Why are they fixated on us?
Moreover, this narrow mountain valley is an extremely secretive place, so how were we exposed?
In a flash, a spark of inspiration crossed Blackbeard's mind!
It was those white seagulls!
But at that moment, he suddenly saw an iron fist, glittering with silver light, appear in front of his stomach.
Blackbeard's eyes bulged out, nearly popping out of their sockets, as a bulge suddenly appeared on his back. His entire body was lifted half a meter off the ground by the force of the punch.
The next second, he was on his knees, clutching his stomach, collapsed on the ground.
Half a minute later, including the man with the scarred face, there wasn't a single pirate left standing.
Rein, following old routines, picked two pirates who were relatively strong and kept them alive to interrogate separately.
"Which pirate crew do you belong to?"
"The Clark Pirate Group."
"Where's your base, or rather, your lair?"
"That...." Blackbeard's eyes flickered as he hesitated whether to speak or not. He wondered if he should use this information to negotiate with the stranger in front of him for the condition of letting him live.
"Too bad...you've made the wrong decision." Rein glanced over, shook his head, and with a punch to the forehead, turned and walked away.
Scarface, on the other hand, had never seen an interrogation like Rein's, where he hardly gave any time to think.
Seeing Rein approaching him, he frantically waved his hands and said:
"No, no... I'll talk. Our base is on Egwass Island."
"What about the base of the Sea God Sect?"
"Sea God Sect? I really don't know about that. Maybe our captain does."
"And what about the bases of other pirate crews?"
"That... I'm not too clear on that."
Goodbye? Am I going to survive?
Relief spread across Scarface's expression.
This was truly a stroke of luck from the jaws of death!
But before he could fully blossom into a smile, Rein, who had just said goodbye, suddenly threw a punch as swift as lightning and then leapt onto the Black Pearl.
And the next second, a "thud!" like the sound of a watermelon violently smashed with a bat rang out!
While riding forward, Rein glanced at the system prompt:
[Your skill Tokadar Fist Technique has improved, Experience +121]
[You have gone through a battle, Knight (Transcendent) Experience +42]
Seeing Kadar Martial Arts reach lv5 (325/2000), progress hitting one-seventh, Rein nodded slightly to himself.
Indeed, even the leg of a mosquito is meat!
This made him look forward with a slight anticipation to the pirates at the next point, hopefully, they would be a bit stronger.
Fifteen minutes later, the second point was cleared...
Twenty-eight minutes later, the third point was cleared...
Kadar Martial Arts reached lv5 (587/2000), the progress now over one-quarter, and now it was time for the last point.
At the side of the Special Forces carriage.
A white seagull quickly descended and circled around Vinica before heading off once more.
This was just one of the white seagulls responsible for continuously conveying messages.
Seeing Vinica's dazed expression, Mary asked, "What's wrong? Is there a problem on Rein's end?"
"No, it's just going too smoothly."
"Lord Rein has barely stopped, now he's already en route to the fourth point. Judging by his speed, I estimate that it'll take at most fifty minutes to wrap this up if he keeps going ."
"Such exaggerated strength... He truly lives up to being the top of this year's Mingster Province knighthood evaluation!" The girl's twin ponytails bounced as she turned her head to speak to Mary.
The Cavalry nearby exchanged glances, evidently quite amazed.
It looked like they were probably here just to be onlookers on this mission...
At that moment, a white seagull swooped down from the sky and circled around Rein.
Rein quickly received the message it conveyed: "Enemy... many... one man in black..."
Rein thought for a moment but didn't pay it much mind.
For the white seagull, there was no distinction between a dozen and twenty, hence both scenarios were labeled as many—a limitation of its cognitive capacity.
This made Rein pause because it was the first time such 'accurate' information had come through the white seagull.
It seemed this man in black must be somewhat special.
A heightened sense of alertness emerged within Rein's heart.
When Rein arrived near the fourth point, he saw a group of brawny men dressed as pirates bidding farewell to a man in a black robe.
Clearly, the man in black mentioned in the seagull's mental fragment was this man in the black robe!
Rein immediately focused his attention on the man in the black robe.
The man was muscular and robed in black, hooded, and had his hands crossed inside his sleeves, though it seemed like he was concealing something else inside, his billowing sleeves bulged out.
The moment Rein laid eyes on this black-robed figure...
He felt that the man was not simple.
As the man lifted his head, revealing golden eyes beaming with hostility...
Rein's danger perception immediately began to send warnings.
This intensity of warning...
Nearly a Great Knight?
This caused Rein's heart to momentarily grow cold.
"Captain Jeff, it looks like a little trouble has come knocking. Do you need my assistance to deal with it?" the man in the black robe asked, his voice strange and deep.
"Well... if the envoy is interested, that would be ideal," Jeff, the brawny man, glanced at Rein, knowing he would not be easy to deal with.
Riding in knightly plate armor, mounted on what seemed to be a heavy warhorse, clearly, he was a veteran knight, or even a Peak Knight.