Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 230: Voodoo, Resurrection, and Gunfighting

Infighting!

The brutal fight in the Golden Apple Orchard did indeed come from within the same treasure hunting team.

This team is obviously quite strong.

Even though he didn't know the upper limit of the load that was equal to his body weight, he still looked down on the silver coins that were everywhere on the roadside and was unwilling to go home for them.

But when they arrived at the golden apple orchard, disagreements arose as expected.

Some people are already satisfied with the garden full of golden apples and are unwilling to take the risk to move forward.

Some people advocate continuing to move towards the center of the island to find the treasure cave of the great pirate Flint.

In particular, there are many "living dead" cursed by Byron in the team. They have no desires now and look down on gold, silver, treasures, wine, food and beautiful women.

Only Azik's cursed gold coins are their only goal.

The internal differences were temporarily suppressed by the team leader.

But as night falls, the various desires in people's hearts continue to be magnified, and the differences turn into naked murderous intentions towards others!
Whatever a person wants in his heart, he will gradually become filled with the desire to possess it.

What's even worse is that this possessiveness is exclusive. Only he can own it, and anyone else who might compete with him must be killed.

After all, gold will eventually be spent by me, so I want it all!
The war started with the person with the strongest possessiveness, and instantly swept across the entire treasure hunting team.

It doesn’t matter whether you want to fight or not, or whether you can control your desires. Your existence itself is wrong.

Finally, those "living dead" who had already maintained a constant "sage time", could not feel any good experiences, were not tempted by the country of Silalafuya, and were theoretically the safest were also dragged in.

The camp was immediately filled with blood.

This bloody battle also marks that from this night on, the source of danger will no longer be just the secret realm itself.

There are also teammates in the team who may suddenly lose control at any time, and similar people everywhere on the island!

There is one thing that Byron was obviously wrong about. Although the contented people die quickly on this island, the greedy people die just as quickly.

"Ow—!"

Soon, on this tragic battlefield of internal strife, shrill roars that did not sound like human voices were heard one after another, followed by the sounds of gnawing and swallowing.

"You damn idiots, you've spilled blood everywhere, even the zombies are out of control, ah, don't--!"

"Run! These resurrected corpses all have pufferfish poison in them. I don't want to become a ghost like this."

Before Byron and Violet heard the noise, they could make a decision whether to go and check out the situation or take emergency shelter.

Several black shadows with a strong smell of blood rushed out from the golden apple forest at a rapid speed.

They all looked like strong men with tattered clothes.

His eyes were dark green, his skin was dark blue, his canine teeth were protruding, and his entire body, especially the corners of his mouth, were covered in dirty blood.

Beneath the bloody smell, there was a more stubborn smell of herbs and corpses.

Four or five dark shadows suddenly emerged from the darkness, as terrifying as a group of evil spirits coming out of a cage.

Anyway, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a living person.

The logbook has read their history at the first moment.

[Black witchcraft creation·Resurrection Corpse]:
"He was a sailor of the Rhine Confederation before he was killed. He was turned into a resurrected corpse by the Black Tongue Brotherhood, a voodoo sect, using the knowledge in the forbidden book "Voodoo Rituals".

They have no reason, no sense of pain, but are extremely strong and can run very fast. They are not afraid of ordinary bullets and are often used by the Black Tongue Brotherhood to work instead of cattle and horses, or as cannon fodder soldiers.

Once it reaches a certain number, it will definitely be a horrible disaster.

There are also special species among them that can spread a poison prepared by wizards called "puffer fish poison" to other living people, infecting other living people and turning them into zombies.

The disadvantage is that it will completely decay in three years at most, unless a large amount of fresh human blood and flesh can be replenished in time."

"Voodoo? It's them."

As the manager of the international port, Byron was naturally well-informed and knew all the major forces in the Bantaan Islands.

Voodoo, like the Flayed Church and the Bloodthirsty Cult, is one of the many forbidden cults in the Bantaan Islands.

Compared with the first two, it was established not long ago and is still a very young organization.

However, the development momentum in the Bantaan Islands is very rapid, and many branches have appeared on the major islands of the Sapphire Sea.

The Black Tongue Brotherhood is one of them, with the motto of "all members are like brothers, keep secrets for brothers, and stand by each other through thick and thin."

Facts have proved that they really did stand up for their brothers, even though the people they stood up for were their own brothers.

It is said that the forbidden book of Voodoo, "Voodoo Rituals", was obtained from the ruins by a fourth-level pioneer while exploring the "celestial circulation".

They use fear to coerce believers into joining the religion, and their specialties are voodoo potions, spiritualism, enslaving the dead, driving ghosts, and substitute dolls.
There is nothing wrong with understanding it as a cult of necromancy.

In these years, the most famous and representative black witchcraft of Voodoo is the horrifying "corpse".

It even gradually formed a new horror legend, to the extent that it made children stop crying.

Boom!

Just as those horrific zombies were about to rush towards the two men, gunshots suddenly rang out in the woods.

The zombie running in the front had his entire upper body shattered by a close-range shot from Byron.

He put Violet, who was dressed in a shirt and trousers and looked neat and tidy, behind him, holding two guns in his hands and doing a gun flower.

The streams of fire killed them all on the spot.

None of them could get within seven steps of them.

However, no one knew how many members of the Black Snake Brotherhood had come, and how many revenants they had brought with them. When the master who made this undead weapon died, a large number of revenants gained freedom and began to instinctively attack any creature with warm blood.

The members of the Black Snake Brotherhood were attacked by their own witchcraft and lost control one after another. They joined the ranks of the zombies and began to attack in all directions.

Byron and Violet were the first to be hit.

Of course, even if those people did not turn into zombies that crave human blood, driven by their strong possessiveness, their aggressiveness would probably be even crazier and more difficult to deal with than the zombies.

"kill!"

The two looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

With their backs leaning against each other, they raised the dual guns [Rose of Thorns] and [Black and White Keys] in their hands and opened fire.

Suddenly, flames burst out in the orchard and gunshots rang out, instantly drowning out the roars of the zombies.

"breathe-"

Byron immediately entered a state of flow, leading Violet, who was already accustomed to cooperating with him, to move in sync easily.

The breathing of the two people seemed to be one, and their spiritual glow was connected into one.

The frequency of the four muskets in the forest suddenly changed, as if each shot was given life.

The two men's extremely keen intelligence allowed them to accurately lock onto the trajectory of every bullet and every steel ball.

As soon as the shot was fired, [Son of the Storm] immediately gave the alloy slug a lateral force, easily fine-tuning its flight trajectory.

Every shot hit the target.

Even if a bullet seemed to have missed, it would bounce back at an angle the moment it hit a rock and instantly blast the head off the resurrected corpse.
The area within a radius of seven steps became an absolute domain ruled by the muskets in their hands, which was in no way inferior to the supreme technique of [Sacrificial Circle].

And the more he kills zombies, the more skilled his marksmanship becomes.

Accuracy, lethality, and control are all improving rapidly.

This is a magical shooting skill that even the fortress sequence musketeers and lighthouse sequence artillery experts have never demonstrated in the past.

Suddenly, it seemed as if he had acquired a third of the legendary [Gun Fighting Skills].

In fact, the principle of this technology is not complicated.

Rely on precise calculations to launch the most damaging attack from your safest position.

Swordsmanship plus firearms, combined with the principles of ballistic statistics, ultimately summed up into a scientific killing skill!

In fact, Catherine's [Supreme Art]/[Geometric Swordsmanship] also uses the same principle.

Based on data and formula calculations, you can easily and casually defeat all kinds of difficult problems (enemies).

Although Byron did not have Catherine's keen eye for numbers, he had the insight of the "Ship's Log".

If you want to know the attack radius, wind speed, and relative position, you can just look and read it. It is more convenient than the supreme technique.

Theoretically, you can use two muskets to shoot at any blind spot around you and increase the power of the bullets by 20%.

The conventional technique that ordinary people can master is to use the geometric figure centered on their own body as a plane reference, so that they can make the most appropriate attack and defense at the same time.

The advanced version is "ballistic control" which can only be performed with the help of additional supernatural powers!
With a bullet at your fingertips, it is easy to kill the enemy across obstacles.

boom! boom! boom! boom!
[Rose of Thorns] fired twelve large-caliber bullets like a hand cannon.

The magazine popped open, and the loaded bullets inside flew out by themselves. The spare ammunition had been automatically loaded under the control of the invisible spiritual hand.

The speed is faster than automatic weapons using magazines.

As the two men fought, their feet made the wind blow, and they moved around like two fallen leaves dancing in the wind.

Always keep the zombies at the best shooting distance and position.

Use the least amount of bullets to kill two or even three enemies at once.

The two men breathed as one, their hearts and minds were connected, gunfire burst forth, bullets leaped, and souls bound in rotten skins were easily harvested.

It was as if they were dancing a beautiful waltz of death together.

If these members of the Black Tongue Brotherhood were still alive, it would certainly not be so easy to kill them.

But when they lose their wisdom, no matter how powerful the resurrected corpse is, it is nothing more than a serving of food.

It was during this "grand ball" that Byron's gun-fighting skills rapidly improved, and Violet became the first beneficiary.

In fact, after Byron acquired the abilities of Son of Storm and Flow, he had already met the prerequisites for creating gun fighting techniques.

The reason why he failed to display such a miraculous ability was simply that he lacked two good guns that matched his temperament, and a "dance partner" who could cooperate with him and fill in the gaps for him.

When the material conditions are met, the birth of a new skill becomes natural.

In the past, due to the limited performance of muskets, the prerequisite knowledge of "musketeer" to become a musketeer was "musketeer skills", and the main practice was line-up shooting.

But Byron believed that with Violet's breakthrough in firearms technology, revolvers would gradually become popular in this world.

One day, if those musketeers want to be promoted, they will have to learn their own gun fighting skills!
Just like the [Pirates] in the Lighthouse sequence, the initial prerequisite knowledge was the Bay People's Tomahawk Skills, which was later replaced by the Barbary Pirates' Fisher Sword Skills.

As time goes by, who says that people today are inferior to ancient people in terms of extraordinary abilities?
As the human race develops, the relevant capabilities of the [Ladder of Glory] will become stronger and stronger.

Even the [Storm Knights] of the Lancaster Party may have to rely on their ability to control the trajectory and embark on a new path of mastering both guns and swords.

A Storm Knight who can't unleash a metal storm is definitely not a good swordsman!

That's it.

(End of this chapter)