The low growl like muttering was inaudible to the spectators but ckbeard''s heart was already set. This was not an impulsive decision at all but an unwavering determination because there was no way he could let go of such a hatred. Zach had not only destroyed his crew; he had also destroyed ckbeard''s reign and his prestige in the neighboring seas. The symbol of his power, his ship was already a pile of ashes under the sea and couldn''t be recovered.


    There was noing back from this. As such ckbeard pulled out his dagger from his waist and cut open the palm on his right hand.


    Red blood smeared the insides of his palm as he closed it into a firm looking fist. Bloody tears escaped the bottom of his fist in the ruby drops but there were no signs of pain on his haggard looking face.


    ckbeard began to recite some kind of weird incantation that none of those present would have ever heard before in their lives. It seemed to be some kind of dark magic since it required blood as the medium. Otherwise, ckbeard wasn''t insane enough to cut his palm in remembrance of his vow alone.


    Zach knew that ckbeard was thinking of pulling off some kind of stunt but he didn''t try to stop him considering the overall strength of he had on urgent disposal. Any of the girls could easily take ckbeard on. Therefore, he kept his eyes on ckbeard, calmly wondering if ckbeard still had any cards to y.


    "Don''t be too happy with your victory. I will make you regret your actions soon enough. Even demons aren''t as ruthless as you were today." sneered ckbeard darkly as soon as he was finished with the incantation.


    "I don''t think there will evere a time when I would regret my actions against a bunch of greedy rats like you and your people. No matter how many of you die, it doesn''t matter to me at all because those willing to kill should be prepared to die themselves in the pursuit to do so." remarked Zach in mysterious manner. He was only copying some kind of life philosophy he had heard in his previous life.


    While the two were throwing remarks around, the blood beneath ckbeard''s feet began to flow towards the sea sneakily. It didn''t follow thews of physics at all. It was creeping towards the sea like a snake instead of flowing normally, although no one in Zach''s group seemed to have noticed it.


    The moment this blood snake connected with the sea; a brilliant crimson light akin to a bloody aurora lit up the blood track on the ground like a fissure about to erupt from the ground. The bloody light was iparably sinister as if some malevolent spirit was about to be summoned from the realm of the dead.


    It wasn''t just the ground that was smeared red. Even the ocean began to glimmer with a reddish light as the water began to swirl gently at first before bing an unstoppable whirlpool a distance away from the shore.


    The seawater began to rise slowly. A massive bulge was evident on the swirling surface of the water. It was as if the sea was about to throw up a massive entity on to thend.


    Zach was shocked that the pirate captain had been holding back so much strength. Still, he didn''t feel that the situation waspletely out of his grasp yet.


    The bulge on the sea burst apart with a ssh and the sea parted into two. A colossal sized eel like being came out of the sea as its gigantic body disced the seawater in all directions. The giant wave caused by its appearance threatened to engulf the ind whole but the raging wave seemingly fell down before it could crash on the shore. It was as if the seawater was unwilling to part with the creature and wanted to return to its embrace.


    All the spectators of this scene grew shocked at the sight of the creature. All of them had only heard stories about the creature but none of them had ever encountered one in reality. It was to the extent that some of them even wondered if it was an illusion meant to confuse their senses.


    The gigantic sea blue creature that was glowing with an iridescent red hue all over its body was none other than a sea dragon; the creature out of myths and legends.


    Zach knew that this was a world of magic and could not be judged based on his standard of normal. But this was way beyond what he considered to be normal even by the standard of this new world.<novelsnext>I think you should take a look at </novelsnext>


    Magic being a norm andck of technology was something he could understand but the existence of dragons wasn''t exactly easy to digest even for him who had experienced two different worlds.


    The sea dragon didn''t move around and focused its eyes on ckbeard whose palm was glowing with the same blood red hue as the sea dragon.


    The bloody crimson light was the link between the sea dragon and ckbeard which had been used to summon the gigantic creature instantly to a location that was so far away from the deep ocean.


    The sea dragon gave ckbeard a stunned look. Despite being a non-human creature, the dragon''s expressions were extremely refined as if it couldmunicate just with its bodynguage.


    Its current expression indicated that it was puzzled as to why it had been drawn here to the edge of the ocean and it appeared to be asking ckbeard for an exnation regarding the same.


    ckbeard couldmunicate with the sea dragon subtly but he didn''t show any signs of it. He secretly sent the dragon a sound transmission through the water element in the air and told him about the events that took ce on the ind in a hurry.


    The dragonprehended his words for a bit before asking, "Why have you summoned me then?"


    "Isn''t it obvious? I need your help to escape this ce. These people won''t let me leave like this. Please use your strength to open a passage for me to the sea. And I want you to kill a person before that. That is an absolute must before we leave." ckbeard exined his reason for summoning the sea dragon so abruptly but there was an element of urgency to his tone that the dragon caught on to.


    "It isn''t easy for me to help you. You know that I need to conserve my energy for a long time in order to advance my strength. By helping you I would be harming myself. So, I will need a lot of offerings after helping you out today. I will only help you if you agree to provide me with resources to make up the difference of the energy that I will lose and then some more."


    The sea dragon was probably just as greedy as the pirate it was acquainted with. Therefore, even in such a dire situation it was only thinking of getting more benefits instead of helping him out.


    Knowing the twisted intentions of the dragon, ckbeard almost wanted to vomit blood at the hoax excuse it hade up with to gain benefits from him. But beggars couldn''t be choosers. It was up to the dragon as to what price he wanted to set for ckbeard''s life.


    Though ckbeard''s heart bled at the mere thought of the price he had to pay for his life, there was no other option avable to him. It was either this or death at the hands of the dark mage who was the new target of all his umted hatred.


    "Fine I can promise you that but only after we sessfully escape this ce first."


    ckbeard made the promise reluctantly but he had no intention to renege on the debt. The sea dragon could be especially relentless when it came to recovering the debts it was owed. If not for the dragon''s inability to venture onnd, it would never have struck a deal with a human like ckbeard who could bring it items that were unavable in the deep ocean.


    The dragon nodded its head in contentment. It was satisfied after receiving a promise from ckbeard and knew that thetter woulde through no matter what.