Captain – Chapter 726 – Eve of the Final Battle

Yes, the present world’s fleet had arrived.

From when Roy felt that sensation to when the thin fog in front of the giant ship retreated another twenty-odd nautical miles northward, there was movement in the morning mist illuminated by daylight to the south.

That real, slowly flowing water mist turbulently swirled in disorder, like a lifted veil.

As the veil danced, a giant shadow appeared and disappeared.

Then, beside that enormous ship shadow, several more shadows appeared, then dozens, finally filling almost the entire visible sea area.

Such a massive fleet probably hadn’t appeared even in that old covenant war.

The fleet had naturally come to assist under the guidance of the remaining pirates and Caine’s instructions after he used his perception to determine the captain’s approximate location.

“It seems your choice was correct.”

At the stern of the Goddess Hestia, Roy stood side by side with her father.

When they sensed the arrival of that fleet, they had already notified all crew members to wait together at the stern until dawn broke and the reinforcements emerged from the fog.

And that acknowledgment tinged with admiration was what Gerard said to the girl beside him after distinguishing the imperial forces within the present world’s fleet.

Even this legend said so, naturally meaning that the power the Empire revealed today after twenty years of recovery and development was truly formidable.

Having lost the protection of the Guardian of Law and the devil’s lineage, and possibly about to sever all great power and curses after the coming battle, the Islands might not be able to withstand it.

From this perspective, the arrangements the girl had discussed with her first mate before the expedition were naturally correct.

Of course, the premise was that they could win this round.

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Hearing her father’s praise and looking at the six giant ships at the fleet’s front flying black eagle flags and led by the Pilgrimage, Roy said nothing but couldn’t help raising an eyebrow, feeling this was equally far beyond her expectations.

Although she had never denied the Empire’s strength, this scene still shocked her.

Even Caine had been like this when returning to his country—how much more so for her?

After a moment of silence, the captain’s eyebrow returned to normal as she said lazily: “This matter was proposed by Caine and me, but the subsequent arrangements had little to do with us.”

“In other words, this was the three parties’ own choice, also a joint selection of the future?”

As her words fell, Roy withdrew her gaze, no longer looking at the vast fleet slowly approaching, and smiled at her father: “But this is good—it saves us the trouble.”

If after everything ended, the Islands, Empire, and Federation still loved and killed each other as in the past, there would be too many matters involving them, which would naturally be troublesome.

So it was better to be harmonious and just divide the cake.

Hearing this, Gerard also smiled gently, knowing she was referring to the freer and more fulfilling life compared to being pirates fighting and plundering after this battle ended.

After that, they should stay away from strife and see more novel scenery.

Like the eastern world that existed only in legends?

Whether comfort or imagination, it was ultimately just seasoning.

Because there was still a nameless island blocking those clear and magnificent sights.

To settle everything and be truly free, they had to cross over.

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Therefore, the relaxed atmosphere between father and daughter lasted only an extremely brief time. The two looked toward the fleet again, and the man said: “More came than you expected.”

In Roy’s estimation, even if the Empire truly agreed, it would send at most a hundred-odd ships. Adding those from the Islands and Federation, it wouldn’t exceed four hundred.

But now, the warships flying eagle flags alone were approaching that number.

And perhaps anticipating this situation, or originally intending to rely on joint efforts to suppress the Empire’s momentum and gain advantage in negotiations, the Federation and Islands also sent extremely many warships, though combined they could only barely match the Empire.

Overall, this fleet’s scale was nearly eight hundred ships.

It could truly be called unprecedented, with the entire world in motion.

“Mm.”

The girl’s eyes reflected the endless ship groups as she responded softly.

At this time, the smile had long vanished from her lips, and there was more gravity on her cheeks as she said quietly: “This is also good. Who would have thought you didn’t expect either…”

“That our ancestor hid so many things.”

What Roy called Edward’s hidden possessions were naturally those ghost ships.

As the thin fog retreated, the thunderstorm shrouding the waters near the nameless island could be glimpsed partially, and in that rainstorm that seemed to have fallen for a thousand years…

Only one color met the eye: ghostly blue.

A sea full of ghostly blue.

Hearing this, Gerard was silent for a while before saying: “The remaining ghost fleet is indeed many times more than in my memory. I suppose the situation then was also deliberately shown to me by that person. But don’t worry…”

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“Since I returned alive, at least on this front, we won’t lose.”

Knowing that the “front” he spoke of referred to the main battlefield where present world and old era fleets fought, Roy nodded slightly, thinking that since Caine and the others had almost emptied the three parties’ main forces, plus with two devils presiding, there should be no problem.

What needed more concern was how far they could send her out.

Whether her “front” could actually win.

The former could be calculated, but the latter had no answer.

No one did.

Everything that needed saying had been said, so naturally what followed was silence.

Waiting to converge with that fleet, waiting to transfer the intelligence they had gathered recently to Caine and the commanders, then waiting for the war preparation meeting to end.

Then begin the battle, advancing fearlessly toward that sea full of ghostly blue.

Rushing toward the destiny belonging to them, the devil, the divine, and countless living beings in the world.

But this painting-like scene didn’t continue indefinitely.

At a certain moment—specifically when morning light grew bright and that fleet approached within several nautical miles, so that the giant ship trailing at the rear, shrouded in cloud-like white fog, could no longer avoid Roy and her father’s perception—their eyebrows rose simultaneously.

Then they looked at each other, both full of surprise.

Remarkable as this father-daughter pair were, when they sensed that eternal ship and the visitors aboard, their emotions couldn’t help but be disturbed, because this matter was unimaginable.

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More unexpected than far exceeding expectations.

After all, who could have thought that this world war would still move those two.

The old man who should have remained in the present world as the final line of defense against the devil and to stabilize everything if they failed, and the sole remaining divine being.

At this final moment deciding the world’s fate, these two had ultimately entered the game.

But until the shock subsided and the fleets converged, the father and daughter had no intention of going to the rear to meet those two, and even the siren, ship spirit, and Vivian who had traveled with them for months were the same.

Because that ship’s position had already indicated everything.

Of course, Roy and the others had also sensed the old man and lady’s intentions.

Just as long ago on the Islands when they were about to part, that person on the throne had once said to the captain that he would watch until the very last moment.

So he had come, and the lady had come too, but…

Had they really just come to watch?

Though she hadn’t received a clear answer, Roy, who was quite clear about this in her heart, was still surrounded by this matter and the sadness of impending separation even after boarding the Pilgrimage.

Until that silver-haired young man approached, she gathered her composure, smiled as she went to meet him, then embraced him tightly in front of over a thousand soldiers.

As for the girl’s whisper, only Caine could hear it.

“Thank you for your hard work, my dear first mate.”