The ship they boarded was much smaller than the ship they previously were traveling on. This one was only roughly one third the size of the other ship.
Once the ship was completely taken over, they would cut all of the ropes that kept the ship bounded together, free the ship, allowing them to escape. This was of course after they somehow set fire to the three other enemy’s ships and the large ship they were on before.
Zhang had broken off from the group along with Yuying and Ai. They were currently headed toward the storage room of the ship. Zhang’s goal being to get his two canteens of corrosive poison. Although he didn’t hope they would work but they most likely would come in handy during the escape.
“Damn maybe we shouldn’t have killed all of those guys, at least after they tell us where the storage room on this ship is.”, Zhang said with a sigh.
Once Zhang walked up to her, Yuying placed her hand on the corpse's forehead. Then strange runes appeared and covered her hand. The runes danced about on her own skin and then shot straight into the corpse.
“Stand.”, Yuying commanded.
“Now lead us to the storeroom.”
“Impressed brother? Hehe”, she said with a laugh.
“Simple, I used a technique I learned in the underworld, called “Reanimation.” This technique lets me send essence into someone who had recently died and reactivate their body. Once someone dies, their soul passes on into the Underworld however, their body still retains a bit of their intelligence. I’m able to reactivate the body and command it to do my bidding. I could use this on living people also but to a lesser extent but we shouldn’t rely on it because the technique isn’t meant for someone only at the 4th level in terms of essence to us. If one wasn’t mindful, they’d end up sapping themselves of energy and might die.”, she explained.
The corpse stumbled its way to the storeroom as the trio trailed behind it. The corpse had lead them to an iron door that was bolted into the walls of the ship.
Once the drops entered the lock, a fizzing sound could be heard and smoke could be seen floating out of the lock.
Zhang reached his hand and opened a large chest by the entrance. Countless shimmering golden coins filled the chest to the brim. As he opened a larger chest he found that they were all filled with gold coins. Upon closer inspection Zhang found that all of these coins were from an area on the southern peninsula of the Wulin continent.
That being said the ownership of land in this area still constantly shifted from one person to the next. Rulers would be challenged and replaced or one state would conquer another. The rulers of the states did not bother with internal struggles only when invaders from other kingdoms intervened.
“Brother, sister look!”, Ai yelled at Zhang.
“Those are interspatial rings!!! Just what we needed.”, Zhang exclaimed. With these rings they would be able to store away all of their things and not have to carry loads of stuff while traveling. Ai handed Zhang and Yuying each a ring and put one ring on her finger and put the box with the extra ring inside her interspatial ring. They only needed three rings one for each person and the extra ring they’d most likely sell.
Finding the rings on this ship was extremely odd how could pirates come into possession of such pricey things and not even store them on their flag ship?
After he stored everything away, it was time to go back to the upper deck and meet up with the sailors. As they made their way up, the trio did not meet any enemies. However, when they reached the upper decks they stumbled upon a horrific scene.
Only around fifteen sailors including Jian Wei and Yan Li were still left standing. Whereas in front of them stood roughly a hundred pirates with weapons ready to draw blood. Jian Wei’s face was white as paper and blood was dripping off of his fingertips.
“They found the bodies of their comrades quicker than we thought and then had everyone confirm that they were their comrades. All of them have a tiger tattoo on one of their arms.”, A sailor told Zhang.
Seeing Zhang moved the rest of the sailors charged also, along with Yuying and Ai. If they faltered all that waited them was death. So naturally they, had nothing to lose and fight all out.
Like a whirlwind Zhang danced through the mob of pirates. As he passed by, severed limbs were sent flying and blood sprayed in all directions. Zhang was like a bloodthirsty beast that had just been uncaged.
“Li he might be the one that I’ve been looking for all this time.”, he whispered.
Shortly after, more pirates came over from the other ships and filled the deck of the ship. A man watched the battle from the crow’s nest of another ship and pulled out a flare from his pocket.
A red flare could be seen in the sky. After this flare was shot two more blue flares were shot from the pirate flag ship. Once those two blue flares were shot two of the ships that had been waiting from afar moved toward where Zhang and the sailors were.
“Retreat to the lower decks!!! We can’t fight them all at once!”, Zhang yelled.
If battle was to break out in the lower decks it would be much more manageable than on the upper decks. This was because the hallways only allowed for roughly two or three people to stand side by side. So at most they’d only have to fight three pirates at one time. Rather than fighting pirates from multiple directions.
“You all stay in here I will go out and stretch a bit.”, Zhang said as he rushed out of the doorway slashing wildly.
Using both swords in his hand he did not waste any of his movements. Every swung cut flesh, and every lunge pierced skin.
Everything was going smoothly until a man with a silver mask walked in the corridor. The masked man had long flowing black hair and pitch black battle armor on.
“Hmph don’t group me with those lowlifes. I’m part of the order of the blue moon. I was hired to return back a certain man’s head and present it to my employer. Now move out of the way and I just might let you live.”, the masked man said.
Swinging both of his swords horizontally Zhang wanted to bisect the man in two. However, to Zhang’s amazement the masked man’s sword cut Zhang’s two swords into halves.
Seeing the strange vial, the man instinctively dodged but when he was in close proximity with the man Zhang released his essence which made the vial to hold the poison. Once the vial disappeared the poison splashed everywhere.
“What the fuck was that? You brat you're looking to die!!!”, the man screamed as he glared at Zhang.
The masked man also charged at Zhang. When the two was in reaching distance of each other the man lunged his sword looking to pierce Zhang’s heart. Seeing this, Zhang moved to the side. But he was not quick enough and the man’s sword pierced his shoulder.
“Wha what did you do to me!!”, the man screamed as he felt his consciousness fade and after a few moment his body like many others before him, slumped to the ground and became lifeless.
Afterwards, not wasting anytime, Zhang quickly took off the man’s armor and donned it. He also took the man’s sword and tied it to his waist.
Once the armor was donned Zhang began his killing spree again.