foreigner's journey

Chapter 99 Forced downgrade, negotiation

The vortex gradually began to stop and calm down, and the dark clouds stirring in the sky gradually dissipated.

The bright moonlight shone down, reflecting this sea area with a pale glow.

Under the moonlight, the skeleton version of Heather, with long black hair floating like seaweed in the water, stood on the king squid floating on the sea. The severely shrunk version of the sea monster twitched from time to time, and there were not a few remaining on his body. Perfect tentacles.

The Black Pearl discovered the situation here at the first time, and immediately drove towards Heather.

But at this time, Heather did not feel the joy of defeating the sea monster at all. Instead, he felt cold and fearful in his heart.

Heck!Can anyone explain to me why 'forced downgrade' can even force a species change?

No matter how big the North Sea Monster is, it is still an octopus. How could it become a squid after being downgraded?Although these two belong to the class of cephalopods, one is an eight-armed and the other is a squid, so there is no way to go together!
Thinking of the description of the 'forced downgrade' of [Light Egg] in myths and legends, [Hundred-eyed Demon] is downgraded to [Three-eyed Demon], these two cannot be regarded as the same species if they are carefully divided.The Hundred-eyed Demon is a multi-tentacled bizarre creature with a height of hundreds of meters and is covered with monster eyes, while the Three-eyed Demon is a huge mandrill with one more eyeball on its forehead.

Heather was sweating coldly on his forehead. Could it be that [Light Egg] thought that this creature 'should' be a downgraded version of that creature, and then reversed the creature's species?
Damn, if you put it this way, if you forcibly downgrade yourself after returning to Earth, will you turn yourself into a monkey or a baboon?
It was the first time that Heather used this 'forced demotion' ability, and it was only then that he felt that this thing was too weird.The results are uncontrollable and the cooling time is too long, so it is better to use less in the future.

In fact, Heather guessed right, the "forced downgrading" of [Light Egg] is actually using the "unreasonable weirdness" of the ability to directly convert the target species into another weaker species, rather than the genetic level operation that was previously guessed .

Every species in nature is a perfect existence that has survived countless survival of the fittest. Where does the so-called low-level version come from? When [Light Egg] casts 'Forced Demotion', it will greatly extract the user's mental energy and transform it into the target's body, turning it from the existence level into a version that [Light Egg] thinks is similar but weaker. It's kind of like a "request and development version" of 'unidentified objects'.

For example, [Hundred-eyed Demon] → [Three-eyed Demon], [North Sea Monster] → [Great King Squid], [Behemoth] → [Elephant], [Leviathan] → [Blue Whale]... If the sea After returning to the earth, Se really uses this ability on himself. Nine times out of ten, he will become a [baboon], [gorilla] and other existences. At that time, it is not certain whether he can continue to preserve the intellectual thinking and the ability of thinking as a human being. .

Moreover, this ability consumes astonishing energy, and the cooldown time is also outrageous. Heather decides to not use it in the future.

The Black Pearl soon sailed to the vicinity of Heather. Under the moonlight, both Barbossa and Jack looked like skeletons. Even Maria and Bonan, the boat cook, changed their forms with gold coins. [Curse Coin·Aztec Gold Coin] It is really interesting to use it to save the lives of ordinary people.

"My lord! Have you dealt with the northern sea monster?" Barbossa looked down at the railing on the edge of the deck, and found no trace of other sea beasts except the giant king squid.

Jack poked Barbossa: "Hector, that should be the North Sea Monster."

Um?The skeleton-like Barbossa almost glared the eyeballs in his sockets: "Are you blind, Jack Sparrow? This king squid is not even one-third as long as the tentacles of the North Sea Monster!"

Jack raised his hands in front of him and shook it vigorously, imitating the appearance of casting sorcery: "You forgot? The magical sorcery of the mentor?"

Barbossa was silent for a while. He thought that Heather was able to turn Aztec gold coins into his own. The king squid...is this really witchcraft?
Barbossa prefers to call it a "miracle".

On the sea below, Skeleton Heather pulled out his dagger, and a cold, smoldering fire ignited with a 'chi' on the blade, and then slammed it into the head of the king squid, stirring it back and forth.

The tentacles twitched violently at first, then gradually subsided.

After confirming that the king squid under his feet was indeed dead, Heather nimbly jumped onto the deck of the Black Pearl, squinting slightly to sense the direction of the 'gold coins': "Go southeast, they are fighting under the sea... um, here we go. "

The sea exploded in an instant, and the flying Dutchman broke through the waves. Davy Jones, who was standing beside the rudder, looked in the direction of the Black Pearl and shouted angrily, "Heather! What did you do to my baby!?"

Just now, he first sensed the shrill roar of the North Sea Giant Monster and panicked calls for help in his mind, and then he cut off contact.

Can someone really fight the North Sea monster with flesh and blood?Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Heather, with long black hair fluttering in all directions, stood on the edge of the deck of the Black Pearl and gave Davy Jones a slight salute: "Your pet is too presumptuous, so I gave it a little lesson, and look at Haihan."

Davy Jones saw with sharp eyes the corpse of the king squid sinking into the depths of the sea next to the Black Pearl. Although the appearance has changed completely, the tacit understanding over the centuries still makes him recognize at a glance that this is his pet and support - Beihai Giant monster!
"All stop!"

Davy Jones was silent for a while, and yelled at the sailors of both sides who were fighting on the deck below, then turned to look at Heather, and humiliated a word through his teeth: "...Negotiation (Parley)."

Without the North Sea Monster, I can't kill these skeleton sailors who are not afraid of death, not to mention the Black Pearl and the freak captain who are watching, [Flying Dutchman] For the first time in hundreds of years Planted a big somersault.

We can only hope for [Negotiation].

When the pirates were fighting, only the absolutely weak side would try to ask for [negotiation]. When they heard the word out of Davy Jones' mouth, the crew of the Black Pearl were all excited. Davy Jones really got beat by us! ?

Heather still did not remove the skeleton form, but stood on the edge of the deck with his arms folded, and asked without turning his head, "... Chief mate?"

Barbossa, who couldn't hold back the smile at the corner of his mouth, immediately bowed slightly to Heather's chest, and replied respectfully, "Sir, please order."

"Should I accept this gentleman's [negotiation]?"

Although Heather had no skin on his lips and only exposed his white teeth, he could still see a smile from the corner of his eyes.

"According to the provisions of the "Pirate Code", pirates are obliged to listen to the request of the negotiator. Of course, it is up to you whether to accept it or not." Barbossa immediately understood what Heather meant and replied quickly.

Jack held his orchid finger and added: "For reference, the "Pirate Code" can only be regarded as a reference. I think it is a better choice for us to directly sink this evil and dirty ghost ship... Of course, no one asked me. opinion, I mean to say."

Seeing Davy Jones' eyes that were almost bursting out with anger, Jack, who was planning to continue to confuse Heather, immediately persuaded and retreated to the position beside Maria.

"……All right."

Heather hooked a finger to Davy Jones and motioned him to bring the ship closer:

"Then next, Captain Davy Jones, whether you can leave this sea area alive depends on whether the 'conditions' you put forward satisfy me."

(End of this chapter)