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Chapter 383: Trouble

Translator: WQL Editor: EbonyFrost

Zhang Tie arrived at Saint Herner Island the next evening, some hours later than the estimated arrival time because his passenger liner met a heavy wind the previous night which slowed its sailing speed.

Saint Herner Island was over 1000 km north of Akurey Island. The temperature here was obviously lower than that of Akurey Island.

The moment the passenger liner arrived at the port, passengers who had stayed on board for dozens of hours had disembarked hurriedly. Many of them were carrying luggage, some even held sabers or swords, except for Zhang Tie whose hands were empty.

Zhang Tie didn't notice that his hands were empty until he disembarked. He looked really eye-catching. This look didn't match a pioneer's status at all. 'It seems that I have to go to a store for some pioneer products on Saint Herner Island.'

Albeit there were some pioneer equipment and appliances in the Castle of Black Iron which were bought in Stars Viewing City, they were utterly different than the styles of those items used by those pioneers on the Ewentra Archipelago. If he wore them, he would tell others that he was a newbie coming from afar. That would be stupid!

Especially due to the climate of the Ewentra Archipelago and the Ice and Snow Wilderness, pioneers here were wearing utterly different outfits than those in Jinyun Country. Of course, Zhang Tie who only wanted to increase his fighting strength calmly would not turn him into a spotlight only for saving a few gold coins.

There were mountains of products in the port of Saint Herner Island. Those tall tower cranes were constantly discharging goods from those super huge steamers. Zhang Tie found most of the goods were wood, ores, and square linen parcels that contained various animal hides. There were so many warehouses in the port while many workers were loading and moving these goods between warehouses and steamers.

The wharf was bustling. This place was much more prosperous than Akurey Island. Besides the larger population, the industry and trade here were also obviously more developed.

Zhang Tie also saw some dockyards near the port. The Zhang Clan was building ships in Jinhai City. Having visited the shipyard of Zhang Clan, Zhang Tie knew a bit about building streamers. At the sight of those docks near the wharf, Zhang Tie instantly judged that all the docks were capable of building huge streamers of tens of thousands of tons with varying sizes and platforms.

Besides being more prosperous than Akurey Island, this place looked more barbarous as the overseers on the wharf would ferociously lash those carriers with their whips and would shout loudly at any time...

Zhang Tie also noticed some primitive people with weird tattoos on their faces and bodies barging about among the crowd. Even those pirates who wore skull horns with fierce fat faces also arrived while carrying sabers, sword, and shields.

Since he left the passenger liner at the ticketing window of the port, Zhang Tie had already witnessed 2 battles. The surrounding people were not even interested in watching the battles at all as they had seen similar scenes so many times. Of course, no sheriffs or policemen would care about them.

"Give me the latest steamer ticket to the Ice and Snow Wilderness!" As the line in front of the ticketing window was not long, Zhang Tie had gotten a chance to buy his ticket in only 3 minutes.

An old man with a brandy nose was sitting behind the ticketing window. After glancing at Zhang Tie, the old man slightly and lazily waved his head as he mumbled, "Another pioneer wanting to make a fortune in the Ice and Snow Wilderness? The latest passenger liner will set out in 5 days. There are VIP, first-class, second-class and economy-class cabins, which one do you want?"

"What's the difference?"

"16 gold coins for VIP, 7 gold coins for first-class, 4 gold coins for second-class, one person per cabin. Three free meals available for VIP and first-class. 80 silver coins for economy-class, passengers stay in one big cabin. Which do you want?"

The ticket prices really startled Zhang Tie. They were too expensive as they could even match that of airship tickets, "How come they're so expensive?"

"It has to pass the Devil North Wind Belt of Auro Strait, you tell me why!"

After thinking for a short while, Zhang Tie gave him 4 gold coins, "Give me a second-class ticket!"

The old man then manipulated the ticketing machine, causing a series of "dadada" sounds. A few seconds later, he gave Zhang Tie his ticket. Taking the ticket, Zhang Tie took a glance at it and found that the ticket read——10:00 am, Jul.31st; No. 7 Pier, Saint Herner Harbor, Blue Polar Whale; Second-Class Cabin G614; Boarding with this ticket.

'It seems that I have to stay here a few days.' Thinking about this, Zhang Tie left the ticketing window.

On the streets outside the harbor, there were many people. Zhang Tie looked around and found various shops on both sides of the streets.

Zhang Tie didn't walk too far away. Instead, he chose an average, tidy inn that was less than a 20 minute walk from the harbor.

The management in the hotel was stricter than the pioneers' inn as it needed to register the ID number of the guest. Zhang Tie presented his latest ID certificate in front of the counter——an ID certificate of a countryman of Holy Golden Orchid Empire. A very average name was beside his photo——Peter Hamplester.

Zhang Tie estimated that there were at least 10,000 people shared the same name across the Blackson Human Race Corridor. He remembered some guys called Peter at school in Blackhot City.

Zhang Tie then settled down on Saint Herner Island and waited for boarding. In the blink of an eye, 2 days had passed.

In the past 2 days, Zhang Tie also learned about the situation in the sea close to Saint Herner Island. On some small isles, there were many seals and walruses. Many people were living on these animals. However, these animals were kind in temperament and rarely attacked people. Although they were mammals living in the sea, their population were not hostile towards humans. Therefore, according to the generation rules of seven-strength fruits, Zhang Tie would not kill those poor animals.

However, those mutated seals and walruses were different. The bloody seals and huge walruses close to Saint Herner Island were existences that scared sailors a lot as the 2 species both liked to attack people and small fishers, which had caused a lot of disasters in the area.

However, the 2 species didn't have a large population near Saint Herner Island. They mostly lived in the Blueedge Strait to the east of the Ice and Snow Wilderness. Therefore, Zhang Tie had to go to Ice and Snow Wilderness to look for bloody seals and huge walruses which wasn't contradictory to his previous plan.

Only after slightly changing his route on the map, Zhang Tie settled down in the hotel.

On the 3rd day, Heller wanted him to collect some special plant seeds on the island. Zhang Tie also wanted to buy some equipment to respond to the climate of the Ice and Snow Wilderness. Therefore, after supper, he left the hotel.

He soon bought the necessary equipment at cost of less than 4 gold coins. With a hat made of sea dog's hide on his head, a pair of gloves made of a bear's hide on his hands, a multi-purpose cloak made of fox's hide on his back, and a heavy pioneer sword that could be used in the sea and on the land in hand, Zhang Tie looked no different than those pioneers on the streets.

Although the necessary equipment, Zhang Tie only bought some plant seeds wanted by Heller in a small store of a remote suburban farmers market after wandering for several hours in the downtown area.

After putting the seeds into his backpack, Zhang Tie found that small stores had closed as it was already past 10 pm.

Zhang Tie then returned according to the route in his memory...

...

There were a few people on the suburban road in the evening. Two rows of tall birches were standing on both sides of the road. After walking for over 20 minutes, Zhang Tie only met 3-5 people. Of course, Zhang Tie would not be afraid of walking alone in the evening, additionally, he had night vision...

Seeing lamplights casting from behind, Zhang Tie hurriedly moved aside on the roadside stones. Ten seconds later, 6 cars passed by Zhang Tie, 1 of them passed a small puddle and splattered mud onto Zhang Tie's pants.

"F*ck!", Zhang Tie swore loudly. However, the driver didn't care about his feeling at all; in a wink, the team of 6 cars had gone dozens of meters away.

Besides swear, Zhang Tie didn't do anything else. However, the moment Zhang Tie was preparing to wipe the mud off his pants, Zhang Tie saw a birch several meters in diameter falling down in front of him and directly hit the hood of the first car, which forced the whole team to park at once. The last 2 vehicles failed to decelerate on time and directly crashed onto the ends of the front cars.

"Retreat!" Someone in one of the 6 cars roared. Although it was dozens meters ahead of him, Zhang Tie could still hear it clearly.

The roar was followed by shiny axes flying out of the pine woods on the roadside like locusts.

Some axes directly tore off the thin steel plates of the cars and were stuck inside...

Some directly hacked onto the bullet-proof glass and caused spider-web like cracks...

The first wave of axes didn't hurt anyone, except for causing the cars to appear in a sorry state.

In a split second, besides the first car which was under the big tree, all the other cars started to retreat rapidly as if well trained for the scenario. Meanwhile, 6 men with shields and sharp swords instantly jumped off the first car and rushed towards the roadside pine woods without making any sound...

The second wave of axes soon arrived. Before the 6 men arrived at the roadside, they had been torn into pieces by those flashing axes...

Some axes accurately flew into the cars through the cracks of the windows that were caused by the first wave of axes. As a result, balls of bloody mist broke out in 3 of the 5 cars at once. The fresh blood sprouted onto the glass in all directions like that small puddle being pressed by that car just now, causing the glass red all over.

Over 10 m ahead of Zhang Tie, some more birch trees of several meters in diameter fell down and blocked the 5 remaining cars.

The doors of the cars all opened, while people inside all rushed out and started to fight those killers in black clothes who were rushing out of the roadsides...

Miserable shrieks...fierce battles... the spraying fresh blood...the sounds of sabers, swords, and axes cutting into body...and those battle totems which had disappeared before rising up...

Within several seconds, before Zhang Tie determined whether to save them or to directly turn around and escape, the battle had come to an end.

Over 30 dead bleeding bodies covered dozens of meters on the road under the wrecked cars' lamplights. Most of them were those getting off the cars, 7-8 of them were killers in black clothes. Additionally, those killers were still sharply adding hacks on those dead bodies.

At this moment, a tough man who was covered with blood leaned against a car as he held a long sword and a shield to protect a woman. At the same time, he furiously glanced over those grim and bloody killers who were surrounding them.

Although some of those killers were killed, there were still over 50 people of them.

"Who are you?" The tough man asked loudly. "Do you know the consequences of going against the Ballas Clan? You have to pay for it with your blood!"

Those killers didn't speak at all, instead, they just moved forward to block that man and the woman behind him.

"Gitta, no need to ask. Don't you understand that those people are assigned by those old douchebags of the Ballas Clan?" A calm voice sounded, then the woman slightly let out a sigh. "Because of their absurdness and greed, they have lost their reason and chosen to cooperate with ghosts. They don't even think about that, even if they killed me, how could the properties of the Ballas Clan fall into their hands?"

"Papapa..." with a series of slight clapping sounds, a long-face muscled guy walked out of those killers, "Everybody on the Ewentra Archipelago knows that there is a seductive fox on Saint Herner Island, who is the most beautiful widow in the Ballas Clan. A woman who makes the Ballas Clan one of the top clans on Saint Herner Island in only ten-odd years. You look as beautiful as they describe!"

From Zhang Tie's viewpoint, he could not see the look of the woman who was facing him with her back over 20 m away, but from her back, Zhang Tie felt she was pretty mature and seductive. Additionally, he could sense the long-face guy's burning eyes fixed on that woman.

That long-face guy seemed to have felt Zhang Tie's gaze. He then glanced at Zhang Tie before waving his hand to a killer beside him. The killer then walked towards Zhang Tie. For those people, a teenager like Zhang Tie was just a small figure with bad luck. Why the f*ck was he still on the road at this time? Of course, they thought Zhang Tie deserved to be killed.

Seeing a killer walking towards him, all the others killers didn't care about Zhang Tie at all, including that long-face guy, because in all of their eyes, Zhang Tie was like a salty fish on the chopping board, a common pioneer who might have been scared stiff by what was happening.

In many people's eyes, the alleged pioneers were just a number of homeless coolies who dreamed about becoming rich by moving around. They were no more threatening than those farmers who retired from army. Actually, many pioneers were composed of soldiers who retired from army and didn't feel like living simple lives. Most of them were between LV 1 and LV 5. However, few pioneers were above LV 6. The proportion of pioneers above LV 6 among pioneers was lower than the proportion of military officials among the same amount of soldiers. Therefore, they didn't need to worry about whether Zhang Tie was a powerhouse or not.

The tough man and that woman 20 m away also thought that Zhang Tie was just a poor guy who witnessed what was happening by accident.

Nobody felt that Zhang Tie's existence would cause any change to the current situation or what would happen next. It seemed that Zhang Tie had become a dead boy lying on the ground at this moment.

Zhang Tie then glanced at that guy who walked towards him with weapon as he sighed inside. 'I don't want to find trouble, but the trouble comes to me. Now that those guys want to kill me, unless I leave Saint Herner Island at this moment by directly diving into the sea and swimming to the Ice and Snow Wilderness or change my look once again, these people could easily find me on this island based on their capabilities and background.

Although Zhang Tie didn't want to stir up trouble, he didn't want to suffer any injustice for them. He felt it was not worth it for him to do that. Additionally, Zhang Tie confirmed that if he just escaped in this way, he would probably be the scapegoat of those killers and would be wanted badly by the motherf*cking Ballas Clan, dead or not. By doing this, they could stop him from releasing the truth to the public and let him be their scapegoat. One stone, two birds! Even idiots would know that.

The two men's talk had arisen Zhang Tie's interest as Zhang Tie, who always felt being the same as average residents, was also very interested in such revenge between wealthy and influential clans. Therefore, after thinking about leaving for a short while, Zhang Tie gave up this choice.

This was a nice game, a really nice game.

"I've been disappointed by the Ballas Clan. I don't know what those old douchebags have promised you, but I know what you want. We can have a trade here. You let me and my chief guard leave Saint Herner Island. We will leave tomorrow without taking any copper coins. I will give you all of my belongings on Saint Herner Island and in the Ballas Clan so that you could get what you want more easily. How about that?"

Although that woman was at an absolute disadvantage, she still didn't give it up. She kept talking about conditions with those guys calmly.

"Before seeing you, I truly wanted to kill you, but now, I've changed my mind!" That long-face man gazed at that woman with greedy eyes without covering his inner thoughts at all. He glanced at her body like how a wolf licking its prey. "It would be very nice if I could throw such an intelligent and beautiful woman into my bed! It would be very pitiful if you are just killed in this way!"

Hearing this, all the other killers started to smirk obscenely...

The moment the tough man heard this, he roared as his battle qi rolled up, presenting a king snake. He wanted to rush towards that long-face guy, yet he was concerned about the woman behind him. Therefore, he just glanced over those killers with burning eyes. "Unless I'm killed, you would not touch even a hair of Ms. Olina!"

"Then...go die!" Saying this, the long-faced man shot out his icy eye as he hacked his huge bola towards the tough man. At the same time, a huge battle qi totem of bloody scorpion appeared behind him.

After 3 loud sounds, Gitta's shield had been completely broken. meanwhile, he had been sent flying backwards in the air and fell to the ground 10 m away while sprouting out blood.

Seeing this, the woman let out a sigh...

The long-faced man then moved forward with a contemptuous smile, intending to hack that man into pieces...

At this moment, with a sound of breaking bones "Ka...", all men turned around and looked at that place where the sound came from.

It was where Zhang Tie was standing. He held that killer's neck like pinching a chick. When everyone turned around, they saw Zhang Tie just moving his hand back while that killer had fallen onto the ground with his twisted neck, completely dead...

Seeing their gazes, Zhang Tie felt embarrassed as he smirked, "He wanted to kill me, so I have to pinch him to death. You don't mind, right? Do you?

The long-face guy with a bola narrowed his eyes instantly...

Hearing Zhang Tie's words, the woman also turned around and stared at Zhang Tie who was standing away from them on the roadside.

When she turned around, Zhang Tie was stunned instantly as he seemed to be seeing Miss Daina in a different set of clothes...

Chapter 384: Saving a Beauty

Translator: WQL Editor: EbonyFrost

That woman looked pretty similar to Miss Daina. At the sight of her, Zhang Tie even thought Miss Daina was standing in front of him.

However, this woman had something different than Miss Daina. Miss Daina had brown hair and blue eyes, however, this woman had chestnut-red hair and cyan eyes. Additionally, her lips looked plumper. Miss Daina was an intellectual, tender beauty yet this woman looked enchanting and a bit sluggish.

At this moment, Zhang Tie didn't see too much panic from that woman's delicate face. Instead, he only saw a bit of grief and an indifference facing trouble. At the sight of Zhang Tie, that woman's eyes gleamed.

Zhang Tie was very calm. Albeit he had killed a person, facing dozens of killers with fierce eyes, Zhang Tie didn't look flustered at all. Instead, he looked like an audience who was watching a performance.

That woman knew that a person who could still be that calm in such a situation definitely had his talent and had experienced greater troubles, except for Zhang Tie's look as a pioneer and young age under the hazy lamplights of the cars were out of her imagination.

With bola in hand, the long-faced man just fixed his eyes on Zhang Tie. He didn't say anything at all. His eyes were filled with a killing intent. He then waved his hand and 4 killers rushed towards Zhang Tie.

Seeing this, Zhang Tie, who didn't want to expose the secret that he had mastered iron-blood fist, pulled out of that slim pioneering sword that he had just bought.

This sword had not seen any blood yet. but now, it would be used to kill people.

Nobody could describe how Zhang Tie launched his attack. In front of Zhang Tie, the 4 killers just looked like kids who were leisurely running and jumping in the wild of rural areas. He looked like he was holding a little wooden stick and slapping it over the roadside verdant grass, seemingly wanting to scare the butterfly off from the grass.

Zhang Tie only moved 4 footsteps in the whole process, 2 footsteps forward and 2 footsteps backward. During this process, he also rapidly stabbed 4 times along with his moving footsteps. When Zhang Tie returned to his original position, he looked as if he had done nothing at all. However, the 4 murderous killers all fell down on the ground and died without even a convulsion.

They were all attacked at their hearts and died instantly. For Zhang Tie, the 5 people were not even qualified as to be his targets.

The whole process lasted less than 2 seconds.

All the killers forcefully swallowed their saliva. Those killers who were closer to Zhang Tie felt a fierce killing qi from Zhang Tie's tranquil eyes when Zhang Tie raised his eyes and looked at them. As a result, they all moved one step back out of fear.

The long-faced man also felt that killing qi from Zhang Tie which was formed after killing numerous people. His face also slightly changed.

In contrast, that woman's eyes gleamed at this time.

"It seems that you mind me killing one of your people very much!" Zhang Tie revealed a smile.

"Who are you?" The long-face man barely opened his mouth.

"Of course, I'm a pioneer!" Zhang Tie shrugged with a smile as he showed his equipment and clothes to him. "Can't you see that?"

"Now that you are a pioneer, it's nothing to do with you. I've not seen what you've done. Mind your own business. How about that?" The long-faced man then moved his eyes between Zhang Tie and the woman before finally said while gritting his teeth.

What Zhang Tie performed just now made the long-faced man very cautious. What was more, the long-faced man couldn't make his decision as he didn't know Zhang Tie's real fighting strength and background. Therefore, he had to choose to give a compromise to Zhang Tie. Based on Zhang Tie's performance, the long-faced guy realized that it would definitely be more difficult for him to kill Zhang Tie than killing the woman's 20-odd bodyguards.

Additionally, if Zhang Tie wanted to escape, the long-faced man estimated that they could not block him at all as Zhang Tie's mystical movements just now were really shocking. It was definitely a master level.

"I was just a passerby and want to go back downtown. I don't care about your thing at all. But you blocked me and even wanted to kill me!" Zhang Tie said in an innocent voice, "If you give way, I will leave right now!"

The long-face man carefully gazed at Zhang Tie for quite a while before finally forcefully waved his head, "Let him go!"

Receiving the order, dozens of killers hurriedly gave way to Zhang Tie. Seeing Zhang Tie putting away his long sword and walking towards them leisurely, many people let out a sigh.

When everybody thought that Zhang Tie would just pass by in this way, he flashed like a lightning bolt, cutting 3 killers' heads off at once while their blood sprouted out of their necks as high as 1 m. Before the 3 heads fell to the ground, he had stabbed 2 more killers' hearts, causing them to fly back in the air...

"B*stard, what are you doing?" With eyes turned red, the long-faced man instantly threw his bola towards Zhang Tie's head.

Zhang moved slightly aside as the bola missed him and passed by his shoulder with a strong wind. At the same time, all the other killers charged at him. Zhang Tie launched an attack once again and sent another killer fly in the air.

"I don't like suffering losses. Five men of yours wanted to kill me just now. Although I killed them, I have to hack back 5 times like what they did to me. You can also choose to kill me if you can. Attention, please, I am safeguarding myself by killing everyone. I'm not attacking you on purpose!" Zhang Tie kept killing them as he explained. He looked like a tiger among sheep, with each move, he would kill a killer in black clothes by the sword.

After saying this, he bumped into a man 2 m tall causing him sprout blood. Like a football, that tough guy was sent flying more than 20 m away and even knocked another 2 guys down. With a backhand, Zhang Tie then split open another killer's stomach...

At that time, Zhang Tie had been only less than 5 m away from that woman. Additionally, nobody else was near him. The long-faced man also figured out Zhang Tie's intention at this moment——Zhang Tie didn't mean to leave at the beginning, instead, he wanted to save this woman. He was cheated by Zhang Tie...

"Kill them!" The long-faced man then roared as he waved his bola towards that woman instead of Zhang Tie.

At the critical moment, the long-faced man was also very fierce. Now that he could not kill Zhang Tie, he would kill that woman first to finish his task today.

Of course, Zhang Tie was not faster than a LV 9 powerhouse's bola, neither would an average woman escape from a LV 9 powerhouse's trump card.

At the sight of that long-faced man's grim face and his terrifying bola, the woman thought, 'Am I going to die here today? Being stricken by such a terrifying weapon, I must look very disgusting...those Ballas idiots...

With this thought, she closed her eyes.

However, she was not stricken by the bola, because Zhang Tie threw out his sword and hit that bola in a split second. Although it could not stop the bola, it changed its flying trace at once, causing it flying aside...

With a strong wind, the flying bola blew her chestnut-red hair backwards. With a loud sound "boom", it hacked into a car beside the woman, causing a horrible big hole on a door.

The woman was not able to see clearly what had happened at all. She only felt a chilling wind over her ear. Closely after that, she was hugged by a pair of powerful arms and started to roll rapidly over the ground...

The long-faced man kept booming his bola onto the ground where the woman and Zhang Tie had just rolled by like their shadows. Being hugged by Zhang Tie, that woman also felt the terrifying power of the bola as she could feel earthquake each time the bola tamped onto the ground...

At the critical moment, the woman didn't feel panic any more. Instead, she just gazed at Zhang Tie's young and handsome face and sensed Zhang Tie's breath. Zhang Tie hugged her meticulously like hugging a fragile porcelain——one hand over her waist, the other hand over her neck, resting her head against his shoulder; in this way, no matter how they rolled on the ground, she would not be bruised by stones and bulges.

Although still being in danger, that woman had already recovered composure as she could feel the unprecedented sense of safety and warmth.

At this moment, Gitta, her chief guard roared. After a short rest, the tough guy struck by the bola had jumped up again from the ground. Without caring about his wounds at all, he directly picked up his weapon and rushed towards Zhang Tie and that woman.

"Protect her, I need 1 minute..." After saying this, Zhang Tie threw that woman towards Gitta before catching the iron chain of the bola beside him and flew towards that long-faced man with the help of the strength when the guy pulled his bola back. In a split second, he had been less than 4 m away from that long-face man, making the bola ineffective...

Taking over the woman, Gitta instantly stood in front of her and split a killer into halves...

At this moment, Zhang Tie found the advantage of a LV 9 powerhouse. Seeing Zhang Tie being close to him with the help of his iron chain, the long-faced man revealed a sinister smile as he instantly loosened his grip on the bola. Meanwhile, the iron chain of the bola in another hand lashed towards Zhang Tie like a whip...

With a bola in hand, he could strike the enemy sharply and ferociously, far or not, without any shortcomings...

At the same time, some killers had picked up their axes from the ground and the cars.

"Boom him first..." The long-faced man shouted loudly.

Hearing this, they threw their axes towards Zhang Tie at once...

After drawing an icy arc in the air, the 4 axes directly chopped towards Zhang Tie as they blocked Zhang Tie's paths of retreat.

Seeing so many weapons attacking Zhang Tie, the woman was so scared that she instantly covered her mouth.

In others' eyes, Zhang Tie had no way to retreat at this moment. Additionally, he had no weapon, how could he deal with them at the same time?

Zhang Tie also narrowed his eyes. 'They are so tacit with each other, it seems that I have to use my double-carps sword...'

Zhang Tie had already reached his hand towards his waist...

However, at this moment, Zhang Tie felt blank like a hidden drawer in his brain was opened by others.

Time seemed to slow down at this moment as a weird feeling appeared. Meanwhile, those axes flying towards him instantly became "slow" in Zhang Tie's eyes——

That was true, they were becoming "slow"——Zhang Tie could identify their flight traces, their centers of gravity, strengths, and angles. He was sure that he would not be striken by them. He also sensed an instinct that he was able to allow his hands to follow a marvelous round trace and control those flying axes by changing their flying directions and strengths...

This sense was pretty similar to that when he awakened his precise throwing skill. The difference was that this time he could force back items flying towards him and take others' strengths and weapons as his.

Zhang Tie knew that he had awakened another ancestrial bloodline. This one was more powerful than the precise throwing skill and was more irresistible.

For Zhang Tie, time seemed to be slowing down too much. Before the long-faced man's iron chain struck him, the 4 axes had already reached his sides...

Although in others' eyes, the 4 axes were thrown out at the same time, in Zhang Tie's eyes, they were not reaching his sides head by head as the distance between each 2 of them was greater than 1 m.

Seeing the first axe flying towards him, following that strange feeling, Zhang Tie put his hand over the edge of the axe and forced it to draw a arc in front of him before flying towards the long-faced man's iron chain...

When the second one arrived, Zhang Tie also forced it to draw an arc in front of him and sent it flying towards the long-faced man's head with an arc in the air...

When controlling the second axe, Zhang Tie had one more enlightenment——he didn't have to keep the article flying in a straight line. He could force it to fly towards the target in terms of curve, arc or twisting patterns.

He then imposed a force on the 3rd axe and forced it to fly back to the guys who had thrown out their axes in a curve, cutting through the 4 guys' necks in a line.

The 4th axe was forced to fly towards that woman and the guard which was crowded with most killers in black clothes.

For the 4th axe, Zhang Tie had been hard pressed to control it as he almost could not catch its flying speed. Thankfully, there were only 4 axes, with one more, he had to evade.

Actually, he had finished this process in less than 1 second.

Being imposed by Zhang Tie, the 4 axes flew towards 4 directions with a great strength.

Nobody could imagine that the result could be reversed in such a split second. Even the long-faced man didn't know what had happened until his death. If Zhang Tie directly threw an ax towards him when fighting him face to face, the long-faced man might not even be killed, after all, a LV 9 powerhouse who had prepared to fight might even escape from a sonic boom, except in this case...

The first ax broke the long-faced man's iron chain...

The second ax sent the long-faced man's head flying in the air...

The third ax slayed the 4 killers who had thrown their axs towards Zhang Tie, causing them to sprout blood from their necks and fall down instantly...

The fourth axe cleared a greater part of those killers surrounding Gitta and the woman...

After hitting the 4 targets, Zhang Tie heard 4-in-1 sonic boom as was expected.

As a result, almost 1/3 of the killers were killed...

The sudden loud sonic boom startled everybody who was fighting. Many killers in black clothes even stopped. When all of them realized what happened, they found a great number of people had fallen down including the long-faced man. Zhang Tie, however, who should have fallen down, was still standing where he was, almost without even single a movement. Some of them who had seen what Zhang Tie did just stared at him as if watching a ghost——

In those guys' eyes, Zhang Tie was like a huge spring as all the axs flying towards him were bounced back by a strong force the moment they drew close to him.

Zhang Tie most so fast that most of people didn't see that Zhang Tie had changed the directions of the axs with his own hands. Instead, they only felt the axs automatically bounced back the moment they touched Zhang Tie.

That woman also widened her eyes. 'That was amazing! How could that happen! Those are axes that could even break the steel plates of cars, they are not a kid's rubber balls. How could they just bounce away?'

Among all of them, only Gitta could sense Zhang Tie's movements. If those axes all flew towards him, Gitta felt that he could block 2-3 of them with a shield or a proper weapon and could hardly block the 4th one. However, he could never force axes to bounce back. That was amazing! He had not even heard about that before...

Whereas, before those shocking killers understood what happened, Zhang Tie, who picked up a long sword with his foot, had rushed into them and chopped off their heads...

After a few minutes, when Zhang Tie killed the last killer escaping dozens of meters away in the birch forest, he dropped off that long sword which he picked up casually and came to that woman and her chief guard.

After such a bloody fight, the guard sufferred a few more wounds. Thankfully, they were not fatal. Zhang Tie found that the chief guard was experienced in real battle.

"Are you all right?"

He asked both that man and the woman, although, with his eyes fixed on that woman, he sensed a sincere feeling from her.

"Just some bruises, it's okay..." Saying this, Gitta coughed out blood. He then took out of vial of medicament and drunk it. Zhang Tie peered at that vial of medicament and found it was a medium-level recovery medicament, therefore, he just nodded and didn't speak.

After narrowly escaping from the assassination, the woman's face looked pretty pale. Besides some blood stains on her skirt when Zhang Tie hugged her to roll over the ground, she was okay.

The scene was so terrifying, which could almost match a real battlefield. However, seeing 80-90 dead bodies lying on the ground within 100 m, that woman didn't feel uncomfortable at all. This made Zhang Tie respect her more.

"Thanks for saving me and my chief guard, but our crisis has not been solved! Additionally, we are not able to defend against any future crisis." That woman then looked at Zhang Tie with a tender and attractive voice with her beautiful eyes deeply fixed on Zhang Tie full of expectations, "I'm Olina, the chairman of the Ballas Business Group on Saint Herner Island. I know it's a bit much, but can you give me another hand, or, if you wish to be employed by me, I'd like to pay you whatever you want!"

Chapter 385: A Conspiracy

Translator: WQL Editor: Millman97

There was always a moment when a person did something for some unknown reason in their life.

Take this moment as an example. Not knowing why, seeing this woman being very similar to Miss Daina and her expecting eyes, Zhang Tie had an impulsion to prevent her from suffering any harm; because of this impulsion, even though Zhang Tie knew that he might cause a lot of trouble if he helped her, he still did that.

As the woman had told him, although she survived, she was not sure whether more danger were still waiting for her.

"Well, I accept your proposal; but I have to claim one point that I will only be responsible for your personal safety and I will not kill people on purpose for you. I'm a pioneer, not a killer; additionally, I won't stay with you for a long time!"

"I promise you won't regret your decision today!" That woman stared at Zhang Tie deeply as her seductive red lips opened once again. "Then, what should I call you, young pioneer?"

"I'm Peter Hamplester, you can call me Peter!" Zhang Tie told her the fake name that he had long prepared well.

While they talked, Gitta, the chief guard, had already checked all the killers' corpses.

"Ma'am, may you have a look here?" Gitta was standing before that long-faced man's body whose head had been chopped off with a gloomy look. Hearing his words, the woman took out a hand towel and covered his mouth and nose with it; after that, she strode over those corpses and blood stains and arrived at Gitta's side, followed by Zhang Tie.

The body's clothes had been split open by Gitta using his saber; additionally, it had been turned over with its back facing the sky. Zhang Tie saw a strange tattoo on its back. It was a huge and grim snake with a unicorn on its head.

"Gitta, tell me what does this mean?" the woman asked her chief guard.

"Ma'am, this person comes from Magical Snake Island; additionally, he should have a high position on the island; otherwise, he wouldn't have been qualified to have such a tattoo on his back!" Gitta explained solemnly.

"Those mother-f*cking douchebags, they are truly working with these demons!" As Zhang Tie had expected, the woman looked for just less than two seconds before recovering her composure. "Put his head away, it's useful! I remember that the heads of those guys from Magical Snake Island are very valuable. They are wanted by many people. The head of Bell Clan on Saint Herner Island likes to see these guys' heads very much!"

"Yes, Ma'am!" The chief guard didn't ask why. He directly peeled off a nearby killer's coat and wrapped that head with opening eyes using it.

Zhang Tie just watched from the side. As he didn't know their situation, he just kept silent.

"Ma'am, will we go for those motherf*cking douchebags now?" With that head in the coat, Gitta stood up in front of her once again and asked, emanating a strong killing qi while holding his sword.

"Now? Do we have any evidence to charge them? Or can we directly go kill them?"

"Of course, we go kill them!" Gitta answered loudly full of fury, "We've lost so many people, they even wanted to kill you. Shouldn't they pay for that? As long as you deliver the order, ma'am, I will go chop off their heads right now!"

"What then? If you kill them, you would be a murderer and I would be the most infamous vicious woman across Ewentra Archipelagoes!" The woman waved her head as an icy light flashed by her beautiful cyan eyes, "No, this is not the outcome I want. What I want is to let those motherf*cking douchebags drink their poisonous alcohol themselves!"

"What should we do now?"

"We will go back to Bluesea Castle first!"

...

In the following couple of minutes, Gitta cleaned up a car which could still run and moved away some birches from the road together with Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie could move those trees away himself; however, at the sight of Gitta coming to help him, Zhang Tie didn't want to make him look like a tough man or further expose his real fighting strength, therefore, he moved away the trees together with Gitta.

"Peter, I owe you my life!" After moving away those trees, Gitta patted his hands and told Zhang Tie with a serious look.

"If you say so, you might be my most valuable mortgagor now. I hope you will have no chance to pay it off!" Zhang Tie smiled. Zhang Tie liked such a tough man as he saw something from him which he sensed from his comrades back in Iron-Blood Camp — sincerity, passion, frankness, honesty.

Gitta also showed a big smile. Stretching out his hands, he tightly held Zhang Tie's hand. They then got on the car. Gitta drove the car; Zhang Tie then sat together with Olina in the back.

Sitting together with Olina, Zhang Tie smelt that special fragrance which was carried by mature women. Zhang Tie then found she looked really similar to Miss Daina; even their fragrances smelt almost the same which were both alluring and sweet. 'Are they using the same brand of perfume? What a coincidence...' Zhang Tie sighed inside.

The car's glasses had been completely broken while terrifying traces of the axes were left on the plates; thankfully, its engine and lights still worked.

It was long distance from here to the downtown. Without the windoes, wind poured into the car.

The night wind on Saint Herner Island felt very cold when it blew by their faces...

Gitta didn't feel cold at all. He was driving his car with eyes widely opened as he watched the roadsides vigilantly. Olina only wore a skirt on the back seat. Only two minutes after Gitta started the car, she started to quiver all over slightly with her hands crossed in front of her breasts. Seeing this, Zhang Tie put off his fox hair cloak and covered it onto the woman.

"Argh, thanks!" Olin revealed a smile as she turned around and told Zhang Tie with a tender voice.

"My pleasure!"

After wearing a cloak, Olina adjusted her sitting position. When she sat down again, she moved closer to Zhang Tie to be warmer; as a result, their thighs almost touched each other. With that layer of silky high-end skirt between them, Zhang Tie could feel the nice touch onto her plump and smooth thigh.

At the beginning, Zhang Tie felt okay; however, as the car kept bumping up and down, their thighs started to rub constantly. Gradually, Zhang Tie felt especially stimulative.

Zhang Tie glanced at Olina when she was also glancing at him. Seemingly because her body gradually warmed up, Olina's face looked a bit red. The moment they saw each other, they moved their eyes away at once; then, they felt ambiguous and stimulated immediately.

Gitta was still driving the car like nothing had happened.

Zhang Tie then slightly twisted his body due to embarrassment. Although he knew she was not Miss Daina, he still displayed his deep feeling about Miss Daina which went through his puberty and his numerous wet dreams to this woman. He felt like he was sat beside Miss Daina. With a bit of tension, he wanted to move closer to her and push her.

Especially that fragrance, which was too similar to that of Miss Daina. If Zhang Tie didn't look at her carefully, he would feel that Miss Daina really was sitting beside him.

"I'm a bit sleepy. Can I lean against your shoulder?" Olina asked. Before Zhang Tie agreed, she had already tilted her head onto Zhang Tie's shoulder. This intimate movement caused Zhang Tie's body a bit stiff. Not only this, she even tightly held Zhang Tie's right hand with her hands from below.

Being held by her, Zhang Tie felt the icy sweat in her hands. Zhang Tie then realized that this woman was not as calm as she looked when being attacked; instead, she was very scared inside although she didn't display her inner feelings on her face.

Gitta only peered at them from the rearview mirror before continuing to drive as usual.

The woman's warm and soft nose then touched Zhang Tie's neck, causing his neck to become a bit itchy. As long as Zhang Tie turned over his head, his face would touch her forehead; therefore, Zhang Tie became a bit stiff all over.

After several minutes, when Zhang Tie felt this woman's hands warming up, he glanced at her through his eye corners and found that she had fallen asleep.

The car soon arrived at the downtown and crossed that road where Zhang Tie's hotel was on. It drove in another direction. In order to avoid from another ambush, Gitta seemed choosing a remote route with few passers-by. Although some passers-by noticed this car with a miserable look, they didn't react abnormally besides surprises.

In this way, the car arrived at a castle in the east of the downtown after twenty more minutes.

Bluesea Castle was at least double the size of Zhang Tie's Jinwu Castle. Besides, its walls were much higher than that of most western castles. When they arrived at the castle, it was already deep night as Zhang Tie could see that the walls were brightly lit and heavily-guarded.

Gitta seemingly wanted to park the car directly in front of the gate; however, at the sight of the brightly lit walls and the defensive weapons on the walls, Zhang Tie's heart raced as he had a blood sense...

"Stop the car!" Zhang Tie shouted towards Gitta. Gitta instantly parked it 500 m away from the castle.

"What's wrong?" Gitta turned around and asked.

"Put out the lamplights. 500 m is not a long distance for the defensive weapons on the walls!"

After the previous battle, Gitta had formed an instinctive trust towards Zhang Tie. He then instantly turned off the lamplights to put them out.

Olina woke up at this moment as she moved her head away from Zhang Tie's shoulder. She instantly sat straight and looked outside. "What? Have we arrived at Bluesea Castle?"

"We almost be there. But Peter told me to park it here and put out the lamplights!" Gitta explained to Olina.

Olina then immediately looked at Zhang Tie.

"Where are we?" Zhang Tie asked.

"Ms. Olina used to live here; this is Bluesea Castle!" Gitta explained.

"Who are those guards? How many people do they have? Who are their leaders?"

"They are armed guards of Ballas Business Group, totally over 200 people. Their leaders are five chief guards appointed by Ms. Olina. Is there something wrong?"

"If we directly park this car in front of the gate of the castle, have you calculated the chance of us surviving the ballistas on the wall?" Zhang Tie asked seriously.

Hearing this, Gitta and Olina turned their faces at the same time. Based on the terrifying power of those defensive weapons on the walls, with a close-range dense shooting, the car would instantly become a hornet's nest with numerous holes, let alone the people inside.

"You mean the guards of the business group have been bribed? How come?" Gitta almost screamed. As they were his colleagues, hearing Zhang Tie's speculation, he instantly doubted.

"Not all of them are bribed, those people could not bribe everybody; if possible, they would not have ambushed you tonight. But, if one of the chief guards and some guards who were responsible for manipulating the ballistae were bribed, what would happen then?"

Gitta didn't speak while Olina tightly bit her lower lip.

"What should we do now?"

"Gitta, do you know all the guards over there?"

"All of them. Many of them are my friends!"

"Then, are you afraid of death?"

"I should have died before. Ms. Olina saved my life. I should have died tonight too; thankfully, I meet you. I'm not afraid at all!" Gitta answered honestly.

Chapter 386: Reveal the Conspiracy

Translator: WQL Editor: Millman97

According to Zhang Tie's suggestion, Gitta just parked the car and put out the lamplights. Zhang Tie stayed to protect Olina while Gitta walked towards the castle alone.

Gitta soon arrived at the suspension bridge in front of the gate.

The suspension bridge had been raised. A 20-m wide moat surrounded that castle. It was the last warning to the invaders. In the defense system of the castle, guards on the walls had the right to attack any people crossing the moat without prior consent as they had trespassed the private territory.

After arriving at the riverside of the moat, Gitta raised his head and looked at the steam ballistae on the high walls as he was slightly chocked inside. Although it was already late at night, from the lamplights on the walls, Gitta could still see clearly the shiny mouths of the steam ballistae and the mouth of a honeybomb-fashioned ballista, whose cover had been moved away after lying there for a long time, slightly hanging down towards the place in front of the gate.

From Gitta's memory, the mouths of those steam ballistae should have all been positioned horizontally. Thankfully, due to Zhang Tie's warning, he'd carefully observed these details and sensed a looming killing intent from the wall of the castle.

"I'm Gitta, the chief guard of Ms. Olina, lower the suspension bridge!" After a deep breath, Gitta stood on the riverside of the moat and shouted loudly towards the castle with his full strength. Normally, the moment those guards on the wall caught sight of the arrival of Ms. Olina's fleet of cars, they would've loweredthe suspension bridge.

But not today. Gitta shouted loudly twice. At the beginning, no sound was heard from above the walls; after over 10 seconds, an arrogant and lazy voice sounded on a tower.

"Who's screaming down there. This is Bluesea Castle. If you don't belong to this place, piss off right now; otherwise, I will teach you a thing or two!"

Gitta was not familiar with that voice. Even as the chief guard of Ms. Olina, Gitta could still not be familiar with every guard's voice. The moment he heard this strange voice, Gitta realized something wrong. Many people up there should have heard his loud voice. The one who responded to him should be a chief guard on duty there. He was very familiar with the other chief guards' voices and they were familiar with his voice. How come such a small figure came out to drive him away?

"Periv, Crie, Alexander, Ji Gang and Adeline. Which one of you is up there? Answer me!" Gitta shouted out of fury below, "You b*stards, who's up there? Come out, don't you recognize my voice?"

"Piss off, if you keep screaming there, we will shoot you!"

The same strange voice was heard again. But this time, it sounded much more furious than the last time but mixed with a bit of timidness.

"I'm Gitta, the chief guard of Ms. Olina. Many brothers in the castle know me. If anyone dares shoot me, when Ms. Olina comes back, she will peel off your skin! Periv, Crie, Alexander, Ji Gang, and Adeline, which one is upside there? Come out to talk with me!"

Gitta continued to shout loudly below the castle while some noises could be heard from the top of the walls and the tower.

Finally, a familiar voice was heard.

"Who's down there?"

"Crie, I'm Gitta, lower the suspension bridge!"

"Gitta, are you with Ms. Olina? Why are you alone? Where's she?"

"Ms Olina is in a safe place. Someone wants to kill her. She let me come back first and want you to pick her up with the guards in the castle!"

Hearing Gitta's words, the face of the 40-odd man with a nice handlebar moustache changed slightly while his trusted followers exchanged glances at each other before looked at him, not knowing what to do.

The current situation was completely out of the expectations of everybody and made their plan void instantly.

The 40-odd man then gritted his teeth and shouted, "According to the regulation of Bluesea Castle, without the order of Ms. Olina, nobody can open the gate in the evening. Only Ms. Olina has the right to dispatch forces from the castle. Gitta, what you told us was not trustworthy. Before I see Ms. Olina, I will not violate the regulations of the castle even though we are familiar with each other. Unless Ms. Olina arrives, I will not open the gate for you; nor will I allow you to dispatch forces from the castle!"

"Periv, you b*stard. If you don't come out soon, you'll have to pay off the 200-odd gold coins that you owe me tomorrow. Alexander, Ms. Olina needs help now, yet, motherf*cker, you are still sleeping! Ji Gang, you b*stard, besides molesting women, what else can you do? Adeline, if you don't come out right now, after I die, you will become a widow!"

Gitta's voice grew louder. Without considering Crie's feelings, he just called each chief guard's name and swore at them from the other side of the moat.

Hearing this, the people in the tower looked worse.

A guard beside Crie moved closer to him and murmured, "Head, why not make him shut up? We only need to trigger a ballista..."

"Shut up, do you want me to die together with him?" Crie swore in a low voice as he felt very agonising. He didn't know the situation of Ms. Olina. If he killed Gitta at this moment, as long as that woman was not dead, he would be killed at dawn. Additionally, Gitta was safe, that meant that woman might really have been moved to a safe place. If so, it would be meaningless for him to insist on his plan. However, if he just allowed Gitta to shout loudly downside there and dispatch guards from the castle to support her, their plans would really be ruined, which he didn't wish to see. If so, those people's promise to him would not be fulfilled.

While Crie was still thinking about it, the other chief guards had already arrived at the wall of the castle. They had already heard Gitta's shout.

"Crie, what's happening?" Periv, with dense brown hair and beard and a robust frame, rushed into the tower first. "Why is Gitta shouting outside? Why not let him in?"

Crie forced a smile, "According to the regulation in the castle, without Ms. Olina's order, nobody is allowed to access to Bluesea Castle for free. Therefore..."

Periv just ignored Crie; instead, he roared, "Gitta, you b*stard, where's Ms. Olina? Why you are alone?"

Hearing this familiar voice, Gitta immediately realized that his shouting had worked. Peter was right, they truly could not bribe every person in the castle.

"Periv, Ms. Olina encountered an assassination attempt on the way back tonight. Someone wants to murder her. Ms. Olina told me to dispatch guards from the castle to pick her up!" Gitta shouted in a louder voice.

Not only had Periv heard Gitta's words, even Alexander, Ji Gang, and Adeline, who had just arrived at the tower, also heard them.

Alexander was over 50 years old. He was the eldest one among the chief guards. With a fat frame and bald head, he looked more like a cunning businessman. Ji Gang was a young man of over 20 years old. He had blonde and oily hair and a handsome play-boy look; a long sword was hung at his waist. Adeline was a woman, whose left eye and eyebrow had weird flame-like tattoos. Additionally, she had fiery red hair. Carrying a javelin container, she had a barbarian clan's bloodline.

Only after a few seconds, the other chief guards had already found out what had happened. Crie was explaining to them why he didn't allow people to lower the suspension bridge and let Gitta in.

Alexander looked at Crie while slightly narrowing his eyes, "Crie is reasonable, but Ms. Olina truly has told us that if she was not in the castle, the five of us can make the decision to deal with emergencies. What's happening tonight is an emergency, let's vote then!"

"I agree to dispatch guards to pick up Ms. Olina!" Periv said loudly.

"I agree too!" Adeline also replied without any hesitation.

"I agree!" Ji Gang smiled, "I've long waited for such a chance to save Ms. Olina!"

"Count me in!" Alexander also expressed his opinion.

After a moment of hesitation, Crie saw Periv moving his hand closer to his sword handle while Adeline raise her eyebrows.

"Now that you agree, I agree too!" Crie hurriedly expressed his instance.

...

After waiting over the moat for a short while, Gitta saw them lowering the suspension bridge. The five chief guards then rushed out of the gate with a great number of guards, many of whom were female fighters in light armor led by Adeline.

"Gitta, where's Ms. Olina? How's her condition?" Periv asked firstly.

"Ms. Olina is now in a safe place. Adeline, Ms. Olina wants you take over the defense system of the tower of the outer castle!"

"Okay!" Adeline didn't doubt Gitta's message at all; instead, she just glared at him, "What were you raving about just now? I will give you a lesson when I'm free!"

Adeline then said something to her female fighters. Then all the female fighters returned to the castle and took over the defense systems of the outer castle's tower at once. The order passed by Gitta amazed everybody else. Alexader then stared at Crie deeply. At this moment, Crie didn't say anything; he looked pretty bad, even a bit flurried.

"Do we need to dispatch cars there?" Ji Gang asked.

"No need, follow me!" Gitta glanced at Crie with an icy expression before said, "Crie, follow me up too!"

Crie forced a smile as he pushed in front of Gitta in a humble way, "I was just following the rules in Bluesea Castle, hope you don't care about that!"

Gitta ignored him and hurriedly checked over his shoulders that he was being followed by everybody else...

...

Wearing Zhang Tie's fox-hair cloak, Olina just sat under a pine together with Zhang Tie on the roadside. Seeing the team of people holding burning torches walking towards them out of the castle, Zhang Tie knew that his speculation was right. Facing such a situation, he preferred to be derided as an idiot instead of risking his own life to test those strangers' morality.

Zhang Tie sensed that the woman let out a sigh slightly.

"What if Gitta hadn't come back?" Seeing the swaying flames moving closer to them, Olina who was gazing at the distant asked Zhang Tie suddenly, "You should've known that was a possibility. They might not have bribed all of my loyal followers; yet with only a small plot and a vial of poison, they could make nobody be loyal to me anymore. By then, I would be isolated and you would be in an even more dangerous situation. I want to know if you'd leave me alone then!"

Hearing this question, Zhang Tie was stunned for a short while. Rubbing his face, the moment he wanted to reply, he heard Olina continue, "I want to listen to your true words!"

"True words?" Zhang Tie kept silent. He would not tell a lie to a woman whenever it was, even on the bed. It was his principle, "If that happened, if we could not fight those guys who want to kill you, I would escape together with you; in the worst scenario, we would leave Saint Herner Island!"

Hearing Zhang Tie's answer, the woman's eyes gleamed. She then continued to ask out of curiosity, "Why? Aren't you afraid of the troubles that I might bring to you? I might have lost everything by then and would not be able to pay you at all!"

This question made Zhang Tie a bit embarrassed. Even if he wanted to tell the truth, he didn't know what to say, because the truth was a story of a poor teenager's growth.

Thankfully, Olina didn't keep asking him. Seeing Gitta bringing his men over, the woman glanced at Zhang Tie's embarrassed face while a smile threatened to spread across her face. She then recovered her dignity and calmness again.

...

The group coming out of Bluesea Castle had already seen Olina and Zhang Tie after they left the castle hundreds of meters away. Everybody was then shocked as they hurriedly ran towards Olina...

At the sight of Olina, besides amazement, the chief guards relaxed at once, except for Crie, whose face turned pale as his body slightly shivered. 'Now that Ms. Olina has already arrived at the outside of the castle, why not enter? Why would she call them over there? Does she already known that...'

At that moment, not only Crie, even the other chief guards had thought of the same question.

Gitta walked towards Olina and murmured to her. Olina then instantly fixed her eyes onto Crie and said in a calm voice, "Crie, Gitta has told me what happened just now. I hadn't imagined that you are that loyal to me. Good, very good!"

Crie forcefully swallowed his saliva as he said stiffly, "It was merely my duty..."

"Madam, Gitta said that someone wanted to murder you tonight? Oh, where are the other guards?" Periv walked one step forward and asked loudly.

"We will talk about it later. Head back to Bluesea Castle first!"

"Madam, who's he? I feel a dangerous aura emanating from him!" Adeline had fixed her eyes onto Zhang Tie since she arrived here. Although this young and handsome man looked innocent, he felt very dangerous. At the first sight of Zhang Tie, Adeline who was sensitive to danger, felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up at once. This feeling was similar to when she met the most dangerous beasts in the forest.

Adeline's words raised everybody else's attention onto Zhang Tie.

"This is Peter. From now on, he's my bodyguard. He enjoys the same treatment and privileges as Gitta in Bluesea Castle." Olina didn't explain too much about Zhang Tie's background; instead, she just declared her decision, which instantly showed her dignity as a lord. After that, she waved her hand. "Go back to Bluesea Castle now!"

With everybody's protection, Olina returned to Bluesea Castle. After entering the castle, Zhang Tie found that Adeline always kept her eyes on him while that young chief guard Ji Gang seemed to find him a bit repulsive instead of being hostile toward him. Gitta silently pointed at Crie as he looked at Zhang Tie and nodded solemnly. Zhang Tie then understood what happened...

Zhang Tie was really curious how would Olina deal with such a situation.

...

The main hall was very luxurious and magnificent. After returning to Bluesea Castle, the five chief guards were called in there by Olina.

In the hall, Olina sat on the main seat while the five chief guards were standing in front of her. As her bodyguard, Zhang Tie just stood on her left-hand side. Gitta had disappeared the moment he returned to the castle. Nobody knew where he was.

Olina then described how she was attacked that night in a very calm tone. After hearing that, the five chief guards were all stunned. Before they could ask any questions, Olina had already delivered a series of orders...

Chapter 387: Special Treatment

Translator: WQL Editor: Millman97

"Take my visiting card and take some guys to register a case in the City Defense Administration of Saint Herner Island. After that, go to the Ballas Clan's Greyrock Castle and call Aetna, Cilicis, and Mesa to Bluesea Castle tomorrow morning; tell them that I've got something important to negotiate with them. If they want to know the details, tell them about the events that occurred tonight..."

"Yes, madam!"

"Crie, I will present a certificate to you after a while. You then take a small team of guards to leave Saint Herner Island now for the Headquarter of Ewentra Bounty Hunters Association and increase the amount of reward by 1 million gold coins for hunting personnel on Magical Snake Island!" Olina's tone was mixed with a killing intent.

Crie slightly shivered all over as he lowered his head, "Yes, madam!"

"Adeline, go contact the seniors of your tribe, tell them that I've agreed to their conditions. Ballas Business Group will spare 20% of the airline business of Sinaila Island to you, but the number of barbarians in the Armed Silver Wing Guards of Ballas Business Group should be increased to 30% of its total population; meanwhile, an alternate captain of Silver Wing Guards will be assigned by your men, who will only answer to me!"

With the strange tattoos around her left eye and eyebrow, Adeline raised her eyebrows once again and forcefully nodded.

"Periv, you should work hard these days. You will take over the responsibilty for the safety of Bluesea Castle!"

"Trust me, madam, if any malicious guys slide into the castle, I will chop off my own head!" Periv patted his chest proudly.

"Ji Gang, go to the training camp of Silver Wing Guards to select two hundred more guards and train them to be qualified guards of the castle. I want to see its effect within two weeks! You will do it yourself first; after a couple of days, I will let Alexander help you!"

"Yes, madam!" Ji Gang bowed towards Olina elegantly.

"Well, I'm a bit tired and want to take a rest!"

In the whole process, Zhang Tie just watched aside silently. When Olina dispatched Crie to the headquarters of Ewentra Bounty Hunters Association to execute that task, Zhang Tie instantly felt that woman was very shrewd. In this way, she cleared the 'dangerous members' out of Bluesea Castle in a reasonable way and put Crie in a sticky position at once. Zhang Tie felt that Olina had included other deep meanings in this order but he couldn't figure them out right now.

After getting their own tasks, the five chief guards left; Gitta then returned to the hall.

"Madam, I've been told that Crie has let his subordinates to take over the extremely powerful defense equipment on the tower tonight; he even checked the running situation of those equipment in the power boiler room and engine room of the castle; at his request, the two main power boilers' nominal working pressure were both 30% higher than normal..."

As the lord of Jinwu Castle, Zhang Tie knew clearly what did it meant. It was the standard ready-for-war condition. Albeit higher nominal working pressure of the main boilers meant extremely great power of the defense weapons which were driven by the steam-driven boilers, yet it also meant less life expectancy of the boilers. Therefore, normally, the main power boilers' nominal working pressure was only maintained at a normally stable value; only in emergencies, or when checking the working condition and running performance of the boilers, would they adjust the main boilers to a heavy-burden running state.

"Gitta, do you want to revenge for those dead guards?"

"Of course, I even want to take my brothers to chop off the heads of those old douchebags of the Ballas Clan right now!" Gitta replied in a very righteous and furious way.

"You know that is impossible. If you want to revenge them, from now on, you have to hide your animosity. You should be happy!"

"Happy?" Gitta looked unimaginable, "Madam, you want me to be happy at this moment?"

"Yes, be happy!" Sitting on the main seat, the woman took a deep breath and revealed a brilliant smile as her breasts rose up. Sitting beside her, Zhang Tie couldn't help but peer at her plump boobs. As a result, his heart raced slightly.

"We were not ambushed by those guys from Magical Snake Island tonight; instead, we ambushed them. We lost over twenty people, yet they lost fifty to sixty people. We gained a complete victory; we even chopped off the head of an important figure from Magical Snake Island. Shouldn't we be happy about that?" Olina explained to Gitta.

"But, why?"

"Because, as long as we look happy, our enemy, who doesn't want to see us happy, will not feel safe. They will be curious as to why we are so happy. Thus, they will try their best to figure out the reason. Then, someone will get revenge for you!"

"Madam, you're making me confused!"

"Don't worry, you will understand it in a few days. Now, you only need to keep my words in mind. If some of your friends invite you for a drink and ask you about this, you just tell them that we long got the message and we prepared our own ambush tonight instead of being ambushed. This is a task for you. Am I clear?"

"Okay, I understand!" Gitta forcefully nodded.

"Gitta, take your men to deal with those dead guards. All the personnel who were killed tonight will be rewarded with five times that of the common standard!"

"Thanks, madam, their deaths are valuable!"

"I've already let Alexander register our case in the City Defense Administration. Given the speed of the City Defense Administration, it would take them at least two hours to arrive there. You and your men will have to arrive there first. After dealing with our men's dead bodies, you should have enough time to adjust the scene to make it look like we ambushed those killers. Is that ok?"

"It's not difficult. Although we were ambushed at the beginning, later, with the help of Peter, those killers looked like they were being ambushed. We only need to do some trivial adjustments to make everything look like we ambushed them!"

"I hope that only you, me, and Peter know about what Peter has done. As for what happened at that time, just let others guess about it!"

"Yes, madam!"

"You can leave now!"

Gitta then left, leaving only Zhang Tie and Olina in the whole main hall.

Zhang Tie then looked at her with a curious look, "Why not let others know what I did?"

"Because you've helped me so much; additionally, you will leave here sooner or later. As those guys from Magical Snake Island are all ruffians, I don't want to bring their hatred to you," Olina explained to Zhang Tie seriously.

Zhang Tie just watched her and didn't know what to say. Previously, he wanted to protect her; it was really out of his imagination that she'd start to protect him. As for the revenge from Magical Snake Island, Zhang Tie didn't consider it at all; Magical Snake Island was at most a killers' organization in this sea area. He had even dared to offend the Three-Eye Association, which was supported by demons. Of course, he would not care about having one more Magical Snake Island as his enemy. Additionally, if a LV 9 guy could gain a high position on Magical Snake Island, it indicated that the organization was not powerful at all. Furthermore, no matter how fast those people were, nobody could catch him up in the sea, and this place was very close to the sea. Therefore, he was not afraid of them at all.

Actually, even Zhang Tie had not realized that, with his growing fighting strength during the past year, he had met the greatest powers across the Waii Sub-Continent like the Norman Empire, Huaiyuan Palace, and Three-Eye Association which were far greater than common powers. Even the Zhen Clan in Heavens Cold City, which had a knight, was also a great power.

Being gradually influenced by this, whenever he met any more powers or organizations, Zhang Tie would compare them with each other; as a result, he thought that some of the local powers were not threatening at all.

However, what Olina said brought a strange feeling to Zhang Tie.

"If you say so, I think that I should thank you. It feels a bit strange!" Zhang Tie rubbed his face.

Olina then revealed a smile as her beautiful cyan eyes started to gleam. "Now that you are going to stay with me and help me so much, I should be a bit considerate for you, right?"

"It feels like what friends should do!"

"Don't you feel that we are not friends now? Or would you prefer to be my savior and want me to treat you with a more respectful attitude? Am I not even qualified to look out for you?"

"No, I didn't mean that!" Zhang Tie felt a bit embarrassed then. This woman's words were too sharp, which really felt like being in Miss Daina's class.

"Alas, I know..." The woman showed a sorrowful face and then started to touch her enchanting face. "Do you feel that I'm too much older than you? Although I don't like to admit it, time flies, I'm 36 years old now. Not like those young girls at all, I'm old and look ugly and could even be your aunt. However, you are at most 18 years old. Do you feel that I'm not suitable to be your friend?"

"No, you're very beautiful and are one of the most beautiful and charming women I've ever seen. I don't feel that age is a problem at all!" Saying this, Zhang Tie peered at her plump boobs with an embarrassed look once again.

"Really?" The woman's eyes brightened up at once as her face look brilliant.

"Really, I wouldn't lie to a woman!"

"Thanks!" With a smile, Olina stood up from her chair. After that, she turned around and slightly lowered her body before kissing Zhang Tie's face. "In Ewentra, this is the highest reward from a woman to a man who praises her!"

At this moment, Zhan Tie watched that familiar yet strange beautiful face which was so close to him before glanced over that snow-white scenery and that black lace around her boobs below the collar of her skirt; meanwhile, he sniffed the nice fragrance from her body. This made Zhang Tie feel entering that same wet dream that he had experienced numerous times where he encountered Miss Daina...

In the wet dream, Miss Daina was so sexy just like this woman in front of him.

Not knowing whether it was an illusion or not, Zhang Tie felt that she had started to draw him in on the journey back; however, he finally couldn't stand such allure as he responded with the direct response that a man should have at this moment.

That woman then sensitively lowered her head and looked at the raised tent between Zhang Tie's legs; after that, she straightened up before covered his mouth with her hand and started to giggle...

Zhang Tie's face blushed instantly.

No matter where and what local custom it was, if a man showed such a strong physiological impulsion in front of a woman, it would be a breach of etiquette.

"Pah... pah... pah..." Olina clapped her hands three times. When the sound was still resonating in the hall, a side door was pushed open and a 50-odd female steward whose hair was tied up entered. In an old-fashioned and conservatory black skirt, although quite old, she still looked like a marble statue with no defects at all; instead, she looked delicate and even a bit merciless.

"Madam Kate, please take Mr. Peter to the room No. 2 to take a good rest. Prepare a set of proper clothes for him; he's now my bodyguard and will live in Bluesea Castle for a while!"

"Yes, madam! Mr. Peter, please come with me!"

At this moment, Zhang Tie also felt a bit embarrassed in front of Olina. Like a young school student who had been caught doing something bad by teacher, he hurriedly left.

However, Zhang Tie had not imagined that room No. 2 was not in the outer castle but in the inner castle. From the main hall to the inner castle, Zhang Tie didn't even find a male servant in the inner castle, even the guards were female. All the women were watching Zhang Tie out of curiosity like

"Ms. Kate, are there any males here?" Zhang Tie couldn't help but ask that woman who was leading him with a candlestick in the front.

"Actually, since Ms. Olina settled into Bluesea Castle, you are the first male to live in the inner castle!" The woman answered icily.

Hearing this, Zhang Tie's heart started to palpitate at once..

Chapter 388: Ballas Clan

Translator: WQL Editor: EbonyFrost

Despite being the first man sleeping in the inner castle, Zhang Tie still stayed in room No. 2 quietly overnight no matter how heavily his heart pounded. Any young man encountering such a situation would have his fantasies run wild.

Before going to bed, Kate had some female servants measure Zhang Tie's body. After that, nobody else came in Zhang Tie's room over the night.

There was only a wall between room No. 2 and the room where Olina, the lord of Bluesea Castle lived while a door was opened on the wall. In this way, the two rooms were accessible to each other. It was very suitable for Zhang Tie to live in room No. 2 as Olina's bodyguard. If any emergencies were to occur, Zhang Tie would be able to enter her room as fast as possible.

As long as he had no health problems, Zhang Tie was always awake at 6:00 am due to his biological clock.

Lying on the bed, Zhang Tie stared at the ceiling. He felt it strange and incredibly stupid that he had promised a strange woman to be her bodyguard without any hesitation yesterday.

Because she looked beautiful or because she looked like Miss Daina?

If another woman encountered that situation yesterday or that woman looked very ugly or could not leave me any deep impression, I'm not sure as to whether I would accept her request and be involved with so many troubles so easily!

As this was a very serious question, Zhang Tie tried his best to consider it when he was most clear-minded in the morning. However, even he started to despise himself when he got the answer——No!

If she was not that beautiful or didn't look like Miss Daina, Zhang Tie would at most save her from her would be killers or accompany her to a safe enough place before left. He would never do such a stupid thing. As a man who always had a plan, he would not choose to be involved in such a dispute which had nothing to do with him as his primary target here was to improve his fighting strength and to gain as more seven-strength fruits as possible.

After thinking it through, Zhang Tie mocked himself before letting out a deep sigh——I'm still a mortal, having not reached the level of immortals.

Donder said it was a male animal's instinct to display themselves in front of beautiful women. In a man's subconsciousness, they did this to gain the right to mate with beautiful women so as to keep and optimize their DNA.

Did I do that to gain the right to mate with Olina last night?'

With this whim, Zhang Tie felt a bit filthy. At the sight of the ever-firm steel mummy which raised up and caused a small hill on the quilt, Zhang Tie had to admit that that woman was especially lethal to him.

That woman's nickname was "hot fox". If a woman could be that influential in the Ewentra Archipelago, she was definitely not an average woman.

"Are you a bad guy?" Zhang Tie opened his quilt and patted the relentless thing as he mumbled.

At this moment, that bad guy nodded sometimes. Zhang Tie then revealed an obscene smile...

After having went to the washroom, the relentless thing finally became docile. The moment Zhang Tie wanted to put on clothes, he remembered that his clothes had been taken away by some female servants last night. What was left in his room were only a double-carps waist and some personal belongings.

Zhang Tie then pulled down the rope of the bell to call servants in. In only about 20 seconds, he had heard knocks.

"Come in please!"

When the door was pushed open, 4 female servants with sweet looks walked in with many things before closing the door of his bedroom.

The 2 female servants in front were carrying a set of tidy clothes, shoes, and socks. As for the 2 female servants behind, one was holding a basin of hot water while the other was holding a towel and something strange. It was Zhang Tie's first time seeing them. Each of them looked more than 20 years old. In Zhang Tie's opinion, they all had top looks and figures.

"Mr. Peter, here are your new clothes!"

"Fine." Zhang Tie nodded. Now that he had to stay here for a few days, his look as a pioneer would not be proper. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

"Do you want to put it on now?" A female servant asked Zhang Tie.

"Yes!"

Soon after Zhang Tie replied, the female servants had surrounded him. One of them started to help him undo his buttons while the plumpy female servant who asked him directly knelt in front of Zhang Tie. She directly peeled off Zhang Tie's short pants, exposing his naked buttocks.

"Argh!" Zhang Tie shouted loudly at once. He hadn't imagined that they were that audacious. He hurriedly covered his mummy and asked in an embarrassed way, "What do you want?"

"We are helping you change clothes. Madam has told us, as long as you live in the inner castle, we will look after you like how we look after her. We will satisfy all of your demands and make you feel at home." Kneeling down on the ground, that female servant raised her head and smiled at Zhang Tie.

Seeing that sweet smile and her plump boobs, Zhang Tie felt that bad thing became relentless again. Her gesture of kneeling down in front of him reminded him of those days in Blackhot City when he "fed pigeons" with the girls of the Rose Association.

Zhang Tie hardly moved his eyes away from that female servant's alluring lips, "Hmm...hmm...I will do it myself!"

Even in Jinwu Castle, he didn't request the female servants to serve him that considerably.

"How come that be! This is our job. Oh, Mr. Peter, can you lift your right foot so that I can help you take off your pants? If you cannot stand steadily, you can support yourself on my shoulder..." Saying this, the female servant had already moved Zhang Tie underwears to his ankles.

Zhang Tie could only lift his two feet one by another and allow that female servant to take off his pants. He would never move his hand away from his mummy at this moment. Because in only a few seconds, that relentless thing had already grown pretty grim. As a LV 7 fighter, of course he could stand steadily even for a whole day.

"Mr. Peter, can you straighten up your hands? I will take off your outer garment." Another charming female servant who was undoing his buttocks asked.

Hearing this, the 4 female servants glanced at Zhang Tie at the same time while they tried hard to not burst out in laughter.

Zhang Tie glanced at the 4 female women who were looking at him with strange looks and mumbled inside, 'F*ck, if you are not afraid of that, I won't fear anything then. You really think that I've not seen so many beauties before?' With this whim, Zhang Tie directly loosened his grip.

After the pressure on it was released, that relentless thing instantly sprung up like a furious long spear and pointed directly at the beautiful face of the girl who was kneeling down right in front of him while shaking slightly. It was even less than 15 cm away from her face.

"Argh!"

This time, the 4 female servants uttered a slight scream in unison. At the same time, their faces blushed slightly at once as they almost forgot what they were doing.

"Is that okay?" After moving his hands away, Zhang Tie asked. Then, the female servants recovered composure while the female servant hurriedly took off his outer garment. In a split second, Zhang Tie showed his muscles and perfect figure.

The 2 female servants holding a basin and 2 towels hurriedly started to clean up Zhang Tie's body. When one servant cleaned up his body with a wet hot towel, another one would instantly dry it with the dry towel. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't feel cold or uncomfortable at all.

The 2 female servants moved so adroitly and audaciously that they soon cleaned up Zhang Tie all over, including Zhang Tie's toes and that relentless thing.

In the end, Zhang Tie directly closed his eyes. After recovering composure, Zhang Tie instantly felt that everything became smooth. Even he was naked, he still didn't feel embarrassed at all.

"It's over!" Several minutes later, Zhang Tie heard a voice before he opened his eyes.

Zhang Tie then glanced over himself and found he was wholly new. He was wearing a set of black knight's clothes which had a double line of buttons with golden laces. It looked both dignified and comfortable. His double-carps waist had also been put on by them. Now, he looked as carefree and handsome as a rich dandy.

The water that the female servants used to clean his body had been mixed with a special essence which smelt like tobacco. Sniffing this fragrance, Zhang Tie felt like steamed bread.

Watching him, the female servants' eyes radiated bright lights while their faces blushed.

"This set of clothes fits me well, thanks!" Zhang Tie nodded towards them.

"You're welcome. If madam sees you, she would be very happy!"

Zhang Tie shrugged. 'These female servants might have taken me as a boy toy who had some talents.' For such a misunderstanding, Zhang Tie didn't want to explain at all, instead, he just raised his nose and sniffed his sleeves. "What have you put in water, it smells so good!"

"That's a plant essence being extracted from dragon-blood tobacco leaves which only exist in the Ice and Snow Wilderness. It could clean up people's body and make them energetic. Besides, it could take good care of your skin. It's the best product for men." The female servant who was kneeling down in front of him answered.

"Hehe. It's still early now, I want to warm up in the training field in the castle, can I?"

"Madam has told us that you can do whatever you want in Bluesea Castle!"

...

Several minutes later, Zhang Tie arrived at the training field inside Bluesea Castle. At this moment, it was only a bit after 6:00 am. The faerie dragon star was still hanging in the eastern sky. According to the timetable of the castle, the guards would not start training until 7:00 am.

There were so many training instruments and weapons on the training field. Zhang Tie skimmed over the rows of weapons and chose a heavy sword which weighed about 20 kg before he started to practice.

Zhang Tie's training was very simple. After standing steadily, he would repeat the eight sword movements that he had learned on Hidden Dragon Island——splitting, hacking, poking, pricking, raising, rebounding, stirring up and pushing aside.

Strictly, Zhang Tie had not completed his compulsory cultivation courses on Hidden Dragon Island at all. In the past one year, even though Zhang Tie was talented and practicing hard, he still only finished the fundamental foot movements and shield defense skills. As for basic swordsmanship and basic archery, he had just started them. He had not accomplished 1 m times for each movement of fundamental swordsmanship. As for basic archery, Zhang Tie was absolutely a newbie——although he knew the concrete movements and strength, yet it would be a question of probability for him to hit the target if it was over 30 m away.

Thankfully, as he had awakened the ancestral bloodline——precise throwing skill, which could help him realize long-distance attack. Otherwise, he even felt shameless to tell others that he came from Hidden Dragon Palace.

After staying in the Hidden Dragon Palace for so long, although students in Hidden Dragon Palace were forbidden to talk about the ancestral bloodlines that they had awakened, Zhang Tie still had heard about some "half-opened secret"——over 50% of students in Hidden Dragon Palace had awakened the most popular "archery affinity" as their first ancestral bloodline.

After awakening this ancestral bloodline, people could have a super high affinity and enlightenment about archery. As a result, they would improve their archery very fast. This ancestral bloodline was the foundation of the other powerful archery-related ancestral bloodlines. It was said that Lan Yunxi awakened the most powerful archery-related ancestral bloodline, which was terrifying as it could help her kill many opponents more powerful than herself.

As for the other 2 compulsory courses——flying skill and horsemanship, Zhang Tie had not started them yet.

Although he had exchanged for the secret knowledge of flying skill before leaving Hidden Dragon Island, he had not yet started to cultivate it. According to the requirement of this secret knowledge, people were not able to cultivate flying skill until LV 8 as this skill required one to release strength through the spine and further development of physical potentials. As for horsemanship, Zhang Tie didn't think it was necessary to learn it recently. Therefore, as long as he was free, Zhang Tie would cultivate his basic swordsmanship.

Although the training conditions in Bluesea Castle could not match that of Hidden Dragon Island, the principles and movements were the same. Therefore, Zhang Tie kept repeating the 8 movements of swordsmanship.

Now, it would take Zhang Tie about 2 seconds to complete the 8 movements. His target was to finish them in 1 second before he reached LV 8. Zhang Tie was told that Yu Xiaotian, whose nickname was Soaring Heavens Sword, who ranked 3rd on the Hidden Dragon Fighting Strength List could complete the 8 movements 4 times in 1 second. However, it was said that the first ancestral bloodline that Yu Xiaotian awakened was also "sword affinity" which had a deep potential for development.

'Why haven't I awakened "spear affinity" at the beginning?' Zhang Tie didn't understand it until now. As for the throwing-related ancestral bloodline that he awakened last night, Zhang Tie didn't remember its name. He only faintly felt that he had awakened all the ancestral bloodlines concerning precise throwing.

He knew that his precise throwing skill could still be further evolved. However, he didn't know whether that bloodline that he awakened last night could be further evolved or not. Zhang Tie could not find an expert to guide him after leaving Hidden Dragon Palace. Everything was had its pros and cons. If he wanted freedom, he was doomed to fumble alone on the way of cultivation.

After Zhang Tie practiced for over 20 minutes alone on the training field, Gitta arrived. Seeing Zhang Tie cultivating himself, Gitta didn't speak.

Zhang Tie's movements looked simple, boring, while being not powerful at all. Albeit knowing those basic swordsmanship movements, Gitta didn't find anything special from them.

"Do you usually practice in that way?" After watching for a short while, Gitta finally uttered.

Hearing this, Zhang Tie put away his sword and stopped.

"Not exactly, but this is a very important training item."

"Unbelievable, based on your swordsmanship last night, how come you still practice these basic movements?" Gitta looked amazed.

'Swordsmanship? I know what motherf*cking swordsmanship? Although there's a lot of secret knowledge about swordsmanship in the Secret Knowledge Pavilion of Hidden Dragon Palace, he I didn't exchange for anyone of them. As I've not passed the test of basic swordsmanship, I'm not qualified to exchange for that secret knowledge over there. Last night, I was only using some hand gestures of the iron-blood fist with the help of a long sword. That sword was just the extension of my palm and my fingers. Essentially, I was using iron-blood fist. Unless I met a powerhouse who had also enlightened the one step, one scenery situation of iron-blood fist last night, others could not figure out the secret of my movements.'

Of course, Zhang Tie mumbled inside.

"The more frequently you practice the basic skills, the better. There's an old saying in eastern continent, 'the secret of any skill lies in proficiency'" Zhang Tie pretended to be very serious.

"The secret of any kill lies in proficiency..." Hearing this, Gitta became stunned at once before frowned and mumbled repetitively. After repeating it 3-4 times, his frowns instantly disappeared as he burst out an exciting and enlightening expression, "Thank you, I finally understand what I lack!"

With a faint smile, Zhang Tie's heart pounded, 'If you become an idiot by always practicing such basic movements, later on, don't blame me. There's another old Chinese saying, 'Don't attempt to drill a hole on the tip of a hole'. Even if you drill a hole on it, it's still useless.'

Seeing Gitta wanting to ask another question, Zhang Tie hurriedly changed the topic. By now, except for iron-blood fist and precise throwing skill, he could rarely show anything more powerful. He was not qualified to teach others at all. Additionally, he didn't need to explain precise-throwing skill and iron-blood fist to Gitta as the first one was formed by awakening his ancestral bloodline. As for the iron-blood fist, he didn't know how he had made it even till present. As Gitta was simple and honest, Zhang Tie liked him, so he didn't want to cheat him.

"Oh, how about the task that Ms. Olina had let you do last night?"

Zhang Tie knew that since he went to bed last night, many people in the Bluesea Castle didn't sleep at all, instead, they were running like machines. As Zhang Tie's task was to protect that woman, he didn't care about the other things. Additionally, that woman had her own decisions facing such an event. From the series of decisions that she had made since she came back to Bluesea Castle last night, Zhang Tie had realized this point.

"We've dealt with the dead bodies of our guards according to the order of madam. We lost 22 guards, yet they lost 67 killers. It seems that we've ambushed them and gained a complete victory!" Not until then Zhang Tie still didn't understand why Ms. Gitta would let him do that.

"Oh, Gitta, can you tell me what happened between the Ballas Clan and madam?" Zhang Tie instinctively felt that there was a sophisticated dispute between that woman and the Ballas Clan. She was the chairman of Ballas Business Group, yet those members of the Ballas Clan wanted to kill her. This felt weird.

Gitta hesitated for a short while.

"Is it inconvenient for you to mention it?"

"No, nothing inconvenient at all. Although the madam doesn't like us talking about the Ballas Clan, I still want to say it. Those Ballas clansmen are just shameless b*stards. It's the biggest mistake that madam has made in her life. She treats them too well!" Gitta said furiously as he waved his fist fiercely.

"If you are free, can you tell me about the details so that I could make an early judgment about the possible coming dangers?"

"Fine!" Gitta let out a long sigh...

...

18 years ago, the alleged Ballas Bussiness Group and Ballas Clan didn't exist on Saint Herner Island at all. At that time, there was only one agency called Ballas on Saint Herner Island. It was too small and was hardly managing a wood business.

The male boss of the company was a young man called Shire who came here to develop his undertaking. He had a beautiful wife called Olina.

Ballas was lucky because he had such a beautiful wife. He was unlucky as he had died in the 2nd year after getting married to his wife, leaving her wife who had been pregnant 2 months. For the business of the company, Ballas went to the Ice and Snow Wildness. However, he was attacked by bandits. Besides losing all the payment for goods, he was also heavily wounded. Soon after returning to Saint Herner Island, he died.

Before he died, he still owed a great amount of money. Except for the wood agency called "Ballas Company" which was illiquid, he left not even one copper coin.

Therefore, the debtees asked his wife who was still pregnant for debts. Olina, whose belly gradually bulged gritted her teeth and started to take over that completely illiquid Ballas Company for her late husband and her baby. She then started to learn all the skills to manage the company and to do the wood business in order to pay off the debts and strive for a bright future for her baby.

Facing the dilemma, she displayed her exceptional perseverance, wisdom and business talent.

Only after 4 months, the Ballas Company managed by Olina had paid off the huge amount of debt owed by her ex-husband. Not only this, she made a great sum of money. Right at the same time, because of working overload, she had a miscarriage.

In only half a year, she had experienced so many difficulties, however, she was not beaten by them. After losing her baby, she became more ambitious and started to manage Ballas Company carefully.

3 years later, Ballas Company was changed to Ballas Commercial Organization and started to grow rapidly in the commercial world of Saint Herner Island.

6 years later, Ballas Commercial Organization was changed to Ballas Business Group and started to own its own armed forces and fleet of ships. From then on, it had begun to be famous across the Ewentra Archipelago.

On the 7th year, some relatives of Olina's ex-husband's family came to Saint Herner Island for Olina's shelter. Olina took them in, causing the recent situation...

Now, Ballas Business Group had become well-known across Saint Herner Island. Benefited from this, those Ballas Clan's relatives being taken in by Olina gradually grew arrogant...

"When they came to Saint Herner Island, madam took them out of kindness and arranged positions for them in the business group at their requests. In the early a couple of years, they were very serious and honest; however, they gradually changed. At the beginning, they considered themselves as madam's family members and relatives; gradually, madam became their younger generation; then, because they surname Ballas and have stayed in Ballas Business Group for a long time, they felt that they should have shares of this business group; finally, last night, they might think that the whole Ballas Business Group should belong to them while madam became the outsider..." Saying this, Gitta forcefully punched his own palm.

"Hmm, I understand!" Zhang Tie also sighed with feelings. Because of her mercy and tolerance to her ex-husband's relatives, she had raised them into fierce wild beasts. Perhaps in those b*stards' heart, a lonely woman had become their last obstacle to occupy the Ballas Business Group. The woman should have realized that.

After Gitta said that, the day was going to break. Thus, Zhang Tie and Gitta got the message at the same time——after being told that Olina was assassinated last night, those b*stards of Ballas Clan finally arrived at Bluesea Castle after one night.