Treasure Hunting System： The Ocean Conquerer-Chapter 537 - 262: Twin of Fear_2

Chapter 537: Chapter 262: Twin of Fear_2
At this moment on the deck, some Puppet Girls could be seen sparring with each other.
As soon as Balazs came up, he saw these Puppet Girls, but fortunately, he had already seen them several times on the island, so he wasn’t too surprised.
It was just that the number of Puppet Girls on the ship left him a bit astonished.
"So you have this many little girls on your ship? What race are they, a unique race from the Four Divine Seas? Honestly, I haven’t seen them around here before."
Balazs asked with curiosity.
After all, he was a merchant who’d been wandering far and wide for over a decade; he wouldn’t claim to have seen all the races in the Endless Sea, but he had at least seen or heard of most of them.
He had never known there was a race like this here, only 30 centimeters tall, and all of them little girls.
This made him rather curious.
"They are Puppet Girls." Alka replied simply, without further explanation.
Balazs nodded and didn’t press for more.
A few winged Puppet Girls flew out of the dining room carrying a rack.
"There are even ones that can fly?"
Balazs couldn’t help saying, admitting this was a change he hadn’t expected.
Then, behind the Puppet Girls, it seemed Juanlu came out carrying some ingredients.
He greeted Alka, then looked toward Balazs beside him.
They had met a few times on the island too, so he nodded politely.
Alka led Balazs to the captain’s cabin, where they sat at the big round table.
They each took out their own portion of the Human Skin Map and pieced them together.
"Let’s each trace a copy of the map, and keep our original half." Alka said.
Balazs nodded.
The tracing went quickly; after all, the map was just some lines.
"Now, how much do you know about that pirate? And which island does this map point to?"
Upon hearing Alka’s question, Balazs didn’t dally; he directly began to share the information he knew.
"This pirate was executed twenty years ago. People called him ’Piranha’—Klian. He was a Fourth Stage Treasure Controller, leading a Pirate Gang known as ’Bloody Bite.’"
"His usual tactics involved disguised ambushes, and since he frequently used stolen ships, he always managed to succeed. He never stuck with any one ship for long.
Some pirates who followed him said that each time he seized a better ship, he’d destroy the previous one so people wouldn’t recognize him.
Then he’d force some of the crew and sailors to join him, disguise themselves as the seized ship, then use it to attack teams familiar with that ship."
Listening to Balazs, Alka was already forming a picture in his mind of a cruel, cautious, yet extremely despicable person.
"How did he end up being captured in the end?"
Alka was curious—how was such a cautious person finally caught and executed?
"Back then, the young King was out on an expedition. Klian attacked one of the King’s ships, and the King’s younger sister was on board."
Got it—he messed with someone he really shouldn’t have.
"So not long after, he was captured alive in an ambush and escorted to Rates for beheading."
Alka nodded and leaned back in his chair.
After digesting the information, he asked, "So do you have any information about his Treasure? And is there anywhere he’s most likely to have hidden it?"
"According to some pirates and enemies who once fought alongside or against him,
during battles, two orbs would appear around him, bringing fear to his enemies. His companions fighting alongside him were always fearless and brave, unafraid of death."
"That’s all the information I have. After all, this was twenty years ago, and what I know comes from finding people who lived through that era and collecting their memories."
After finishing, Balazs took out a nautical chart.
Seeing it, Alka immediately sat up straight—not expecting that even the Endless Sea had nautical charts?
But upon taking a closer look, it was no chart at all, just several unusual dots marked on the paper.
They were connected by lines.
What does this diagram mean?
"What’s this?"
"This is a map of the Endless Sea. Although the sea and islands here are always changing, the islands around the target island at least still have connections."
While explaining, he pointed at the chart and explained to Alka why it was called a map.
On the map was the label: Broken Sea Region.
After his explanation, Alka understood simply.
In other words, the large dot in the center represents Southern Cross Island, and all the lines going outward to smaller dots represent islands connected to Southern Cross Island.
The relative distance of the far-off dots from the island may change, but the order of closeness to Southern Cross Island does not.
The range of distances also does not change much, even though it fluctuates.
Next to each island was some data—roughly indicating when the island would depart and when it would reconnect.
From this data, Alka learned—
The closer the island is to Southern Cross Island, the less time it spends detached from Southern Cross Island’s chain of islands.
Especially for those two islands not far from Southern Cross Island—they would be gone for no more than ten nights out of every one hundred.
The rest of the time they remained firmly bound nearby.
For the distant ones, it might only be ten nights out of one hundred that they’d return.