Chapter 95: Divine Strike
“How?”
“With two consecutive attacks, one feinting and one real, even that guy John wouldn’t be able to react in time.”
Babu said this and extended a hand to Wright.
Wright stared at that hand but didn’t shake it, instead asking one final question.
“If it succeeds, will you let my remaining companions go?”
“Mm~ Of course! I guarantee it~”
“But you must tell me everything about the ‘Golden Land’ right now.”
Babu, who was just as greedy as John, naturally wouldn’t pass up this huge windfall.
As for whether he would let Wright’s companions go?
Regrettably, the secret of the “Golden Land” couldn’t and shouldn’t be known by a second person…
“Alright.”
Wright sighed, knowing full well that Babu’s promise was unreliable, but he still shook that hand.
The other was right; this was their last chance for revenge for Foll, and he had no choice.
Moreover, even if he gave up this opportunity, his companions behind him wouldn’t.
“Well then, happy cooperation~”
Babu waved goodbye to the group with a pleased laugh.
……
On the small boat ten sea miles away, Miss La took in the whole scene.
After John got off the ship and went onshore, Miss La had shifted her line of sight to Wright and them, wanting to see what this group planned to do.
If possible, she wanted to save this Wright; she had some interest in his research on those texts.
However, compared to an established pirate like John with such strong strength, Wright and the others didn’t even notice Miss La’s gaze.
Relying on the powerful senses of a god’s body, Miss La knew all about the conspiracy between Wright and Babu.
『Take out this Babu as well.』
For this unstable factor, Miss La added another note to her plan in her heart.
But just as all three parties were preparing to act according to their respective plans, Skipgate and the others who had been staying on the ship could no longer hold back.
After seeing Miss La just tell them to stay on the ship and not move with no further word, a few impatient pirates began dismantling wooden barrels and tying oars again to prepare rowing to the island.
Skipgate behind them directly reached out to take the Eternal Pose from Miss La’s hand, but she lightly raised her hand to dodge.
Grabbing at empty air, Skipgate helplessly said again:
“Miss La, since you don’t want to go onshore, give us the pointer, and we’ll swim to the island ourselves.”
“We can’t dawdle any longer; John and them might reach the island any moment.”
“Yeah, Miss La, you can just stay on the ship or head straight back; we’ll go onshore ourselves.” The squad leader chimed in.
“John and your companions are already onshore; it’s already too late for you to go now.”
“Moreover, I said John’s matter is mine to handle; you just wait here with peace of mind.”
Miss La finally spoke again, but in a reassuring voice that made everyone’s faces change dramatically as she stated the fact.
“Also, stop destroying the wooden barrels on the ship; those are the Beasts Pirates’ property.”
Miss La added this, but the people on the ship had no mind to listen at this moment and were thrown into chaos.
Several pirates had even jumped into the sea, swimming toward the direction of Greed Island as they remembered it.
“Wright and them have already gone onshore?! How is that possible!”
“We clearly didn’t see any ship; did they slip past us in the thick fog?”
“Miss La, how do you know? You’re not tricking us, are you?”
“We must go onshore immediately to support Wright and them. Let’s swim straight there!”
……
“Sigh! Miss La, you…”
Skipgate was also at a loss at this moment, not knowing what to do, anxiously pacing back and forth on the ship.
However, Miss La paid no attention to the group’s reaction, simply turning her head and refocusing her line of sight on Wright and them through the thick fog.
Wright at this time had returned to the shore and was walking toward John, who seemed to be admiring the scenery.
The others were also following Wright with supplies, while Babu was nowhere to be seen.
Of course, in Miss La’s vision, she could clearly see that guy hiding far away in the blind spot of John’s line of sight.
“Oh? Back already?”
Seeing the group approaching him, John showed no other reaction, just waving for them to move the supplies onto the ship.
“We’ll set sail and leave as soon as that guy Babu returns.”
After giving the order, John planned to return to the ship as well, but at that moment Wright called out to him loudly:
“Captain John! I hope you’ll spare our lives!”
“Hee hee~ You’ve noticed already? Or did that guy Babu tell you?”
Not caring at all that his behavior of killing the donkey after unloading it was known, John simply stopped and looked at Wright and the others with mocking eyes.
“Well~ That doesn’t matter.”
“You say you want me to let you go, so what can you offer in return?”
“What can you use to exchange for your lives?”
John said this while walking toward Wright until the distance between them shrank to a quite dangerous degree.
“Gulp~”
Facing John so close at hand, that undisguised killing intent made Wright nervously swallow, but he still endured and said:
“I, I have a clue about the ‘Golden Land’!”
Sure enough, upon hearing the words “Golden Land,” John’s pupils contracted.
His hands suddenly grabbed Wright’s shoulders, and almost instinctively he blurted out: “Where! Where is the ‘Golden Land’!”
Facing John like a greedy beast, Wright tremblingly took out that navigational log.
“The loc, location of the ‘Golden Land’ is, is recorded in here.”
Hearing this, John immediately snatched the log and flipped it open!
And just as John’s gaze was completely drawn by the text inside, Wright suddenly dropped his earlier panicked demeanor, directly drew a dagger, and thrust it fiercely at John’s heart!
The people behind all pounced on John the instant Wright moved!
Facing this long-planned strike, John seemed completely unable to react.
It wasn’t until Wright’s blade tip had touched the fabric on his chest that his hand barely gripped the sword hilt at his waist…
……
Meanwhile, on the Beasts Pirates’ small boat, Miss La, who had been staring toward the island, finally took action amid the helpless yet slightly expectant gazes of Skipgate and the other pirates.
But it wasn’t handing over the Eternal Pose to the group; instead, she raised one hand and made a strange action.
“Miss La, what are you…”
Miss La extended her arm straight out, thumb and index finger extended, while closing one eye as if aiming, just like a child simulating shooting in a game.
Of course, the reality was far from that simple.
In the place Skipgate and the others couldn’t see, immense divine power beyond imagination was constantly pumping out from Miss La’s ‘heart.’
After circulating once around her body, it all gathered in front of her fingertip, where the power capable of easily distorting reality was compressed to the extreme in that tiny space.
Perhaps due to the energy density being too high, altering the surrounding physical laws, or maybe Miss La was controlling it intentionally, this unimaginably powerful strike caused no anomaly in the real world before firing.
The phase of building up power, which theoretically could change the heavens and earth, was entirely compressed inside her body by Miss La, to the point that in Skipgate and the others’ eyes, there was nothing around Miss La or in front of her finger.
Finally, at the instant the energy reached its critical threshold, Miss La spoke.
“Divine Strike”
