Extraordinary Rise: Starting Contract with the Silver Dragon Countess

Chapter 254: The Future Queen of the Ocean! (New heroine debuts, please subscribe!)

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Cohen naturally didn't know that he was being targeted by Saint Haywood of the Church of Prophecy, but it wouldn't matter even if he knew.

Anyway, this vest will only be used this time, and with the threat from his cheap father-in-law, the Church of Prophecy dare not take action against him.

The light and shadows became much clearer, and the appearance of Saint Heywood also appeared, unexpectedly handsome and youthful.

The appearance of an extraordinary person will be frozen at the moment of breaking through the legendary level. It seems that Saint Haywood is also a person with outstanding talent.

Since the coordinates Cohen provided were real, Heywood had no intention of shirking his responsibility and asked:

"Tell me, which legendary transcendental being would you like to divine the past of?"

Cohen's voice showed no emotion, and he said slowly:

"Flint Blackfang."

Saint Heywood frowned slightly and quickly replied:

"Flint Blackfang, the former leader and current captain of the Scarlet Reavers, one of the three major pirate groups in the waters off the northwest continent, and a low-level legendary rank [Ghost Captain]?"

Cohen replied:

"It's him. I need to know his past."

Saint Heywood looked at Cohen deeply and slowly closed his eyes. Not long after, an extremely obvious exclamation sounded from the light and shadow.

Saint Haywood opened his eyes, his face filled with solemnity and confusion.

For a moment, golden light shone brightly in the secret room, and Heywood's light and shadow became extremely solid, as if a real person appeared.

Saint Heywood walked down from the hourglass and waved to Bishop Mars, who left quietly.

Cohen bowed symbolically to Saint Haywood and said:

"A mere Legendary rank? Do you really need to trouble the Saint to send out his avatar projection?"

Saint Heywood narrowed his eyes slightly, and his voice was filled with an inexplicable meaning:
"Flint is not an ordinary legendary. I just used ordinary divination and found that I couldn't find his long river of time.

"And I can feel my magic power rapidly depleting. This is definitely not an ordinary Legendary-level transcendent. Either his strength is far greater than this, or his past involves some higher-level existence."

Saint Heywood's expression became much more serious. He stared at Cohen for a while and thought that if it weren't for that old man Aziz, he would really want to shirk the debt.

After a pause, he said unhappily:
"Boy, with these two Star Marrow Cores, you really got a great deal this time.

Next time you have the coordinates of the Star Marrow Core, remember to come to me first!"

Cohen's eyes showed astonishment. He wondered if Saint Heywood was fooling him and trying to extort a few more Star Marrow Cores from him.

Cohen thought again and felt that there was no need for a great saint to send out an incarnation projection to deceive him.

Could it be that the problem really lies with Flint Blackfang?

His cultivation level is definitely correct, it's just at the lower legendary level. Could it be that his past involved a higher-level existence?

Cohen was becoming increasingly interested.

Saint Heywood said this and did not explain any more to him.

He raised his hands and chanted a spell softly. Soon, the image of a burly middle-aged man rose in front of the two of them.

That face alone is enough to make people remember it deeply——

The man's face was like a reef carved by storms for thousands of years. His left eye was inlaid with a prosthetic eye carved from dark red agate. A closer look revealed that the internal gear structure rotated with his emotions. His right eye was a cloudy amber color, and the edge of the pupil was an ominous green.

Three parallel scars ran diagonally from the temples to the jaw. They were not the dark red of flesh and blood, but instead glowed with a strange silver light.

He was wearing a faded scarlet captain's uniform, a belt woven from mermaid tendons around his waist, and a tin wine flask slung over his shoulder, the surface of which was etched with dense spells.

The former leader of the Scarlet Reavers pirate group, the current chief captain, the legendary extraordinary, Flint Blackfang.

After the image appeared, Saint Heywood shouted softly, and the starry sky-like dome instantly cracked. Then, billions of memory stars turned into liquid silver light and rushed out, constantly washing the phantom of Flint's portrait.

After the wash, it condensed into star fragments wrapped in the luster of mother-of-pearl, and gathered into a dazzling galactic vortex in front of the two people.

Cohen looked intently, and the star fragments collided with each other, reflecting three fragmented images -

A beautiful girl wearing emerald earrings swung on a swing in the Wutong courtyard. A broken warship flag pierced the icy sea amidst the smoke. A blazing mansion, surrounded by traces of lingering magic...

Saint Haywood's expression turned completely serious, and his hand glowed with dazzling golden light as he formed a magic seal.

The vortex suddenly became sticky, and the flickering image was like butterfly wings stuck in honey, gradually revealing hidden patterns.

Flint Blackfang's past began to emerge before the two of them—

A beautiful girl wearing emerald earrings was swinging on a swing in the Wutong courtyard, and the swing chain made a dull sound similar to the friction of a bronze anchor.

Every time the girl swung to the highest point, her feet would kick the brass bells wrapped around the sycamore branches, making them ring.

Seeing the special mark on the surface of the brass bell, Cohen couldn't help but fall into deep thought. After a long time, he whispered:
"This bell... has some history. It seems to be from the Southern Territory Empire."

Saint Heywood glanced at Cohen in surprise and said:

"The emblem of the Southern Territory Empire's Royal Navy. I never thought that the pirate leader of one of the three major pirate groups near the coast of the Kingdom of Ceylon would actually be from the regular Royal Navy.

No wonder the Scarlet Reavers, despite having the smallest number of members among the three major pirate groups, possess the strongest combat power."

The Southern Territory Empire, one of the five great empires, is different from the Central Empire that occupies the Central Continent, the Eastern Territory Empire in the Dragon Continent, the Western Territory Empire in the Northwestern Continent, and the Northern Territory Empire. The Southern Territory Empire does not occupy a single continent.

Instead, it occupies most of the southernmost sea area of the Endless Sea. It is a God-given Thousand Islands Kingdom consisting of more than one hundred giant and large islands and thousands of small islands.

The most amazing thing is that the submarine volcanoes from the depths of the Endless Sea will change the terrain every hundred years, forming two or three new giant islands, and the territory of the Southern Territory Empire will also expand accordingly.

If we really talk about the empire's territory, even the Central Empire cannot compare with the Southern Empire, the maritime overlord.

Cohen felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart. Flint Black Fang actually came from the Southern Territory Empire and even had a naval background. This was far beyond his expectations.

Compared with the four major empires of the Central Empire, the Eastern Empire, the Western Empire, and the Northern Empire, the Southern Empire is obviously more independent and is the farthest away from the human continent.

The customs and culture are very different from those of people on land. It is hard to imagine that a man with a naval background in the Southern Territory Empire came to the Northwest Continent to become a pirate.

It seems that this Flint Blackfang also has a strange and mysterious past.

Cohen suppressed his thoughts and continued reading.

The girl was still swinging on the swing. A gust of wind blew by, and the shell inlays on the twelve sandalwood screens in the corridor on the west side of the courtyard began to rustle.

Magical power surged, and strange and magnificent pictures began to dance on the screen.

The magnificent naval battle glowed phosphorescently in the twilight. Burning sails and cables entangled the ferocious siren. Magic beams shuttled between the vast coral reefs. The vice admiral's sword pierced the eye of the hurricane in the tidal maze...

Looking at the navy vice admiral brandishing a sword, both of them were shocked at the same time.

This lieutenant general is Flint Blackfang!
But compared to the current Flint, this lieutenant general is much younger and more handsome, and does not have as many wounds on his face.

Flint was actually once a vice admiral of the Southern Territory Empire Royal Navy?
A sense of absurdity arose in Cohen's heart.

The Vice Admiral of the Royal Navy of the Southern Territory Empire, the strongest empire at sea, actually came to the Northwest Continent to become a pirate?

This is simply a dimensionality reduction attack!

No wonder Flint was able to unify all the pirate groups near the coast of the northwest continent and become the well-deserved Pirate King.

Saint Heywood muttered to himself:
"Salgado, the Salgado family bewitched by the siren.

I have some impression of him. He is the youngest and most talented naval commander of the Southern Territory Empire, Flint Salgado.

Later, a scandal of collusion with the Kraken emerged, causing severe damage to the Imperial Royal Navy.

The Emperor of the Southern Territory Empire was furious and slaughtered the entire Salgado family."

Cohen's eyes sank slightly as he continued to look down. It was the second picture—

The iron-gray waves were split apart by the magic battleship, and Vice Admiral Flint Salgado's scarlet cloak fluttered in the sea breeze.

Twelve giant steel ships equipped with rune armor were arranged in a crescent formation, carrying out the Empire's seventy-third expedition against the Sirens.

However, when the first ray of moonlight pierced through the dark clouds, a shrill sound of copper bells suddenly came from the flagship's watchtower, and countless faint blue points of light appeared at the end of the sea level.

Seeing this scene, Flint's eyes were filled with disbelief - the phosphorescent trap of the Siren High Priest Kraken!

Flint couldn't understand why he would encounter the most difficult high priest of the Siren clan, the legendary mechanant Kraken, during an ordinary flanking mission.

He even set up legendary magic traps along the way.

Before Flint could issue the order to turn rudder and retreat, huge waves rose into the sky without warning, and a whirlpool with a diameter of more than 3,000 yards burst out on the sea. The twelve warships were like toys grabbed by an invisible giant hand, and their hard keels made teeth-grinding groans.

The sirens' song pierces the storm, a requiem sung from the abyss, each note carrying the power to corrode the soul.

The entire army was wiped out, and only Flint survived. But when he climbed ashore covered in wounds, what was waiting for him was the sword of the imperial executioner!
The scene stopped abruptly again, and Cohen whispered:
“It seems that Flint was framed.

But as a low-level legendary transcendent, he should not be able to escape the empire's pursuit.

So how did he survive?"

As Cohen muttered, the third picture began to play.

At this time, Cohen saw clearly that the burning mansion was Flint's home. The armored imperial soldiers easily broke into Flint's mansion.

Flint's only immediate family member is a teenage daughter.

When the soldiers killed the last guard who stood in the way of the girl, they were all amazed by her beauty and demeanor.

This beautiful girl possessed a composure that was difficult for ordinary people to understand. Even in the face of such a desperate situation, her stunning face remained calm. The soldiers dispersed, and a man of noble status stepped out. He looked at the girl and whispered something.

The girl suddenly smiled, and then a huge fire instantly engulfed the entire scene.

When everything returned to calm, only a figure bathed in blue light remained on the ruins.

The light gradually disappeared, and the scene that appeared made Cohen exclaim in surprise.

The figure was obviously the same girl from before, but her outfit had changed drastically.

She wore a dark purple gradient fishtail dress and a gorgeous mask on her face, forged from obsidian and mother-of-pearl, with wave runes etched on the surface and luminous jellyfish tentacle-like tassels on the edge.

The style covers half of the face, with a dark blue aquamarine inlaid in the middle, and a teardrop-shaped bead necklace woven at the end of the eye, hanging down to the white and delicate collarbone.

Seeing this outfit, Cohen's mind flashed with a name that was very famous in the game of his previous life - Claire, the Queen of the Sea!

The war-weary female demon who unified the entire sea clan in the late period of the great turmoil.

He led the sea tribe to wage war against the Southern Territory Empire and won victory after victory, turning the once dominant maritime empire into a laughing stock among the five empires.

Cohen racked his brains but couldn't figure out why Flint's daughter would be the future Queen of the Ocean?

He remembered that Claire seemed to be a mermaid, so how could she be the daughter of a human like Flint?

If it wasn't Saint Haywood who did the divination this time, he would have asked the Church of Prophecy to return the money.

But now he also understood why it took so much energy to divine a legendary level.

That’s because this divination involves a demigod in the future!
Yes, Cohen remembered that Claire in the future should have successfully advanced to demigod.

Saint Heywood naturally didn't know the identity of the person in front of him. The Queen of the Ocean, Claire, would not become famous until several decades later, and now she should be just an ordinary member of the sea clan.

Mermaids...

Suddenly, Cohen thought of a possibility.

Sure enough, the picture continued to scroll, and Claire, wearing a mask, flashed to the coast where Flint was being chased.

Flint was already a corpse when they arrived.

Claire still had no expression on her face, as if the person in front of her was not her father.

But she still opened her red lips, and the ancient song sounded. Flint's legendary domain began to gather, the legendary objects began to piece together, and the scars on her chest began to heal.

Until a faint breath appeared, Claire took a last look at her father, jumped into the endless sea, and disappeared.

Soul-calling technique, one of the secret techniques of the mermaid tribe.

The scene ends abruptly.

Saint Heywood whispered:
“I heard that the mermaids have a secret technique for reincarnation. Legendary mermaids who are unable to break through will use this technique to seal their souls and consciousness and reincarnate again.

If I'm not mistaken, this little girl should be a legendary powerful person of the mermaid tribe. She was unable to break through to the saint level, so she chose to reincarnate and become Flint's daughter.

Later, when faced with a life-and-death crisis, he awakened his memories and consciousness of his previous life and used secret techniques to resurrect Flint.

But it's hard to say whether she will still be willing to acknowledge Flint as her father after awakening her past life memories."

Cohen obviously had the same guess in his mind, but he saw it more clearly than Saint Heywood. At least he knew that the girl whose memory had awakened was Claire, the future Queen of the Ocean who would shake the world.

Saint Heywood dissipated his spell, and the scene before him gradually disappeared.

A slightly turbulent divination involving a legendary transcendent and a reincarnated mermaid legendary transcendent was nothing to the dignified saint.

Cohen naturally did not tell Haywood that the Claire involved in his divination could become a demigod in the future, and might even be deified in the future.

It can only be said that it is fortunate that Saint Heywood's main divination object is her father, otherwise he would most likely drain his magic power.

After the divination, Cohen told Saint Haywood the spatial coordinates of the remaining star marrow core, and the transaction was completed.

Before leaving, the incarnation of Saint Heywood said to Cohen:

"Boy, if you have any news about the Star Marrow Core in the future, remember to come and trade with me."

Cohen smiled faintly and said:

"Okay, Saint."

……

At the southern end of the Endless Sea, in the bottomless underwater world, a palace built of huge coral reefs stands quietly.

The inside of the palace is a crystal clear world. The ground paved with pearls sparkles softly in the dim light. Every step feels like stepping on stars.

Just as there are different races within humans, there are also different ethnic groups within the mermaid tribe.

Living at the southern end of the Endless Sea, adjacent to the Southern Territory Empire, this mermaid tribe is called the Tide Tribe.

As the name suggests, it mainly controls the tidal force above the ocean.

This palace is the royal palace of the Tide Tribe.

In the center of the palace, there is a throne made of aquamarine, emitting a deep and charming blue light. A figure sits quietly on the throne, wearing a mask, and the exposed red lips and chin are enough to show this person's beauty and charm.

Claire looked dazed for a moment, then came back to her senses from her thoughts. She clearly felt that someone was spying on her past.

who can that be?

Could it be that the unwilling leader of the Shadow Clan asked the people of the Church of Prophecy to take action?
That shouldn't be the case. With his level, it seems that he can't find a saint-level figure in the Church of Prophecy.

Claire shook her head slightly. All she could do now was to get back her previous life's cultivation as soon as possible and help the Tide Clan return to the mermaid royal family.

What happened next? Claire was at a loss when she thought of this.

Ever since she awakened her memories of her past life, she has often fallen into this state of self-doubt.

A voice kept echoing in the depths of her mind:
Unify the various tribes of mermaids and fulfill the lifelong wish of our ancestors - to unify the sea tribe!
Can it really be done?

Claire murmured softly. She paid a huge price for this sound.

Her reincarnation and everything she experienced were all due to a prophecy.

The previous leader of the Tide Tribe, by chance, came into contact with the incarnation of the God of Prophecy, Madora, and then exchanged his own life for a prophecy for the Tide Tribe.

In order to fulfill the prophecy, she chose to reincarnate and cultivate as the youngest legendary figure in the history of the Tide Tribe.

But what they got in return was the gradual decline of the Tide Clan, and even fell out of the sequence of the mermaid royal family.

Claire still hasn't felt the so-called opportunity mentioned in the prophecy.

The original prophecy said that the reincarnated Claire would form a bond with a human, who would give her the opportunity to unify the sea people.

Claire originally thought that the prophecy referred to her father in this life who was a vice admiral of the Southern Territory Empire Royal Navy, but the result surprised her.

Her father Flint was falsely accused of colluding with the Sirens, and not only did he lose his position as Vice Admiral, but his entire family was also wiped out. If she had not urgently awakened her memories of her past life, her reincarnation would have become a joke.

Claire's feelings towards her father in this life are also very complicated. After all, she has lived a second life, and the emotional experience between father and daughter is still real.

However, she was burdened with the important mission of reviving the mermaid tribe, and she was unable to take care of her personal feelings, and she did not want to involve her father in such trouble.

The only choice is to disappear from his father's world through death.

Claire sighed softly. No matter whether that opportunity would come again or not, the only thing she could do now was to seize the time to practice.

That bastard leader of the Shadow Clan has come to the Tide Clan many times to propose marriage. The elders of the clan think that this is an opportunity to return to the mermaid royal family, and they imply that I will accept it.

Claire felt a chill in her heart. A loser who had practiced for hundreds of years to reach the initial stage of the legendary stage dared to propose to her!

In another month, this clan leader will bring people to tear down the palace of your Shadow Clan!

Claire closed her eyes, which were like sapphires in the seabed. Her face regained its composure, and a vast magical power emanated from her body.

……

Above the boundless ocean, Cohen stood on the deck, gazing at the distant scenery.

After Mr. Modo made the arrangements, he reunited with Cohen.

Following the method given to him by Gillivos, Cohen contacted his trusted confidant on standby at Jinfan Port.

Even Gillivos's former trusted subordinates did not recognize that the leader in front of them had been replaced by a new person.

Cohen immediately felt relieved, and took Mr. Modo and a hundred Golden Wing Guards, led by his confidants, and headed towards the Scarlet Raiders' base camp, Scarlet Island.

After learning about Flint's past experience, Cohen was fully confident in winning over this former Vice Admiral of the Southern Territory Empire Royal Navy.

Flint must have thought that his daughter was dead by now, and his heart was filled with rage for revenge against the Southern Territory Empire.

As long as we make good use of this, there is a way to subdue him.

Of course, I also have to let him see my strength and ability, and see the hope that I can help him take revenge on the Southern Territory Empire.

As for his daughter... Cohen also thought of taking advantage of the fact that his daughter was not dead yet.

But it is hard to say what attitude Claire has towards her father in this life after she awakened her memories of her past life.

However, since Claire chose to resurrect Flint, she must have some feelings for him.

Cohen shook his head, suppressed his thoughts, and looked up. The outline of Scarlet Island was already visible in the distance.

Cohen put on a scarlet devil mask, with a fierce look in his eyes. The road to becoming the Pirate King begins now!
(End of this chapter)