Chapter 190: Sea Emperor’s Crown
Trantor: Trantion Nation Editor: Trantion Nation
Pearl Ind.
An area rumored to be cursed.
This rumor circted among many captains, but the sailors didn’t know much about it. Navigators might know a bit about it though. After all, their duty was to lead the crew away from all the frightening things on the sea.
Most sailors had only heard that this was an area to avoid!
Thus, when the lookout found that Pearl Ind was just ahead, all the sailors became panicked!
If not for Marvin’s might, they might have already stopped working.
But totally different from earlier, these sailors’ hands and feet werepletely shivering.
...
"Lord Marvin!"
The former Second Mate Roberts had sessfully been promoted to Boatswain after helping Marvin take over the Southie.
Marvin promised to appoint him as the Captain of the Southie once the new harbor was established.
After all, Marvin couldn’t keep traveling on the sea for long periods.
This made Roberts excited.
He was fearless and full of ambitions. He scoffed at those rumors concerning Pearl Ind.
"They are a bit scared. They want to know where you n to go in the end," Roberts said.
"I can appease them for the time being, but I won’t be able tost long," he added.
Marvin turned and looked at those terrified people, loudly saying, "Pearl Ind is only amon isle. You shouldn’t trust these rumors on the sea. Moreover, the Southie won’t stay at Pearl Ind. We will only stop on the side of the ind for some time, and then we will turn back toward the southwest."
"There is an open beach suitable tond there. We can safely bypass the Shrieking Mountain Range by sea. Then we should reach the location where I n on building a new harbor!"
"And that ce isn’t far from my White River Valley."
Many sailors calmed down when they heard Marvin’s words.
In fact, now that they participated in the murder of their original captain, they already had nowhere to go. They couldn’t refute what Marvin said.
The Southie slowly approached Pearl Ind, and stopped a bit over fifteen kilometers away from the coastline.
The sun started rising, and under the light of the sunshine, the fog at the edge of Pearl Ind thinned quite a bit.
Some sailors took the chance to rest while some were uneasily watching this rumored cursed area.
Marvin ordered that besides him, no one was allowed to get on the ind.
And while he was on the ind, L was in charge.
He also wasn’t worried these guys would slip away while he was checking out the ind. Without Marvin, they had nowhere to go.
Only White River Valley would amodate them.
Even the ambitious Roberts didn’t dare.
Moreover Marvin had something nned in case. He left the Wind Fairy on the boat.
If that group of people acted without thinking, the Wind Fairy would be able to fly and control the wind to block them.
...
‘Getting on the ind during the day also saves me from having to deal with those Foglets.’
Marvin thought of this while getting on a small boat.
A sturdy sailor would row Marvin to the Ind.
Everyone looked at the boat going further and further away. Even if they didn’t know what Marvin was doing, based on his fame, they guessed that this Lord surely had nned something important.
After all, the nickname [Magical Marvin] had already spread from River Shore City to all of the East Coast.
This nickname was as famous as [Masked Twin des].
They were convinced that Marvin would guide them to better days.
Ever since Captain George with his violent temper took over the Southie, he made the sailors’ days worse by treating them harshly. Otherwise L wouldn’t have been able to easily instigate a rebellion like that.
Even if Marvin was as ruthless, he wouldn’t randomly be angry.
Most of the sailors actually felt that whatever happened, it wouldn’t be worse than George.
And with L pacifying them, everyone’s mood gradually became more stable.
Pearl Ind looked very beautiful under the sun’s rays. It didn’t seem as frightening as the rumors said.
...
The waves on the sea were violent as the boat slowly approached Pearl Ind.
That strong sailor had already been warned over and over again by Marvin: He couldn’t get on Pearl Ind.
"Everything on Pearl Ind is cursed."
"Look, those pure white spots on the beach are pearls. If you greedily take one, you would cause the death of the entire ship."
"Just wait for me there, understood?"
The obedient sailor nodded.
Even though he noticed those pearls in the distance, the rumors regarding these cursed waters and Marvin’s warnings made him shrink back.
Wealth was great, but life was even better.
But he still couldn’t help but ask, "Since that’s the case, why do you want to go on the ind? Aren’t you afraid?"
Marvin calmly answered, "I am going on the ind to return something. Not to take anything away. Don’t mind it."
The sailor nodded and no longer spoke.
After a while, Marvin told him to stop rowing.
"Wait for me here," he said.
He then arranged his clothes and dove in the water. The boat wasn’t far from the beach, and it was easily within swimming distance.
...
On the Southie, Roberts was looking at the scene in the distance with a puzzled expression. "Miss L, could you exin what Lord Marvin is up to?"
"I don’t know," L bluntly said.
"No one can guess what he is thinking."
"But he would always create miracles, this much is true. White River Valley was previously suffering from a food crisis and I came in order to solve it, but he settled it himself in the end."
"We should believe in Lord Marvin. Despite him being a Swimming Fish man, he is still reliable."
"Swimming Fish?" Roberts’ face disyed a hint of confusion.
"Hey, you don’t know astrological signs even though you are traveling on the sea?" L asked, "How did you even be a Boatswain?"
The Navigator on the side silently wiped his sweat, looking at Marvin’s silhouette reaching Pearl Ind.
‘That’s the cursed beach, please be blessed by the Silver God...’
...
As Marvin walked on the beach, he reminisced about this ce.
He recalled one memory and was rejoicing that he was so familiar with every instance in Feinan.
Pearl ind was truly a very dangerous ce, especially during the night. If one wasn’t careful, they woulde across the frightening Foglets.
And everything here couldn’t casually be touched, let alone carried.
‘Each pearl has a Curse of Aging. Touch it and you would only have a few years left to live.’
‘ck Pearl, Curse of Death...’
‘Blue Seastar, Curse of Hostility...’
He cautiously circumvented the those frightening things he remembered and finally past those ndmines" on the beach.
There was a hilly area in front. No trees, only caves.
This ce was rtively safe.
Marvin had no ns to thoroughly get the resources of Pearl Ind. Rather, he wanted to scout and quickly grab some benefits on the way.
After all, he still hadn’t collected the Six Cursed Pearls.
But one was enough to let him gain something from Pearl Ind.
The prerequisite was to know a trick.
Marvin looked around for a bit, found a suitable cave, and went into it.
It was very damp and dark inside the cave. He walked toward its depths and found a pond.
The water in the pond was very muddy, but Marvin knew that the caves in the ind had simr ponds. Each pond lead to the deepest secret of Pearl Ind.
He took out his cursed pearl and gently dropped it in the pond.
‘It should be like in my memories...’
His eyes attentively watched the pearl for changes.
As expected, the pearl began to slowly melt under the mystical effect of the pond.
In an instant, a burst of light shed through and the constantly moving small fish in the pearl jumped out of it.
It cheerfully swam in the pond for a moment before leaping over.
It stared at Marvin and surprisingly said spoke. "You opened my cage, so I’ll give you a gift."
"I’ll give you a gift that isn’t cursed, but please do remember, everything else on this ind is cursed. You cannot touch anything," warned the small fish.
Marvin nodded.
The next instant, the fish dove into the pond!
Marvin was excited!
In the depths of those watersid Pearl Ind’s treasures!
The worst things there were Magic Items!
It was even possible to get a Legendary Item!
It was a matter of luck.
This fish could choose anything to gift Marvin, but it waspletely random!
‘If I have good luck, I might get one of the best Magic Items...’
‘It would be even better if it was a Legendary Item...’
Marvin sat beside the pond, waiting for a while. A shadow was struggling to swim up the pond.
It was using its head to bring something up!
"Get it quick! I won’t be able to carry it much longer! It’s too heavy!" said the small fish as it struggled.
Marvin hurriedly took the wet thing away.
It looked sort of like a crown.
Marvin carefully examined it for a moment before being overjoyed!
He knew what this was!
The Sea Emperor’s Crown, a Legendary Item!
‘Hold on... Eh? Why is it disying – Sealed –?" Marvin’s happiness was doused.
He didn’t get the Sea Emperor’s Crown in his previous life.
But it was rumored that it could let you proim yourself Ruler of the Seas!
‘My luck is pretty good overall. I was able to pull out a sealed Legendary Item, so I should be happy with it. At least some of its effects could still be disyed.’
Marvin calmed down. He was about to thank that small fish, but it had already disappeared before he’d noticed.
Marvin didn’t mind, after all, they would meet again when he gathered the Six Cursed Pearls and got Pearl Ind’s true treasure!
When the time came, Marvin would have cramps from counting the money.
This was the wealth left behind by the 6th generation Pirate King after all!
...
Two hourster, Marvin returned to the Southie and ordered to set sail!
The target was the coast southeast of White River Valley!
He didn’t know the specific coordinates, but as long as they followed the coastline and passed the Shrieking Mountain Range, he could more or less see the best ce to establish the harbor.
In the Captain’s room, he was holding the Sea Emperor’s Crown and began to check the effects of this sealed Legendary Item.
He gently touched both sides of the Sea Emperor’s Crown when a wide sea suddenly appeared in his mind!
He could see the Southie, and every lifeform within about two kilometers!
‘Eye of the Ocean?’ Marvin was very satisfied with the first ability he tested.
But he suddenly noticed a shadow in the water!
That shadow had a powerful life force!
But that life force wasn’t energetic. It seem depressed instead.
"What?"
Marvin curiously controlled the Eye of the Ocean to focus on that shadow.
But the oue made himpletely speechless.
That was a living being floating on a nk!
It was now unconscious but it was still tightly holding onto that nk. Who knew how long it had been drifting along?
‘To actually run into me at this time, I wonder if it’s my luck, or his luck."
Marvin felt amused and immediately made the Southie temporarily change its path to head toward that shadow’s location after confirming the direction through the Eye of the Ocean.
Half an hourter, a few sailors struggled to fish that guy up.
"Bang!"
The other side awkwardly fell on the deck and spat out some water, still half-unconscious.
L looked at him and gasped in shock.
"Eh? How could it be him?"
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ED/N: Today’s chapters got dyed because my car broke down this morning. I had to wait 3 hours for the tow truck to arrive, and I am currently waiting on repairs while trying to edit on my phone. It’s almost out of batteries so the next chapter will have to wait until whenever my car is fixed and I get home. Apologies for the dys.