Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 401: Times have changed? No, they haven’t completely changed yet

In this era of great navigation, the colonists from all countries were essentially the same.

Although the window period is only six days at the end of the month and the beginning of the month, in addition to the multinational colonial fleet, there are countless red-eyed adventurers who have already entered the New World.

This was especially true for the Castilians, who had always been at odds with the Barbary pirates, because they were worried that they would be bullied by the ruthless pirate king.

Even though they arrived at the bridgehead in advance, most of them did not go to join the [Ocean Throne], but instead started the free exploration mode.

The strange adventure ship "The Thirteen Warriors" and its captain "The Plunderer" Francisco Pizarro are naturally among them.

Instead of going to the whaling grounds to pick up other people's leftovers, he avoided the east coast where the Barbary pirates and colonial forces from various countries gathered, and headed straight for the west coast ruled by the Sun Empire.

The idea is very simple:
"His Royal Highness Louis, the Puppet King, who led the pioneering operation, and the legendary adventurers who attacked the celestial circulation belt from other directions, were mostly diverted by the Pirate King's trickery and missed the window of opportunity.

It also caused the Castilians to miss out on the biggest benefits of the whaling grounds.

We, adventurers whose job ranks are only level 4 at most, are at the bottom of the first echelon and have no right to compete with the Pirate King for territory. It is better for us to give up whale oil temporarily and seize the land that will never lose money.

Of course, I guess those drunkards in China are probably not very interested in any revolutionary whale oil technology.

The only things that can make them crazy are gold, silver and spices, or wealth and power."

At present, the main source of wealth for the nobles in the Old World is mostly real estate, which is often called land aristocracy.

These nobles who liked to seek employment in the church, the army, and the government felt that running a business or engaging in industry would undermine their status and aristocratic spirit.

Therefore, as long as conditions permit and they can maintain basic decency, they will not engage in such "lowly" industries.

The nobles of Castile in particular have a proud consensus:

"As long as we have the money, let the Kingdom of Hastings produce those fibers as it pleases, let the Netherlands produce coins and striped cloth, let Florence produce cloth and works of art, let the natives of the Bantaan Islands provide beaver skins and vicuña wool, and let the Holy Silver Empire produce linen fabrics and brocades.

This will only make all the countries train skilled workers for Castile, while we are the kings of the world, the whole world is at our service, but we serve no one! "

At least their ideas were successful during the first seventy years of the Age of Exploration.

They used large amounts of gold, silver and spices to build the world's most powerful invincible fleet and marines. Their invincible military force allowed them to further acquire more gold, silver and spices and rapidly rise in international status.

The Castilians devoured their meat with big mouthfuls, while the other nations followed with small sips of soup.

At the same time, it took seventy years to develop a huge aristocratic interest group.

Other countries believed that this was a once-in-a-lifetime latecomer advantage and decided to overtake others by taking advantage of the whale oil-powered revolution.

But the existing nobles and extraordinary people in Castile are too powerful.

Every year, their treasure fleet transports huge amounts of gold and silver from the Bantaan Islands back to their homeland, but it has little to do with the lower classes, as most of it ends up being food for the powerful.

Since the upper echelons still have a large piece of fat to eat, there is naturally a deviation between the country's overall strategy and other forces, and the style of action tends to be conservative.

They are more inclined to go to the West Coast to replicate their previous success rather than attack new tracks like latecomers.

Byron, who was able to see the big picture from the small details, witnessed all of this with his own eyes and became even more convinced that history is a cycle, and that the law of rise and fall remains the same thousands of years ago and thousands of years later.

For example, Mr. [Plunderer] Pizarro, who is preparing to make a big move and seize the position of the first governor of the Southern Continent.

Although he did not steal the treasures of the Sun Empire, what he did was even worse.

Relying on his unique extraordinary abilities, he found out that after the death of Huayna Capac, the previous king of the Sun Empire, a group of princes here were fighting for the throne.

The main contenders were four governors, each ruling one of the four major suyu (regions) in the north, east, south and west of the empire: Cumansuyu, Antisuyu, Koliasuyu and Contisuyu.

The richest among them was Prince Atahualpa Capac, who ruled the northern Chinchazuyu.

So, the [plunderer] Pizarro led his crew and traveled day and night to reach Cajamarca, a hot spring city located in the mountains in the northern Chintsazu.

He pretended to be an envoy of the Kingdom of Castile, presented worthless clocks and guns as gifts, invited the other party to visit his camp, and promised that the Kingdom of Castile could help him obtain the throne.

Atahualpa was very hospitable. After accepting the invitation of these white outsiders, he quickly went to the appointment with his small entourage.

Up to this point, the plan was going very smoothly.

Pizarro has already ambushed a large number of people, ready to use the smashing of the cup as a signal to capture the imperial prince, then defeat the center of the Cumans and take away everything in this area in the name of the "Plunderer"!
At the very least, they would use the hostages to exchange for a room full of gold, and then kill the hostages.

This brutal, greedy, and contract-less colonizer never thought about cooperating with the other side on an equal footing from the very beginning, and didn't even treat the natives as human beings.

Unexpectedly, an accident happened at this time.

"Ugh!"

Pizarro, standing behind the wheel, sighed deeply as he looked at the sailors in front of him, who had lost half of the deck and were covered in burns and smoke.

His eyes were empty and in a trance his consciousness returned to about a day ago.

"Prince, you should believe in the Creator and pledge allegiance to the great King Henry IV of Castile, the Incompetent!"

Just like no matter how evil a villain is, he will always find a reason before bullying others.

Pizarro also arranged such a good show, in which the accompanying secular priests of the kingdom preached the teachings of the Creator to Prince Atahualpa Capac, who came to visit with great interest, and demanded that the other party surrender.

Moreover, he even shouted out his own king's not-so-glorious title "Incompetent" without any sincerity.

At the same time, muskets and artillery were secretly aimed at the prince and his entourage.

As expected, Atahualpa, who possessed the blood of Inti, the [Sun God] and was a descendant of God, looked gloomy after listening to the priest's preaching.

Seeing the black metal tubes in their hands, he felt the naked hostility and became furious on the spot:
"If you don't believe me, get out of our country!"

Pizarro was about to order his crew to open fire to let these inexperienced natives know what "times have changed" meant.

But the next moment, the other party made them experience firsthand what it meant: "The times have not completely changed."

"Roar--!"

Led by Prince Atahualpa Capac, the imperial nobles who traveled with him all roared in unison and collectively expanded into fire giants at least three meters tall.

In other words, they are followers of the [Sun God] Inti, fourth-order mythical creatures [Sons of the Sun] and third-order [Lava Giants] who practice the forbidden book "The Holy Book of the Sun"!
Their bodies were burning with orange-yellow flames like little suns, and their eyes were like molten gold balls. With every breath they took, the scorching sparks burned small holes in the ground.

Especially the fourth-level prince, who was five meters tall after the transformation. With one slap, he turned the second-level missionary standing in front of him, who was wearing the church's cloak of mercy but was actually doing all kinds of evil, into black residue.

Someone opened fire in panic, but the lead bullets melted into a pool of lead water as soon as they landed on them, leaving the giants unscathed.

"White-skinned outsiders, you are unwelcome guests in the Empire of the Sun! Destroy them!"

The prince and the nobles behind him did not hold back and immediately launched a counterattack. With a wave of their hands, they summoned dozens of exploding fireballs, which blew the colonists to the ground like a salvo of naval guns.

"what!"

"Oh God, help—!"

boom! boom! boom! boom!
Although guns and cannons are powerful, the dozens of muskets in the hands of the colonists are not enough to teach mythical creatures of this level how to behave.

Although times have indeed changed, they have not changed drastically.

Even with the source tide rising and the Luoyan Era approaching, there is a trend of the mythological era reviving.

"Monsters, they are all monsters, run!"

If he had the advantage in military force, Pizarro might really be able to kidnap the governor-general and extort a large ransom.

Too bad they didn't.

What I thought was a little rabbit suddenly turned into a big monster.

They could only be chased all the way, fleeing for their lives back to the boat, and immediately headed towards the sea, which was not liked by those fire elemental creatures.

If the [Predator] Pizarro was not a fourth-level Wilderness Sequence [Treasure Hunter], he might have been killed by a wave of counterattacks and could not even escape.

In fact.

In the past few days, not only did Hastings's Beagle steal the Crown of the Sun, Castile's Thirteen Warriors attempted to kidnap the prince, but the colonists from other countries also committed countless major events.

Most of the daring adventurers made the same mistake, which was to underestimate the strength of the Solar Empire!
The Sun Empire, without the help of the [Silver Law] to anchor itself, would be like the natives of the Bantaan Islands, unable to reach the level of a fourth-order mythical creature while maintaining sanity.

If you meet them, can't you just rob them however you want?
They were brazenly preparing to conquer this wealthy indigenous empire just as they had conquered the Bantaan Islands, but they didn't expect to hit a hard wall.

In just a few days, the entire Sun Empire's four major Suyu areas were in chaos.

A few of them could still escape by relying on their strength, but most adventurers paid a heavy price for their recklessness, and were killed on the spot by the descendants of the Sun God and even their ashes were scattered.

Moreover, although the divine nobles of the Sun Empire do not like water and have almost no navigation industry, they have a very powerful air force.

Driving the sun chariots one after another, they rose into the air from the city on the top of the mountains, crushing the clouds in the sky and chasing after those lawless and despicable outsiders.

When the Thirteen Warriors fled to the vicinity of this volcanic archipelago, it was finally caught up by five sun chariots led by Prince Atahualpa Capac himself.

clang!clang!clang!
The alarm bell on the mainmast rang loudly, and the lookout, whose hair had been burned off, cried out in panic:

"Captain, it's bad, the pursuers are catching up."

call out--!
The next moment, an obsidian spear that was glowing with spiritual light and enchanted with fire fell from the sky, instantly piercing his chest and leaving a large charred hole that went from front to back.

Even the mainmast beneath him was blown to pieces on the spot.

Immediately, one after another sharp obsidian spears fell from the sky, nailing the crew members to the deck.

Five sun chariots had arrived above their heads, launching a slaughter from above.

Screams and a burning smell instantly filled the entire strange adventure ship.

“Hiss! How miserable.”

Faced with this air-to-ground dimensionality reduction attack, Hawkeye James and his team, who were watching the battle on a nearby island, all subconsciously prostrated themselves on the ground, not daring to stick their heads out at all.

Byron, whose vision descended upon this place, also saw for the first time with his own eyes the extraordinary people of the Solar Empire that even false gods feared.

I feel that perhaps I should re-evaluate and reconsider my attitude towards this indigenous empire in the future.

“I have experimented before, and the [Huashan Heavenly Kingdom] also reacts to their souls, which shows that the three indigenous empires have the same ethnic origin.

Perhaps this is an opportunity that can be used. The Golden Deer is approaching soon, so let's wait and see."

Although Pizarro was a despicable man with no bottom line, he could not help but feel heartbroken when he saw his crew members die one after another.

“Damn it! The [One-Third Times Slowdown Pocket Watch] is summoning!”

He raised his hand and a golden treasure chest appeared out of thin air beside him, and a handsome boy with short golden hair flew out of it.

There was a circle of golden rings around it, as well as twelve illusory scales and three hands.

He flew towards the obsidian spear that was flying towards his head.

He pointed toward the sky, and the scale on his body moved back one notch. The flying spears immediately dropped in speed, becoming only one third of their original speed.

With the power greatly reduced, the sailors on the ship were finally able to escape in a panic.

"Summoning [Diamond Star] and [Clockwork Hornbill]!"

Pizarro shouted again, and two more treasure chests appeared, and two tall "girls" jumped out.

One is made entirely of colored diamonds, and the other holds a golden scimitar that looks like a bird's beak.

Not only did they smash all the obsidian spears that had slowed down significantly, they even rushed into the sky and pounced on the sun chariots.

Pizarro's main job is a fourth-order heroic [Treasure Hunter] in the wilderness sequence.

The fourth-tier professional ability is [Activate Treasure Box]:
“Using this ability on the treasures you hunt, you can permanently activate them into treasure spirits. The higher the value of the treasure and the greater its historical influence, the stronger the treasure spirit will be after activation.

Hunters can also share the power of the elves. The more treasures they hunt, the stronger they become."

There are thirteen of Pizarro's most powerful treasure elves, and his adventure ship, the Thirteen Warriors, is named after them.

The [One-Third Times Slowdown Pocket Watch] is a pocket watch, the [Diamond Star] is a priceless colored diamond, and the [Clockwork Hornbill] is an antique clockwork toy that has survived from the mythological era.

They are not only treasure elves, but also Pizarro's fourth-level heroic guards!

"Clock-Up Hornbill, shoot them down for me."

(End of this chapter)