Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 136: Jungle Ancient City, Cursed Spirit

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[Taiwanese Berserker] The honest commander, Commander Eight, led the way, wielding two machetes.

The three basic abilities he gained at the first level were: Superb Endurance, Beast Instinct, and Martial Weapon Proficiency (Melee Type).

In more than a month, it seemed like he had undergone a secondary growth spurt. He had grown a lot bigger and his style had become a lot rougher.

This makes him particularly comfortable when doing this kind of physical work.

It’s just that the two fingers missing from the left hand do have some impact on combat effectiveness.

Byron has already started collecting materials, preparing to use the high-quality blood brew that just meets the prerequisites to help him recover.

“Tie up your canvas cuffs and leggings, unless you wish to feed leeches and mosquitoes;
Don't eat anything here, even if it looks exactly like what you eat outside.

If you find anything unusual, don’t handle it yourself, remember to report it immediately. Especially note that there are no relatives of yours in this forest, and no one will call your name.

Byron, who served as the vanguard officer, was also in the first echelon.

While using the navigation log to detect dangers within a six-meter range, he did not forget to repeatedly remind the Marines around him of the precautions for jungle marching.

"Got it, Captain."

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, only 180 elite pirates were selected from the six ships under the Vanguard Navigation Colonial Company.

Everyone is fully equipped with swords and guns, and has a bottle of [Heroic Water] in his pocket.

Behind them was a mighty army of nearly 5,000 people, consisting of colonists and Chichen Itza people.

The front is led by Deputy Commander Bill (Bruch).

[Oath Knight] Bruch and [Executioner] Bill are both from the Inquisition sequence, so it is not difficult for them to disguise themselves.

He led the two most powerful pirate generals [Cutthroat] and [Hook], as well as Wyandot's grandfather Geronimo, an [Eagle Spirit Warrior] who had entered the third level and was gradually becoming inhuman;
Major General Newman and his Marines were in charge of the middle route; the great wizard [Zerg] was in charge of the rear route.

Clang——!
There was a flash of cold light in the forest, and it turned out that Byron suddenly drew his sword.

In just a moment, more than a dozen blood-sucking worms that were shot down at high speed from the moss-covered treetops above his head were cut in half.

Before anyone else could react, the sword had already been sheathed.

This half-sword technique is several times faster than other people's swift swords.

I casually glanced at the updated prompts in the [Ship Log].

It was discovered that this is a blood-sucking worm called "sweat leech", which has a very strong thermal sensing ability and can track homeothermic organisms by bouncing.

When it bites someone, it also releases anesthetics and anticoagulants, making it less painful.

With massive blood loss, one may suddenly faint and never wake up again. Sometimes, even a thick-skinned bison cannot resist it.

“The rainforest is full of dangers, but it is also a treasure trove of unknown mysteries.

If I had chosen to be a naturalist, I would have had a bright future.”

He shook his head with some regret.

[Naturalist] gains the core ability [Exploration and Discovery] at the second level. The more unknowns you explore, the higher your spirituality will be.

Moreover, the rarer the discovery that is first made in the unknown world, and the fewer people who discover it, the greater the skills they can borrow from it.

For example, if he is the only one who discovers a giant deep-sea octopus, he might be able to summon a projection to assist in the battle, but if thousands of people discover it, he might only be able to increase the swimming proficiency a little.

This swimming technique has to be an "eight-legged adaptation version".

The sequence ability of the Ladder of Glory is like this. Every inch has its own strengths and weaknesses. No matter how much you envy someone, you can never envy them all.

It was simply his desire to plunder others' wealth, and he felt deeply upset that he could not maximize the benefits of the expedition.

“I do know that these national forces that are steadily advancing in the rear are only the third and fourth echelons.

All signs indicate that there is a larger landmass rather than an island in the waters south of the Bantaan Islands.

The most powerful adventurers and pirates in the Bantaan Islands have gone further south to compete for the right to discover new routes and new continents.

There are still many necessary positions vacant on my ship, such as navigator, naturalist, singer to boost morale, and gunsmith I have been craving for a long time. I have a long way to go. "

After walking a dozen miles, he suddenly noticed an unusual fishy smell in the wind and shouted:
"Alert! On the right side of the team, in the ten-meter bush, the musketeers are concentrating their fire!"

As the vanguard, the elite pirates, who were already highly alert, reacted quickly and drew their guns and fired immediately upon hearing the order.

boom! boom! boom!
Hundreds of fire lines suddenly covered the half-man-high bushes.

With a loud bang, a strong fishy wind blew.

A huge monster in the grass suddenly leaped into the sky, then slammed heavily in front of the team, revealing its true face.

It turned out to be a giant blue-gray snake as thick as a bucket!

Although its body was covered with wounds, its strong vitality still allowed it to open its bloody mouth, twist and roll on the ground, and make a hissing and creepy snake-like sound.

"What a big snake! What did it eat to grow so big?"

Although it was not as big as the sea monsters they had encountered before, facing this monster up close still made everyone horrified.

If Byron hadn't discovered it in time, it would have easily swallowed two or three people in one bite.

There is no telling how many monsters like this there are in the depths of the jungle.

They had just arrived in Yucatan Island less than a day ago, and it felt like they had accidentally entered an ancient lost world.

Unlike the eastern part of the Bantaan Islands, which had been transformed by the [Silver Law] and countless lighthouses, the western part was bloody, closed, and wild.
Whether it is plants or animals, they are constantly impacting people's worldview.

This does not even include the weird and evil spirits that are bound to appear after nightfall.

In the team ahead, an exceptionally majestic giant eagle suddenly took off into the sky, flew to the side of the giant snake, and pecked its belly open with one bite.

He swallowed the heart and the snake gallbladder in one gulp. He flapped his wings again and landed beside Byron, transforming into an old man with a pair of golden eagle eyes, vigorous and majestic.

In front of Byron, the benefactor who saved his only grandson.

Geronimo, an old man who is the captain of the temple guard and ranks among the top three in the city of Chichen Itza, is not arrogant.

Nodding to him amiably:

"Captain Byron, according to your measurement unit, it's about two kilometers to the first designated camping site.

I suggest camping on the spot.

At night, there is no safer place in this jungle than the abandoned city-state of Tarasco. "

Even though many people in the team possess extraordinary powers and the rest are elite, the tropical rainforest before them is not ordinary.

The inherent vitality of the tropical rainforest means that even if the local indigenous hunters walk out of a path, the forest will grow back into a dense forest in just a few days.

Their team's marching speed in the tropical rainforest reached 50 kilometers per day, which was almost the limit to ensure combat effectiveness.

The two served as the team leader and guide.

In addition to ensuring that the route does not deviate, rationally planning when to march and when to rest is also a task that tests one's ability and experience.

This also explains one of the reasons why General Newman and his men were so eager for Aboriginal collaborators.

Like the Taiwanese princess Violet, Byron also listened to advice and immediately followed it in areas he was not good at.

"As you say. Notify the rear team to set up camp in front!"

Before the sun set in the evening, he ordered the vanguard troops to set up camp in the ancient city with stone buildings that could be seen ahead.

At this time, Wyandotte and his group of [Eagle Warriors] who were in charge of reconnaissance in the front also descended from the sky to the side of Byron and Geronimo:
“Captain, Grandpa, we just did some reconnaissance, and there is no danger in the city except for some scattered wild beasts.

But what is strange is that there is a clean water source nearby and large areas of arable land that have been re-absorbed by the rainforest, but there is not even a corpse to be found on the ground.

Why would such a rare and good place like Tarasco be abandoned by those nasty Azk people?"

The subject of the latter question was obviously Geronimo, who had lived in the jungle all his life.

"Tarasco."

The old man's gaze gradually became distant, as if he had crossed over several decades and returned to the time when the Castilian people had just arrived in these archipelagoes.

"If we want to talk about this, we have to mention the cursed spirit [Tarsilon]."

The moment he said the name, the jungle around him, which was originally filled with various sounds, suddenly became quiet.

All the audience, including Byron, subconsciously held their breath.

"When the Castilians first discovered Yucatán, they were not as patient as they are now.

They had no idea that the two empires had a population of tens of millions, and their degree of organization and extraordinary level were far superior to those small tribes that they easily conquered.

I thought the city-states of the empire were as fragile as the ordinary Taino people scattered on the eastern islands, who were only protected by totem poles.

At our first stop in Tarasco, I suffered a great loss."

Listening to the stories from that distant era, Byron seemed to smell the faint scent of blood and rotten flesh.

The deity of worship in this jungle city is Apuché, the God of Death, a powerful nature spirit whose status in the Azik belief system is no less than that of Quetzalcoatl.

He had a skull, fleshless ribs, a thorny spine, and the skin and flesh all over his body were highly rotten.

It is said that it was born from the battlefields where the Azik people fought for years and corpses were everywhere.

The city of Tarasco was captured at a huge cost by those impoverished Castilian adventurers.

The angry shaman performed a forbidden ceremony and sacrificed the souls of the entire tribe to the god of death, Apuché.

All anchors were cut off, and the island of the spiritual world, which was composed of all the living people and ancestors of the city-state, was actively sunk, and the entire island sank into the source sea.

That kind of meaning is equivalent to the Taiwanese people detonating [Hall of Valor, Valhalla].

immediately.

The strong resentment gave birth to a terrifying avenger from the bones and flesh of tens of thousands of people in the entire city-state and all Castilians.

It was wearing a dirty deerskin battle robe, and black maggots were burrowing in its body.

The head is a terrifying white skeleton, holding an obsidian saw sword also known as "Maquawit" and an obsidian spear.

He rode a skeletal warhorse that was tangled in worn-out ropes and caltrops, and whose mouth and nose could spit sparks.

It was an alien species brought by the Castilians.

“During that time, the Tarsal God was like a maggot in the tarsal bone, wandering in the vast rain forest all day long, killing all outsiders whose hands were stained with the blood of the Azik people.

Of course, at that time, there were only Castilians in the entire Bantaan Islands.

It is not afraid of swords, spears, halberds, muskets, or cannons. It is of a higher status than ordinary evil spirits and monsters. It is a true [Cursed Spirit] (Chapter 59)!

It is the embodiment of the curse, elusive, irresistible and indestructible.

Even if it is killed temporarily, it will come back again after a period of time.

Once it targets you, even if you manage to escape, you may suddenly die one day."

When they reached this point, the group just stepped out of the rain forest and had a panoramic view of the city where the Tarsal God was born.

Woo woo woo.
They were clearly in a tropical jungle with bright sunshine in the afternoon, but a biting cold wind suddenly blew across the back of their necks.

Except for Byron who was wearing the [Storm Signet Ring] on his hand.

(End of this chapter)