After all, she was a descendant of his "senior brother". If her talent was average, he would just take care of her a little, which could be regarded as fulfilling the friendship between the same sect. But now it seemed that it was worth spending some thought to cultivate her.

......

The two fought more and more fiercely, and the people on the North Wind fled one after another, and some even jumped into the sea.

Kama and Eber were from the same sect and were both Second-Order, so their various paths were almost the same.

Originally, the gap shouldn't have been too big.

However, there was too much difference in manipulation skills between the two.

With the same [Puppet Ten Machine Troop] spell, Kama could control ten puppets, while Eber could control at most five or six.

If Eber hadn't relied on those two Fourth-Order puppets and some life-saving methods given by his old man, he would have been killed on the spot long ago.

After the two fought for a while, Suren was very satisfied with Kama's performance and roughly assessed some of her current strengths and weaknesses.

Most of the dozens of pirates had been killed. The Fourth-Order captain on the North Wind saw that he was going to cause trouble and was ready to intervene.

After all, the two "suspects" were on his ship and had killed people from the North Sea Fleet. He knew Eber, and if he really let people kill the son of the Seventh Squad Leader again, then the trouble would be great.

Suren would naturally not watch his disciple be killed.

Just when the bearded captain was about to take action to sneak attack and kill Kama, he grabbed his fingers, and a crystal-clear silk thread appeared out of thin air in the air.

Just when everyone was still paying attention to the battle between the two puppet masters, they watched a human head roll on the deck.

A Fourth-Order professional was... was killed like this?

Everyone was stunned, and disbelief was revealed in their eyes.

Seeing the headless corpse spraying blood wildly, they realized that the little girl who fought ten against one was already very amazing, and the most terrifying was the young man who stood quietly in the corner watching the battle without saying a word.

Kama also saw this scene out of the corner of her eye during the battle, and was extremely excited: Teacher is so powerful!

At this moment, she finally understood why Suren had told her to attack just now.

Strength was his confidence!

From beginning to end, the teacher had the confidence to control everything.

On the other hand, Eber was so frightened that his soul flew out.

One blow killed a Fourth-Order professional "Iron Boots" Helga Ba?!

Didn't that also mean he could kill him?

Eber's little bit of luck instantly vanished, thinking that he could rely on the puppet advantage to delay until his father came to rescue him.

He was very regretful, why did he think of coming to die...

Just in the moment when he was frightened by Suren's methods, Kama seized the opportunity, manipulated a steel cable to wrap around Eber's neck, and suddenly pulled him up and suspended him on the mast.

"Crack!"

The mechanism in the steel cable opened, the blade popped out, and easily cut off Eber's bag.

"Boom!"

A muffled sound.

The headless corpse fell heavily on the deck.

......

Blood splattered on Kama's body, revealing her bloodiness.

But she didn't care about herself, wiped the blood on her face, walked to Suren, "Teacher."

Suren nodded in approval: "You performed pretty well."

Kama listened, as if hearing the most encouraging praise in the world, and joy appeared in her eyes.

At this moment, Suren spoke again: "You wait for me here."

Kama listened with a puzzled look, somewhat puzzled: "You...?"

Suren glanced at the pirate warship in the distance and said lightly: "I'm going to kill his father!"

Kama's face showed an extremely shocked expression when she heard this...

That was a whole organized squad!

The teacher said he was going to kill someone?

Without waiting for help?

This...

How was that possible!

Just when Kama's thoughts were still surging like a storm and had not fully appeared on her face.

Suren clapped his hands, and the Eight-Armed Spider Spear appeared ferociously, jumped down from the deck.

Looking again, a lonely figure was running wildly on the sea.

That back, like a brand, was firmly imprinted in her heart.

Although it was not tall, it was like a mountain collapsing, unstoppable!

For the first time, Kama felt that a person's back could be so powerful that it was awe-inspiring...