Chapter 100

Bai Cangdong looked at Captain Jin with doubt. He knew that the components of the Jade Armor Set had the description "can ward off all evils," but he didn't know what the actual use of this feature was.

"Do you still remember that white bone turtle?" Captain Jin, seeing the expressions on Bai Cangdong and the others, knew they had no idea about the use of warding off evil.

Bai Cangdong nodded, and Captain Jin continued, "The white bone turtle is the lowest rank of the undead in the White Bone Sea. There are many higher-ranking undead in the White Bone Sea, including viscount and even count-level undead. The count-level undead in that area have a special ability called 'curse.' Warding off evil can immunize against the curse ability. In the White Bone Sea, any armed equipment with the warding off evil feature can be several times more expensive than ordinary equipment of the same rank. Each component of the Jade Armor Set has the warding off evil feature, so the entire set must have a very high chance of resisting the curse ability. With such a set, plus your weapon, and the improvement of your innate divine light is just a matter of time. After recruiting a batch of knights, you will have a good chance of slaying a count-level undead in the White Bone Sea and advancing to the rank of count."

Bai Cangdong was happy, but he didn't let Captain Jin's words cloud his judgment: "We'll talk about recruiting knights later. Let's deal with your pirates first."

Captain Jin's face turned a bit dark. Not long ago, he was the respected Captain Jin, but now he had become a knight for someone else, and even a viscount's knight. This made it hard for him to face his subordinates.

After searching for a long time without finding Captain Jin, the sky had already darkened, and the fog was about to rise. The four knights had no choice but to return to the ship with the pirates, their hearts filled with unease.

"What's going on? If the captain was killed, we should be dead by now. If he was captured by some count, he should have returned by now. It's been so long, and there's still no sign of him. Could that count have taken the captain away from Devil Island?" One of the four knights said, his mind in turmoil.

The other knights were about to say something when they suddenly heard someone shouting outside, "The captain is back, the captain is back."

The four knights quickly rushed out of the cabin and ran to the deck. Sure enough, they saw Captain Jin returning with three people, none of whom were strangers to them.

"Captain, you..." The four knights were surprised to see Bai Cangdong and the others. They had originally thought Captain Jin had been captured by a count, but now they saw Bai Cangdong and the others with Captain Jin.

"Let's talk inside the cabin." Captain Jin stopped the four knights and led them and Bai Cangdong into the cabin.

"From now on, he is our master." After closing the cabin door, Captain Jin solemnly pointed to Bai Cangdong and said to the four knights.

"Captain, what's going on? How could you..."

"There's nothing to explain. You should know that I have become a knight for someone else. His identity and background cannot be revealed to you for now. You only need to know that he is now the master of Devil Island and will soon advance to the rank of count." Captain Jin didn't dare to reveal Bai Cangdong's true situation to the four knights, just to keep them in line for now.

The four knights were indeed intimidated. The master of Devil Island and the prospect of soon advancing to the rank of count were very intimidating, especially when said by Captain Jin. Even if they had any doubts, they didn't dare to voice them, knowing that the two people in front of them could end their lives in an instant.

"These are my four knights: the Sea Horse Knight, the Sea Elephant Knight, the Sea Dog Knight, and the Sea Bird Knight." Captain Jin introduced the four knights to Bai Cangdong.

"Their knight titles are quite unique," Bai Cangdong smiled.

"Titles like Sea Lion, Seal, and Sea Snake have already been used by others. If they used those, they would be easily confused and might offend others, so they had to use these titles." Captain Jin explained and then shouted to the four knights, "You four, come and pay your respects to the island lord."

The four knights had no choice but to go forward and pay their respects to Bai Cangdong, who accepted their salute calmly, knowing that the distinction between lord and vassal must be clear.

With Captain Jin's help, the process of subduing the Golden Pirates was very simple. However, apart from the four knights, no one knew that Captain Jin had become Bai Cangdong's knight. Most of the pirates thought Bai Cangdong had been subdued by Captain Jin.

This was exactly what Bai Cangdong wanted. The Golden Pirates were well-known in these waters, and if the news of his subjugation spread, it would attract attention, which would be very detrimental to his plan to quietly occupy Devil Island. Therefore, Bai Cangdong didn't let Captain Jin spread the news.

"We don't have enough strength to protect Devil Island right now. We can't sell the Devil Crystals, so I plan to use them to advance the undead eggs." Bai Cangdong stated his decision.

"With the resources of the Jade Armor Sky, keeping the Devil Crystals isn't a problem. However, Devil Crystals seem to only be effective for the undead eggs in the White Bone Sea, and we don't have that many of those eggs," Captain Jin said.

"Even if we had that many eggs, advancing a large number of ordinary undead to the baron level wouldn't be very useful to us, except for selling them. So I want to try using Devil Crystals to advance baron-level undead to the viscount level. Viscount-level undead can be used by us, greatly enhancing our strength." Bai Cangdong felt that it was better to keep the Devil Crystals for himself, as undead eggs were rare, and the higher the rank, the rarer they became. Even with life scales, it might be hard to buy viscount-level undead eggs.

Captain Jin was straightforward. Since Bai Cangdong had given the order, he handed over the white bone turtle that had been advanced from an ordinary undead to a baron-level undead for Bai Cangdong to experiment with.

In the Jade Armor Sky, Bai Cangdong fed the white bone turtle hundreds of Devil Crystals, but it showed no signs of change. Bai Cangdong almost gave up several times but finally gritted his teeth and fed it more Devil Crystals. When he reached a thousand Devil Crystals, the white bone turtle finally advanced again, becoming a viscount-level white bone turtle with the undead's eternal light and a massive body, as large as a house.

Bai Cangdong let out a long sigh of relief. If the white bone turtle hadn't advanced after so many Devil Crystals, it would have been a huge loss.

However, it took a thousand Devil Crystals to advance one viscount-level undead, which was a terrifying consumption rate. The remaining Devil Crystals in Bai Cangdong's possession were only enough to advance three viscount-level undead.

"The Ghost Well produces about two hundred Devil Crystals per month. It will take about five months to advance one viscount-level undead. This rate is quite good," Bai Cangdong calculated. He needed to find a suitable undead egg to give each of his knights a viscount-level undead mount. Such a knight corps would be unstoppable.

Bai Cangdong also thought that if he could equip his knights with Jade Armor Sets, his knight corps would be invincible in the White Bone Sea.

When he shared this idea with Feng Xian and the others, they were all very excited, and even Captain Jin was somewhat moved. From this idea, Captain Jin could tell that Bai Cangdong was not a harsh master and had grand ambitions that others might not dare to imagine. Otherwise, how could he think of equipping his knights with these treasures instead of keeping them for himself?

"If the island lord really wants to form such a knight corps, I suggest using the eggs of the unicorn skeleton beasts. These undead naturally live in the White Bone Sea and have some resistance to curses. They are also very fast both in the sea and on land. However, they are mostly unranked, and only occasionally do baron-level unicorn skeleton beasts appear, so they are not very valued." Hearing the intense discussion among Bai Cangdong and the others, Captain Jin couldn't help but suggest.

"This is a very good suggestion. However, we still need to consider how to defend Devil Island first before we can confidently do other things. Your support, whether through votes or monthly tickets, is the greatest motivation for the author."