The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 418 Kid, what did you just say you wanted to be a king of?

"Ok?"

"I have urgent business with Emiya."

The silver-haired girl, Reggie, looked anxious. As she hurried past, she seemed not to notice that the two female Servants had hair colors almost identical to hers. Without waiting for them to ask any questions, she ran straight towards Emiya.

Black Jeanne and the other girl exchanged a glance, feeling that the girl's expression and demeanor didn't seem fake, so they silently followed out of curiosity.

At this moment, Emiya was still dealing with the "entanglement of dragons." The foreground of the deck was particularly noisy.

Meiliu Qina leaped and sat on Emiya's neck, only to be forcibly pulled down by Kiyohime. However, Meiliu Qina was clearly fast enough to dodge and then changed direction to continue her "Qin King Circling the Pillar" contest with Kiyohime, centering on Emiya.
Nero and Elizabeth huddled together, chattering about a concert, but a disagreement over the lead singer's order quickly escalated into a fight. Under the horrified gazes of onlookers, they even steered their argument towards a "singing duel," as if they were about to burst into song in front of everyone at any moment...

The two red-haired sisters on the side didn't seem to care about getting involved in this mess. Nono had seen this scene every day and was used to it, so she didn't bother to get angry. At the moment, she was sitting there like a spectator at a Heroic Spirit Tournament, looking relaxed and leisurely, almost like she was eating popcorn and sunflower seeds. It was unclear which side she was planning to support and bet on. Erii was also laughing heartlessly along with them.

As for Emiya, to be honest, he was a little dizzy. Since he was planning to participate in the beach swimsuit party, the female Servants were dressed very scantily. In addition, their clothes were disheveled and fluttering due to their vigorous exercise. Relying on his powerful dynamic vision brought by his Mind's Eye, what he saw in front of him were swimsuits and beautiful bodies of various styles...

"Hey! Emiya, this is bad!..."

Poor Reggie and Levy cried out in a panic several times, but no one paid any attention. Jeanne Alter, even more furious, joined the fray...

It wasn't until other heroic spirits who had come to watch the spectacle were attracted, and the island to land on was just around the corner, that Little Da Vinci loudly announced many times, "We're going to land on the island! We're going to land on the island!" that the chaotic scene finally quieted down.

"Ahhh~! Turn around, Fire Life Three—"

"Hey, don't spray it on the boat!"

Emiya reluctantly closed Kiyohime's mouth, which was almost a serpentine body breathing fire, and tore her off his body, throwing her along with Melyuchina to Little Da Vinci and Prierati—and they were then drowned out by the latter two's strong accusations such as "Don't damage the ship's deck!" and "If you make me work overtime to replenish the illusions again, I'll chop off all your scales and tails for experiments!"

“Regiereve, is there another problem? Is it still a dream?” Nono glanced at the girl’s face, seemingly trying to find traces of Yaobikuni’s interference.

“No, I haven’t had any strange dreams since then,” Regina Reeves shook her head. “What I’m talking about is the anomaly I’ve discovered since arriving at this singularity.”

Emiya glanced sideways at the approaching island. "Are you referring to this singularity landscape surrounded by the sea and islands? Or are you talking about the large marine creatures that occasionally surface from beneath the water?"

"Both are true...but more importantly..."

Regina said somewhat uncertainly, "This place gives me a familiar feeling, like I've been here before, although I'm sure I've never been here before. It's very strange..."

The logic behind these offhand remarks seemed absurd and laughable, yet none of the listeners took them as a simple joke.

Emiya frowned and remained silent, pondering the key to the matter.

Erii listened, her mind blank and utterly lost. Unable to find a solution, she decisively turned her gaze and saw Nero, who was still locked in a fierce battle with Elizabeth. Suddenly, her eyes met those of the little Draco beside her. Reflecting herself in Draco's calm, crimson eyes, she felt for a moment that Draco was like a little monster, isolated from the world.

Nono was also getting a little frustrated with her thoughts, but when she followed Erii's gaze and noticed the similar figures of Nero and Draco, one tall and one short, a sudden realization struck her and she was startled:
“Regie Love, you’ve never been here before, yet you feel familiar with this place, and you can even have a spiritual connection with Yaobikuni… Is it because your grandmother, Maria of the Stars, was here like her?”

Emiya quickly realized, "Is this behind the 'Gate of the Gods'?"

Upon hearing Nono's words, Emiya also recalled past events. It seemed to be an incident on the giant ship YAMAL. It was said that the ship's owner, Vincent, was once a member of the Far North Organization. In the 20th century, he watched the organization's leader, Maria of the Stars, and most of the other members of the organization go to the deep sea to explore the Gate of the Gods (because Vincent himself dared not go).

They even used a submarine to find the Black King's body in the Arctic Ocean, but the vast majority of them died on the spot. Only Maria of the Stars survived by chance and became a descendant of the Black King with an unstable bloodline.

According to the investigation, the gate to the divine kingdom was actually the Black King's "incubation ground," where the sea was teeming with dragon-blooded monsters, and the Black King's corpse lay dormant among them. Later, Emiya also boarded the YAMAL and even fought against the awakened creature...

This strange anomaly, surrounded by the sea and teeming with aquatic monsters, could it be the Black King's hatchery? Is he about to confront that corpse again?!

No, Emiya remembered Yaobikuni and recalled a voice that sounded similar to "Sesshouin Kiara" from his memory... So it was that nun who entered this place after obtaining the Holy Grail, coveting the Black King's corpse and trying to harm it, which triggered this singularity?
"So it really is related to my grandmother..." Regille also realized that if she could establish a mental connection with the singularity here through dreams, nothing would be more reasonable than the place of fate that her grandmother had visited and that changed her life.

After all, although her grandmother was someone she recognized as her maternal grandmother, she was also the original form of this experimental clone. From certain perspectives, the two are equivalent.

"My familiarity with this place was definitely not an illusion."

"Besides familiarity, what other feelings do you have?"

Emiya stared intently into Rachel's eyes.

The girl shook her head. "No, that feeling only appeared when we got closer to the island. As for the others... perhaps we'll only be able to feel them as we continue exploring the island?"

Emiya took a breath. "Tell me immediately if anything seems amiss. Also, don't leave my side throughout this entire exploration."

In an instant, Regina felt intense stares from all around her, a barrage of gazes with all sorts of different expressions piercing her pale skin like needles.

But the girl merely pursed her lips, seemingly unconcerned, while at the same time, an inexplicable feeling of joy and warmth welled up within her.

"it is good."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Pirate Island, an inconspicuous medium-sized island in this endless sea.

It wasn't originally called Pirate Island; perhaps, the island didn't even have a name before.

There is a small town settlement on the island with a relatively small number of buildings, but the facilities are old and the style is ancient. Scattered farmland is distributed in the cultivated forest gardens, as if people are still living a primitive agricultural life in the early feudal period or even earlier.

Such isolated islands are not so unusual in this era.

Then, everything changed under the invasion of pirates.

Just as the fleets of Western nations did to the natives of the New World during the Age of Exploration, the pirates, who had been adrift at sea for many days, launched a series of raids and bloodbaths after landing, brutally suppressing the natives and then completely occupying the place as their base.

Therefore, it was renamed Pirate Island.

"Hoo hoo hoo, spices, wine, gold, jewels, and beautiful women all belong to me, Blackbeard!" Blackbeard Teach sat on a large bench he'd just found in a civilian's house, reclining on his side as he ate a bunch of grapes. "Any further resistance will only lead to this, understand?"

"Got it! Got it!" the sailors shouted in agreement.

"Captain Blackbeard is wise and mighty! Captain Blackbeard is invincible!"

Some of the sailors were short and stocky, while others were tall and slender. They sauntered around the banquet, chewing on steaks and drinking ale. Without exception, they were all habitual pirates of this era, with fierce eyes and a life of plunder.

However, at this moment, they looked at Captain Blackbeard with utmost admiration, surrounded by a large number of cannons and shells that had appeared out of thin air.

Blackbeard used these very things a few days ago to launch cannonballs from the Queen Anne's Revenge on the shore, covering the entire island and decimating the foolish rebels! Incredible! Unbelievable!

"Hmph, you little minions, broaden your horizons! This is the power of Heroic Spirits, you know?" "Reporting, Captain, we didn't know!"

"You brat, if you don't know something, learn more! There are many secrets about Lord Blackbeard that you haven't seen!"

After finishing the grapes, Teach took a handful of longans from the plate held by the fearful waitress, peeled them, and tasted them.

To be honest, he never expected that such a remote island would have an indigenous settlement, let alone be so rich in resources. The indigenous captives said that the island's climate was always like spring, and that anything planted would yield a bumper harvest, with even a wide variety of fruits available.

When he gathered his sailors, they told him that they had all inexplicably drifted to this strange and endless sea while sailing out to sea. The natives, on the other hand, knew nothing of history and had never seen any outsiders before their arrival.

Blackbeard Teach now had a vague idea that this place might be a legendary fantasy realm, like Apple Island, the Garden of Eden, or Avalon.

"Hey, woman, I heard there's some great treasure in the sea around here, is it true?!"

Upon hearing Blackbeard's question, the waitress trembled instantly. She was originally a native of this island, with a husband and children, but her entire family had been forcibly taken by these pirates to work as laborers. She desperately tried to recall the stories passed down from her elders, "There are..."

"What did you say? Speak louder, I didn't hear you!"

"There's treasure!" the poor woman cried out in a trembling voice, "...Legend has it that whoever conquers Oceanus on the Great Ocean River will ascend to the supreme throne and become a 'king'!"

"Oh ho ho? Then let me ask you, how does one conquer, and what kind of king is he?" Blackbeard leaned closer, his fierce, bearded face making the woman's legs tremble even more.

"I...I don't know! Please spare my life, Your Honor!"

"Hehe, I'm trembling with fear!"

Blackbeard Teach chuckled gleefully, his eyes secretly pondering the information, which was largely consistent with the accounts of the other natives he had encountered.

"Haha, what a useless woman," a sailor jeered, carrying a bottle. "Captain, let's just kill her!"

"Yes, kill all the useless people!" More people began to echo.

The waitress turned pale and fell to the ground, utterly terrified.

"..."

Teach ignored the sailors; it was just his men's usual bluffing. After all, there weren't many natives, so who would they kill to work and serve?
He rose from the high bench. "Heh heh heh, I've got it! My men, I've decided... I'm going to conquer this Oceanus and become some kind of king!"

Someone subconsciously chimed in, "Great, becoming some kind of king... wait—what kind of king, anyway?"

"That woman doesn't know, what's it to me!" Blackbeard laughed and kicked the man. "Doesn't she know who I am? To become the Pirate King, of course!"

"Oh my god, Pirate King! Pirate King, Captain, let's be the Pirate King!"

"Hahaha! I'm going to be the Pirate King! Ladies, let's have a feast!"

Blackbeard, like a madman, sang and danced wildly, performing a gruesome dance that was almost unbearable to watch as he returned to his high seat past the fallen woman. Meanwhile, the sailors who had just been shouting and gesticulating wildly threw down their glasses and began singing, playing drinking games, and laughing merrily—a scene of utter chaos.

The waitress was completely bewildered, unable to comprehend the thought process of these so-called foreign pirates. Her ears were filled with a cacophony of tunes, a singing style so awful it reached a new level of absurdity.

"Seize the prey and enjoy the fine wine!"

"Conquer the world, the great treasure!"

"Because that's what pirates are like~"

"You, we are pirates!"

Blackbeard Teach swayed his hips and hummed a song, then suddenly turned his head and burst into laughter, "You brats, you sing terribly!"

"Hahaha, even the captain's voice is awful! Cheers!"

"cheers--"

Blackbeard Teach smiled and raised his full glass of wine.

"I want to become the Pirate King, the freest person on this great sea..."

Huh?
There seems to be something flashing in the sky in the distance?
Teach rubbed his eyelids with his hand. Was that the "Queen Anne's Revenge" flying in the sky?
How is that possible!

"Captain, your ship is flying in the sky!" a drunken sailor mumbled.

"I can see it!" Blackbeard's pupils shrank sharply. His ship and his Noble Phantasm had actually been blasted away by someone!

Boom!

Blackbeard's ship flew thousands of meters across the island, crashing into the ground and creating a huge crater, even triggering a small earthquake. The banquet decorations were shaken and scattered everywhere, and people were thrown about by the shockwave.

Teach angrily rolled up his sleeves. If it weren't for that being his Noble Phantasm, an ordinary ship would have been smashed to pieces by such a blow.

"Men, prepare to engage the enemy!"

The chaotic scene disappeared, and the sailors instinctively obeyed orders and followed Blackbeard's footsteps.

Moreover, they weren't panicking; their subordinates had already occupied all the checkpoints on the island, and even if they attacked, it would take some time.

A voice came from the lookout tower: "—Report! Enemy sighting approaching!"

"Huh?" Blackbeard wondered. How did they get here so fast? It's only been a few seconds since the attack on the spaceship started. How did they get here?

He squinted and, sure enough, saw a red-haired figure approaching from a distance. Behind the red-haired figure were indistinct figures moving about. Clearly, the red-haired one was a follower like himself, and behind him were the sailors he had gathered.

Teach instinctively shouted, while simultaneously summoning a large number of cannons loaded with ammunition around him, "You bastard, how dare you attack my Blackbeard's beloved ship? I'm going to be the Pirate King!"

Blackbeard looked up again, his face immediately contorted in horror. "Ugh...that guy! ...So fast! He was so far away, and in the next second he was right in front of me! It was like he traversed space in a single step!"

The red-haired man glanced at the chaotic scene around him, then slowly drew the long sword from his waist. A chilling aura emanated from him, causing the nearby sailors to lose consciousness and gradually faint.

"Kid, I think I heard that... You just said you wanted to be some kind of king?"

(End of this chapter)