"Fountain of Youth? If you drink it, will you really stay young forever?"
She wasn't particularly hopeful, as she was still young enough.
Ailan didn't answer immediately. He skewered a piece of fried fishman rib meat, devoured it in two bites, then sipped some Sonia blood wine.
"The sweet taste completely cuts through the greasiness of the fry..." he said, half-closing his eyes like a connoisseur.
After savoring it for a few seconds, he slowly began to answer Donna's question:
"I don't know if the 'Fountain of Youth' exists, nor can I confirm whether the 'Undying King' Agalitu has drunk from it. I only know one thing: when I was very young, I heard legends about this pirate king, just as the 'King of the Five Seas' Nast seems to live forever."
"Their beards must be very, very long, past their chests!" Danton chimed in.
"In fact, the 'King of the Five Seas' Nast's beard only reaches below his collar. He sits on the deck, wearing a magnificent robe with a black base and silver trim, and a spire crown twice the height of his head, overlooking everything around him like a deity..." Ailan's voice gradually deepened, as if trapped in quicksand of memories.
"Uncle Captain, have you seen the 'King of the Five Seas'?" Donna asked excitedly.
He was the most legendary pirate, his name known across the seas, even to children in port cities.
Entire generations grew up hearing stories about him!
In a sense, in many people's minds, Nast equals the true Pirate King... I remember one of the conditions for advancing to 'Black Emperor' is to associate one's name with the title of 'Emperor' and deeply embed it in people's hearts... Is this a primitive, simple attempt? I wonder what Sequence the 'King of the Five Seas' has reached... Klein, though focused on eating fried fishman meat, was still stirred by the conversation.
Faced with Donna's question, Ailan sighed and said:
"At that time, I was still young and serving on the Wilhelm V. Once, our fleet tried to cross the Catastrophe Strait in the Raging Sea, where we encountered the 'Black Emperor'."
"In those few minutes, everyone, including the fleet commander, lost the will to resist. Fortunately, Nast didn't order an attack on us."
"Cool!" praised the boy Danton with shining eyes.
Ailan didn't continue this topic and smiled: "As for the 'Undying King' Agalitu, I've never actually seen him. I only know from the bounty poster that he's a pale middle-aged man. How pale? Let me give an easy-to-understand example: like a corpse that has been dead for a while and has started to rot."
Hearing this comparison, Donna and Danton instinctively glanced at the riddled fishman corpse and swallowed involuntarily.
"Of course, on a bounty poster, the key isn't appearance but the amount. In Rune alone, Agalitu is worth 100,000 pounds, and he has the lowest bounty among the Four Kings." Ailan changed the subject: "Let's continue the treasure story. The third is the 'Legacy of the
"It's said that the 'King of the Five Seas' Nast inherited part of the Solomon Empire's legacy, and no one knows if he is a true descendant of the Black Emperor." Cecil added with interest.
"Mist Sea? The west coast of the Northern Continent?" Donna recalled her geography.
"Yes." Chris replied briefly.
To the west of the Northern Continent is the Mist Sea, to the east is the Sonia Sea, to the south is the Raging Sea, and to the north is the
The Kingdom of Rune, with the Mount Honach range and the inland Middle Sea at its back, faces the Sonia Sea to the east and reaches Deasy Bay to the south, occupying several good exits to the Raging Sea, but not touching the Mist Sea.
"I see..." Donna wasn't interested in treasures too far away and asked instead, "What about the fourth treasure?"
"It belongs to the last empire of the Fourth Epoch, Trunsost. Rumor has it that they built a giant ship the size of a city and moved all their treasures and wealth onto it. Ridiculously, their escape didn't work: the intended passengers and crew didn't make it to the port in time, and none survived."
"However, the ship itself disappeared. To this day, people still claim to have seen that giant ship silently sailing past on foggy nights. It's called the 'Ghost Empire', and it appears all over the Sonia Sea. Ha, that's what's been summarized from those stories." Ailan looked up at the red moon in the sky, his tone tinged with mockery yet hiding undeniable longing.
"Maybe tomorrow night, no, tonight, we'll see it sail by!" Donna fantasized with anticipation and excitement.
Klein finished packing the leftover food and took a sip of black tea, listening with interest as Ailan continued about the remaining treasures:
"The fifth is the 'Lost Nuwins'. Rumor has it that at the bottom of the Mist Sea, there is a civilization of intelligent beings. Navigators and adventurers in that sea often find strange items that point to the ancient Nuwins, but members of this civilization have never appeared, as if they vanished from this world." Ailan took a sip of the remaining Sonia blood wine and said, "That's a legacy of a civilization, with wealth beyond imagination."
Ailan paused for two seconds, set down his glass, and chuckled:
"Actually, the treasure I long for the most, which is more fact than legend, is the 'Sunken Laurel'. Over a hundred years ago, it was carrying gold, jewels, and various valuables obtained by the kingdom from Eastern Bailang. Due to a deviation in course, it sank somewhere in the Raging Sea or the Sonia Sea and has never been found to this day."
"It's said that the items on board are worth millions of pounds!"