Blackbeard needed no crossing ropes to get from his boat to the merchant ship as he effortlessly jumped and covered the over 15 meters gap between the two ships easily.
"You….." he said, tilting his head from side to side as his almost demonic eyes scanned Rocky with keen interest.
"You look like you have been to Central Africa. Are you a climber?" Blackbeard asked, implying that Rocky had been to the tower of ascension just like him.
In the days of the old, when the world wasn't mapped out as well as it is today, people living on the other continents were not as aware about the Tower Of Ascension as they are in the modern day.
Back then, reaching the tower wasn't as easy and many humans lived their entire lives simply without ever knowing about the existence of the tower and considered the myriad monster waves that sometimes originated from the tower as nothing more than divine punishment for their sins.