Chapter 33: The Captain's Legend (Part 2)

  "In this protracted war, the Sky God Raphael finally paid the price for his arrogance. The races he manipulated were incredibly powerful, but they were too few in number. They suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the countless human, beastman, dwarf, merfolk, sea serpent and Naga armies."

  "After this battle, Raphael was defeated and Gaea and Thira were completely victorious. The enraged Raphael blamed all of this on his own people and drove them out of the palace in the sky. The dragon tribe and the giant tribe were forced to live in the most inaccessible high mountain valleys; the elf tribe was forced to hide in the densest forests, not involved in the outside world; the winged tribe had no home, they could only circle in the air every day, constantly being hunted by humans and beastmen, gradually falling into extinction."

  "Although Raphael was defeated, he did not accept his defeat. Taking advantage of the Creator's momentary sleep, he suddenly descended from heaven with his divine artifact and launched a surprise attack and assassination on the Sea God Thira."

  "The goddess of the sea, Thelxiope, was caught off guard and she alone was no match for the sky god Raphael. She fled repeatedly, transforming into a fish to escape, but Raphael used his divine weapon to slaughter all the fish in the sea. She then transformed into a dragon, but Raphael killed all the dragons in the sea as well. The two great races created by Thelxiope were exterminated under Raphael's pursuit, and she did not want her last creation, the Naga tribe, to perish with them. So she swam ashore and became human."

  "The sea goddess Thila, fleeing from Raphael's pursuit, transformed into a beautiful young human woman and met a man who longed to go out to sea every day. Under the plea of the sea goddess Thila, the man promised to hide her."

  Then the sea god Tirra took in his breath, and the man dressed Tirra up to be old and ugly, slovenly and filthy. When Raphael came running after him, he was successfully deceived, for he did not believe that Tirra would disguise himself as a lowly, dirty human being.

  "The sea goddess Thira escaped a calamity, and after Raphael left, she revealed her true form. Thira asked the man, 'I can grant you one wish, what do you want to get?' The man said, 'I want to be a captain, I want to have my own ship.' Thira said, 'Why do you want to be a captain and why do you want a ship?' The man said, 'Because the sea is more thrilling and mysterious than land, it's harder to conquer, so I must conquer her! But before that, I need to have a ship of my own.'"

  "Tira smiled and agreed to him. But just at this moment, the god of the sky, Raphael, suddenly appeared in front of them. It turned out that the cunning Raphael had not left, he had guessed that Tira must be hiding nearby, so he came back to make a surprise attack. Facing the furious Raphael, Tira was almost desperate, she couldn't muster up any courage to fight."

  "Neither Kaito nor Raphael had expected that this insignificant and small human would stand up, he faced the powerful Sky God Raphael with his smallest power and most fearless spirit, saying: You killed her, who will give me a sea ship? What can I use to conquer the ocean?"

  Raphael burst out laughing, of course he didn't take this puny human seriously. He pointed at the man and said, "She doesn't dare to fight me, do you dare to wear her armor, pick up her weapon, and fight me on her behalf?" The man raised his head and said, "What's there to be afraid of?" And so, he put on Thetis' seven divine artifacts and engaged in a fierce battle with the sky god Raphael.

  The intensity of the battle was so fierce that it awakened the sleeping Creation God. When the Creation God arrived and stopped the fight, the man who stood up for Tira had already fought Raphael for a full 300 rounds! After Raphael retreated in anger, the man wearing the armor of the Sea God, holding the trident of the Sea God, exploded with a loud bang, exhausted and fell to the ground. As he lay dying, he gazed longingly at the sea and said: "Alas, I will never have the chance to conquer the seas again."

  "The sea goddess Thira was conquered by the man's bravery and fearlessness, she fell in love with this man who was about to die, she said: You have already conquered the great sea, because you have conquered me! Thira sadly watched her beloved man die in her arms, she returned to the sea with sorrow and pain."

  "To commemorate the man she deeply loved, Goddess Thira used her own power to create a supreme warship and declared that only the bravest and most fearless man in this world was worthy of possessing it!"

  It is precisely because of this that countless men with the dream of conquering the great sea set foot on their journey across the ocean. The sea goddess Thira welcomes and embraces them with her broadest heart, welcoming and loving every captain of this vast sea, but a prerequisite must be that the captain must be brave and fearless, cleverer than others!

  "If the sea goddess Tirra finds a captain who is weak and timid, ignorant and greedy, she will think that this person is not worthy of being a captain. Tirra will vent her anger on him and let him die in the belly of the fish in the vast ocean. But if the sea goddess Tirra finds a captain who is brave and fearless, wise and resourceful, she will love this person very much, even if he goes through all kinds of storms and dangers, he can turn danger into safety!"

  Niya said slowly, Tang Jie listened to this mythological legend, his expression had already become infatuated.

  Niya looked at Tang Jie's dazed expression, and with a wave of her hand in front of his eyes, she smiled slyly: "Now, do you understand what it means to be a captain?"

  "I think I've roughly understood... " Tang Jie let out a long sigh. "Such a long story, such an exciting story."

  Nia smiled and said: "When I was a kid, my father told me this story, and the expression on my face was just like yours. Now looking at you, it's as if I'm seeing myself."

  Tang Jie suddenly leaned his face close to Nia's and said with a smile: "Do you know what this means?"

  Nia asked curiously: "What does it mean?"

  Tang Jie put on a thick face and said: "This means we have husband-and-wife affinity!"

  Niya's face turned red as she sat up from Tang Jie's arms, "You're being naughty again! I'm leaving."

  Tang Jie didn't continue to pull Niya this time, he watched as Niya walked to the door and suddenly said: "Niya, is the warship created by the Sea God Tira actually the Black Dragon King?"

  Nina smiled and nodded: "You guessed it!"

  Tang Jie's face showed a look of surprise: "But, if what you're saying is just a myth, then doesn't that mean that in all these years, not one person has been worthy of the Black Dragon King?"

  Nia smiled: "No, isn't Pirate King Atos the captain of the Black Dragon King's ship? He not only conquered the Black Dragon King but also conquered the Sea Goddess Tira. He was the second man in several tens of thousands of years that the Sea Goddess Tira deeply loved. Now, Atos is dead, the Black Dragon King is nowhere to be found, and the Sea Goddess Tira has returned to the depths of the ocean, waiting for another man who can conquer the Black Dragon King and conquer her."

  Tang Jie became increasingly puzzled: "Something that no one has been able to do for tens of thousands of years, how did the Pirate King Atos manage to do it?"

  Niya's eyes sparkled with an inexplicable light, she looked at Tang Jie with an undisguised loving intention and said softly: "You will prove it to me later, right?"

  After she finished speaking, she took a deep look at Tang Jie with a thoughtful expression and said softly in her heart: I believe you are that man...

  She smiled and turned around, just about to leave, but heard Tang Jie say slowly and firmly behind her: "Nina, I will start by being a good captain!"

  Nia walked out of the cabin and happened to see Bill passing by in the corridor.

  The man with a pointed mouth and a monkey-like face had an ambiguous smile on his face, winking at her.

  Nina glared at him fiercely, but Bill was not only unafraid, he burst out laughing and ran away.

  If it were an ordinary day, Bill wouldn't have dared to do such a thing, and Nina would definitely have given him a good scolding.

  But Nia didn't, she just looked at Bill with a mixture of anger and amusement as he ran into the storage room, shaking her head in laughter.

  Since her relationship with Donnie was made public on this ship, Nia found that her prestige was greatly reduced.

  A strong woman who cannot be conquered is indeed intimidating, but once this woman is conquered by a man, the prestige she has accumulated before will no longer exist.

  But Nia also found that when she no longer needed to play the role of a strong and powerful vice captain, when she no longer needed to carry her father's dreams on her shoulders, her whole life became easier, brighter, the sky cleared up, the sea sparkled with clarity, and even the air was filled with an indescribable freshness.

  All of this is because of Tang Jie's appearance.

  Nia's smile increased, her intimidation decreased, but her affinity rose, the pirates on Hell's number transformed their awe into fondness and respect.

  Every sailor looking at Nia's eyes was not looking at their iron-blooded deputy captain, but a future beautiful captain's wife.

  These sailors clearly remembered the scene when Tong Jie fainted on the deck and Nia was frightened to tears.

  The pirates sighed: Nia, the great deputy, really fell in love with him to the death. We've been sailing with her for so many years, and Nia has experienced more life-and-death separations than the rain that falls from the sky. She's suffered more injuries than we've eaten fish! But when have we ever seen her shed a single tear?

  The pirates exchanged glances with each other and sighed: "It's going to change the sky, brothers must pay attention to the wind direction!"

  The old sailors chuckled and said: "No matter how the wind direction changes, can't we just change our course accordingly?"

  In their view, Tange would undoubtedly make a good captain and working under him wouldn't be any worse than under old Bahl.

  It's really going to change the weather.

  After leaving Dam City, Hell No. 1 left Atak Sea and entered the Lintzen Sea with a westward wind direction.

  As soon as Nia entered this sea area, she could feel that the wind was no longer the familiar Atak Ocean breeze, but a cold and unpredictable R?ntgen breeze.

  Nina walked out of the cabin and stood on the deck, gazing at the endless blue sea, and suddenly let out a sigh.

  In three days at most, we will arrive in Sisith, the kingdom of Mata. But what is our purpose for sailing?

  The future is like the ocean, you never know what's waiting for you ahead.