Ring of Fate

Chapter 782 Pirate Port
Port Panamore.

Walking down the street, Lumian always felt as if he had come to Backlund, the capital of the Kingdom of Loen. Although he had never been there, the foggy sky and the damp and cold environment were exactly the same as the ridicule of Backlund in Trier's newspapers and magazines.

Of course, the architectural style here is significantly different from Backlund, and can be divided into two categories: one is huge but not rough, with typical Feysac characteristics; the other is built with a mixture of stone and wood, simple and rough, and lacking planning, sometimes crowded together, and sometimes far apart.

Most of the pedestrians coming and going on the street are dressed in typical pirate costumes, with short knives slung across their waists and muskets inserted in their bodies, without any covering. Those with brown skin look more like local residents, always smiling and looking ingratiating.

Lumian could fully understand the mentality of the natives. After all, if they really made a pirate unhappy, they might be dragged into a corner and killed, or someone might sneak into their room and kill them while they were sleeping at night, and the killer would just turn around and board his own pirate ship and sail away.

The current rulers of Banam Island have attempted to recruit pirates and adventurers as a force for maintaining order, and they also hope that the great pirates can negotiate a Pirate Convention to constrain the behavior of pirates in the port, but these initiatives have had limited effect.

This is because people who are used to being pirates, even if they become sheriffs or policemen, cannot quickly become law-abiding and strict with themselves, and there is also a lack of strong local forces to suppress them. As a result, it is common for sheriffs to break the law knowingly, and the number of cases of accepting bribes and shielding criminals is too numerous to record.

The pirate convention discussed by the big pirates is not mandatory. Even if someone really violates it, at most they will suffer a little punishment within their own pirate group. After all, no one is willing to hand over their own people to others for punishment.

The biggest effect of these measures was that they made Panamore Harbor look relatively orderly. While enjoying the bustling street scene, Lumian could occasionally hear screams or gunshots coming from deep in the alleys on both sides.

"This place is perfect for hunters..." he said sincerely.

When the two groups of pirates started fighting in the middle of the street, Lumian suddenly had an idea:
"It's not impossible to place the Great Plague required for the Ascension Ceremony of the Witch of Despair here...

"We just need to develop a medicine that can prevent infection or serious illness in advance for the predicted plague, and secretly distribute it to the residents here...

"The only problem is that there are obviously not 30,000 pirates. Well, there are quite a few Beyonders among the pirates. If we really infect them and make them suffer pain and despair, we should be able to significantly reduce the number of people required for the ritual..."

While watching the pirates fighting with great interest, Lumian pondered the feasibility of holding the "Witch of Despair" ceremony in Panamore Harbor.

When the fight between the pirates was coming to an end, the sheriffs finally arrived, dispersed the two groups, and symbolically arrested several people.

This is waiting for the corresponding pirate group to pay the fine!

As for which group suffered losses and wants to get them back, I'm sorry, the local sheriff is only responsible for maintaining order, not upholding justice. You should go to the sea and fight another battle on yourselves.

During this process, several pirate bodies left on the street that had not yet been carried back were quietly dragged away by adventurers and local residents.

Lumian wanted to applaud such order.

While it was still light and there was still sunlight filtering through the fog, he continued to stroll through the streets of Panamore Harbor.

When passing by a stone house with a small square, he saw about ten or twenty people gathered there, most of whom looked like local residents, and on the stone platform in front of them stood a pirate wearing a two-cornered hat and blue woolen clothes.

The pirate was shouting in Feysac:
"You are just a bunch of puppies who just left their mother's arms. If you want to become qualified pirates, you need to receive corresponding training. Now, I will give you the first lesson, which is which people you can mess with and which you can't mess with on the sea..."

Feysac is a language that is the least different from the ancient Feysac. Lumian, who is proficient in the ancient Feysac language, can barely understand what the pirate is saying. He found out that the pirate group was recruiting new members and providing basic training.

“How come it’s just like a big company in Trier hiring new employees…” Lumian muttered inwardly as he saw the pirates on the stone platform hanging up wanted posters and portraits, and introducing the six kings of the sea, the nine generals and famous adventurers one by one.

This was exactly the information Lumian wanted to collect. He stopped and listened leisurely from a certain distance.

Without any surprise, he saw Louis Berry's portrait and detailed introduction.

At last, the pirate in the two-cornered hat on the stone platform pointed to a portrait and said:
"Although his reward is not high, you must not underestimate him, and don't even have any contact with him."

No contact? Lumian looked closely and found that the protagonist in the portrait was a man in his thirties with a strong physique, thick brown sweat hair, wearing overalls and a white shirt.

Then, the pirate in the two-cornered hat introduced the new pirates in a serious tone:

"His name is Frank Lee, the first mate of the Star Queen, and a Druid.

"What is a 'Druid'? I'll tell you when I introduce you to the common knowledge of Beyonders. Anyway, a 'Druid' is Sequence 5, the same as the pirate generals. So, do you understand how terrifying Frank Lee is?
"But this is not the main reason why adventurers and pirates dare not mention his name at sea. I don't know the real reason. I only know that every pirate and adventurer who has met Frank Lee seems to have some kind of mental illness. They will jump up from their chairs when this person is mentioned. Some will even vomit on the spot. They always tell me nervously to stay away from Frank Lee, and not to leave my blood near Frank Lee, and not to eat food that appears around Frank Lee..."

It turns out that the legendary druid Frank Lee is the first mate of the pirate king, the "Queen of Stars"... But why are so many pirates and adventurers so afraid of him? Even if he has the strength of a pirate general and is very cruel, he shouldn't cause such a phenomenon... Lumian muttered silently as he listened to the introduction of the pirate in the two-cornered hat.

He was a little curious about what was so special about Frank Lee.

After watching the pirate group recruit new members, Lumian went to the carnival bar not far away.

He squeezed through the pirates who made no secret of their identities, sat on a high stool in front of the bar, and ordered a glass of Lilanzi.

The common language in Banam Port is Feysac, but the pirates who come and go speak all kinds of languages, and none of them like to learn, so few of them are proficient in multiple languages. Therefore, those who speak Feysac are in one circle, those who speak Intis are in another circle, and so on. The reason why Lumian chose the Carnival Bar is that all the words on its sign are from Intis.

In the noisy and lively environment, Lumian drank two sips of Relanci, put down the glass, looked at the bartender, and asked loudly in Intis:

"Do you have detailed information on the nine pirate generals? Not including the ones mentioned in the wanted poster."

Suddenly, the sound in the entire bar disappeared, and all the pirates present turned their eyes to Lumian at the bar.

It became extremely quiet here, and even the faint sound of someone swallowing saliva could be heard.

The bartender's expression became embarrassed, but also a little amused. He said to Lumian:

“Are you an adventurer?”

He actually went to a bar where pirates gathered to ask for detailed information about the pirate general!
Lumian didn't answer the bartender, but turned half sideways to look at the pirates who were staring at him.

Flames lit up around him, and one red-white fireball after another condensed and hovered in the air.

Then, Lumian laughed and raised his chin slightly.

"Although your bounties are not high and I am too lazy to do it, if someone wants to give me the money, I don't mind accepting it."

The pirates' expressions suddenly changed, but Lumian's gaze did not flinch at all. He glanced at the pirates' faces and asked with a sneer:

"Want to come?"

Quiet, quiet again, the entire carnival bar remained silent.

Every pirate present could intuitively feel the danger contained in those dozen or so red and almost white fireballs.

Lumian stopped provoking and pointed at a chair a few meters behind him.
“Don’t appear behind me, and don’t think about getting close to me and assassinating me when there are many people at the scene.

"I will kill anyone who crosses this chair."

After saying that, Lumian turned around, and under the backdrop of a dozen fireballs, he smiled and said to the bartender:

"You can answer my question now."

Seeing that this adventurer had not introduced himself or boasted about his past deeds, but his words and actions showed strong self-confidence and an attitude of killing people like drinking water, the bartender smiled:

"What we know is similar to what is on the wanted poster. If you really want to know more secrets, you can ask the enemies of different pirate generals. Emperor Roselle once said that the one who knows a person best is his enemy."

"Please tell me in detail about the enemies of each pirate general." Lumian took another sip of Lelanzi.

Inside the bar hall, the pirates saw that the adventurer was easily maintaining the existence of the fireball, so they had to start chatting with their companions again. Some of them also quietly left, as if to look for help.

Lumian didn't stop him, didn't even look at him.

When the bartender finished speaking, he roughly understood who the enemy of "Admiral of the Deep" Hal Constantine was:
This pirate general with sea monster bloodline has always been low-key and mysterious. Apart from doing his job as a pirate, his methods are rather bloody and cruel. He rarely conflicts with other pirate generals or other major forces. However, Bulatov Ivan, the former "Vice Admiral of Dusk" and now the "King of Dusk", suspected that Hal Constantine's two "stealth ships" were obtained from a legendary treasure on the sea - "Lost Newnes", so he set his sights on this "Admiral of the Deep Sea" and wanted to get information about Newnes from him. The two sides had many conflicts.

When Bulatov became the king of the sea, "Admiral of the Deep" Hal Constantine had to always avoid this powerful man and his fleet.

(End of this chapter)