After preparing the spell materials in advance, Shad and Miss Princess continued to move forward.
As the terrifying green light became clearer, the end of the stairs finally appeared below. There were no rooms on the next level of the cabin. Most of the entire floor here was opened up. It was probably where the ship was originally used to store goods and play.
Rotten wooden boxes and sacks were piled up around, revealing the gold and jewels inside. Pearls, human bones, and gems of various colors were scattered on the ground, gorgeous and evil. Skulls hanging from the planks above swayed back and forth as the ship rocked, and the green light in the skulls illuminated the place. Human skeletons wearing gorgeous armor stood by the wall.
The air in this cabin was even more humid. In the middle of the cabin, which was covered with jewels and silt, there was a long table covered with seaweed.
The green undead pirates were sitting around the table, playing cards, drinking and joking. Even though they had become undead, their deformities still existed. Although most of them looked human, they had the features of various strange marine creatures that seemed to have been sewn onto their limbs, most of which were fish features.
In contrast to this horrific scene, the tableware on the table was filled with food that normal humans could eat. A fragrant roast chicken was placed on a plate with green vegetables around it; a bunch of purple grapes were placed in a silver basin, reflecting a strange luster under the firelight of the skull; steam was floating on the fragrant fish soup sprinkled with spices, and the fish head was exposed in the pure gold soup bowl, and the fish eyes seemed to be looking at Shad and Miss Princess who appeared at the stairs.
As the figures of the two were illuminated by the fire in the skull hanging in the sky, all the sailors' souls in the cabin turned to look at it. Perhaps they did not expect that humans would have strange cracks everywhere, and Shade clearly felt the surprise of the souls.
But they did not rush over and try to tear Shad and Miss Princess apart. Instead, they remained strangely calm.
Silence fell, and the shaking head lamps made strange lights and shadows flash alternately at the stairs. Only the sound of the fish in the soup bowl swinging its tail occasionally appeared. The fishy smell of fish, the moisture of the ocean, the stench of corpses, the musty smell of wood, etc. mixed together and rushed towards Xia De, but it made him swallow his saliva and then became even hungrier.
He did not smell the delicious food on the long table in the cabin, but just one look at it and his already voracious appetite was amplified again.
Boom boom boom~
The silence was broken by the sound of fingers tapping on the table. Shad looked up and found the only person who seemed to be still alive among the evil spirits staring at him.
He was a middle-aged bearded man in his forties, wearing a gorgeous dark blue dress with more than ten medals of different styles on his chest. His sleeves were rolled up, and his hands were placed on the table, but his right hand seemed to be missing a little finger, and the other nine fingers were full of golden rings. He wore a black tricorn hat on his head, with a skull embroidered in white thread in the middle of the hat.
He clearly had a human male face, but it showed an uglier posture than Shade had ever seen. The entire upper body, which was covered with clothes, seemed to be covered by a layer of mucous membrane, but it also looked like a layer of transparent scales.
This person was probably the captain of the fishbone pirate ship. He squinted at Shade and tapped the table with his fingers with great force. If the first three taps were to attract the attention of everything here, then the continuous and vigorous taps of more than a dozen times were definitely intended to shock Shade.
Xia De was so hungry that he wanted to feel full from the air, so he didn't care why the other party was knocking on the table. The hollow feeling in his stomach made him feel that even if there was a steamed elephant in front of him, he would definitely be able to eat it.
He just felt that the middle-aged man who knocked on the table looked fierce, but it was really ridiculous. Trying to use this method to deter others was just a ridiculous expression of the rude people's admiration for primitive power.
"Two of you came together? You are the seventh and eighth people to come before me in the past hundred years."
He finally spoke. His cloudy but exceptionally bright eyes were like protruding fish eyes. He looked at Shade in the dim green light, and then his ring-wearing finger slammed the table again:
"Man, would you like to get on board?"
"No."
Shade immediately shook his head, standing in front of Miss Princess, and carefully looking at the evil spirits in the cabin. Just as he expected, after arriving at the bottom cabin, the sorceress's power was indeed weakened to a greater extent due to the existence of the evil god's power.
"Don't want to? Well, according to the rules of the sea, if you want to stay here and talk to me, you have to defeat one person. You can come together, and whoever wins will do."
The hoarse voice was extremely fierce, and a cruel expression appeared on the captain's face. After he finished speaking, he pointed to his left.
The tall one-eyed pirate who was arm wrestling with his companion stood up with one leg on the stool. The evil spirit was about the same height as Shad, but his arms were as thick as Shad's thighs.
"Pah~"
It spat rudely at the side, reached its right hand to its waist, and then pulled out a ruby-encrusted scimitar from somewhere.
That was not an appendage of the soul, but a real scimitar. With the appearance of the weapon, the soul that was still barely conscious was completely transformed into an evil spirit. The pale green light around it bloomed, making it pounce on Shade like a ball of light.
The appearance of the evil spirit not only brought mental pressure and a cold wind that seemed to pierce the soul, but the sensitive Shade saw more things in the green light. He saw countless mermaids the size of ants swimming inside the scarred soul.
"Silver Moon!"
The finger pointed forward, but this had almost absolute suppressive power over the evil spirits, and this time it only emitted a grain of light as small as a grain of rice.
"Oops, the cabin is suppressing Silver Moon."
Without time to think, Shade, who was already behind, swung his right hand forward. The holy silver two-handed sword appeared in his hand, and the scimitar in the hands of the sailor ghost also chopped over.
clang~
The two swords collided, and the sword in Shad's hand shattered immediately. He took two steps back and was supported by Miss Princess who was standing at the hatch, so that he did not fall directly on the last step.
"The opponent's strength is much greater than mine, but he doesn't have an absolute advantage!"
With the gloomy wind sweeping, the evil spirit roared and rushed towards Shade again, but at this moment, a moonlight sword appeared again in the void in front of him.
"Blade of Chaos Time!"
At the same time, Shade disappeared from his original position and appeared behind the evil spirit. While the other party swung his scimitar to smash the big sword in front of him, Shade behind him stabbed out with both hands holding the sword, accurately piercing the evil spirit's body from behind.
With a strong stir, the great sword emitting holy silver light tore a big hole in the evil spirit's body. But the evil spirit did not dissipate. On the contrary, the ant-like mermaids swimming in the pale green light quickly repaired the wounds on their bodies.
"This is not just a simple evil spirit!"
The scimitar swung back, and Shad was forced to abandon his weapon and retreat. But this time the cruel sailor did not continue to pursue, and the damage Shad caused was not in vain.
There were boos from the sailor ghosts who were watching, and the booing made Shad's fight with the sailors seem like a game to please them.
Shade planted his feet firmly on the ground and squinted his eyes at his opponent. Although he had little experience fighting alone, he could roughly estimate that his opponent this time was basically a third- or fourth-ring warlock holding a relic.
Of course, if he had not been immune to the mental influence of this particular evil spirit, the other party could even be regarded as a mid-ring warlock of around the seventh ring.
What are you going to do
She whispered softly in his ear.
"It's simple. Her Royal Highness the Princess acted very well."
Ding ding ding~
The captain rapped his fingers vigorously on the table again, urging the two men not to stop.
The continuous sound has the effect of stimulating anger. The nine rings on the captain's hands are not just for show.
Hearing the captain's urging, the evil spirit holding the scimitar skillfully used the scimitar to make cuts in the pale green light, and then slashed at Shad in front of him again.
Shade narrowed his eyes and did not swing his sword again to block the oncoming knife, because the next moment, an arrow with natural colors pierced through the evil sailor's head from behind.
The archer slowly disappeared beside Miss Princess, who had not participated in the battle just now. The evil spirit with a big hole in its head turned around and was about to pounce on the young girl, but Shade had already pounced on it and pierced his finger into the crack of the evil spirit's head.
The spirit body could not be touched directly, but because of the magic of soul echo, his hand touched the inside of the evil spirit's head. Then, a faint moonlight the size of a grain of rice lit up at his fingertips. This faint light alone melted the sailor evil spirit's head, and the effect was even greater than the sword just now.
As the evil spirit's head melted, Shade's hand went to grab its body. But at this time, the pirate captain sitting at the long table suddenly spoke:
"etc!"
He squinted his eyes and looked at Shade. Shade hesitated, and when he saw Miss Princess shaking her head slightly, he asked:
"Does this count as my victory?"
"You win."
"good."
He let go of his hand, and the sailor, who was left with only his body, immediately dissipated into a cold black mist and disappeared. As the black mist exploded, it reappeared at the table, and the head on its shoulders slowly recovered. When the mouth appeared, it immediately spat to the side, obviously very unwilling to accept its failure.
Seeing two weak humans win by such "despicable" means, the sailor at the table became vaguely agitated.
But Shade doesn't care. The captain is restraining those evil spirits, and this ship also has to follow the rules. It hunts souls for the evil god, but the evil god is restrained by the righteous gods. No existence can act recklessly in the material world. Even hunting must abide by the rules.