“Tch… a suicide attack, eh…” Mr. Vogue squeezed out those words through his teeth upon seeing the cultists’ actions.

“Hmm…” Feng Bujue’s focus, however, wasn’t on that. “Something’s not quite right… The Illusory Demon Church’s cultists aren’t usually the type to ‘unconditionally sacrifice themselves for the faith’.”

“Who cares about that…” Honghu interjected at this point, “What I’m concerned about right now is, in another minute or so, facing the encirclement of nearly a hundred False Dragons… what should we do?”

“You need to get out of here.” The next second, Blackbeard preemptively answered that question.

The word he used was “need,” not “best.” That alone made the three players realize something.

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

“Whatever I’m about to do, you staying here will only get in the way.” Blackbeard responded without any politeness, then looked at Nesslu and said, “Nesslu, take them up into the sky, and come back down after I’ve dealt with these trash.”

“Yes.” Nesslu responded, then turned to the others and said, “Alright, lads, you all heard him, gather around me…”

Although the players weren’t entirely clear on what this guy was planning to do, they still did as they were told, because… the situation around them no longer allowed for any delays.

“Everyone…” A dozen seconds later, when all seven people besides Blackbeard had gathered around Nesslu and stood still, Nesslu spoke again, “Watch your feet.”

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

In that instant, he only heard a strange “pop” sound in his ears, and when he came back to his senses, he was flying towards the sky like a rocket…

“What’s the deal?” While ascending in the air, Honghu, who was relatively stationary with Feng Bujue, took the opportunity to ask him.

Honghu asked this because he knew that Feng Bujue could analyze this 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 he’s standing as the center, he’s turning the ground within a few meters radius around him into a substance similar to a ‘trampoline’. At the moment the skill is activated, any creature standing on the surface of this ‘trampoline’ will be ‘bounced up’ and gradually become weightless, then fly into outer space at a very slow speed… until they escape the planet’s gravity, or the caster actively ends the skill’s effect…”

“Woah woah…” 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 himself will also fly along with them, which means… if he wants to throw an enemy into outer space, then he himself will also have to go out there.”

The three of them just casually discussed the other party’s abilities in front of Nesslu.

Nesslu and the others didn’t feel anything unexpected about this, after all… the name “Crazy Un觉” was already a legendary existence in the main universe. In the eyes of others, his status was about 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 ascended to the heavens, Blackbeard’s dragon-slaying operation also began.

He didn’t “go all-out” as Feng Bujue had predicted. He just… held his Triton Sword and used the most basic melee method… to kill those False Dragons one by one.

Looking down from the sky, Blackbeard was clearly staging a veritable "Pirate Musou" among a pile of monsters. Facing the powerful creature "False Dragon," which excelled in physical combat abilities, Blackbeard maintained a harvesting efficiency like cutting wheat. Comparing this to the trouble the three executives had gone through to kill a single False Dragon… Blackbeard’s unfathomable strength was truly hair-raising.

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

“Didn’t I tell you that it’s none of your business?” Crazy Eye’s answer was the same as last time.

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

“Actually, telling you wouldn’t hurt either.” At this time, 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 took the opportunity to ask, “I’d like to hear the details.”

“Hmm…” Mr. Vogue pondered for a moment, then continued, “Many years ago, when Blackbeard, Crazy 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 only ‘Pirate Queen’ in this sea who was recognized by all the pirates.”

“Even Blackbeard in his prime was never like her… able to make everyone revere and submit to her.”

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

“No one knew her real age, name, or where she came from, but we all heard 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 and replied, “Yes… it’s what you think…” His tone was very low, just like his mood when recalling this past event, “Like the fate of the Four Pillar Gods’ rise, the Nine Gods also had an era that belonged to them, and the person who stood in front of the tide of that era… was Anna.”

“Back then, she led the strongest pirate fleet 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 tactics… not every pirate captain was that smart…”

“Under Westin’s instigation, two pirate groups who usually had a bad relationship began to stand by and conserve their strength, which triggered… the internal collapse of the entire alliance.”

“At this point, the battle situation completely tilted towards the Nine Gods’ side. Seeing that defeat was inevitable, Anna decided to sacrifice herself… she stayed alone on the Queen Pirates’ ‘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 the pirate alliance realized their stupidity and mistakes… but at that time, Anna and the Pursuit had already perished under the combined attack of the Nine Gods and sunk to the bottom of the sea…”

At this point in Vogue’s words, Crazy Eye finally couldn’t hold back and took over the other party’s words: “After that… after some years, Blackbeard’s power rose. That guy thought… 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 that ship’s ‘indestructible keel’, and named it ‘Queen Anna’s Revenge’. Hmph… and what was the result? Did he take revenge on the Nine Gods? No! He just used the Queen’s name to constantly grow his own strength, collecting treasures on the Sea of Chaos… Until the era of the Four Pillar Gods came, he simply ran away to the ‘End of Chaos’ out of fear, and hid until now before coming back…”

“Crazy Eye, the Captain isn’t like what you said…” Mr. Vogue interrupted Crazy Eye’s words, “If you don’t understand, don’t talk nonsense.”

“Bah!” Even with his status as a prisoner, Crazy Eye retorted without showing any weakness, “You should save this kind of bullshit for those rookies who just got on your ship… Who do you think I am?”

Just as the two were about to start arguing, suddenly, another change occurred!

In that instant, a dark purple beam of light shot up from the night, dyeing the sea under the blood moon into an even more妖异 (yāoyì - bewitching) color.

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

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