They don't want me to try anymore.

Boom!

Suddenly, a middle-aged man with a long beard and one eye was blind smashed his wine glass, interrupting the guests' chatter.

He surveyed the entire audience and laughed, "So what if you're the champion of the Easter Festival? In the ocean, it's still us seamen who call the shots!"

"Who is your Excellency?"

"I am the first mate of the Black Shark Pirate Crew."

The man raised his glass and said, "Our captain has a big business deal in Connaught that he needs, and he's short-handed. The pay can be in gold coins! If any of you are interested, you can come find me anytime before nightfall... As for the Connaught prince, we'll teach him a lesson!"

Well, are all pirates this arrogant?

They openly recruit people and then mock me?

Richard curled his lip and gestured to White beside him, saying:

"Let's pretend to apply for a sailor job, go aboard, and see how they plan to teach me a lesson!"

Chapter 105 Oh no, I'm going to turn into bread!

"What is your name?"

"Charlie."

"What can you do?"

"sailor."

Is there a guarantee?

"The big guy over there."

Richard, employing his "newspaper tycoon" traits, randomly pointed to a menacing-looking pirate.

"Oh... let's get on the boat."

Huh?

Although I did use the feature... is this how you end it?

Aren't you going to ask me how many acres of land I own and how many cows I have?

Richard, dressed as a sailor, was shocked by the pirates' casualness.

However, on second thought, it's unrealistic to expect a small, third-rate pirate crew to be highly disciplined.

So, half an hour after leaving the tavern, he, White, and Katyusha boarded the Black Shark pirate crew's medium-sized sailboat without incident.

Richard looked around.

Counting them up, there were probably only a few dozen pirates on the ship. From what I could sense, most of them were Iron-level, a few were Bronze-level, and there was one guy who had barely stepped into the early Silver level...

Oh, it's a man wearing a captain's hat and with six muskets at his waist. He must be the captain, right?

He was waving a nautical chart, excitedly telling his men, "Don't be afraid of that prince! He doesn't understand the sea at all! This is our territory! We must have confidence and ambition! Next week we'll be able to seize mountains of gold..."

...Well, he looks like he's almost forty or fifty, but he's still very enthusiastic.

A short while later, the boat set sail.

Richard called his companions to a corner of the deck and whispered:

"The enemy isn't strong. Once we're far enough away from port, we'll take control of the ship and extract information about their objectives and intelligence channels..."

"Hey, you guys!"

Suddenly, a tall, bald, brown-skinned man interrupted Richard, a hint of malice in his eyes: "New here? Why aren't you working?"

"Sorry, we'll be right there..."

White, who was more familiar with life at sea, took over the conversation.

However, the bald man waved his hand, revealing two rows of rotten teeth, and said, "Don't rush."

"I am the boatswain of this ship, and I will be responsible for assigning your tasks. So, would you like to go down into the hold to move cannonballs, or clean the deck...?"

As he spoke, he stretched out one hand and rubbed three fingers together.

Well, this requires money.

Richard rolled his eyes, thinking, "If you do this, once your reputation spreads, will anyone still want to join your crew?"

However, now that the ship has left port, ordinary people really can't resist it.

Richard also figured that it was probably because he had gone too far in trying to look inconspicuous when he put on his makeup, making all three of them look like ordinary, honest sailors, which was why they were bullied...

Seeing that Richard and the others remained silent, the bald man emphasized:

"Don't you understand what I mean? If you don't pay, you'll be thrown to clean the decks..."

"Yay! I love cleaning the deck the most!"

Before White could answer, Richard interrupted, feigning a cheerful and outgoing demeanor: "Where's the mop? Where's the bucket? Hurry up and get it to me! If you don't let me do this, I'll get really angry!"

The bald boatswain was shocked and it took him a long time to say, "You...don't you know what cleaning the deck is like?"

"I know~"

"You just want to make things difficult for yourself?"

"Ah, yes, yes, yes~"

"What a joke!"

Oh dear, why are you in such a hurry?

boom!

The bald bosun grinned, then tossed over a few brushes and a basin, snarling, "Fine, then you get to work! I'll be watching you! If you haven't cleaned up by sunset... heh heh!"

After everyone left, White quietly asked, "Your Highness, is this alright?"

"It's not a big problem."

Richard's smile faded, and gazing at the increasingly distant harbor, he said softly, "He won't live to see sunset."

...Compared to the previous months, the nights came much earlier.

An hour after the ship left port, only half of the sun was still over the sea.

Richard dawdled, brush in hand, leaning against the deck watching the sunset.

The bald boatswain approached with a sneer: "Slacking off, huh? I knew you were lying! Ha, just wait and see!"

Richard appeared nonchalant, but he gestured to White and Katyusha, then secretly summoned the Ghostly Spikes from under his clothes, preparing to launch an attack...

Boom!

Suddenly, a cannon shot rang out, startling everyone on board.

The bald bosun turned his head and looked towards the stern with the others, just as they heard the lookout shouting from above:

"Pearl Buck! I see Pearl Buck! It's that crazy woman Veronica!"

"Damn it, why are they coming to our door? We've never had any enemies!"

Is this a case of double-crossing?

"What do we do? We're doomed, we're doomed..."

boom!

"quiet!"

Just as the crew members were in a panic, the captain fired a shot and went to the bow of the ship.

He gripped the helm, scanned the faces of everyone on deck, revealing a few gold teeth, and shouted, "Men, don't scare yourselves before the enemy even comes knocking!"

"I've seen that woman Veronica. She's not bad, but that's all she is! I'm not afraid of her!"

"Our ships are about the same size as Pearl Buck's, but we have more cannons. We might not lose the naval battle, so everyone, stay alert and fight to the end!"

"If we can just blow that ship up, we'll win! We'll be counting treasure and beauties until our hands cramp! What do you say?"

Seeing their captain's confidence, the other pirates gradually became more excited and shouted in agreement: "Good, Captain!" "Let's wipe them out!" "I want to capture Veronica and have a taste of her!"

"Haha, you little ones, listen to my orders..."

Boom!

Before he could finish speaking, a dark shadow fell from the sky and crashed heavily onto the captain.

"Groom!"

With a roar, the smoke and dust cleared, and the remaining crew members saw a giant, at least three meters tall, covered in spiked armor, crawling up through a large hole in the deck, clutching a mangled corpse in his hand.

Yes, it was the original captain.

Meanwhile, a conversation between several mages could be heard from the sky:

"Judging from the way the Black Shark pirates looked just now, it seems like they're determined to fight us to the death? This is troublesome..."

"Troublesome as it may be, it's got guts, isn't it? I quite like it. Doesn't the captain enjoy tormenting people like that too?"

On the deck, the pirates fell silent for a moment, then...