Chapter 327 – A Sister and Brother with Good Feelings

Chapter 327 – A Sibling with Great Feelings

Lucrecia was a bit confused for a moment on how to respond to her elder brother – staying up in the middle of the night and suddenly contacting her across 10,000 miles with a secret spell ball just to play this kind of joke on her.

But soon, the “sea witch” vaguely realized that something was wrong.

Her own old-fashioned brother would never do such a thing under normal circumstances, and unlike herself, who was always on her own, her brother had a whole fleet of ships to take care of on his side – in addition, why did the room behind him, which was obviously not in the Sea Mist ship, look a bit… . familiar?
Through the crystal ball, Tirian noticed the change in Lucrecia’s demeanor.

He had made a special trip back to the home port to bring the crystal ball to the Lost Country for this.

“You wouldn’t believe it,” the pirate captain breathed out and smiled as he took two steps to the side, exposing the view from the cabin right in front of the crystal ball and lens set, “I’m in my own room- ‘My own room’.”

Lucrecia listened to the other’s deliberate emphasis, and looked at the image presented in the crystal ball, at first a little confused, then puzzled, then finally shock and nervousness took possession of her eyes, and, no longer as calm as she had been at first, she sprang to her feet, “You ……”

“As you can see,” Tirian returned to the crystal ball, spreading his hands with a bitter smile, “a lot of unexpected situations happened in between, and the end result is …… that I came here.”

Lucrecia stood dumbfounded in front of the crystal ball, silent for a full six or seven seconds before frowning and slowly sitting back in her chair.

“I’ll look after the Sea Mist Fleet for you,” she said with a calm expression, “as well as the twenty-seven bank accounts you have in Cold Harbor, Mokko, Momenzo, and Zalbustro, as well as the sixty-two caches of treasure in the northern seas.”

This time the person who jumped up from in front of the crystal ball was replaced by Tirian.

“How did you know ……,” the great pirate looked at his sister in the crystal ball with almost a look of horror, but in the next second he reacted, “You left an imprint on the Sea Mist?”

“I didn’t need such a stupid method,” Lucrecia said with a calm face, “You weren’t very good at hiding things in the first place – have any of the snacks you’ve hidden since you were a child ever stayed intact to the end? ”

Tirian’s face stiffened for a moment, then he sighed helplessly, “I thought those caches were chosen to be quite secretive, after all, nothing’s gone wrong for so long ……”

“Anyone who owns a fleet as large as the Sea Mist Fleet, then even if he puts his treasure in the center of the city, it’s still a ‘secret pirate treasure that no one can touch’.”

“…… I can’t argue with you,” Tirian waved his hand, skirting around the slightly awkward topic, “It doesn’t look like you’re worried about my safety.”

“Worried for a bit at first, but if you were really in trouble, you wouldn’t be in the mood to joke with me,” Lucrecia remained bashful, “So, what exactly happened? Why are you on the Lost Country? Father he ……”

“He found my secret port – it’s probably true what you said, I was never good enough at hiding things,” Tirian sighed again, “The Frost side… . there’s something going on, something stirring beneath the depths that’s caught father’s attention, and now he’s here to investigate it himself, and has reached out to me.”

Lucrecia frowned, “So you’ve met him, face to face kind of thing.”

Tirian spread his hands, “Do I even need to ask? I’m already on board.”

Lucrecia fell silent, seemingly hesitating about something, and after a long time, she ventured out without a word, “…… What is father’s current state?”

“He’s …… better now than we thought,” Tirian struggled with his vocabulary so that his answer would not be affected by the harmonic gate things he had experienced on the Lost Country, “He really has taken back his humanity –and has become a more peaceful man than we remember. He talked to me a lot, about the Sea Mist Fleet, about the Cold and Cold Sea, about me and you, and he told me something …… about something to do with subspace, but of course, it was just some generalized descriptions.”

“You even talked to him about subspace?!” The corner of Lucrecia’s mouth visibly twitched, “You shouldn’t be abnormal already, right?”

“I wasn’t the one who had to initiate the conversation,” Tirian shrugged, “I just asked him curiously about why the lower cabin was locked – and then he told me that the entire lower structure of the Lost Country was soaking in subspace. The main reason for locking the doors was that they were afraid someone would fall in.”

Lucrecia drew in a soft breath, the vibration in her pupils clearly visible even to Tirian.

“Stunned, nervous, feeling incredulous with an eye-opening thrill, right?” Tirian smiled bitterly, “I understand how you feel, I’ve experienced those feelings once already.”

Lucrecia, however, did not speak again, she seemed to be lost in thought.

For a little less than a second, she even really pondered whether or not her older brother had been sub-space eroded, and whether or not he was now a madman sitting in front of the crystal ball.

After an unknown amount of time, she broke the silence again, “What is father he …… doing now?”

“I don’t know, he went back to the captain’s cabin, the others on the ship said he was going to use some special means to investigate the Frost City State – details I didn’t ask.”

“There were others on board?” Lucrecia asked in surprise.

Tirion opened his mouth as if about to answer, but was interrupted by a sudden knock on the door, and then he got up and left the front of the crystal ball, and from the voices beyond the screen, Lucrecia could only hear a few vague words of conversation. It seemed that someone had come to the room to deliver something.

A few moments later, Tirian returned to the picture, with an extra plate in front of him, containing a freshly baked apple pie.

A shocked exclamation from Lucrecia instantly came from the crystal ball, “You even have apple pie over there?!”

“The ship now also has a hot water supply and raw supplies from Prand,” Tirian said casually, “I know it’s hard to imagine, in fact father even mentioned that he was planning on installing a set of steam cores on the ship so that the hot water supply would become twenty-four hour, and additional generator sets could be added ……”

He spread his hands as he spoke, “The good news is that now it looks like father won’t mind my modifications to the Sea Mist.”

Lucrecia: “……?”

……

As the bleak night wind blew across the coast, a flash of ghostly green fire suddenly streaked across the sky, and before anyone could notice the flame, it crashed into an unoccupied corner near the harbor.

A tall and sturdy figure, whose entire body was burned by the flames, was horrifying to look at, stepped out from the flames.

Feeling the cold night wind, Duncan inhaled deeply on the frosty ground.

Physiologically, his body had actually long since lost the ability to breathe, but he could still feel the airflow pouring into his chest and exhaling slowly, smoothly and forcefully.

“Frost, ah ……” Duncan lifted his sight and glanced at the city area that was being illuminated by lights in the distance, then shook his head and slowly made his way to the vicinity of the coast, found a calm pool of standing water, and, by the light spilling from the world’s creations, looked at the reflection in the pool of standing water, the face that he himself was face used today.

“This appearance can really be held down by the sheriff and the guardsmen in conjunction with the first appearance.”

Reflected in the pool of water was the image of a stout and ghastly figure, full of authority, but also enough to make one run to the police at a single glance.

It was really hard to imagine that the original owner of this body was able to maintain consciousness by sheer force of will even in the last seconds of his life.

“Belazov? …… May your soul have a safe journey.” Duncan looked at his reflection in the pool of stagnant water and said goodbye to the old owner of this body for the last time, then looked up to a short distance away.

Aye was standing on a nearby piece of rubble, it raised its wings and made a loud cooing sound.

Duncan waved his hand, and the dove then instantly transformed into a stream of flaming light and disappeared into the night sky in the blink of an eye.

By the connection established in the depths of his spirit, it was certain that it had arrived on board the Lost Country in an instant.

Just like the previous test – after establishing the round-trip beacons, Aey could use a method similar to “instantaneous movement” to cross a long space-time in the blink of an eye and arrive directly at the location of the beacons.

Duncan lowered his head and glanced at his current body.

The “incarnation” that he had taken up with his spirit walk was a “round-trip beacon” that could be used as a location point for Aey.

While confirming this, he also recalled the temporary body he had occupied when he arrived in Frost on the first night.

It was extremely weak, had abnormal senses, and began to disintegrate shortly after leaving the coffin – at that time, he didn’t bother to test it, but now that he recalls it, that body really didn’t give him any feedback from the “establishment of beacons” at that time.

“One of the characteristics of a replica?” muttered Duncan thoughtfully, “Can’t carry power because it’s not a full mortal body?”

As he pondered this, he was abruptly interrupted by a crackling burst of flame, followed by a green flaming doorway that appeared out of nowhere on the shore beside him.

Aey had returned from the Lost Country.

Duncan turned to look at the flaming doorway floating in mid-air, while three figures had gradually appeared in the light of the flames.

These were the “helpers” he had asked Aey to bring from the Lost Country.

(End of chapter)