Pirate Kingship

While Hettings was busy starting the civil war, the colonists from various countries could not help but land in the northern rainforest of the "Beast Paradise" on the southern continent.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The artillery fire rumbled and the sound of killing shook the sky.

"Quick, [Beast Tamer] command the flying beast to put the earth vein seal plug in place.

Artillery unit, wash the ground with artillery fire, open fire!"

"Play military music, musketeers press forward, three-stage shooting!"

"The Knights pay attention to the extraordinary people among the natives, keep an eye on your monster mounts, whoever dares to run around and disrupt the formation will be directly revoked of the right to distribute the spoils"

It has been one and a half months since the first colonial war led by the Pirate King [Ocean Throne] Barbarossa Hayreddin.

The interests on the Centaur Islands near the Rift Trench obviously can no longer satisfy the greed of the colonists.

Island No. 1 belongs to Hastings, Island No. 2 belongs to the Barbary Pirates and the Star-Moon Empire behind them, and Island No. 3 belongs to the powerful [Puppet King] Louis and the Kingdom of Castile behind him.

Under the three-legged tripod, other forces can only share some of the soup.

Of course, the first-tier legendary adventurers who came in during the window period at the end of July have also thought about Island No. 1.

Even if there is a 20-year protection period of the [Silver Law], if you don’t have the strength, subsequent threats and intimidation are inevitable, and various troubles will follow.

It’s like if you don’t leave during the demolition, the land and attachments may still be yours, but what about the road? What about water, electricity, and natural gas? You will be staring in vain even if you dig the surroundings into an isolated island.

But the total number of ghost ship fleets led by the first-class battleship [Blue Dragon King] is as high as 63. Even if most of them are cruisers, they still dare to confront any force including the Barbary Pirates.

Here, fists are the truth. Prince Sorenburg only showed his strength a little bit and completely secured the top spot in the whaling ground.

The only regret is that they are all cursed by Ponape, the [Father of Sharks], and can only go ashore once a year.

He didn't even have the chance to dig out his wife's body himself, let alone the ability to attack the southern continent.

If the ghost fleet of Hastings can't go up, others will not be polite to them.

After the vanguard troops hit the Sun Empire on the west coast and suffered a bloody head, most countries, companies, and supernatural organizations turned to the north of the continent.

The pirate king [Ocean Throne] occupied the location of the original dream city "Luo Yan City" and began to fight south and west.

Castile, under the command of [Puppet King], started to fight inland from the northwest corner.

Other countries each occupied a corner and expanded their territory little by little. In the next few years, they should not border each other.

Among all the forces, the Remit people who are determined to establish a country are the most hardworking.

Many multinational bankers, directors of large development companies, directors of large trading companies, large farmers, and large shipowners of the Jinyuan sequence formed the "Golden Power Restoration Party" and invested a huge amount of funds and manpower in the southern continent.

In addition to the elite Remit people organized by them, there are also a large number of slave troops whose personal freedom was won by [pawnbrokers].

This group of extraordinary people of the Jinyuan sequence are all wealthy people who started out as lenders, and their per capita equipment is better than that of the Castilians.

The landing site chosen is also very cautious, close to the pirate kingdom scheduled by the Barbary pirates.

This is also the promise made to them by the pirate king [Ocean Throne] at the beginning, allowing the Remit people to become their neighbors and future neighbors.

The pirate country and the loan shark country are actually rivals, and it is unknown whether any popular scenes will happen in the future.

Boom——!

A third-level totem god with a giant anaconda body fell to the ground with a bang, opening its bloody mouth wider than the doorway and losing its voice.

Michael, a profiteer from the Golden Palm Trading Company, stepped on the head of the totem god with one foot, picked up a thick "Gospel of Genesis" with one hand and shouted:

"Apu, who occupies the earth vein node in this river valley, is dead.

The servants, hurry up and capture all the descendants of the snake god in the tribe and put slave collars on them.

I declare that this fertile land, where milk and honey flow, is the land promised by the Creator to us Remit people, and will also become the first town of our country!"

The "Gospel of Genesis" was opened, and on a certain page it was written in the tone of the [Creator]: "I have given your descendants a beautiful and wide land flowing with milk and honey"

They not only want to occupy the land, but also use the scriptures to prove their legitimacy since ancient times and exclude the possibility of interference from other church countries.

Many Remites cheered in unison:

"Thank the Creator for giving us a new land of life flowing with milk and honey, as well as countless wealth and slaves!"

"The Lord calls all non-Remites in the world to serve me, and every Remite can get 2,800 non-Remit slaves."

"Thank the Creator for his mercy!"

When they arrived at this virgin land overseas where everyone stood on the same starting line, they no longer concealed their ambitions.

Afterwards, more white-skinned slaves from the Old World were driven off the ship and began to cut down trees to build camps.

It is obviously impossible for the noble Remites to work by themselves, and the natives cannot be used without domestication. In the early stage, they can only use these contract slaves "purchased" from the Old World at high prices.

Yes, in this dreamy colonial era, not all Old World people can be masters, and those who should be slaves still have to be slaves.

There are four main types of contract slaves in the Old World.

One type is bankrupts who are unable to repay their debts; one type is immigrants who want to migrate to the New World through labor; one type is the unlucky person who was robbed or deceived into signing a contract to sell himself; the last type is exiled prisoners.

Contract servants are much more expensive than natives, with an average selling price of 35 pounds, and large-scale purchases will not be less than 15 pounds.

And it is not just the Remit family who do this, many countries in the Old World do this, even the Kingdom of Hattings where Byron was born is no exception.

There is also an anecdote about prisoner immigration.

Before the rise of industrialization, agricultural civilization had limited ability to support the population.

The public security in major cities in various countries is actually not very good, and a large number of unemployed refugees will inevitably cause a sharp rise in crime rates.

Exiling those minor criminals to colonies has become the best choice for those in power.

It not only solves the problem of handling criminals, but also solves the problem of developing new colonies, killing two birds with one stone.

It is said that in the early days of the Great Navigation, a warship of the Kingdom of Hastings escorted exiled prisoners. After two months of sailing, when it arrived at the Royal Port of Jamestown, only five of the 221 female prisoners on board died.

This is simply a miracle in the harsh environment of the Great Navigation.

Except for a few who were too old, all of the more than 200 female prisoners were pregnant and then gave birth to the first batch of second-generation immigrants in the colony.

In fact, at the beginning, the authorities deliberately increased the proportion of female prisoners mainly to balance the number of men and women in the colony.

The average age of these 221 people was 27 years old. Most of them were dancers and hostesses before, with average looks.

There may be nothing wrong with the original intention, but so many pretty female prisoners are no less than coming to the Garden of Eden for the sailors and officers on the ship.

The warship had just left the mainland and was out of the monitoring range of the legal network. They arranged these female prisoners clearly according to their own positions.

After that, every time they stopped at a port to replenish supplies, the officers would force these female prisoners to disembark and earn extra money for them.

Because the process of changing hands in the middle was too complicated, no one could figure out whose children they were carrying.

And after these female prisoners arrived at their destination, their lives were not much better, because there were more male prisoners waiting for them.

According to statistics, in the first half century of colonialism, no matter which country, on average, each female prisoner who came to the colony would give birth to six children.

The contract slaves on the victorious side were just the tip of the iceberg of the bloody history of colonialism, and the side that disappeared in history was not even qualified to shed tears.

The contract slaves who fell into the hands of the Remit people would only be more miserable, and they would not even be regarded as the same kind.

Mr. Byron, who ruled the entire Yucatan Island, was simply a clear stream in the colonial world, a living beacon of morality and civilization.

The profiteer Michael arranged the work of the slaves, strode to the center of the original anaconda tribe, and saw a world crack extending from a spring.

Just like conquering the Rift Trench, if they want to settle down here, they must deal with the world cracks everywhere.

The military commander scratched his head in some trouble:

"Mr. Michael, there are too many world cracks overseas.

Before building a church and relocating the population to suppress it, we need extraordinary people in the Lighthouse Sequence to volunteer to serve as [Lantern Bearers].

I heard that the extraordinary knowledge of the Rift Monastery can repair the world cracks, but unfortunately they have been almost wiped out since [Father of Sharks] Pohnpei, and we probably can't get this technology."

The general practice of encountering world cracks in the Old World is to build a church, concentrate the power of all believers in a certain area, and make a rivet to re-close the world crack.

In mysticism, human thoughts and wishes are almost omnipotent.

Overseas, there are sparsely populated people and even fewer believers. Most of them do not have such time-consuming and laborious conditions, so they can only use the lives of [Lantern Bearers] to fill them.

Now that they want to settle down and build a country, they can't take shortcuts. They must imitate the old world's handling methods step by step to be more secure.

It's just that the [Lantern Man], which is like consumables, is not easy to find. This is why small forces do not have the ability to develop independently.

The profiteer Michael smiled complacently:

"No need to bother.

I just went to visit His Highness the [Puppet King] of Castile two days ago. He developed an artificial 'Lantern Man' that can completely replace the work of a normal lantern man."

He clapped his hands, and an attendant came over carrying a "stick-like object".

"Hiss!"

The officers around saw the appearance of the so-called "artificial lantern man" and couldn't help but gasp.

The whole is a wooden puppet, but the arms have been removed and the legs are twisted into a screw-like twist.

But looking at his eyes, you can still see the aura of humanity.

This shows that it is not just a puppet, but a living puppet made by [Magic·Blood and Flesh are Useless]!

While commanding his servants to screw the "human nail" into the ground little by little, the profiteer Michael said with admiration to the northwest:

"His Highness the Puppet King is a genius. He can invent this substitute for the lantern man.

Using the extraordinary people of the Lighthouse Sequence as raw materials, a large number of "useless" organs are removed, leaving only a small amount of flesh and wood.

The trick to protecting the world is to frequently replace the lantern man. Once this man-made product breaks down, just replace it with a new one.

Compared with him, our utilization rate of slaves is obviously not high enough.

However, even when the Kingdom of Castile is at war, it often asks us for loans. As long as you have money, what can't you buy?

Now we just need to cheer, the first piece of land laid down by the Golden Power and Nationalist Party is already solid! "

As the "human nail" was screwed clockwise into the ground, the originally violent tide of source material gradually calmed down, and the effect was immediate.

When everyone saw this, they cheered in unison:

“Money speaks, but truth remains silent!”

"In the future, the status of the Remit people in this new continent will be supreme!"

Among the other colonists, there were also other small forces that did not have the ability to develop independently. They purchased the new inventions of the [Puppet King] and started the colonial enterprise in full swing.

But they didn't realize that each human nail was connected to an invisible thread, extending to the northwest corner of the continent.

It is clearly the "backdoor" set up by [Puppet King].

Even if this backdoor is never activated, it can be passively triggered when a keyword is encountered and enable positioning on its own.

For example: "I have gold mines here", "I have iron mines here", "I have whale oil here".

And once the Puppet King really wants to do something in the future, these small forces that don't even have a king's title may not be able to resist at all.

At the same time, on the quasi-legendary battleship [Dream Castle] on the other side of the continent, the Puppet King Louis, who had just gotten up, was standing by the window shaking a glass of red wine.

He sensed the "human nails" that had been beaten down in the vast continent in front of him, and nodded with satisfaction:

“If you want to become a complete [King Title], you need to achieve the trinity of king, law, and country.

Although the size of the country is secondary, of course the larger the area, the better, and the more citizens the better.

With these 'artificial lantern men' of mine instead, the role of [Sea Hunter] Saint Byron is dispensable. Even if he is killed by a gangster, it will not affect my interests in the Rift Trench.

It would be best if I could turn him into a puppet and eat up Island No. 1 in one go, and then let him continue to look after my home and care for me.

From then on, the cracks in the world spread overseas can no longer hinder my expansion of the kingdom's territory.

The person holding the string in his hand will never perform on stage in person. As long as I help my daughter Juana ascend to the throne smoothly, I will be the king of kings and the king of kings.

The whole kingdom of Castile and the whole world will become puppets dancing in my hands. "

Boom, boom, boom.

At this time, a knock on the door suddenly sounded.

"Come in."

The door opened, and a figure wearing black clothes and an owl mask on his face walked in. His steps were as silent as a feather.

This is the upper level profession of an assassin [Night Owl Death Warrior].

He is also a member of the "Night Owl Court", a secret force that is responsible for doing dirty work for the Puppet King. It is exactly the same as Byron's "Storm Cloak" composed of "Phantom Blades".

The Puppet King perked up when he saw his appearance and asked quickly:

"Have you found the Guards team that transported the fertility totem god?"

[Night Owl Death Warrior] knelt down on one knee and shook his head, but before the Lord got angry, he told what he had learned:

"Your Highness, although we did not find the Guards team, we found out the identity of the leader from the royal capital.

It has been determined that Plan No. 1 is destined to be unrealizable, and we recommend that Plan No. 2 be launched immediately. "

[Incompetent] Enrique IV, like the Habsburg family, the forbidden knowledge he desires most is not immortality, but the continuation of his descendants.

Originally [Puppet King] Louis' first plan was to quietly find the group of guards escorting the totem god, and then leave them in the colony to prevent the birth of the king's biological descendants.

Now there was obviously an accident.

"Who is it?"

Hearing what his men said, Louis frowned, actually already having a guess about the identity of the escort.

"Your Highness, this is the King's right hand [Green Lady] Angelia!"

The name spoken by his men did not exceed the Puppet King's expectations, and his heart sank slightly.

He knew all the details of the sixteen king's right hands around his brother, and of course he knew why this [Night Owl Dead Man] was convinced that Plan No. 1 was no longer feasible.

[Green Lady] Angelia is a fourth-level heroic knight in the King's right hand.

The "dragon" she tamed with the dragon-taming technique is a first-class holy relic [Aurora Guard] passed down by the people of Bay:

“Legend has it that the Northern Lights is the reflection of the armor on the Valkyrie, which makes it shine with incomparable brilliance, and [Aurora Guard] is the armor that belongs to the Valkyrie.

As long as you put on this armor, you become a part of the light, and the whole world is the same as the light, and divination has no effect.

It is said that only by conceptually cutting off the power of Aurora can the true body under the armor be found and harm the owner of the armor. "

It turns out that the action team has the help of this holy relic. Even if the fifth-level legend is asked to find it, there is a high probability that they will not be able to find it back.

At this time, the Night Owl Death Soldier who had heard the report continued:

“However, Your Highness, while we were inquiring, we also heard some good news.

Princess Isabella also sent her own large merchant fleet to join the treasure fleet. She was already on her way overseas, preparing to transport the spices, gold and silver she had accumulated in various estates and mines in Havana back to her homeland.

If Plan 2 can succeed, we will not only be able to eat up the wealth of the national treasury, but also make Princess Isabella, a competitor, have a serious hemorrhage.

Once she loses this wealth, see how she can bribe supporters to compete with you for the throne. "

The biggest problem in Castile currently is the problem of the crown prince.

One group led by [Puppet King] Louis supports the king's only daughter Juana, while the other group unites around their half-sister, the 21-year-old Princess Isabella.

These are also the two largest political forces in Castile. If something goes wrong, they will start a throne war like Hattings.

The shrewd and capable sister Isabella not only gathered a large number of supporters, but also stood a powerful cousin and fiancé King Fernando II of Aragon, whose strength should not be underestimated.

Once they get married and take charge of the two thrones respectively, they will be able to unify the entire Pyrenees Peninsula and push the largest sea power to a new peak.

This may be a good thing for the country, but it is a huge bad thing for Enrique IV and the Puppet King Louis. The sister must not be allowed to succeed.

At this point, the Puppet King finally made up his mind:

“Since Plan No. 1 failed, I can only let the pirates I selected enter.

I can sense that the two threads of fate that were bound in advance are not far apart, and they happen to be in the first circulation zone. Let's start with an unexpected encounter between a pirate and a treasure fleet. "

He gently moved the puppet silk thread in his hand and made a clanging trill.

Then he gritted his teeth and took out a thirty-sided die that seemed to be made of brass.

This is the most powerful treasure in the hand of the Puppet King - the cursed object [Probability Dice].

Get numbers by throwing dice, and then manipulate the probability, such as at key nodes, to make things develop in the direction of your choice.

The degree of directional deviation depends on the number shaken out, from 1 to 30, the larger the number, the stronger the influence.

Consistent with the secret influence: (0-10) from one person to a village or a town; (10-20) from a city or a place to an entire region;

(20-30] From a certain region to a country; if it is greater than 30, it will begin to affect the continent and even the entire world.

Theoretically you can shake it as many times as you want.

However, as much influence as the user exerts, the same amount of misfortune will befall the user. If the user is not strong enough, he may die from the backlash before he can achieve his goal.

And the more times it shakes in a short period of time, the worse the bad luck will be.

Under normal circumstances, the Puppet King only dares to shake it once a day at most, ensuring that the influence is below 20 points, so that he, a fifth-level legend, will not be too unlucky.

clang clang clang.

The thirty-sided [Probability Dice] spun twice on the ground, and finally the top side stopped on 6. Invisible fluctuations followed the thread and superconducted out.

If the influence is less than 10, it can only be considered as a small test.

On the other end, last night's "horse shock", oh no, after the spiritual adjustment was over, Byron and Catherine caught up with the [Golden Deer] who had taken the first step.

Not wanting to travel long distances on horseback, they both checked into their own captain's cabin.

Byron woke up refreshed early in the morning and began practicing his sword seriously on the deck with his officers.

However, Catherine was still resting in the room because she was a little tired from playing the new tricks too much.

Byron, who beat everyone to the ground, couldn't help but sighed:

“The main conflict between us as a couple has become the conflict between my growing intensity and the backward endurance of my two sisters.

You should hurry up and advance to the fourth-level mythical creature, otherwise it will be in vain even if you two go up together in the future. Huh? "

Turning his head at this time, he saw the puppet silk thread that had not moved since it fell on the keel of the [Golden Deer] trembling slightly.

Then I heard Gus on the mainmast shouting:

"Captain, a large fleet flying the Castilian flag has been spotted ahead."