28. Port Fourchon
Chapter 28 Port Fullan
Dean Ithaca turned into the alley next to the main street and, after making sure no one was following him, walked up to the door of a private house and knocked three times, then twice after a slight pause.
The door to the room opened and a young girl poked her head out, looking both ways down the road before grabbing Dean by the shirt and pulling him inside.
“Oi oi! Be gentle, the clothes are going to be torn to shreds by you.” Dean protested in displeasure.
“And you have the nerve to say that, going out for so long and not coming back, I thought something had happened to you.”
The pink-haired teenager frowned and crossed her arms, obviously a little angry.
“Ugh? Alas? The sun’s beating down on the west side, is the headmistress-sama worried about me?” Dean feigned surprise.
“You- believe it or not I’ll flatten you!” The young girl’s face reddened and she raised a chain ball that was quite disproportionate to her physique.
Dean immediately raised his hands to beg for mercy, “Mercy, mercy!”
“Hey, hey! There’s a time for you two to flirt, isn’t there? Susan’s grandfather is still in the hands of the pirates.” A tall yellow-haired youth beside him said helplessly.
Then his face came into close contact with the girl’s chain ball.
“No one will take you as mute if you don’t speak, you ‘fly’.” The young girl said sorrowfully as she carried the chain ball.
The yellow-haired youth covered his bulging cheeks and said miserably, “Yes~~Master Chief, I won’t dare to do it again.”
As soon as the words fell, two more people came out from the inner room, a teenage girl wearing a pointed scholar’s hat and a girl with a ponytail, the ponytail girl was the only one in this room wearing Northwest Bay style civilian clothing, she said happily, “So it’s brother Dean who’s back.”
The two were relieved to see that Dean had returned safely.
The young girl dressed as a scholar asked, “Dean, did you find out any news?”
“It’s true that I’ve acquired quite a bit of useful information.”
As everyone sat down around the table, Dean continued, “Port Fulan is under town-wide martial law, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving. I heard that the pirates had hit a nail some time ago.”
The Chain Ball girl asked in dissatisfaction, “Who asked you about that, what about Susan’s grandfather and the goal of our trip?”
“Hold your horses, I’ll tell you. I got a pirate minion drunk and pulled something out of his mouth, Susan’s grandfather and our target are imprisoned in the church, but I went to the neighborhood and the pirates have their handles very tight and it’s hard to get close to there. So we’ll have to find the right moment.”
The chainmail girl yelled out in dissatisfaction, “Where’s the trouble in that? If I say so, why don’t we just rush in, pull out that ‘shark’, beat him up, and make him hand the people over to us?”
Dean smiled bitterly and helplessly, “Headmaster, you have to consider the number of enemies compared to us.”
The Chain Ball Girl glared angrily, “Then what do you say?”
Dean was not flustered, “I do have a plan, which goes back to what I said at the beginning. Do you guys know how big of a nail the pirates hit a while ago? They lost over four hundred people! That’s almost half of the Shark Gang’s men.”
The snot-nosed Killmonger covered his cheeks and asked, “Who’s so powerful? It couldn’t be a local lord, could it?”
Dean spread his hands, “That minion doesn’t know, didn’t you serve in the army, you should know, for these bottom-feeders, the top often don’t want them to know too much. If the opponent is too strong there might be desertion, just know when the battle is near then push to the front as cannon fodder. The news of the loss of over four hundred people is also something he learned through an acquaintance of the leader’s side.”
Chain Ball Girl: “Is it possible that it’s the lord’s army, Su ……?”
“No kidding, our lords here care about the deaths of coastal civilians? They would have sold us out to pirates a decade or so ago.”
Before the chainmail girl could finish her question, the ponytail girl came out with a stiff comment.
The young girl’s face reversed her earlier demeanor, seemingly disdainful, seemingly indignant, and one small hand clenched into a fist.
“Shameless nobles still have the cheek to come to us every quarter to collect taxes, as the mayor of the town grandfather in addition to satisfying the greedy appetite of the pirates, but also have to cope with the tax officer sent down by the pig-headed lord, just like this is still complained by many townspeople.”
As she said that, the young girl’s eyes moistened, and tears indisputably swirled in her eyes.
Miss Scholar immediately stroked her hand on the girl’s back and comforted, “Don’t be sad, everyone should just be talking, in their hearts they all understand the old man, otherwise why would they elect your grandfather as the mayor of the town every year?”
The ponytail girl wiped away her tears and whimpered, “Well …… I know everyone’s heart, being blackmailed by pirates and lords at the same time, it’s inevitable that there’s going to be some whining.” “Uh-huh!” Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Dean cleared his throat to attract everyone’s attention and continued to talk about his plan:
“Regardless of who it was that made the pirates touch the nail, but looking at their recent deployment, reinforcing fortifications and prohibiting entry and exit, it looks like the other party will soon be coming to Richland Harbor to clean them up.”
“Right now, there are only a measly few hundred pirates within the town, and according to the information I pulled out, most of them will be dispatched to the gates for defensive operations when the time comes, leaving only 20 or so people in the church.”
“We can’t tell if the visitors are good or evil, since Susan has said that the local lord is very incompetent, I guess it might be another group of pirates coming over for a firefight, so we can only hope for ourselves. When the time comes, we’ll take advantage of the chaos this …… and that ……”
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After the crowd deliberated on the details of the action, the chain ball girl hammered out, “Hmph! It’s very simple! Let’s do it like this. Alas, it would be nice if the rest of the group were here as well. If we gather, I think we can go in hard right now.”
“It can’t be helped, who made you take on two missions, chief?”
“Hmph! I’m also looking out for the future of our adventuring group. But then again, what’s our target, the Horned Bay Alliance’s Grand Young Master Foster doing running here? Netting people trouble. “
“What else could be the reason, a rich young master like him is just burnt out by some knight adventure novels, fantasizing about slaying evil dragons, saving princesses and such every day. I can’t find any evil dragons, but there are evil people, wasn’t this the territory of the great pirate Edward before? I heard that many people challenged him before, but none of them succeeded and were fed to the fish. This young master of ours is really lucky to the core, just in time for Edward to be away.”
The ponytailed girl said, “Brother Dean, Sister Meru, I also want to help you guys, not to mention that my grandfather is also among the people saved. I’ll come with you guys when the time comes, I know the inside of the church well.”
“No way! It’s too dangerous. Susan just stay at home and wait for our good news.”
The chain ball girl balked, a serious expression appearing on her face.
“I – Meru Heimer, betting on the name of the Lichtman Adventure Group, promise to bring your grandfather home safely.”
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By now the church in Port Fullan had become the headquarters for a group of pirates from the Shark Gang, with the big and small leaders gathered in a room somewhere to meet and discuss the recent defeat.
A classic pirate dress, a face of horizontal meat, left eye with an eyepatch leader ‘shark’ hate said: “No wonder ‘loach’ that guy panicked and ran back to the sea, the original Greiman family boy is really some doorway! .”
A small leader said, “Boss, let’s retreat to the sea as well, the brothers below are a bit panicked. The rumor that there are witches within the other side to help has already spread around.”
Shark was furious and slammed the water cup in front of him, “Pass the order down, whoever dares to talk nonsense again I’ll pull out his tongue!”
“You guys still want to go back to the sea to live that kind of life where you’re adrift and have nothing to eat? Now that it’s so hard to get that meddling bogeyman Edward to go away, I have to swallow this piece of fat meat in Port Fulan.”
“But this piece of land is the Gleeman family’s ……”
“I don’t care what Gleiman or Sileiman is, if I occupy it, it’s mine.”
A former Quake gang leader who defected over revealed a look of fear: “But Shark boss, the ‘wizard’ on their side ……” Before he finished speaking, he remembered that Shark had just forbidden the order to speak nonsense , hastily shut his mouth.
Shark a look of hatred: “Move your brains, if they really have witches, magic or whatever, the church has long gone to find their trouble, there is still time to deal with us?”
Then he said confidently, “It’s just some not-so-common weapons. I carefully questioned those brethren who have experienced it personally and summarized a set of methods to deal with them. As long as you wear thick armor or even thicker clothing, those iron nails and debris won’t be able to do much damage. As for that kind of pipe that can fire iron projectiles, it’s nothing more than something like a bow and arrow or a projectile rope, except that it fires projectiles a little faster, a little more powerful, and in very small quantities.”
Although Shark’s mouth was quite hard, but in his heart he was also secretly afraid, he had seen one of the pirates who had been shot on Quake’s side of the defection, when the man’s whole arm was almost wasted, and a few days later he hung up because of a persistent high fever.
But he explicitly must not show it, otherwise how to fool his men to get killed, so he said some encouraging words, promising to permanently occupy the port of Frankland will give them how many benefits and so on.
A group of men were inspired by the shark, Gleeman’s secret weapon seems not so scary, have expressed to follow the boss to fight with Gleeman’s army to the death.
“By the way, what about that old man mayor and that big young master of the Horned Bay Alliance?”
“The old man is still uncooperative, he won’t recognize your lord title no matter how hard he tortures him. That young master was honest, and wrote whatever he was told to write.”
“Hmph! I’ll have plenty of time to play with the old man when I block the dog-headed nobles’ army, but it’s useless if he doesn’t recognize it then. That young master also keep an eye on me, he’s our money tree.”
“Yes, Boss!”
(End of chapter)