The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Fortunately, Moran is a curse witch with a peak level of anti-curse magic.

Given Valen's world-level status, even with the core curse of the ghost ship, Moran is confident he can bypass the original undoing path and use his magic to break the curse here.

She channeled her magic, transforming it into the power of a curse, and used it to cast a spell to dispel the curse on the captain's body inside the bronze coffin, gradually breaking the curse on him.

As the curse was lifted, the blood in the pool gradually dried up, and the flesh on the anchor chains and cabin walls quickly fell off and rotted at a visible rate.

The cracks that were once filled with flesh and blood, and the traces of time that were buried by curses, have all reappeared.

Moran, however, had no interest in these matters; her attention was focused on breaking the curse.

The curse on the captain, or rather the curse on this ghost ship, was more difficult to break than she had anticipated.

It doesn't seem to be just a simple curse; there's something else mixed in.

As she broke the spell, the power swiftly abducted the souls of the captain and crew, who were bound by the ghost ship.

If she hadn't reacted in time, slowed down the spell, and used her magic to suppress the suddenly appearing force, even the energy inside the gold coin's heart would have been absorbed.

Then the "heart of the ghost ship" is useless.

Fortunately, in the end, the "heart of the ghost ship" was saved.

Moran handed over the "Heart of the Ghost Ship" she had obtained to the Book of Cards as a card-making material, and designed and produced the {Material Card - Heart of the Ghost Ship} before carefully analyzing the ball of energy that she had intercepted.

It resembles dark elemental power, but it also seems somewhat different. It not only possesses characteristics of spiritual and mental power, having a certain influence on the mind and thoughts, but also has a hint of contractual power.

There is only one continent, Valen, that matches this energy characteristic.

"Demon power?" Moran thought about it more and more and felt that this was demon power. What demons wield is an energy that resembles dark elemental power, but has the ability to bewitch people and harvest souls.

The contract made with demonic power is no less binding than Ms. Carmela's contract.

However, the devil's contract only comes at the cost of life and soul.

"Aren't ghost ships naturally formed? How are they connected to demons?"

Moran looked at the captain's body in the coffin with a strange expression, and suddenly became curious about what had happened on this ship.

Unfortunately, the captain's soul couldn't be preserved either, otherwise we could have used the resurrection technique to wake him up and ask him questions.

Now the only option left is to try the source tracing technique.

After the curse was lifted, the ghost ship was truly dead, and it was about to sink.

The ship's past dates back countless years. Moran dared not waste any time and immediately mobilized his magic to use the Origin Tracing spell on the captain's corpse.

The Origin Tracing Technique immediately traced back the corpse's past, the events that had happened to him, flashing rapidly through Moran's mind.

Skipping over the image of him lying in the bronze coffin, Moran finally saw what the corpse had gone through when it still had the ability to move.

He was once a good navigator, dreaming of finding the "sunken gold kingdom".

Marriage and children did not diminish his desire for wealth.

To raise funds for his expedition, he even deliberately altered the ship's logbook, causing a merchant ship to run aground, and then disguised it as an "accident" to salvage the cargo.

But no matter how hard he searched, he could not find the legendary "Golden Kingdom".

After seven failed voyages, he prayed to the Lord of the Deep Sea one night: "Give me endless wealth, give me an eternal voyage, give me a ship that never sinks!" The Lord of the Deep Sea answered him, saying that he would grant his wish if he was willing to gouge out the eyes of his own child and use the souls of everyone on board as payment.

His mind was blinded by greed and obsession, and he signed the contract without hesitation.

He couldn't understand the patterned characters on the edge of the contract, but Moran could.

That was clearly the language of the abyss demons, which read, "Your bones are the boat, your blood is the sea, your soul is the sail, never to reach the shore."

Moran had seen the title "Lord of the Deep Sea" in the history books of the Divine Descent Era; it was indeed one of the identities used by demons.

In those days, demons were still active on the surface world. They loved to amplify the desires in people's hearts and steal their souls. It's not surprising that someone like the captain was targeted.

No wonder the ghost ship didn't release the souls of the dead on board after the curse was lifted, as the legends say. It was a ghost ship created by using the captain's own body and soul as nourishment, the captain's son's resentment as the source of the curse, and the souls of everyone on board as a catalyst.

The captain and crew's souls had long been marked by the demonic contract, remaining on the ship only to help him hunt more souls.

Once the curse was lifted, these souls were naturally harvested by the demonic power.

Even Moran couldn't stop it.

Because this was a "pact" between the captain and crew and the devil.

Even if the agreement is signed through deception or fraud, it is still valid and not so easily broken.

However, the heart of the ghost ship was a byproduct of its creation and its connection to demons was not as deep, which is why she was able to gain the upper hand in the struggle for control of the ghost ship's heart.

Seawater flooded into the cabin, the captain's body decomposed rapidly, and Moran's Origin Tracing spell, having lost its target, came to an abrupt end.

Although I didn't see the end, it was pretty much over.

Moran used teleportation magic to leave the cabin, sat on the flying carpet, and watched the ghost ship gradually being swallowed by the sea.

This time, it's a permanent sinking.

Zizi and Kaba also came out, with Kaba looking at her expectantly.

Moran took out the {Material Card - Heart of the Ghost Ship} and materialized it: "Here you go! There's more after you finish this."

The heart of the ghost ship is rich in soul energy, which is more beneficial to undead creatures than soul essence.

Kaba ripped off his jawbone and stuffed the ghost ship's heart into his skull.

The flames of the soul enveloped the heart of the ghost ship, burning slowly.

With a snap, his head lolled to the side and he fell to the ground.

"Squeak!" Squeak was so startled that it forgot it had learned to speak the common language.

“It’s fine,” Moran said.

If it weren't for the fact that the skeleton was still intact, hadn't fallen apart, the soul fire was still blazing, and the Death Servant Contract was still intact, Moran would almost have thought that the ghost ship's heart had been damaged by its eating.
"It's because I ate too well and need some time to sleep so that it can digest."

When Zhizhi heard that Kaba was still asleep, it immediately opened the coffin lid, rolled it up, stuffed it back into the coffin, and even put its jawbone back on.

However, Zizi didn't seem to understand the skeleton's structure well enough, and installed the lower jawbone backwards.

Before Moran could even remind it, it contentedly closed the coffin lid for Kaba. (End of Chapter)