novelraw Chapter 346: How to Recruit the Black Hunter?
Chapter 346: How to Recruit the Black Hunter?
How to Recruit the Black Hunter?
Marriage alliance? Madame Magic Bullet's sudden statement plunged the entire roundtable meeting into brief silence.
The Magic Bullet Family still favors marriage alliances... Disaster Messenger Rose, standing behind Oli, couldn't stop her lips from twitching.
The Magic Bullet Family was Moonstone City's largest family. Relying on the Witch Sea's famous A-tier 'Magic Bullet Disaster' dimensional rift and the Hammer Witch from two hundred years ago, they almost monopolized the firearms business of the entire coastal city.
The spiral bullets they produced even enabled first-tier Transcendents to possess the formidable power to kill third-tier Transcendents.
However, after the death of the previous family head, a Saint, twenty years ago, the Magic Bullet Family's situation took a sharp downturn. The legends they painstakingly cultivated were also mostly lost due to expeditions to the edge worlds.
Ever since Madame Magic Bullet Oli and Admiral White Seagull's child died, Madame Magic Bullet abandoned the radical family cultivation methods. In recent years, the Magic Bullet Family had been sending their children to study abroad in the Goldenfinch Kingdom and White Tower Federation.
However, this measure still hadn't alleviated the Magic Bullet Family's shortage of talent.
Despite the Magic Bullet Family's massive resource support, the legendary profession card Artillery Specialist was snatched away by the then-newcomer Big Mom Carol ten years ago.
Fortunately, the Magic Bullet Family had many members. Relying on the family's industries, they attracted many geniuses from the Witch Sea.Through marriage alliances, the Magic Bullet Family absorbed these geniuses, maintaining a large scale with many talents comparable to Supernovae.
However, most of these talents were in other coastal cities, protecting the Magic Bullet Family's influence. But now that Moonstone City's safety was threatened, Madame Magic Bullet was summoning them back.
Now, marriage alliance had become Madame Magic Bullet's most common trump card. For instance, An, discovered by Disaster Messenger Rose, had received multiple marriage alliance invitations from Madame Magic Bullet Oli, but all were rejected by Disaster Messenger Rose.
And during this unprecedented Dimensional Tide, the Magic Bullet Family was secretly plotting to advance to Saint-level, which required more legends and made them even more aggressive in marriage alliances.
But wasn't marrying the Black Hunter too outrageous? Disaster Messenger Rose internally screamed in complaint.
Even marrying someone as cute and unmarried as me would be better than marrying the Black Hunter! Disaster Messenger Rose couldn't help saying:
"Madame Oli, that's the Black Hunter! A terrifying Transcendent with tentacles, like a monster!"
Although currently, the Black Hunter is indeed an unignorable neutral force in the Rift Sea, we absolutely cannot overlook his uncontrollable nature.
A white-bearded merchant frowned:
"Yes, Madame Oli, this would come at the cost of your daughter's lifelong happiness."
Around the roundtable, everyone discussed animatedly, unanimously opposing the idea. They harbored an innate fear toward Transcendents with tentacles.
Madame Magic Bullet glanced around at everyone, took out a bullet, and tapped it on the roundtable:
"Do you know what kind of terrifying existence my fourth daughter's previous boyfriend was?"
Disaster Messenger Rose asked curiously:
"Could it be? Your fourth daughter's boyfriend was also a terrifying monster, an existence even more horrifying than the Black Hunter?"
Many legends would undergo drastic appearance changes after advancing, becoming terrifying monsters.
Before coming to the meeting, Disaster Messenger Rose had heard that Madame Magic Bullet had invited a terrifying existence to intervene in the Witch Sea war!
His power was sufficient to completely change the landscape of the Witch Sea!
"He came from the Goldenfinch Kingdom, possessing three reproductive organs, four genders, and five races."
The moment Madame Oli's words fell, the noisy meeting instantly fell silent.
Dya, standing beside Disaster Messenger, frowned:
"What does that mean?"
"Don't interrupt, I'm thinking."
Disaster Messenger Rose furrowed her brows, then nodded.
The humans of the Goldenfinch Kingdom were already beyond her comprehension.
Everyone looked at each other, suddenly feeling that marrying the Black Hunter might not be such an outrageous idea after all!
Madame Oli murmured:
"You know, my fourth daughter graduated from the Iris Academy in the Goldenfinch Kingdom. There, she learned broader cultures.
She gained more understanding about race and gender, and she's also a loyal fan of the Black Hunter... well, she's quite interested in his tentacles too..."
The Black Hunter has fans... Disaster Messenger Rose struggled to maintain a serious expression.
Under the newspaper's hype, the Black Hunter's reputation across the seas had become comparable to the former Seven Sea Pirate Generals.
"If you had met the boyfriend my daughter brought back, you would think the Black Hunter is just a bit more brutal. Even in fabricated newspapers like the Witch Times, at least the Black Hunter's gender is normal..."
Madame Magic Bullet Oli repeated helplessly yet calmly.
Madame Oli has lost her mind... Disaster Messenger Rose raised her hand, striving to steer the topic back on track:
Their main purpose today was to deal with the Black Blood Empire incident in the Rift Sea and the intelligence about the Witch's Coffin incident!
Disaster Messenger Rose continued:
"Everyone, as the Disaster Messenger, let me first report the intelligence I've observed.
Currently, ten B-tier dimensional rifts have appeared on the eastern side of the Rift Sea!
Besides that, massive sea beast tides have emerged. Just south of Moonstone City, there's been an outbreak of walking tentacle cats - these are terrifying deep-sea creatures where each individual possesses third-tier strength!
And their numbers have reached a shocking thousand, still continuously increasing!
Can you imagine the horrifying scene of your children being captured and entangled by tentacle cats?"
The appearance of the Fog Sea, Devil Island, and the Black Blood Empire, the movement of the Book Tower... all this indicates that an A-tier dimensional rift might, no, will definitely descend!"
A-tier dimensional rift... Expressions of both fear and delight appeared on everyone's faces. While frightened, their eyes also gleamed with desire.
A single A-tier dimensional rift could ensure a family's prosperity for a hundred years!
At the same time, only with the support of an A-tier dimensional rift could families like theirs produce Saints, or even more powerful existences.
Precisely because of this, only A-tier dimensional rifts were worth the Black Blood Empire and White Tower Federation crossing thousands of miles to interfere in Beiguo's seas.
Disaster Messenger Rose drank a glass of water and declared loudly:
"With the help of the Black Hunter and the Ice Demon Pirates, we successfully captured Devil Island, but that's far from enough.
Because, according to our informants, an A-tier dimensional rift has already appeared - deep in the Witch Sea, the residence of the Ice Witch, the coffin sealing the Ice Witch..."
The Ice Witch!
The dignitaries of Moonstone City at the roundtable all shuddered, the fear engraved in their bones being reawakened.
During the Dimensional Tide twenty years ago, the Deep-Sea Titan Disaster and the Deep-Sea Humanoid Monster Disaster were all resolved single-handedly by the Ice Witch!
However, while dealing with the deep-sea monsters, the Ice Witch also incidentally dealt with Moonstone City's families.
She could almost see herself twenty years ago, when she became an Artillery Specialist at the peak of her confidence.
Back then, she attempted to advance to become the Saint-level Magic Bullet Shooter through the A-tier dimensional rift during the tide.
She should have become a Saint, the Magic Bullet Family's once-in-a-century genius, creating a great family that controlled the entire coastline.
However, the moment she reached the A-tier dimensional rift, she saw a silhouette - that noble and beautiful figure standing on the reef, those pale blue hair dancing with the sea breeze like snowflakes, and those icy witch's eyes...
With just one glance back, she, who was attempting to embark on the Path to Sainthood, felt an eternal coldness.
Finally, she sank to the ocean floor like an ice sculpture.
If not for the young Admiral White Seagull fishing her out of the sea in despair...
In the previous era, the Ice Witch not only stopped the Blackfin Crew but also their great families of Moonstone City!
The Ice Witch prevented their Magic Bullet Family from exploring the Fog Sea and the Rift Sea, which also caused their Magic Bullet Family to gain nothing during the previous Dimensional Tide!
One could say that the current decline of Moonstone City's various great families was entirely because of the Ice Witch.
And her disciple the Flower Witch, an outsider from the Goldenfinch Kingdom, had also started interfering in Witch Sea affairs!
Everything was the Ice Witch's fault!
Madame Magic Bullet Oli's eyes gradually turned cold:
"But Admiral White Seagull..."
Disaster Messenger Rose frowned. Actually, she was also a believer of the Ice Witch.
Although the Ice Witch acted decisively, undoubtedly, she was the natural enemy of deep-sea monsters, the nightmare of the Blackfin Crew, and the person most likely to put the Black Hunter in his place!
Madame Magic Bullet Oli tapped the table:
"The Witch's Coffin must never be opened again. As for my husband, the factory has completed operations, new Magic Bullet weapons have been produced...
And because of the Black Blood Empire, Beiguo's imperial capital has decided to send a Saint-level powerhouse, a merchant who harvests soul coins, to resolve the Witch Sea matters within one month.
Soon, the order of the Witch Sea will return to Moonstone City!
And the Blackfin Crew will turn to dust!"
A powerhouse who harvests souls... Disaster Messenger Rose took a deep breath.
Everyone looked at each other, the unease in their hearts finally dissipating.
As long as a Saint descends, everything would be fine!
Madame Magic Bullet looked at the various merchants present:
"Everyone, you understand better than I do what an A-tier dimensional rift means? It means legendary profession cards, means gold mines as vast as mountains, means the prosperity and decline of families!
A single A-tier dimensional rift is like an endlessly prosperous city! Now, the Black Blood Empire is trying to seize territory that rightfully belongs to us for the sake of A-tier dimensional rifts!
We of Moonstone City absolutely cannot let them get away with this!"
Madame Magic Bullet Oli's tone grew increasingly impassioned:
As support, the Magic Bullet Family will provide all families present with the newest Magic Bullet weapons.
At the same time, to deal with the Black Blood Empire's invasion, Beiguo has ordered that you have the right to claim land in the Witch Sea!
Starting from the near-shore edges, whether it's dimensional rifts or islands, regardless of who previously owned these rifts and islands!
As long as you can land and ensure their safety! Then they become your land, and the debt collectors will protect you!"
The merchants exchanged glances, greed flashing in their eyes.
Not only providing support but also promising land and dimensional rift ownership!
This essentially meant having them, the merchants, join the war!
Among the merchants here were many representatives from great families of other major cities. If their resources combined, they could ignite a major war in the Witch Sea.
At the same time, there was a hidden concern - the alliance formed by the Black Hunter, the Witch, and the Ice Demon Pirates.
If the Ice Witch truly revived, given her personality, she wouldn't let them easily take over B-tier and above dimensional rifts.
A portly merchant straightened his beard:
"But what about the Black Hunter and the Ice Demon Pirates? If they open the Witch's Coffin and the Ice Witch revives..."
Someone must stop the Ice Demon Pirates and the Black Hunter.
Madame Magic Bullet Oli closed her eyes, pondered for a moment, then spun the bullet in her hand:
"We need a gentle approach to handle the Black Hunter. According to Witch Times' speculation, the Black Hunter might have been bewitched by the Flower Witch...
Transcendents like the Black Hunter, who are typical monsters, are what the Ice Witch detests most.
Madame Magic Bullet could even imagine the Black Hunter being whipped by the Ice Witch like a spinning top.
"Hmm, you mean..."
Disaster Messenger Rose understood - Madame Oli wanted to recruit the Black Hunter, making him betray the Flower Witch.
Once the Black Hunter joined them, the Flower Witch would instantly be isolated and helpless!
This wasn't an impossible thing, but who should be sent?
This person's transcendent level couldn't be legendary, because legends are important combat forces and too conspicuous.
Therefore, this person needed sufficient courage to face the Black Hunter, while preferably being familiar with the Black Hunter's personality and the Ice Demon Pirates.
Could it be mechanist Dya? Disaster Messenger Rose couldn't help but look toward Dya, who had previously battled fiercely with the Black Hunter.
Dya straightened his chest and back:
"In that battle, I almost won, but currently, there's still a significant gap between me and the Black Hunter."
As he spoke, Dya gestured with his fingers, the distance between his fingertips representing the gap between him and the Black Hunter.
As the Black Hunter's defeated opponent, mechanist Dya had once suffered great humiliation and was even stripped of his Supernova title.
But now it seemed Dya was worthy of the Supernova name, even promising to compete for a top three position among Supernovae!
Madame Oli shook her head and continued:
"Among us, there's the leader of the Twin Pillars of the Imperial Capital, who knows Captain Palu of the Ice Demon Pirates, a Transcendent of the Lamp Path..."
Madame Oli looked across the roundtable at Pelu, chief reporter of White Pigeon Press:
"Miss Pelu of White Pigeon Press, your reports have provided us with much intelligence. I will give you our Magic Bullet Family's newest forbidden relics, sufficient negotiation leverage.
I hope you can take the risk, go to the Rift Sea, and have a good talk with the Black Hunter and Captain Palu, showing our sincerity...
Pelu, who had been cracking melon seeds, froze for a moment and exclaimed in surprise:
"Me?"