When the pirates having drinks saw Maxine, the smiles on their faces completely vanished. At the moment, the joyous mood inside the manor died down. Instead, a gloomy atmosphere took control over the area.
Gibson felt uncomfortable seeing the countless death glares at them.
Through the glaring pirates, they followed Sheyan behind. At the end of the hall, there were crescent-shaped stairs leading to the upper floors. On his way, Michael noticed the maids and female pirates licking their lips looking at him.
The face mask changed his extremely handsome face to some generic normal-looking face. There was nothing special about his facial features. However, his height and muscular build made him stand out in the crowd.
All the girls in the hall wanted a piece of him. Even some of the girls sitting on their partners' laps stared at Michael instead of their partners.
Ignoring the gazes, Michael followed Sheyan. The stairs were decorated with the same glowing flowers. The island seemed to have glowing flowers in abundance. Everywhere he turned, he could see the flowers. The veins were coiling around the stair edges. Hence, he was able to touch the flower. Like most of the flowers, the petals were extremely soft and silky, too soft. He rubbed his fingers together to feel a powdery substance that got attached to his fingers when he touched them. Despite its powdery form, the powder seemed to stick like glue to the skin.
He then quickly took a whiff without letting the others notice him. His lips slightly curved upwards a few moments later. Listening to the cheery pirate music, they climbed the stairs. Finally when they reached the top floor where they saw a couple of pirates staying in front of a redwood door. The door had carvings of various fishes, flowers as well as a huge eye on the center.
The guards did not wear any armor. Instead, they had spears in their hands. Also, they looked huge, almost 7ft with biceps the size of a normal human being's thighs. Any lesser man would be torn to pieces by the guards. Their stature alone freaked out Gibson. Only because he had Lucifer before, Gibson wasn't very afraid of the guards.
Approaching the door, Sheyan nodded as though he was giving a wordless password. The guards slowly opened the door to reveal the room on the other side. The gigantic diamond-shaped chandelier hanging from the ceiling lit the room with its golden light. In the golden light, two figures appeared in their sight. The two figures were surrounded by nothing but greeneries. The wall was completely layered by green veins and heart-shaped leaves. There wasn't a single spot in the room that wasn't covered by the veins or leaves. In addition to the thick veins and leaves, the emerald green flowers riddled the room. Even the round table between Michael and the group and the two figures were covered by the veins. This was the only place Michael saw no glowing flowers.
One of the figures on the other side of the table was a woman. At the moment, they could only see her back. She had wavy long brown hair in which she had tiny glowing flowers as a decoration. She was 6ft tall with a slender build. The smell of rustic nature permeated from her as well as the walls around them. When they stepped into the room, the guards shut the doors.
The other figure was tied to a chair. She was slowly running her fingers on her face. Michael stepped aside slightly to see the bald man struggling to speak something but his words were muffled by the cloth around his mouth.
Although Michael had no idea about the identity of the man, he knew she was one of the three pirate lords, Corey. HE still couldn't see her front side. while he was staring at her back, she raised her hand,
"So nice of you to return to your former lord, Marina" her sound sounded sweet and gentle. She slowly turned back to let them see the front of her.
The moment she turned around, Gibson was stunned. Her face was completely filled with tattoos. Michael was slightly stunned too, not because her face was buried under tattoos. It was because the tattoos resembled Mayan and Aztec tattoos on the earth.
Gibson couldn't tell she was beautiful or not so beautiful before all the tattoos. Corey smiled revealing her pearl white row of teeth looking at Michael's fixed gaze on her.
"Like what you see handsome" she suddenly opened up her brown blouse revealing her ample bosom. Gibson's jaw almost dropped to the ground. She removed the shirt and threw it on the floor. Just like her face, every inch of her body was decorated with tattoos.
However, Michael saw a thin layer of oil on her body. He wasn't surprised though because he knew why exactly she applied oil on her body.
"You know who he is?" She took a step forward, then walked around the tied-up man while running her finger through his face.
When she came behind the man, she bent down to kiss the top of his head.
"My lover, soon to be ex I suppose" her hands leisurely moved towards her long gown. With a flick of her wrist, she untied the laces on each side. The long gown slowly fell off, revealing her lower body. Gibson couldn't help swallowing a mouth full of saliva. Right at the moment, Corey had nothing but a tiny piece of cloth covering her womanhood.
"Am I ugly my dear? You didn't think I am when we made love"
"Hrrgghhhh" the man seemed to be trying to scream but all that escaped his mouth was a muffled cry.
Yet again she slowly walked to the front of the man, sat on his lap and licked his cheeks.
"Am I ugly my dear?" She whispered into the man's ears. It was loud enough for everyone to hear.
"HRGGHHHHHHH!" The man frantically struggled against the ropes that tied his arms and legs to the chair. But no matter how hard he shook his body, he couldn't escape.
After a few moments of licking the man's cheeks, she stood up. Michael was patiently looking at all the drama with a smile on his face. All of their eyes were fixed on Corey, expecting what she was gonna do next. Gibson couldn't help expecting the last piece of cloth to come down, just to see if all of her had been decorated with tattoos.
"Ummah" Corey gave the man a flying kiss. She then placed her hand on the man's cheek. Under their gazes, she snapped her fingers. The very next moment, the flames appeared out of nowhere and enveloped the man.
"HRGHHHHHHH!" The man was on fire literally. His frantic struggle became worse by the second. Everyone was completely in shock except Michael. Although Maxine had seen Corey perform with Chris many times, she was still stunned to see it again.
She told Michael about Corey's ability to perform witchcraft. Yet, he had never reacted much except a smile. Gibson was staring at the burning body in a daze. His mind was boggle trying to figure out what just happened.
"She used magic?" Gibson asked himself. Then he looked at Lucifer to see him standing there completely indifferent. The burning smell of skin overpowered the rustic aroma in the room.
"Who feels like barbeque?" Corey chuckled before stomping the ground. The floor beneath him quickly opened up as the burning man dropped into the hole.
After burning the man alive, Corey turned to lock her eyes with Maxine. She still had an alluring smile on her face.
"You don't scare me, Corey," Maxine calmly said. In terms of making people scared, Corey was nowhere near Lord Lucifer.
"Is that so?" Corey licked her lips.
"Enough of this circus" Finally Michael opened his mouth. Sheyan almost unsheathed his sword when he saw Lucifer pull back one of the chairs.
Corey looked at him sitting on the chair without batting an eye. Her alluring smile almost turned cold as Michael put his leg on the table.
"I have to say, you put up a good show" he chuckled,
"Pirate Lord" Sheyan tried to step forward but was stopped by the wave of Corey's hand.
"A highly flammable spores produced by the glowing flowers" he calmly said,
"The gunpowder mixed with a tinge of iron powder under your fingernails, snap your fingers hard to create a spark" As the smile on Michael's face grew wider, the smile on Corey's face dimmed down.
"Everyone walking through the party will basically be bathed in invisible oil"
Maxine always wondered why there were no torches inside the manor and the pirates were prohibited to use torches. If everyone were flammable in the manor thanks to the glowing flowers, it made sense not to allow anyone to play with fire.
"Then why am I not on fire?" Corey asked,
Michael chuckled yet again looking at her confidence in her voice despite scamming people with her fake witchcraft for years,
"They might not see the oil on your body but I can. It prevents you from getting caught on fire in close range" He paused for a moment to Corey realize her scam has been exposed,
"The tattoos on your body, your gimmick of being a witch, the decorations" he looked around the room,
"You wanted to be a witch when you were little and managed to be a fake one with the help of your scams. I got to hand it to you, fake or not, you built yourself an empire, I respect that" He nodded approvingly,
"But do you want to see real magic?" the smile on his face disappeared. Gibson felt a chill hearing his animalistic voice once again. The next moment, the room became dark despite the chandelier light. Corey's eyes opened as wide as they could when she saw the youngster in front of her suddenly change his form.
She unconsciously took a step back seeing the dark smoke around him. His red eyes, the skull mask, the black armor, and his voice, everything made her shiver.
The next moment, when Sheyan was still in shock, Corey saw him point his finger towards Sheyan. A bolt of lightning immediately fired out from his hand and struck Sheyan.
Boom!
Corey was taken aback by the muffled exploding sound.. It took her a few seconds to realize the red mist in the air was Sheyan.