Beast Tamer: My pet has a game panel

Ye Mo's residence was located at the stern of the merchant ship. It was a very quiet place with a rather pleasant environment.

Through the window, he could see the entire merchant ship had already started, moving slowly. After a while, it found its direction, the sails opened, and under the shroud of magic, the seemingly ancient ship quickly sailed away.

Through the window, in Ye Mo's eyes, the docks of Wave Song City became smaller and smaller until they disappeared completely.

Looking at the rolling waves on the sea, Ye Mo sighed in his heart, 'So this is the experience of sailing on a ship.'

Back when he was still in Demon City, he had visited many sea areas, but at that time, he didn't have a ship. He relied entirely on the憨憨 flight, which had nothing to do with sailing on a ship.

After watching for a while, after careful observation, Ye Mo confirmed one thing: the sea here was no different from the sea in Demon City, so boring.

Pulling the curtains, Ye Mo continued to concoct potions. The so-called fourth-tier master-level breeder breakthrough mission was also about to be completed, and he was getting closer and closer to concocting a fourth-tier potion.

Bai You, on the other hand, continued to ponder the array formations. According to its own words, relying on its innate talent, it was now close to touching fifth-tier array formations. However, its cultivation was too low, so even if it reached the fifth-tier array master level, it would not be able to exert its full strength.

Finally, Bai Ling and Xiao Liuer hid on the sofa, their eyes wide open, wearing headphones and continuing to watch their phones.

Ye Mo adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards these two. Anyway, they were still young, and normal cultivation had little effect on them.

The most suitable place for them was the battlefield, especially a large-scale battlefield. The endless slaughter on the battlefield could allow Bai Ling to improve rapidly, while a large number of corpses could allow Xiao Liuer to improve. Compared to these, normal cultivation could only increase a little skill experience.

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Two days later, on the vast sea, a merchant ship was constantly sailing, and not far away, a warship with a black flag was appearing in the distance, discovering the merchant ship, and quickly accelerated towards it.

On the deck of the merchant ship, Ye Mo, who came out for a stroll, looked at this scene with a puzzled expression.

Fortunately, the current captain of the merchant ship, Old Quinn, was by his side.

"Sir, that is the warship of the Black Stone Principality." Seeing Ye Mo's doubts, Old Quinn lowered his head and immediately explained.

"Sir, I haven't heard of tolls, but there are passage fees. The Black Stone Principality has warships guarding several waterways and specific waters, specifically used to collect passage fees."

"As for escort fees, this is also a well-known fee. As long as you encounter a warship of the Black Stone Principality in the sea, they will collect it. According to the three major fleets of the Black Stone Principality, if you have the worst luck, you will be charged three escort fees in a row."

Listening to Old Quinn speaking as if it were a matter of course, Ye Mo felt suffocated in his heart. He thought that merchant ships made money, but it turned out that the officials made the most money, just collecting fees all the way without doing anything.

Seeing Ye Mo's angry appearance, Old Quinn immediately advised, "Sir, the Black Stone Principality is powerful. It is best not to provoke them if possible."

Thinking about it, the Black Stone Principality openly possessed three fifth-tier Saint Realm-level professionals, corresponding to fifth-tier King-level Beast Tamers, also corresponding to King-level demon beasts and spiritual pets. This kind of strength was definitely not something he could provoke now.

After sighing, Ye Mo glanced at Old Quinn and said, "You handle it later, I'll go back first."

"Okay, leave it to me." Seeing this, Old Quinn breathed a sigh of relief and replied.

After a while, the warship with several battleships stopped in the distance, and then a very small warship took a few people and rushed towards the merchant ship quickly, while constantly shouting, asking the merchant ship to stop.

As the captain, Old Quinn directed everyone to stop the ship, and then arranged for those fish-type demihumans to return to the cabin. As demihumans, it would be bad if they were discovered by those naval soldiers and made them unhappy.

After a while, the small warship came not far from the merchant ship, and three soldiers wearing the naval uniforms of the Black Stone Principality climbed onto the merchant ship along the rope ladder.

On the deck, seeing the arrogant and casual naval soldiers, Old Quinn walked over with a smiling face.

First, he handed each person a gold coin. When the naval soldiers smiled, Old Quinn squeezed out a smile and said flattering words of courtesy.

Afterwards, after the other party slightly inspected the cargo hold, they gave the result that the escort fee was eighteen gold coins.

Then, after taking the gold coins for the escort fee from Old Quinn, the three naval soldiers nodded with satisfaction, and the leader gave a receipt, proving that their ship had been charged the escort fee.

After that, the three returned to the very small warship and drove all the way back to the fleet.

"The navy of this Black Stone Principality is too dark. The escort fee is eighteen gold coins. If I sell all these goods, it will only be two hundred gold coins." Red-haired Barton's face was gloomy, and his burly physique trembled with anger, as if he would take out the giant axe behind him at any moment.

Old Quinn put away his things and said helplessly, "This is also something that can't be helped. As long as you still want to act within the Black Stone Principality, you can't not pay this money."

Thinking of the strength of the entire principality, Red-haired Barton calmed down a lot, snorted softly, and then left here.

Inside the room.

"Okay, I know, let's handle it like this for now."

Facing Old Quinn who came to report, Ye Mo nodded and waved his hand to indicate that he knew.

After Old Quinn left, Ye Mo clenched his fist and hit the table, making a sound, and an unhappy expression appeared on his face.

"Damn Black Stone Principality." After scolding softly, Ye Mo suppressed the anger in his heart, opened the contract space, and prepared to continue concocting potions.

Although he was angry, under this circumstance, it was best not to provoke the other party, after all, his current purpose was to rush to the commercial port within the Black Stone Principality to inquire about information about the Three-Leaf Centennial Grass for breaking through the leader level, or other information about breakthrough-type resources.

According to the plan, conflicting with the Black Stone Principality was the worst choice. It was best not to provoke them if possible. Anyway, that's how others do it, so let's endure it first.

Thinking like this, after taking out the potion materials, Ye Mo calmed down and continued to concoct the potion.

According to his own plan, he planned to obtain the Three-Leaf Centennial Grass, this kind of breakthrough resource, by purchasing or exchanging it. After all, if the principality had this kind of resource, the guarding power would definitely not be small. Under this circumstance, using other methods would be too dangerous, and what if the other party popped out a fifth-tier Saint Realm-level professional, then it would be over.

With his current strength, facing a Fifth Order, without prior preparation and using his trump cards, he could at most successfully escape. As for counterattacking, he should forget about it.

Just as Ye Mo was thinking this, the other party didn't give him the chance.

As the merchant ship continued its voyage towards the trade port, in order to arrive as quickly as possible, it passed through two special sea areas designated by nobles, as well as a strait. After paying a total of three tolls, it was able to continue onward.

Although the tolls weren't as expensive as the escort fees, the three combined exceeded thirty gold coins.

Immediately afterward, after the merchant ship bypassed many small islands and was less than a day's voyage away from the trade port, a whole fleet sailed over on the sea not far away. The flags they flew were completely different from what he had seen before; they were genuine pirate fleets.

The moment the pirate fleet was discovered, the demi-human slaves and human slaves working on the deck showed terrified expressions. They stopped working and constantly gathered towards the center of the merchant ship.

For these demi-humans and humans, most of them had become slaves after being captured by pirates, so they naturally had a fear of pirates.

Faced with this situation, old Quinn came out and directed the mercenaries to control these slaves. Even if they couldn't work, they couldn't be allowed to interfere with the ship's movements.

At this time, after preparing a potion, Ye Mo came out. Seeing this scene, he asked curiously, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Barton was a little nervous, but after hearing Ye Mo's words, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

That's right, what was he afraid of? The opponents were pirates, which were essentially robbers on the sea. Their strength might not be low, but they had an adult here.

The leader had summoned two Fourth Order magical beasts. With this kind of strength, as long as the other party wasn't some extremely famous pirate, there was nothing to fear.

“Adult, the pirates are coming.” Some excited words were spoken from Red-haired Barton's mouth, and anyone could hear the excitement in his voice at this moment.

"Pirates!" Hearing this word, Ye Mo's eyes lit up instantly. Previously, his idea of obtaining breakthrough resources through purchases and transactions relied on the large amount of wealth from these pirates who ravaged the entire Black Radiance Sea.

Don't underestimate these pirates. On the new map he bought with money from Wave Song City, the Black Stone Principality only occupied 70% of the most prosperous islands in the huge Black Radiance Sea. About half a percent of the remaining 30% belonged to the Kingdom of Light, and the rest were all uninhabited islands.

Most of these scattered uninhabited islands had now become bases for pirates. Because of this, there were so many pirates in the Black Radiance Sea.

It could be said that if a Fifth Order Saint Domain level professional could emerge from this group of pirates and unify all the pirates in the Black Radiance Sea, even the Black Stone Principality would not dare to provoke them casually.

This huge number, and the absence of a Fifth Order professional, was why these pirates became Ye Mo's next target.

"It just so happens that I'm in a bad mood. I'll vent on them later."

His words were much more relaxed, and Ye Mo stared intently ahead with a smile. There, the entire pirate fleet was speeding towards them.

"That's not good, sir." After carefully observing the flags of the other party's fleet, old Quinn quickly said.

Seeing Ye Mo and Barton frown in confusion, old Quinn smiled wryly and immediately explained, "Sir, I discovered through their flag that they are the Thorns Pirate Group. Although they are flying the pirate flag, they are actually the navy of the Black Stone Principality."

"Or rather, they are one of the pirates under the command of the Earl of Emerald Island."

"What a coincidence?" Frowning, Ye Mo asked.

Old Quinn quickly said, "Sir, the Earl of Emerald Island is the strongest earl in the Black Stone Principality. Regardless of background or foundation, only the Marquis of Silverlight is stronger than him in the entire principality, and the other marquis is about the same as the Earl of Emerald Island."

"With this kind of strength, the pirates under the Earl of Emerald Island will naturally be numerous. Although the third son of that earl didn't tell me all of their pirates, he told me about a few who had collected money from me."

"Among them is the Thorns Pirate Group. They often operate in that sea area. I used to wonder why the navy didn't clean them up at such a close distance. It turns out…"

"As for why the other party came here this time, it might be a coincidence. After all, their range of activity is indeed quite close to here."

After listening, Ye Mo frowned. He didn't expect that encountering a pirate group would be so troublesome. It seemed that in the end, even in this seemingly chaotic sea area, one still had to rely on background.

"Hoo." After exhaling softly, Ye Mo turned his head and asked, "Although they are subordinates of that earl, they are still a pirate group. They won't do anything else, will they?"

"Sir, that won't happen." Old Quinn shook his head and quickly said, "I've encountered them a few times before. Just treat them like the navy. After collecting the protection fee, they will leave."

"After all, if they go too far, there will be far fewer merchant ships coming here in the future."

Nodding slightly, Ye Mo said, "Alright, then you handle this matter later."

Old Quinn was more familiar with this kind of thing. If he or Barton were to handle it, it would be good if they didn't start a fight.

After old Quinn nodded repeatedly, Ye Mo glanced at the pirate fleet and walked to the side by himself.

The red-haired Barton, carrying a giant axe, could only sigh after hearing this, and led the many mercenary subordinates to maintain a vigilant guard.

On the flagship of the Thorns Pirate Group in the sea area.

On the huge deck, pirates wearing various colors of clothing gathered. At the front of the deck, the pirate captain and vice-captain were looking at the merchant ship not far away, chatting leisurely.

"That person didn't lie to me. There really is a merchant ship coming from this direction."

"According to what that person said, the value of the goods on this merchant ship is not high, only a little over a hundred gold coins. Should we still collect protection fees?"

"Goods worth a little over a hundred gold coins? Then our protection fee would only be a dozen gold coins. That's too little. Let's just take it all."

"Are we really going to do that? I remember that person said that this merchant ship seems to be setting sail for the first time. If we really do this, I'm afraid there won't be a next time."

After the vice-captain's words were spoken, Captain Thorns stroked his chin and shook his head, saying, "That can't be helped, can it?"

As soon as the words came out, the vice-captain became silent.