I Inherited a Beautiful Wife and a Territory - Chapter 89

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Inheriting a Beautiful Wife and Estate Episode 089

89. Captain Elimis’s Prowess (1)

Naval warfare in this era was simple.

It was hand-to-hand combat.

Ships would approach each other closely and engage in melee combat by boarding the enemy vessel. There was also ramming warfare where ships would collide to damage each other, but this rarely occurred.

‘Because they need to capture the ships.’

There was no reason to destroy expensive ships.

Everything was money, after all. But this time, the situation seemed different.

“They’re coming!”

“Prepare for impact!”

The pirate ship’s approach was extremely aggressive.

It looked like they were going to ram straight into them.

“Prepare the crossbows!”

The soldiers, who had now become proper sailors, prepared for battle in perfect order.

First were the crossbows.

The crossbows, originally trained to hit enemies from atop Shadow Wolves, were their main armament. But this time, even that wasn’t necessary.

“Elbarun.”

“Yes, master.”

“Show me your skills as a captain this time.”

Elbarun’s expression changed upon receiving Cliff’s order.

“I shall do as you command, master. Huu. My friend.”

At Elbarun’s call, an intense presence filled the surroundings.

The atmosphere of the waves became strange. And the change occurred immediately.

“Huh?”

“What?”

“Why aren’t we moving!”

The pirate ship that had been rapidly approaching them.

Its movement suddenly stopped. And if you looked closely, only the water surface where the pirate ship floated was different from other places.

Cliff had seen this sight before.

‘It’s exactly the same technique Leticia used when she caught the crocodile!’

The Undain that Leticia had summoned had once caught a Giant Crocodile in the river water.

The same phenomenon as back then.

And this time, it was even more visible.

“So that’s what it was.”

Cliff muttered.

Elbarun’s spirit had permeated the sea. And a section of seawater had transformed like slime.

The giant slime held the ship tight and wouldn’t let go. No matter how much the ship tried to escape, it was useless.

That wasn’t all.

“My friend, please obscure their vision!”

Elbarun shouted.

The spirit that heard his request immediately responded. Dense fog rising from the seawater began to envelop the pirate ship.

“Huh?”

“What is that…?”

Confused voices.

They weren’t the pirates’ voices.

They were the voices of their allies who had been aiming crossbows at the pirates.

The fog hadn’t just blocked the pirates’ vision. From their allies’ perspective, they couldn’t tell what the pirates were doing either.

Their appearance was obscured.

“I’ll subdue them quickly.”

Elbarun spoke in a leisurely voice.

Just one ship.

His attitude suggested that neutralizing the pirates on it was extremely simple for him.

‘That’s impressive.’

While Cliff was having such thoughts, the water fog that had swallowed the pirate ship immediately made the pirates’ bodies heavy.

Though invisible to Cliff’s group, the fog settled on the pirates’ bodies, first moistening their clothes and hair.

“…Drizzle?”

One of the pirates quietly muttered.

Being an older pirate, he recalled a certain legend from this phenomenon.

‘Could it be?’

Before he could voice what he was suspecting.

This time, water droplets formed in the air like soap bubbles.

“Aqua Ball.”

Elbarun recited words they couldn’t possibly hear.

Precise control that no mage could achieve.

Though it might lack destructive power, this was quite lethal.

“Ugh, aagh!”

“Cough. Gack. Gurgle.”

And it was cruel.

The Aqua Balls directly engulfed the pirates’ heads.

Water entered through their mouths and noses, cutting off their breathing. They flailed as if drowning, but there was no way to escape.

One by one, they collapsed in this manner.

All of this happened while hidden by the fog.

And on the deck of the Elimis family’s ship.

“Huu.”

Elbarun exhaled and softened his expression.

“It’s finished. Bring the ships together. My friend, please move our ship to where the enemy vessel is.”

From that point on, it was a truly mystical experience.

“Wow.”

It was incomparable to the pirate ship’s full speed they had just witnessed.

It felt like flying.

Rather than the water simply pushing the ship, it was a spectacular sight as if the water itself was carrying them and swimming rapidly.

It was the refreshing speed you could feel when riding a boat in his previous life.

‘Whew. This is exciting.’

While Cliff was having that thought, the Undain also pulled the enemy ship over.

The two ships came close together.

This time, Elbarun shouted to the people around him.

“What are you doing? Hurry and hook the grappling hooks to the enemy ship.”

The soldiers who had come from Elimis were hesitant.

But the former pirate sailors who were now slaves were skilled.

“Waaa!”

“Hook it! Let’s take it!”

They hooked and pulled with grappling hooks.

When the ships were at sufficient distance from each other, they leaped directly onto the enemy vessel.

“Subdue the pirates and capture that ship!”

There were no pirates left on deck to stop their allies.

The fog that had obscured their vision had already disappeared, but what remained on that deck were pirates who were either collapsed or lying face down, coughing.

Everyone on the ship had already been subdued.

None of the allied sailors who boarded for hand-to-hand combat encountered any resistance.

The corners of Cliff’s mouth twitched upward.

‘That’s impressive.’

This was a result he had never imagined.

“Bind them! Kill those who resist, but do not kill those who do not resist!”

There were no pirates who resisted before such overwhelming divine power.

Rather, it was the opposite.

The person who was the captain among the pirates.

“C-could you possibly be… the Marco Pirate Crew?”

That older pirate seemed to know the name of the Marco Pirate Crew.

And one legend that followed the Marco Pirate Crew.

The current tactics were exactly how the Marco Pirate Crew used to fight. Seawater holding ships in place, followed by fog rising from the sea.

Also, attacks delivered while helplessly trapped in water droplets from that fog and immobilized ships.

‘Until now, there had been no such incidents since the Marco Pirate Crew was destroyed…’

Elbarun did not answer.

He simply looked at Cliff.

Cliff was also looking at Elbarun.

‘I knew he was capable, but this really exceeds my imagination?’

This definitely surpassed the results he had imagined.

Cliff opened his mouth.

“We’ll take them to the port. We’ll brand them there and use them as crew for this ship.”

“I will do as you wish, Master.”

Until then, he had worried whether the pirates would resist.

But fortunately, no such thing happened. They all seemed to fear them, perhaps because of the Marco Pirate Crew’s reputation.

‘This is truly an unexpected result?’

Cliff chuckled.

Better results had come out than he had imagined.

He felt good.

It was all thanks to Elbarun.

“Indeed, your lordship’s eye for talent is amazing. How did you find such a person…”

Teobaldt muttered with an admiring expression.

He was amazed seeing the abilities of the captain Cliff had chosen. At first, he couldn’t understand Cliff appointing an old man as captain.

‘I thought he was just an old man brought on a whim…’

There was a reason Cliff had brought the old man from the slave market, even using an expensive brand.

As always, Cliff had been right in the end.

“Keep them well secured. They’ll be the crew to man our ship.”

Once they reached the Tira Kingdom, they could apply the brands.

Though the Tira Kingdom was engaged in piracy business, that’s precisely why the slave industry was more developed there.

‘And making captured pirates into slaves is perfectly natural in that country.’

It wasn’t just the Tira Kingdom.

It was an unwritten rule of the Rajahara Sea.

Victory in naval battle allowed you to seize the enemy ship, and all its crew became slaves.

Thus, the Elimis ship began docking at Tira’s port.

At that moment, the corners of Cliff’s mouth rose.

‘Finally, the Tira Kingdom.’

He could obtain rice!

Now eating ‘rice’ was truly no longer just a dream.

“Good! Our little ones, come here.”

On the bed.

Priscilla watched the two children crawling toward her.

A blonde boy who resembled Cliff and a silver-haired girl like herself.

But their personalities seemed different from their appearances.

The younger sister Artemis never yielded to her brother. She came forward first and fussed to be held.

In contrast, Apollo had a gentle personality.

‘Is he… doing well?’

While playing with the children and nursing them, she thought of Cliff who wasn’t here.

Her always busy husband.

It wasn’t unusual for him, the master of this estate and family, to be away for days.

Except for winter, it was hard to see him at the estate.

Perhaps she had come to love winter for that reason. It would be a lie to say she didn’t miss him.

Most of all, this time she was worried too.

‘He must return safely…’

This time Cliff had gone much farther than usual.

It was also a different kind of adventure than before.

Previously, it had been roads connected by land, paths that many people traveled even if she didn’t go there herself.

But now it was different.

Going to the southern Yusta Peninsula via river.

No, beyond that, going to distant countries via the Rajahara Sea.

This wasn’t a project of just a month or two.

“Sigh. Our little ones would like daddy to come home soon too, wouldn’t you?”

She quietly asked while looking at the two children, especially Apollo.

But thinking about her husband was only momentary.

“Ah! Mommy’s hair is not for pulling!”

Her daughter grabbed her hair and pulled.

‘Really…’

She extracted her hair from Artemis’s grasp.

She tried to glare at Artemis on purpose, but it didn’t work well.

Still, looking at her, she was adorable.

“Fine. As long as it doesn’t hurt.”

She hoped they would grow up peacefully without any incidents or accidents.

That would be nice, but the world seemed quite noisy.

Knock knock.

The knocking from outside was a bit loud.

“Who is it?”

This was the lord’s bedroom.

Being a private space, knocking like this was rare except for urgent matters.

“My lady. It’s Vivian and Sophia.”

The voice was Vivian’s, Adolf’s daughter.

Her voice was subdued. It wasn’t simply subdued but carried a sense of tension.

“…?”

Why Vivian?

“Just a moment.”

She first straightened her clothes that had become disheveled from nursing.

“Come in.”

Holding one child in each arm and patting their backs, she gave permission to enter.

The door opened.

Soon Vivian entered. She seemed to have something to say.

Sophia came along and took Apollo from the two children she was holding.

“What’s the matter?”

“Sigh. My lady. A little while ago… I received word from my father.”

The answer came from Vivian.

“Your father?”

Tension grew in Priscilla’s expression as she confirmed.

If it’s Vivian’s father, then Adolf.

He was the person in charge of security for Ballard Village.

‘The fact that he sent someone means… some incident has erupted from the outside. Something huge that could even affect us.’

Politics is a man’s domain.

But right now, the estate’s owner Cliff wasn’t there. The only adult in the Elimis Family was Priscilla.

Perhaps something requiring a choice might come to her.

“Yes. Lord Anton and my father sent someone. It seems that…”

And certainly, the current situation was not a small matter.

“It looks like war is about to break out.”

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