Bonus Chapter [4] - 640 Power Stones.
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Rigel was facing a difficult problem: a lack of supplies.
No, to be clearer, what Rigel was running out of was the food prepared by Kreacher.
When he first traveled, he didn't expect to arrive in the 18th century, in fact, he didn't even know where he was going. Anything was possible, so he brought a lot of dried meat and water.
Sure, although he still had enough dried meat to last for years, he didn't want to actually spend years doing it.
There are still about one to two years left before Jack's debt needs to be paid off, which means Rigel won't see Davy Jones anytime soon, and he wants it to stay that way.
He is not ready to face the ghost octopus man.
So, this time in Tortuga, Rigel was ready to prepare his own food, although Kreacher was in charge of the cooking, Rigel, who needed to practice magic, chose the least dangerous and most convenient spells to try.
Like cleaning spells, sewing spells, and in this case, even cooking spells, although Kreacher wasn't too happy about him taking his place and wasting food, Rigel still learned a lot from the little house-elf.
Although the magic of the House-Elves was different, it could still serve as a reference.
Thus, Rigel had his crew buy all sorts of products, from live animals that were processed by butchers Rigel hired for that purpose, making sure they used clean tools and thoroughly washed hands.
In fact, Rigel cleaned them himself, he refused to eat anything contaminated by anyone.
Not only meats, but fruits, vegetables, and greens, due to the tropical climate of the Caribbean, there was a very wide variety, he even managed to get spices for a ridiculously high price. Rigel even considered changing careers and becoming a spice merchant.
Few merchant ships were brave enough to trade with Tortuga, but there were always some who dared to take a chance. In that location, they discovered that their goods would sell not only quickly, but with a higher profit margin, so they ended up returning.
In any case, Rigel managed to prepare dozens of large dishes, placing a preservation spell on them, the latter he didn't know and spent three days learning in his coffin, it was truly necessary, as it would last long enough until he found a better place to buy food.
However, precisely because he could process so much food, he discovered a problem: his bag only held the space of one room, but with all the treasure he had obtained from Barbosa, he was running out of room.
The coins were fine because they were compact, but there were many "useless" things, such as paintings, sculptures, fabric, and anything else expensive at that time.
Rigel worked hard to get rid of some of it in Tortuga, but the rest was either too expensive or too useless to be sold here.
He sighed and could only content himself with waiting until he reached a suitable place to sell things.
As for how to find a buyer? Sorry, but he has a compass that points to what he wants most.
It was incredible what that thing could do with that compass when you have enough imagination.
Rigel filled most of the remaining space in his bag, most of the fruit was simply protected with a preservative spell and kept on the ship.
With his cargo full, Rigel was ready to set sail again, he would take the old man and the boy to London, where he also hoped to sort through the rest of the useless things in his bag, exchanging them for more compact gold and jewels.
After that, he could go after Blackbeard, he doesn't plan on using the compass to search for the unknown supernatural anytime soon. The last lesson with Dracula made it quite clear that there are things in this world he can't meddle with.
If he had encountered Dracula at night, the outcome of that battle would have been very different. Not every monster in this world has weaknesses as obvious as Dracula's, next time he might be the unlucky one.
[For those who are already confused about the number of people, here is the crew list:
John
William (Billy)
Thomas
Jonas
George
William Turner (Will)
Elizabeth Swann.
Anamaria
Ragetti
Pintel
Marty
Cotton (and Cotton's parrot).
Anna
Clemens
Jack (Monkey)
Salazar (Cobra)
+Snakes summoned and hidden throughout the ship.
+Unnamed Pirate Mobs.
Elliot (Old Man) and his grandson, Toby. (Temporary crew members.)]
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A/N: So, yesterday a guy left a review saying I forgot this is a Harry Potter fanfic. He expected a small arc, but apparently the Pirates of the Caribbean world is endless.
That confused me more than anything else. I thought I had made the premise of the story very clear: each world is an adventure, not just a short excerpt saying what the MC did, what he achieved, and what rewards he received.
Anyway... I don't know if this guy is the only one, but if not, I hope you readers know that each Adventure world is, as the name suggests, an adventure that can take dozens to hundreds of chapters to complete.