Chapter 680

"Uh"

When Grommash heard this question, he was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but now I have no intention of joining other forces!"

In the past, he had no intention to join other people's forces, and now he has no intention to join other people's forces!

"Ha ha!"

Arthur listened to this answer, smiled, and didn't care.

He had already anticipated this and had a plan!

Immediately, he looked at Grommash with burning eyes, and said with a deep meaning, "What if the price is to prolong your lifespan, restore your youth, and restore your combat power to your peak?"

"Um!?"

Grommash's heart skipped a beat, and he said suspiciously, "What are you talking about. Help me prolong my life and restore my youth? Restore my peak combat power?"

As a great pirate, Grommash, in the course of his past adventures, has not heard less of legends like what treasure can restore youth, what fruit of surgery can immortalize, and what keel can make elixir of life.

But in the past, he just regarded these as legends!

He had never seen it and never thought it was real!

After all, if there really are so many things like prolonging lifespan and restoring youth, then the overlords on the sea should be a bunch of immortals, not like today, with the passage of time, generation after generation transforming.

However, listening to Arthur now, he is a little unsure if those legends are true!

Arthur's identity is the king of a kingdom!

And not the king of an ordinary kingdom, but the king of a superpower!

Could the king of such a kingdom be so idle to fool a retired pirate like him?

"Yes, as long as you promise to join my kingdom and serve me, then I can promise to help you prolong your life, restore your youth, and restore your peak combat power!" Arthur said affirmatively.

Hearing Arthur's affirmative words, Grommash put all his doubts behind him at once!

Arthur dared to say it with such certainty, so the so-called life extension, youth restoration, and combat power restoration are probably true!

There is absolutely no need for the king of such a big kingdom to fool him!

Because of this, his heart could not help shaking!

Why did he retreat from the great waterway and return to the West Sea for retirement?

In addition to being destroyed by the navy because of his subordinates, it is more because of his age that his combat power and physical strength have declined so much that he no longer has enough energy and time to rebuild the pirate group and fight with people!

Therefore, he took his savings and returned to the West Sea for the aged!

And now, with such an opportunity to extend his lifespan, restore his youth, and restore his combat effectiveness, it would be a lie to say that he is not interested!

Human!

For things like longevity, there is an instinctive pursuit.

Who doesn't want to live longer?

But after hesitating for a while, he slowly shook his head and said, "Not yet!"

"Why?" Hearing this, Arthur asked in surprise.

In his opinion, prolonging lifespan and restoring youth should be something that a person would not refuse, but now Grommash's answer is really beyond his expectations!

"Why." Grommash pondered, shook his head slowly, and said, "I can't tell you exactly why! If you have to explain it, just think I've lived enough!"

"Enough!?" Arthur listened to the answer with a weird expression on his face!

It was the first time he had heard that someone felt that they had had enough!

"Yeah, that's enough!" Grommash said with a sigh, as if he had figured out something.

He smiled and explained relievedly, "I have experienced everything in my life, from the hardships of survival as a child, to riding the wind and waves in my youth, to the four seas in my prime, and then to the sudden downturn in old age!"

"Whether it is poverty, wealth, prosperity or adversity, in short, I have tasted most of the things in the world, so I have no regrets about my life, and it doesn't matter. !"

After listening to Grommash's words, Arthur thought about it, and probably understood why he said that!

A simple explanation is that when I am old, I have experienced enough things, so I think about it!

However, Grommash was thinking about it, but Arthur had a bit of a pain in the ass!

What is the biggest fear of recruiters?

The person who was recruited has no desires!

Once the person being recruited has no desires or desires, it is basically impossible to recruit successfully!

After all, they have no desires, how can they be recruited?

Thinking of this, Arthur couldn't help but think of some unconventional methods!

Or, let Shaga modify his memory?

But as soon as the idea appeared, he immediately denied it!

This method is simple and effective, but he has decided to use this method as little as possible unless it is necessary.

After all, this method can be used for a while, but it will definitely not work for a lifetime!

Besides, Grommash was once at the pinnacle of the lieutenant level after all!

With Shaka's current strength, if you want to modify him, it is basically impossible to succeed!

Thinking of this, Arthur's head hurts even more!

"What should I do?" After muttering silently in his heart, Arthur began to recall the information about Grommash in the data, trying to find his weakness and recruit him through this weakness!

Don't say it!

Thinking about it so carefully, Arthur really thought of Grommash's weakness!

"You really don't care?" Arthur asked in a meaningful way, "Including the deaths of those brothers when they were defeated by the navy?"

Although Grommash said that it didn't matter, and on the surface he looked like he had no desires or desires, but after thinking about it carefully, Arthur felt that it is impossible for people to truly have no desires and no desires!

The so-called "no desire and no desire" is nothing more than based on the situation that you have or don't care!

Just like Ma Ali, who doesn't like money, and Liu Jingdong, who doesn't know the beauty of his wife, if they are too poor to live happily and marry Sister Feng, can they still say those words?

The answer is obvious!

And the reason why Grommash can say so indifferent and seem so unwilling is nothing more than because he has basically experienced everything in his life. In his opinion, even if he prolongs his lifespan and restores his youth, at most It's just the experience of the first half of his life!

Therefore, he does not have such a strong desire to prolong his life and restore his youth, and he seems to have no desire or desire!

In this case, if he wanted to recruit him, Arthur knew that he had to find what he cared about, what he wanted, and stimulated it, so that he could recruit him!

As for what he cares about and desires.

revenge!

After carefully recalling Grommash's life, Arthur discovered something that Grommash was likely to care about.

That was the battle where he was ambushed by the navy after the battle with Roger!

That time, it was the Waterloo of Grommash's life!

He lost all his crew in one battle, mate!

And as the saying goes, people are not plants, so who can be ruthless?

Although it was impossible to say who was right or who was wrong in that battle, it only happened because of the issue of position, but in that case, a normal person would have hatred for the Navy, not to mention Grommash, who was so forthright, who attached great importance to friendship and righteousness. generation?

He would risk his life for the villagers in the place where he was born, not to mention the crew members and partners who followed him on adventures and struggled together?

Therefore, he must still be thinking about this matter in his heart and wants revenge!

It's just that he already felt his old age and knew that he was powerless, so he had to give up revenge and return to Xihai for the elderly!

the other side!

Hearing Arthur's words, Grommash fell silent!

How could he forget that thing?

Although as a pirate, he had long been mentally prepared to be defeated by the navy, but when it came, he couldn't accept it!

Especially watching the crew members and partners, spraying blood, screaming and falling beside him, gradually lost his voice, but he was entangled by the opponent's masters and couldn't support the maddening sense of powerlessness , Heartache, he still can not forget!

But so what?

He is old!

No time, no energy, and no strength to take revenge!

"What do you want?" After a long silence, Grommash slowly opened his mouth and asked in a hoarse voice.

"As long as you join Saint Martin, I will not only help you restore your youth, prolong your life, but also help you get revenge!" Arthur said with squinted eyes.

Avenging him is nothing more than going up against the navy!

And the road of St. Martin is destined to meet the world government, and it is also destined to meet the navy, so Arthur is very happy to say this sooner or later!

Grommash had a struggling expression on his face. After hesitating for a while, he said solemnly, "You can join St. Martin! But I won't do much for you in the future, at most any strong enemy, or I will only take action when I encounter a crisis in the kingdom!"

"Usually, I don't want to pay attention to those little things, especially those that are at war with other kingdoms, and I don't want to participate!"

Having said this, he paused, changed his voice, and said in deep thought, "As for revenge for me, no need! At the beginning, it was a matter of position, no one was right or wrong, so I don't want to get involved more now. people, whether it's St. Martin or the Navy!"

"I will go alone for revenge, and I will not implicate other navies. I will only target the navy who presided over that battle, the current admiral Sengoku!"

"Okay!" Arthur replied directly.

Strong man!

Of course, there must be important things, and only powerful enemies need to be shot!

Ordinary trivial matters, as well as the kingdom's war, Arthur himself would not let a lieutenant-level powerhouse like Grommash take action. After all, he has so many soldiers under his command, so he can't just leave them alone, right?

Then what are they keeping them for?

As for the matter of revenge, Grommash needs help or not, anyway, sooner or later Saint Martin will face the Navy!

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With the strength of Grommash, even in his peak state, I am afraid that he is not an opponent of the Warring States period. If he is allowed to take revenge alone, it will not be revenge, but death!

Thinking, Arthur changed his voice and added quickly, "However, the Warring States period is now a general, and I heard that he will soon become a marshal. If you want to take revenge, it is definitely not possible with your current strength. To go is to die!"

"So, I promised you the other conditions directly, but I also have an additional condition about revenge!"

"What conditions?" Grommash asked, frowning.

After an inexplicable glint flashed in Arthur's eyes, he said, "When you regain your youth and strength, you must defeat the powerhouse in our kingdom, Yamamoto Motoyuki, and then you can take revenge!"

"Yes!" Grommash readily agreed!

He had no idea that his promise had directly stepped into a bottomless pit, and it was very likely that he would never have the chance to take revenge in his life!

"That's it!" Arthur smiled meaningfully.

"When will you help me regain my youth and strength!" Grommash asked impatiently.

After agreeing, Grommash wanted to quickly regain his youth, hurry up his training, and restore his original combat power, so that he could quickly seek revenge for the Warring States period!

"This is not an easy thing, it will take a while, maybe a few months!" Arthur raised his brows and said calmly.

The reason why it took a few months is because Arthur does not have a ready-made life-extending potion!

This thing is a rare commodity. As soon as it is drawn out, it is distributed by Arthur to the important and elderly ministers in the kingdom to prolong their life, so there is no stock!

"I understand!" Grommash nodded, showing understanding!

As soon as Yanshou heard it, he knew that it was not a simple matter, and he could understand it even if it took time!

"I'll arrange a place for you to live later, you wait patiently, and I'll inform you when it's ok!" Arthur said sternly.

"Yeah!" After Grommash nodded, he seemed to remember something and said, "Your Majesty, can you arrange a place like a tavern for me? I want to continue to open a tavern here!"

Speaking of which, Grommash paused and added, "However, the place where the tavern is located doesn't need to be too good, just a little remote. I don't like the tavern being too lively!"

"Okay! I'll ask someone to find you a remote place to open a tavern!" Arthur agreed boldly!

Since the other party has agreed to join Saint Martin, Arthur has no reason not to agree to such a trivial matter!