Perhaps because they jointly faced the crisis of a deep-sea fish monster attack, each other's wariness has weakened a lot. After the five ships arrived at a relatively safe small bay far away from Horseshoe Bay, they all stopped to make some repairs and tally the losses.

The captains of the five ships each boarded a lifeboat, came to the middle water where the five ships were docked, and started a meeting.

When they learned that their respective goals were not conflicting and could even cooperate in many places, they took out the Pirate Code and swore a temporary alliance with the ocean gods to add more to the melee between the gold ship fleet and the pirate alliance fleet.

More survival rates.

However, they did not know that although the corpses and flesh of the fish monsters on their respective ships had been cleaned, this cleanliness was only superficial. In fact, the blood stains disappeared the moment the blood of the deep-sea fish monsters fell on the deck.

It has penetrated into the hull of the ship and gradually formed a mark similar to a curse. In other words, even without Leo and Sylvia, their ships have been targeted by Daru.

This kind of being targeted is not literally being targeted, but actually being targeted. In the cabin of the Beloved, both Leo and Sylvia can clearly feel that as the fish monster's blood-stained curse condenses and takes shape,

It was like a lighthouse that continuously emitted signals to the surroundings. Soon, the power felt in Daru Temple fell on the ship following the guidance of the signal, and once again left a mark on the ship.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia felt any threatening power from this mark. This mark was more like a signal source, as if Daru was declaring his ownership of these ships to all the beings on the sea.

Although these marks are deep into the hull, they are not particularly powerful in themselves. Both Leo and Sylvia have ways to disperse them, but they did not do so because while these marks guided Daru's direction, they also

The location of Daru was exposed.

At the same time, this mark should be one of Daru's original marks. Although the power aura exuded from it is not powerful, it is the same as Daru's original power. This mark contains too much of Daru's original power.

Information, analyzing the power in this mark is equivalent to analyzing part of the secret of Daru's power.

However, it is very difficult to analyze the mystery of the power of the gods from the marks of the gods. It is difficult even for the gods to do it. That is why the gods do not care about the imprint of their own origin.

But what the gods can't do doesn't mean that Leo can't do it. His body itself is very strange. It can accommodate various gods' marks, and imitate or borrow the power of the gods through the marks. Moreover, his devouring power, the power of nightmares,

The power of the god and the power of the stone throne cooperate with each other to easily suppress a trace of the consciousness of the god in the mark of the god, absorb the power of the god, imitate the power of the god, etc. These talents and abilities work together to make Leo's whole person like a power analysis device

, can decompose, absorb, and imitate any power he sees at will.

Now, with Daru's original mark clearly in front of his eyes, Leo naturally would not miss this opportunity. He directly introduced the power of the mark into his body little by little, used the power of the stone throne to suppress Daru's consciousness in the power, and then formed

The mark of the Daru God that belongs to him absorbs the power emitted from the mark through the devouring power of the Chaos Stomach, analyzes it, and uses the power of nightmare to imitate it.

The moment he imitated Daru's power, he seemed to have transformed into Daru. All the Daru statues on the five ships emitted a faint light, and a blurry image around his body also

its package.

"Is this Daru? It's really ugly." Sylvia looked at the image that enveloped Leo and said with a hint of disgust.

I saw that Daru's true appearance was completely different from the idol that the world had created for him. Although Daru's idol was also in the form of a sea monster, the shape of the sea monster was still within the acceptable range of human thought. Daru's true appearance

It is completely out of human imagination. To put it simply, Daru is a group of stinking pustules that form a shape that is half fish and half squid, and countless tentacles full of sharp teeth protrude from the pustules, spreading their teeth and claws towards the surroundings.

All kinds of sounds.

This kind of sound is not a language in any conventional sense. It cannot be heard by ordinary people, but it can affect ordinary people, because at the moment when Daru's power is incarnated by Leo, this kind of sound is beyond human hearing.

It has spread to the Beloved, and everyone on the Beloved has fallen into some kind of mental hysteria. They are mumbling words and their eyes are dull. Only the Barbarissa couple are not affected, and even Joan and Penny are also affected.

It's affected.

"Should this be called words of bewitchment or words of blasphemy?" Sylvia, whose life form is no different from that of a demigod, can naturally hear this sound, and this sound becomes two voices in her ears.

There are two identifiable languages, one is tempting her into the embrace of the ocean, and the other is cursing the world in the most vicious language.

"None of them." Leo, who was almost the incarnation of Daru at this moment, obviously knew Daru's situation better than Sylvia. After analyzing it for a moment, he showed a smile on his face and said: "He is better than I imagined.

Easier to deal with.”

Afterwards, he gave Sylvia a bit-by-bit description of the essence of Daru that he had analyzed, and while describing it, he and Sylvia further improved their methods of dealing with Daru's attacks.

Although Daru is now a god recognized by the church in the civilized world, and can openly build churches, temples, and preach, after Leo analyzed Daru's origin mark, he discovered that Daru is still essentially a sea creature whose behavior is driven by instinct.

It's nothing strange, the wisdom, character and divinity He displayed are all just a disguise.

Daru can be regarded as the lucky one among those sea monsters. He seems to have found a way to gain wisdom and faith. This method is to rescue the victims in the storm.

Although this kind of thing is very simple, it is very difficult for those sea monsters who only know how to act instinctively. When they encounter a drowning person, they will only eat them as desserts and will not rescue them, but Daru is

The lucky one among many sea monsters, an unexpected rescue allowed him to gain human faith, and along with faith came human wisdom and emotions, which made him break away from the category of sea monsters and enter another level.

It's just that these wisdoms and emotions are all human risks, not produced by Himself. His nature is still the instinct of a beast. He doesn't know how to deal with these wisdoms and emotions derived from humans. Moreover, He is not a god in nature and has no ability to deal with the power of faith.

Ability, eventually these complex substances from human beings accumulated in his body, helping him disguise himself as a wise god, but also turned into poison, corroding his essence bit by bit, so his essence would gradually change from a

The sea monster's form changes that are acceptable to humans are now in this indescribably disgusting state.

If it were a real god, Leo and Sylvia could only fight it through external means, but a sea monster like Daru disguised as a god, and a sea monster with fatal flaws, Leo

They have better ways to deal with him, or it.

According to Daru's essential condition, Leo and Sylvia's adjusted response methods were completely different from the original version. As for the original version, they did not waste it and used it as preparation to deal with possible accidents.

plan.

On the other side, the captains of the five ships also returned to their respective ships, and according to the discussed plan, they sailed away from this temporary docking point and headed towards the eye of the bitter sea where the gold transport ship and the main battlefield of the pirates were located.

In order to avoid running into the battlefield, all five ships slowed down. The route that originally only took half a day took a whole day. Until nightfall, they still had not reached the planned observation stop. Therefore,

They had to anchor directly at sea and wait until dawn tomorrow before leaving.

Although after repeated inspections and tests, no abnormality was found in the surroundings, the sailors who had experienced the deep-sea fish monster attack did not dare to relax at all. People patrolled the ship repeatedly throughout the night to avoid any accidents.

However, they felt lucky that what they were worried about did not happen. It was very calm until dawn. However, after dawn, when the five ships weighed anchor and continued to sail towards their planned observation stop, they were on the water.

Some fragments of the ship's wreckage were found.

It is not uncommon to find the wreckage of fragmented ships at sea. Most of the time, sailors will use fishing nets to pick up these fragments and wreckage to see if they can find anything valuable. Even if nothing valuable is found, those who are slightly

The intact fragments are also collected and used as lumber for repairing ships.

"The dog pack is Tagess's dog pack!" When the sailors on a ship picked up the fragments as usual and looked for valuable things, the pattern imprinted on a fragment immediately caught their attention.

A sailor who knew the pirate flag very well immediately pointed at the pattern and shouted loudly.

The boatswain who heard the shouting immediately ran over to confirm the pattern, and then reported the news. The captain who got the news also passed the news to other ships.

The Tagess these people are talking about is a pirate who wanders along the southern coast of the New World, because his pirate ships are numerous, and they are all small and medium-sized speedboats. When they encounter prey, they are like a pack of dogs hunting.

He hunted and hunted, so his pirate group was also called the dog pack.

Among the many pirates, the sea dog Tagess is not the most powerful, but it is the most difficult to deal with. In addition, Tagess likes to transform the appearance of his car to look like other ships under his command, and then hide among the dogs.

, so it is difficult to solve the problem of Tagess by destroying the flagship of the Dog Group. As long as Tagess is still alive, even if the other ships of the Dog Group are sunk, Tagess can quickly rebuild the Dog Group and continue

Privateering at sea.

The Black Reef waters belong to the southern waters of the New World. Among the participants invited by the Pirate Alliance, the sea dog Tajith is naturally indispensable. Among the big pirates in the alliance, Tajith may not be ranked high, but he still belongs to a considerable force.

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Judging from the current situation, Tagess has obviously come into contact with the front-end escort fleet of the gold transport fleet, and had a fierce battle. And judging from the debris, the battle seems to be one-sided against Tagess.

This is because the wood used in those fragments is thin wood used by some cheap offshore speedboats, while the wood used by ocean-going ship frigates is stronger and thicker.

When the five ships arrived at their reserved observation point, it was not difficult to see from the large number of ship fragments floating in the waters and the remains of some corpses that had not had time to be eaten by the fish. It was easy to see that the fur seal Tagess might have fallen here this time.

This observation point has no name. It is just a deep-water area with few reefs. Because its location is right next to the eye of the Kushui Sea, you only need to bypass an obvious group of rocks to enter the Kushui Sea. Therefore, this is also the first choice for some ships.

At this temporary docking point, before entering the Eye of Bitter Water, ships taking the Black Reef route will make slight repairs here before continuing on.

Originally, the plan discussed by Halesa and the other captains was to have five ships parked here, and then each would try to understand the situation in the Eye of the Bitter Water, and then decide based on the situation whether the next step would be to go directly through the Eye of the Bitter Water, or to stay in a safe place.

Wait for the opportunity.

However, the fragments now floating on the sea show that both warring parties are obviously not very friendly to bystanders and neutral ships, because there are also many merchant ship fragments among the fragments, indicating that at least one merchant ship was involved in the battlefield.

Just as the five ships were still discussing whether to stay at this temporary location as originally planned or to enter the eye of the bitter water first, a whistle sounded from the original place, and then the lookout saw seven or eight medium-sized steam ships.

The warship transformed from the ship appeared on the sea level in the distance, and more ships could be vaguely seen further away.

When the lookouts reported the news to their respective captains, the captains of Halesa all knew that their luck was really bad. The sailing route they chose actually overlapped with the route of the gold transport ship, and the time also overlapped.

They knew very well that if they continued to stay here, they would only be treated as pirates by the gold-carrying fleet, so they did not hesitate to come up with a backup plan and ordered to enter the eye of the bitter water in advance and swim along the edge of the eye.

Avoid getting involved in the flames of war.

Just when the five ships were about to sail into the eyes of the bitter sea, a non-human employer on one of the ships found the captain of his ship and said that he could help the five ships hide under the nose of the gold-carrying fleet.

was discovered.

Then he asked the captain to notify the other four ships to approach his ship, then took out a device the size of a shoe box, handed it to the lookout, and fixed it on the highest mast of the ship.

Although the captain didn't understand what his employer wanted to do, but thinking about some of the special abilities used in the fish monster attack, he felt that what his employer said was not false, so he followed the instructions and notified other ships to come closer.

The other four ships didn't understand why they did this, but since it didn't take much time to do so, they didn't ask any questions and just passed by.

However, after the five ships approached a certain distance, they were surprised to find that a colorful light mask suddenly appeared on the center ship and quickly moved around, trying to cover them.

When the light mask moved, people outside the light mask found that the ship they were on disappeared bit by bit, feeling as if it had been swallowed by something terrible. Some sailors were even frightened and jumped into the water.
Chapter completed!