"About… about three days' journey." The female knight answered falteringly.

She was also in fear. It was the primal fear that a low-level being has when faced with a higher being that could kill anytime he wanted, like when Grimm was faced with the Stigmata Sorcerer of Black Isotta.

Grimm couldn't care less about what these human thought. Though, the stubborn female knight that looked pitiful just now was Grimm's image of a perfect wife when he was younger.

Grimm continued to ask, "Did you come from the Eastern Coral Island?"

"Yes." The female knight nodded frantically.

"Okay."

After Grimm's reply, he made a fireball between his fingers. It was glowing brightly like a newly-christened tiny sun.

The temperature around the fireball rose up dramatically. The surrounding air became twisted. The wooden deck under Grimm's feet started to curl up under the heat.

"No… please, don't kill me, I would give you anything…"

The female knight's face was pale. She begged at Grimm terrifyingly as she crawled backwards, trying to hold on to something to s.h.i.+eld herself from this demon.

Grimm looked at the female knight confusingly. Then, it dawned upon him. He let out a quiet sigh, as if his dream had been shattered.

He slowly turned around toward the pirate's s.h.i.+p.

"No!"

In the distance, the leader of the pirates was squealing in a futile manner.

Waves of fire rose up in an ear-shattering explosion. Wooden debris flew across the sky. The remaining pirates wailed hopelessly on the burning s.h.i.+p, which was quickly consumed by the fire and sunk into the ocean.

"Ah! Why? You b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Why! Why would a high sorcerer like you get involved with…"

Before the leader of the pirates could finish his speech, his eyeb.a.l.l.s popped up. His face, body, and limbs started to twitch in an odd faction. Rip! As he cried exasperatingly like a baby, his body was ripped into a few portions. They turned into tentacles and started to eat each other up.

This was the first time Grimm had tried out Dissimilation Sorcery in the field. The scene after the remains had dissimilated looked horrid, even by sorcerers' standard.

"Arghh…"

"Ughh...."

The horrifying scene not only terrorized the pirates on the s.h.i.+p. Even the traveling merchants, sailors, and knights became petrified as they distanced themselves from this evil demon.

Grimm flew upward casually as he asked rhetorically, "Why? For justice."

A while later, Grimm returned into the sky and calmly said, "Not bad, we'll reach the Eastern Coral Island today."

A few days' worth of journey was but one or two hourgla.s.ses for the sorcerers.

Nina, who was chatting with the Myna turned around in confusion. "What's that all about? Why did you get into the trivial fights of the humans?"

"It's nothing. I was just fulfilling a meaningless childhood dream." Grimm replied nonchalantly as they continued their flight.

After about two hourgla.s.ses.

As more and more s.h.i.+ps appeared beneath their feet, Grimm and Nina who was tearing across the sky in breakneck speed saw a dash of land on the horizon. Nina cried out with joy, "We're finally here!"

Suddenly, Grimm thought of something. He turned toward Nina and asked, "Where did you live? Do you want to go check it out first?"

But Nina became depressed. She shook her head and said, "There's nothing much to see. I came back after becoming a real sorcerer. There was just… nothing."

Nina was probably referring to her parents and relatives when she said there was nothing there anymore.

After all, a century was too long for the average human being, not to mention that Nina had probably taken more than a century to become a sorcerer.

Or should an old woman suddenly trace back her bloodline, and say to another old woman that she was her great-grandmother from centuries ago?

It would be a trivial, meaningless act.

Grimm nodded and said softly," Well, let's fly toward Bi Seer Castle then."

Krakatoa Port. This was the port where Grimm and the rest of the bunch departed from when they first left the Eastern Coral Island. Until now, Grimm was still intrigued by the mysterious moonwell.

But since Grimm had missed Lefay so much, he didn't stay around to study the moonwell. She led Nina to tear across the sky.

"Oh right, Grimm, do you still remember the viscount who gave us a grand send-off at Krakatoa Port? He had some baby fat on his face, the one who always liked to twist the red ruby ring on his right thumb," asked Nina.

Grimm nodded. "I could still remember some, what is it?"

Nina continued on slowly. "I only knew about this after I became a real sorcerer and came back. He was actually a real sorcerer that was hiding in the secluded region of the Eastern Coral Island."

Grimm was intrigued. But he merely nodded and didn't really care all that much.

Two days later.

Grimm, who was filled with excitement, suddenly came to a halt as they flew over Bi Seer Castle.

At the street beneath their feet, a squadron of battle-worn knights that had stern expressions held out their long swords as they paraded the streets, chanting "Sacrifice!" with pride.

There were common people on both sides of the street. There were decorations all around, and they were cheering.

At the back of the parade, prisoners whose faces were covered in dust were tied up by metal chains.

The scene was a far cry of what Grimm had in mind. He thought that the streets would be broken and corrupted, and that the bottom feeders were constantly oppressed by those who had a higher standing in society. He also thought that there was something twisted in the prosperity of the streets.