"What happened?" I asked her as she got dressed.

"This whole island is a scavenger pirate s.h.i.+p called the Night Maiden. It's a curse piece of land that's complete amalgamation between magic and science. But while it's a marvel of ancient gnomish engineering, the island needs to siphon energy from other s.h.i.+ps to survive. The Acheron's black pearl is a powerful source of energy, and the moment we stepped into the boundaries of the Atlantic ocean a day ago, we ended up on their radar.

But not just them, if we don't find a way to cloak the Acheron's energy signature, other pirates will come for it. The pirates on this Island s.h.i.+p are called G.O.T.A.R, and it's an abbreviation for Gentlemen. Of. The. Atlantic. Rim. The fat f.u.c.k who's throat you just slit happens to be the youngest son of the captain/chief of the island. The others are currently still imprisoned in their dungeons, which to be honest is quite far from here, and we will have to kill our way through a lot of pirates to get to them. However, Sky is closer, she's just two floors above us."

As she explained, she was getting dressed, moving an acting with a meticulousness and efficiency I've only ever seen within the army. It was an impressive sight to say the least, but considering I wasn't allowed to peak at her while she dressed, I just had to trust my instincts on that. But there wasn't I didn't understand.

"How did you guys get captured in the first place, the Ion Pulse Cannon would have made short work of the island if you hand enough to charge it. And I'm sure you guys would have been able to buy that time for yourself, so what went wrong?"

"Contrary to expectations, this group or rather this Island of pirates are organized. Their forces are well trained and separated into multiple divisions for maximum efficiency. They have a group of very powerful mages and magic user, but the island itself has a power dampening skill that can be focused on any craft regardless of it's origin for fifteen minutes.

It sent the Acheron out of commission, however we would have been able to fight long enough for the Acheron to come back online, but they had a powerful cursemancer on their side, and he's just like you and Raven song; a traveler. So it stands to reason that his power can not be measured in the normal scale. He was able to curse each an every single one of us with powerful curses that weakened us and sent us to sleep.

Currently we're still under the curse, which is why we've not been able to fight back and try to escape. The captain of the island then handed both me and Dinah to his two youngest sons like we were some sort of commodity. Hopefully she's okay, she's also within this building, along with Sky who was given to his daughter."

I guess that explained everything to me in full, but just going to get the guys won't work. They would expect me to do two things, and that's to rescue my crew and two stop their island from siphoning energy from the Acheron so that we can escape. I needed to make an approach that they wouldn't expect, I turned to Qitar.

"Do you know where the captain is?"

"There's a palace of sorts right in the middle of the island, it's also the control center for all of the island's operations. If you intend to shut the island down, then that's the place to go, but that's even more defended than the jail cells they threw our friends in. Powerful as you are I doubt you would be able to go at it alone, and even then due to the curse that's us, it would be hard for us to render any help, so it won't make any difference." Qitar said to me with a flat tone, but I had a plan, or at least some skeleton of a plan anyways.

I had a basic skill that was still level 1, I've not had any reason to use it, but it had a rather overpowers ability and only cost 5 MP to use. Purify had a 100% chance to clear all debuffs, curses and poison, I've not yet been in a position where I would have to the skill, but I guess now is as good a time as any.

(PURIFY!)

A beam of white golden light left my hands and bathed Qitar's entire form in light, just the appearance of the light alone seemed to have some sort of flaming effect on me and even more so on Qitar as she closed her eyes and involuntarily moaned in pleasure. If gave me ideas, really weird ideas, but nevertheless I have to focus, I had a humongous task ahead of me.

{SYSTEM ALERT: SKILL: You have purified and cleansed a living being from the (DECAY OF ESSENCE) Weakening curse. The (PURIFY) skill is now level 2. This skill can only be leveled up when you use it, it can now be improved upon with skill points.}

"Are we good?" I asked Qitar as she picked up one of the guns, c.o.c.ked it back and then looked at me.

"Yeah we're good, let's go kill some son's of b.i.t.c.hes!"