Pirate Kingship

While Byron and Violet, the two heavyweights among the Gulf pirates, were busy conducting sea trials.

[Wild Hunt] "Byron Lancaster" is still working hard in the Bantaan Islands with his pirate fleet.

[Wild Hunt Servant] Sword Master Herman, who has cognitive modification turned on, and [Guardian Knight] Bruch are temporarily on duty.

They did not continue to crowd on Violet's [Flaming Rose], but chose a less conspicuous fourth-level ghost ship from the ghost fleet to serve as the flagship of the fleet.

Other living people have no way to pass through the "trap door" during non-window periods, but the ghost ship, which is already responsible for transporting the undead, is not included in this.

The ship had been delivered to Byron long ago.

Coupled with the rare object battleship name [Dreadnought] sent by [Kingmaker] Earl Warwick, the Wild Hunt family finally no longer looks so shabby.

Coordinates: The northern edge of the "Snake of the World·Celestial Circulation Zone".

A slightly tattered ghost ship with dark sails is leading a group of pirate ships with different flags to hunt a small Castilian ocean-going fleet.

Probably in order to demonstrate their status as a maritime power, most Castilians did not go to the Big Bear Islands under the Pioneer Navigation Colonial Trading Company, but instead developed an exclusive distribution center in another direction.

Even Westwind Express doesn't even let Westwind Express earn the transfer fee. Isn't this a deliberate attempt to bully the poor?

Can Byron endure this?

Therefore, recently, in addition to attacking the royal party who are too busy to take care of themselves, the Black Sail Pirates have also often ambushed Castilian merchant ships passing by.

Real business war is so simple and efficient!

“These bastards dare to fight back against us because they are escorted by warships?

If we let them go like this, others will follow suit, and how will we do our work in the future?

Come on, follow the old rules, raise the blood flag, leave no one behind! "

Byron's consciousness came to the body of [Wild Hunt Servant] Sword Master Herman, and he gave the order lightly.

"Yes, raise the blood flag!"

"Jump a gang and seize the ship!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The other pirate ships also raised their blood flags at the same time, gathered in a group like hungry wolves, and rushed towards the Castilian warship together.

For more than a month, the Black Sail pirates, who had always been stragglers, have gradually tasted the sweetness of group operations.

Many targets that they did not dare to grab or could not grab in the past are now within their grasp.

Don't be too happy about the days when you can rob whoever you want.

Even if you find that the target is too tough to bite, you can still call for support continuously, and the harvest will be much better than in the past.

During this period of almost non-stop plundering, the various pirate groups in Black Sail Port were also constantly grinding together, and they were barely kneaded into a whole by Byron.

Finally, it is possible to avoid accidentally injuring friendly forces in group operations.

Now it is enough to pull out the large troops to scare people.

During the battle, the ghost ship [Fearless] took command from the center, helping others to sweep the formation from time to time, and its prestige was gradually built up.

Especially after a fight with a fourth-level pirate warlord, it was more effective than a thousand words. Anyway, whatever the strong man said was right.

Moreover, all the operatives who joined the Treasure Hunting Alliance signed the "Faustian Contract".

As long as Byron can lead Black Sail Port to accomplish great things.

Not only did the Black Sail pirates give him 10% of their plunder, they also recognized his leadership position in the Pirate City, that is, the Pirate King without a crown for the time being, accounting for 51% of the shares.

Byron also knew that the restrictions in the pirate group were always relatively loose, and the biggest role of the nominal "speaker" was only to decide where to plunder, and then share a larger share of the loot than others.

In order to enhance his own strength, he used the rebellion funds supported by the "Kingmaker" to recruit Bay residents and other elite free pirates.

Similar things have been done once at the International Port, and now it will be particularly easy to do it again.

It is too easy for those in power in this era to show favor. Sooner or later, a slogan that will lead them to launch a "war against the country" has attracted a large number of participants.

This is the implicit influence of Lancaster's "strong claim".

There are few pirates in the world who can refuse the possibility of clearing their names and even becoming the new nobles of the kingdom. It is not convenient for them to retire, but their descendants can have a better life.

As a result, the direct lineage of Wild Hunt is expanding rapidly like a snowball, and its strength is growing every day.

This was also a watershed in the fate of the pirates.

[Puppet King] wants Byron to draw chestnuts from the fire and plan something for him, and Byron also wants the pirates of Black Sail Port to charge into battle for him.

As long as it can attract the attention of Castile, it is a victory. If it is not one of its own, it can only be cannon fodder.

Anyway, the main force led by "[Sea Hunter] Byron Tudor" equipped with new warships and bolt-action rifles is the ultimate killer.

Byron observed the battle situation and saw a warship headed by Castile desperately preparing to break out. He waved his hand casually:

"Dauntless, charge!"

First mate Bruch, who was responsible for holding the formation next to him, then ordered: "The musketeers line up, and the Marines are ready to pick up the ship!"

The tattered sails of the [Intrepid] immediately swelled and accelerated towards the side and rear of the enemy ship.

Stab-!

Circles of invisible force fields surround the hull, rotating at high speed with the bow girder protruding in front as the axis, enveloping the water mist and making a harsh roar.

The force field ring at the rear pushed the sea water to continue to accelerate the battleship, and a long crack was torn out in the sea wherever it passed.

Title ability [Reloading Force Field]:

“Forge ahead bravely, no one can stop you.

Turning on the force field is like being a powerful general, capable of decapitating enemy generals in an army of millions.

Even if there are many warships surrounding it, it will be forcibly pushed away by the force field on its body.

It can even bind the field wall to form a collision angle, and it can hit the target unstoppably.

Limit: One hour per day duration. "

Unlike the [Golden Deer], which only applies to sailing ships, Byron feels that the ship name [Dreadnaught] can continue to be used even in the future era of whale oil-powered ironclad battleships.

Boom!

With a loud noise, the Castilian warship was hit hard and a hole was opened, and the two sides completed the docking.

After a round of musket fire, Deathwing's pirates and the undead crew members on the ship all rushed to the enemy ship by dragging ropes or swinging hooks.

There is no suspense in the next battle.

Led by Byron and the Dauntless, it took the pirates just a few hours to capture this fleet full of specialties from the Southern Continent with an overwhelming numerical advantage.

Just when Byron personally killed the enemy ship captain, shook off the blood from the gun tip, and was about to hand over the task of searching for the loot to Bruch, he returned to the "Dreadnought" and stopped multitasking to reduce consumption.

But suddenly he discovered that there was an invisible puppet thread in the cabin of this battleship.

It's just much thinner than the silk thread that fell on the Golden Deer.

If it weren't for the upgrade of [Logbook], the ability to spy on secrets can take effect anywhere within the reach of the senses. I'm afraid even a fifth-level legend would have ignored it here accidentally.

And when Byron looked over, he realized that the thread had been shaking for an unknown amount of time.

This shows that the "puppet" anchored by this thread is being modified by [Puppet King] Louis!

Byron's eyes flashed.

"Is this coming for me?

No, it should be said that they are here for [Dauntless] and [Wild Hunt].

Whoever wears this vest, this thing will find him through a series of fateful coincidences. "

Thinking of this, he took the lead and strode into the lower cabin where rum, drinking water, sailing biscuits and other daily necessities were stocked.

Just as he asked Bruch to light the whale oil lamp, an oak barrel that seemed to be used to hold wine suddenly tipped over and rolled down to his feet.

The unsealed barrel lid was knocked open and spun around on the ground.

Then a beautiful girl in a dance skirt and gorgeous clothes, but looking very embarrassed, climbed out of the barrel in a daze.

As soon as she raised her head, she saw a dozen black muzzles pointing at her. She couldn't help but subconsciously raised her hands and exclaimed:

"Don't kill me!"

Byron looked at her up and down with great interest, becoming more and more curious as he looked at her.

Some people would describe a beautiful girl as as delicate as a doll, but the girl in front of her who can talk and act is a real doll!

There is a faint wooden texture in the white skin, the joints are strangely spherical, the facial features are still delicate but appear very stiff, he cannot laugh or cry, he is a complete three-no.

Only a pair of eyes that had been transformed into glass moved slightly, and the emotions belonging to a human girl still remained in them.

If there are crew members from the [Dream Castle] here, they should be able to recognize them at a glance.

This puppet girl is the dancer who was turned into a puppet by [Puppet King] Louis on the spot because the laces of her dancing shoes suddenly broke, disrupting the order of the queue (Chapter 447).

Two months later, her soul is still bound in the body of this puppet, unable to survive or die.

The girl's glassy eyes rolled, and she had already guessed the identity of Byron and his party.

He mustered up the courage, pretended to be very familiar with this kind of scene, tried hard to hold up his strong chest, and asked the leader Byron:

"Sir, are you pirates?"

There was a canary-like ignorance in her tone. It was obvious that she had not experienced many human sufferings in the song and dance troupe established by [Puppet King] before she encountered her bad luck.

But it is also very easy for people to lose their vigilance towards her, and they naturally develop trust.

Byron waved his hand, and the guards behind him immediately put away their muskets and made an invitation gesture to her:

“Beautiful lady, as you can see, we are indeed pirates.

What about you? Why are you hiding on this boat? "

Miss Puppet stood up and performed an impeccable ladylike ceremony. Perhaps Byron's gentle attitude infected her, and she was no longer so nervous:

"Mr. Pirate, my name is Tracy. Two months ago, I was a dancer serving [Puppet King] Louis on the [Dream Castle].

As for now, he is just a puppet whose life is worse than death. "

When he said this, his clear eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of sadness, a trace of fear, and a hidden deep hatred.

After a slight hesitation, as if he had made up his mind, he suddenly raised his head and looked directly into Byron's eyes and asked:

"Mr. Pirate, it doesn't really matter who I am.

The important thing is, I have a huge fortune here. I wonder if you want it? "

In order to enhance the persuasiveness of my words, I spoke directly about my own experience:

“After I was turned into a puppet by [Puppet King] Louis, I was reduced to a maid responsible for doing chores on the ship.

When I was cleaning the Puppet King's room two days ago, I accidentally heard a big secret.

In a communication, Morton Gray, the president of the Royal Academy of Engineering [sailboat collector], said that the king had been waiting for two full months, and the domestic situation was becoming more and more tense. His Majesty could not wait for that thing any longer.

The return of the treasure fleet, which was originally scheduled for late October, has now been brought forward to early October.

By the way, Morton also sent a black box to the Puppet King, saying that it was the [information black box] that stored the route information. "

Then he looked directly into Byron's eyes and said solemnly, word by word:

"I have seen what is in that box."

Byron raised his eyebrows and thought to himself:

"That's it, here it comes!"

But he did not pay attention to the secret in the "information black box" first, but asked back:

"Excuse me, since you have such a secret, it seems that you should not be able to escape from the colony of Castile so easily, right? ”

Since the puppet girl named Tracy has revealed the shocking secret, there is no need to hide the details.

She told the pirate who might avenge herself and her companions:

“Originally, we had no chance to escape from the Dream Castle.

But recently, with the development of the colony in the southern continent, the supply of ‘artificial lanternmen’ has been tight, and many puppets serving on the Dream Castle have also been killed by Louis.

Although I am a dancer, my extraordinary profession is the first-level [Navigator] of the Lighthouse Sequence.

Or in other words, since the Puppet King started to develop the ‘artificial lanternmen’, many extraordinary people he has cultivated are from the Lighthouse Sequence.

A few days ago, Louis untied the puppet threads of me and several other companions and sent us to the workshop together to prepare to make ‘artificial lanternmen’.

We escaped from the Dream Castle when the [Puppet King] left the warship and went ashore to personally deal with a totem god.

But most of my companions were captured and only I found an opportunity to sneak into the cargo leaving the southern continent and came here with this fleet.

Mr. Pirate, you have not been to the South Continent, so you have no idea how miserable the low-sequence [Lantern Man] is.

Crazy, distorted, from a human to a puppet, and from a puppet to a pile of disgusting rotten flesh, until it rots into corpse water but still lives.

This is the evil thing that [Puppet King] Louis is doing.

He will definitely go to hell one day! "

Tracy raised her expressionless face, but her eyes were full of misery:

"Mr. Pirate, I want to avenge my companions, but I don't have the power.

But if the Kingdom of Castile can lose a large sum of money from the Treasure Fleet, the [Puppet King] should also feel pain, right?

This is the only way of revenge I can think of.

Even if you don't have the power to rob the Treasure Fleet, I will be grateful if you help me hand over the information to powerful people. "

Byron and the pirates around him were very sympathetic to her experience.

This experience made sense.

If he hadn't clearly seen that the silk thread above her head was still trembling and had not completely escaped the control of the [Puppet King], Byron would have almost believed that this encounter was really a coincidence.

However, perhaps this big show secretly directed by the [Puppet King] still has some minor flaws.

But as long as the benefits are big enough, it is a conspiracy that is not afraid of others not going.

Byron just raised his vigilance to the fifth-level puppet king, and nodded to the puppet girl in front of him:

"Then, Miss Tracy, as you wish, deal! "

On the other side, the [Golden Deer], which had just completed the sea trial, also returned to the No. 1 island of the Centaurs.

Here, Edward, the [Red Beard] who had been dissected for three months and was called Mr. 135 and Ms. 246, finally breathed his last.

There is no need to grieve for him/her.

More than a month ago, Red Beard had become a fool who could only say "Aba Aba" because he could not stand the stimulation of men and women.

In the end, it seemed that he died in great pain, but in fact, it was not peaceful at all.

It is really a cause for celebration.

Fortunately, his/her death was not in vain. When Byron met the group of great wizards of the Skinning Church again, they had just completed the summary and collation of the autopsy records.

The former high priest [Murderous Doctor] Robert Liston showed Byron the autopsy data that condensed all the efforts of the entire black wizard group.

"Hahaha, high priest, the great [Father of Medicine], look at it.

Surgeon! The prerequisite knowledge for becoming a surgeon has finally taken shape, and those of us who violated the rules by stealing corpses can finally be promoted again.

I will publish them in the [Key of Omniscience] in your name, so that the whole world will usher in a new era of doctors! "

As soon as the voice fell, because Byron made a foundational and outstanding contribution, his exclusive title [Father of Immunology] was automatically upgraded to [Father of Modern Medicine] because of his great achievements.

In addition to the original title ability [Immune Blood], a new ability called [Surgical Operating Table] was added:

"You can unfold a spherical operating table with a diameter of three meters.

Within this range, you can perform a series of surgical operations such as anesthesia, resection, suturing, transplantation, injection, etc. on targets that have no resistance.

This operation comes from the concept, which can interfere with various tangible and intangible things, and even remove various negative states that affect human health, such as: curse. "

Although it is not a combat ability, it still makes Byron's eyes light up.

Because the application of this medical ability is too wide.

For example: cutting off the invisible puppet thread of the puppet king; treating the magic [Blood and Flesh Uselessness] on the puppet man; removing the curse brought by knowledge on his cousin Salant

Even if the latter two may not be able to do it when they are in the middle sequence, they should be no problem at all when they are in the high sequence.

With such ship doctor skills, the survival rate of the crew of the [Golden Deer] will definitely rise sharply when they go to the Eastern Continent in the future.

Everyone praised the doctors of the Skinning Cult and promised to build a hospital in the territory to provide them with the necessary job transfer resources.

He also met with the staff who stayed behind.

Especially [Eagle Eye] James who stayed here as a trade agent, let him run the trading company that may become the "second Treasure Fleet" well and stabilize this source of income.

He said hello to his father and was about to return to the Bantaan Islands.

Clang clang clang.

Suddenly, through a giant wolf Fuleqi left on the old Golden Deer, he could vaguely hear the sound of dice shaking on the other side.

"Again?"

Recently, he could hear the sound of dice shaking every now and then.

After a long time, he observed more and found that when the dice sounded, sometimes the silk threads tied to the Golden Deer and the flagship of the Treasure Fleet would tremble, interfering with their fate.

Not only did it interfere with the materialized ship, but it also affected everyone who had a relationship with the ship in the dark.

But most of the time when the dice sounded, the two puppet silk threads would not move.

Soon he realized that the puppet king had far more than one silk thread in his hand, and the other party was likely to be adjusting the fate of other "marionettes".

The [Puppet King] was most likely directing a heavyweight puppet show with many actors.

If he didn't have the strength of the fifth level, or a treasure like [Ship Log] that could see through the puppet silk threads, he would have been used as a puppet by him and died in a daze without knowing when.

Bang!

On a cargo ship that was loading and unloading goods at the dock, a box suddenly rolled down from the gangway, revealing an "artificial lantern man" twisted into the shape of a human nail.

Before being transformed into a puppet, he was a second-level [Navigator]. Even though his facial features were removed, he still retained his own [Telepathy] ability.

Noticing the fourth-level brilliant spiritual glow on Byron, he immediately shouted in the spiritual world as if grabbing a life-saving straw:

"Save me, I am willing to share a huge secret with you."

At about the same time, the [Wild Hunt] north of the celestial circulation belt also heard the same words from the puppet girl Tracy.

Byron was slightly startled, then a strange smile gradually appeared on his face:

"Is the puppet king planning to sell the treasure to two parties, let me kill each other, and then you will be the one who wins?

You also want to learn my ancestral offshore balance hand?

However, as a continental country on the Pyrenees Peninsula, Castilian people don't seem to have a talent tree in this area.

I am on both sides of the scale, how can it be balanced?

The scale is not something you can balance just because you want to!"

Then, the solution density of [Secret: Crisis of the Treasure Fleet, Historical Influence 28] rose to 38%.

At the same time.

[Dream Castle] is also leaving the colony of the southern continent and starting to return.

Since it can't wait until the next window period at the end of October, the treasure fleet will return.

If [Puppet King] Louis wants to do something personally, he must take advantage of this window period to leave the southern continent. Once he misses this window period, the opportunity will be cold.

The noble prince of Castile sat at his desk, holding a wine glass in his hand, admiring the gradually receding southern continent through the floor-to-ceiling window.

He also waved his hands from time to time to greet the colonial officials and officers who were seeing him off.

Suddenly, the vague voice of his sister-in-law, the former Queen Joanna, came from under the table:

"Louis, um. Didn't you already choose the [Sea Hunter]?

Why do you need to find the mortal enemy of the [Sea Hunter], um. [Wild Hunt]?"

The puppet king looked down at her from a high position. In his eyes, he saw the typical gourd-shaped figure of the beauty with hips wider than shoulders. She was as fascinating as a ripe peach, more charming than the scenery outside, and made him want to conquer her.

He sighed, shook the glass gently and said:

"It is precisely because they are mortal enemies that we deliberately put them together.

When the time comes, we don't need to take action ourselves. After they have robbed the treasure fleet, they will fight each other to the point of bloodshed.

The [Dream Castle] only needs to be responsible for the final cleanup and pick up the bargain.

The last Lancaster jumped out at the right time.

It was a good job to kill [Conqueror] Cortes in the Azk King City.

The son of a small noble dared to overestimate his own abilities and wanted to borrow [Yellow] [Gold Code] Python swallows elephant and becomes the vice king of the kingdom, equal to me?

I would rather give the treasure to the direct descendant of the Great Emperor Reinhard of the North Sea Empire than let the treasure fall into the hands of such a lowly little person.

And now when I need a troublemaker the most, he unexpectedly appears again.

[Wild Hunt] and [Sea Hunter] are the puppets in my hands, and they are also the two leading actors of the next puppet show, the male lead and the male second.

It is really exciting to manipulate the fate of the two most outstanding young people on the continent in the past ten years.

I, [Puppet King] Louis, was born to be a ruler. Even the [Creator] is helping me.

Life is easy for me, hahahaha”

The leading and supporting actors of the puppet show came on stage one after another, and the stage was the "palm" of the puppet king.

He was just one step away from singing a song. How lonely it was to be invincible.