Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 124 Leopard Warrior, Shadow Reappears

Just when Byron and his party had just arrived at their own fiefdom.

In the western part of the Bantaan Islands, on an inconspicuous island deep in the territory ruled by the indigenous tribes, a "Crown War" for obtaining human sacrifices has come to an end.

crackling
The Bantaan tribe, who were called indigenous by the colonists but actually called themselves Taino.

A large number of long houses made of grass and wood on the periphery were burning fiercely.

The poorly dressed women and children ran and cried, trying to escape from the tribe and escape into the rain forest, but they were driven back by a group of ferocious colonists armed with muskets.

Most of the men were holding crude stone weapons, and a few were holding precious steel swords obtained from the spice trade, and they rushed towards the invaders with roars.

The seemingly tragic resistance is meaningless.

Among the colonists, a strange man who was still wearing a gray cloak even in the tropical jungle stood out and said in a shrill voice:
"Poisonous plague insect swarm!"

Spread your wide sleeves.

Buzz buzz.
A group of strange insects that looked like wasps but carried a foul smell flew out from his sleeves and covered the entire crowd in an instant.

One by one, the natives, regardless of gender, age or status, screamed and foamed at the mouth, fell to the ground and completely lost the power to resist.

This is the "Crown War" that is often launched between indigenous tribes.

The purpose is not to kill people, but simply to obtain a sacrifice for living sacrifice!

There was only one senior female warrior among the natives who was obviously a transcendent. She was holding a pair of daggers that seemed to be made from the fangs of wild beasts and dancing with them as fast as the wind.

The blade flashed, and all the bees flying towards her were cut down to the ground.

He glared at the cloaked man, and the leopard tooth necklace around his neck emitted a faint blue flame that enveloped his entire body.

A pair of eyes suddenly turned into the dangerous pupils of a leopard.

Golden and black leopard patterns also appeared on the wheat-colored skin, two triangular ears protruded from the top of the head, and a long tail swayed behind the hips, making a whistling sound.

It was as if it had really transformed into a muscular female leopard, beautiful yet dangerous.

Under her satin-smooth skin, her perfect muscle lines flow smoothly like water waves, providing her with extremely strong explosive power.

Let the female warrior pounce on the cloaked man who was obviously the leader.

"Outsiders, you all deserve to die!"

The colonists were familiar with this extraordinary ability. They knew that it was an extraordinary profession unique to the Bantaan natives - [Leopard Spirit Warrior].

Hunt a mature wild leopard with your own hands and make an amulet with its tusk.

During battle, he can instantly transform and gain the powerful strength of some ferocious beast.

If placed in the Old World, this very primitive witchcraft would of course be undoubtedly taboo knowledge.

But in the overseas world, it is a very common universal ability.

[Bear Spirit Warrior], [Eagle Spirit Warrior], [Frog Warrior]. They are as common as the Knight profession that is spread across all major sequence systems in the Ladder of Glory.

The price is that they become wild and crave raw food.

And once an animal spirit possesses a person for too long, the leopard ears, leopard tail and leopard spots that grow on the body may remain on the body forever and never disappear.

In the slave market, many so-called extraterrestrial races actually came from this.

It is said that in the colonies of the Kingdom of Castile, a black industry chain has even been formed to specifically satisfy the special fetishes of domestic nobles.

Not only the most common cat girls and tiger girls, but even mermaids are available.

However, before the female Leopard Spirit Warrior, who had burst out with all her strength, could rush to the cloaked man, three rows of muskets had already opened fire at the same time.

boom! boom! boom!
As the fire lines intersected, the hair on her leopard tail exploded, and her whole body almost formed an afterimage. She dodged at an incredible angle, but was still shot in the shoulder and thigh.

Blood spurted out, and then he fell to the ground with a wail.

She found that the cloaked man walking towards her was staring at her ears and tail. She begged for mercy in the somewhat awkward common language of the continent:

"Outsider, please let my people go. I, Yasmina, am willing to serve you from now on."

The cloaked man glanced at the leopard ears on her head that were slowly retracting and the leopard tail behind her hips, and his shrill voice was calm:
"If you were from the Bloodthirsty Cult's former Bloody Mary faction, they might look at you differently.

But you have neither a shell nor tentacles, and you only have one pair of legs.

Why are you so confident that I, a member of the Giant Insect Book School, would be interested in someone of the opposite sex like you?
That’s not my hobby at all.”

He raised his hand and removed the hood on his head, revealing a pale face of a very young man.

But on his forehead there were two long tentacles like a centipede.

He stretched out his arm and the cuff slipped off, revealing an arm with a chitinous shell, which stretched out segment by segment like the body of a centipede.

The edges are covered with densely packed blood-red tentacles that are like blades.

Look at his appearance clearly, even though this female warrior is an extraordinary person who has experienced many battles.

But her instinctive fear of the big bug still made her scream.

"what--!"

Immediately, the mouthparts on this arm bit him on the neck, venom was injected into him, and he instantly fainted like his fellow tribesmen.

With the fall of the last high-ranking warrior, this historic tribe was on the verge of complete destruction.

The last skinny shaman who had been kneeling under a totem pole in the center of the tribe stood up silently and, with great determination, ran headfirst into the colorful totem pole and died.

Bang!
The brain exploded, mixed with hot blood, and all poured onto a very exaggerated human face at the bottom of the totem pole.

The totem pole, which was more than ten meters high, suddenly glowed with light.

A cheetah's roar suddenly resounded throughout the tribe.

“Eh, it’s a guardian spirit? This small tribe with not many people actually worships a guardian spirit that can manifest power?

It is also possible that they were defeated in another "Crown War" and many warriors were captured, and later migrated to this island.

No wonder I thought these longhouses were a little too new at first.”

The cloaked man of the Bloodthirsty Cult couldn't help but frown when he saw this scene, and even the tentacles on his forehead moved a little faster.

Totem poles are indispensable in all indigenous tribes that believe in animism and the immortality of the soul.

The carvings on the top of the pillars are usually animals or plants such as eagles, bears, killer whales, thunderbirds, crows, beavers, wolves, and frogs.

The indigenous people believe that each clan has a kinship or other special relationship with a certain animal or plant. This animal or plant will become the totem of the clan, symbolizing the guardian of the tribe.

Further down, the pillars are generally in the shape of humans, and this image usually represents the ancestors of the ethnic group.

Continuing down, different images and different combinations constitute the different legendary deeds of a tribe.

Typically, small tribes would carve varying numbers of totem poles.

Large city-states and countries would build magnificent pyramids and temples on top of the square cone-shaped pyramids.

They are connected by ladders, with the lowest level being four floors and the highest being thirteen floors.

Every totem pole and every temple will form an island in the spiritual world that protects the tribe from source tides and various weird invasions.

It can be understood as a substitute for the human [Silver Law], but it is far less large-scale than the [Silver Law].

The natives majored in black magic, so they obviously needed to have their own [Anchor].

"Ow—!"

In the blink of an eye, a leopard spirit as big as a small house, with blue flames burning all over its body, jumped out from the totem pole.

It has the body of a cheetah, but the head of a standard human male.

This is because the most powerful warriors in the tribe will choose to merge with their ancestors after death and become the guardian spirits of the tribe.

Possessing both human and animal characteristics, it represents the forces of nature beyond human control.

However, in the eyes of some high-level transcendents in the Old Continent, it is more like a combination of "divinity" and "animality", sharing the same origin as the Old Continent, but just more primitive.

At this time, the Cheetah Guardian Spirit's body was obviously covered with scars, bullet holes, sword marks, and transparent blood was flowing in some places.

This clearly confirmed the cloaked man's guess.

It had just experienced a fierce battle with another wave of colonists.

If the tribe had not been in a critical moment of life and death, the shaman would never have risked his life to summon this guardian spirit to take action.

But before the half-human, half-beast guardian spirit could pounce on the invader.

In the distant sky, there was another buzzing sound of vibrating wings, and then a large black "cloud" suddenly fell.

They turned out to be thousands of black locusts the size of a palm.

They opened their countless pincer-like mouthparts and bit the tribal guardian spirit from head to toe.

A shrill scream like that of a tortured death suddenly resounded through the sky, but then stopped abruptly in an instant.

In just a few breaths, this powerful spiritual creature was eaten clean.

The locusts gathered together in mid-air and gradually formed the shape of a person.

Then a blood-red light flashed, and it turned into a black-robed figure that slowly fell to the ground.

The crisis was resolved instantly.

However, locusts kept crawling in and out from under the black robe of the figure, which made people's scalp tingle.

"Capture the prisoners and loot the spoils. Try to rob another native tribe before nightfall."

"As you command, Mr. Swarm!"

A group of armed colonists immediately rushed into the indigenous tribe with shining eyes, causing chaos again.

The first person in the gray robe and cloak stepped forward and said respectfully:
"Teacher, you are here.

After you completed the second ritual, completely abandoned your mortal body, and sublimated the essence of life, your power became even stronger.

Even facing the concentrated fire of battleships, it can remain unscathed.

Among all the third-level extraordinary people, he is also one of the strongest."

Hearing the compliment from his disciple, the black-robed man, who was called "The Swarm" by the colonists, sighed in the same shrill voice:

"I have now become only the will of the swarm. Although the essence of life has been sublimated, it will eventually decay.

Only the [Scarlet Holy Grail] represents eternal life.

Unfortunately, although our 'Giant Insect Book Sect' successfully defeated the 'Bloody Mary Sect' and monopolized the holy land that can communicate with that existence.

But I still haven't been able to decipher the legendary ritual [Scarlet Holy Grail], and I can't brew a cup of [Eternal Blood]."

Hearing his words, the gray-robed disciple also felt a little indignant:
“That’s eternal life that only exists in the divine realm!

We want it, the York family of Hattings wants it, and even those so-called servants of God in the church, who appear to be righteous on the surface, are secretly eyeing the power that belongs to God.

Always let us charge in the front.

We do all the dirty work, but they get all the good stuff.

And those idiots actually lost the 'Touch of the Kraken'.

The Scourge helped us defeat the Bloody Mary Cult for the first time during the internal strife within the Cult of Blood (Chapter 91); the Scourge helped the House of York defeat Lancaster for the second time during the War for the Throne.

The third target was Iron Anchor Bay. What was originally a foolproof plan could cause the "Touch of the Kraken" to get out of control and become a real natural disaster.

You still want us to clean up the mess?

Don't we look like "honest and trustworthy" people? If we go to the North Sea, won't we be swallowed up by that being with a sixth-level body?
What a joke! "

[Insect Swarm] waved his hand to interrupt the disciple:

“There’s no need to say any more useless words. In order to obtain the Scarlet Holy Grail, we now need living sacrifices, more sacrifices.

The Order has received reliable intelligence that the maritime overlord, the Kingdom of Castile, will soon deliver a fatal blow to the dying Azik Empire and Taya Empire.

Everyone's chance has come.

This is a feast for lions and a carnival for hyenas.

The Bantaan Islands would soon be plunged into turmoil.

Diggory, give the order to mobilize our slave ships, pirate captains, and collaborators from the Kingdom of Hattings."

The gray-robed man lowered his head and touched his chest:
"is teacher."

(End of this chapter)