"I am back, i found the ship from the old man, oh you are also here Andrei." Paula came back running on his cane and yelled this out.
"Oh, you found the ship? that saves me from working much, i guess you can go in and pick some weapons kid." Andrei looked at Alex and said this.
"Thank you, but my name is not Kid, it's Alexander," Alex said and went in.
"Yea Yea Yea, go in." Andrei waved his hand.
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Alex was inside this shack, he looked around.
This was a wooden shack that had many weapons stored in it, there were wooden boxes where you could see weapons like swords crossbows as well and spears stored, there was armor just leaning over the wall, and most of the armor here looked like it was made of pure leather.
"Do they not have iron here? no, that is impossible, i mean, these weapons have iron-looking sharp heads... why are they making such weak armor, it's not usable in a long-scale battle." Alex scratched his head and went towards the sword box.
"Since i am not trained to use anything here, i am going to just take the swords or daggers, man if i knew i would need to fight, i would make some prototype guns." Alex sighed and took out one sword.
It was about 1 meter with a wooden handle, it had carvings of a battle on the handle and an extremely sharp tip.
Sword looked ready to go to war.
*BSHHHTTT*
Alex swung the sword that cut the air itself.
"It's light, a few kilograms probably, handle also fits my hand extremely well." Alex checked the structure of the sword.
"It was probably forged by ancient Cold Forging, very masterfully carved, i guess people that did this for years would know their stuff." Alex nodded in appreciation and took the sword.
He then looked towards the leather armor, most of them looked the same, wooden protected stomach and leathered shoulder plates, it was a simple design, but it protected what it needed to protect them most.
"Is there no armored chausses? do they not care about legs?" Alex asked confusedly, he couldn't see any type of protection to the legs.
"Well who cares..." Alex took one random piece of armor and put it on, it was quite hard to put on like you were trying to put on some kind of wooden carved armor, it was really hard, first Alex thought it would be pain to even move in this thing, but then he discovered, it was quite comfortable, it didn't held back what you needed to move and it was stuffed with soft cotton from inside.
"Alright..." Alex looked up and saw shields on the walls, he was never a protection guy, in the military he never really needed to use some shields, he didn't like how painfully heavy most shields were, and in the missions, Captains never really forced anyone to use them.
"Do it take one?" Alex pulled one down, it was a round shield made from bronze, and it had the face of a weird monster on it Alex didn't recognize.
"No, it will just hold me back... it's quite easy to hold tho..." Alex opened his eyes in surprise.
"Is it because of that Chicken i eat? was it some kind of monster... oh wait..." Alex put the shield down and looked at his hands.
He remembered when Jason was explaining to them, what to do when you wanted to sense Neus.
He tried to imagine little colors flying in the sky, bubbles or circles, he tried to imagine all of them, but nothing worked...
"Damn... this is hard." Alex gave up, he would try again on the ship if he could.
Alex looked back and finally exited the shack.
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"Oh, you look handsome Alex." Paula was impressed by how Alex put the armor on.
"Not bad at all, i thought with your weak-looking body, i would need to order some original less heavy swords... but looks like you have strength in those muscles huh?" Andrei laughed and punched Alex's shoulders.
"Yes... i have been training." Alex smiled and said this, he still didn't like being with Andrei for some reason.
"We are here..." Anzhel's voice was heard from the distance.
Everyone looked back and saw the boys coming towards them, it was Miloslav, Ivan Laszlo, and Anzhel as well as Dimas coming towards them.
"Hm? Where is Boris?" Alex asked, Boris was one of the people he was expecting to come to the journey, he was a natural jokester, and in the sea, they would need that.
"Well... he... was sick and didn't come here... sorry Alex, he said that he would come to the next adventure when Jason got better," Ivan said with an apologetic look.
"Oh, he must be that worried about Jason." Miloslav sighed, every one of them was worried about Jason but to fall sick because of it. well, that was too much.
"I see, then please go in, you need to take the armor," Alex said.
"Oi, i am the Captain here kid, so you are the brats that are in Jason's crew?" Andrei looked over them and went into thought.
"Not bad... not bad at all, go in, we are going to see the ship soon." He said this.
Everyone nodded.
"Oh ship... i forgot, Captain Andrei, i was thinking of making some modifications on the ship, please give me 1 day to do it." Alex said this.
"What??!!!" Andrei yelled out.
"Huh?" Alex was surprised.
"No way i am giving you anything brat, you know how busy i am? you should have said this before." He yelled at Alex.
"Wait now Old man, lets give him some time." Paula interfeared.
"You shut your mouth, you should have said this before, now i am packed, we are going to the sea no matter what!!!" Andrei screamed this.
"I am going to make the ship bettter, that is why i want to have some days to prepeare... Andrei..." Alex'es eyes went cold.
"What did you just call me???!!!" Andrei went close to Alex.
He pulled the sleeves up, Alex didn't even flinch.
"You know what kid? there are some rules on the sea, you need to think of those rules. the rules are... YOU ARE GOING TO DO ANYTHING I SAY AND TELL YOU!!! I AM YOUR GOD!!! AND YOU ARE MY PLAYTHING" Andrei smiled coldly and went close.
"ANDREI!!!" Before he did anything he heard a voice.
Andrei immediately stopped and looked back, his entire body sweating.
"I said we will give him some time... am i clear here..." Paula had his cane in his hands, but his back wasn't hunchback anymore, he was standing straight.
"PTIU, alright." Andrei gave up and spat on the ground.
Alex now knew... why was he so annoyed at Andrei... he could feel it, an inner arrogant person, he had seen too much in his life, Alex developed a detector in his mind for this kind of person.
And now his impression towards Andrei... got inherently broken.
End Of Chapter.