“Captain, Sir Andraid wishes to discuss certain matters with you” (Momoi)

“Sir Andraid? OH! You mean the merchant leader?” (Me)

She nodded to confirm.

I went out to the deck, a Plank was placed where the Ironback Crushed the fencing, as the gate was further ahead.

“Greetings Captain” (Andraid)

“Greetings, I am Septaria” (Me)

We both shook hands

We both headed back to my office to begin the discussion, followed by his 2 escorts and Momoi

“So, about that Ironback” (Andraid)

“Is it how I killed it?” (me)

“No, I would like to purchase it’s remains” (Andraid)

I look at him in confusion, then it hits me, rare monster, glowy blood, probably very few get killed, plus a typical RPG fashion of monster hunting and selling remains, of course it's going to be a big matter for something like this monster.

“5,000,000 Els” (Andraid)

His 2 guards looked at each other in shock, so it must be quite a bit, but I don't quite know the value of money here. Momoi probably got the grasp of my confusion then whispered to me.

Holy crap, it's nearly 750 million yen, so 1 els is roughly 150 yen. But for someone to have this much during this era, is this guy a king or something!?

“Thats uh, quite a lot, but I don’t suppose you have it with you right now?” (me)

“Correct, but once we return to harbour I will make arrangements for such, and a reward for saving me and my crew” (Andraid)

“Deal, but how come so much for that iron back?” (Me)

“Ironback blood glows for a long time, up to almost a year, and even longer when preserved properly, its chitin makes for light and durable armour capable of repelling muskets and flintlocks, its flesh makes for high quality cuisines and so on.” (Andraid)

He said looking at the vial of its luminescent blood, then he continued.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

“It’s extremely dangerous to hunt, thus it would have to be lured to an area where shoreline cannons could help gun it down, as bringing a sizeable fleet to bring it down safely would usually outweigh the rewards, but ironclads could deal with it with little damage sustained but getting your hands on an ironclad ship is really hard, and very few know how to make one.” (Andraid)

“Well promise me a dish of it and we have a deal” (Me)

“Heh, a deal it is” (Andraid)

We shook hands to confirm the deal, then we helped move the Ironbacks floating remains back onto my ship, other pieces were put onto Andraid’s ship, or rather the ship that now belongs to him.

A week later the scouts woke us up by announcing an island ahead

Aaaah too early, 5 more minutesssss~

Momoi entered my room announcing.

“Captain, an island is ahead, Andraid said this is our stop” (Momoi)

As we were sailing closer I used my daily spins, which I now refer to as weekly spins

Spin 7 times

[Congratulations, you have gained 2 Rare drops and 1 Legendary Drop]

[5000XP + 5000XP + 1000XP, Custom crew uniform Male + Custom crew uniform Female, Strength stat up, Lesser Healing]

Hoo~ legendaries, my memory of a legendary drop is mind splittingly bad, literally. At the very least let's give the crew uniforms.

At that moment the crew’s clothing all light up, it seems that their ranking also shows up on the uniform.

The male uniform was a bright blue long sleeved shirt, with the trims done with yellow silk, the chestpiece also was made of a steel like plate which was darker blue with goldish trims, their shoulders were also given shoulder guards with their respective rank. Their trousers were grey with knee guards of the same metal and style.

The female uniform is similar but the shirt is a long coat which goes down to their shins, instead of trousers they have shorts with thigh high socks.

Wait, this makes my crew look like a military, isn’t this going to start some political issues?, I had the crew put their uniform into their crew bays and put their casual clothing back on, seems that's no issue

As for my own uniform it was similar, but with a few more differences, the plate was on the inside of the uniform and there was more of it, there were more golden strings around the shoulders instead of plates, with some embroidered buttons to fasten the jacket, the sleeves had leather straps around which were grey with yellow fastenings.

My hat was tall, roughly 12cm to get back some of my lost height, it was primarily blue with the same white and yellow shadings here and there, at the front of it was a golden anchor.

To finish it off, I had a neck warmer which was white and made of kevlar wrapped in a cloth like fabric, seems the material era isn't taken into account, so currently, my own uniform provides some pretty decent protection, I probably would survive gunshots anywhere right now, unless I get shot in the face, but I’d doubt that because this new face is too loveable~

Using my XP I decided to purchase the Devastation Class ironclad, but I kept it hidden in reserve for now.

[-10,000XP]

Looking at my ships menu, it would seem I lost HMS Warrior as it was sunk, However the repair cost was only 500XP, which was half of its original cost, but It's kind of outdated now, and I have a backup ship, there’s no indication of it having a timer either so there’s no rush for it.

On the way back to the docks the various ships around the island were slowly closing us in an encirclement, but didn’t do much to us as we were entering the docks, various guards could also be seen ‘wandering’ around the docks.

A few moments later we arrived at port, many people were surprised with the Ironback corpse on mine and Andraid’s ships, so I decided to say we were a group of mercenaries, then the crew went to put their uniforms on, it seemed it wasn’t a waste of a daily spin after all.

Many people realised that the other ship had Andraid, who seems to be the town’s lord, and with this town being a hot spot for traders, it would seem that the payment wasn't all that hard for him, I probably could have scratched a few more hundred thousand out of him, but if he is a town lord, it would be more beneficial to cozy up to him.

Many of the guards sent messages to the others to gather back all the ships looking for him, it seems they sent all sorts of ships to find him, which probably explained why the ships were seemingly trying to encircle us as we entered the docks.

“Ah yes, forgive me for hiding my true identity, i'm not only a merchant lord, but also the lord of Crescent Town” (Andraid)

“Understandable to hide your identity, considering that pirate issue, there’s no hard feelings here, but seeing you are a lord, that would explain the price you settled with on that Ironback” (Me)

“Correct, shall we head back to my palace to finalise matters?” (Andraid)

I nod in agreement, Me and Momoi followed him back to the palace

Several moments later we entered, many maids and butlers lined up to the side of the carpet, and in unison.

“Welcome back master Andraid” (Maids and Butlers)