"The Fountain of Unaging? Can one really stay young forever after drinking it? "Donna asked curiously with widened eyes.
She wasn't looking forward to it because she was still young enough.
Erland didn't immediately answer. He forked a piece of fried murloc rib and swallowed it in two bites. Then, he took a sip of Sonia blood wine.
"The sweet taste completely dilutes the greasy taste of the deep frying …" He half-closed his eyes, behaving like a gourmet.
After savoring the taste for a few seconds, he slowly answered Donna's question.
"I'm not sure if there's a Fountain of Unaging, nor can I confirm if King of Immortality Agalito has drunk its spring water. I only know one thing, and that is that when I was very young, I heard the legend of this pirate king. It's just like how King of the Five Seas Nast seems to live forever."
"Their beards must've been very, very long, reaching past their chests!" Denton expressed his opinion.
"In fact, King of the Five Seas Nast's beard only reached below his neck. He sat on the deck, wearing a gorgeous black robe with silver trimmings. He wore a steeple crown that was twice as tall as his head, looking down on everything around him like a god …" Erland's tone gradually deepened, as though he had sunk into a quagmire of memories that he couldn't break free from.
"Uncle Captain, have you seen the King of the Five Seas?" Donna asked excitedly.
This is the most legendary pirate. His name is well-known at sea, and even the children in port cities are familiar with him.
Generations of people had grown up listening to stories about him!
In a sense, in the minds of many people, Nast is equivalent to a true pirate king … I remember that one of the conditions for the advancement of the Black Emperor is to link one's name to the title of Emperor, deeply ingraining it into the hearts of the people … Is this considered an attempt at a basic and crude version? I wonder what Sequence the King of the Five Seas is at … Although Klein was focused on tasting the fried murloc, his thoughts were still stirred by the conversation.
In response to Donna's question, Erland sighed.
"I was still very young back then, and I was still serving on the William V. Once, our fleet attempted to cross the Berserk Sea's Calamity Strait and encountered the Black Emperor.
"In those few minutes, everyone, including the fleet commander, lost the will to resist. Fortunately, Nast didn't give the order to attack us."
"Very cool!" The boy, Denton, praised with sparkling eyes.
Elland didn't continue the topic as he smiled.
"As for King of Immortality Agaturi, I've never actually seen him. All I know is that he's a pale-faced middle-aged man on the bounty notice. How pale is he? Let me give you an easy to understand example, like a corpse that has been dead for some time and has just started to decompose. "
When Donna and Denton heard this analogy, they subconsciously glanced at the murloc's corpse that was riddled with holes and unconsciously gulped.
"Of course, the main point of the bounty is not the appearance, but the amount. In Rouen alone, Agathuri is worth 100,000 pounds, and he has the lowest bounty among the four kings." Erland changed the topic. "Let's continue the story of the treasure. Third on the list is the legacy of the Solomon Empire. In the Fourth Epoch, when that massive empire was dismembered and destroyed, its royal family boarded a ship with a treasure that even the gods were jealous of. They sailed deep into the Fog Sea and waited for the opportunity to rebuild the dynasty. However, after five hundred years, a thousand years, and fifteen hundred years, they never appeared again."
"It's said that the King of the Five Seas, Nast, inherited a portion of the Solomon Empire's legacy. No one knows if he's a true descendant of the Black Emperor," Cecil added with interest.
"The Fog Sea? The west coast of the Northern Continent? "Donna recalled her knowledge of geography.
"Yes," Cleves replied succinctly.
To the west of the Northern Continent was the Fog Sea, to the east was the Sonia Sea, to the south was the Berserk Sea, and to the north was the North Sea. The east and west sides of the Southern Continent were similar to the Northern Continent, and to the south was the Polar Sea. Together, they were the so-called Five Seas.
The Kingdom of Rouen was backed by the Hornacis mountain range and the inland Midland Sea. To the east was the Sonia Sea, and to the south was Desi Bay. It occupied several excellent estuaries to the Berserk Sea, but it didn't touch the Fog Sea.
"Is that so …" Donna wasn't interested in treasures that were too far away, so she asked, "What about the fourth treasure?"
"It belongs to the last empire of the Fourth Epoch, Telun Sostel. Rumor has it that they built a huge ship that was equivalent to a city and transferred all their treasures and wealth onto it. What's laughable is that their escape didn't have any effect. The passengers and crew that were scheduled didn't arrive at the port in time, and none of them survived.
"However, that ship disappeared on its own. To this day, there are still people who often claim to have seen that huge ship silently sail past on a foggy night. It's called the Specter Empire, and it appears all over the Sonia Sea. Heh, this is a summary from those stories." Erland looked up at the crimson moon in the sky, his tone filled with mockery and unconcealable yearning.
"Perhaps tomorrow night, no, tonight, we'll be able to see it sail past!" Donna thought with anticipation and excitement.
Klein packed up the rest of the food, drank a mouthful of black tea, and listened with interest to Erland's description of the remaining treasures.
"The fifth is the Lost Newince. Rumor has it that at the bottom of the Fog Sea, there's a civilization that belongs to intelligent creatures. The navigators and adventurers of those waters often find strange items that point to the Newince of ancient times. However, the members of this civilization have never appeared. It's as though they've long vanished from this World. " Erland drank the rest of the Sonia blood wine and said, "That's the legacy left behind by a civilization. The richness is absolutely unimaginable."
Erland paused for two seconds, put down his cup, and laughed.
"Actually, the treasure that I yearn for the most, and one that's more real than the legends, is the Sunken Laurel. More than a hundred years ago, it was loaded with gold, jewelry, and all sorts of valuable items that the kingdom obtained from East Balam. Because it deviated from its course, it sank somewhere in the Berserk Sea or the Sonia Sea. It hasn't been discovered to this day.
"It's said that the items on it are worth a few million pounds!"
"A few million pounds?" This number made Donna blurt out in shock.
As the daughter of a merchant and having received several years of education, she had a vague understanding of what this number represented.
In Rouen, a millionaire was an absolute rich person, second only to the top nobles and tycoons!
A few million pounds? Mrs. Mary, who let me join the Quelaag Club for free, is a member of the Kingdom's National Atmospheric Pollution Council and a major shareholder of the Coim Company. Her net worth is only tens of thousands of pounds, but even so, she's wealthy enough in the circles of nobles and merchants. She's a rather popular divorced lady, and there are even noble sons who want to marry her … Klein quickly found a comparison.
Elland sighed with a smile on his lips.
"If I can find the Sunken Laurel, then I'll no longer be a captain. I'll head to Baekeland. I want to become a philanthropist. I want to buy land, donate to a political party, and obtain a hereditary title of nobility!"
I heard Talim mention that the title of a lord, which is a baronial title, costs about 300,000 pounds, and a baron is about 800,000 pounds … If you salvage the treasure, you can imagine how much a viscount, or even an earl … That's a few million pounds! In his mind, Klein helped Donna perfect his plan.
"If it were me, I wouldn't do this. I want to buy a very large manor." Cecil also began to imagine life after harvesting the treasure. "I want to hire a lot of servants and helpers, plant large tracts of wheat, build a vineyard, and make wine for myself … Also, a large room with sunlight, leisurely cows, sheep, and horses, and bread produced by my own mill. It's like a beautiful scene from a painting …"
Erland laughed when he heard that.
"Ma 'am, do you know how much such a manor is worth?"
"No, I don't." Cecil shook her head.
"It's only a few thousand pounds. As long as the Sunken Laurel is salvaged, you can buy a thousand similar manors!" Erland used specific numbers to clarify the value of the treasure.
A thousand manors? Cecil couldn't help but pick up her cup and take a sip of black tea.
Before this, she knew that a few million pounds was a lot of money, but she didn't expect it to be this much!
In order to ease the shock in her heart, she looked at Cleves.
"Boss, if you find the Sunken Laurel, what do you plan on buying? No, what kind of life do you plan on living?"
Cleves was silent for a moment.
"I'll go home, hug my wife and children, and tell them that I don't have to venture out to sea anymore."
Not a bad guy … Klein nodded slightly.
Donna looked at him curiously.
"Uncle Adventurer, what about you?"
Klein replied without any expression, "That's right.
"Tell yourself to stop sleeping and wake up quickly."
Pfft … Donna spat out the sweet iced tea she had just drunk. Fortunately, the fried fish on the table had already been finished.
At this moment, Klein sighed inwardly.
Although I know that it's basically impossible to find the treasure, otherwise, with so many powerhouses from the various Churches, I still couldn't help but feel a little excited when we were discussing the corresponding topic. This is the charm of treasure! Even if it's just a legend, it can still attract many adventurers!
Donna wiped her mouth and sat down like a lady, as if she wasn't the one who had lost her composure.
The boy, Denton, still hadn't had enough.
"Are there any other treasure legends?"
Erland looked at Cleves, indicating that he would answer.
Cleves calmly took a sip of black tea and said in a low voice, "There are countless legends of treasure at sea.
"There are countless legends of treasures on the sea. Hidden elves' residences, pirate ships that have gone missing in the depths of the fog, underwater cities that have powerful monsters sealed within them, Emperor Roselle's final secret treasures, and so on."
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