Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 125: Recruiting capable generals, a ray of hope

Great Taiman Island, temporary governor's office.

The extraordinary profession that Byron is best at dealing with is [Gourmet].

These guys have a very obvious weakness. If they don't have delicious food for a long time, their strength will gradually decline, and they may even die of greed.

After being hungry for less than a day, the revived [Blood Red Whiskey] Alfred raised his hands in surrender.

"Mr. Alfred, have you understood?"

"I understand! Everything can be a sword, which is absolutely the ultimate truth of swordsmanship. It is a level or even two levels higher than focusing on one's own 'flow'.

But I always feel that the manifestation of this realm where everything is a sword shouldn’t be like this.”

But when Alfred, who was still wearing the magic-breaking stone handcuffs, saw the thing Byron was playing with, he decisively chose to shut up.

"Well, I mean, should we start eating?"

Byron was very satisfied with his current attitude. He put the rifle in his hand back into the drawer and clapped his hands outside the door.

The honest man Bazhi immediately brought people to bring in the wine and food that had been prepared in advance.

Crab meat lion head, sweet and sour fish made with orange juice instead of vinegar, honey roast chicken, cumin lamb chops, garlic lobster.
During his time as a guest chef, Bazhi learned Byron's true skills and the dishes he cooked became more and more delicious.

"Gudong."

This second-level [Gourmet] looked at the dishes in front of him that combined color, fragrance, taste, novelty and novelty, and the gourmet soul in his body almost rioted on the spot.

What he saw seemed no longer to be a table of delicious food, but his own magnificent and bright path to transcendence.

'Hiss! It smells so good, it's almost killing me!
What are these methods? It’s even more eye-opening than when I was learning cooking in the Iris Kingdom.

I dream of having endless amounts of delicious food to eat and quickly being promoted to a higher level.

If you had taken it out earlier, I wouldn't have to worry about whether it was a sword or not.

Even if you say those ship-borne cannons are swords, I still have to praise the captain for his wisdom! '

The Bantaan Islands are rich in resources and their biodiversity is far beyond what the Old Continent can compare to. Even various demonized animals and plants are everywhere.

Even if their cooking skills are average, gourmets can always find fresh ingredients they have never eaten before to satisfy their picky taste buds.

But it’s hard to say how delicious the original flavor is.

Byron smiled to himself; this was exactly the effect he wanted.

He never liked to force others. Not to mention sharing the same ideals, if they didn't even have common interests, the final result would be that he would be in Cao's camp but his heart was with Han.

"Want to learn? I'll teach you.

Mr. Alfred, from today on, you will be the chef on the Golden Deer.

Come, sign it."

He took out a parchment contract document and handed it to him.

This is a contract document that was personally justified by the fifth-level legendary [Lawyer] Mad King Henry VI, who communicated the iron law of royal power when he was sober.

As long as you sign it, if you violate it, you will suffer direct backlash from the power of the law.

Even those in the middle sequence have a high probability of being severely damaged, and those in the low sequence will be 100% killed on the spot.

This is the inventory from Catherine's property. They have several similar items.

It is very precious to outsiders, but to Byron and Catherine in the past they had as many as they wanted. But now, one less piece is used.

The content is similar to the ones signed between "Bill" and the York family, and between "Byron Tudor" and the Newman family.

As a retainer agreement with harsh conditions, wealthy nobles would not sign it, but it is very convenient to use it to recruit a few "trusted" subordinates.

Of course, this “confidant” cannot be the same as himself.

Byron liked Alfred, a chivalrous thief who followed the rules, and was willing to give him a chance.

When you are under someone's roof, [Blood Red Whiskey] Alfred also knew the situation and signed his name.

He also signed his name on the "Ten Commandments of Pirates" on the Golden Hind, representing that his hundreds of subordinates had completely merged into Byron's pirate group.

Since we are already family, of course we can talk openly about some things.

Byron undid the handcuffs on him, took out the book "Bloody Mary's Recipes" from Bloody Eyes Salman, and paid tribute to his former captain.

Then I couldn't help but ask him the most curious question at the moment:
"Are you also a defector from the Bloodthirsty Cult?"

According to the interpretation in "Bloody Mary's Gourmet Recipes", Salman "Blood Eyes" was suspected to be a traitor of the Bloodthirsty Sect.

Alfred stuffed himself with a big mouthful of fish, savored it for a while, and then sighed deeply:

“The Salman you are talking about is a real traitor.

But I don’t think of myself as such.

At the beginning of this year, the main body of our Bloodthirsty Cult, the Bloody Mary Faction, had already vanished. All the mid-level wizards had been killed by the Giant Insect Book Faction, and the Bloodthirsty Cult had also changed its leader as a whole. So where did the talk of defection come from now?
Now I and the few survivors are just a bunch of stray dogs who are disdained by the victors. "

"There is such a thing? Tell me in detail."

The two of them ate and chatted, and gradually opened up the conversation.

Byron only had a copy of "Bloody Mary's Gourmet Cookbook" and his knowledge of forbidden knowledge was far inferior to Alfred's.

According to him, before the Silver Age of the Son's birth, there was no distinction between forbidden knowledge and the Ladder of Glory in the world.

At that time, all taboos were no longer taboos, and extraordinary knowledge was extraordinary knowledge.

Nowadays, many people are not satisfied with the birth, aging, sickness and death of the [Ladder of Glory], and are chasing after forbidden knowledge that can enable people to achieve essential sublimation.

Especially the various sects active in the Bantaan Islands and the mainland: the Bloodthirsty Cult, the Flayed Church, and the Blind Church.
They master forbidden rituals to communicate with certain super-dimensional beings, and can obtain from them forbidden knowledge from many epochs ago.

The Bloodthirsty Cult worships such a being.

Most members only know the code name given to it by the cult’s top leaders—[Mother of Creation Lilith]!
At this point, Alfred couldn't help but repeatedly emphasize to Byron:
“We must always remember that the common laws, interests, and emotions of mankind mean nothing in the infinite vastness of the world.

When we cross the boundaries of reason and the spiritual dam and enter the boundless unknown world, we must leave our humanity and all common sense behind.

Compared to those ancient beings that span the entire history of mankind, we are humble, small and ignorant.

They are natural phenomena of the extraordinary world, but also disasters themselves!
Any contact with them is extremely dangerous.

Fortunately, for some unknown reason, these beings all seem to have fallen into eternal death and sleep, and only have some kind of stress response.

Under controllable circumstances, corresponding 'gifts' can be obtained through blood sacrifice rituals.

Little by little, it was compiled into the "Book of Taboos", and even the "Bloodline Original Book" that went straight to the divine realm. "

The knowledge held by the Bloodthirsty Cult is divided into two major parts and two major factions. One faction is the "Bloody Mary Faction" which is obviously closer to the origin of Lilith.

The main body is the [Gourmet] of the Jinyuan sequence.

The other faction is the "Giant Insect Book School" that specializes in various insect sorceries, and most of their members are Wilderness Sequence [Beast Tamers].

The common point between the two factions is that they both feed on humans and pursue non-humans, and their ultimate goal is to reach the realm of God through the final [Bloodline Codex].

Alfred felt a little lonely as he spoke. He took a sip of whiskey and exhaled the alcohol.
“The taboo for gourmets is the same kind.

Although I am a [gourmet], I am not ready to stop being a human being, so I did not hold the corresponding ceremony.

The same can be said of the rest of the faction's survivors.

When the Giant Insect Book Sect launched a surprise attack, all the gourmets who mastered the [Blood Holy Grail] died. "

At this time, the logbook is automatically updated.

[Secret: The Shadow Behind the Red and White Rose War, Influence 31] The decoding density has also increased from 55% to 57%.

Byron had seen in the Lord Chancellor's memory that Edward IV had once said something inadvertently:

"The action against Anchor Bay is not an isolated case. Both Lancaster and Anchor Bay are part of a plan."

He also realized that the conspiracy against the Taiwanese people might be related to the infighting between the new and old sects within the church.

I have decided to develop quietly overseas for a period of time, and then look for an opportunity to return to the old continent.

However, he never expected that things would develop in a positive direction and he actually found new clues in Bantaan and connected the threads again.

The branch of the Bloodthirsty Cult that cooperated with the York family and even a certain force in the church was none other than the "Book of the Giant Worm" faction.

He is also the victor who now occupies the holy land of the Bloodthirsty Cult and the source of knowledge [Mother of Creation Lilith].

Suddenly, Byron's spiritual sense was touched.

Toot toot.
I turned my head and saw a fat seagull standing outside the window and knocking on the glass.

"A messenger?"

On the sea, animal trainers widely train various seabirds to act as messengers.

In particular, the Lighthouse Federation, which has tentacles all over the world, has used this communication channel to the extreme.

As long as they were not sailing on a remote route, the crew could buy a fresh copy of the Lighthouse Weekly through seagull messengers or newsboys.

They will even undertake express delivery business for third parties, which is very convenient.

After Byron went forward and opened the window, the seagull messenger casually handed him an orange-yellow foot.

Tied to it was a letter with the Newman family wax seal.

When Byron opened the letter, the contents sparked a light in his eyes:
“Use the advantageous location of the Taiman Islands connecting the east and the west and keep an eye on the movements of the warships of the Kingdom of Castile.

Don't go out in the near future, be on standby at all times, and new tasks will be issued within a month at the earliest!"

But between the lines, he clearly saw a storm brewing that was about to sweep across the Bantaan Islands.

(End of this chapter)