Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 139 Shaman Mask, Unsuccessful Mission

Although their Pioneer Navigation Colonial Company was responsible for clearing the way during the day, they no longer needed to continue to stand guard at night.

Hearing the unusual noise, Byron rushed to the scene of the accident as soon as possible.

He always feels at ease when his life is in his own hands, and passive waiting has never been his character.

The two pirate generals who were in charge of leading the team on duty tonight, [Hook] and [Slitthroat], had both arrived in advance.

They each led a large group of elite pirates, surrounding a pirate corpse in the middle who was dressed the same as the others, and their faces all looked very ugly.

"Have all the members of the patrol team come here to identify the dead brother?"

The two pirate generals asked their subordinates several times, but they only saw everyone shaking their heads. No one could recognize his identity.

Byron casually separated the patrol team and walked to the inner circle. The moment he saw the corpse on the ground, he was stunned.

The body in the canvas jungle suit was lying on its back, obviously a member of the patrol.

He still had his rifle tightly gripped in his hand, his finger on the trigger, but he was unable to even trigger the warning.

Seems to have died in a sudden attack.

Apart from the mud on his body, there was almost no damage at all. The only thing missing was his face!
It was as if countless tiny barbs had torn all the skin and flesh off in one go.

The remaining white bones and wide-open eyes looked particularly creepy.

"Captain, no one is missing from our patrol."

"Captain, so do we. And everyone can clearly say their name and position on the ship.

Could it be that someone in the camp sneaked out?"

They even tried the stupid method of calling out the names one by one, but they just couldn't find out who was missing.

But it is unlikely that it was someone in the camp.

Those who came here were all elites, and they knew the consequences of running around at night. Moreover, with three third-level transcendents in charge, it would not be easy to break through the layers of checkpoints.

"We have all the people left? Then could it be that this extra person grew out of the ground?!"

[Hook] couldn't help but roar and snarl, and all the pirates were silent.

He is a typical Lighthouse Sequence Level 2 [Pirate].

He wore a worn three-cornered captain's hat and a long scar on his face that passed through his right eye and disappeared under the black eyepatch.

Unlike other people who wear eye patches to block light and change their field of vision, he is really blind!
Not only that, his left hand was also broken at the wrist and replaced by a shiny iron hook.

Medical facilities on the ship were limited, and the ship's doctor was best at amputation surgery. After a fierce battle, there were many pirates with missing limbs.

[Hook] If he wasn't a dignified second-level extraordinary person, his pirate career would have ended long ago.

This pirate general did not possess any forbidden knowledge, nor did he have access to reliable means of repair, so he was naturally particularly concerned about the rewards from the Bloodthirsty Cult.

Moreover, this person understands how to increase the value of an industry quickly.

He did not rely on robbery to snowball like Byron did, but immediately borrowed large loans from several Remit banks and trading companies.

As soon as he arrived in the Bantaan Islands, he waved the privateering letter and gold pounds to recruit soldiers.

If we ignore his personal strength, the force under his command has already become the undisputed largest among the seven current pirate generals.

The marines that landed this time alone numbered over four hundred, and the number of pirate ships under their command totaled ten.

And everything he did was to use the power of the Bloodthirsty Cult to restore himself to a complete man, or even an immortal complete man!

This section happened to be his defense zone. Seeing that his two most powerful competitors, [Slitthroat] and [Sea Hunter], both came over, he couldn't help but become more and more annoyed.

Anyone who has done accounting knows that if the account book is off by ten thousand or one hundred thousand it is not a big problem as it will always match the documents in the end.

But if there was suddenly one more cent, everyone would go crazy.

In such a weird place, the sudden appearance of one more person had an even more terrible effect.

At this time, [Hook] raised his hand and tore off the eye patch on his right eye, revealing an eye that looked like a transparent glass ball.

No, it is a man-made glass bead - [Rare Item·Crystal Eye].

Effect: Improves clairvoyance, allowing you to discover treasures, but it also makes it easy to see things you shouldn't see, and make you go crazy.

[Hook]'s spiritual energy surged in his body, opening his spiritual vision, and he used this fake eye to look at everyone around him one by one.

A glass eyeball rolled around like a living being, and after a few breaths, it suddenly stopped on the body of a person in the team.

“I knew that in this land, evil spirits and monsters would emerge at night.

Die! "

The [Hook] successfully locked onto the target, smiled grimly, took out a handful of "holy salt" bought from the church from his waist bag and scattered it out.

Pirates are a group that never talks about martial ethics and chivalry, and their opening moves all have some of the same flavor. "Holy water" and "holy salt" are just like concentrated sulfuric acid and lime powder to those evil things.

The only difference is that it’s expensive!
Especially when [Hook] has emptied out the family's resources, one must be extra careful with calculations during the battle.

Zila
The other people affected were fine, but the main target had a puff of smoke coming out of his body and he staggered back a few steps.

At this moment, the other pirates who had distanced themselves from him immediately seemed to have just woken up from their dreams and exclaimed:
"What happened just now? I seemed to have completely forgotten about that person. The body was obviously Jack who usually sleeps next to me!"

"Yes, it's Jack, I know him even without seeing his face.

The tattoo on his arm was done by me myself, but I just pretended not to notice it. It’s so weird.”

"What is this? An evil spirit?"

Looking at the smoking figure again, he was no longer the person they knew.

Instead, he turned into a native wearing a black feather crown, a black feather coat, with highly corrupted skin and a skull mask on his face.

Judging from his attire, he is obviously an Azik shaman.

To be more precise, it is a former shaman. Since it reacts to the holy salt, it means that it has long been corrupted.

The bloody face that Pirate Jack had lost was now stuck to his mask.

This thing was standing next to everyone just now, but it easily confused their cognition.

Not only did he treat it as a companion, but he also completely forgot his real companion.

"Roar--!"

The furious [Hook] shouted out the pirate's sequence motto:

"It is better to take by force than to work hard!"

A blood-red spiritual glow visible to the naked eye burst out, and a translucent blood-red pirate flag unfolded above his head.

The emblem above is a combination of an iron hook and a skull, which is exactly the pirate flag representing a curved hook.

However, he immediately activated the pirate's second-order core ability [Pirate Battle Flag]:
“It can focus the spirituality of the pirates under one’s command under the same Pirate Ten Commandments.

The more strictly the crew members abide by the Ten Commandments, the more tacitly they cooperate, and the stronger their own strength, the greater the increase the captain will eventually obtain.

The upper limit for the second stage is ten people, and the upper limit for the third stage will increase to one hundred people."

The blood-red battle flag fluttered in the wind, casting a red aura that enveloped the ten elite pirates following him, connecting them together.

"kill!"

It was as if all eleven people were shouting in unison, but there was an aura of ferocity like an army of thousands.

They drew out their scimitars, formed a charging triangle formation, and rushed towards the thing whose exact nature was not yet clear.

[Hook] The power under your feet explodes and you take the lead.

The coordination of Fisher's sword in his right hand and the hook in his left hand cut the opponent into three pieces in just one round.

The seemingly evil shaman seemed to be completely unable to fight back in front of a second-level transcendent.

However, Byron, who originally thought that the outcome was settled, saw a new record appear on the [Navigation Log] after he stepped within six meters of the other party.

“[Cursed Item: Shaman Mask]:
The history of masks is almost as long as human civilization. They are totems, beliefs, and also a magical power.

Possesses four abilities: symbol of deity, psychic medium, self-hiding barrier, and soul-protecting armor.

Every shaman has his own god. The shaman mask, as a symbol of the god, represents the ancestor god of the clan or family.

When they put on the masks during the ceremony, it was a time for people and gods to communicate and become one with each other.

This skull mask symbolizes Apche, the Azk god of death, and became a cursed object in a tragedy involving the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

If you don't know how to use it correctly, it will wander around and kill people autonomously according to certain rules.
If you kill a living person and peel off his face, you can completely replace his identity.

If killed by someone else, the murderer's body will become the new carrier of the mask.

Attention, the shaman mask is the true form of the evil spirit!"

Byron did not think about the inexplicably familiar sense of déjà vu about this thing, but immediately issued a warning to the [Hook].

"Be careful, don't touch that mask!"

However, Hook, who also saw the extraordinary light with his crystal eyes, thought that Byron was spying on his spoils.

He paused only slightly before continuing to approach the corpse.

In an instant, the mask suddenly disappeared, and when it reappeared, it was firmly on his face.

(End of this chapter)