I was ordered to the island of Regna to deal with some pirates by my council. The trip there would be quite unexpected. I’d end up killing a few pirates and using a transportation I was not expecting to use.

I did not think I'd need to be going back to Dagger Wound Island ever again. I’ve trained with anyone that I've needed there. It turns out there was still an island in that chain that I had yet to explore. As new lands had appeared to take me on quite a little adventure.

I ended up swimming over to an island that did not even appear on my map. I was just told by my people that I was looking for a new island. Quite a few pirates were trying to guard the place. They were no match for me.

I kind of found everything I'd be facing on this little adventure to be quite easy to take down. Of all the regions and dungeons, I'd end up clearing. This place despite being part of the storyline that was about to take me to the end game was simple.

On the new island was the Pirate Outpost dungeon. I was greeted by even more pirates once I entered the dungeon. It looked kind of like a ship with the wood planking floors and the style of ceiling and walls.

There even ended up being a hidden trove of treasure. Along with some rooms that were filled with traps. Without a care in the world, I ended up taking most of my damage from the traps and even then, it was not that bad.

With how easy these pirates were to kill. I ended up clearing the couple of rooms this place had before I found myself looking back at something strange. To be able to get to Regna Island I'd be taking a submarine.
That submarine led me to quite a small dungeon that was just a place to hold the submarine. I popped out of it after some clearing and found myself in the middle of a pirate town.

You would think being on a pirate island that the entire town would be hostile towards me. It became quite apparent why they were not. The prices here were just crazy. Sure, they had looted and pillaged some nice stuff. I for one was not going to pay their high prices for a couple of small upgrades.

What they did have that interested me were their grandmaster trainers. I’ve been looking for trainers for dark magic, armsmaster, light magic, sword, dagger, and so on. I was more than willing to pay the high prices for some training. It was worth every ounce of gold I handed over to the greedy pirates.

I then decided it was time to explore the island and try and make back some of that gold I handed over to the town. Naturally, the island had dense spawns of pirates everywhere. While they were easy to take down in the large amounts of range damage they would volley at me. I started to feel the pressure.

Thankfully my healer was able to keep up for the most part. Once I took out a couple of them in every cluster of pirates I ran into. I was able to recover and my healer then could out heal any of the remaining volleys of damage they would send my way.

The main quest that sent me here was to take out their fleet of ships. So, I ended up wandering around the edges of the island first looking for a fleet of ships. I did end up finding some. There was just one issue.

The only way I could work out to destroy the fleet of ships was by firing a massive cannon at them. The issue was I lacked any kind of cannonball to take the fleet out with. So now I was on the hunt for some massive cannonball to finish the quest with.

While in the search for that item, I ended up running into another one. I came across a few buildings that I could not enter into. Even worse I found an abandoned pirate keep that I was hoping was the answer.

However, after clearing out the first room I came to a set of locked doors. I was yet again foiled. Forced out into the dead of night to fight further pirates as I explored for any way into some of the locked dungeons. I was hoping at some point I'd end up finding a key but that never happened.

I did at the very least find one of the two areas I could enter into. One of them was called Old Loeb’s Cave. It was filled with dragons. Perhaps the only challenge this entire place other than keeping me locked out would give me.

Perhaps the best part is I was able to pull them mostly one at a time into a tunnel in the cave. This made them not so bad to take down. Each one had a chance to give me a massive upgrade from weapons to armor. As you can imagine I was quite excited to fight them.

I ended up looking at some amazing stuff while in that cave. Gloves and helms with a bunch of plus ten to many different stats on a single item. An insane-looking dagger that sadly had a dreadful –40 to accuracy I decided was not worth it.

At the end of it, I ended up finding a special dragon. Despite not siding with the dragons when I was picking people to join my alliance. I found out that the dragon was being held there against its will and it considered the other dragons that I had killed to be its guards. We both decided to let the other one live and went on our different ways.

After a little further exploring of the island, I ended up finding a Pirate Stronghold that I could enter and did not have any issues with needing keys to get around the place either. After the dragons I had fought these guys were easy to deal with.

After clearing a few small rooms. I found a hidden doorway in the middle of the dungeon. It ended up leading down to a cave. It turns out all the other dungeons I wanted to go into were all connected by a single passageway of tunnels.

As one might expect that tunnel was crawling with even further pirates. I was half tempted to not even stop to kill them all as it seemed to be a waste of time. I however had a second thought about that in case I ever needed to come back down there again and use the tunnels.

That tunnel ended up leading me into the back entrance to the Abandoned Pirate Keep. The treasure the pirates were hoarding there was insane. No wonder most of the game's chests were so sad. The pirates were hoarding the loot the entire time.

I also ended up finding a few black potions. Some of them granted permanent plus 50 to things like might, accuracy, and endurance. While I'd find some sweet upgrades along the way. Those potions my eyes would lust over any time I spotted one in a chest.

The biggest prize I ended up looting in the Pirate Keep was a ring that increased the effect of all light spells. Now casting my buffs would last me over three days along with making some rather devastating spells even more deadly.

Final Thoughts

While down there in the Pirate Keep, I even found the cannon I needed to sink the fleet of ships. Once that was done, I was off to a powerful mage to see what needed to be done next to resolve the issues the world was facing.

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