"But I don't think he will feel sorry for this girl, Lavada. From my perspective, he appears to be just protecting her, nothing more." Nelson stood up from the wooden chair and joined the conversation.
"Yes, I saw that myself. But I felt the restlessness in the necromancer's tone when I revealed the information about Aliza. If my guess is right, a higher-tier necromancer must have appointed him to protect Aliza from the Light Church. Even if he didn't feel sympathy for that girl, he would feel afraid of losing her." Her words left others speechless. They knew Lavada was using a simple excuse to punish that girl and felt helpless inside.
"All you did was just pointless," Finally, Zita commented.
"Well, I also thought of teaching her a lesson before she tries to escape again," Lavada spoke and soon noticed Rowley waving towards their direction from the afterdeck while pointing his other hand towards the sea.
"Captain Brink ... ... ... something is wrong." She barely heard what he was saying due to the waves crashing sounds and frowned. Soon, everyone moved towards the deck's edge and turned their gaze towards the deep sea.
"Hmm? Something is moving under our ship!" Brink squinted his eyes. Others also shifted their gaze towards the large shadowy figure and widened their eyes. Once they identified the creature, everyone's face turned ugly.
"What the hell? Sanguis Shark? Why is it lurking here?" Zita shouted in alarm!
"Pull the rope up. Also, get one lifeboat here. We must rescue that girl before this monster devours her." Brink instantly sent out an order to his crew members.
"Stop it! Are you out of your mind? Cut the rope now. Now it's almost impossible to save her." Lavada spoke coldly. Nelson also stopped Brink from saving Aliza and agreed with Lavada's words.
Breathing heavily, Aliza noticed the ships were slowing down and got puzzled.
Cough!
'What's happening on the deck? Why are they shouting at?' She peered into the ship deck and noticed a pirate cutting the rope using a small knife.
'Sh*t! Are they going to abandon me?' She was terrified inside.
'I won't die easily.' Aliza instantly made up her mind and cast the mysterious 'enslaving spell' on one pirate who stood watching her with a grim expression from the front deck.
…
At that moment, the pirate named Thayer stood on the front deck, watching Aliza with a concerned gaze, and sighed in his heart.
She felt pity for her.
But just as he turned his gaze away, an eerie voice echoed in his head.
"Be my slave."
A second later, he felt a sharp pain in his chest and got startled.
"Ehhh? Who?!" He shouted out loud but soon stopped as he heard another order from that voice. It told him to close his mouth. He understood who was talking to him within seconds and almost pissed his pants.
"Now, throw a rowboat into the sea quickly." Aliza sent a death glare from the sea and ordered Thayer. Like a puppet, Thayer's legs moved near a rowboat and pushed it out of their ship.
"What the hell are you doing, Thayer?!" Lavada noticed his action and roared angrily. But he didn't show any response.
As the rope was cut down, the rowboat also slowly fell into the sea.
Simultaneously, the pirate ship was also starting to move, leaving Aliza and the rowboat alone in the deep sea.
"Thank god. It almost fell upside down," Aliza muttered as she swam through her legs and moved closer to the rowboat.
Splash! Splash! Splash!
She soon swam near the rowboat and finally managed to hold on to it.
"Hm? What is that?" A second later, she saw a large creature lurking under the seawater and became alarmed.
"F*CK!"
The next instant, she jumped onto the boat and finally hid inside the rowboat wood.
'What the hell is that thing?' Her pitch-black eyes peered into the deep blue sea and noticed something was moving underwater. Before she could do anything, she noticed that the water under the small rowboat started to rise. A second later, a rumbling sound echoed under her feet.
Splash! Buzz! Creak!
Water also splashed into the rowboat from the sides.
A second later, a large deep blue-colored blade-like fin appeared on the surface water. Even the fin looked almost half a meter in length and seemed sharp as a broadsword!
After looking at the fin for a second, Aliza confirmed that the fin was the shark's dorsal fin.
As Aliza observed the shark, it moved near her boat and collided with it. The blade-like dorsal fin crashed into the rowboat and tore a hole under it.
"No!" She shouted in panic.
'Shit! What to do now?' Her eyes subconsciously shifted to the two ships that were moving further away from her boat.
'Damn bastards!' She had long expected this outcome. But still, she felt hurtful inside.
"Pirate, kill your crew members mercilessly. It is an order." She coldly gazed at the Drake Ship, cast the mysterious spell on that person, and sent an order to a pirate named Thayer.
'Before I die, I will kill at least one of you.' She peered into those two ships and watched coldly without minding the shark monster lurking beneath her rowboat.
Meanwhile, Thayer heard Aliza's orders in his mind and panicked inside. His hand moved without his control the next instant and gripped his bow tighter. His other hand picked up a metal arrow, placed it in the bow, and then aimed at the nearby pirate. That guy was his friend for years, but his hand didn't stop. Instead, his hand pulled the string and released it.
Swoosh!
The metal arrow flew from his bow in a blink and stabbed directly into his friend's neck.
"Arggghhhh!" With a scream, that pirate fell with a thudding sound.
"W-What are you doing, Thayer?!" Brink roared before dashing in his direction.
But Thayer didn't respond. Instead, he pulled the bowstring while placing another arrow and released it without hesitation.
Swoosh!
This time the arrow flew towards his other crewmate and directly penetrated his heart.
Thud!
Another thud echoed on the deck, causing other pirates to tremble in fear.
As Thayer was about to pull strings the third time, Brink arrived in front of him and blocked the arrow with his sword.
Clang!
Then, Brink aimed his weapon at the bow and cut it into two using a sword aura. After that, he gave him a hard kick and sent him flying.
Meanwhile, Thayer flew from there and crashed onto the mast.
Soon, everyone arrived in front of Thayer, whose face now looked panic-stricken, and looked at him in confusion.
Lavada, Nelson, and others unsheathed their weapons and surrounded him.
"What is the meaning of this, Thayer?!" Brink almost lost his cool and asked Thayer while placing his sword at Thayer's neck.
"C-Captain, K-Kill me before s-she takes control over my body," Thayer spoke with a shivering tone, causing others' faces to stiffen up.
"Who?!" Brink knitted his eyebrows and asked with a glare.
"It's that girl." He said as he raised his hand and pointed his finger at the small boat still floating in the seawater.
Except for Lavada, Everyone's expression stiffened up.
Meanwhile, Lavada let out a sigh and smiled.
A second later, a cloud of black smoke came out of her body, turned transparent, and moved in the pirate town's direction.
Simultaneously, Lavada opened her eyes wide and fell on the deck unconsciously.
Like a bucket of cold water poured onto their heads, cold sweat started to appear on everyone's faces. After moving closer to Lavada, Brink checked her pulse and breathed a sigh of relief.
"She is just unconscious." He spoke and slowly shifted his gaze towards Thayer.
At that moment, even Brink felt a slight fear towards the witch girl.
Everyone remembered what had happened in the last few minutes and grew anxious.
They even thought Lavada's state was due to that girl's doing.
"We must kill her now; otherwise, she will hunt us in the future." Nelson soon recovered from the shock and spoke in a grim tone.
"You can try." A chilling girlish voice came from Thayer's mouth, causing everyone to back away two steps.
The next instant, Thayer took out a small dagger from his belt and stabbed it into his heart with a wicked smile.
Meanwhile, everyone stared at Thayer with wide-opened eyes and trembled inside.
...
Cough!
Aliza coughed a mouthful of blood on the boat and soon shifted her cold black eyes towards those two pirate ships.
'I will deal with those guys later.'
Splash! Splash! Bam!
Shaking her head, Aliza turned her attention towards the deep sea and noticed something was moving under the boat. A second later, a creature appeared on the surface water and showed its hideous appearance toward Aliza. Unlike the last time, the shark-like hideous monster opened its wide mouth and moved towards the boat at an incredible speed.
'It's going to devour me!'
Her eyes widened in horror!
Its mouth was almost two-meter wide, and its body looked more like a large whale. Some hand-like fins also appeared on the sides and helped the shark move in the deep sea like humans.
'No good! It's going to kill me!' Aliza's beautiful face paled in an instant.
Before she could blink, the shark came closer to the boat and slammed against the boat with its mouth.
"Ouch!" The next second, Aliza lost her balance and fell into the seawater.
The next thing she saw was that the monster shark again went underwater and moved towards her.
Once it came near Aliza, it bit her right leg with its two-meter wide mouth and pulled her into the sea.