Chapter 54

'Dice' Coutts pretended he heard nothing, as he sneered and inched forward. That contestant's eyes were filled with despair, as he waved his dagger wildly in resistance. He finally managed to land a strike onto his enemy's arm, but only served to fuel the guard's vicious nature.

Kicking and punching, the guard showered down with vicious blows. Quite obviously this contestant did not have much in the way of close combat abilities, although he tried his best to block and evade, he was still beaten to a pulp. His face was bruised with blood seeping out from his features, and he was wailing miserably.

When 'Dice' Coutts finally felt impatient, he brandished his broadsword once again from his waist, before mercilessly slashing it down. With a tearing sound, a huge wound opened up on the contestant's hand, as fresh blood flowed and soaked up his shirt.

The contestant did not cry out at all. Yet immediately, a second slash bolted down once again, to which, the contestant attempted to roll away. Crying out in agony this time, his back had been heavily slashed down. Raising his head, he then cried out in desperation.

"Let's die together!"

Extending both hands while crying out, at this critical juncture, a figure crashed through the walls of the hut and into the hut itself. This figure pounced onto 'Dice' Coutts; throwing him to the floor, they started wrestling with each other. Following that, the entire wooden hut suddenly collapsed; leaving a wake of dust and rubble, that forcefully pressurized them underneath.

The person that charged in was naturally Sheyan. He had already calculated beforehand to make an entrance at such a critical moment. He was stronger in all basic attributes, and commenced battle in an environment that was beneficial to him. After taking down, he had also tossed aside the broadsword.

However, to Sheyan's astonishment, 'Dice' Coutts's close combat capability was relatively fierce. Moreover, his high HP of 250 points caused him to feel a sense of helplessness.

Fortunately, this guy was battling alone, if he had allies with him, then the patrol guard's special passive ability, 'Teamwork' would be activated. If that was the case, even Sheyan would be unable to escape!

By now, the cobalt steel exoskeleton of his left arm was finally in play. He could drop the enemy's defence and injure him, and the weapon also brought about a stable 18-19 points of damage, and lowered greatly the chances of fluctuation.

Despite so, 'Dice' Coutts fists were stained with Sheyan's blood, as he bruised Sheyan's body repeatedly. Nonetheless, because of Sheyan's 'Endurance' Innate ability, its threat level was reduced to an acceptable one.

Seeing that he could not overcome his enemy, 'Dice' Coutts let loose a frenzied cry; swinging his right hand mightily, he used his convulsing middle finger to press into Sheyan's left eye!

He could feel the dampness of the eyeball, believing that his enemy would try to dodge such an attack which would give him a chance to escape. However, Sheyan's face remained grim like a granite, as if his opponent was pressing down another person's eyeball and not his instead!

Raising his left first, a blinding metallic radiance flashed above as he used his might to drill it down!

A heavy thump echoed, Sheyan gently raised his left fist from the enemy's mutilated throat, while instinctively using his right hand to massage his red and swollen left eye. Sheyan appeared in a pretty bad state, as bruises covered his face in patches with fresh blood flowed out from the corner of his lips.

Respectively, his HP had been reduced by 70 points. This was primarily because 'Dice' Coutts, had suddenly went berserk and retaliated when his HP had dropped to below 20 points. Because Sheyan wanted to prevent him from fleeing, he could only take head on blows that could have been easily evaded.

In truth, Scarface Harry's words were pretty accurate. The current Sheyan's lack of proper combat skill was always one of his bigger flaws. If he wasn't brilliant in scheming and had continuously paved an advantageous route for himself, he wouldn't have been able to get off so cheaply numerous times in this world.

After killing off this Turtuga patrol guard, Sheyan felt that his pirate world reputation had increased by 50 points. Utilizing the key loot that the guard dropped, Sheyan unlocked the respective chest. The chest had a special pirate era flair; oaken wood texture, and on its surface were several cutting marks from swords. It had an obsolete copper lock.

Sheyan sluggishly unlid the chest, and inside at the corner there was only an old linen purse, and beneath the purse was a brass ring. The purse looked extremely shriveled up. Sheyan picked it up to observe, even the sweet sound of coins rattling was not heard. This moment Sheyan suddenly recalled this patrol guard's name - 'Dice' Coutts.

"Damned brat, did he lose all his wealth and thus went out to work?"

Sheyan loosened the purse strings with great apprehension, before turning the purse upside down. Concurrently, he could feel a few metallic objects hitting each other as it dropped out while producing clicking sounds.

Sheyan immediately felt a tinge of delight, because, beneath the 5-6 pennies and 3 shillings, was a golden coin. This gold coin twinkled with radiance, it looked brand new and was certainly not an ordinary object. This golden coin had several complicated characters weaved onto it, and on the other side was a horse rider raising his sword in an awe-inspiring pose.

Sheyan then received a notification.

[ You have acquired one Edward's fifth series golden guinea ]

[ Edward's fifth series guinea: Precious object, valuable currency, it has collection value. Certain storyline characters would love it, forged using 22k of gold, it's worth is 10 times that of an ordinary pound sterling. You can use this as normal currency, and it can be brought out of this world, to be exchanged in the nightmare realm for 400 utility points ]

Following that Sheyan picked up that brass ring, he realized at the back was written- unappraised. He was quite amazed, because before this, he had never encountered a ring type accessory that needed to have it appraised. He immediately kept the ring. Glancing at his surroundings, he sneered and continued to give chase.

Sheyan's target was undoubtedly that contestant he had just rescued. That guy had no sense of gratitude and had already took off. Despite so, his physique wasn't very good and his regenerative strength wasn't strong either. After this leg had been slashed by Coutts, he could only limp away and didn't make it very far.

Sheyan rushed up with a gloomy countenance. That contestant still revealed a flustered demeanor. Furthermore, he had to constantly look out for patrol guards in addition to his leg injury, he was already staggering about when Sheyan caught up to him. He realized that he could no longer escape, and thus, sat down onto the floor as he squeezed out a smile on his face.

"Hey friend, it's good that you're fine. This cripple would be useless staying there, therefore I left first."

Sheyan coldly observed him and replied.

"Is this how you treat your savior?"

This contestant's face turned pale and stuttered with his words.

"You can't blame me! Even Caldas, such a strong person, died when these guards ganged up and beat him, how would I know that you were that strong. You actually managed to make the guard retreat and finished him off!"

Sheyan replied coldly.

How strong was that Caldas?"

That guy gave a muffled response.

"How is he not strong? He is a person who started off together with Boss Nick, rumour has it he already experienced close to 6 movie worlds. He is a beast whose strength exceeds 23 points! However, when we were found out, he could not even last for 1 minute against these port patrol guards. He did not even have a chance to escape!"

Sheyan's heart skipped, laughing he replied.

"How many guards did he faced with?"

This contestant was stunned then he replied.

"It was one group!! That time Caldas was in charge to guard after the castle's back door was breached. Escaping out of there, is a narrow and steep windy road, and beside it was the cliff! Although there were many patrol guards chasing us, only one person could pass through that road at a time. If we knew that Caldas would be defeated so quickly, we would not be reduced to such a sorry state after the explosion!"

Sheyan mockingly chuckled and asked.

"So you're saying that although he faced off with a single guard, behind that guard was a multitude of others?"

"That's right." That contestant replied.

Sheyan continued.

"Those guards have a passive ability - every time there an ally is near them, their individual attributes will increase by 10, the highest they can reach is a 100! Furthermore this is a mere ii class patrol guard. If Caldas had faced with those higher class patrol guards, their passive ability bonuses would definitely be more insane! Furthermore, some of these guards may possess long range combat abilities. From what i can tell, Caldas lasting that long is already quite valiant."

The contestant was dumbstruck, he hesitated and then replied.

"Then.. just now that patrol guard..."

Sheyan softly spoke:

"He was only a Class II patrol guard, furthermore he was alone, to settle him did not require much effort."

Presently, this contestant was looking at Sheyan with a peculiar expression. Without a doubt, he was looking upon Sheyan with feelings such as valiant, Cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and well-informed. Pausing for a while, he reached out his hand.

"I apologized for what happened before. My name is Chris, may I know your name?"

Sheyan laughed and replied.

"You can call me Seamen Yan. Since there's nothing else, I'll take my leave."

"You're... leaving?" Chris was feeling dull as he scrambled to find the words he needed. After Sheyan walked away for quite a distance, he suddenly struggled forward and shouted, "Wait! Wait! Don't leave me behind!"