Chapter 120: The Skeleton Boss's Pride?

"No! I surrender..."

Pfft!

Seeing the cold light wrapped in red battle qi rushing to strike him, the Skeleton Boss's eyes flashed with fear as he sought mercy.

Unfortunately, before he could finish speaking, the long sword had already struck his ribs with speed, precision, and ruthlessness.

The Skeleton Boss let out a wail of agony and collapsed to the ground.

Huh!

"L-Lord!"

The pirates all froze, their faces turning deathly pale with fright.

Seeing this, Gervas knew the matter was settled for today.

"The Skeleton Boss has been executed; any remaining pirates who surrender will not be killed!"

"Those who surrender will not be killed!" the guards immediately echoed.

The pirates, trembling with fear, immediately dropped their weapons and fell to their knees with a thud, thud.

"We surrender, my lord Commander, do not kill us!"

What followed was very simple.

The guards bound the bandits tightly and then dragged the Skeleton Boss, who was barely breathing, before Gervas.

However, Gervas did not attend to these bandits for the moment; instead, he went to the village square.

At this moment, the villagers of Easter Island looked ashen, heads bowed and trembling.

"All of you, raise your heads!"

Gervas shouted coldly.

The villagers did not understand, but they raised their heads anyway, trembling.

However, upon seeing Gervas's face clearly, the village head and several village representatives cried out in shock, "The Lord of Storms?!"

"It seems you remember me? Then you should also remember the letter I wrote to you?" Gervas sneered.

"Spare us! Noble lord, spare us! We did not mean to offend you!"

The villagers immediately knocked their heads against the ground with loud thuds.

At this moment, the intestines of all the villagers were already turned green with regret.

A few days ago, this noble lord had sent them a recruitment letter, but under the village head's suggestion, they had refused it.

If they had not refused back then, perhaps today's events would not have happened.

First, they were attacked by pirates, and then they fell into the hands of this noble lord.

They knew that whether they fell into the hands of pirates or into the hands of this noble lord, their fate would likely be no better.

Thus, all the villagers could do was keep bowing their heads and begging for mercy.

"Noble lord, spare us; noble lord, show mercy."

"Pah! You lowly fugitives! A few days ago, my lord mercifully recruited you, yet you showed no gratitude and even dared to offend!"

"Now you know how to beg for mercy? Dream on!"

Knight Mi Gen and the others showed no favorable expression upon seeing these serfs beg for mercy.

After all, a few days ago, these fellows had offended their own lord's goodwill, which had made them seethe with anger.

"Are you not the Kingdom's army?"

At this moment, the weak Skeleton Boss caught his breath and looked at Gervas with a questioning tone.

"Let me introduce myself: Gervas Gale, Lord of Storms!" Gervas turned his head with a smile.

"Despicable noble!" The Skeleton Boss ground his teeth in anger.

"Skeleton Boss, even if I am not the Kingdom's army, do you not think you can change this outcome?"

"Hmph! If my subordinates had not been frightened by the reputation of the Kingdom's army, they could have torn a piece of flesh from your 'body'!" The Skeleton Boss was seething with hatred.

His hundred subordinates were not weak in combat power, yet they had been deceived by the opponent and surrendered directly.

Otherwise, even in death, they could have taken several with them as a sacrifice.

"Then I can only say you are too stupid!" Gervas sneered.

He had previously noticed that these pirates had misunderstood, so he simply played along with their deception.

Otherwise, these pirates, more ferocious than the Scorpion bandits, would certainly have caused significant casualties among his subordinates.

Unlike now, where not a single person was lost, and all these pirates were captured.

However, just as Gervas was thinking this, the Skeleton Boss suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha! Noble, do you think you have won? No, I tell you, this battle is still won by me, the Skeleton Boss!"

And this Skeleton Boss did not leave Gervas puzzled for long.

He paused and continued, "You can send someone to check if the Sea God Stone on that warship is still there!"

Gervas's expression changed, revealing solemnity, and he immediately waved to Evelelan in the air.

Soon, Evelelan returned, "My lord, Captain Jack says the Sea God Stone on the pirate ship is missing!"

"Hahaha!"

The Skeleton Boss laughed loudly again.

Clearly, the Sea Ship Stone had been hidden by the Skeleton Boss.

Actually, this was normal procedure.

To prevent subordinates from betraying and stealing the sea ship, the Scorpion Boss would always take the Sea God Stone with him when disembarking.

In this way, even if the subordinates truly sailed away with the sea ship, they would certainly perish in the fish's belly.

Seeing this, Lei Meng immediately stepped forward, kicked the Skeleton Boss over, and then began to search his body.

However, after feeling around for a moment, Lei Meng stood up with a grim expression and shook his head at Gervas.

"Haha, it's useless, noble. Knowing an attack was coming, I hid the Sea God Stone!"

"Besides, don't think you can make me hand over the Sea God Stone. I'm not going to survive anyway. I'll take the Sea God Stone to the grave with me, so you can never get it, hahaha!"

The Skeleton Boss's pride was at its peak, venting all the anger from being deceived by this noble just now.

However, just as the Skeleton Boss was gloating, a knight hurriedly arrived beside Gervas and whispered a few words into Gervas's ear.

Gervas was stunned for a moment; his originally grim expression vanished, and a smile curled his lips.

Now it was the Skeleton Boss's turn to be stunned, but in an instant he showed disdain again. "Hmph, cunning noble, don't try to trick me with schemes again. I won't fall for it!"

"The Sea God Stone of our Skeleton Ship is a standard Kingdom Navy Sea God Stone, specially disguised to look like an ordinary rock. Except for me, you absolutely cannot find it!"

"Of course, unless you gather every single rock on the entire island to verify them, hahaha!"

"Is that so?"

But contrary to the Skeleton Boss's expectations, Gervas was not panicked at all.

At this moment, four guards hurriedly arrived, followed by a fugitive dressed in rags.

"N-noble lord, this is the Sea God Stone I found! I was just hiding in the woods and happened to see the Skeleton Boss throw the rock there!"

Speaking thus, the fugitive lowered his head and held a rock the size of two fists above his head with both hands.

And the moment the Skeleton Boss saw this rock, his expression changed drastically.

Although it was quickly concealed, Gervas already knew the result.

Having Lei Meng take the Sea God Stone, Gervas stood up, approached the Skeleton Boss, and then grabbed the other's collar by the fist, lifting him up.

"W-what do you want to do?" The Skeleton Boss was terrified by Gervas's cold gaze.

"Do you know? Few people can make me this angry. You are the first!" Gervas said coldly.

"I..."

Thud!

"Threatening me, are you!"

Thud!

"Only you can find the Sea God Stone, is that it?"

Thud!

"Refusing to yield even in the face of death, are you?"

Thud thud thud!

"Wanting to prevent me from getting the warship, are you?"

Thud thud thud!

"So ugly, yet so much trouble, are you?"

Skeleton Boss: "???"

Thud thud thud...