Part 3 THE TRAVELER Chapter 14 The Desired Sea
”The Fountain of Youth? Can you really stay young forever if you drink it?” Donna asked with wide, curious eyes.
She wasn’t really in the mood for anticipation, as she was still youthful enough.
Without answering immediately, Aeran forked a slice of fried fishman’s flank rib, tore and swallowed it in two bites, and then sipped a small amount of Sunia blood wine.
”The sweet and moist flavor completely washes out the greasy taste of the frying ……” He half closed his eyes in a gourmet’s manner.
After a few seconds of reminiscing, he slowly answered Donna’s question:
”I’m not sure if there is an ‘Fountain of Agelessness’, and I can’t confirm if the ‘King of Immortality’ Agaritu has ever drank from its spring, the only thing I know is, that is, when I was very young, I have heard this pirate king’s of legends, just as the ‘King of the Five Seas’ Nast seems to live forever.”
”They must have had long, long beards that went beyond their chests!” Denton voiced his opinion.
”In fact, ‘Nast, King of the Five Seas’ has a beard that only reaches to the bottom of his neck, and he sits on the deck, draped in a magnificent robe with silver trim on a black background, and wearing a crown of spires twice the height of his head, looking down on everything around him like a god . … “Aeran’s tone gradually lowered, as if he was stuck in a quagmire of memories that was hard to break free from.
”Uncle Captain, you’ve seen the ‘King of the Five Seas’?” Donna asked excitedly.
This was the most legendary pirate of all time, his name passed through the sea, and even the children in the harbor city were familiar with it.
Entire generations had grown up hearing stories about him!
In a sense, in the perception of many people, Nast is equal to the real pirate king …… I remember that one of the conditions for the promotion of the “Black Emperor” is to link his name to the title of ‘Emperor’. I remember that one of the conditions for the promotion of the “Black Emperor” was to link his name to the title of “Emperor”, which penetrated into the hearts of the people. …… Is this a rudimentary attempt at a beginner’s version? I don’t know how many times the “King of the Five Seas” has reached the sequence …… Although Klein was concentrating on tasting the fried fish and human meat, he was still stirred up by the crowd’s conversation.
In the face of Donna’s question, Erland sighed and said:
”I was still very young at that time, and was still serving on the William V. Once, our fleet attempted to cross the Celestial Calamity Channel of the Berserk Sea, where we encountered the Black Emperor.
”For those few minutes everyone, including the fleet officer, lost the will to resist, and luckily Nast didn’t order an attack on us.”
”Cool!” The boy Denton praised with glowing eyes.
Aeran stopped continuing the subject and grinned:
”As for the ‘King of Immortality’ Agathuri, I haven’t actually seen him, I only know that the bounty order shows him as a middle-aged man with a pale face, pale to what extent? Let me give you an easy to understand example, like a corpse that has been dead for a while and is just starting to decompose.”
Hearing this analogy, Donna and Denton subconsciously glanced at the fishman’s corpse, which was already riddled with holes, and unconsciously wriggled their throats.
”Of course, the point of the bounty isn’t looks, it’s the amount, and in Ruin alone, Agathuri is worth 100,000 pounds, and he has the lowest bounty of the four kings.” Aeran digressed, “Let’s continue the story of the treasures, in third place is the ‘Legacy of Solomon’s Empire’, in the Fourth Age, when that vast empire was dismembered and overthrown, it’s royalty, with treasures that the gods would have envied, boarded a ship and sailed into the depths of the Sea of Mists, awaiting the rebuilding of the dynasty’s chance to rebuild the dynasty, but five hundred years passed, a thousand years passed, fifteen hundred years passed, and they never appeared again.”
”It is said that the ‘King of the Five Seas’ Nast then inherited part of the Solomon Empire’s legacy, and no one knows if he is truly a descendant of the Black Emperor.” Cecil added with interest.
”The Misty Sea? The west coast of the northern continent?” Donna thought back to her knowledge of geography.
”Right.” Krivis responded succinctly.
To the west of the North Continent was the Misty Sea, to the east was the Sunia Sea, to the south was the Berserk Sea, to the north was the North Sea, to the east and west of the South Continent was the same as the North Continent, and to the south was the Polar Sea, and when they were combined together, it was the so-called “Five Seas”.
Rune Kingdom is backed by the Hornerchies Mountains and the inland sea, east of the Sunia Sea, south of the Dixie Bay, occupying several excellent access to the “Sea of Berserkers”, but does not involve the Sea of Mists.
”So ah ……” Donna has little interest in the treasure that is too far away, and asked instead, “What about the fourth treasure?”
”That belongs to the last empire of the Fourth Age, Trenthorst, rumor has it that they built a huge ship equivalent to a city and transferred all their treasures all their wealth onto it, ridiculously, their evasion didn’t work, none of the intended passengers and crew survived as they didn’t reach the port in time.
”The ship, however, disappeared on its own, and to this day, it is still claimed from time to time that they have seen the massive vessel sailing silently by on some mist-filled night, it is known as the ‘Ghost Empire’, and haunts all over the Sunia Sea, heh, that’s summed up from those stories. ” Aeran looked up at the red moon high in the sky, his tone a bit mocking and hiding a yearning that was hard to hide.
”Maybe tomorrow night, no, tonight, we’ll see it sail by!” Donna thought freely with anticipation and excitement.
Klein gathered up the rest of the food, took a sip of his black tea, and listened with considerable interest as Aeran recounted the remaining treasures:
”The fifth one is the ‘Lost Nuins’, rumored to be a civilization belonging to intelligent beings at the bottom of the Misty Sea. Navigators and adventurers of that sea often find peculiar items that point to Newins in ancient times, but the members of this civilization have never appeared, as if they disappeared from this world long ago.” Aerlan took a sip of the remaining Sunia blood wine and said, “That’s a legacy left behind by a civilization whose bounty is absolutely unimaginable.”
Aerlan paused for two seconds, put down his glass, and let out a laugh:
”In fact, the treasure that I yearn for the most, and one that is actually more than a legend, is the, ‘Sunken Laurel’, more than a hundred years ago, it was loaded with gold jewels and all sorts of valuables that the kingdom had obtained from East Byron, and because of straying off course, it sank in the Sea of Berserkers and the Sunia Sea in an unknown place, and until today it has also has not been discovered.
”It is said that the items on it were worth millions of pounds in total!”
”Millions of pounds?” This figure made Donna’s mouth drop in shock.
As a merchant’s daughter and having been educated for a number of years, she had a vague understanding of what this figure represented.
In Rune, millionaires were the absolute rich, second only to the topmost great nobles and tycoons!
A few million pounds? Mrs. Mary, who let me join the Krag Club for free, as a member of the Kingdom’s Air Pollution Investigation Committee and a major shareholder of the Cowim Company, is only worth a few tens of thousands of pounds, and even then, she is wealthy enough in the circle of nobles and merchants to be quite a popular divorced lady, and there are even sons of nobles who are begging to marry them……. Kraven quickly found the Comparison object.
Erland sighed with a smile on his lips:
”If I can find the ‘Sunken Laurel’, then I’ll stop being a captain, I’ll head to Berkland, I’ll become a philanthropist, I’ll buy land, donate to political parties, and get a hereditary title!”
I heard Talim mention that a Lord, that is, from the baronial title is about 300,000 pounds, and a baronet is around 800,000 pounds …… If you salvage the treasure, a viscount, or even an earl, is conceivable …… A few million pounds! Klein helped the other party perfect the plan in his mind.
”If it’s me, I won’t be like this, I’m going to buy a very large manor.” Cecil also began to think about the life after harvesting the treasure, “I’m going to hire a lot of servants and helpers, plant a large area of wheat, establish a vineyard, and specialize in brewing wine for myself …… Also, a large room that can bask in the sunlight, cows, goats, and horses that leisurely move around, bread that comes out of the own mill, and it’s just as beautiful as the picturesque scenery ……”
Erland laughed out loud at this:
”Ma’am, do you know how much such an estate is worth?”
”No, no idea.” Cecil shook his head.
”It’s only a few thousand pounds, and with the salvage of the ‘Sunken Laurel’ you could buy a thousand similar estates!” Erland spelled out the value of that treasure in concrete numbers.
A thousand manors? Cecile couldn’t help but lift her cup and take a sip of black tea.
Before this, she knew that a few million pounds was a very large amount of money, but she didn’t expect it to be as much as this!
In order to ease the shock inside, she looked at Crivis:
”Guv, if you find the ‘Sunken Laurel’, what are you going to buy, no, what kind of life are you going to live?”
Crivis said after a moment of silence:
”Go home, hug my wife and kids, and tell them I don’t have to venture out to sea anymore.”
Nice guy …… Klein nodded slightly.
Donna, on the other hand, looks at him curiously:
”What about you, Uncle Adventurer?”
Klein replied with little expression:
”Tell yourself to stop sleeping and wake up quickly.”
Pfft …… Donna spewed out the sweet iced tea she just drank, and luckily, the fried fish on the table had already been eaten.
At this moment, Klein was lamenting in his heart:
Although I know that it’s basically impossible to find the treasure, otherwise so many strong people from the major churches would have already accomplished it, I still can’t help but feel a little warm-hearted when discussing the corresponding topic just now! Even if it’s just a legend, it can attract many adventurers!
Donna wiped her mouth and sat down in a lady-like manner, as if she wasn’t the one who lost her temper just now.
The young boy, Denton, couldn’t get enough of it and asked:
”Are there any other treasure legends?”
Aeran looked to Crivis, signaling him to answer.
Crivis took an unhurried sip of his black tea and said in a low tone:
”The treasure legends of the sea can never be counted, the hidden settlements of the elves, the pirate ship that disappeared in the depths of the mists, the undersea city that seals the powerful magic monsters, the last secret stash of Rossel the Great, and so on, and so on.”
Huh? The Great Emperor has reached the level of leaving treasure legends for others …… If it’s true, will there be blasphemous cards in it? How many of them would there be? By the way, the legend of the “Death Key” might help Mr. Aztec to recover more memories, so I will write a letter to tell him about it later …… Klein thought with curiosity and anticipation.