Chapter 717: 709 Chapter 717: 709 Boom! Boom! Boom!

With the ground trembling and mountains collapsing, a behemoth as tall as a kilometer dashed across the land shrouded in grey fog and stuck in perpetual night in Obisto, chasing a swiftly moving golden rainbow.

Every step of the giant caused violent tremors of the earth. Each step imprinted on the ground would create visible shock ripples. Any skeletons that crawled out of the ground due to a disaster would be shattered to debris, and any self-aware undead would run for their lives at the arrival of this Skeleton Titan.

“Little one, running without giving a fight, where does that put your inherited Titan and Golden Dragon bloodlines?” Barbossa, able to stride for thousands of meters with each step, shouted loudly to Mureya, who was madly fleeing in front of him, “Aren’t you afraid of tarnishing the reputation of these two great bloodlines, and then earning the displeasure of your elders?”

“Are you out of your mind?” Mureya, who has not been able to break through space to escape, turned her head to swear, “Whose elders would require their younger generation to fight enemies seven ranks higher at the legendary level? This is not a battle, this is simply suicide!”

It is true that the Titan Tribe love to fight being out-ranked. However, even for the Titans, it was outrageous to fight a legendary being seven ranks higher.

Facing off against a legend seven ranks higher than their own without retreating is not bravery, it’s stupidity. There was no such fool among the Titans, and this behavior was also not encouraged.

The Titans were small in numbers, to begin with. If they were reckless enough to fight anyone who crossed their path, the Titan tribe would be extinct by now. In fact, the Titans’ inheritance included many techniques of running and surviving, which were everywhere to improve the survivability of underage Titans.

“You stop! I’ll suppress my power to fight you. If you win, I’ll let you go. If you lose, return everything you’ve stolen from me.” Barbossa attempted to trick Mureya into stopping. In this state, he really couldn’t catch Mureya. He felt like a fool trying to catch the wind, catch thunder. But that was the feeling Mureya gave him, like wind and thunder.

“Undo your current state first!” Mureya would not be fooled so easily. Only a fool would trust the words of an evil Great Lich. Now, all she wanted to do was stay away from Barbossa and shake off the spatial confinement that emanated from him. This way, she could easily return to Xena Pus.

“Wait for me!” Barbossa would never listen to Mureya. He has figured it out. The little one he was chasing was a rascal just as tricky as a ghost, completely shameless. Anyone who would trust her words should be ready to be tricked until not even their skeleton remains!

“I don’t believe I can’t stop you.” Barbossa persisted with gritted teeth. He wasn’t the only one chasing Mureya, he also controlled his own fleet through spiritual connection to surround Mureya.

After all, Mureya’s escape route was too easy to predict. Whether he went left or right, his ultimate goal was Xena Pus, which hovered in the air. Barbossa already knew the location of Xena Pus, he only needed to block the route by dispersing one ghost ship after another.

“Do you think that just because you have subordinates, I do not?” After blowing up a ghost ship that was blocking her path for the ninth time, Mureya realized Barbossa had begun to summon his forces to surround her. But Mureya had already called on Xena Pus’ giant army, as well as the legends and the Great Liches she had tamed, to come to her aid. It was a battle of forces now.

Barbossa’s original forces were quite strong, but after Mureya’s devastation, five of his legendary subordinates were suppressed by Mureya, and many others were badly defeated.

So, while Barbossa had a large number of ghost fleets, there was a lack of legends among them. The legends summoned by Mureya for assistance often managed to fight two against one without too much pressure, they were even quite relaxed.

After breaking through multiple blockades and a day and night of pursuit, Mureya finally laid her eyes on Xena Pus within reach.

“Hahaha,” Mureya stepped onto a ghost ship blocking her path and broke into the veiled area of Xena Pus. She then turned around, looking very smugly at Barbossa.

“Dear undead captain, I am home. Thank you for ‘escorting’ me for so long,” Mureya stood at the entrance and looked at the many ghost ships circling around her, her face showed no fear at all, “Care to come in for a sit?”

Mureya shifted her body slightly to the side and made an inviting gesture with no fear on her face, only with a playful smile. She dared to bet that Barbossa wouldn’t dare to enter Xena Pus right now, each Great Lich was more afraid of death than the next. Of course, even if Barbossa really dared to bet, Mureya wouldn’t back down. The Wind King Hawk had just been startled and was probably not yet asleep.

“A bunch of useless things.” Barbossa, transformed into a giant Skeleton Titan of a kilometer, looked at his subordinates with resentment. They were utterly useless. If they had been able to stop Mureya during the chase, he could have taken the initiative. He wouldn’t be able to kill her, but using it as a bargaining chip to coerce Mureya into returning his stolen den would have been easy.

“Child of Titan and Dragon, let’s have a good chat!” Seeing Mureya’s inviting gesture, Barbossa felt somewhat helpless. He undid his strongest form, his terrifying kilometer-high skeletal form instantly collapsed and reformed into the appearance of the pirate captain.

“We have nothing to talk about.” Mureya denied without a second thought, “If you have nothing else to do, please leave! It’s better the further you go, don’t show up in my area, seeing you is annoying. It’s best if we meet again in five hundred years, at that time I will come to you.”

Hearing that Muria would come to find him after five hundred years, the soul fire in Barbossa’s eyes flickered fiercely a few times. He knew that he was now resented by the little guy in front of him, but he was helpless because he couldn’t kill him.

Furthermore, who could predict what would happen in five hundred years? However, this little fellow might possibly ascend to the Legendary Peak after five hundred years. At that time, if he troubled him, it would be a very thorny issue.

“Little fellow, the things you took from me are of no use to you. If you give them back to me, I can give you enough materials in exchange,” Barbossa tried to tempt him. As a Great Lich with ten thousand years of life experience, he knew how to deal with a dragon and eliminate its hostility towards him.

Although Muria had emptied out his lair, the truly valuable items were on his person, and many of the items couldn’t be moved.

“Who says it’s useless to me? Each Ghost Ship is quite useful to me,” Muria said confidently.

“You’re a Titan from the Order Faction and a Golden Dragon, a symbol of goodness. How could you use a Ghost Ship?” Barbossa expressed with heartfelt sorrow.

“Why can’t I use it? This toy comes in handy as cannon fodder and a meat shield. Don’t you think it’s great? The Ghost Ships that you created are especially resilient and its regenerative abilities are beyond words,”
Upon hearing this, Barbossa realized that there was no way he would get back the Ghost Ships that were stolen from him. However, the Ghost Ships weren’t of great importance, but his lair was.

“All right, you can keep the Ghost Ships if you want, but give me my lair back. It’s of no use to you,”
“No.” Muria flatly refused,
“It’s not as precious as you think, it’s just waste in your hands,” Barbossa pleaded earnestly, “There’s no treasure in it that you’d want, and you haven’t yet broken the defence array that I set up, so give it back to me! I can give you unimaginable resources in return.”

“If you say it’s not that precious, then why do you want to exchange it back?” Muria wouldn’t get tricked by his few simple words. But indeed, as he mentioned, the progress of breaking Barbossa’s lair’s magic array was worrisome. Even Xena Pus was completely unable to break it, let alone Muria.

“I’ll tell you the truth, what you stole is a Ghost Shipyard with a complete Ghost Ship production line, but you need relevant knowledge to operate it, and you haven’t mastered that knowledge. Additionally, you don’t have the raw materials to build the Ghost Ships, only I have those. The shipyard in your hands is just a pile of scrap metal, but it’s a different story if it’s in my hands.”

“If so, for justice’s sake, I shouldn’t return it to you. If I give you back the Ghost Shipyard, you may cause greater harm to the world.” Muria continued to refuse righteously.

“I’m just trying to prevent my unique skill from being leaked out. Besides, other than the last order issued by the council and the recent catastrophe, when have I ever surfaced? Usually, I suppress the undeads in the Undead Dungeon. If you don’t believe me, you can check. The number of undead I’ve killed far outnumbers the humans.”

Barbossa suppressed his desire to act, refusing to believe the righteousness spouted by the guy in front of him, whose skin was as thick as a city wall? This guy was a hypocrite who appeared kind but had a black heart.

“You may leave, there’s no possibility of any deal!”

Being rejected once again made Barbossa very angry, but after taking a look at the giants and dragons behind Muria, Barbossa instantly understood.

“I have the coordinates of a mineral world, a world composed of various metal ores. If you give me back the shipyard, I’ll give you this world.”

The tempting voice echoed in Muria’s ears. This time, only Muria heard this voice. Along with the Soul Sound, some simple and vague information about this world came. It included its area, as well as a statistics table of the explored resources. These made golden light shine in Muria’s eyes.

“Not enough, far from enough. For a world like this, give me at least ten. Otherwise, don’t even think about getting your shipyard back.” Muria, who knew the skills of negotiation well, immediately set a high price.

“Don’t even think about it. Where would I get so many resource worlds from? Do you think such worlds are plentiful in our World Community?” Barbossa angrily denied.

“I believe you have plenty.”

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