Chapter 114: Dark Continent
Translator: Tseirp
Geyserik’s ship was a sailing ship with three mast called a carack . The Veronian army ships were galley ships so I was slightly surprised .
“That man’s ship during his pirating days was called Mother‧Elvir . It was a ship that experienced the Storm King and saw the end of the Silent Blue ocean . That man did not remain in a single location and went around the world whenever he heard talks about treasure . ”
“Storm King as in the nest of storms on the West trade route? No way, did you guy enter the Dark Continent?”
“Yes, we were there for about five months . We and the Fairy Pirate Ririnrara led a fleet of seven vessels into the Dark Continent . We attacked a harbor on the Dark Continent and obtained various treasures that would be impossible to find on the Avalon Continent . ”
The illusion crossed the stormy sea and projected a gray stretch of land .
Geyserik and party attacked the harbor where bearded dwarves and orcs with protruding tusks lived . From the projection, I saw many weapons, armors, and monsters that I had never seen before .
Thin-bladed swords that looked like whips, clockwork-style hammers built with alchemical explosives meant to fire an anchor, and a strange weapon with a chain attached to the skull of a giant .
The dwarves pulled the trigger on their mechanical bow and a hail of arrows was shot at the pirates .
The Orc 『Drake Riders』 controlled their eerie scale-less drakes to descend on the deck and swallowed the unfortunate seafarers .
“Bastard! I’m not afraid!”
Geyserik cried out .
He raised the saber he snatched from an Orc Warrior and took the lead to cut down the Dark Continent drakes .
“So this is the Dark Continent . ”
Beyond the stormy sea where storms rage all year round, feared as the Storm King .
Similar to the Great Mountain range of the eastern boundary called the Wall at the End of the World, it was a boundary that blocked brave explorers from entering further west . Beyond that sea was the world where the Demon Lord lived and we were able to see it through Mistome-shi’s memories .
” … Onii-chan . ”
Ruti gripped my arm .
That was the world where Ruti was meant to travel to and it was her fate to fight there since birth .
I hugged Ruti’s shoulders and brought her body close to me .
The vast wilderness spread across the entirety of the Dark Continent . It was not a thick forest where all kinds of trees grew like on the Avalon Continent . The land was covered with wilderness and mountains and below the Dark Continent Great Capital, there lied a huge cavern called the Under Deep .
Ruti was meant to venture alone into the depth of the barren earth where light could not reach .
“Full starboard!! Full speed!!!!”
Geyserik shouted .
Countless number of wyvern cavalry flew through the sky .
“Captain! It was a bad idea to touch the Demon Lord Army’s supplied!”
“Idiot! How can you call yourself a pirate if you are afraid of something like the Demon Lord!”
A fiery flash and bang rang out from behind .
“Uwaaaaaaa!!!”
The pirates screamed . One of the ship from the fleet was struck by a spear of lightning that coalesced a storm and it sunk after being split cleanly into two .
“Gargantua Storm Javelin! Who did it!!”
“It was me . ”
A white-haired demon with lightning crackling on both his hands said while looking down at the pirates as he straddled a wyvern .
“That’s the Four Heavenly King of Wind, Gandol . ”
Ruti muttered to me . Tise seemed a little shocked as well as her lips were slightly bent .
He was the Demon Lord Army Four Heavenly King that Ruti and party fought after I left the party . The Wind Demon that leads a squadron of unbeatable wyvern air cavalry .
As the front-line commander for the invasion of the Avalon Continent, it was his wind wyvern cavalry that burnt the capital of the now extinct Kingdom of Franberg .
Gandol once again created a huge storm spear .
“You guys are riding on quite an old ship, did you steal it from a museum? Outcast of the wilderness people … what made you lose your mind to attack our warehouse . ”
“Shut up! No man can become a pirate if he flees from fear even though there is treasure in front of him!”
Geyserik shouted . It seemed that he was angry that the demon insulted his ship .
However, it seemed that Gandol was not fazed as he tilted his head with a frown .
“A pirate with that ship? I don’t get it even more now . Oh well, either way, you all will die here . ”
“Ddamn it! Stop flying in the sky and fight me!”
Geyserik swung his saber while cursing but it did not bother Gandol and he threw his storm spear .
That moment .
“Control Wind!”
Misufia made a seal and cast her magic .
Gandol’s Gargantua Storm Javelin was wrapped in winds and the unnatural expansion of wind became a powerful tailwind for the ship’s sails .
“What!?”
Gandol’s expression changed for the first time .
Gargantua Storm Javelin could track its target to some extent . In order to evade that storm spear, the target had to dodge it directly before contact . However, the storm spear was charged with lightning energy so even if a direct hit is avoided, the target would suffer burns to the body from the lightning .
It was a powerful magic suitable to be an advance magic .
I recalled Lit collapsing from Ares’ magic and the fear and anger from that time surfaced .
Misufia used the intermediate magic Control Wind to counter that ultimate killing magic .
Of course, controlling the wind would not stop the Gargantua Storm Javelin . However, the winds from the storm spear become a driving force to move the ship .
The ship would accelerate and get away the nearer the storm spear approached it . The pirate ship left Gandol along with the storm spear .
“Hyahoooo!”
Geyserik cheered . However, the mast creaked worryingly from the excessive pressure placed on it from the strong tailwind .
“Captain! The mast will break at this rate!!”
A pirate said with an expression that looked like he was about to cry . However, Geyserik grinned and kicked the mast .
Geyserik shouted loudly after laughing off the pirates’ worries which made them turn pale .
“It will not break! Show some backbone if you are my ship!”
“That’s unreasonable . ”
Misufia said with exasperation .
“Pirates experience everyday unreasonably! Kuhahahaha!!”
” … That’s certainly true . ”
Even though they were in a dangerous situation, Misufia laughed along with Geyserik .
“You were supposed to teach me how to behave like a king but … you ended up behaving like a pirate first!”
“That’s all your fault, Geyserik! … Please take responsibility . ”
Misufia’s latter half of the sentence was lost with the wind and did not seem to reach Geyserik yet at that moment .