"Damn it! How are you going to compensate me!"
"Why so agitated? Could it be that those few houses are yours?" Luo En said teasingly.
"I…" Danitz was speechless for a moment, but thinking of his years of savings going down the drain in an instant, anger welled up from his heart.
"What if they are?!"
Danitz's voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth, "That's my savings from many years!"
"You, you…!" He took a step forward and grabbed Luo En's collar.
"Go quickly and find Roy King to buy back my houses."
"Cough, cough…" Luo En pursed his lips, motioning for Danitz to look around.
The surrounding Sailors had all put down their food and wine glasses, staring intently at the two of them.
Clearly, the commotion between them had attracted the attention of others in the restaurant.
In an instant, the originally noisy restaurant became quiet.
"Calm down, Danitz." Luo En slowly pried open his fingers,
"Secret… and secret…"
"I…" Danitz's momentum instantly deflated.
Surveying the Sailors around him, recalling his recent anxious life, and the savings that might turn into nothing, he picked up the wine glass on the table and drank the liquid inside in one gulp.
Under the influence of alcohol, he gritted his teeth and spoke.
"Are you provoking me?!"
"You succeeded!"
"I'm going to take you down with me…"
A fireball condensed in Danitz's hand. The orange-red fire illuminated the dim restaurant.
This…
This scene stunned the onlookers. From their perspective, Danitz and Brando had clearly just been drinking and bragging to each other.
But then, suddenly, they inexplicably turned hostile.
Did Danitz drink too much?
Uh… things seemed to be getting a little out of control. Luo En's mouth twitched, seeing Danitz's desperate stance.
'Sure enough, it's best not to drink randomly.'
Seeing the situation gradually spiraling out of control, Luo En took a step forward, intending to stop the other party. Just as he was about to explain the truth to Danitz.
"Danitz, what are you doing!"
A crisp female voice came.
Edwina slowly walked into the pirate restaurant, speaking to stop Danitz's behavior.
Normally, Edwina's dinner would be in the captain's cabin, and someone would specially deliver it.
But because today was the day to get supplies, she had a whim to come to the mess hall to see, and unexpectedly, she happened to encounter such a thing.
"Captain…" The moment he saw the newcomer, Danitz instantly sobered up.
"Captain, that was… that was…" Danitz stammered.
"I remember," Edwina said word by word, "that using Beyonder abilities in public areas on the ship is prohibited."
…
The matter concluded with Danitz being taken away for discipline.
He was probably going to be punished by copying several books.
Of course, Luo En did not kick him while he was down. In the end, he still told Danitz the truth of the matter. His houses were still there and had not been sold cheaply.
At the same time, he also declared to the people around that this was just a misunderstanding and had no other meaning.
This made Danitz feel a little better.
However, this incident also changed Luo En's perception of Danitz to some extent. As a pirate, he had money but didn't go to the Red Theater, gamble, or drink; instead, he saved money to buy houses…
Is this what an educated pirate looks like…
…
"The Black Emperor appeared several times, and it doesn't match the history in the textbooks…"
Inside the storeroom, Luo En was flipping through Antigonus's notes that he and Edwina had translated these past few days.
He was trying to find clues to the strange things he encountered in Tingen.
"The word 'Emperor' appears much more frequently than the True Gods, and his power seems to be no less than that of a True God, no, it's higher…"
"It's truly amazing! Even in the present where Beyonder has been hidden, history textbooks cannot completely erase his existence."
"From a Beyonder historical perspective, the Black Emperor's Sequence is very high. Even if he doesn't reach the Sequence of a deity, it's probably close. His influence is so great that it's impossible to hide, so history can only be rewritten to a certain extent to make it seem reasonable."
"But the Emperor is gone, leaving only the Seven Deities. Could it be that imperial power became stronger than divine power, so he was… by the Seven Deities?"
Making a bold assumption, Antigonus, as a noble, naturally stood with the Emperor, and thus was purged by the Seven Deities.
This family then disappeared from history.
"But, this notebook indeed contains very valuable information." Luo En recalled the formula that appeared before.
'Those interested in it are either the surviving descendants of this family, or Beyonders of the Seer Pathway, or the True Gods who annihilated their family.'
"The Empress of Disaster and Misfortune, Evernight Goddess, is also one of the Seven Deities."
"So many bizarre things…"
…
Backlund.
Klein had finished a few days of busy work. He successfully used divination to find Zeruel, whom Ian had asked him to help find.
Although when he found the person, Zeruel was already a corpse. And the corpse had been mystically processed.
Clearly, the other party had encountered a Beyonder incident. Although he had some curiosity, Klein wisely chose to stop there. Since the commission was completed, there was no need to delve further and invite trouble.
He took Ian to see Zeruel's corpse and received confirmation from him.
He also successfully received the previously agreed-upon reward from Ian.
"Although it's a bit hard, the taste is still okay…" Klein put down the oatmeal bread he had packed from the guild cafeteria and took a swig of milk.
The free breakfast put him in a good mood.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
Loud knocking echoed in the living room, entering Klein's ears.
Klein frowned slightly, his rare good mood gone again.
'Can't you just ring the doorbell?'
He grumbled two sentences in his heart, came to the door, and reached out to pull it open.
What came into view was a dark-skinned, deep-set eyed, lean and strong highland man.
Mersault, the "Executioner" of the Zmanger Party… Klein recognized the person at a glance. He had "searched" for information about the other party in his previous investigations.
"Are you Sherlock Moriarty?"
"Yes." Klein answered concisely.
"I want to commission you to find someone."
"That person is named Ian, Ian Wright. He has bright red eyes, about fifteen or sixteen years old… I think you should know him."
"You will get at least 10 pounds as a reward."
"Too few clues." Klein shook his head.
"30 pounds."
"No, this goes against my principle of confidentiality." Klein still shook his head and refused.
"50 pounds, final offer."
Uh… Klein was silent for two seconds, but still chose to refuse.
"Sorry, I won't take this task."
…
Looking at Mersault's back, Klein sighed in his heart, this gang's intelligence gathering ability is pretty good… they actually know that Ian came to see me before.
…
"Forget it." After a moment of thought, Klein put down his doubts… It's just a gang, how much trouble could it be?