Pirate Sequence: Start with Outlaws.

He had never seen an alchemist do such crazy things when constructing a formation for equipment.

"Twenty-two" identical formations stacked on top of each other is a skill that most alchemists can't even dream of.

But Rune succeeded.

Moreover, these twenty-two formations all pursue the goal of "power enhancement"!

Could it be that this shotgun called destiny has no other pursuit except power?

No range, no accuracy, no bullet speed, just power!

He was counting on this thing to blow someone up with one shot!

"Mr. Normand, do you know the barrel theory?"

Richardo felt that he should still persuade Rune.

"How much water a barrel can hold depends on the length of each plank. If one of the planks is short, the amount of water it can hold will be greatly reduced."

"Generally speaking, when we carve a formation for a piece of equipment, we will balance all the attributes. Even if we want to highlight a certain ability, we will consider stability. We won't be as crazy as you are doing now."

After Richardo finished speaking, he looked at Rune.

In the end, Rune's expression remained extremely calm.

"Riciano, your barrel theory does make sense, but it's outdated."

"Outdated?" Richardo was very confused.

Rune skillfully recast the last part of fate together. "The popular theory now is the 'plank' theory. The so-called amount of water that can be contained and the conversion between long and short planks are just that the long planks are not long enough. If there is an infinitely long plank in the barrel, then the water it can hold is infinite."

The last piece of the puzzle of fate was put together by Rune, and then a [stable] formation was engraved at the end.

A new destiny is recast!

[Destiny Shotgun Level Increased by 5]! ——

[Rare Item]: Destiny Shotgun

[Level]: Lv.20

[Attribute Update]: Provides (207) times spiritual damage increase

[Attribute Update]: Made of low-level dragon metal, it can withstand physical attacks of Sequence 5 and below

[Attribute Update]: It has 22 layers (power enhancement) of the formation, each layer provides 2 times the spiritual damage enhancement, a total of 44 times (already included in the total multiple)

[Strength 1 Power Boost]: Spirituality amplification increased (10); already included in the ability

[Primary Weapon Paint]: (Destiny Shotgun Strong) Level Increase (2)

[Feature (Spiritual Retention Chamber)]: For every 100 spiritual points used, 20 spiritual points can be collected for ammunition firing; in places with abundant spiritual points, a small amount of spiritual points can be collected.

[Features (Dragon Bloodline)]: When facing non-dragon creatures, provides 10% additional damage -

The reforged Destiny Shotgun removed the giant snake's fang and focused more on improving its power.

The basic damage value of the current Lv.9 large lead bullet is 6 points. After activating the level 6 characteristic magic ball, it is increased to 8 points.

Quick Draw Lv.8 provides an additional 7 points of spirituality increase, which means 15 points of basic damage.

Add to that the 9% damage increase from Large Lead Bullet at level 5 and the 10% damage increase from Dragonborn Bloodline.

A normal shot can cause 3570.75 points of damage!

Rune now has a basic 10% (5% from large lead bullets, 5% from the hunter's sealing wax) critical hit rate. As long as a critical hit occurs, that is 7141.5 spiritual damage!

If there is another void fire/void flame

The damage will only be more exaggerated.

"Not bad. Just by changing the material and re-engraving the formation, the strength has been greatly improved."

Rune gently stroked the destiny in his hand, and the feeling of mutual understanding still existed.

No matter how this gun is recast, even if all the materials are changed, the "soul" inside it remains unchanged.

"The shotgun has been recast, and the bullets must be changed accordingly."

Rune had tried to modify bullets before.

However, the alchemical techniques at that time were not sufficient to support his large-scale transformation.

The Destiny Shotgun has a very powerful feature, which is that it can adapt to bullets of any size and shape.

Its caliber is the largest among all "gun" series.

There is nothing it cannot fire, except that the shells cannot be stuffed in.

Therefore, when manufacturing the bullet of destiny, many complicated processes can be omitted.

The bullets that change fate still need to be based on large lead bullets, adding different materials to them and carving formations.

"I don't have the materials right now, but I can draw the formation."

Thinking of this, Rune's eyes involuntarily turned to Richardo beside him.

It would be a waste not to use the ready-made tools.

"Come here, I'll teach you a trick."

On the third day of Rune's journey through the Chehai Sea, all preparations were ready.

For the entire day and night yesterday, Richardo served as Rune's perfect tool, helping to carve out the [Power Amplification] formation with a thousand large lead bullets.

The power of [Large Lead Bullet (Revised)] engraved with a formation has doubled, and the spiritual damage increase has now reached 7 points!

With the high multiplier of the Destiny Shotgun, this small 1 point of basic damage can bring a -fold damage increase.

After packing up some trivial matters, the Invincible ship left the port smoothly.

"Invincible" was the name given by Rune.

He originally wanted to name the first ship he owned this name, but Carter Jr. took away the naming rights, which made him quite upset.

The Invincible is so awesome, mighty and domineering!

On board the Invincible, one hundred sailors were recruited.

They were called sailors, but Rune saw that they were actually retainers of these noble young men and women.

After all, no one can recruit a hundred extraordinary people with short hair in the talent market.

But Rune was too lazy to care about these things.

The more extraordinary people there are, the more help we will have when chasing the Immortal.

The ship was also equipped with corresponding artillery, guns, crossbows, etc., but in Rune's eyes, these poor 8-pound guns were no different from garbage.

Probably better than nothing.

Rune, Richardo, Melulan, Believ and others all embarked on the journey to search for the ghost ship.

After all, it was Rune himself who had the strongest desire to pursue the ghost ship.

Richardo and Melulan both came with Rune.

The others came with Meilulan.

In the opinion of several people, even if there really was a ghost ship lurking in the clear sea, it was not something they could encounter.

After all, that thing comes and goes without a trace.

"Tell me about the information you have collected."

After the ship had been away from the port for some time, Rune gathered several people in the captain's room.

Meilulan was the first to speak: "One day is too short. We have spent a lot of money to collect a lot of information from different adventurers, but we are still unable to distinguish the truth from the false."

"Speak." Rune said.

"According to the information we have learned, thirteen fleets have encountered this ghost ship before, and four fleets had close encounters, but only a dozen people survived."

"Most of these people are 'deserters' who left before coming into contact with the ghost ship. There is only one person who has actually been to the ghost ship and returned."

"One?" Rune was a little surprised.

It seems that the danger level of the ghost ship needs to be considered more deeply.

After all, even if you enter the forbidden forest, according to big data, there is still almost a one in four survival rate.

Facing the survival rate of the ghost ship, only one person survived among the four fleets that came into direct contact with it.

Rune frowned slightly: "Have you confirmed whether the information from that person is true or not? Is it possible that it is fabricated?"

"We found the Dream Talker and used a memory search." Meilulan said, "Although it was a bit painful, the guy had serious hidden injuries after he came back. He won't live long. In order to leave some money for his wife and children, he was willing to contribute his memory."

Rune nodded in agreement.

The worldviews of nobles and commoners are inherently different.

It is normal to use money to buy life if both parties are satisfied.

"So, what are the specific contents?" Rune continued to ask.

"There are currently seven locations where the ghost ship has appeared. I have marked seven red dots on the map." Meilulan said, "We will go to these seven points in order, and the place where the sailor encountered the ghost ship is the second one."

"According to the sailors' memories, before encountering the ghost ship, there would be a significant drop in temperature, and then the weather would change drastically, with violent storms and rainstorms coming in an instant."

"In the dense rain, the silhouette of the ghost ship can be vaguely seen."

"That ghost ship is much longer, wider, and taller than any ship we know of. It has no sails, and no sound from alchemical devices can be heard. I don't know what it uses to drive it."

"There are many undead wandering on the deck of the ghost ship. Each of these undead is very powerful, at least crushing most of the sailors."

"The most important thing is that these undead will continue to revive and be reborn after being killed."

"And each of them has their own consciousness. They are not puppets controlled by others."

Having said this, Melulan stopped.

Rune raised his eyebrows, "Is that all? Is there any more news?"

Melulan shook her head and said, "There is no more information. These are all the scenes in the sailor's memory. After their fleet encountered the ghost ship, they only fought with the undead on the periphery. They have never seen what is really inside."

"Okay." Naturally, this limited information was not satisfactory.

But it's better than nothing.

Rune picked up the pen and highlighted three of the seven points that Merulan had drawn on the chart.

At the same time, three new points were marked on the side.

There are a total of six points on the treasure map that I own.

When pieced together with the existing information, the three intersecting points naturally become the most important places.

The ship sailed in the clear sea for seven days, with sunny days all the way.

There has been no change at all, let alone the desire to see the legendary ghost ship.

During the seven days, Rune and Richardo were secretly working on Richardo's project in the makeshift research institute.

With Rune's help, the project made small progress.

This made Richardo very happy.

Richardo was particularly interested in the "super-level alchemy formula" related to Rune, and kept asking Rune for advice.

It also brought a lot of new creativity and ideas to Rune.

Although Richardo's alchemy level is slightly lower than Rune's, his knowledge reserves are much greater than Rune's.

The two of them influenced each other's progress, and they were very happy during the seven days.

During these seven days, Meilulan ran to the alchemy room whenever she had free time.

She didn't talk nonsense or do any research, she just fiddled with some little gadgets by herself.

I borrowed some alchemical tools from Rune and the others, and I don't know what I was making up.

As for Believ, Daze and others, they spent a few painful days.

When they first went into the sea, they participated in it with a "travel" mentality.

But after a few days, all I could see was the sea, a vast expanse of boundlessness.

The feeling of loneliness was about to drive them crazy, and they were even happy for a while when they saw an isolated island.

On the eighth day at sea, we finally arrived at the first sea area of ​​key concern.

Rune and others came to the deck and looked around.

There was no movement.

On the tenth day at sea, we arrived at the second key sea area, but still had no harvest.

Everyone on the ship was a little discouraged, including Rune, who was thinking about the relevant issues over and over again.

Have I missed something?

Just because a ghost ship has appeared in the sea before doesn’t mean it will pass by again.

But the traces left by the treasure map would not prevent him from finding even the shadow of the ghost ship.

"Perhaps the ghost ship is not a physical entity. It will only appear as a physical entity when certain conditions are met." Melulan guessed.

Richardo has a different view on this. "The ghost ship itself may have other characteristics, such as diving into the water or even flying to a height that cannot be seen from above."

Both of their reasonings have their plausibility, and Rune himself even speculates that the ghost ship may even be similar to the forbidden forest.

The encounter with the ghost ship is not a real "encounter", but the ghost ship is making a "choice".

Unless there is some way to sense a ghost ship, you'll just have to rely on luck to see one.

Three ideas, all possible.

So in the next few days, all the members on the Invincible became busy, and those idle young masters now had something to do.

Observing the sky and the seabed, Melulan used magic to explore the surroundings, while Rune worked on the treasure map - this was the only thing he could think of that was related to the ghost ship.

The Invincible's route was also readjusted back to the three key areas.

Three days passed.

Believ is conducting detection.

Looking up at the sky and watching the changes in the clouds became his daily routine.

Although I didn't expect to find a ghost ship, it was at least a good place to kill time.

Dai Ze on the side was responsible for underwater observation.

As usual, the two of them observed for half an hour and then found someone to take over.

Another day of nothing.

"What are we having for lunch?" Believ put down the telescope.

"I don't know. There are still some fresh fruits and vegetables. I want to eat salad." Dai Ze said.

"Okay, let's go." Believ sighed and touched his arms, "It's really cold today."

As soon as the words were spoken, both of them were stunned and then looked up.

It’s a sunny day today!

A strange feeling surged in the two people's hearts, and they could even hear the sound of their own heartbeats like drums in their ears.

At this time, Rune and his companions also rushed out from the lower cabin.

In an instant, violent storms and tsunamis came from afar!

Ghost Ship

A hint of joy appeared on Rune's face.