Chapter 1

Blood dripped from the tip of the spear. The Tzigane Iron Guard yanked back with all his might, but his weapon felt as if it had been cemented into the rock, unmovable. He looked up and met Fang Senyan’s eyes, burning like raging flames!

Seeing their leader arrive, the black brothers breathed a sigh of relief. It felt so good to have someone in front to take the lead... And so, they fearlessly and unrestrainedly fired away. With Fang Senyan holding the line, the two Tzigane Iron Guards relentlessly charged, only to be repelled time and again as if they were slamming into a solid wall.

Amidst the reckless shooting, Mogansha quickly summoned two viper wolves that bit and tore ferociously, relieving some of Fang Senyan’s pressure. Before long, they managed to take down the two guards, successfully looting a light blue key.

As the last expressionless Tzigane Iron Guard clutched his throat, collapsed to his knees, and finally lowered his head, closing his eyes, the two men simultaneously slumped to the ground. Every inch of their bodies ached, and they were both overcome by a feeling of surviving a disaster. Mogansha looked at Fang Senyan’s blinded eye and rasped with a bitter smile:

“Boss, damn it, if attacking this camp wasn’t a B+ difficulty plot, I’d eat all the bullets I’m carrying!”

Fang Senyan lay on his back, facing the sky. Only now did he feel the excruciating pain from every spot where that damned monster had clawed him. He didn't even want to move a finger, but he gritted his teeth and pulled out a bottle of rum, using the alcohol to wash the blackened wounds, squeezing out the poisoned blood. If not for the fact that contractors could heal without leaving scars, Fang Senyan's face would have been completely disfigured. After treating most of the wounds, Fang Senyan sighed at the dark night sky:

“That woman even managed to pull off a straight flush! She truly deserves to be the next candidate for Jie Jie’s chief position. If I had known she was so difficult and crazy, I definitely wouldn’t have messed with her. But our current mission difficulty has already been raised to B+, this hidden plot should indeed be S-level difficulty. I was careless because everything went so smoothly after entering this world.”

After resting for a while, feeling their strength gradually returning, they cautiously moved back toward the Tzigane camp where the Baratine Bloodsail was being forged. They carefully approached and immediately realized that another group of Tzigane followers had gathered in the camp.

However, compared to the previous harmony and solemnity, these Tzigane people now seemed to be in complete chaos, extremely noisy. Some were trying to maintain order, while others were shouting and frantically grabbing things from the tents.

Eventually, the two sides started with shouting and cursing, then even started pushing, shoving, and engaging in direct conflict. They even saw some followers trying to move the unfinished Baratine Bloodsail. After Fang Senyan used his captain's looting ability to observe, the surface of the Baratine Bloodsail even emitted a dark golden glow!

Fang Senyan and Mogansha exchanged a glance, having roughly guessed that this group of Tzigane people should be reinforcements who had been defeated and retreated. Then, Jiao Shi must have successfully seized the ship, otherwise, how could this group of Tzigane people display such a scene of disintegration? Both men were extremely experienced in combat. Fang Senyan nodded towards the Baratine Bloodsail, and the black brothers immediately nodded in understanding, taking out the Wasp pistol and aiming.

As Mogansha opened fire, Fang Senyan leapt out and shouted loudly:

“Everyone, charge! Kill these damned Tzigane people!”

These Tzigane people were already frightened birds, and now they were experiencing internal strife. Upon hearing that the attacking pirates had pursued them, intent on extermination, they were utterly terrified!

The black brothers in the dark, after taking down two of the leaders with their guns, switched to spraying fire. The continuous gunfire and torrential rain of bullets cleverly created a misleading effect, causing the Tzigane people, who had never seen automatic or semi-automatic rifles, to believe that at least an entire squad of musketeers was firing in volleys. Added to this was Fang Senyan, who leaped out and ferociously hacked down several people in succession. The bloody and cruel reality was immediately laid out before them, causing these people to scatter like birds and beasts!

It is worth mentioning that those few loyalists actually wanted to escape with the Baratine Bloodsail. How could such blatant snatching from the tiger’s mouth succeed? Fang Senyan and Mogansha immediately focused their fire on that group of loyal, die-hard followers! Moreover, the Baratine Bloodsail seemed to be quite heavy, requiring at least five or six adult men to carry it away, so trying to escape with it was definitely not an easy task. Therefore, after being hastily dragged for a few dozen meters, the last Tzigane brother, who was desperately dragging it, was shot to the ground by a bullet from the black brothers. The sail, which exuded a fierce aura, was hastily abandoned.

And where this sail touched the ground, one could even see the vegetation withering rapidly, and the originally fertile and moist soil quickly becoming dry and hardened, eventually turning into lifeless sand, the ferocity of its aura was obvious.

At this moment, Fang Senyan suddenly noticed something on the ground was flashing. He immediately tried to pick it up, but to no avail. Obviously, it should not be something that a contractor could use. Fang Senyan thought carefully, then tried to pick it up using his captain's plunder mode, and took it into his hand. He discovered that its description was: Mysterious Missing Crystal Toe, purpose unknown.

Seeing this thing, Fang Senyan immediately recalled that it should be something he had chopped off the terrifying giant statue when he faced it earlier! At this time, touching this crippled crystal toe, it still felt like a piece of soft rubber.

Suddenly, this thing twisted strangely, looking as if it was being summoned, and was twisting desperately as if it would evaporate at any moment. Fang Senyan was shocked and immediately clenched it tightly, putting it into the nightmare imprint's private space.

But even after being put into the team's private space, this thing was still quite restless, constantly wriggling and changing. Only after a long while did it finally calm down, eventually mostly turning into a faint ball of light, which looked very gentle, but at the bottom, a mung bean-sized black foreign object had settled.

It turned out that this incomplete crystal toe originally had a small piece of the totem beast statue's spirit attached to it. In the same plane, that incomplete spirit could connect with the main spirit. The previous change was caused by Jie Jie urging the main body of the totem sacrificial beast, trying to summon this fragment back.

However, after Fang Senyan put this fragment into the team's private space, it was actually in another plane. The connection between the two spirits was severed! Even the powerful Sir Falk couldn't break through the barriers of the plane, let alone Queen Jie Jie.

After the two were forcibly blocked in this way, it was as if the blood supply to a person's kidneys/brain/liver/spleen was cut off. The spirit fragments on the crystal toe suddenly withered and condensed, forming black residue, while the absorbed essence floated upward, forming that ball of faint light.

At this time, Jiao Shi and the others finally came to meet Fang Senyan and them. Jiao Shi, Black Sails and others were covered in wounds, and even Old Sea Dog, the lookout, had been cut on the face! Blood was dripping, which showed the intensity of the battle to seize the ship at that time.

However, the reinforcements originally thought that their battle was already quite difficult, but when they saw Fang Senyan's whole body covered in wounds, and even one of his eyes had been gouged out, they realized that the intensity of the battle that Fang Senyan and the others had experienced was no less than theirs. They were greatly surprised, and couldn't help but sigh at the danger of Fang Senyan and the others' previous battle.

The casualty rate of this battle was very high. Although they survived a disaster, the morale of the pirates was exceptionally high. Old Sea Dog, an old hand, couldn't help but be moved to tears when he saw Fang Senyan:

“Boss, we got a good ship!”

Carpenter Spike waved his sailor's knife excitedly and shouted:

“That ship is so solid that it won’t sink even if it goes to hell! The Tzigane people actually used it as a transport ship, a fishing boat, God! I seem to be able to hear this ship crying under this painful fate. Now~~~~~ it's time for us to unleash its violence!!!"

Spike can be said to be an authority in this regard. As soon as he said this, even the pirates who were suffering in pain cheered. Fang Senyan couldn't help but have a desire to see it eagerly. So, he ordered people to wrap the Baratine Bloodsail in cloth, isolate the fierce aura inside, and then carry it away. Then, he went to board the newly captured five-masted flagship.

When Fang Senyan just approached the seaside, he saw a huge shadow parked on the sea from a distance in the night. Its masts stood straight like guns, and the sails were motionless. From a distance, it looked like a giant castle guarding the coast, with a majestic and solemn aura.

Getting closer, he could see that although this ship was named a five-masted ship, in terms of size and momentum, it far surpassed ordinary five-masted ships, and could almost be compared with a seven-masted large warship. In terms of shape, the bow and stern of this ship were also very peculiar and square. The ram that it should have had was nowhere to be seen. What was different from other ships was that the hull of this ship below the waterline was also larger, and it was stable when parked on the sea, like a weight on a balance, so stable and steady that it seemed that no wind or waves could overturn it.