Chapter 361 - The Showdown Begins!!! (I)
After half an hour leaving the Night of Truce's venue, Kai suddenly paused.
Selene's mist form seeped out from the rocky patch of earth and entered her master's body.
-And?- Kai hissed, his breath escaping his mouth as a re whisper.
-Nothing,- Selene hissed back. -The old man entered a bar and began courting a lady.-
Kai's brows pressed together. He shook his head and forget about the old man.
Dawn was just about a few hours away, and he needed to go through with his plans once again, making minute changes to compensate for the Protectors and their abilities.
Then, with a pop, he vanished.
...
Just as Kai vanished, the entire space around that spot broke as if countless mirror-like shards had shattered.
However, these mirror-like shards differed from that of a Mirror Dinsion.
There was an order to them, a specific geotrical characteristic.
From these many-geotrical mirror shards, a person ca out, donning a blue-colored overcoat.
On the man's head, there was a mysterious gold-colored Corinthian helt.
The sheer presence of this helt in this world brought the space close to destruction.
From behind the slits of the helt, the person eyed the direction where Kai had vanished.
"Color of Supre?!" A ghostly, and quite ethereal, voice escaped from the helt as if it was deliberately masked. "Is he... Sigh! A disaster is brewing..."
Then, with a flick of his hand, this person vanished, subrging back into the countless mirror-like shards.
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Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for .
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot,
Drink up
hearties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot,
Drink up
hearties, yo ho...
...
The prow of a ship torn apart the veil of the grey and unnatural fog, sailing in the Caribbean sea.
On the main deck, a 10-year-old girl, richly dressed, was singing under her breath, her fascination with the pirates growing stronger with every sentence.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed her shoulder, and the young girl gasped.
"Quite missy!" Sailor Gibbs warned, looking at the surrounding silent waters with apprehension. "Cursed pirates sail these waters. You don't wanna bring them down on us, do you?"
"Mr. Gibbs, that will do," Lieutenant Norrington intervened.
This ship was Dauntless. And this place was Elizabeth Swann's dream.
Eight years ago, Governor Swann sailed on the Dauntless to arrive at the Port Royal.
Elizabeth was just a young girl then, and her curiosity about anything related to pirates knew no bounds, despite the concerns of her Lord father.
As they sailed, the Dauntless chanced upon the wreck of a rchant vessel.
It was just before then that Elizabeth spotted the young Will Turner lying unconscious on a piece of driftwood.
After being brought aboard the Dauntless, Elizabeth then noticed a gold dallion about Will's neck, which, after seeing a skull, gave her the thought that he was a pirate.
Fearing that the adults would have Will hanged, the young girl took the dallion from Will before he was taken below decks.
As Elizabeth stood on the bow of the Dauntless, looking at the dallion, she caught movent out of the corner of her eye.
Looking up, she saw a tall ship with black sails moving silently through the thick fog.
As the ship slipped quickly into the fog, Elizabeth widened her gaze upon realizing it was a pirate ship. Fearing the black-and-white flag billowing in the wind, Elizabeth shut her eyes.
It was then her dream shattered.
It was then the showdown began.
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A wraith-like, and the evilest and vile, creature crawled a few inches over the sheet of filth in the sewers.
Wherever this dark creature passed, a thin layer of frost froze everything in his wake.
Cold fog surrounded this figure like an overcoat over its already tattered robes.
And when it breathed, the creature's breath rattled as if it wanted to take in more than just air into its rotten lungs.
This figure was naturally Dentor-Kai.
At this mont, he was crawling in the sewers under Governor Swann's Manson.
There was a bundle of docunts in Kai's scabbed and decayed hand.
It was the plot summary g had given him in detail of the original storyline.
Hmm, Kai contemplated, his breath freezing the papers. Elizabeth must have woken up by now after having that dream. It also ans that she has worn the gold dallion around her neck.
Ti... Ti is of the essence. I must be accurate and precise now. Cersei... I am counting a lot on you. Don't disappoint , my greatest pawn.
Not unknown to Kai, the entire mansion was covered under the gazes of dozens of Contestants.
This was the mont when Governor Swann gifted her daughter the corset, which led her to suffocate later.
This corset was an Artifact.
Not only the mansion, but the entire island of Port Royal had also already welcod another hundred Contestants by now.
Everyone had gone alert, sitting on their haunches like wolves.
The coming few hours would decide who had co out victorious and who had fallen from the grace.
Of course, losing ant death.
But Kai hadn't co in the sewers for the golden dallion, as it was nigh impossible to get one's hands over it without causing the descent of higher-floor Contestants.
Nor was he here for the corset, which had already squeezed Elizabeth's breasts flat.
His goal was a sword.
And its smith, Will Turner, could be entering the mansion at any mont.
Only the inside of the mansion was still safe from the penetrating gazes of the Contestants.
And unless one could enter the mansion officially, it was just impossible to interact with these major characters during this montous setting of the original tiline.
Unlike Kai, not everyone had Cersei Lannister to rely on.
There was no true beginning to the next Phase of Kai's plan for Phase 3 wasn't sothing intangible, but had corporeal form.
Cersei was Phase 3.
The countless Artifacts were Phase 3.
Blood and Fire were Phase 3 as well, and so was obtaining Jack Sparrow's Compass.
Phase 3... had already begun with no bells.
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Just as Governor Swann had called out maids, heading toward Elizabeth's room, Cersei found a chance to swap places with another maid.
In the last two nights, she had gained the favor of young Swann, telling her half-lies and fascinating tales.
If it wasn't for Kai's plans, she wouldn't have missed a chance to help Elizabeth with the Corset.
Kai needed her on the ground floor, so there she would be.
Cersei was playing with a lock of her hair when she heard the knock on the main door.
Her eyes lit up, and she scurried toward the main hall.
"Ah! Good morning, Mr. Turner," the Butler greeted back the young smith. "Here to deliver the sword, I presu."
"... yes," William Turner nodded, his eyes darting all around.
The Butler smiled at him. "Do wait in the main hall for a mont," he told Will. "Governor Swann is busy with sothing. Let
announce your presence."
William Turner nodded shyly.
Just as the Butler vanished up the stairs, Cersei sauntered her way to the young man, smiling coquettishly.
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