The Witcher: Son of the Planes.

Red Shark - Captain's Cabin

As soon as he entered the captain's room, Jesse found a woman lying on the bed. He felt the scent of magic fluctuations on her body, but she was not Pugna, nor was she a professional. Then he looked at Francis and asked, "Who is she?"

Every day when he returned to the captain's room, Pugna would continue to use magic to hint at Francis. After this delay, Francis had somewhat sobered up, and he himself did not understand who this strange woman was.

However, having been in the high position for a long time, he confidently thought that one of his subordinates was preparing to secretly honor him and give him a big surprise, but they just hadn't had the chance to tell him yet.

Thinking of this, Francis naturally replied, "This is my woman. She got a little upset and fell asleep."

Jesse looked at Rose again and observed the captain's room, but did not find any other magical items. After hesitating for a moment, he did not ask anyone to wake Rose up. Soon he and his men returned to the fleet ship.

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Pugna thought he would need a small boat, but he found that Jesse and his friends came and left quickly. He only stayed under the water at the bottom of the boat for a short while before they left.

The Red Shark did not set sail immediately. Seeing the Fifth Fleet continue to sail south, Francis still followed the original goal and prepared to look for Armand from the Black Skull.

After waiting for the Fifth Fleet to go far away, Pugna activated the teleportation stone and returned to the captain's cabin.

After Francis arranged for the ship to sail, he returned to the captain's room. Before he could discover anything, he was controlled by Pugna's magic again and began to ignore Pugna and Rose in the room.

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Black Skull Pirates' New Base - Generous Island

Emerald Territory is located just west of the shipping routes between Oakland and Siena, while Bounty Island is located just east of the shipping routes.

Armand, who had been resting on the island for several days, had no idea that Francis the Red-beard had led a team to find him.

He was still thinking about which direction to go to rob a village.

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"Master, that's a ship from the Fifth Fleet. They're heading south and I don't know what they're going to do," said Bob.

Commander Hedram Bergs had already spotted Barto's ship, but because he was coming from the south to the north, he did not go forward to search, but continued to sail south in the direction of Siena Port.

"Yeah, it's a bit strange, but never mind. Just make sure he doesn't cause us any trouble," Barto said.

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In less than a day, Barto encountered the Red Shark.

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"Boss, there's a big fish ahead, five big merchant ships."

"Raise our flag," Francis ordered.

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Seeing the Red Shark not far away, Barto was a little scared. He really didn't want to fight with the pirates. There were some sailors on his ship who had seen blood, and the other four ships were just ordinary sailors. They might not win in a fight. The last time he encountered the Black Skull, if the navy hadn't arrived in time, who knows what the consequences would have been.

Barto thought of the old method again, spending money to avoid disaster.

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As the Red Shark approached, Barto arranged the sailors to be on high alert and ready to respond to emergencies at any time, while Bob took his men to deliver the money.

Fortunately, Barto made the right bet this time.

The Red Shark had something on its mind, and Pugna on the ship also had some ideas. Jesse led the team to chase south, and the Red Shark was also heading south. Seeing an opportunity to change ships, Pugna hinted to Francis not to kill indiscriminately and just collect the toll.

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Taking advantage of the opportunity when the two ships were close to each other, Pugna took Rose and successfully boarded Barto's ship.

Soon, he used the same trick again and controlled Barto. He intended to control Barto to go in a detour to the Azure Empire, but he remembered that it was inconsistent with the perception of most people on the ship. The ship was going to return to the Port of Oakland, which obviously did not conform to Pagna's idea. He also learned that Barto's ship was going to dock in the Emerald Territory in the west for a few days, so Pagna had a new idea.

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"Here we are, sir," said Bob.

Looking at the Emerald Territory in front of me, it is really changing with each passing day. The port's dock has been expanded a lot, and there are many more ships coming and going than last time.

After getting off the ship, Barto took some rare items from the port of Siena and prepared to find Gandalf to reminisce about the past. However, a voice in his heart kept telling him that two friends wanted to live in the Emerald Territory for some time and leave when he went back next time.

The soldiers on the island didn't care and followed Pugna and Rose, who followed Barto, thinking they were coming down together.

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Soon, Barto met Gandalf. Gandalf was still as bad-tempered as before and was unwilling to talk to Barto. However, one of the rare items Barto brought was actually a magic item. Gandalf's face immediately looked much better and he looked at Barto more favorably.

"Lord Gandalf, I have two friends who saw that your island has a nice environment and want to live here for a while. I will take them with me next time I come."

Gandalf agreed without paying any attention and ordered: "Arrange the guests brought by Baltor to stay in the Giant Wood Village for a while."

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After completing the implied task, Barto and Bob stayed for one night and then left.

With the help of Barto's cover, Pugna and Rose successfully settled down in Giant Tree Village as guests.

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The environment in the Emerald Territory, just as Barto's excuse, is indeed good, and life is relatively comfortable. Moreover, seeing that there are many slaves here, it would not matter if one or two are missing, and it should be safe for a short time. Pugna had the idea of ​​staying there for a while.

According to what Pugna said in Giantwood Village, Rose was his own niece, and this time she was traveling with him. Most of the people in Giantwood Village were slaves, so he didn't dare to ask more.

Pugna has always had an idea to train an assistant to help him complete some necromancy experiments.

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Gradually, the number of missing slaves in Giant Wood Village began to decrease. At first, it was just a few slaves, but later the number of missing slaves rose to tens of digits, which immediately attracted the attention of the Emerald Castle.

After more than half a year of comfortable life, the Emerald Lord did not take it too seriously. He thought that the slaves were eaten by some monsters after entering the forest, so he just casually assigned them to the scout team for investigation. Captain Joshua of the scout team questioned many slaves, but no one found out the reason. In desperation, Joshua verbally asked everyone to try not to enter the forest alone and to pay attention to their own safety, then he left.

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Rose has regained her consciousness and Pugna is no longer controlling her with magic.

At first, Pugna was a little worried that Rose would resist and didn't want to learn necromancy. Unexpectedly, when Rose heard that she could become a professional and master extraordinary powers, she agreed without hesitation and didn't even listen to Pugna's nonsense about it being banned on the continent and hated by everyone.

Rose studied very hard, she wanted to master magic as soon as possible and seek revenge on Armand, but since she was past the best age for learning, although she had a good affinity with the dark attribute, she had never been able to get started.

Pugna was not in a hurry. As long as Rose studied hard, she would get it sooner or later. He and Rose had always addressed each other as uncle and niece. The more they addressed each other, the more natural it became.

Pugna's experiment went smoothly. Dozens of slave experimental subjects gave him a lot of inspiration, but these slaves were ordinary people, and no matter how smoothly the research went, it was basically over.

By chance, John's tomb was discovered.