Chapter 153: Sarah the Leader
One week later, morning.
Sarah and her crew have been living in the Leader's barracks for the past week, eating, living and training with the patrol members.
Although it was agreed that their job was to help the Wind Leader Association train sailing talents;
But in fact, these days, it is these pirates who have received more training from the leader.
Housekeeping, queues, and discipline are things that pirates have never learned or trained before.
The Leader's rigid and strict rules made these pirates, who were used to being lax, complain bitterly at first.
They only persevered reluctantly because of the "special talent subsidy for navigation" given by the leader and the huge amount of gold Hexcoins.
But after a week of training, these pirates gradually got into shape.
Just like now, in this barracks playground with the morning mist still on, these former sailors of the Sarah Pirates, now soldiers of the Coast Guard of the Leaders Association...
They can now wear uniform, line up in neat rows, and get up on time to attend morning training.
As they ran, they sang slogans loudly.
The pirates are in good order, disciplined, and in high spirits. This is really a good thing...
"What a ghost!"
Sarah was running at the front of the line, singing silly.
First mate Raven finally couldn't help himself and dragged her aside, saying to his beloved captain: "Captain Sarah, we are pirates!"
"If we don't fight or compete, and we get paid after training, can we still be called pirates?"
Raven reminded with great anguish.
Sarah didn't care: "Isn't this good? Who would want to rob things if they have a salary?"
"That's the problem, silly girl!" The mature and experienced Raven couldn't help but remind the captain, who was much younger than her, in the tone of teaching his daughter.
What does a pirate leader need to unite the majority of people? Of course, it's money!
Now the Sarah Pirates have transformed themselves into the leading coast guard.
The person who gave money to the sailors and led everyone to make money also unknowingly changed from Captain Sarah to the Leaders Association.
Since the sailors were eating Levi's food, they naturally became Levi's soldiers.
Now everyone still remembers the kindness of old Captain Sarah.
But as time goes by...
"Who remembers you? Sarah!"
"Have you not realized that you, the captain, have been sidelined by Levi without knowing it?"
Raven reminded Sarah solemnly.
Leaders are not just using money to "buy people's hearts".
They simply uprooted everyone's hearts and took them back with them.
"Sarah, take a look at the Leaders Association these days."
"There were grievance meetings, drama performances, and Miss Seraphine's soul concert... Even an old pirate like me, who was as hard-hearted as a rock, was made to cry several times by them."
"Now people don't even go to brothels at night. Every day they hold a copy of 'A Brief Account of Gana's Thought' and study and discuss with the propagandists sent by the Leaders."
"How can this continue?"
Raven had already secretly inquired: "Sarah, in just this short week, three people in our pirate group have been brainwashed and become official leaders!"
What does it mean when there are three official leaders in a patrol company ?
It means that the branch can be established.
"Sarah, think about it carefully!"
"When the Wind Leader really sets up a branch in our pirate group, will everyone follow the command of you as the captain, or the command of this Wind Leader branch ?"
"Sarah, you have to know that this is just the beginning!"
"There are only three leaders in the group now. What will happen in the future? If everyone is developed into a leader, will anyone still listen to you as the captain?"
First Mate Raven tried to persuade the captain earnestly.
He advised Sarah to be vigilant and guard against the infiltration and power seizure by the leaders.
But Miss Sarah just twisted her long red wavy hair with her fingers in a tangled way, and said delicately:
"Um... well... Raven, you don't actually have to worry."
Sarah spread out her palms and gathered a small whirlwind:
"Because I am one of the three official leaders."
Raven: “…”
"And the branch you mentioned has actually been established in our Coast Guard Company, and I am temporarily serving as the president."
Raven: “…”
The old pirate almost fainted from anger: "Sarah, you, you've been sold out and you're still counting money for them!"
"Hey, Raven...don't say such harsh words." Sarah was firm.
Yes, if her attitude is not firm, she will not be able to become a formal leader.
“I’m serious,” Sarah said.
She attended many grievance meetings and propaganda meetings this week, listened to Seraphine singing, and listened to Levi explain theories to her.
As she studied, she found that this theory seemed to be very suitable for her.
"I have always longed to defeat Gangplank and bring order to Bilgewater."
"But what kind of order can I bring to Bilgewater? Can I really be a better king than Gangplank, whom I hate?"
Sarah actually felt guilty.
Because she has the same problem as most dragon slayers—
That is, they only know how to slay the dragon, but they don’t know how to rebuild order after slaying the dragon, and to establish a better order.
It was the leader who gave her the answer.
“I want to make Bilgewater a city where everyone is equal.”
This equality is certainly not absolute equality, but equality of personality, which prevents the strong from arbitrarily violating the rules and bullying the weak.
"That would be a wonderful world, a world where honest craftsmen like my mother could live in peace and security;"
"A world where bullies like Gangplank can be punished."
Plank killed Sarah's parents because... he bought the gun and didn't want to pay.
He didn't want to give money, of course not because he had no money.
Just because he didn't want to.
And he has the ability not to pay.
Just because of a spur of the moment "zero dollar purchase", Plank killed Sarah's parents and destroyed her life.
The weak are just ants and toys in front of the strong. As long as the strong are willing, it doesn't matter how many they kill.
This is the old society, the order of Runeterra for thousands of years.
"But it has always been like this, is it right?"
After coming into contact with the Wind Leader, Sarah finally awakened:
"I'm going to kill Gangplank—"
"Not only must we get rid of him, but we must also completely destroy the old world that gave birth to countless Plancks!"
"..." Raven was silent for a while.
"Okay." The first mate sighed deeply, "As long as you are willing, Captain Sarah, I will go with you no matter where you want to go."
Not only did he fail to wake the captain up, but he also got himself into trouble.
"Haha, that's right!" Sarah laughed lively.
She even held up the wind in her hand and said ostentatiously, "And this wind leader wasn't given for nothing."
"Look - even I have become a 'mage'!"
The Leader is indeed blessed by the true God, and if you believe in it, you will immediately receive divine power feedback. This is also an important reason why Sarah joined the Leader.
Even without talking about those lofty ideals, this is still an extremely strong thigh.
As long as you hold on tight, you won't have to worry about not being able to take revenge in the future.
Sarah's personal experience finally convinced Raven.
He knew in his heart that revenge was always Sarah's biggest concern. As long as she could kill Gangplank, she was willing to give up everything, even if it meant being swallowed up by the Leader and losing her autonomy as captain.
So Raven stopped trying to persuade her and just followed Sarah in the training.
And just at this moment...
"Captain Sarah!"
Someone came looking for me.
No... saying "people" isn't quite accurate.
What came to find Sarah and Raven was a huge green "slime".
His name is Zack, and he is one of the first “seafaring talents” arranged by the Leaders Association to receive sailing training.
Although Sarah didn't understand how this big lump of jelly could be considered a sailing seedling.
But Zack, the "rubber devil", is indeed very capable and is more than qualified to be a "pirate".
So Sarah also likes this student very much.
"Zach, what's going on?"
Sarah looked up at Zack who was wearing a straw hat - well, this straw hat was specially given to him by Levi.
"Captain Sarah, there are orders from above." Zach came to convey the order from the Wind Leader Association: "We are going back to Zaun."
"Go back to Zaun?" Sarah's eyes lit up.
The "invincible fleet is still parked in the shipyard of the Zaun Alchemist Baron.
But the Alchemy Barons won’t give it away for free, the leader has to get it himself.
"Is there going to be a war?" she asked.
"Yeah!" Zach nodded innocently: "Mr. Levi said that I can go beat up that bastard Takeda Saito now--"
"The Wind Leader Association's first base in Zaun will start from him."
