Outlander's Journey

Chapter 99: Forced Downgrade, Negotiation

Uzumaki gradually began to stop and calm down, and the churning dark clouds in the sky gradually dispersed.

Under the bright moonlight, this sea area was full of pale glow.

In the moonlight, the skull version of Heather, with long black hair floating like seaweed in the water, stood on the king squid floating on the surface, and the severely shrunken version of the North Blue monster twitched from time to time under his feet, and there was not much left on his body. Root intact tentacles.

The Black Pearl discovered the situation here for the first time, and immediately sailed towards Heather.

But Heather did not have the joy of defeating the sea monster at this time, instead, his heart was cold and fearful.

Damn it! Can anyone explain to me why even the species can be forced to change in the ‘forced downgrade’?

No matter how big the North Blue monster is, it can be regarded as an octopus. How can it become a squid after being downgraded? Although these two belong to the class of cephalopods, one is the eight arms and the other is the squid. They can’t go together at all!

Recalling the ‘Forced Degradation’ narrative of [Light Egg] in myths and legends, [Hundred Eyed Demon] reduced to [Three Eyed Demon], these two cannot be counted as the same species if they are carefully divided. The Hundred Eyed Demon is a weird creature with multiple tentacles that are over a hundred meters tall and covered with monster eyes, while the Three Eyed Demon is a huge mandrill with one more eyeball on its forehead.

A cold sweat was dripping from Heather’s forehead. Could it be that [Light Egg] thought that this creature’should’ be a reduced version of that creature, and then turned around the creature’s species?

Damn, you have to say it like this. After you return to Earth, you will be forced to demote yourself. Will you turn yourself into a monkey or a baboon?

It was the first time that Heather used this ‘forced downgrade’ ability, and only then did he feel that this thing was too weird. The result is uncontrollable and the cooling time is too long, it is better to use less in the future.

In fact, Heather’s guess is correct. The “Forced Demotion” of [Light Egg] is actually to use the “unreasonable weirdness” of the mind to directly transform the target species into other weaker species, and the genetic level operation previously speculated.

Every species in nature is a perfect existence that survived countless survivals of the fittest. Where is the so-called low-level version? [Light Egg] When performing’Forced Degradation’, it will extract the user’s mind-qi conversion nature and instill it into the target body, turning it from the level of existence into a version that [Light Egg] thinks is similar but weaker, It’s a bit like an “unidentified object” [Request·Specified Version].

For example, 【Hundred Eyes】→【Three Eyes】, 【North Blue Giant】→【Large King Squid】, 【Bemon Giant Beast】→【Elephant】, 【Leviathan】→【Blue Whale】……if After Heather returns to Earth, he really uses this ability on himself. In all likelihood, he will become a “baboon”, “orangutan” and so on. Can he continue to preserve his intellectual thinking and mental ability as a human being? must.

Moreover, this ability consumes astonishing thought energy, and the cooling time is also horribly long. Heather decided to not use it in the future.

The Black Pearl quickly sailed near Heather. Under the moonlight, both Barbosa and Jack looked like a skeleton. Even Maria and Bonan, the ship’s chef, used gold coins to transform their forms. [Curse Coin·Aztec Gold Coin] It is really interesting to use to save the lives of ordinary people.

“My lord! Have you dealt with the North Blue giant monster?” Barbossa lay on the edge of the deck and glanced down at the railing. No trace of other sea beasts was found except the giant king squid.

Jack stabbed Barbosa: “Hector, that should be the North Blue monster.”

Um? The skeleton-like Barbossa almost glared the eyeballs in his eye sockets: “Are you blind Jack Sparrow? This king squid is not even one third as long as the North Blue giant monster’s tentacles!”

Jack raised his hands and shook his arms vigorously in front of him, mimicking the way he cast witchcraft: “Did you forget? The magical witchcraft of the mentor?”

Barbossa was silent for a moment. He thought that Heather was able to turn Aztec gold coins into his own as a shocking accomplishment. Unexpectedly, he could even turn the North Blue giant hundreds of feet long into ordinary. The king squid…Is this really witchcraft?

Barbossa prefers to call it a miracle.

On the sea below, Skeleton Heather drew out his short sword, and a cold flame was ignited on the blade of the sword, and then he plunged into the head of the king squid and stirred it back and forth.

The tentacles twitched violently at first, then gradually subsided.

Heather confirmed the death of the king squid and leaped to the deck of the Black Pearl. He narrowed his eyes slightly to sense the position of the gold coins: “Go to the southeast, they are fighting under the sea…well, here it is. ”

The sea exploded in an instant, and the flying Dutchman broke through the waves. Standing by the rudder, David Jones looked in the direction of the Black Pearl and shouted angrily: “Heather! What did you do to my baby!?”

Just now, he felt the screaming roar and panic of the North Blue giant monster in his mind, and then he broke the contact.

Can anyone really fight the North Blue giant monster with flesh and blood? Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Standing on the edge of the Black Pearl’s deck, Heather, with long and fluttering black hair, stroked his chest and bowed slightly to David Jones: “Your pet is too presumptuous, so I taught him a little lesson and looked at Haihan.”

David Jones sharply saw the corpse of the King Squid that was sinking into the depths of the sea next to the Black Pearl. Although the appearance was completely changed, the tacit understanding for hundreds of years made him recognize at a glance that this is his pet and support—— North Blue monster!

“Stop!”

David Jones was silent for a while, shouting at the two sailors who were fighting on the lower deck, then turned to look at Heather, and humiliatingly popped a word from his teeth: “…Negotiating (Parley).”

Without the North Blue giant, I can’t kill these skeleton sailors who are not afraid of death, not to mention the Black Pearl and the freak captain staring at him, the “Flying Dutchman”, the first in hundreds of years. I made a big somersault every time.

We can only hope in [negotiation].

When the pirates were at war, only the side who was absolutely weak would try to demand [negotiation]. Upon hearing the word squeezed out from David Jones’ mouth, the crew of the Black Pearl were agitated. They were invincible [Deep Sea Hades] that had been in the sea for hundreds of years. David Jones was really defeated by us! ?

Heather still did not lift the skeleton form, but stood on the edge of the deck holding his arms, and asked without turning his head: “…first mate?”

Barbosa, who couldn’t restrain his smile at the corner of his mouth, immediately bowed to Heather stroking his chest, and replied respectfully: “My lord, please give orders.”

“Should I accept this gentleman’s [negotiation]?”

Although Heather had no lips and skin at this time, only Sen White Fang’s teeth were exposed, he could still see a smile from the corner of his eyes.

“According to the “Piracy Code”, pirates are obliged to listen to the negotiator’s request. Of course, whether you accept it depends on your meaning.” Barbossa immediately understood Heather’s meaning and quickly replied.

Jack held the orchid to the side and added: “For reference, the Code of Pirates can only be regarded as a reference. I think it is a better choice for us to sink this evil and indecent ghost ship… Of course, no one asked me. Opinion, I mean.”

Seeing Davy Jones’s almost angry eyes, Jack, who was still planning to confuse Heather, immediately stunned and retreated to the position next to Maria.

“……All right.”

Heather hooked his finger at David Jones, motioning him to bring the boat closer:

“Then, Captain David Jones, whether you can leave this sea alive depends on whether the’conditions’ you put forward will satisfy me.”