Chapter 58: The Legend of the Black Dragon King

  Black Dragon King?!!

  Tang Jie's chin almost hit the ground!

  Is this place where Pirate King Atos hid his treasure?

  We were swept into the cave by a whirlpool and somehow managed to turn a bad situation into a good one.

  Nia, did you know? I've found Atos' treasure!

  Nia, are you okay? Can you find your way here smoothly according to the treasure map?

  Tang Jie was both overjoyed and moved in his heart.

  Ketou Jie tilted his neck and twisted his head, carefully examining the enormous black giant egg before suddenly having an extremely strange expression.

  A strange idea suddenly occurred to him.

  This shouldn't be the "Black Dragon King", the pirate king Atos relied on to conquer the ocean, invincible wherever he went?!

  A very ridiculous picture appeared in Tang Jie's mind.

  The brave pirate king Atos, holding a sharp long knife, stood upright in the midst of raging waves and under the dark and gloomy sky. His clothes fluttered in the wind, but he remained motionless like a mountain. His sturdy body stood on top of a gigantic round... egg, shouting: "Black Dragon King! Advance!!"

  Wowwwwwww!!!

  Tang Jie felt like he was going crazy, his hands clenched into fists and pulling at his hair, he couldn't accept that the heroic image in his mind was linked to this huge and stupid black egg!

  I've seen ridiculous things before, but never anything as ridiculous as this!!

  Tang Jie was about to go crazy on this side, but on the other side, Lilith was extremely excited and ran to the front of this huge black egg, touching here and there, shouting and screaming, with a face full of reverence and curiosity.

  Tang Jie grasped Lirien's shoulder with one hand, turning her face towards him. His expression was solemn and his voice serious as he said: "Lirien, you say this is the Black Dragon King that Pirate King Atos rode?"

  His eyes still held a glimmer of hope, but Lirien nodded without hesitation, her hands clasped together in front of her chest, her eyes sparkling like stars as she gazed at the Black Dragon King. It was as if she saw the fearless and invincible figure of Atos from years ago. Her voice was dreamy as she said, "Of course, I've studied the ancient texts about the Black Dragon King in the Wizard's Tower, and I've seen its illustrations and pictures. So it must be the Black Dragon King - I absolutely won't mistake it!"

  Tang Jie's body swayed slightly, and he took a deep breath: "Alright, it can't be denied... Black is the most majestic of all colors, the deepest and most intimidating one. And this huge egg, although it's much larger than ordinary eggs, its body looks extremely majestic and awe-inspiring, exuding an aura of dignity all over. Especially with the sharp spikes around it, making it look inviolable..."

  "But...!" Tang Jie's voice suddenly rose by an octave, he clutched his head with both hands and shouted in extreme pain: "No matter how powerful, how NB, how invincible it is, it's still just an egg!! Even if it were to grow twice as big, with colorful stripes all over its body, it would still be just an egg, a colored egg!!"

  "Wasn't Atos the one who conquered the ocean by riding on an 'egg' back then?" Tang Jie felt that his "Pirate King" dream was like a piece of glass smashed to pieces, shattered into a thousand fragments.

  He came into this world with a life goal he set for himself: to be a man who can conquer the ocean.

  You must first conquer the sea, you must first find Atos' treasure, and find the invincible warship Black Dragon King that Atos drove back then.

  Tang Jie had imagined countless times what a mighty warship the Black Dragon King would be, but he never thought that the Black Dragon King would actually be... an egg!

  "I don't want to sit on this giant egg!" Tang Jie collapsed "I'm not a mother hen!!"

  Lilith stared at Tang Jie with a look of astonishment on her face, her mouth agape as if she was looking at an idiot.

  Tang Jie was in the midst of a frantic grab, when he suddenly caught sight of Lilith's expression. He jumped up like a dog whose tail had been stepped on, and loudly shouted: "What kind of expression is this?! Do you think this black giant egg, this so-called Black Dragon King, is majestic and handsome?! What kind of aesthetic sense do you have?!"

  Lilith blinked and pointed at a small rhombic socket under the Black Dragon King, saying: "Do you know what this is?"

  Tang Jie glared at her and said irritably, "How would I know? Is it the excretion hole of this black giant egg?"

  Lilith furrowed her brow and made a face at Tang Jie: "You're really disgusting! But, how could you not even know this?"

  Tang Jie saw Lilith selling buns and with a dark face said: "Then you tell me, what is this?"

  Lilith carefully sized up Tang Jie, let out a sigh, she hadn't expected that what seemed like common knowledge to her was completely unknown to the man in front of her.

  Lilith gently stroked the hard, scaly spikes on the outside of Black Dragon King with her hand, and said to Tang Jie in a nostalgic tone: "The sea god Tira made an invincible warship, Black Dragon King, for the human man she loved, you know?"

  Tang Jie nodded, seeing Lili start talking from a distant place of several tens of thousands of miles away. He felt somewhat impatient and nodded his head, waving his hand: "Of course I know, get to the point! Don't beat around the bush!"

  Lilith suddenly jumped up, pouting her mouth and said loudly: "It's better for you to know nothing, I'm kind enough to tell you from the beginning, but you don't appreciate it! It's infuriating, I won't say anything anymore!"

  Tang Jie was taken aback for a moment, then forced out an apologetic smile: "Alright, it's my fault, hurry up and say it! I'm about to burst!"

  "What are you going to explode?" Lilies blinked in confusion, she wanted to ask further, but saw that Tang Jie's forehead was bulging with veins like a small snake jumping wildly, clearly a precursor to losing control.

  Lilith jumped in fright, afraid that her buttocks would be in trouble again, and quickly took a step back, covering her buttocks with both hands, and began to speak rapidly: "In the past, the sea goddess Tira vowed to build an invincible warship to offer to her deeply loved man who died in battle for her. So, she found the dragon clan nesting on the cliff, and killed the Dragon King Shute Rogen on the spot."

  "The Sea Goddess Tira extracted the dragon king's bones, creating the black dragon king's skeleton; she peeled off its skin, building the black dragon king's hull; she broke off the dragon king's horns with her hands and installed them on the bow of the black dragon king as a battering ram; she built the internal cabins of the black dragon king using the black dragon king's blood and flesh."

  Tang Jie was stunned, this woman had gone mad and it was truly terrifying!

  "The Angel Alliance of that year heard the news that the Black Dragon King Shute Rogen was killed by the Sea God Tira, and these remnants who were abandoned by the Sky God Raphael were all silent as cicadas in winter, afraid that the Sea God would come to trouble them."

  Then, the giants, elves and winged people voluntarily offered their own tributes to the sea god Tira, praying that the sea god Tira could calm down his anger.

  "The Giant Tribe offered to the Sea God Tiragon their peerless magical cannons, a total of 108 large-caliber magical cannons, plus one super-large cannon built with the skull of the Giant Tribe's leader, known as the terrifying fortress-destroying cannon that can flatten a city with just one shot!"

  "Legend has it that when the 108 magical cannons of the Black Dragon King's warship roar in unison, even the darkest and most gloomy sky will be illuminated by its cannon fire. Any place that is baptized by this cannon fire, no matter how mountainous, will be reduced to a plain or a basin. But all of this pales in comparison to the Black Dragon King's bow fortress cannon! This fortress cannon is said to have an attack range twice that of a magician's, and with one shot it can reduce a thriving city to rubble, turning a prosperous earthly paradise into a desolate and terrifying hell!"

  Tang Jie took a sharp breath in, his eyes involuntarily filled with a hint of reverence as he looked up at the massive black dome.

  "What about the Spirit Clan and the Winged Clan? What did they contribute?" Tang Jie asked.

  Lilith tilted her head, talking incessantly. Once she started discussing these allusions and things related to magic, she seemed like a different person. The confidence in her eyes shone brightly, no longer appearing naive and childish.

  "The Winged Tribe contributed a huge wing-sail canvas, which they personally wove with their own wings into a sail that no magic or sword could destroy. The Sea Goddess Tira made the Black Dragon King's wind sail out of this canvas, and relying on the wing-sail made by the Winged Tribe, the Black Dragon King was able to far exceed any other warship in speed, whether sailing with or against the wind, without falling behind."

  "As for the Elf tribe, this race that grasps the essence of magic in this world, they offered eighteen Elf Grand Masters who are proficient in all magic. These Elf Grand Masters used their own blood to apply magical tattoos to every inch of the Black Dragon King's skin, and under their casting and worship, the Black Dragon King was completely transformed, becoming a fully-fledged magical power battleship!"

  "Wait..." Tang Jie shouted "What is a magical power battleship?"

  Lilith wrinkled her cute little nose: "Don't you know? All the warships in this world are either sail-powered or rowing-powered, without wind or manpower, these warships can't move. But magic-powered warships are different, they don't rely on wind power and human power, but on magic power. With magic power, even if there's only one person on this ship, it can still move and fight!"

  "To make the Black Dragon King move, you must have a magic crystal that accumulates powerful magic power. That's right here! Lirius pointed to the rhombus-shaped socket under the Black Dragon King "Put the magic crystal in there, and it will be able to restore the Black Dragon King to its original shape and gallop again on the ocean!"

  Tang Jie's eyes lit up: "Wait a minute, you're saying that the Black Dragon King can be restored to its original form? Your meaning is that the Black Dragon King's original appearance wasn't this huge black egg?"

  "Lily gave him a white eye: 'Of course, stupid! How could the invincible warship Black Dragon King be such an ugly black egg? This is just its self-protection form after losing magic power, stupid, big stupid!'"

  Tang Jie heard this and finally understood, he couldn't help but laugh loudly: "So that's it! I knew the Black Dragon King wouldn't be so ugly and stupid! However..." He turned his head and looked at Lilith, saying: "What does the true form of the Black Dragon King look like?"

  Lilith opened her mouth and said disappointedly, "I don't know either. There are no pictures of its complete form in the forbidden classics, only some vague textual descriptions. It seems that the people who recorded the Black Dragon King were very wary of it."

  Tang Jie crouched down, staring at the dark and deep rhombus-shaped recess in front of him. He started to look around: "Right, since the Black Dragon King is here, Atos' treasure should be nearby. Let's search around, maybe we can find it."

  Lilith also got excited: "Unexpectedly, Pirate King Atos' treasure is actually real?"

  She looked around, her eyes began to carefully search every corner of this stone cave.

  Two people were excitedly searching around when they heard a string of curses coming from afar.

  Tang Jie's heart tightened and he immediately pulled Lirisi behind the Black Dragon King.

  Fortunately, this Black Dragon King was really huge, like a small mountain. People hid behind it. If the people who came in didn't spread out to search, they wouldn't be able to find them at all.

  Tang Jie took advantage of the Black Dragon King's cover to take a peek, and only saw a familiar figure slowly walking in from the direction of the cave entrance. With the light from outside, Tang Jie could see that this person had golden hair like a waterfall, and a tall and slender figure. Who else could it be if not Nia?

  But before Ke could get excited, he saw Nia being pushed by someone. Nia turned around and glared at him, but was met with a scolding: "What are you looking at? Hurry up!"

  Soon, the group of people came out one after another, with Nia and Tang Jie's companions at the front.

  After Tang Ye fell into the sea with the 5th-level magician, Nia took the treasure map that Tang Ye gave her. Although they had escaped from the battlefield, their warship was severely damaged and its speed was greatly affected. The warship of Bi Sai Liu waited until the whirlpool disappeared before advancing at full speed and catching up to Nia's group, capturing them all.

  Nia tried to destroy the treasure map before being captured, but was unexpectedly subdued by the swift sword fighter Sergei in a flash.

  Bisai held Atos' treasure map in his hand and laughed triumphantly.

  But just as he was laughing loudly, the sea suddenly became like a madman, with dark clouds gathering in the sky, and the sea roaring wildly, wave after wave crashing against the warships of Biscay and Xixis' First Marine Defense Corps.

  Bisai and his group were frightened pale by this terrible tsunami, but they didn't know that it was actually caused by Tangie accidentally throwing a stone, triggering the Stardirock magic array.

  Poor Xixi's First Marine Defense Fleet, the remaining three warships were not sunk by Dong Jie in the fierce sea battle, but unexpectedly sank indirectly by a small stone thrown by Dong Jie!

  One of the three warships was capsized by a violent gust of wind, torn apart and smashed to pieces on the surface of the sea. The other two warships collided with each other in panic during the tsunami, took on water on a massive scale, and were completely buried at the bottom of the sea.

  The tsunami came quickly and left quickly. When the Xixi's first marine defense team was completely buried at sea, the sky had already cleared up, and the sea had become calm again. Except for the wooden boards and the flag of the Xixi's marine defense fleet rotating and drifting on the surface of the sea, it seemed that nothing had happened just now.

  Bisai wiped the cold sweat from his back, he didn't dare to stay near the terrifying Sunken Ship Island anymore. They followed the navigation route marked on the treasure map, skillfully avoiding the dense whirlpools and reefs on the sea surface, and after several hours of cautious sailing, they finally landed on the notorious Sunken Ship Island.

  After landing, Wolman and Aramchev were of the same opinion that these pirates should be executed immediately, but Baisel thought that there might be some hidden danger on this island, which could use them to let them go first.

  The pirates on the Tangjie ship were seriously injured in their last battle, and after being captured, only eight of the remaining twenty or thirty people survived.

  Niya was wounded by Sergey in the fierce fight, punched in the back, seriously injured internally, with a thread of blood hanging from the corner of her mouth, walking heavily and slowly.

  Behind her were William and Bill.

  Fortunately, although almost all the sailors on Tange's ship were killed, core members Nia, William and Bill survived.

  Bill was covered in bloodstains, he didn't know if it was his own or someone else's, he stumbled along, and his eyes which used to be so spirited had lost their luster.

  While Beer Barrel Bill was obviously the most seriously injured, he had his hands tied behind him, one eye blinded, and his face covered in blood. The remaining eye held deep hatred, occasionally sizing up the guards standing beside him.

  Niya and her group walked into the stone cave, followed by another group of people.

  In front were two men standing side by side.

  One was a balding middle-aged man in a crisp navy blue military uniform, while the other wore a long robe and had the air of nobility about him, Biselle.

  Behind Bisayle stood Wells, Sergei and Wulman and others.

  Seeing Niya's miserable state, seeing the people left by Bisi, Tang Jie suddenly became furious, his eyes turned red with rage, and he couldn't wait to rush over and tear Bisi's men into pieces!

  Ke Tang Jie was very clear that if he rushed out now, it would be a dead end. Although he had just grasped the realm of "Whirlpool", he didn't know how it would turn out in actual combat with Sergei. Moreover, at this time, Nia and the others were all in Bisai's hands, so if they took action, it would be easy for the opponent to counterattack and take advantage of them.

  Tang Jie gritted his teeth and turned around, his eyes gleaming with electricity as he stared at Lilith. He lowered his voice and said, "Now you have to make a choice!"

  Lilith saw these people, looking a bit bewildered. She heard Tang Jie's words and turned her head around, blinking: "Huh? What multiple choice question?"

  Tang Jie smiled coldly and pointed at Bi Sui Liu, then pointed at himself: "Between him and me, which side do you choose to stand on?"

  Rushed home to catch the train today, updated a chapter, back to normal tomorrow