At that moment, the woman holding the child knelt and repeatedly thanked Celeste Grant and Javier.
"Thank you, thank you both for saving our lives."
"Thank you for saving my daughter."
The mother and daughter were cultivators from a nearby city who had simply hitched a ride on this ship. They never expected that, before they could even reach home, they would encounter pirates who would bloodily raid the merchant vessel and massacre those on board.
They had fought desperately, thinking they would surely die here today. Looking at her young daughter, the mother could only feed her a life-preserving Elixir Pill that worked for a short time. Heartbroken, she took advantage of the chaos to toss her child into the water, hoping that after the pirates left, her daughter might be lucky enough to be rescued by a passing merchant ship. If not…
Thankfully… they were both still alive.
