In the blink of an eye, many days passed.

The giant ship continued to sail calmly on the sea, and halfway through the voyage, it successfully sailed from the deep sea area to the shallow sea area.

Although you can't see the mainland here, you can see huge islands from time to time. There are also more ships on the sea, and several merchant ships can often be seen on the deck speeding in the distance, which makes the sea finally a little more alive and less dead.

Of course, problems arise as well.

First of all, the giant ship began to adjust its course frequently to avoid the existing reefs and prevent it from running aground. In addition, pirates who once disappeared began to appear. Although each time, the injured Demps was able to scare the pirates back, or eliminate them outright, there was always a sense of tirelessness.

In addition, in addition to the traditional pirates, a new type of piracy has emerged. Compared to traditional pirates, new pirates are much more difficult to deal with. Instead of flying skull flags, they will fly the official flags of their respective countries, wear official fancy clothes, and take sailors to approach quickly on warships, and then ask for boarding and inspection, and ask for the cost of transit.

They claim to be the sea tax collectors of such and such a country, but in the eyes of the crowd, they are even more disgusting than pirates. Even Demps couldn't easily get rid of them, because sometimes the tax collector was a wizard himself, and he also had a large number of wizard apprentices. So, most of the time, Demps can only be blackmailed with a cold face and pay the fee. At its most exaggerated, you can sometimes meet three sets of tax collectors from different countries in a day.

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Many days later, in the morning.

On the sea, a huge ship was docked, and a beautiful white warship was parked side by side.

On the deck, Demps stood expressionlessly, and in front of him was a man in a light blue uniform, about thirty years old, although he was just an ordinary person, but behind him was protected by two men who were far more imposing than wizard apprentices.

"Hello, my lord. The man in the blue uniform smiled and introduced himself to Demps, "I'm the tax collector of Myron's kingdom, and my name is Tim. I've seen your ship, it's not a cargo ship, it doesn't have any cargo, but the number of members is a bit large. According to the regulations, you need to pay a certain amount of crystal currency transit fees. Well, it's not much, it's just the same as the rest of the countries along the way. ”

"Tim Tax Collector!" Demps's eyes narrowed slightly, "When did this part of the Myron Kingdom actually collect taxes?When I passed by here more than a month ago, there were still three of my companions on board, why don't I remember that you didn't board the ship to collect taxes?!"

In fact, Demps understood very well why this was the case, it was completely because the other party looked at him as the only wizard on the giant ship, and his mana fluctuated unsteadily, and he was obviously seriously injured, and wanted to take the opportunity to blackmail. If he hadn't been injured, or if Silver, Louis, and Quinton were all there, he would have only had to stand on the deck, and the other side wouldn't have brought the warship over at all.

On this sea, strength is extremely important. If you don't have enough strength, you can only be blackmailed by tax collectors who are bullied and afraid of hard.

Although Demps understood, he was a little unacceptable and couldn't help but mock.

But after Demps's sarcastic words came out, the tax collector Tim seemed to have no idea what he was trying to hide, and raised his eyebrows: "Well, is that so, then...... This lord, or ...... Will you make up for the tax you missed this time?"

When Demps listened, his gaze sharpened uncontrollably, and the mana in his body surged.

The two people behind Tim sensed something and immediately made a defensive gesture, one of them put a slight touch on Tim's shoulder to remind him.

Tim laughed and said to Demps with a bright face: "Haha, this wizard, don't be angry, I'm just joking, how can I make you make up for it." After all, I only took office this month, and the previous tax collector was already in the dungeon, so I didn't bother to take care of his business, haha, haha. ”

"Still. Tim's expression became serious again, "But this time I still have to hand it in." After all, it's not just us like Myron, the rest like Grande, Stans, Fish, Vogard, and all the countries along the way. If you pay the transit fee in the rest of the country and don't pay it here, I will be blamed. This adult, you should take pity on the villain, you should pay this tax. ”

When Tim spoke, he looked pitiful, but the attitude in his words was extremely tough - don't think about leaving if you don't pay.

Demps frowned, but he really didn't want to dwell on this, and turned his head to the side. Level 3 Wizard Potter walked over and handed a wooden box to Tim, the tax collector.

After Tim took it, he opened the box and quickly scanned it, his eyes lit up, and there was a certain amount of crystal coins inside.

Accepting the box, Tim bowed to Demps: "You're here, I'll take my leave." ”

After speaking, he took the people away, quickly returned to the warship, and sailed away.

Demps stood on the deck, watching the warship leave with cold eyes, and couldn't help coughing a few times, covering it with a handkerchief, which was covered with blood.

"It can't go on like this. "These vampires are disgusting. If it goes on like this, when you reach the White Stone Tower, the things on the entire giant ship will be extorted. ”

"What about the teacher?" asked Potter tentatively.

Demps squinted, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's get the boat out first, and then I'll call someone to help." ”

"Convener?"

"Hmm. ”

"Uh. Potter didn't ask any more questions, and quickly ordered the sailors to go.

......

The ship re-sailed, and after most of the day, it stopped in an empty sea that did not belong to any country.

It was dusk, the sunset was golden, the whole sea was dyed golden, and the whole huge ship was more like a golden ship.

On deck, Temples stood straight, looking out at the sea around him, not saying a word.

Suddenly, footsteps sounded, and Potter carefully walked out of the cabin with a box in his hand, walked up to Demps and handed it out, and said in a loud voice, "Teacher, what you want." ”

"Hmm. Demps nodded, opened the box, and took out a horn of a dozen centimeters long inside.

The horn is a deep black with a deep sheen, like jade. The surface is depicted with cumbersome lines, which looks simple and mysterious.

Demps held the horn, activated it with mana, and then blew it.

The horn was silent, but some kind of message was quickly transmitted.

Temples blew halfway, put the horn back in the box, and coughed again, covering it with a new handkerchief, which was mostly stained red.

Potter looked at it with some concern, and asked aloud, "Teacher, what are we going to do next?"

And so on. Demps wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief and put it away.

"Wait?" Potter wondered.

And so on. Demps looked at the sunset that was about to fall into the sea, and said with a blank face but with great certainty.

"Oh. ”

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