After seven times, the green crystal began to rotate counterclockwise.
He had just put the crystal away when screams suddenly rang out.
Edward looked over the noise and saw more than a dozen pirates on the deck rolling on the ground, holding their stomachs and screaming.
Edward looked at Lilith who was still delivering apples to the pirates and asked in astonishment: "...Lilith, did you poison the apples?"
The red-haired guy, who had just taken a bite of the apple, quickly spat out the food in his mouth and silently put the apple into his pocket.
Lilith shook her head blankly: "No."
"Then why..."
Before he could finish his question, he saw Lilith pick up a stick from the ground and turn it into an apple.
All right.
I had forgotten Gamp's basic law of transfiguration, which states that transfiguration cannot turn anything into food - to be precise, you can of course turn anything into the appearance of food, but these "foods" are only superficial and cannot be eaten at all.
If it is eaten, it will return to its original shape.
In other words, the stomachs of these pirates who were rolling on the ground in pain were likely filled with glass, wood, stones and other messy things - what a sin.
Edward suddenly thought of the juice that Lilith had just given him. "Lilith, the juice we just drank...wasn't it also transformed by you using Transfiguration?"
"No, that's what Audrey put on Miss Lilith before she left."
That's good.
Edward breathed a sigh of relief and cast a stunning spell on the pirates, "Red Hair, take care of them."
"OK."
Edward then took Lilith's hand and walked aside, "Lilith, don't use Transfiguration to turn food into food anymore."
She opened her eyes wide and asked, "Why?"
"Did you know that you can't eat transformed food?"
"Ah? Why?"
Edward thought for a moment, "Just think of it as a flaw in Transfiguration._Seeking help from the book￠ *埂￠New?嶵\complete`"
"But, I have transformed into a mouse and eaten it before?"
"…What did you use to transform it?"
"Small dried fish."
Well, food becomes food... doesn't seem to be a big problem.
"But it's really not tasty!"
Lilith shook her head, her long black hair swaying.
"Anyway, remember to never...use Transfiguration to turn something into something edible again, understand?"
"All right."
She nodded, and then a happy smile appeared on her face: "Yes, Edward, I really digested a lot of my potion just now!"
Edward was silent for a moment.
This can be considered as... an unexpected success?
Twenty minutes later.
When the Knowledge arrived near the deserted island, all the people who had been asking for help on the coast had disappeared, and only a pile of messy footprints were seen on the beach.
"Mr. Sparrow, there's something wrong with those people. Do you still want to dock?"
"It's okay, just pull the boat over!"
Soon, the pirate ship arrived at the shore. Edward jumped down with Lilith and floated to the ground. Red Hair led more than a dozen pirates to climb down the ladder and followed.
"The smoke is coming from the center of the island."
Edward threw out the gold coin again, performed divination, and once again confirmed that there was no danger.
"Go and see what tricks you pirates can come up with."
Red-haired man waved his hand, and more than a dozen pirates walked in front with knives to clear the way. The group quickly walked into the bush.
A few minutes later, the surrounding trees and bushes shook, and more than a dozen ragged people walked out one after another. Leading them was a young man wearing a black windbreaker, but his face was covered with filth mixed with blood and dust, so his true appearance could not be seen.
He lowered his body and quickly made a few gestures to the people behind him. More than a dozen people quickly separated into three teams and rushed towards the Knowledge Pirate Ship.
Then they took out grappling hooks made of vines and sticks, threw them onto the pirate ship, and climbed up along the hull as if they were walking on flat ground.
The leading young man in a black windbreaker climbed onto the pirate ship first. He saw forty or fifty pirates sitting neatly on the deck. They gave him the feeling of... students?
He was too lazy to think about the weird behavior of these pirates, and pushed his hand forward: "No talking allowed here!"
Then he raised his hand and made a gesture, and everyone rushed over from all directions, pointing their guns at the pirates on the deck.
This sudden incident made the pirates on the deck stunned for a moment, and then they looked over with strange eyes: How dare these dozen idiots who came out of nowhere to rob Gehrman Sparrow's ship? They were really courting death.
The pirates' reaction made the young man in the black windbreaker feel depressed: the owner of this pirate ship was most likely a big shot, otherwise these pirates would not have shown no fear when being pointed at by guns.
But things had come to this point, so he had no choice but to make another gesture, and his men immediately skillfully raised the sails and steered the ship, driving the pirate ship slowly away from the deserted island.
On the other side, on a deserted island.
Edward and his companions finally arrived at the center of the island after some effort. Then they saw a huge ship crashed among the trees and rocks. The white smoke rising into the sky was produced by the burning of this ship.
This is an airship painted dark blue. Of course, it is now in pieces. There are many corpses scattered on the ground nearby, including pirates in tattered clothes and soldiers in uniforms.
Through the airbag that had not yet completely deflated, the Loen military logo could be vaguely seen. Combined with the bodies of the soldiers, it was not difficult to guess that this was an airship from the Loen military.
"How did this thing fall?"
Edward raised his head and looked toward the sky.
Lilith came back from her walk around and said, "Edward, those people are dead."
She held out a small piece of bauble, "I found this on one of them."
"Huh?"
Edward took it and looked at it, and found that it was a small feathered serpent pendant.
In the southern continent, the feathered serpent is a sacred symbol. It is the emblem of the Eggers family, descendants of the god of death, and is also a totem of the Spirit Cult.
Pirates, soldiers, spiritual cults?
This combination is interesting.
At this time, Red Hair came running from not far away and said hurriedly: "Mr. Sparrow, our boat was taken away by a group of people."
"Did you see who they were?"
"Judging from his clothes, he doesn't look like a pirate."
...
Knowledge number.
Only after the deserted island gradually faded away did the young man in the black windbreaker and his men breathe a sigh of relief.
He lifted the ban at this time, frowned at the pirates and asked, "Who is your captain?"
"have no idea!"
one of the pirates shouted.
The man in the black windbreaker immediately walked over and hit him in the face with his gun, "Behave yourself! Otherwise, I'll just shoot you!"
The pirate who was beaten spat out a mouthful of blood and shouted: "I really don't know. We are not from this ship at all. We were kidnapped here by force."
Then another pirate said, "But the owner of this ship claims to be German Sparrow."
"German Sparrow?"
The man in the black windbreaker, or rather Alfred, had his pupils shrink: Him again? !
Two days ago, the appearance of Hermann Sparrow ruined the plan that Alfred and his team had been planning for many days. The boasting he made to his comrades became a joke. Alfred felt very upset about this and secretly vowed to settle the score with Hermann one day.
Unexpectedly, we met again in the blink of an eye.
But the problem is that he is still far from being a match for Hermann.
He quickly looked in the direction of the deserted island again and found that it was just a black dot in his sight - at such a long distance, that Hermann shouldn't be able to jump over directly like he did last time, right?
"Why did Gehrman Sparrow kidnap you?"
"Attend class!"
This time he was answered by a series of voices.
Alfred was stunned: "Class?"
He suddenly remembered that when he talked to Hermann before, he seemed to have said that he needed to keep the lives of those pirates to help him do something. Was it to teach them a lesson?
"That's right! I didn't believe before that the famous Hermann was a madman, but now I know. As soon as he brought us on board, he gave us a lesson."
"He not only taught us all kinds of extraordinary knowledge, but also told us various potion formulas and the knowledge of the God-Forsaken Land."
"Let us go, and we will tell you what he taught us."
Alfred's mind moved, and he had a rough guess: that Hermann was most likely acting, and looking at all the ways that acting requires imparting knowledge... it seems that only the reader is?
But none of this has anything to do with me. I have to get to Bayam as soon as possible, or else something terrible will happen!
He then moved a chair and sat in front of the pirates, revolver in hand, and said coldly: "I need five people to work for me. If anyone is willing, raise your hand."
The pirates were silent for a while, and no one raised their hands.
The man in black windbreaker narrowed his eyes and his expression became dangerous.
At this moment, a pirate suddenly raised a little hand, accompanied by a crisp childish voice: "I do!"
A girl who looked about six or seven years old stood up and raised her hand: "Ms. Lilith is willing~"
Alfred's pupils shrank and he subconsciously pointed the gun, but then the revolver in his hand turned into a bright red rose.
Lilith giggled and said, "Is this flower for Miss Lilith?"