Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 621 The Boiling Sea: One Piece Appears!

At the same time that Byron and his party escaped from the Sea of ​​​​Source and ascended to heaven.

The online financial street across the sea was also crowded with people, and it seemed that a high-level event was being held.

Those great figures who usually only exist in legends and are rarely seen by ordinary people seem to have become ordinary little characters today.

Ordinary members on the street who didn't know the inside story were talking about it:

"What happened today? Why are there so many big names who often appear in newspapers suddenly here?
Look, that seems to be the Governor of Havana of the Kingdom of Castile, Fox Ulysses, who is a third-level [Fortress Guard].

Even this middle-ranking Castilian nobleman is here."

Someone nearby looked down on the Governor of Havana:
"Tsk, this is nothing, just a colonial governor whose term is only five years at most.

Now everyone knows that the actual rulers of the Bantaan Islands, from the Holy Golden Empire of Yucatan Island in the west to Black Sail Harbor in the Bahamas in the east, are His Majesty the King of the Wild Hunt and Her Majesty the Queen of Finance.

Even though he is the governor appointed by Castile, the "first sea power", believe it or not, if he does not go to the Holy Golden Empire to pay his respects, he will not be able to continue his work as governor for a day."

In fact, he was not the only one who thought so. Many people around him also nodded in agreement:

“Friends, in my opinion, the war for the throne of the Kingdom of Castile is over.

But they were still fighting fiercely with the Star-Moon Empire and the Protestant princes in the Silver Continent, and had no power to stop the rapid expansion of the North Sea Empire and the Holy Golden Empire overseas.

Ever since the Kingdom of Hastings emerged as a powerful force under the leadership of the last Lancaster and annexed the five Gulf States, although it is still the second most powerful maritime power in name, it may be only one war away from becoming the first.

And the maritime overlord on the high platform may only need one wrong war to completely lose his throne.

I think that day may not be far away.”

Financial Street provides disguise services for its members. Except for the bigwigs who are confident in themselves or represent the official, everyone else will turn it on at all times.

So even though they were mocking the Kingdom of Castile for being strong on the outside but weak on the inside, no one was worried about being retaliated against.

And every time this happens, they will sincerely praise "Mr. Wednesday" or "Ms. Friday", thanking them for creating this platform, which makes the living environment of the extraordinary people countless times better.

This is true for both normal extraordinary people in the Ladder of Glory sequence and dark wizards.

Then, under their watchful eyes, more and more big shots who did not hide their appearance appeared out of nowhere in the Financial Street, all with the same target - the Central Auction House.

"Hiss! That's Ivanka, the pirate warlord of Black Sail Harbor. Everyone, be careful. Don't say bad things about the King of the Wild Hunt in front of her. If you're not careful, she might turn you into candy and eat you.

The Sapphire Pirate King has always been a good man, but his followers are all mad dogs. Only the King of the Wild Hunt can control them. "

“Look over there, it’s the West Coast Pirate King [Ocean Throne] Barbarossa Hayreddin, and his brother [Blue Hair] Barbarossa Hayreddin.

I heard that [Blue Hair] is a fourth-level hero, but looking at their momentum, they are actually equally matched. It is true that a tiger brother has a dog brother. Awesome! "

"The new Pirate King of the Sea, Bloodsail Mihawk, is here too.

Two of the four pirate kings came at once.

The other two, [Whale Hunter] Jack Harold and [Wild Hunt King] Byron Lancaster, the father-in-law and son-in-law, are said to have gone to the Eastern Continent one after another. No one knows how they are doing now. "

"Look, they're fighting! The two pirate kings are fighting!

One of them is a Barbary from the Star-Moon Empire, and the other is a Castilian. The two pirate kings' home countries are at war, and their relationship is not very good.

What a pity, you can’t kill anyone in the financial street, tut tut.”

Huge Taino-style pyramids are suspended in the clouds above the financial district, like floating mountains in fairyland.

[Queen of Finance] Catherine changed her appearance, wearing a women's shirt and a golden mask on her face, revealing the fierce temperament of a strong woman from the inside out.

It was exactly how "Ms. Friday" always looked.

Sitting alone on the stone steps at the edge of a pyramid, with her high heels on her tiptoes, she silently watched everything happening in the financial street below.

Apart from the tit-for-tat between the two fifth-level pirate kings, which slightly attracted her attention, the other so-called "big shots" could no longer arouse her interest.

He wasn't even interested in giving me a glance.

With a wave of her hand, a golden crescent-shaped scimitar that looked a bit like a sickle appeared in Catherine's slender and powerful right hand.

There were flashes of golden light in his lake green eyes. He never got tired of seeing the embodiment of the authority of the priesthood of [Wealth] no matter how many times he looked at it.

Looking at it was like seeing another person, with the corners of her rosy lips curled up in a beautiful arc:
“This brat always surprises me every time he goes out on an adventure.

After returning to the material world from the Sea of ​​​​Source, he immediately reported to me that he was safe.

It is said that the God Hunting Plan has been successful, and the cooperation agreement reached with the Desert Empire is about to be implemented. In two days, they will give me another big surprise.

It really whetted one's appetite.

What could be more surprising than a priesthood that is a perfect match for me?

A treaty port? A huge single market? Not half a desert empire?
Haha, that's hard to say. My brother is the best in the world, and it's not impossible for him to make the most beautiful woman in the world fall in love with him with just a few shakes of his tiger body."

Thinking of the cooperation between the two companies that Byron had mentioned before, as well as the reaction of the Queen, there was not only no jealousy on her beautiful face, but a hint of anticipation.

Although she was an incurable "brother-supporting womanizer", she had already started saving money for Byron to become his wife as early as when she started her business and before she even took back the Kingdom of Hastings.

Although he accidentally got himself involved in the last place, his wife only gave Violet a sister.

Now with the addition of two incarnations, Byron has a total of nineteen "wives", but the incarnations and the original soul are the same, it’s just that he can play with them a little more elaborately than others, for example: one dragon and nineteen phoenixes, which is not very novel.

So she always felt that her brother had too few lovers.

You have to know that after the Renaissance, even in those monogamous countries, kings and nobles could openly have many mistresses.

The king even has a formal official title of "royal lover" who can enter and leave the palace freely, attend banquets, and enjoy treatment appropriate to his status.

It's really too feudal for an emperor to not even have a dozen mistresses, right?
If you tell others, people will think that our family can’t afford to marry her.

Catherine was a little disappointed:

"With the [First Stock], I can give birth to many descendants and let them rule vast territories. No matter how much power is transferred, the meat will rot in my own pot.

It can ensure absolute control over its own territory and the material world.

Byron's way of finding a lover was different from others. He did not do it for his own enjoyment, but because he had a sacred mission to save the world as the Messiah!

This brat has never actively pursued girls. I hope he can wake up sooner.

It would be a huge loss if the first human demigod and the most beautiful woman in the world were snatched away by someone else.

Even if the empress has a strong personality and wants to be on top, she doesn't mind suffering a little grievance temporarily.

Come back then, sister will let you be on top, it's okay."

【Fortune】The priesthood suddenly flashed.

Catherine's face straightened, she held her breath and listened attentively, and she heard the prayers of the believers of wealth coming from the blade of the scimitar:

"God of wealth, please bless me to make a fortune!"

"God, this time we are going to explore the Southern Continent's Beast Paradise. I hope you can bless us and let us return with a full load."

"God, please help me make a fortune and make Miss Emily's snobbish father regret his decision and beg me to marry his daughter to me."

The prayers continued one after another, and even the wishes in the field of "love" were reached to her.

Most of them have no specific direction, but are just general prayers for wealth itself, not to mention any firm belief, but there are so many of them.

The fanatical desire for wealth alone turned all her thoughts and wishes into a raging torrent, rushing towards Catherine.

Compared to before he received the ordination, it was almost an order of magnitude worse.

Holding the priesthood of "Wealth" that can make people "sneer at feudal superstitions and kneel in the Temple of the God of Wealth for a long time", no one in this world has more potential believers than her!

Even "betrayal is just because the price is not enough", as long as the money is enough, it is entirely possible that someone else's person can become hers.

And it wasn't just some lay believers who prayed to Catherine.

"Ms. Friday, please bless me with good fortune and a booming business this year."

"Praise Ms. Friday, please give me traffic and make my store business booming."

"Ms. Friday, please let me win the ranking this month and get a good recommendation position."

Although these prayers do not have a three-part honorific title, they at least have a clear direction.

Moreover, a clear picture appeared on the surface of the scimitar, showing many people praying to a "statue", and the image on it was exactly what Catherine looked like as Ms. Friday.

The source of our thoughts and wishes is none other than the financial street beneath the clouds.

This online virtual space originally had only one street. As Byron, Catherine and generations of members continued to invite new members to join, it grew in size and had more and more shops.

Long before Byron set sail, this place had almost become the second world for the extraordinary people of the Old Continent, and had developed countless users.

The black wizards and totem gods from the Beast Paradise of the Southern Continent are also accelerating their entry.

The Financial Street has long become a complete online and offline commercial complex that integrates dating, entertainment, transactions, finance, intelligence, and other functions, which has profoundly changed the lives of all extraordinary people.

When it was combined with the Tayapan Pyramid to form Catherine's Kingdom of God, its essence was further enhanced and turned into a huge circular cross block.

The main body is two busy streets with a crossroads in the middle, and the ends of the streets are twisted and connected according to the rules of the Kingdom of God.

In other words, if you stand at a crossroads and head in any direction, you will eventually be able to return to the starting point, and you will definitely pass every store in the crossroads during the process.

However, the number of stores nowadays is far beyond what it was at the beginning. Shopping like this is too inefficient and wastes too much of customers’ time.

So Catherine took the opportunity to launch the "search" service.

Financial Street is essentially a combination of virtual and real "online store". Except for the unique number, everything else can be adjusted at will.

Therefore, ordinary tourists who do not have VIP membership level and whose spending amount does not reach 100 pounds have to browse all the stores.

From time to time, a store that you have passed by before will suddenly appear in front of you, and appear more than once.

This is an "advertising insertion" service provided by the store after charging a certain fee.

As long as you recharge the basic VIP membership, you can avoid ordinary advertisements and turn on the pure mode.

As the membership level increases, more services are available, such as "screening similar stores", "searching for product keywords", "price trend changes", "multi-store price comparison services", etc. When you reach the Supreme VIP level, you only need to think about it to have the most cost-effective products or information delivered to your door.

On the contrary, the store also has its own set of membership levels.

Different levels can join different traffic pools and reach different recommendation positions.

The "traffic" in different locations varies greatly, and the difficulty of making money is naturally the same.

Just the monthly star merchant ranking event can contribute a small fleet of heavy cruisers or a pre-dreadnought that has already started construction to Catherine and Byron.

Customers and stores recharge each other, and in the end, whether the east wind will prevail over the west wind, or the west wind will prevail over the east wind, all depends on who spends more.

No customer or shop knows what kind of monster their consumption here is supporting.

The thoughts and wishes just now were mostly provided by the merchants in the store.

Praying to Lady Friday would have had little effect before Catherine received the ministry of Fortune.

But after she obtained the priesthood of [Wealth], praying to her could really change one's fortune.

At the very least, even if you buy the same traffic as others, Catherine can still put you in a better position.

I dare not say anything else, but she is the absolute financial goddess on the financial street. One thought can make a millionaire, and another thought can make a person bankrupt.

Catherine felt the power growing every second, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise:
"In the economic theory and marketing plan that Byron gave me, this is called 'flow', or 'port'.

Whether it is an online store or an offline street, a community, or even a country, the principle is the same.

Under the propaganda of the Remit people, the richest people in the world, many people think that if a country, company or ethnic group is rich, it must have an advanced system, and if it is poor, it must have a backward system.

In fact, this is completely brainwashing.

With the same national system, why are Castile and the Netherlands, which are located at the shipping route nodes, rich, while other countries not on the shipping route are backward?
The same system exists within the country, so why are the coastal ports rich, but the inland areas backward? Are they not hardworking? Are they not smart?
This has little to do with the system. Whether you have money or not depends mainly on one thing - the port.

Draw a circle and say if you can do it then you can do it, and if you can’t do it then that’s okay too.

On the same street, if your shop has a good "port", then you should make money. But if another shop has a bad "port", it will be more difficult to make money.

A certain field has received funding and policy support from the upper level, which is also a man-made port.”

“Why did the richest Remit people become so rich?
That’s because the church prohibits its believers from engaging in usury, which allowed them to take advantage of the loophole. How could a monopoly not make money?
This has nothing to do with whether the system is advanced or not, or whether the nation is smart or not.

To say that a nation that has been wandering for more than a thousand years and has no friends in the world is intelligent is simply the biggest joke of this era.

In the commercial field, whoever controls the traffic and ports controls the right to allocate resources, that is, controls the [wealth] priesthood itself! "

Catherine has been using her own power and the priesthood of [Wealth] to comprehend the rules, preparing to formulate her own ascension ceremony to become a sixth-rank demigod.

Thinking of this, she blinked her bright eyes:

"Why don't I set my demigod promotion ceremony as: making it easy to do business in the world? Hehe."

This is of course a joke.

She felt that the online store in the Financial Street was still too childish. Perhaps only by wielding the [Financial Holy Sword] and brewing the world's first financial tsunami could she truly ascend to the position of demigod.

Next, we will see which country is so blind as to come before her and volunteer to become the battlefield of the financial war.

[Queen of Finance] Although Catherine is a logistics staff, anyone who dares to underestimate her lethality will cry miserably.

At this time, the bell of the central auction house rang three times in succession.

clang!clang!clang!
Today's "main course" for entertaining a group of important people has finally been served.

The archbishops of the old and new churches; the vice president of the Lighthouse Federation; the princes, dukes, and governors of various countries; the notorious pirate king; the famous fifth-level legend. All gathered together.

The scale of today's auction is unprecedented.

In order to save the big shots' time, the ordinary items in front were immediately bought by their entourage as soon as they were brought up, and the auction progressed rapidly.

In order to prepare for the grand finale, these were ordinary goods that had failed to be sold many times in previous auctions. Clearing out the inventory at one time allowed Catherine to make a fortune.

Of course, these are just the small parts.

When there were finally three lots left, the auctioneer walked off the stage sweating profusely, and was replaced by Ms. Friday wearing a mask.

All the guests straightened their faces, their faces full of anticipation, and the air in the hall froze.

Everyone knows that Mr. Wednesday and Ms. Friday are the masters of Financial Street.

But no one has ever been able to confirm their true identities. All we know is that they are powerful and have connections everywhere.

The representatives of various major forces are sitting here today to personally verify whether the "Secret Treasure of the East Continent" stated on the invitation letter is worthy of its name.

"Excuse me, everyone. Please check the sample."

Catherine didn't say much. With a wave of her hand, 32 pounds of [Fairy Dust] in a sack appeared on the stage.

Each senior member was given a one-gram sample for them to try.

coax--!
Catherine smiled as she heard the exclamations of the people in the hall after they checked the fairy dust.

“As you can see.

Ten days ago, His Majesty Byron Lancaster, the King of the Wild Hunt, took the lead in completing the development of the second circulation belt.

And unlike the earlier "Whale Hunter" Jack Harold who disappeared without a trace, he not only drew a nautical chart, but also sent back these "local specialties" of the East Continent through the Financial Street.

In addition to the 32 pounds of fairy dust, this auction also comes with the origin, and the starting price is pounds."

As soon as he finished speaking, quotes came one after another.

"One hundred and five thousand pounds!"

"One hundred and one hundred thousand pounds!"

"."

Compared to the previous calm situation, this time everyone was arguing with each other until their faces turned red.

[Fairy Dust] is widely used in the production of rare items, preparation of potions, improving the spiritual power of beasts, etc. It can even allow mortals to gain the ability to fly just by smearing it on their bodies. The demand for it is very large.

There is no need to worry about sales at all, and you won’t suffer any loss no matter how much goods you stock up.

The most important thing is the origin!
Looking at the output measured in sacks, could it be that His Majesty the King of the Wild Hunt has discovered a ready-made vein of goblin dust?

Wealth! Incomparable wealth!

The output of fairy dust alone made everyone determined to speed up the exploration of the East Continent.

In the end, this bag of fairy dust was bought by the wealthy Star-Moon Empire for 520,000 pounds.

The others had no time to regret as their attention was drawn to the next item, a dozen or so [Soul Gems].

By the time Catherine finished explaining their effects, everyone's breathing began to quicken.

"Huchi. Huchi"

There was a sound of wind in the auction hall.

Whether it is the fifth-order high sequence or the third-order or fourth-order middle sequence, the expression is the same.

You have to know that the legends of the Old World are just mortals after all.

The taboo system can also be driven by the variables of countless believers to promote the continuous spiritual progress of their own, but they don’t even have this means and can only rely on themselves from beginning to end.

He is more eager for this kind of treasure than those higher-level wizards.

More importantly, even church clergymen are now learning forbidden knowledge despite the ban, let alone them?
Everyone is seeking eternal life.

With this treasure, you can easily and quickly make progress when learning forbidden knowledge.

When you become a fourth-level mythical creature, your lifespan can be greatly extended.

As long as we can get enough Soul Gems, it is definitely not impossible to give it a try.

This is the real-life version of the simplified “elixir of life”!

Byron, a "genius" who was rapidly honed and improved in one whirlpool after another, still underestimated the appeal of the [Soul Gem] to those "bad students" who had made little progress in decades.

More than a dozen [Soul Gems] were divided into five groups and were taken by the New and Old Churches, the Holy Silver Empire, the Star-Moon Empire, and the Kingdom of Castile respectively.

The others were not too disappointed. As long as they were confirmed to be effective, they would immediately set off for the East Continent.

They have money, I have my life.

No one thinks that their life is not strong enough, and they can definitely return with a full load.

Then, Catherine took out the last lot, pushing the atmosphere to a climax:

“The third item. The latest nautical chart drawn by Miss Delia, the personal navigator of His Majesty the King of the Wild Hunt.

The main dangers have been cleared, and the safety of the large fleet can be guaranteed by the presence of a fourth-level hero accompanying them.

Starting price: £100,000

With the previous two treasures as a backdrop, the powerful forces suddenly went crazy.

Perhaps an adventure ship could explore slowly, but with this nautical chart, a large-scale fleet could set sail directly.

Even if you are one day ahead of others, you can make a lot of money!

They may not be willing to fight with their clansmen to defend the continent, but they are more enthusiastic than anyone else in burning, killing and looting for the sake of benefits.

What's more, it is a great treasure that is more tempting than gold, silver, spices and whale oil. It is an opportunity to achieve immortality in disguise.

Not to mention them, as long as there are one or two confirmed fairy mountains overseas, no emperor would ban the sea!
So, just as Byron expected, before the auction ended here, the entire Silver Continent outside was already boiling with excitement.

For the powerful nations of the Old World, this was a piece of the Age of Exploration.

King of the Wild Hunt: "Do you want those secret treasures? Go ahead, the secret treasures I found are there!"

What the excited crowd didn't know was that a certain Pirate King had sacrificed himself to start the Great Pirate Era, and a certain Pirate King was also being forced to sacrifice himself to the evil forces for the sake of all mankind.
(End of this chapter)