Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 467: Probability Dice, Golden Deer Joins the Game (6000)

While Hastings was busy starting a civil war, colonists from various countries could no longer hold back and landed in the northern rain forest of the "Beast Paradise" on the southern continent.

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!
The artillery fire roared and the sound of killing shook the sky.

"Quick, [Beast Tamer] command the flying beasts to drop the earth vein sealing plug into place.

Artillery, fire the ground, fire! "

"Play the military music, musketeers, press forward, three-stage shooting!"

"The Knights, please pay attention to the extraordinary people among the natives, and keep an eye on your monster mounts. Anyone who dares to run around and disrupt the formation will have their rights to share the spoils revoked."

A month and a half has passed since the first colonial war led by the Pirate King [Ocean Throne] Barbarossa Hayreddin.

The interests in the Centaur Islands near the Rift Trench obviously can no longer satisfy the greed of the colonists.

Island No. 1 belongs to Hastings, Island No. 2 belongs to the Barbary pirates and the Star-Moon Empire behind them, and Island No. 3 belongs to the powerful "Puppet King" Louis and the Kingdom of Castile behind him.

With the three powers in a tripod, other forces can only get a small share.

Of course, among the first-tier legendary adventurers who took advantage of the window period at the end of July, some of them had their eyes on Island No. 1.

Even with the twenty-year protection period of the [Silver Law], if you don't have the strength, subsequent threats and intimidation are inevitable, and all kinds of troubles will ensue.

It's like if you don't leave during a demolition, the land and attached objects may still be yours, but what about the roads? What about water, electricity, and natural gas? Even if the surrounding area is dug into an isolated island, you will still be staring at it in vain.

However, the total number of ghost ship fleets led by the first-class battleship [Blue Dragon King] is as high as 63. Even if most of them are cruisers, they still dare to confront any force including the Barbary pirates.

Here, fists are the truth. Prince Sorenburg only showed his strength a little and he firmly took the top position in the whaling ground.

The only regret is that they are all cursed by Pohnpei, the "Father of Sharks", and can only go ashore once a year.

He didn't even have the chance to dig out his wife's body himself, let alone the ability to conquer the Southern Continent.

Since the Hastings ghost fleet can't get up, others will not be polite to them.

After the vanguard suffered heavy losses in the Solar Empire on the west coast, most countries, companies, and supernatural organizations turned to the north of the continent.

The Pirate King [Ocean Throne] occupied the location of the original dream city "Luoyan City" and began to fight southward and westward.

Under the command of the Puppet King, Castile began to fight inland from the northwest corner.

The other countries are each occupying a corner and expanding their territory bit by bit, and they are unlikely to border each other in the next few years.

Among all the forces, the Remit people, who were determined to establish a country, were the most hardworking.

Many large multinational bankers, directors of large development companies, directors of large trading companies, large farmers, and large shipowners from the gold and yuan series formed the "Golden Power Restoration Party" and invested huge amounts of money and manpower in the southern continent.

In addition to the elite Remit people organized by them, there are also a large number of slave troops whose freedom was taken away by [pawnbrokers].

This group of extraordinary people in the Gold and Yuan sequence are all wealthy people who started out as money lenders, and their per capita equipment is better than that of the Castilians.

The landing site was chosen carefully, right next to the pirate kingdom planned by the Barbary pirates.

This was also the promise that the Pirate King [Ocean Throne] made to them, allowing the Remit people to become their neighbors and future neighboring countries.

The pirate country and the loan shark country are evenly matched. Who knows if any famous scenes that will be popular in the future will occur.

Boom——!
A third-level totem god whose true form was a giant anaconda slammed to the ground, opening its bloody mouth wider than the doorway and falling silent.

Michael, a profiteer from the Golden Palm Trading Company, stepped on the head of the totem god, picked up a thick book of "The Gospel of Genesis" and shouted:

"Apu, who occupied the leyline node in this valley, is dead.

The servant corps rushed forward, captured all the descendants of the snake god in the tribe, and put slave collars on them.

I declare that this fertile land, flowing with milk and honey, is the land promised by the Creator to us, the Remit people, and will also be the first town in which we establish our country! "

The Gospel of Genesis was opened, and on a certain page it was written in the voice of the Creator: "I have given to your descendants a beautiful and spacious land flowing with milk and honey."

Not only did they want to occupy the land, they also wanted to use scriptures to prove their legitimacy since ancient times and exclude the possibility of interference from other church countries.

Many Remit people cheered in unison:

"Thank God for giving us a new land flowing with milk and honey, as well as countless wealth and slaves!"

"The Lord calls all non-Remit people in the world to serve me, and every Remit person can get 2800 non-Remit slaves."

“Thanks to the Creator for his mercy!”

Arriving at the virgin land of overseas where everyone is standing on the same starting line, they no longer conceal their ambitions.

Subsequently, more white-skinned slaves from the Old World were driven off the ships and began to cut down trees to build camps.

It is obviously impossible for the noble Remit people to work on their own, and the indigenous people cannot be used without domestication. In the early stages, only indentured slaves who are "purchased" from the Old World at high prices can be used.

Yes, in this dreamlike colonial era, not all people in the Old World can be masters, and those who should be slaves still have to be slaves.

There are four main types of indentured servants in the Old World.

One type is the bankrupt who is unable to repay his debts; one type is the immigrant who wants to migrate to the New World through labor; one type is the unfortunate person who was robbed or deceived into signing a contract to sell himself; and the last type is the exiled prisoners.

Indentured servants are much more expensive than natives, with an average selling price of 35 pounds, and large-scale purchases will not be less than 15 pounds.

And it wasn't just the Remit family that did this; many countries in the Old World did this, including the Kingdom of Hastings where Byron came from.

There is also an anecdote about prisoner immigration.

Before the rise of industrialization, agricultural civilization had limited capacity to support the population.

The public security in major cities in various countries is actually not very good. A large number of unemployed migrants will inevitably cause a sharp increase in the crime rate.

Exiling those minor criminals to the colonies became the best option for those in power.

It not only solved the problem of dealing with criminals, but also solved the problem of developing new colonies, killing two birds with one stone.

It is said that in the early days of the Age of Exploration, a warship from the Kingdom of Hattings carrying exiled prisoners arrived at the Royal Port of Jamestown after two months of sailing. Only five of the 221 female prisoners on board died.

This is simply a miracle in the harsh sailing environment.

However, among these more than 200 female prisoners, except for a few who were too old, all of them were pregnant and then gave birth to the first batch of second-generation immigrants in the colony.

In fact, at the beginning, those in power deliberately increased the proportion of female prisoners mainly in order to balance the number of men and women in the colony.

The average age of these 221 people is 27 years old. Most of them used to work as dancers or hostesses, and they have above-average looks.

The original intention may not be wrong, but for the sailors and officers on the ship, having so many pretty female prisoners was no less than arriving in the Garden of Eden.

The warship had just left the mainland and was out of the monitoring range of the legal network, and they arranged these female prisoners clearly according to their respective positions.

After that, every time they stopped at a port to replenish supplies, the officers would force the female prisoners to disembark and give them extra money.

Because the transfer process was too complicated, no one knew whose baby was in their belly.

When these female prisoners arrived at their destination, life was not much better, as there were more male prisoners waiting for them.

According to statistics, in the first half century of colonization, regardless of the country, each female prisoner who came to the colony gave birth to an average of six children.

The indentured slaves on the victorious side are just the tip of the iceberg of the bloody history of colonialism. The side that disappears in history has no right to shed even tears.

The indentured slaves who fell into the hands of the Remit people would only be more miserable, and would not even be treated as their own kind.

Mr. Byron, who ruled the entire Yucatan island, was simply a breath of fresh air in the colonial world and a living beacon of morality and civilization.

The profiteer Michael arranged the work for the slaves, strode to the center of the original anaconda tribe, and saw a world crack extending from a spring.

Just like conquering the Rift Trench, if they want to settle down here, they must deal with the world cracks everywhere.

The military commander scratched his head in confusion:

“Mr. Michael, there are too many cracks in the overseas world.

Before we build a church and migrate the population to suppress it, we need extraordinary people from the Lighthouse Sequence to volunteer to serve as [Lantern Bearers].

I heard that the extraordinary knowledge of the Rift Order can repair the world's cracks, but unfortunately they have been almost wiped out since Pohnpei, the "Father of Sharks", and we probably won't be able to obtain this technology."

The general practice in the Old World when encountering world cracks is to build churches, concentrate the power of all believers in a certain area, and create a rivet to re-seal the world cracks.

In mysticism, human thoughts and will are almost omnipotent.

However, overseas population is sparse and there are even fewer believers. Most of them do not have the conditions for such time-consuming and laborious work, so they can only use the lives of the "lantern bearers" to fill the gap.

Now that they want to settle down and build a country, they can't take shortcuts. They must follow the old world's methods step by step to be safer.

However, it is not easy to find [Lantern Bearers] who have the same consumables. This is why small forces do not have the ability to develop independently.

The profiteer Michael smiled complacently:
“Don’t bother.

I just went to visit His Royal Highness the Puppet King of Castile two days ago. He developed an artificial 'lantern bearer' that can completely replace the work of a normal lantern bearer."

As he clapped his hands, an attendant came over carrying a "stick-like object".

"hiss--!"

Several officers around him gasped when they saw the appearance of this so-called "artificial lantern man".

The whole thing is a wooden doll, but the arms have been removed and the legs are twisted into a screw-like shape.

But looking into his eyes, one can still see the radiance of humanity.

This means it is not just a puppet, but a living puppet made by [Magic·Uselessness of Flesh and Blood]! While the profiteer Michael directed his servants to screw the "human nail" into the ground little by little, he said with admiration to the northwest:
“Your Majesty the Puppet King is truly a genius, being able to invent this substitute for the Lantern Man.

Using the extraordinary beings of the Lighthouse Sequence as raw materials, a large number of 'useless' organs were removed, leaving only a small amount of flesh and wood body.

The secret to protecting the world is to change the lantern bearer frequently. Once this man-made product breaks down, just replace it with a new one.

Compared to him, our utilization rate of slaves is obviously not high enough.

However, even when the Kingdom of Castile was at war, it often came to us for loans. Is there anything that can't be bought with money?

Now we just need to cheer, the first piece of land conquered by the Jinquan Restoration Party is now as solid as a rock! "

As the "human nail" was screwed into the ground clockwise, the originally turbulent source tide gradually calmed down, and the effect was immediate.

Seeing this, everyone cheered in unison:

"Money speaks, truth is silent!"

"In the future, the status of the Remit people in this new world will be supreme!"

There were also other small forces among the other colonists who did not have the ability to develop independently. They purchased the new invention of the Puppet King and made the colonial business in full swing.

However, they did not realize that each human nail was connected to an invisible silk thread, extending all the way to the northwest corner of the continent.

It is clearly the "back door" set up by the Puppet King.

Even if this backdoor is never activated, it can be passively triggered when encountering keywords and start positioning automatically.

For example: "I have gold mine here", "I have iron ore here", "I have whale oil here".

And once the Puppet King really wants to do something in the future, these small forces that don’t even have a king title will probably be powerless to resist.

At the same time, on the quasi-legendary battleship [Dream Castle] on the other side of the continent, Puppet King Louis, who had just woken up, stood by the window shaking a glass of red wine.

After sensing the "human nails" that were driven into the vast continent before him, he nodded with satisfaction:

"To become a complete [king], one needs to be the trinity of king, law, and country.

Although the size of the country is secondary, of course the larger the better, and the more people the better.

With these 'artificial lantern men' of mine as replacements, the role of that [Sea Hunter] Saint Byron is dispensable. Even if I kill him by robbing my fellow thieves, it will not affect my interests in the Rift Trench.

It would be best if I could turn him into a puppet, swallow up Island No. 1 in one go, and then let him continue to guard the house for me.

From now on, the world cracks that are scattered overseas will no longer be an obstacle to my expansion of the kingdom's territory.

The one pulling the strings never performs himself. As long as I help my daughter, little Juana, ascend the throne, I will be the king of kings.

The entire Kingdom of Castile and even the whole world will become a puppet dancing in my hands."

dong dong dong.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Come in."

The door opened, and a figure dressed in black and wearing an owl mask on his face walked in, his steps as silent as feathers.

This is an assassin's higher-level profession [Night Owl Warrior].

He is also a member of the secret force "Night Owl Court" that is responsible for doing dirty work for the Puppet King. He is exactly the same as the "Storm Cloaks" composed of [Phantom Blades] under Byron.

The puppet king was excited when he saw him, and asked quickly:

"Have you found the Royal Guards team that was transporting the fertility totem god?"

[Night Owl Soldier] knelt on one knee and shook his head, but before his master got angry, he told them what he had learned:
“Your Highness, although we did not find the Royal Guards team, we found out the identity of the leader from the capital.

It has been determined that Plan 1 is doomed to fail, and we recommend that Plan 2 be initiated immediately."

[Incompetent] Henry IV, like the Habsburg family, most desired forbidden knowledge not for immortality but for the continuation of his offspring.

Originally, the first plan of [Puppet King] Louis was to quietly find the team of guards escorting the totem god, and then keep them in the colony to prevent the birth of the king's own descendants.

Now obviously something unexpected has happened.

"who is it?"

Hearing his men's words, Louis frowned, and actually had already guessed the identity of the escort.

"Your Highness, it's the King's Right Hand [Green Lady] Angelica!"

The name his subordinate said did not surprise the Puppet King, and his heart sank slightly.

He knew all the details of the sixteen right hands of the king around his brother, and of course he knew why this "Night Owl Death Warrior" was sure that Plan No. 1 was no longer feasible.

[Green Lady] Angelica is a fourth-level heroic knight in the King's right hand.

The "dragon" she tamed with the dragon taming technique was a first-class holy relic [Aurora Guardian] passed down by the people of the Bay:
“Legend has it that the Northern Lights are the reflection of the Valkyrie’s armor, which is why they shine so brilliantly, and [Aurora Guardian] is exactly the armor that belongs to the Valkyrie.

As long as you put on this armor, you will become a part of the light, one with the whole world and the light, and all divination will be ineffective.

It is said that only by cutting off the power of the Aurora conceptually can the true body under the armor be found and the owner of the armor be harmed. "

It turns out that the action team has the help of this holy relic. Even if a fifth-level legend is sent to look for it, there is an 80% chance that the people will not be found.

At this time, the Night Owl Death Soldier who came to report continued to say:

“However, Your Highness, when we were investigating, we also heard some good news.

Princess Isabella also sent out her own large merchant fleet to join the Treasure Fleet, which was already halfway overseas, preparing to transport the spices, gold and silver accumulated in her estates and mines throughout Havana back to her homeland.

If Plan No. 2 succeeds, we will not only be able to eat up the wealth of the national treasury, but also make our competitor Princess Isabella bleed heavily.

Once she loses these riches, how can she win over supporters to compete with you for the throne?"

The biggest problem in Castile right now is the issue of the Crown Prince.

One group, led by Louis the Puppet King, supported the king's only daughter, Juana, while the other group rallied around their half-sister, 21-year-old Princess Isabella.

These are also the two largest political forces in Castile. If they are not handled properly, they will start a war for the throne like Hastings.

The shrewd and capable sister Isabella not only gathered a large number of supporters around her, but also had a powerful cousin and fiancé, King Ferdinand II of Aragon, whose strength should not be underestimated.

Once they get married and take charge of the two thrones respectively, they will be able to unify the entire Pyrenees Peninsula and push the world's number one maritime power to a new peak.

This may be a good thing for the country, but it is a very bad thing for Henry IV and Puppet King Louis. The sister must not be allowed to succeed.

At this point, the Puppet King finally made up his mind:

“Since Plan No. 1 has failed, I can only allow the pirates I selected to enter.

I can sense that the two threads of fate that were bound in advance are not far apart, and happen to be in the first circulation belt. Let's start with an unexpected encounter between pirates and the treasure fleet."

He gently plucked the puppet string in his hand, causing a clanging sound to come out.

Then he gritted his teeth and took out a thirty-sided dice that looked to be made of brass.

This is the most powerful treasure in the hands of the Puppet King - the cursed object [Probability Dice].

By rolling the dice to get numbers, you can manipulate the probability, such as at key points, to make things develop in the direction of your choice.

The degree of directional deviation depends on the number shaken out, ranging from 1 to 30, and the larger the number, the stronger the influence.

Same as the secret influence: (0-10] from one person to a village or town; (10-20] from a city or a place to an entire region;

(20-30] From a certain region to a country; if it is greater than 30, it will begin to affect the continent and even the entire world.

Theoretically, you can shake it as many times as you want.

However, the more influence is shaken out, the same amount of misfortune will befall the user. If the user himself is not strong enough, he may die from the backlash before achieving his goal.

And the more times you shake it in a short period of time, the worse the bad luck will be.

Normally, the Puppet King would only dare to shake his hand once a day to ensure that the influence was below 20 points, so as not to bring too much bad luck to this fifth-level legend.

Clank, clank.
The thirty-sided [Probability Dice] spun twice on the ground, and finally the top side stopped at 6, and invisible waves superconducted along the silk thread.

If the influence is less than 10, it can only be considered a trial run.

On the other side, after the "horse shock" last night, oh no, after the spiritual conditioning was over, Byron and Catherine caught up with the [Golden Deer] which had left earlier.

Not wanting to travel long distances on horseback, they both checked into their own captain's cabin.

Byron woke up refreshed early in the morning and began to practice sword fighting seriously with his officers on the deck.

Catherine, however, was resting in her room because she was tired from playing the new tricks so hard.

After defeating everyone, Byron couldn't help but sigh in satisfaction:

“The main conflict between my husband and me has become the conflict between my growing strength and my two sisters’ lagging tolerance.

You better quickly upgrade to the fourth-order mythical creatures, otherwise it will be useless even if two of you attack together in the future. Huh? "

When he turned his head at this moment, he saw that the puppet thread, which had not moved since it fell on the keel of the Golden Deer, trembled slightly.

Then Gus, from the mainmast, shouted:
"Captain, a large fleet flying the Castilian flag has been spotted ahead."

(End of this chapter)