Pirate Kingship

[Insect Swarm] came faster than Byron expected.

It was just noon when a large black cloud with a fierce buzzing sound flew over from the depths of the eastern sea.

Before landing, a sour smell unique to insects spread in the camp built in the river valley.

Byron looked at the bombing squid that Eight Fingers had just carefully roasted in front of him, which was his favorite, and suddenly lost his appetite.

He had no choice but to put down the food and hurriedly got up to greet him.

He touched his chest and saluted:

"Teacher, you are here so fast. I thought you would be here tomorrow at the earliest after you organized the manpower."

Thousands of iron-colored black locusts landed and regrouped into the mysterious figure of the third-level wizard [Insect Swarm] who was always wearing a black robe.

"Haha, we have to make decisions in a hurry.

The bizarre [Zhi Shen] you described in Nautilus is very valuable to our Giant Insect Book School, which specializes in studying and cultivating various insects.

You have made a contribution this time.

If you encounter any problems when practicing black magic, I can answer them for you during this operation."

He smiled and nodded to Byron, the new disciple who had made great contributions several times, and took out a strange-looking pocket from under his robe.

It looks like the stomach of some creature, flesh-colored, with lymph and blood vessels on the surface that have not been cleaned up.

It jumped in the palm of the insect swarm, as if it had just been dug out of the body of a creature and was still alive.

In fact, this is a precious second-level wonder that many wilderness sequence trainers dream of: [Blood Swaddling].

With a slight shake, the blood swaddling was like vomiting, and it suddenly "vomited" out more than a dozen figures covered with mucus.

Among them, the chief disciple of the insect swarm, the second-level beast trainer [Thousand Legs] Digory, woke up like a hibernating centipede (Chapter 123).

He raised his hand to remove the sticky gray hood on his head, revealing a pale face of a young man.

His face was stiff, and his skin was shining with a strange chitinous luster, as if he was wearing a fake mask, and there were two centipede-like red tentacles on his forehead.

It looked more like a big upright centipede than a human.

An arm with a chitinous shell stretched out from the sleeve, stretching out like a centipede's body, stretching out dense, blade-like blood-red tentacles.

It popped out like lightning and bit the necks of the dozen people on the ground who had their eyes closed and seemed to be in a dormant state.

"Cough cough."

After a few short breaths, the remaining people all opened their eyes and climbed up from the ground one after another, coughing out the mucus in their mouths and breathing heavily.

[Level 2 Wonder · Flesh and Blood Swaddling]:

"A very magical space prop that can not only carry dead objects, but also living objects.

It allows the trainer to move flexibly with his large or large number of beasts, and it is no problem to use it to carry living people.

But when they are in the flesh and blood swaddling, they will be affected by a liquid secreted by it and forced into a dormant state.

It is difficult to immediately engage in battle."

These men brought by the swarm of insects are all burly, but expressionless, and their eyes are even more numb than those oppressed sailors at the beginning.

They didn't say a word from beginning to end.

"Open your mouth."

[Thousand-legged] Digory gave each of them a mouthful of unknown blood brew mixed with transmuted blood.

The swarm of insects shook the meat bag in their hands again, and a group of strange black and red giant insects crawled out of it, and each of them wrapped around a man's body.

They wrapped their bodies tightly with their shells, and the dense tentacles desperately drilled into their flesh and blood.

Gradually formed a black and red knight armor that wrapped the whole body.

The carapaces on their arms transformed into heavy swords and axes that shone with cold light.

The bodies of these dozen people twitched violently, and it was obvious that the process was very painful, but none of them cried out.

Byron found through their open mouths that the tongues of these people had been cut off long ago, and they seemed to be a group of specially trained slaves.

Finally, the insects inserted a tubular mouthpart into the mouths of those slaves.

Their heads hugged their faces, as if they were wearing a pair of strange helmets and masks.

A dozen burly men suddenly turned into a dozen more burly heavy knights.

The whole body exuded the fierce breath of a large predator.

"This seems to be. Iron-bone dragon nematodes?"

Byron felt familiar with the scene in front of him.

At the beginning, when he fought against Old Norwich of the York family on the battlefield of Iron Anchor Bay, the opponent had used a similar ability.

Using the taboo knowledge in the "Book of Giant Insects", a kind of iron-bone dragon nematodes was cultivated.

It can coexist with the human body, providing the owner with a layer of defense that is not inferior to the Iron Knight Armor, as well as super regeneration ability.

The side effect is photophobia. The parasite armor must not be used in the sun, and if used too many times, it may completely turn into a big insect.

But these slaves are obviously not extraordinary.

In this way, they are casually parasitized by the iron-bone dragon nematodes cultivated by black magic.

Maybe they can burst out with powerful strength far beyond ordinary people for a while, but they will probably be eaten up by this parasite in a short time.

The best ending is that the beast is out of control and directly turns into some kind of half-human, half-insect brutal grotesque.

Many times, the boundary between humans and grotesques is not so clear.

The turmoil in the unknown world is unpredictable, and what is even more unpredictable is human nature.

[Insect Swarm] waved his hand casually at him:

"Don't worry, these are just necessary consumables for capturing the target.

You can just go into the cave with us, and the guards don't have to follow.

According to the information you gave, those natives are probably dug through the underground cave with high temperature and high humidity. In that environment, your men following in would only be a burden."

"Yes, teacher."

Byron followed suit.

The reason for inviting the other party here is not to find a free thug and meat shield? Naturally, he was happy to do so.

After arranging the defense affairs, he followed the insect swarm into the mine.

[Echoes of History] can easily read the past of each stone. This gold vein is very poor and has little mining value.

But the appearance and reserves of hematite and its associated chalcopyrite look very good.

Unfortunately, the natives who had not even entered the Bronze Age did not know what was going on, and did not realize that there was a key that could make their civilization take off.

Not long after they walked, they found a deep cave entrance on the rock wall on one side of the mine tunnel.

Before they entered, a wave of hot and humid air came to their faces.

[Insect Swarm] moved his nose:

"My guess is right, there is indeed a huge underground cave hidden here.

Diggory, Byron, open the spiritual barrier.

Iron Bone Knights lead the way."

The dozen or so heavily armored knights immediately rushed in with whale oil lamps without saying a word, waving their swords and axes to smash the cave entrance wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

Byron followed closely behind and found that the temperature of this cave was probably 40 degrees and the humidity was over 80%.

In this hot and humid environment, ordinary humans would be in danger of life if they moved inside for more than 20 minutes, and even if more people came in, it would be just a burden.

But it did not have much impact on them.

When the group of people went deeper into the ground more than 200 meters along a rugged tunnel, and the cave suddenly opened up, they were suddenly shocked by the scene in front of them.

"Are these crystal columns? So big!"

There were countless huge crystal clusters.

The cave in front of them was filled with giant crystal columns that were more than ten meters long and weighed dozens of tons. Under the illumination of whale oil lamps, they reflected beautiful and magnificent brilliance.

The sound of dripping water in the ears proved that these crystal clusters that had grown for who knows how many tens of thousands of years were actually still growing in units of thousands of years.

After being amazed, several people shook their heads regretfully at the same time:

"It's a pity that these crystal columns are not worth much."

Byron's [Logbook] saw it most clearly, and also saw through the principle of crystal column formation.

Karst caves and crystal caves in other places are actually not rare.

It is mainly due to the magma surging upward from the bottom of the crust, and the crust cracked.

The acidic volcanic fluid seeped into the cracks, slowly corroding the limestone on the crust, and then forming caves.

Then, under the continuous heating of underground magma, groundwater containing calcium sulfate began to penetrate the entire cave tens of millions of years ago, and condensed in places with low temperatures, thus forming a gypsum crystal cave.

That's right, there are only transparent calcium sulfate gypsum crystals here, not crystal clusters of silicon dioxide.

Even crystals are the same as glass and are not valuable.

Unless there are extraordinary materials infected by the source tide, it is possible for them to make a fortune.

If you hope to make a fortune from crystals, it is better to move forward along these underground passages that extend in all directions. Maybe you can find the meteorite that fell in the deepest time.

The group of people moved very skillfully between the criss-crossing crystal columns.

Ten minutes later, many strange and huge luminous mushrooms suddenly appeared in front of them, and each mushroom grew as tall as a tree.

When they came here, it seemed like they had entered a super-giant mushroom forest.

If you listen carefully, you can hear rustling sounds, obviously there are other creatures living here.

"It should be that the outside world, such as fallen leaves, animal carcasses, spores, fungi and other substances enter the cave, and then are digested by special fungi to feed other organisms.

Eventually, a closed and huge ecosystem is formed.

That [Zhi Shen] should be nearby."

At this time, a cry suddenly came from Byron's waist bag.

Squeak...

The gold digger that was captured by him for spying on the restricted area slipped out of his waist bag by himself, climbed onto Byron's shoulder, and jumped towards the depths of the mushroom forest.

This mouse, like those man-eating sharks, also drank the blood of transmutation and became one of his contracted creatures.

It's just that Byron's control over these contracted creatures is far less than that of the animal trainer, and even his meaning is not very clear.

The swarm of insects ordered the Iron Knights to explore the way forward, while nodding to Byron approvingly:

"The Giant Insect Book School is most suitable for part-time trainers, but you, a Lighthouse Sequence Pirate, have trained sharks and gold diggers that are not bad.

It is not impossible to take care of both in the future."

As he spoke, he subconsciously took out the tone of a teacher:

"Byron, the first step of the initiation ceremony of the two major branches of the Thirsty Blood Cult is the [Blood Holy Grail].

But the Bloody Mary School focuses on using [Transmutation Blood] to prepare various blood brews, while our Giant Insect Book School focuses on using Transmutation Blood to cultivate various insects.

It does not completely reject each other's knowledge.

In the end, different paths lead to the same destination.

The forbidden book "Bloody Mary's Gourmet Recipe" inherited by the Bloody Mary faction is indeed closer to the origin of [Mother of Creation Lilith] than our "Giant Insect Book" and is also purer.

But it takes a lot of time to form a strong combat power.

And at the low sequence, although various blood brews make their means more abundant, they are far inferior to our Giant Insect Book faction in terms of combat power. "

Listening to [Insect Swarm] talking about the "Insect Blood Dispute" between the two factions, Byron inexplicably had a familiar sense of déjà vu.

A certain sword sect is also like this. Is it for the present or the future?

"Especially when we accidentally got the supernatural "natural disaster" outside the specification, that incomplete "Kraken Touch".

With the gourmet who has mastered the Holy Grail of Blood as the anchoring factor, it is even easier to destroy those Bloody Mary factions.

Your choice to join us is the most correct decision you have made in this life, and it is closer to eternal life than many kings of the Old World and even the saints of the church.

It's a pity that such a useful strategic treasure was lost by the idiots of the York family.

I personally made the handover with Old Norwich of the York family."

When the swarm of insects shook their heads and sighed, they did not notice that a cold light suddenly flashed in the depths of Byron's eyes.

'Handover? You?

I have long known that the touch of the Kraken is related to you insects, but I didn't expect that the specific person who handled it was you.'

[Secret: The shadow behind the Red and White Rose War, Influence 31] The decryption density has also been promoted from 60% to 63%.

After locking the key culprit and accomplice, Byron not only did not make trouble, but his attitude became more respectful.

'Now is not the time, since the Bloodthirsty Cult is running for the blood sacrifice [Mother of Creation Lilith], the final ritual [Scarlet Holy Grail] and the blood of eternal life.

It would be more satisfying to stab you at that critical moment than to do it now.'

At this time, a suppressed groan suddenly came from the front.

"It's bitten, chase! "

The insect swarm was invigorated and immediately rushed towards the mushroom forest.