Black Sail

The business of Black Sail has grown too big; refined and impurity-free magic energy crystals are very expensive, with Purple Crystal fluctuating around eighty Golden Dragons, and Red Crystal hovering around two hundred Golden Dragons.

But the most commonly used are Blue Crystals, which are also not cheap, being the core of magic energy propulsion, costing between one hundred and twenty to one hundred and sixty silver coins.

The price depends on the various strategic plans of the Aran Energy Department and their implementation.

Under a broken wall in the ruins square, shielded by a stone roof from the sun, Mika embedded a Blue Crystal into his rifle. He had no problem firing, as he used to shoot birds with a matchlock gun for fun on Fuma Keqing; he had also shot people before.

There are no animal protection laws in the East Sea, not even human protection laws. Who the hell cares about birds? Shoot them all, be it knife-beaked terns or albatrosses.

So Mika was just waiting there. He didn’t know how big the underground palace was; he just hoped they would return before nightfall.

Having been unconscious in the sandstorm and though resting overnight, he had been on the move all day and was extremely exhausted.

The scorching sun had made the stones warm, Mika’s eyelids were drooping, he was drowsy and the heat waves distorted the light, making everything hazy.

Mika struggled to stay awake, but his consciousness was gradually becoming unclear.

Damn it, he had robbed so many of Lord’s watches during the train heist, but found them uncomfortable to wear and wasn’t in the habit of wearing one. He should have taken one.

Now, he didn’t even know how long those people had been down there.