Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 222 A Place Only People Without Feet Can Walk To
"Gus!"

"Eight fingers!"

Byron gave a look and the two people behind him immediately understood what he meant.

[Phantom Blade] Guts pulled out the two daggers from his waist, and his figure flashed and turned into a wisp of green smoke, quietly disappearing into the dense jungle.

According to the functions assigned by the adventure team, he naturally served as a scout in the team, responsible for eliminating dangers and leaving marks along the way.

Although the information inside and outside the secret realm is isolated, the communication between them, the [King's Right Hand] with the help of the Golden Law, will not be blocked within the secret realm.

Even the common Nautilus and Echo Conch are still effective enough for adventures.

Eight Fingers drew the double-edged battle axe from his back and strode to the edge of the tropical rain forest where there was no road.

A silver light flashed, and a tall tree fell down instantly, opening up a wide passage in the jungle in no time.

Then he swung and chopped like a tireless humanoid machine, walking straight towards the mast of the sailboat without dodging or avoiding.

Compared to the first time they crossed the rainforest and headed to the Royal City of Azik, they were more familiar with the journey.

Apparently, at this time, he had already been promoted to the second level, just like Guts.

The promotion of [Taiwanese Berserker] is even simpler and more straightforward than that of a pirate. All you have to do is “kill, kill, kill”.

The requirement is to survive a series of brutal and bloody fights to the death, five, ten, twenty people
In other words, if you achieve the accomplishment of killing ten, a hundred, or a thousand men as swordsmen often say, you can take a step further by stepping on the corpses of your enemies.

After successfully being promoted, the second-level core ability obtained is called [Bloodthirsty Battle]:
"After going berserk, you can greatly improve your physique, strength, reaction speed, wild intuition, and recovery ability based on the [Super Endurance] that Byron has always wanted.
While blocking the sense of pain, one's resistance to various abnormal conditions is greatly enhanced.

Curses, acid, burns, and penetrating wounds that could be fatal to ordinary people were only minor injuries that slightly affected his combat effectiveness.

Turn yourself into a copper pea that can’t be steamed, boiled, pounded, or fried, but rings loudly.

Even if you don't activate your supernatural powers, your physical fitness will continue to improve.

It can grow to a size comparable to the strongest primate, the silverback gorilla, reaching the theoretical limit of its species.

At this time, Bazhi's height had already exceeded two meters, and his bulging muscles were as solid as granite.

Of course, as an extraordinary ability with safety as its purpose under the [Ladder of Glory] system, this effect of significantly enhancing physical fitness is not in vain.

Overdrawing the cell's division limit and using it too much will lead to a short life, just like the former warlord [Child Guard] Dennis of Anchor Bay.

Violet, several pirate officers, and fifty marines followed behind, led by Byron, while Alfred, the [Blood Red Whiskey], was in charge.

We have just landed on the island and the safety is still within the controllable range. No dangerous existence has emerged.

However, Alfred, who was preparing his third-level life menu, was lucky enough to catch a "ruby crab" unique to the island.

The entire shell seems to be made of a ruby-like crystal, and the tender and white meat inside can be clearly seen through the translucent body.

If Alfred didn't have the "flow mind", he would not be able to perfectly capture the cracks in the crab's body and open the crab shell that was as hard as steel with one knife.

Many second-level extraordinary people are probably helpless against this strange monster.

This [gourmet] took out the premium crab vinegar that he carried with him from his bag, seasoned the jewel crab slightly, picked it up and started eating it raw.

In no time, he had secured a spot for a side dish (seafood, fish) out of the eight dishes on the life menu.

One eighth of the promotion ceremony was completed, and the whole person looked refreshed and his spirituality was much more lively.

After only a short delay on the road, the group successfully arrived at the Lancaster family's adventure ship.

"Byron, the damage to this ship seems a little too severe. It doesn't look like it should be in 11 years at all."

As a master craftsman, Violet was the most qualified to speak, and she could see the unusualness at a glance.

Although only 11 years have passed, the ship seems to have experienced the ravages of wind and rain for hundreds of years.

Half of the hull was buried in the soil, and the surface was covered with fallen leaves, humus and moss, and in some places there were tall trees as thick as a person's waist.

If it weren't for the main mast still standing tall, from a distance it would look like just an inconspicuous green hill.

The side the team was facing was an even darker and damper dark side. The planks, originally made of high-quality oak, had become highly decayed, and even strange colorful wood ears and mushrooms grew on them.

Through the open gun ports on the gun deck, one could see that the bronze cannons were already covered with a thick layer of verdigris.

Although bronze, as a copper-tin alloy, is far more corrosion-resistant than iron.

But even Wyandot, the most daring [Artillery Expert] in the team, did not have the courage to fire a shot with this thing.

However, there were no signs of attack on the hull, which meant that the entire crew was destroyed before they could withdraw to the expedition ship from the depths of the island.

"Alert, let's go in and take a look."

Byron waved his hand, and the group was about to move closer to search the remains of the adventure ship to see if there were any useful clues left inside.

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Suddenly, there was a slight vibration under their feet, which made them stop subconsciously.

Then, a group of thumb-sized ants with golden bodies emerged from the ground like a golden fountain.

It flowed rapidly on the ground, surrounding them in a fan shape.

Stones, grass, trees...anything that stood in their way was mostly eaten up in a flash.

It is far more terrifying than the most terrifying army ants in the rainforest.

Everyone had no doubt that even if an elephant stood in front of these ants, it would be eaten into a pile of bones in a very short time, or even nothing would be left.

Obviously, this is what Rule 1 says:

"Everyone must use two gold coins to bribe the gold-eating ants guarding the beach before they can go to the island. The weight of one gold coin must not be less than 40 grams."

Although Byron spent money like water during this period, what he lacked was big money, but he could still afford the small ticket money.

But even after paying the money obediently, I still feel the pain.

There were 58 people in total, including himself, external aid Violet, Bruch, Alfred, Gus, Eight Fingers, Wyandotte, Jacqueline, and fifty Marines.

Each person received two 40-gram gold coins, which equals 116 pieces, or 4640 grams in total. After rounding off, nearly 5 kilograms of gold was given away at once.

This is just the beginning of landing on the island.

It is hard to imagine how much staggering wealth would be needed to use gold to pave the way and reach the treasure cave safely.

Byron also expressed serious doubts as to whether Treasure Island would spit out the gold and silver it had swallowed.

“I worked so hard to rob, take risks, and start businesses to achieve primitive accumulation, but it was too slow.

Using other people's money to do your own business is the way to play in the capital era. When will God give me a sucker who can't be robbed no matter how hard I try?

It would be perfect if you could just cut off the money bit by bit after using it and not feel like paying it back.

The brave man is angry and draws his sword to attack the stronger one!
This sentence refers to noble people like me who always have the sentiment of "robbing the rich and helping the poor".

Of course, I am the poor one.”

The rules summarized by our predecessors are not deceptive.

Even the weird ones know that they have to do things if they are paid.

After collecting the money, the gold-eating ants retreated like the tide.

If they could follow these gold-eating ants all the way into their ant nest at this time, they might be able to harvest a treasure trove comparable to a dragon's nest.

But with the intuition of a pirate, Byron subconsciously felt that this kind of retail business, which was like collecting admission tickets, was too small a drop in the bucket and should not be enough to achieve the magical effect of continued growth of the wealth of the entire Treasure Island.

[Secret: The Mystery of Treasure Island’s Wealth Growth] There was indeed no response, which indirectly proves the correctness of this speculation.

After the danger was lifted, they immediately searched every cabin of the Albatross expedition ship.

"Captain, there is no forecastle."

"Captain, there is nothing in the lower hold."

"There are no gun decks."

However, after searching the entire expedition ship, no bodies of the expedition team members were found, nor were any words left by them.

Only some ship's equipment was found.

But like a sailboat, it seemed as if it had decayed after a hundred years and would fall apart with just the slightest touch.

It seems that during the period when Treasure Island disappeared from the material world, the flow of time on the island was much faster than that in the outside world.

Gus did find a well-preserved rare object, the [Echo Conch].

But the conch can only record sounds from the last three months. Eleven years have passed, and no information about the expedition team has been left.

Byron opened "Echoes of History" and searched again personally, and finally found a navigation log hidden in a bronze box in the captain's room that had long been decayed and overgrown with mushrooms.

Judging from the signature, it belongs to the captain of the adventure team, Andrew Lancaster, a third-level [Storm Knight], who should be Byron's cousin based on blood relationship.

In the Kingdom of Hattings, the navy has always been Lancaster's private army.

According to the management guidelines of naval warships, all officers, including captains, lieutenants and even officer cadets, are required to keep independent navigation logs.

Although only this one copy survived, it was enough for them to get a glimpse of the whole story.

Byron couldn't wait to open the diary.

The first article is about the first day of the Albatross’s adventurous voyage.

"December 1461, Silver Year 6.

The weather was fine, with a southwest wind of level 4. We set sail to begin a great treasure hunt.

I, Andrew Lancaster, will bring back the treasure of the great pirate, help the Red Rose defeat the rebellion of the White Rose, and become a hero of Lancaster!
Route: North Sea, offshore route, port tack-near windward sailing.
Although we encountered nasty headwinds at the beginning of the voyage today, there is still good news.

Little Joe Shul's wife is eight months pregnant. By the time we return, the baby should be born.

We have agreed that when we return safely, I will become the godfather of that child.

The girl Freeman was in love with came to see him off today. The two young men agreed that after getting the proceeds of the treasure, they would go back to ask for marriage from the stingy father-in-law.
It’s a great day for everyone.”

Byron shook his head.
"It's a terrible day, dear uncle, may your soul rest in peace."

Then he read ten lines at a glance, quickly skipping over the unimportant parts of the sailing.

"December 1461, Silver Year 6.

Cloudy weather, southwest wind level 5

Today is the day when Treasure Island appears again after seven years, and we are ready.

Before leaving, I specifically looked up a lot of information uploaded by other adventurers in the [Key of Omniscience]. This is a valuable quality of an excellent adventurer.

On the same day, I was listening to the cicadas chirping on a nearby island and suddenly realized that I seemed to have discovered an interesting phenomenon.

Reversely calculating the time when Treasure Island appeared, no matter what year it was and where it appeared, it must have been when spring and summer met in the local area.

Moreover, it is highly consistent with the local cicada chirping, and always appears together with the shrill cicada chirping sound.

Of course, I personally don’t think this discovery has any special significance.”

Seeing this, Byron's expression gradually became serious.

Because before the adventure team died, they used the contracted creature Seagull Messenger to convey the following message to future generations:

"When you hear the sound of cicadas, no matter how tempting the treasure in front of you is, you must evacuate immediately!"

"Cicadas chirping, cicadas again. The danger on the island is very likely related to the cicadas chirping outside."

Keep turning the page.

“As soon as we landed on Treasure Island, a red macaw came near the Albatross and kept watching us while we were sorting our gear.

I don't know where this rapping parrot heard the story from, but after being quiet for a while, it began to repeat a fairy tale in our ears.

Although the task time was very tight, I still recorded this absurd but very interesting story.

I'll go home and tell it to my little Tommy as a bedtime story, maybe he'll like it."

Byron saw another familiar name, that was his cousin who had died at the hands of the "Touch of the Kraken".

I casually turned to the last page in the diary with writing on it.

It was a fairy tale written in very illegible handwriting:

"In a very far place there is a country called Siralafuya.

Anyone who wants to go to this country must first learn the way from the blind, and only those without feet can get there."

From just the first sentence, an absurd and bizarre atmosphere suddenly hits you.

(End of this chapter)