Ten years later, Haddock, who was already a level-20 warrior, returned to his hometown with his magic-powered pirate ship and returned to his old profession. He specialized in looting the merchant ships of his old employer. In just a few years, he made his old employer bankrupt. After that, he found his old employer and killed him with his own hands in tears of regret.
When Feng Chou found Haddock, he had just gotten his revenge and was thinking about what to do in the future.
Feng Chou immediately used his huge intelligence network formed by scouting birds in the Eastern Islands and quickly found Haddock's lost wife and son.
Then, Feng Chou put Haddock and his lost wife and son into the Qiankun Pagoda and created a very melodramatic memory for them. In this memory, Feng Chou was like a savior who facilitated the reunion of Haddock and his wife and son.
Because of Haddock's piracy, he had already turned from a legend to a rat that everyone in Kavieng despised. If he continued to mingle around here, he would sooner or later be exterminated by the Sea Church. Therefore, when Feng Chou offered him 5% of the merchant ship's shares and invited him to be the captain of the ship and continue to explore the Southern Continent, he agreed without much consideration.
Of course, it wasn't that easy to get the 5% shares. Haddock needed to sign a fair contract with Feng Chou to prevent him from running away with the ship.
In addition to himself, Captain Haddock also brought a lot of high-end seafaring talents to Feng Chou.
For example, the first mate of the Warrior was Haddock's first mate when he was a pirate. This guy was a level-17 earth goblin warrior and a level-8 goblin engineer. Back then, Captain Haddock was able to successfully control his pirate ship with the help of this goblin named Noggenfogger and break away from the Blackwater pirates.
The reason why Noggenfogger was willing to help Haddock was purely because of Haddock's personal charm and the friendship they had developed over the past ten years.
By the way, the magic-powered ship that Haddock was piloting was also a magic-powered warship. This ship was originally a captured magic-powered ship, but the Blackwater pirates had modified it and added steam power. This way, when the ship turned on steam power, it could gain double power in battle and greatly increase its speed.
As long as the goblins could get their hands on a magic-powered ship, they would almost always modify it.
As the first mate, Noggenfogger was mainly responsible for the use and maintenance of the ship's steam engine.
Now, this earth goblin held the same position on the Warrior and was responsible for the same things.
The boatswain of the Warrior was also the second mate of Haddock's pirate ship. He was a mixed-blood red dragon and human.
It was said that this guy's father was a red dragon and his mother was an Amazon.
To be honest, it was difficult to see how much human blood this mixed-blood dragon named Balassa had from his appearance. He didn't look much different from an ordinary red dragon.
Balassa's bloodline was very awkward. Although he didn't look much different from a red dragon, in fact, because of the weakening of the dragon bloodline, his dragon magic ability had almost disappeared. Only the dragon's breath could be used to scare people, and the power was only 70% of a normal dragon's. However, he had completely inherited the powerful physical potential of a dragon.
Balassa's fighting skills came from his Amazon mother, and he was completely trained as an Amazon female warrior, although he was a male.
However, although Balassa used to believe in the Storm Goddess, he was not blessed by the goddess. He did not get the thunder storm ability of an Amazon female warrior, only the agility and strength of an Amazon female warrior.
In general, Balassa was a weakened version of an Amazon female warrior who could spit out two weak dragon's breaths.
Balassa's poor bloodline ability and castrated fighting power made him a laughing stock among the pirates. Even if he was already a level-17 warrior, he couldn't get rid of this situation.
Haddock was the only one among the pirates who never laughed at Balassa.
For the talents under Haddock, Feng Chou tempted them with benefits and brainwashed them with the illusion of Qiankun Pagoda, making them sign a devil's contract with him.
In addition to the pirates under his command, Haddock also brought an unexpected talent to Feng Chou. He was Haddock's long-lost son.
When Feng Chou found him, this young man, who was only in his early twenties, was already the first mate of an ocean sailing ship. He was very valued by the captain and appreciated by the ship owner. At a young age, he was already a level-10 warrior and a level-4 rogue. His talent was even better than his father Haddock.
In addition to Captain Haddock and his crew, Feng Chou also recruited an old retired human captain of a magic merchant ship.
This was an old captain who had drifted on the sea for half a century. His name was Drake. He had been to the southern continent three times and returned successfully every time.
Old Captain Drake used to be a level-18 warrior and a level-12 wizard, but because of old age, his warrior level had declined to level-15.
In order to recruit this experienced old captain, Feng Chou offered such a condition. He could hold an intermediate black dragon bloodline ceremony for the old captain who was old and weak and didn't have many years left to live. The main purpose of this bloodline ceremony was to let the old captain gain 200 years of life, but the other party had to sign a devil's contract with Feng Chou. The contract stipulated that after the old captain accepted Feng Chou's intermediate black dragon bloodline ceremony, he had to unconditionally serve Feng Chou for 100 years.
The old captain once tried his best to get a True Fruit of the Ancient of War and held a Primary Life Ritual for himself, gaining an extra 20 years of lifespan. However, 20 years was undoubtedly a short time. Now, the lifespan the old captain gained from the Primary Life Ritual was about to be exhausted.
As an experienced captain of a magic merchant ship who had successfully returned from the southern continent many times, Old Captain Drake was not short of money. He had a viscount's territory, a shipping company, and tens of millions of crowns.
But this could not buy him a life.
To Feng Chou, holding a mid-rank dragonborn bloodline ceremony only required a few million crowns and a hundred or so soul crystals. However, to ordinary people, dragon blood was a treasure that they could only dream of, while soul crystals were rare contraband items that couldn't be bought even if they had the money.
Take the black dragon blood essence that Feng Chou bought from the devil Morpheus for example. If he did not have enough soul crystals, he would not be able to move the devil with ordinary gold coins. Where would a mortal get a calamity coin that was equivalent to 10,000 human souls?
There were many black dragons in the southern continent, but which one of them did not have a group of slaves?
If one wanted to kill an old black dragon, they would first have to face a tribe of thousands of black dragons. How much would they have to pay?
Even the crazy Amazons would not dare to hunt a true dragon in a tropical rainforest. That was much more serious than stirring up a hornet's nest.
Using gold coins to price the Dragon's Blood Essence was an old tradition of the Arcane Kingdom. In this era, even the king couldn't guarantee that he could get the Dragon's Blood Essence.
So when the old captain heard about Feng Chou's conditions, he agreed without hesitation.
Not only did he agree, but after Feng Chou really held the intermediate dragon bloodline ceremony for him, Old Captain Drake also recruited his former second mate and boatswain for Feng Chou.
The old captain told Feng Chou that his first mate was more outstanding, but unfortunately, he had died of illness last year.
The captain's second mate was a middle-aged man named Lakham. He was a Level 10 Mage, a Level 14 Warrior, and a Level 4 Rogue. He looked quiet and inconspicuous.
The old captain's boatswain was a Norman from the Frost Kingdom. The Normans were said to have a similar bloodline to the barbarians, the ancestors of the Sutton people.
Just like the barbarians, the Normans were born with the ability to go berserk. However, unlike the barbarians who crudely used berserk, the Normans used the harsh cold of the Frost Kingdom to temper their will and finally completely control berserk.
When the Normans could use their will to control berserk, it became an even more terrifying power.
The Normans could use their strong will to control the time and intensity of berserk. They would not waste most of their power like the barbarians, nor would they be like the barbarians, who would go berserk to the end and become weak.
When the Normans used berserk, the duration was not less than that of the barbarians, and the power produced was not weaker than that of the barbarians. However, they would not become weak in the end. This was the difference between control and not control.
When the Normans learned how to use the power of Hydgar, they could even combine the power of berserk with the power of Hydgar, and burst out with even more terrifying power in a short period of time.
The Normans called their martial arts school the Berserk Style, and warriors who mastered the Berserk Style were called Berserkers.
The Steel Spirit Style, the Berserk Style, and the Dragon Armor Style, which was popular among the nobles of the Sacred Light Empire, were known as the three major martial arts schools of mankind.
The Norman sailor named Ivar was a level 16 Berserker. He had the typical figure of a Norman. He was more than two meters tall and weighed more than two hundred and fifty kilograms. When he stood there, he looked like a giant bear.
Feng Chou did not arrange positions on the Warrior for the old captain, his second mate, and the boatswain. He planned to let the old captain take over the position of the captain of the Pioneer Knight in the future.
In addition to these high-end talents, the thousand or so ordinary sailors that Feng Chou had recruited for the Warrior were also elites of the sea. Each of them had their own strengths. Only strong people like Haddock and the old captain could control this group of unruly sailors.
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When the Warrior passed by Tailun Port, all the goods on the ship were "sold". The warehouse was completely emptied and stuffed with a large number of people recruited from the slums in the far east of Tailun.
Qiankun Pagoda had specially modified the warehouse of the Warrior, adding ventilation and lighting equipment. In the end, a total of five thousand people were stuffed on this ten thousand ton ship, excluding the crew.
Among the five thousand people recruited by Feng Chou, three thousand were adults. These people came from all walks of life, and they would become the citizens of the Green Dragon Island. The other two thousand were teenagers. These teenagers were the extremely talented people selected by Qiankun Pagoda. They were the future of the Green Dragon Island.
After leaving Tailun City, the number of people on the ship did not increase, and they did not stop at many ports along the way. Instead, they headed south, heading towards the southernmost tip of the Northern Continent.