Above the Pirate King

Chapter 680
"Uh"

Hearing this question, Grommash was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness, but now I have no intention of joining other forces!"

In the past, he didn't have the mind to join other people's power, and now he has no mind to join other people's power!

"Ha ha!"

Arthur listened to this answer, smiled and didn't care.

He had expected this and had a plan for it!
Immediately, he looked at Gromash with burning eyes, and said with a little deep meaning, "What if the price is to help you prolong your life, restore your youth, and restore your fighting power to the peak?"

"Um!?"

Gromash's heart skipped a beat, and he said with some doubts, "You mean... help me prolong my life and restore my youth? Restore my combat power at the peak?"

As a big pirate, Gromash, in his past adventures, has heard many legends about what treasure can restore youth, what surgery fruit can live forever, and what keel can make an elixir of life.

But in the past, he just regarded these as legends!

He'd never seen it, and never thought it was real!
After all, if there are really so many things like prolonging life and restoring youth, then the current overlords in the sea should be a bunch of old people, not like today, with the passage of time, generation after generation changing.

However, hearing what Arthur said now, he was a little unsure whether those legends were true or not!

Arthur's identity is the king of a kingdom!

And it's not the king of an ordinary kingdom, but the king of a superpower!

Could it be that the king of this kind of kingdom would be too idle to fool a retired big pirate like him?

"Yes, as long as you agree to join my kingdom and work for me, then I can promise to help you prolong your life, restore your youth, and restore your peak combat power!" Arthur said affirmatively.

Hearing Arthur's affirmative words, Grommash immediately put all his doubts behind him!

Arthur dared to say so with certainty, so the so-called prolonging life, restoring youth, and restoring combat power are all true in all likelihood!

For the king of such a big kingdom, there is absolutely no need to fool him!
Because of this, his heart couldn't help but be shaken!
Why did he retreat from the great channel and return to the West Sea to retire?
In addition to being wiped out by the navy, it is more because of the old age, the decline in combat power and physical strength, and there is not enough energy and time to rebuild the pirate group and fight with others!

So, with his savings, he returned to Xihai to retire!
But now, such an opportunity that can prolong his life, restore his youth, and restore his combat effectiveness is in front of him. It would be a lie to say that he is not tempted!

Human!
For things like longevity, there is an instinctive pursuit.

Who wouldn't want to live longer?

But after hesitating for a while, he still shook his head slowly and said, "It still doesn't work!"

"Why?" Arthur asked in surprise after hearing this sentence.

In his opinion, things like prolonging life and restoring youth should not be rejected by individuals, but Grommash's answer right now is really beyond his expectations!
"Why." Grommash pondered, slowly shook his head, and said, "I can't say exactly why! If I have to explain it, just assume that I have lived enough!"

"Have you lived enough!?" Arthur had a weird expression on his face when he heard the answer!
This was the first time he had heard that someone felt that they had lived enough!

"Yeah, enough is enough!" Grommash sighed and seemed to have figured something out.

He smiled and explained with relief, "In my life, I have experienced everything from struggling to survive as a child, to riding the wind and waves in my youth, to navigating the world in my prime of life, and then to the rapid decline in my old age!"

"Whether it's poverty or wealth, whether it's prosperity or adversity, in short, I have tasted most of the things in the world, so I don't have any regrets about my life, so it doesn't matter !"

Listening to Grommash's words, Arthur thought for a while, and probably understood why he said that!
A simple explanation is that when I am older, I have experienced enough things, so I want to open it!
However, Grommash thought about it, but Arthur felt a little bit pained!
What is the scariest thing about recruiting people?
It's because the recruited person has no desires or desires!
Once the recruited person has no desires or desires, it is basically impossible to recruit successfully!

After all, they have no desires or desires, so how could they be recruited?
Thinking of this, Arthur couldn't help thinking of some unconventional methods!

Or let Shaka modify his memory?

But as soon as this idea appeared, he immediately denied it!
This method is simple and effective, but he has already decided to use this method as little as possible unless necessary.

After all, this kind of method can be used for a while, but it must not work for a lifetime!

Besides, Grommash was once a peak lieutenant general!
With Shaka's current strength, if he wants to modify his words, it is basically impossible to succeed!
Thinking of this made Arthur's head hurt even more!

"What should I do?" Arthur murmured silently in his heart, and then began to recall the situation about Grommash in the materials, trying to find his weakness, and use this weakness to recruit him!

Don't say it!

Thinking about it so carefully, Arthur really thought of Grommash's weakness!
"Are you really indifferent?" Arthur asked a little more meaningfully after asking back, "Including the death of those brothers when they were defeated by the navy?"

Although Gromash said that it doesn't matter, and on the surface he also looked like he has no desires and desires, but after thinking about it carefully, Arthur felt that it is impossible for people to truly have no desires and desires!

The so-called no desire and no desire is nothing but based on the situation that you have or don't care anymore!
Just like Ma Ali who doesn't like money, and Liu Jingdong who doesn't know the beauty of his wife, if they are too poor to live happily and marry Sister Feng, can they still say those words?
The answer is obvious!
And the reason why Gromash can say so indifferent and seem so desireless is because he has basically experienced everything in life. In his opinion, even if his life is prolonged and his youth is restored, at most It's just going through the experience of the first half of his life again!

Therefore, he does not have such a strong desire to prolong life and restore youth, and he seems to have no desires!

Under such circumstances, if he wants to recruit him, Arthur knows that he must find what he cares about and desires in his heart, and stimulate it, so that he can be recruited!
As for what he cares about, what he longs for.
revenge!

After carefully recalling Gromash's life, Arthur discovered something that Gromash probably cared about.

That was the battle where he was ambushed and suppressed by the navy after the battle with Roger!
That time was the Waterloo of Gromash's life!

He lost his entire crew in one fight, buddy!
And as the saying goes, people are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless?

Although that battle couldn't say who was right and who was wrong, it just happened because of the position, but in that case, even a normal person would feel hatred for the Navy, let alone Gromash, who is bold and emphatic to love and righteousness. generation?
He would risk his life for the villagers in the place where he was born, let alone the crew members who followed him to take risks and fight together, partners?
Therefore, he must still be thinking about this matter in his heart, wanting revenge!

It's just that at the beginning he already felt his old age and knew that he was helpless, so he had to give up revenge and return to Xihai to retire!

the other side!
Grommash fell silent after listening to Arthur's words!
How could he forget that matter?

Although as a pirate, he had long been mentally prepared to be defeated by the navy, but when things came to an end, he couldn't accept it!

Especially seeing the crew members, each partner, spraying blood, screaming and falling down beside him, gradually disappearing, but he was entangled by the opponent's master again, unable to support the maddening sense of powerlessness , Heartache, he still can't forget it!

But so what?

He is old!

No time, no energy, no strength to take revenge!
"What exactly do you want?" After a long silence, Grommash slowly opened his mouth and asked in a hoarse voice.

"As long as you join St. Martin, I will not only help you regain your youth and prolong your life, but also help you avenge!" Arthur squinted and said,
Helping him avenge is nothing more than confronting the navy!
And St. Martin's road is destined to confront the world government, and it is also destined to confront the navy, so Arthur is very quick to say this sooner or later thing!
A struggling expression appeared on Grommash's face. After hesitating for a while, he said in a deep voice, "You can join St. Martin! But I won't help you with too many things in the future. At most, I will encounter some powerful enemies, or I will act only when the kingdom is in danger!"

"Usually, I don't want to pay attention to those trivial matters, especially those that involve wars with other kingdoms, and I don't want to participate!"

Having said that, he paused, changed his voice, and pondered, "As for helping me avenge you, no need! To put it bluntly, it was a matter of position. No one is right or wrong, so I don't want to get involved in more things now. People from St. Martin, or the Navy!"

"For the matter of revenge, I will go alone, and I will not implicate other navies. I will only target the navy that presided over that battle, the current admiral Sengoku!"

"Okay!" Arthur agreed directly.

Strong!

Of course, there must be important things, and only powerful enemies need to take action!

For ordinary trivial matters, as well as the kingdom's war, Arthur himself would not let a lieutenant-level powerhouse like Grommash take action. After all, he has so many soldiers under him, so he can't leave them alone, can he?
Then what are you keeping them for?
As for the matter of revenge, whether Grommash needs help or not, San Martin will face the navy sooner or later!
just
With Gromash's previous strength, even at his peak state, he might not be an opponent of the Warring States Period. If he is allowed to take revenge alone, it will not be revenge, but death!

Thinking about it, Arthur changed his voice and quickly added, "However, Warring States is now a general, and I heard that he will soon become a marshal. If you want revenge, it will definitely not work with your current strength. If you go, you will be sent to death!"

"So, I have agreed to all the other conditions, but I also have an additional condition regarding revenge!"

"What condition?" Grommash asked, frowning.

After an inexplicable light flashed in Arthur's eyes, he said, "When you regain your youth and strength, you must defeat the strong man in our kingdom, Yamamoto Motoyanagi Shigekuni, before you can take revenge!"

"Yes!" Grommash readily agreed!

He didn't know that with his promise, he directly stepped into a bottomless pit, and he might even have no chance to take revenge in this life!
"That's it!" Arthur smiled meaningfully.

"Then when will you help me regain my youth and strength!" Gromash asked impatiently.

After agreeing, Gromash wanted to quickly regain his youth, hurry up to train, and restore his original fighting strength, so that he could quickly seek revenge from the Warring States!

"This is not a simple matter, it will take some time, maybe a few months!" Arthur raised his eyebrows and said calmly.

The reason why it took several months was because Arthur didn't have a ready-made life-extending potion!

This thing is a rare item, basically as soon as it was drawn out, it was distributed by Arthur to the important and older ministers in the kingdom to prolong their lives, so there is no stock!
"I understand!" Gromash nodded, expressing his understanding!
As soon as Yanshou heard it, he knew it was not a simple matter, and he could understand it even if it took time!

"I'll arrange a place for you to live in later, you wait patiently, and I'll let you know when it's ready!" Arthur said seriously.

"Hmm!" Grommash nodded, then seemed to recall something, and said, "Your Majesty, can you arrange a tavern for me? I want to continue to open a tavern here!"

Having said that, Gromash paused, and added, "However, the location of the tavern doesn't have to be too good, just a little out of the way. I don't like too many pubs!"

"Okay! I'll let someone find you a remote place to open a tavern!" Arthur boldly agreed!
Since the other party has agreed to join St. Martin, there is no reason for Arthur not to agree to such a trivial matter!

(End of this chapter)