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Chapter 22 - Monsters and Red Sunsets Meanwhile, the Lion Kingdom pirate ships that attacked Brutos were anchored near a small island not too far from the Sapphire Kingdom. Bartolo…now Cristina Blutlied had brought 10 large pirate ships from the Lion Kingdom. Around the small island, however, a much larger fleet was gradually assembling. “What a splendid sight…I’m getting wet just by looking…” “...is that so.” Cristina was enraptured by the sight of the ships surrounding the island.…
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Chapter 21 - More a Scammer than a Diviner “Don’t you have all the securities you want? All over this palace.” Roh then pointed at one of the paintings hanging on the wall of the meeting room. “You can’t mean…using the governor’s possessions as securities!?” Randy shouted in disbelief. The governor had turned tail and ran away, taking the town’s tax revenues and other finances stored in the palace, but had left behind antiques and works of art, too cumbersome to carry. Among such…
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Chapter 20 - The Conference Dances, Yet Advances Not For the moment, we decided to borrow one of the governor palace’s meeting rooms and discuss the next course of action. The defense of the city was too important a topic for us to decide on our own: other leading names of the city were summoned as well. As the wall clock showed, the time was already past six in the afternoon. The pirates would come again at noon the next day: in other words, 18 hours later. “It’s almost evening…” Buried…
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Chapter 2 - Son Howls, Mother Laughs After several minutes of uninterrupted screams, the Snakebone pirates’ ship fell into complete silence. The massacre seemed to have ended. Not long after, another vessel approached the pirate ship turned slaughterhouse. On the approaching ship flew a simple skull flag. On the mast of the rather drab vessel stood a woman in a red dress. “Gahaha!! Looks like the job is already done!” The woman in the red dress, her white hair blowing in the wind, was Grace D.O.…
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Chapter 19 - Without the Captain the Ship Goes The pirates that approached the port simply dropped a set of one-sided demands and immediately sailed back on their boat. The demands could be summarized in the three following points: Surrender the whole city of Brutos to the Lion King crew, without resistance. All security guards and mercenaries are to relinquish their weapons. Deliver 10 pretty boys under 13 years old to the ship as slaves. If the demands weren’t all fulfilled by noon the next day, the…
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Chapter 18 - The Man Who Stopped a Cannonball 【 POV: Brutos Security Corps Captain - Randy】 After the unidentified attack destroyed one of the port storehouses, a pillar collapsed on me. “Captain!! Watch out!!” One of my subordinates yelled. I tried to twist my body out of the way, but a sharp pain from my ankle stopped me in my tracks. The instant I spent thinking that I had probably sprained it, the pillar had already come too close to be dodged. “Ghh…” I pulled back my neck, bracing for…
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Chapter 17 - The “Queen” of the Seas Meanwhile, the Lion King fleet’s black iron cannons once more targeted the city of Brutos. “FIIIRE!!” The man in charge raised a hand and gave the order. Smoke erupted from the mouth of the cannon, as another black cannonball flew towards the harbor. The ship housing the cannon was completely covered in smoke: the man in charge, while waving it away with an exasperated gesture, shouted to his subordinates. “How’s the situation in the port? They aren’t…
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Chapter 16 - Foreboding Smoke A blast roared in the distance. “Hm? Gunpowder?” “Waah! What’s going on, master!?” The noise, not too dissimilar from distant thunder, made me frown. It was the noise of an explosion caused by gunpowder, something I had heard many times at Fort Bryden. Taken by surprise, Sue was clinging to me. I patted her head to calm her down, while looking in the direction of the explosion. The noise came from the port’s direction. A column of black smoke was rising towards…
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