Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 535 Fate: King of the Wild Hunt vs King of the Frost Giants

Torshavn is a military port. In order to prepare for the war with the Kingdom of Hastings, all civilian ships have long been diverted to other ports.

In addition, in the stormy weather, most ships have returned to the port, and only a very small number of cruisers and their released flying beasts such as petrels are still cruising on the sea outside the anchorage.

But the focus of defense has always been on the two imaginary enemies, Anchor Bay in the north and Hattings in the south.

Although the Sea of ​​Monsters is dangerous, in the past dark millennium, the [Silver Law], the Church, and the Night Watch have always suppressed the entire Old Continent, and there have only been a few large-scale sea monster riots.

Except for the ocean-going fleets that need to cross the gyre, the cruisers and naval soldiers of coastal countries have long forgotten the horror of the Monster Sea.

It is no wonder that the [Queen of Eternal Night] and the [Bear Man] are superstitious about the church's ability to save the world.

After all, they have been powerful for more than a thousand years. It is normal that the imprint of thinking that has been laid over a thousand years is difficult to eliminate in a short period of time.

Many people don’t believe that the bald eagle, which has been the world overlord for less than a hundred years, would fall from the throne again, let alone the thousand-year-old church?

But they have completely forgotten the law of the extraordinary world: "The only thing that never changes in the world is change."

This is especially true of the rise and fall of power among nations.

Twenty years have passed since the Dark Millennium ended. Countless signs have foreshadowed that great changes are imminent, but the Kalmar Navy, dominated by inertial thinking, has still not been able to adapt to this change.

As a result, the cruise ship at sea was the first to suffer bad luck.

Boom!

A small sailboat of low tonnage was pushed up from the water by a large sea monster and broke into two pieces in mid-air with a "crack".

The sailors on the ship fell into the rough sea wailing. Before they drowned, they were eaten one by one by the sea monster.

Countless tentacles suddenly extended from under some ships, sweeping away most of the crew in the blink of an eye, and even dragging the entire ship into the water.
In an instant, large areas of sea water were dyed red, and the scene was extremely tragic.

But such a small number of people obviously cannot satisfy their appetite, and blood cannot quench their deep-seated hatred for land creatures.

When they discovered the large human settlements on the Faroe Islands ahead, especially the popular naval port, the beasts immediately became agitated.

The giant sea monster [Ancient King Whale] took the lead and let out a long roar, and was the first to pounce on the Thors Naval Port.

Om-!
The legal network of [Royal Iron Law: Northern Code] vibrated, and a beast-like roar echoed in everyone's ears:

“Quick, pour all the Dragon Dung Potion we have in stock. This is a bay, and the storm won’t wash away the potion in a short time.

All gun crews entered their gun positions and loaded the hot shells.

Fire freely! Coastal guns and battleships, fire! If those sea monsters show their heads, send them all to hell!"

At this time, realizing that something was wrong, the [Bear Man] Ulysses had already led his guards to the fortress bastion on the port and ordered everyone to open fire.

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!
Suddenly, countless lines of fire turned into angry dragons, interweaving into a tight fire net, completely covering the surging black sea in front.

Coastal fortress artillery has far greater advantages than battleships.

No matter how small the land is, it is still much larger than the operating space of a battleship. Dozens of hot bombs can be burned at one time and kept as backup without worrying about accidentally causing a chain reaction explosion.

The stable land is free from the bumps of the sea, which greatly improves the accuracy of the fortress artillery. A normal elite gunner can be as good as an [Artillery Expert].

The most important thing is that the main gun of a first-class battleship is only 42 pounds, but the fortress gun on the road can easily reach an astonishing 68 pounds.

If we take into account the larger-caliber mortars with a shorter range and designed specifically to destroy fortifications, the amount can reach an astonishing 108 pounds!
Even if the sea monster has a messy appearance, it is essentially flesh and blood. It cannot be killed with cannonballs, and there is no need to send a bunch of iron men to fight the monster in close combat.

As long as the ordinary small species who couldn't stand the stimulation of the [Dragon Dung Potion] jumped out, blood holes would immediately appear on their bodies, and the pungent burnt smell would immediately fill the entire bay.

As the main body of the Kalmar Alliance, as the people of the Bay who have lived in the bitter and cold zone for generations, they are still quite capable in terms of combat effectiveness.

Moreover, these are the direct descendants carefully cultivated by the [Queen of Eternal Night] and the [Bear People] in preparation for unifying the five nations of the Bay People.

If all those coming this time are ordinary sea monsters that have been contaminated, a few hundred of them would probably be equivalent to several hundred ordinary cruisers or armed merchant ships.

Even though the destructive power is amazing, it is highly unlikely that the military port can be destroyed under the protection of this navy.

It’s a pity that there are even more cunning large and giant species hidden here, and even some "good guys" who sneaked in.

Without Hai Si's command, Byron would be the temporary commander.

How could it be possible for them to get away with it so easily?

At first, he used the Mermaid Kingdom's method to deal with the beast tide, but this time he decisively took out the [Haisi] siege tactics shared with him by his cousin.

"The ocean currents are accelerating!"

Each sea monster has the basic ability to control ocean currents. Even if the polluted individuals are weak, a number of them gathered together is enough to trigger a series of natural disasters.

Led by the leading [Ancient King Whale], the spiritual light on the sea monsters suddenly gathered together, and huge yellow-green waves suddenly rose to seven or eight meters high, pushing the beast tide to attack at an unprecedented speed.

Rumble.
When breaking through at close range, it is like an irresistible tsunami.

No matter how large the caliber of the coastal fortress artillery is or how powerful its firepower is, its rate of fire is only two or three rounds per minute at most. Even cross fire cannot stop this kind of shameless fighting style.

The beast tide withstood two rounds of salvos, and only killed a dozen ordinary sea monsters. However, it had already crossed the maximum artillery range of one kilometer and reached the garrison and the Kalmar fleet that had not yet left the port.

Click!

A large sea monster called the Bobbitt worm, with a huge mouthpart and a body made up of countless segments, opened its mouth from the bottom of the sea and bit a sloop in half with one bite.

Seven or eight [Large Helmeted Snails] lined up in a row on the sea, pointed their heads forward, accelerated their charge, and turned into indestructible battering rams, smashing the warships in front of them into pieces.

A group of colorful [fire-breathing fish] spewed out phosphorus-containing substances together, forming a green cloud of fire in the air, which fell on the warship and could not be extinguished even by heavy rain.
The burnt smell was even stronger than when the sea monster was bombed by the scorching bomb just now, and the continuous screams from the battleship made the defenders on land change color.

Failure to leave the port meant that they could not deploy their battle formation, and the shipborne artillery mounted on both sides of the ship also made it difficult to concentrate their firepower on the sea monster.

It was like two people were dueling, and one of them had a jammed musket. Before he could fix it, the other person took out a sturdy mace and hit him in the face, breaking it all over.

There are too many tragic examples in history where fleets were surrounded by the enemy in the anchorage. Theirs is not the first and will definitely not be the last.

At the same time, hundreds of water guns shot out from the sea, specifically aiming at the major artillery positions deployed along the coastline.

Even though its accuracy is questionable, its destructive power is extremely amazing.

The sharp water jet can easily cut a human body into two pieces, and leave deep cuts on heavy coastal defense guns made of bronze and steel.

Many sea monsters that had grown legs or even hooves due to the pollution of the [Mother of Monsters] ecosystem rushed straight to the shore and charged towards the large bastion that served as the command center.

Especially led by two colorful mantis shrimps, each of their punches could reach the temperature of the surface of the sun, and the rain was almost turned into plasma shock waves by them.

Facing the artillery fire from the bastion, they bombarded the inclined thick city wall again and again, flames exploded, and gravel, mud and sand fell down.

"Support, please support!"

Without [Bear Man] Ulysses saying anything, the garrison commander of the naval port used his authority to issue a request for help to the rear.

But they themselves are not optimistic about the results of their request for help.

The garrisons on other islands in the Faroe Islands should come, and other direct troops that have not yet been assembled should also come, but other lords on the Eternal Night Peninsula may not respond actively.

Although the Kalmar Union's [Northern Code] is the most absolute monarchy of all absolute monarchies in the Old World, the monarch's power is much stronger than that of other countries.

But the military system is similar to Hastings' original system.

The navy is aimed at foreign enemies and is mainly funded by the king.

In name, they were their own private army, and their loyalty was not to the country, but to the king himself.

However, the power of the lords on land is deeply rooted. Unless there is a major change, such as most of the people of Hastings died in the civil war, only by letting the army belong to the lords of various places can they be given enough sense of security.

The different affiliations of the armies naturally led to the separatism of various parties, which became countries within countries with different interests.

Of course, in this era there was no clear concept of "nation-state", and most free people and serfs only knew about lords but not kings.

Even a nobleman or king could be the lord of several countries at the same time.

After the royal family becomes extinct, there will be no problem at all in finding a foreigner who does not speak the native language to inherit the throne.

If it weren't for this, [Bearman] Ulysses would not have become the Crown Prince of the Alliance.

At present, except for Byron, who is actually building a modern country from hardware to software, most other rulers do not think there is anything wrong with this situation.

But once an emergency military situation occurs, the speed of responding to the "call to arms" may determine the life or death of the king.

This is also the risk that kings need to take under the current system.

[Bear Man] Ulysses is well aware that the domestic situation is becoming increasingly torn apart because of the strong claims of [War Witch] Violet and [King of the Wild Hunt] Byron, and the Protestant thought that was suppressed two years ago is rising again.

Recently, some people have even openly declared that since the three countries of Kalmar can form an alliance, why can't the five countries of the Gulf?
Doesn't the alliance have no direct heir to the Blue Dragon King? Why not form an alliance of five nations and jointly elect a suitable king?

What this means is that they do not accept the Bear Man as their new king.

The "pro-unification forces" are rising rapidly, and they are all potential opponents of the [Bear People], or even mortal enemies in the next war for the throne.

In addition, the [Queen of Eternal Night] also took away one of the two kingdom guardians, and the lords lost most of the suppression from the upper level.

It is simply unrealistic to expect them to come to the rescue on their own initiative.

Thinking of this, a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes:
“Don’t blame me, since you guys didn’t come, I had no choice but to let these sea monsters find you.

Although the king is the protector of the country, you lords should be the king's wings. "

He raised his hand and took out one of the two holy relics supported by the church from his storage of rare items [Queen Frigga's dressing box].

From the outside, it looks like a golden box inlaid with various gorgeous gems.

As the name suggests, this is a treasure left by Frigga, the wife of the God King of the Bay People [the God of Prophecy, Royal Power and Wild Hunt] Woden.

The box once contained Frigga's kingdom of God, "Fensalir, the Palace of Golden Mist", which was composed of oceans, clouds, and countless gold and silver treasures.

At this time, the foundation of the Demigod Kingdom was still there, but most of the treasures had been lost.

But as long as you open it, you can still get twelve powers: "words, kindness, giving, counsel, love, approval, oath, truth, objection, protection, wisdom, and messenger."

Originally, these powers once belonged to the divine incarnation of the Queen of Gods, equivalent to her twelve maids.

If a god of similar nature were to receive this legacy, it would be possible to summon the Twelve Maids again, or even repair the ruined kingdom of God, "Fensaril, the Palace of Golden Mist", and use it as the foundation for promotion to a demigod.

The price of using it is very simple, which is to offer wealth, a huge wealth that can satisfy the vanity of the Queen of Gods!

The flesh on [Bear Man] Ulysses' cheek twitched, and he couldn't help but wonder if the church was lending him this treasure because it couldn't afford it due to financial constraints.

When it was returned, the church not only got the treasures, but also the wealth inside.

[Bear Man] quickly shook his head, throwing such blasphemous thoughts out of his mind.

He took out the military funds that had been prepared long ago for the attack on Hastings and poured bag after bag of gold coins into the box.

After swallowing tens of thousands of gold coins, the dressing box gradually lit up, and twelve golden spots jumped out of it.

Ulysses waved his hand, and the three light spots of [Objection], [Guardian] and [Messenger] flew out of the bastion and exploded above the beast tide.

In an instant, he dyed the eyes of about half of the sea monsters golden, turning them into his "messengers of death." "Unfortunately, as long as they are attacked, the control effect will be passively lifted, otherwise they can be left to kill each other."

With a sigh, he waved his hand at them:
"Go ahead, spread out and head to the port city on the Evernight Peninsula."

The sea monsters obeyed the order and re-entered the water, avoiding Torshavn and heading straight for the mainland behind them.

Others are like children selling their father's land without feeling any pity, but [Bear Man] Ulysses is an outsider to begin with, so he has even less pity when selling out his teammates.

I even felt a little happy when I thought about the panic-stricken looks on the faces of those dissidents and pro-unificationists.

Byron, who was guarding in the dark, frowned but did not try to stop it.

“These sea monsters have been dispersed to various port cities, and their danger has been greatly reduced, so they are no longer able to attack the cities.

[Bearman] It's not a big deal if half of the people here are missing. We can just go and clean up the mess ourselves."

After killing half of the sea monsters, Ulysses took out another holy relic, the [Winter Secret Box of the Frost Giant].

This is a strategic-level treasure that was once the most precious treasure of the Frost Giants in the mythological era.

Legend has it that it contains the heart of the Frost Giant King, which is as powerful as the bitter winter in the entire North. You can open the box and release the winter, or you can choose to integrate it into your own body to gain some of the power of the Frost Giant King.

When he reached out to touch it, a layer of light film blocked Ulysses' hand.

Only then did he remember the taboo that the archbishop had warned him about, because the secret box had been taken away and sealed by [God of the Wild Hunt] Woden, and a bloody sacrifice ceremony must be held if one wants to use it.

So Ulysses pulled out the dagger and put it into the furnace where the hot bullet was heated, and it soon burned red.

Then, in front of the horrified gaze of the officers, he stabbed his right eye with a knife and blinded it.

Zila——!
Blood splattered and green smoke rose.

Although the blood that flowed from the eye sockets immediately scabbed under the high temperature and did not make his face covered in blood, you could still tell how painful it was just by looking at it.

[Bear Man] himself didn't even utter a word.

Obviously he is cruel to others and to himself as well.

He slashed the dagger stained with his blood across the surface of the [Winter Secret Box], and a layer of light film dissipated, and he also gained the right to use it once.

This is because according to legend, Woden hung himself on the World Tree and exchanged his right eye for wisdom and runes, making him a one-eyed god-king.

It costs the same to please Him.

“It doesn’t matter. The Archbishop has already given me the matching [Healing Scroll]. High-Sequence Clergy may not be good at other things, but they are very good at healing external injuries.

It is possible to remove 'disabilities' through prayer.

After this battle, I will be back to normal."

The bear man comforted his guards and told them to be patient, then he lifted up the translucent [Secret Box of Winter] and stuffed it into his chest.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
A heavy heartbeat sounded, like the beating of a war drum, and the heartbeats of his guards gradually followed suit.

"Come on, follow me and kill all those sea monsters!"

"Roar--!"

[Bear Man] With every step Ulysses took, his skin grew paler and his body swelled, and the same went for the hundreds of guards behind him.

By the time they walked out of the bastion's superstructure, everything had changed beyond recognition.

Ulysses, who was in the lead, turned into the five-meter-tall king of the Frost Giants, with a blue crown lighting up on his head, as if he had really transformed into the evil god in the mythological era who could compete with Woden.

The guards also turned into three-meter-tall frost giants one by one.

In the blink of an eye, the freezing cold air immediately turned the storm above their heads into hail, and the rain under their feet quickly froze.

Circles of [Ice Halo] spread out, causing all enemies and friends on the battlefield to fall into a state of stagnation.

At this moment, Ulysses felt that his whole body was filled with endless strength. He roared, grabbed a cast iron anchor beside him, and rushed towards the leading [Ancient Basilosaurus].

The other frost giants and the extraordinary people in the garrison grabbed the large whaling harpoons and pounced on them, fighting a desperate battle with the clumsy sea monsters that moved ashore.

"Drink! Go to hell!"

"Ow Oo"

After falling into the most brutal close combat, sea monsters fell in a pool of blood every moment, and the bear people's direct descendants and frost giants were swallowed by the sea monsters.

These polluted sea monsters are fearless and even now are spreading pollution from the "ecosphere" through their flowing blood.

Soldiers who are contaminated with large areas of blood from these sea monsters will suffer varying degrees of alienation, just like them, if the blood is not cleaned and diluted in time.

However, unlike the coral disease that was prevalent in the Bantaan Islands, where barnacles and corals grew on the surface of the corals, this time it is more likely to affect coelenterates.

Soldiers grow stinging cells on their bodies, their organs degenerate, and they use the same entrance and exit for eating and excretion
It's simply an alien among aliens.

The increasingly strong fishy smell makes people want to vomit.

The fight between the King of the Frost Giants and the giant species [Ancient Basilosaur] with dozens of lizard legs growing from its belly was particularly fierce.

The earth was shaking, the sea was pouring back, and even the bastion was shaking violently.

If they continue like this, even if the garrison suffers heavy losses, they should still be the ultimate winners.

After more than half an hour, the fighting gradually came to an end.

[Bear Man] found a way to freeze half of the Basilosaurus' body into a thick layer of ice, and then he rode on its head, swinging his fists and hitting its head hard again and again.

The blow left him breathless and caused blood-red ice chips to fly everywhere.

You can see that the entire blood-red coast is frozen, and this is the only way the bear people can think of to prevent the spread of pollution.

In order to avoid paying a heavy price to defeat the sea monster, but then having your own base camp suffer a devastating disaster.

But there was not even a trace of joy on the bear-man's frost giant face. Instead, he gnashed his teeth, as if he regarded the Basilosaur under him as an even more hateful existence.

"Asshole, asshole! My troops were caught off guard and suffered such a loss.

Let alone attacking the Kingdom of Hastings and taking over the Channel Islands in the short term, it was already a blessing from the Creator that he was not attacked by the [King of the Wild Hunt].

I don’t know when I can finally get my hands on my Hattings, my beauty, and my empire.

It’s all your fault, monsters! Aaaaaah.”

The more the bear man thought about it, the more hateful he became, and the strength in his hands became stronger and stronger.

But at this moment, a meaningless voice suddenly sounded in his ears:

"eighty!"

"eighty!"

"eighty."

Every time he smashed the thing, the voice actor would shout something. Although I didn't understand why he shouted "eighty", the mockery in the voice was clear.

[Bear Man] turned his head suddenly and saw a young man wearing a crown sitting leisurely with his legs crossed on the ruins next to him.

The [Guaranteed Hit Gungnir] in his hand, which had shrunk to the size of a pen, turned into a silver dragon that danced up and down at his fingertips.

But in the eyes of an experienced swordsman, he could see that this "fingertip gun" was like a spear or a halberd, and it was used with the majestic power of a heavy weapon.

This is clearly the transcendent state of "treating light things as if they were heavy".

When he saw the man's face clearly, the bear man's icy pupils suddenly shrank sharply, and he blurted out:
“Is it you, Byron Lancaster?!
Isn't today your coronation ceremony? Why are you here?
and many more!

Iron Anchor Bay, Faroe Islands, Hattings, we three face the sea of ​​monsters together, why don't they land on your land? "

Although this Berserker looks rough, he is a very thoughtful person.

While talking to delay time, he activated [Iron Law of the King: Northern Code] to send a message to the outside world.

Regardless of whether the beast tide was an accident or not, Byron must be blamed for it.

With this excuse, they can openly cleanse the country's Protestants and supporters of the Wild Hunt.

But the next moment, Ulysses's expression suddenly changed.

He followed Byron's raised finger and suddenly saw a trident emblem emerging in the sky.

The solid trident in Hathaway's hand, which can prevent things from changing, has long blocked the information above the entire naval port.

The outside world only knew that they encountered a beast tide at the beginning, and then completely lost contact.

Even the residents of nearby cities failed to notice anything unusual.

Ulysses finally realized that Byron had never intended to leave anyone alive in the naval port from the beginning, and he said coldly:
"Byron Lancaster! Are you going to invade the three countries of the Kalmar Union?"

Hearing this, Byron stood up in a hurry, glanced at the tragic battlefield and the frost giants that were gradually surrounding him, and the [Halo of a Great Kind Man] above his head lit up quietly.

He stretched out a finger and shook it, rejecting the big hat that the bear man put on him, and gave him a compassionate smile:

"No, no, no, how could it be us who invaded?
It was clearly a wave of sea monsters that killed everyone in this naval port. We wanted to rescue our fellow Bay People, but accidentally arrived a step too late.

Fortunately, natural disasters are ruthless, but people are kind.

In the spirit of international humanitarian assistance between the people of the Bay, in order to prevent the spread of "coelenteritis" here, we reluctantly killed all the sea monsters and you polluted people.

Give Kalmar Union a clean sea again.

And then."

Byron's smile faded:
"Because of your and the Queen of Eternal Night's incompetence, our military was left with a lack of strength when facing the second and third waves of beasts.

The other lords and citizens of the Kalmar Union had no choice but to invite us to station troops permanently.

Can something that has strong claims be called an invasion?
This place has been the territory of the North Sea Empire since ancient times, and the unification of the five countries is an inevitable trend.

After I rebuild the North Sea Empire, the affairs of the Kalmar Union will be ours. Go with peace of mind. I will protect this territory!"

[Bear Man] just felt that the words spoken by the other person were a little too familiar, as if they were all his own words.

But he saw a cold light flashing from the pistol at Byron's fingertips, and the gun shot out like a dragon, straight into his face.

It seems like the cycle of fate.

Legend has it that during the Ragnarok of the Gods, the enemies of the Wan people's pantheon were the Frost Giants.

The first war between gods at the turn of the last era began with the divine spear [Gungnir] thrown by [God of the Wild Hunt].

And the first war of gods among the people of Taiwan at the turn of this era was exactly the same.

(End of this chapter)