After waking up

Just in this huge but crowded utility room, Mulan could feel the wealth of the Pirate King, wealth in the sense of knowledge.

However, these precious treasures are all the private property of the Pirate King and are not shared with others. Perhaps as a seventh-level existence that is looked up to, the Pirate King often does not think of these things that are of little use to him. books.

Conspiracy, trickery, disguise, performance.

For a long time, Mulan has been very calculating, but being able to return to a kind of simple happiness is the best way to rest. Well, maybe you should also add sleep "bathed in the holy light".

"The Gate of Elements", "The Whisperer of the Other World", "Personality and Soul", "The Fall of Magic".

The unread books brought Mulan this kind of simple happiness. Even if some books were obviously not accurate in content, they were at least interesting.

"It's a pity that there is no book of secrets."

Mulan found a few books, sat down at the relatively clean table, and started reading. But he didn't have his own notebooks to read and refine the records, which was really a bit unaccustomed.

In a secret room on Gemstone Mountain, Newt was studying the last part of the spell array.

This secret room is a large room, with messy debris all around the edges. On the circular table in the middle is a pieced-together nautical chart. The patchwork piece in the corner, about one-tenth the size, is exactly what Kilja vomited out. part.

The radiance of magic enveloped the pieced together chart, and the chart made from the skin of an unknown sea animal was gradually saturated with magic. Thin golden lines emerged from the center of the chart and continued to extend.

The lines of the magic array continued to approach the edge, passing through one break, two breaks, and three breaks. As Newt became more and more excited, two of the golden lines stopped outside a map fragment.

"Bang~"

The backlash of the magic array brought a strong impact, flying everything around the round platform, causing a "ringing" in the room, but Newt, whose hair was blown by the wind pressure, stood motionless in front of the chart. Frowning.

It turns out that the reason why the room is so messy is because of the magic shock caused by repeated failures, but Newt has no time to think about these details now.

Newt has already boasted in front of the Pirate King, so the problem must be solved as soon as possible. In fact, logically speaking, the remaining problems are not big, but why can't the magic array at this last point be connected?

Newt took out a magnifying glass and carefully observed the fracture in the chart. This was absolutely a correct and complete chart, and it could not be damaged by a mortal like Kilgar.

"The reason can't be Kilga. Could it be Nido? No, he doesn't have the guts, or maybe there's something wrong with the chart to begin with?"

"No, I have to ask him!"

Newt immediately went out and headed to Nido's pirate group's living quarters.

Seeing Newt come to visit him about the sea map, Nido, who is also an absolute loyalist to the Pirate King, certainly did not dare to neglect him.

However, Newt did not say bad things to Nido as soon as he came to the door. Instead, he asked Nido to help him repair the magic circle, saying that his power seemed not enough.

So half a day later, Nido and Newt repeated Newt's previous failure process in Newt's confinement room.

It was the same last-minute instability, the same magical impact, which also caused things in the room to churn, but this time there were two people standing in front of the chart.

"How could this happen? We have obviously been very careful in controlling our magic power, and there is obviously no sign of failure."

"Yes, I have done this a few times before, but I thought it was because I was not strong enough, so I came to you specifically for help."

Newt said this and looked at Nido with a frown.

"When you captured Kilja, were there any clues before his death?"

Nido shook his head, then frowned again.

"Now that I think about it, his death was a bit sudden. By the way, there is still someone alive who is with Kilga!"

Newt's eyes lit up.

"Who? Where is he?"

"I can take you to him now."

Nido did not hesitate and left with Newt directly.

The Gem Island is huge enough to accommodate a city. The two traveled all the way to the southernmost area of ​​the island, and then found Leo in a place that was obviously a slave domestication base.

At this moment, Leo was only wearing a pair of shorts, and was tied by his hands and hung from the beam of a dark room. His body was covered with open wounds, and his mouth was gagged.

Leo's consciousness became a little drowsy, and then the door of the dark room was opened. The light coming in from the outside was very dazzling to him, and he couldn't help but want to close his eyes.

A middle-aged man pointed at Leo with a smile and said.

"He is the two leaders. This guy is really a tough guy. If you can tame him, coupled with his identity and appearance, those ladies will definitely go crazy for him, and they will be willing to pay any amount of money to buy it. Go back and hide in a private place and enjoy it, hehehehe.”

Nido laughed.

"Of course a man from the Jonest family cannot be a softie."

Hearing Nido's voice, Leo's groggy consciousness woke up almost instantly. He raised his head and looked at the other person with wide eyes, as if his eyes were about to spit out fire.

Newt was also looking at Leo. Although he was tortured terribly, he did look somewhat similar to that man if he was prompted first.

Newt understands that although not many people on Gem Island know the surname Jonest except for people with high status, on land, Mulan Jonest is a dazzling new star, and Leo is Mulan's brother. , if domesticated into a slave, it would indeed be worth a lot of money.

"take away."

Newt said this and turned around to leave. Some of the accompanying pirates immediately entered the black room to untie Leo.

"Oh, leader Newt, he is mine, how can you take him away just as you say?"

"Pa~"

Before the middle-aged man could finish speaking, he was slapped hard by a strong pirate. His whole head was dizzy and his ears were buzzing.

"He is the property of the Pirate King. It is not your turn to say anything. I will spare your life this time."

Newt said this and left with Nido.

Nido didn't say a single unnecessary word during the whole process. He charged the middle-aged man a lot of money, but he couldn't refund it.

In the evening, Mulan was still looking at the magic book in the utility room, but suddenly, the voice of an elf sounded in his heart.

‘Someone related to you has appeared. ’

Mulan was shocked. Being able to be noticed by the extremely cautious elf now meant that not only did Leo appear, but he was already close enough!

‘Leo is in the Gem Mountain? ’

‘It should be, he just appeared not long ago. ’

Before, Mulan took a certain risk to find Leo secretly, and even thought about approaching Nido and insinuating people who could be contacted, but there was no information about Leo, but now he suddenly appeared.

Could it be that the Pirate King brought Leo?

what to do!

Although the Pirate King thinks highly of the pirate Vincent pretended to be by Mulan, he is not so easy to talk to in most cases. Leo is very dangerous now.

Mulan's hand holding the magic book was unconsciously hard, and his knuckles were a little white. Some memories with Leo came to mind, some from childhood, and more clearly from after the war.

"Hoo"

Go meet the Pirate King.

Mulan put down the book, but after thinking about it for a moment, he picked up one of the books, "Truth and Magic." For Leo, he had to try it no matter what. As for how to do it, he could only adapt to circumstances.

As Mulan approached the central hall of Gemstone Mountain, the elf's perception told him that Leo was not inside. But at this moment, Mulan was slightly relieved in his heart and had to bite the bullet and continue moving forward, because at this distance, the Pirate King You must have sensed him, and you can't do anything too abnormal.

Entering the hall, the Pirate King was eating a roasted wild boar. The whole wild boar was placed on the table in front of the bed. He was the only one in the entire huge hall.

"Vincent, you should be learning magic knowledge. Why are you here to see me?"

As soon as Mulan stepped into the hall from the mountain tunnel on one side, he heard the voice of the Pirate King. He looked towards the top of the hall and answered.

"I feel that although Mr. Newt is very stable, he is too conservative and always gives me too easy learning tasks, so I want to ask the leader, because you are the strongest man in the world!"

Everyone likes to hear good words, especially from the mouth of a "simple" person like Vincent.

"Hahahahaha, if Newt knew that he was looked down upon by a mere civilized person, he would definitely be furious. Although he is relatively stable on the island, if you dare to speak so bluntly in front of him."

The Pirate King narrowed his eyes and continued.

"He'll kill you!"

Mulan frowned slightly and nodded humbly.

"I understand Chief."

The Pirate King nodded slightly.

"Tell me, if you have any questions, I'll answer you this time, but I won't do it next time, unless Newt himself tells me that I really can't answer it."

Mulan immediately smiled. The Pirate King did treat him well, but if anyone meets a genius of this level, his temper will change. Mulan knows how to use his talents, even if they are disguised.

"Some of the content in this book is a bit difficult to understand."

The Pirate King took a look and saw that it was indeed "Truth and Magic". This kind of systematic and refined magic knowledge was indeed very different from the rough understanding of the pirates.

After half an hour, Mulan came out of the empty hall of the Pirate King. He did not expect that the Pirate King would be so attentive and patient in his teachings.

If it weren't for Mulan's real talent and knowledge, and not just because of excuses, then some of the rhetorical questions and guidance during the Pirate King's explanation would have exposed the excuses.

Mulan didn't dare to breathe a sigh of relief until he was sure that the Pirate King would no longer pay attention to him.

'Keep dancing on the edge of the flames, and sooner or later you will burn yourself. ’

'I'll finish dancing before I burn to death. ’

Mulan answered the elf while thinking about Leo. Since it is not here with the Pirate King, the most likely place is Newt?

In the central hall of Gemstone Mountain, the Pirate King was still thinking about Vincent. The brief teaching just now made the Pirate King more deeply aware that Vincent was not only talented, but also had amazing understanding. Or Say it's part of the talent.

‘Although Vincent is arrogant, his intuition is not wrong. Even Newt may not be able to answer those simple questions that point directly to the nature of magic. ’

Yes, the questions were not complicated, and Vincent was not capable of asking too complicated or detailed questions, but a few questions revealed Vincent's innate intuition about the nature of magic.

Just like Vincent asked, since it is not necessary to awaken the magic power to enter the transcendental world, is success or failure determined at the moment of awakening the magic power? Ordinary extraordinary people may only laugh at Vincent's ignorance. They will say that extraordinary advancement requires various conditions, such as potions, magic arrays, sacrifices, auxiliary power, etc.

But from the perspective of the Pirate King, there is actually a different understanding. Magic is tempered by the strength of the human soul and body, and is an extension of the human body and will. The initial awakening is also the one that touches the origin most. The impact before that may not be as great as After that smaller, even stronger.

"This boy"

The Pirate King raised the corners of his mouth and murmured, then took a bite of the pig leg in his hand.