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Chapter 262 News from the Norris Family

"That has nothing to do with you, sir." Although the Pirate King noticed that Richard's attitude seemed a bit off, he was unwilling to back down in front of everyone, so he firmly refused to answer Richard's question.

"Oh! Since you don't want to, then you can go die!"

Richard had barely finished speaking.

The Blood Bone Puppet immediately rushed forward, moving as fast as a galloping horse. In the blink of an eye, it was in front of the Pirate King, wielding its bone blade and slashing rapidly at him.

The Pirate King cursed inwardly, "You're a dog, you turn on me like that!"

Why can't we just sit down and talk things out?

Hey!

That was because the Pirate King "Giant Claw Demon" misjudged how important Melo was to Richard. If he hadn't mentioned Melo Norris, they might have been able to have a talk.

But his last sentence hit Richard's G-spot!

No wonder Richard quickly took drastic measures against him.

"Mental shock!"

A transparent wave suddenly appeared in front of Richard, and like a transparent lightning bolt, it immediately struck the Pirate King.

Just as the Pirate King was swinging his giant pincers, intending to block the bone blades that the Blood Bone Puppet was cutting down at high speed, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his brain!

This pause left him no time to parry, and he was immediately slashed seven or eight times by the bone blades that covered the Blood Bone Puppet's body.

At the same time, the huge impact sent him flying into the air, and he was instantly covered in seven or eight wounds, with blood splattering everywhere.

However, Richard's attack was not over yet!

"Death Ray!"

At the tip of Richard's right index finger, a large number of dark element energy particles began to gather together, forming a black sphere the size of a fist.

The next second, a black beam the size of a thumb suddenly shot out from the sphere and headed straight for the Pirate King in mid-air!

At this moment, alarm bells rang in the Pirate King's mind. Although he tried his best to dodge, it was too late.

"Pfft!"

A black beam of light pierced through the Pirate King's abdomen!

"Snapped!"

Pirate King "Giant Claw Demon" crashed heavily onto the deck.

Immediately, the sailors and pirates on deck stopped their fierce fighting and stared in disbelief at the scene.

Many pirates rubbed their eyes, their faces filled with disbelief, as if they were screaming inwardly:

"This is a pirate king who roams a vast sea and commands dozens of pirate crews!"

"So, he just lay there like that?"

The one-eyed captain's eyes nearly popped out of his head. The pirate king "Giant Claw Demon," whom he had always thought was tall, mysterious, majestic, and invincible, had been beaten to a pulp and was lying on the ground like a dead dog in just a few moves.

He felt the world was changing too fast!

He was starting to fall behind.

Captain Casper watched this scene with excitement, thinking to himself, "Lord Richard's strength is truly unbelievable! This pirate king who dominated the waters near the Loras Peninsula has been defeated so quickly!"

Although the Pirate King was severely injured, he still had the ability to fight back.

At this moment, he was completely dumbfounded. He had just been caught off guard by Richard's triple combo: Blood Bone Puppet, Mental Shock, and Death Ray. This combination of close combat, crowd control, and witchcraft had left him utterly unprepared.

"Damn it! Necromancer, do you think you've won?"

"You have completely enraged me!!"

"Bang!"

The Pirate King's body suddenly underwent a drastic change.

Originally, he was just a pair of hands that had mutated into giant pincers, but now his entire body was red, like a roasted lobster.

He curled up, and soon, something resembling a crab shell appeared on his back and abdomen, and his whole body began to emit a thick, fishy smell!

The lower limbs also have many more barnacles, mussels, seaweed, kelp and other marine life.

It gives the impression that his body has been submerged in the sea for many, many years.

"Heh heh, necromancer, you're dead! Do you know why I don't transform into this form?"

"Because I look so ugly in this state!! It reminds me of some bad memories!!"

Richard, however, watched the Pirate King's clown-like transformation with unhurried composure, and calmly said:

"Is this your strongest form? If not, you still have time, so you'd better hurry up and transform again."

"If that's all, then you can set off!"

"hateful!!"

The Pirate King was thoroughly enraged by Richard's calm and indifferent expression, which made him seem completely unconcerned!

It should be understood that, for him, the enemy's contempt for his strength was the greatest mockery of him.

He vividly remembers the “painful” price he paid to reach his current level!

After transforming, the Pirate King's abdominal wound rapidly contracted, and the crab shell that grew on his surface covered his abdomen, making him appear as if he were completely unharmed.

However, the Pirate King himself knew that he had only suppressed his injuries by transforming, not that his injuries had truly healed.

Therefore, he must hurry and defeat the necromancer on the other side.

If it really doesn't work, that's fine too. The pirate king glanced at the turbulent sea outside the ship's side.

Wherever there is ocean, that is our home ground. If all else fails, we can always run on our own!

It should be said that the Pirate King's decision was very clear: fight first, win if possible, and if he loses, jump into the sea!

We have both options, so we're in luck!

"Jingle bells!"

As a tall white figure suddenly rushed in front of the Pirate King, the two engaged in fierce combat. After a burst of sparks, the Blood Bone Puppet was actually knocked back several steps.

In that sense, it is slightly weaker than the Pirate King after its transformation!

"Huh!" This surprised Richard quite a bit. He didn't expect the Pirate King to be so capable, actually managing to repel a Bloodbone Puppet whose strength was comparable to a top-tier level one.

but

As a pale green inverted pentagram magic circle flashed beneath Richard's feet, a gigantic monster suddenly appeared before everyone.

"When it comes to strength, hatred is the only way!"

Standing over four meters tall and weighing over two tons, it is indeed a vengeful spirit!

After the vengeful spirit appeared, it first showed its yellow teeth, squinted its eyes and smiled at Richard and Stephanie, then sniffed as if it had smelled something it liked.

Then, it fixed its gaze on the strangely dressed pirate king, and the next second, a few drops of saliva actually flowed from its wide-open mouth.

"Slurp!"

The fishy smell seemed to remind it of the grilled tentacles it had eaten before!

The vengeful spirit had already regarded the crab-like monster, which reeked of a strong sea smell, as its soon-to-be-eaten meal.

This made Stephania, who was standing to the side, chuckle. "As the master's strength increases, the intelligence of the master's summoned creatures seems to be getting stronger as well."

The pirate king, who was hated by the vengeful spirits as if they were meat on a chopping board, had mixed feelings at this moment.

"Damn it, necromancers are a bunch of scoundrels! If they can't beat one, they summon another. It's utterly shameless!"

"Knock knock knock!"

Without Richard even urging him, the Wraith, wielding a giant iron axe in one hand and a chain hammer in the other, strode toward the Pirate King.

Just as he was about to arrive, the chain hammer in his left hand slammed down on the pirate king!

"boom!"

The Pirate King's pincers were no joke either, and they withstood the attack from the vengeful spirit, but the deck of the Lighthouse clearly couldn't withstand such a violent impact!

The pirate king's feet immediately pierced through the deck.

If the Pirate King hadn't transformed, he would have already passed through the deck and arrived at the level below.

But don't forget that after he transformed, his upper body was carrying a huge crab shell, and the width of his upper body far exceeded that of his lower body, so his entire upper body got stuck on the deck.

At this moment, the Blood Bone Puppet attacked again.

"Bone Blade Storm!!"

"Cleave!"

"Mental shock!"

"Death Ray!"

Taking this opportunity, the Bloodbone Puppet, the Wraith Abomination, and Richard launched a three-pronged attack!

In an instant, the crab shell that the Pirate King transformed into was turned into crab bone paste!

If it weren't for the intention of sparing his life, this newly crowned Pirate King, Lord Giant Claw Demon, would already be dead by now!

"Splash!"

The vengeful spirit used iron chains to drag the pirate king into its hands, suppressing its appetite, and brought the dying man to Richard.

"I surrender!! It was all the Giant Claw Demon's fault that we were forced to this!" The one-eyed captain was terrified when he saw this scene!

The newly crowned pirate king, "Giant Claw Demon," has been beaten to a pulp by this necromancer. If he doesn't surrender soon, he'll probably be lying dead on the spot in the next second!

With the one-eyed captain leading the surrender, the other pirates on the Lighthouse quickly laid down their weapons as well.

They had just witnessed Richard's battle with the Pirate King.

They knew that continuing to resist would only lead to their own demise!

Richard alone, with the fighting prowess he just displayed, was enough to slaughter all of these pirates.

Pirates were actually a group that admired the strong even more than ordinary people.

In their eyes, surrendering to the strong is not a shameful act.

Soon, the pirates were tied up like dumplings by the sailors. Captain Casper planned to spare their lives first and then go to the port of Abidjan on the Loras Peninsula to collect the reward.

He had already seen several familiar faces, all of whom had wanted posters posted in the city hall squares of several port cities on the Loras Peninsula, although the reward for a single wanted poster was far less than that for the one-eyed captain.

However, when you add up three or five of them, it's definitely not a small amount.

Of course, these are not the point.

The key point is the pirates' three ships!

This is what's truly valuable.

Selling pirate ships yields profits at least ten times the bounty.

At that moment, Captain Casper was sending men to contact the crew of the other two ships to jointly take over the three pirate ships.

Meanwhile, Richard, together with Stephena, began interrogating the pirate king who had been beaten to a pulp in the captain's cabin.

"Tell me! If you don't want to live a life worse than death! I think you're a smart man, you've heard of some of the methods of necromancers, right?" Richard stared at the Pirate King expressionlessly and said slowly.

"I'll die whether I tell you or not! What's the point of telling you?" The Pirate King seemed to have given up and retorted defiantly.

"At least you can die more comfortably, or I can take you as my subordinate! Tell me, who exactly sent you to capture Mero Norris?"

"Can this guy really be your subordinate?" The pirate king's eyes lit up. If he could survive, he would certainly be willing to live.

Nobody wants to die such a miserable death!

He's only been the new Pirate King for a short time, and he hasn't had enough of the wonders of this world yet!

As long as I can survive, what does it matter if I have to work like a slave for a short time?!

"It was Occot Norris of the Norris family on the Loras Peninsula who asked me to do this. This guy is about to become the head of the Norris family. He has been cooperating with me for a long time, so this time he specifically asked me to capture Mero Norris alive."

"I thought about it, and I agreed immediately to such a small thing!"

"Oh right, judging from his tone, it seems this Melo Norris is his niece?"

After thinking for a moment, the Pirate King added another sentence.

It seems that Richard's earlier words—that he would consider taking him on as a subordinate if he confessed honestly—gained a strong will to survive.

After the Pirate King finished speaking, Richard and Stephanie exchanged a glance. It seemed that the internal strife within the Norris family was extremely intense, and had now reached the point of hiring outside help to capture their own family members alive!

This person is actually Meiluo's uncle by blood!

Secondly, since the other party confidently stated that this Occot Norris would soon become the new patriarch of the Norris family, it indicates that the internal strife is about to come to an end.

Moreover, it's not hard to deduce that Meiluo's father was definitely at a disadvantage; otherwise, he wouldn't have been unable to protect his daughter's safety.

After a moment's thought, Richard asked, "If we capture Melo Norris alive, where is the agreed-upon meeting place?"

"Right here in Norris City, the headquarters of the Norris family! The agreed time is within a month," the Pirate King said with certainty.

Richard nodded; it seemed there was still time.

After asking all the questions he wanted to know, Richard suddenly thought of another one.

"By the way, do you know Basellus Island in the Summer Sea?"

The pirate king frowned, pondered for a long time, and then shook his head, saying, "My lord, I've never heard of this before."

Richard nodded.

Just as the Pirate King was about to ask Richard if he could have his chains loosened and his injuries treated, a silver light flashed across his neck.

Next came the Pirate King's head, which rolled on the ground with an incredulous expression on its head!

Large gushes of blood flowed from the severed neck.

"Didn't you say you were going to take me on as your subordinate?" His extraordinary vitality actually caused his mouth to open and close, forming the shape of those words.

There was no sound, only lip movements!

Richard chuckled and said, "Yes! But the necromancer's subordinates are all undead! I'm not lying to you about taking you as my subordinate! Your spirit will soon become one of my subordinates."

At this moment, the vengeful spirit beside him squinted and smiled, then patted its enormous belly as if it understood perfectly!

(End of this chapter)