Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 626: Transformers are fierce, Pirate Code is activated

As the new red-haired ship girl lifted her skirt and saluted, the [Legendary Battleship Dreadnought] behind her, bathed in the light of law, reappeared in front of everyone.

The steel behemoth, painted in silver-gray and crimson, was covered in a layer of soft golden glow that lasted for a long time.

The whale oil-powered furnace and steam turbine installed on the battleship have been started up, and the low roar is transmitted along the main shaft, propeller blades, and steel plates.

At this moment, every steel plate, every rivet, every bolt, and every gear on the ship were integrated into a tight and orderly whole, breathing together with the ship girl.

If someone stood in front of it with their eyes closed, they would inevitably suspect that this was actually a huge living creature rather than a cold machine.

The two creators, Byron and Violet, felt it most deeply.

The KanColle is the soul of the Dreadnought, and the Dreadnought is the body of the KanColle. Strictly speaking, it is a special creature created by the world itself with the skillful hands of the [Craftsman].

And the red-haired ship girl [Dreadnought] in front of him is a particularly special one among all the ship spirits in the world.

She is the world's first ship spirit born from a steam battleship, destined to open a new era of naval warfare.

From the moment it was born, it was almost at the pinnacle that many ship spirits could reach in their lifetime, and was stronger than many old ship spirits that had existed for hundreds of years.

When Byron showed the key seal ring on his finger, the ship girl's eyes naturally showed respect, and she solemnly recited the three major commandments of the ship spirit:

“First: Do not harm your master, or cause your master to be harmed by inaction;

Second: You must obey your master’s orders, unless those orders conflict with the first commandment;

Third: Without violating the first and second commandments, the ship spirit must protect its own existence. "

The seal ring flashed and the contract was concluded.

Byron and Violet have the [Golden Triangle], and whoever wears the key ring can command this legendary battleship.

At this point, the third legendary battleship [Dreadnought], following the [Golden Deer] and [Dragon Head Ship Valhalla], officially returned to the hands of the North Sea Empire.

Byron and Violet looked at each other, in a good mood, and stepped forward to help the ship girl up.

"Get up, Dauntless."

The ship spirit itself has no gender, so there is no need to address it as Mr. or Ms., just call it by the ship's name.

Why do the three ship spirits all look like beautiful girls?

Well, it’s purely personal preference!

After accepting the ship girl, they looked towards the giant steel ship floating on the sea.

The design drawings of the dreadnought, which were nearly 400 years ahead of their time, came from Byron's deep memory, but Violet was in charge of the implementation of its specific functions.

Byron's knowledge of the battleship is second only to that of Violet, the chief engineer.

The logbook turned pages quickly, automatically displaying the specific parameters of the legendary battleship.

The HMS Dreadnought, as well as the Dreadnought-class battleships for a long period of time thereafter, eliminated the ram design commonly used in "pre-dreadnoughts". The ships were longer and wider, with a larger length-to-width ratio, larger displacement, and faster speed.

Basic specifications: "The ship is 160.6 meters long, 25 meters wide, 9 meters deep, with a standard displacement of 18410 tons and a full load displacement of 21060 tons.

It has 18 whale oil-powered furnaces, four steam turbines, a total of 23000 horsepower, and a maximum speed of 21 knots.

Because it does not need to rely on sails and the weather, and is completely powered by whale oil boilers and steam turbines, the speed of the battleship can be freely controlled.

The "highly skilled" sailors and rigging workers of the past were laid off and replaced by mechanical "engine clocks".

There are parking gears: slow forward, forward one, forward two, forward three; slow reverse, reverse one, reverse two, reverse three;
There is also the famous one for top speed: 'Natural Selection, go four!'

That is to say, escape at full speed and turn in victory.

Endurance: 6620 nautical miles at 10 knots; 4910 nautical miles at 18.4 knots.

This doesn't matter. The power furnace burns high-energy whale oil, not ordinary coal. As long as you equip it with a storage item, the battery life can be greatly improved, and there won't be too much mileage anxiety.

It just needs to replenish fresh water at ports along the way.

Capacity: 773 people.

There is a saying: "Steel is the skeleton of industry!"

In other words, only the North Sea Empire and the Holy Golden Empire, which were the first to initiate the Industrial Revolution, have such high steel production that can be used for large-scale shipbuilding.

In a backward country with a weak metallurgical industry, where a set of knight armor can be exchanged for a manor, even if there are complete design drawings and high-sequence craftsmen, there will not be so many raw materials.

Next, the weapon system is the highlight. The Dreadnought adopts a revolutionary "full-mounted heavy artillery" design:
"There are 10 305mm 45-caliber breech-loading rifled guns installed in five twin turrets.

Three of the five turrets are located on the central axis of the battleship, one in the front, two in the rear, and two on both sides of the midship.

For the first time, it was ensured that there were no blind spots in the front, back, left and right of the main gun fire, and the powerful firepower of four turrets and eight guns could be exerted simultaneously on the port or starboard side.

The firepower of the six guns can be unleashed from the bow or stern, so there is no need to seize the upper hand and there is no fear of launching a frontal charge. "

The main gun's elevation angles are between -3 and 16 degrees, and the projectile weighs 390 kilograms, or 860 pounds, which is equivalent to the total weight of 27 previous 32-pound heavy artillery shells. Moreover, these are not solid bullets that can only hit people, but shrapnel shells with amazing power.

Just one shell fired had a power far beyond the era of sailing warships and the salvo of artillery from a level 4 nominal battleship.

The main gun shell has an initial velocity of 831 meters per second. When fired at an elevation angle of 16 degrees, the maximum range is 20435 meters, or 20 kilometers.

The armor-piercing shells can penetrate 7980 mm of waist armor at a distance of 406 meters, and 20000 mm of armor at a distance of 170 meters. The oak bulwarks are not much different from paper in front of such shells.

Each main gun is equipped with 80 rounds of ammunition and has a firing rate of two rounds per minute.

Ordinary sailing warships are obviously no match for this kind of weapon.

However, strange warships, biological warships with heavy shells in the blood beast's nest, the magic scales of giant sea monsters, or the defensive witchcraft "Rip Water Ring", etc., are all good opponents of armor-piercing bullets.

In this sea filled with extraordinary power, there is no shortage of opponents for it to test its "ship" capabilities.

In addition to the ten main guns, the dreadnought is not equipped with secondary guns that affect unified fire control, only auxiliary weapons:

“27门76毫米速射炮，弹丸重5.7公斤也就是12磅，俯仰角-10到20度，以20度角射击时射程8500米。

The rate of fire is 15 rounds per minute, and each gun has 300 rounds of ammunition.

But don’t underestimate it as just an auxiliary weapon, its power has long surpassed those heavy muzzle-loading smoothbore guns of the sailing battleship era.”

The final armament on the ship was five 450mm torpedo tubes, one at the stern and four on the left and right sides, equipped with a total of 23 whale oil torpedoes.

It can be said that it is armed to the teeth, with almost no blind spots on the water surface or underwater.

In the past, the challenge level of the sea monster was linked to the six levels of warships, and the rough standard was about a one-to-one correspondence between the length of the sea monster's body and the length of its gun deck.

The longer the gun deck is, the more guns can be placed on it, and the stronger its combat power is:

“Small types correspond to level 40 and level 50 ships; large types correspond to level and level ships (m and m levels);

When it reaches the giant species level, it cannot be defeated without a second-level or first-level battleship with about 100 guns or an equivalent rare warship.

The gun deck of the largest first-class ship in the current countries is only a little over 70 meters long.

The legendary Castile warship, the Holy Trinity, was built relatively early, so its gun deck was only 63 meters long.

Although steam battleships used turrets instead of muzzle-loading smoothbore guns, the significance was similar.

The longer the deck and the higher the freeboard, the larger the caliber of the naval guns that can be equipped.

The 160-meter-long Dreadnought has a basic combat capability that is comparable to those top-level giant sea monsters that are over meters long.

In other words, if we only consider the destructive power, the North Sea Empire can already mass-produce war machines comparable to the fifth-order!
If it encounters a legend or a false god in a one-on-one fight, it will definitely be defeated. However, in a large-scale war, I am afraid that few people can directly stop this "ship" with a displacement of 21000 tons!
You have to know that the iron Dinghai Shenzhen, which can cause injuries if touched and death if hit, weighs only 13500 kilograms.

Besides, no one stipulates that iron battleships cannot be equipped with strange figureheads.

It is hard to estimate to what extent a steam battleship of this level can be enhanced by installing a rare figurehead or other rare equipment on it.

"Start sea trials."

Byron, Violet, and the ship girl disappeared in a flash, and when they reappeared, they had already landed on the bridge of the Dreadnaught.

"Orders, Dreadnought, two vehicles one forward, rudder to 000 degrees."

"As ordered."

Byron used the [Dragon Taming Technique] to easily resonate with the ship girl, and immediately took control of the entire battleship with his heart.

After the order was given, the warship immediately moved slowly in the direction indicated by its own bow and stern lines, left the port, and entered the sea in the kingdom of God.

"Two vehicles into one" means that both the left and right main engines are in first gear at the same time, and "rudder direction 000 degrees" means that the angle of the ship's heading line is 0°.

As soon as the battleship reached the vast sea, Byron immediately ordered the activation of the [Dreadnought]'s unique legendary battleship skill [Blessing of the Mecha God].

This ability grants the Dreadnaught two forms.

Form 1: Justice Judgment:
“It’s a bit like a first-level relic constructed turret. Caliber is justice, and range is truth.

The ship's artillery automatically matches the world's largest caliber and longest-range artillery, and obtains permanent enhancements."

The steam turns the impeller, powering the mechanism.

There were two at the rear, one at the front and one amidships, a total of four turrets with eight heavy guns turned to the starboard side together, and a thick golden halo exploded in front of each gun muzzle.

It was as if it was magnified out of thin air by a magnifying glass.

The voices of Byron and KanColle sounded simultaneously:

"Fire control system automatically calibrated, target isolated island one hundred kilometers away, warships fire salvo, open fire!"

boom! boom! boom! boom!
Amidst the deafening roar, a blazing cloud of fire rolled up from the muzzle of the gun. The waves on the right side of the ship were instantly torn into pieces by the shock wave, and the sea surface suddenly retreated a large step.

The largest caliber and longest-range artillery in the world today is of course Violet's constructed turret, with a range of 12 nautical miles and an error of 388 nautical miles.

Originally, that error was of no use at all, because the artillery could hit the target, but the gunner could not see it. It was really a pure error.

But ever since Byron obtained the priesthoods of [Sky] and [Thunderstorm], his divine vision has been extended to the limit.

The auxiliary ship's fire control system can easily lock onto targets 400 nautical miles away. Combined with the gun fighting technique's [orbital jump], it instantly turns ordinary artillery shells into Zephyr Express.

The next second, the first shell landed on the target island.

The scorching flames and shock waves swept away everything, carrying shrapnel, leaving behind a circular crater with a diameter of 15 meters and a depth of more than 6 meters.

The seven shells that followed immediately blew away countless pieces of soil and rubble, completely wiping the entire island off the map.

The scene of the impact point was projected in front of the Dreadnought and the engineers at the dock.

Everyone was silent for a long time. Everyone's first thought was:
"The era of bastions being able to withstand artillery fire is over! The era of pirates and sailing ships is also over!"

The era when merchant ships could be easily intercepted by a few sloops of war is gone forever, and large-scale pirate groups are destined to disappear in the first place.

Byron and Violet had expected this and were not surprised.

Let the [Dreadnought] activate the second form, Mecha Possession:
“Change the ship’s form and transform it into a true construct steel behemoth, greatly improving its melee and ranged combat capabilities.

They are no longer crippled in close combat like conventional battleships.

It is not afraid of damage and can automatically restore its damaged body by swallowing steel and whale oil."

In this form, Byron's dragon taming skills and Violet can both act as pilots, blending into one, creating an effect where the sum of one is greater than the other.

This was an extension of Violet's knowledge of the various types of constructs in the Crucible.

Byron decisively ordered:

"Dreadnought, activate the Mecha-God possession."

Then he said to Violet:
"My lady, this time you will combine with the Dreadnaught, and I will be your opponent."

"As ordered."

"it is good."

Byron turned into lightning and fell to the sea on the opposite side. Violet, who was eager to try, transformed into a robot girl and took control of the steering wheel.

beep--!
A loud and long whistle sounded.

A crimson light flashed, and the Dreadnought battleship, which was already a steel behemoth, roared with steam inside, spewing out hot white mist, gradually obscuring its own shape.

Then an exciting metallic vibration came from the fog.

Countless clanging voices merge into a true hymn:
"Ring the bell once, push the lever, start the piston and pump; ring the bell twice, press the button, the engine ignites, the turbine is ignited, and life is injected;

Ring the bell three times, sing in unison, and praise the God of All Things! "

This is the idealistic world, where one's own will and behavior can interfere with the human subconscious and even fundamentally reshape the extraordinary world.

As Byron and Violet's inventions change the world again and again, the corresponding authority will naturally emerge.

Perhaps it wouldn’t be long before Violet would naturally complete her sixth-level promotion ceremony and become the God of All Things.

The legendary battleship [Dreadnought] is the first beneficiary.

"Ow—!"

With a low roar, a giant iron claw tore through the white mist and slammed down towards Byron.

Byron's face changed and he flew back.

Boom!

The giant claw fell to the sea surface, like a high-explosive bomb dropping, the sea exploded, and the waves were surging.

The [Dreadnought], which was possessed by the Mecha God, also revealed its true appearance.

The onlookers on the shore gasped slightly.

[Shipwright] Little Hans cried out in amazement:

“What a huge marine iguana!”

It's true that the new form of the Dreadnought does look a bit like a marine iguana, with huge claws, sharp teeth, cold scales, and a long tail.
It's just countless times larger in size.

Moreover, its entire body is made of pitch-black steel, and its dorsal fin looks like flowing red magma, emitting a scorching and extraordinary spiritual light.

Byron felt that even the Transformers were probably no more than this, and they were the Decepticons who were the best at fighting.

Violet, the pilot, had already entered the interior of the Dreadnought. A snake-like wire penetrated the back of her neck, and her divine aura merged with that of the battleship.

The aura on his body clearly surpassed the sum of the four fifth-level ones.

With the addition of multiple priesthoods, she would definitely not be at a disadvantage in a one-on-one fight with the incarnations of the old gods [priesthoods] that had sneaked into the material world.

"Well done!"

Byron suddenly transformed himself into a "blue-eyed three-headed dragon" that stretched from the sky to the earth. His size was no smaller than that of the Dreadnought. He leaped up and pounced on it.

Facing him was the opponent, whose dorsal fin flashed red and opened its wide mouth to spit out a stream of blazing white flames.

Byron was not to be outdone. He opened his mouth and spit out a breath of plasma.

Stab it--!
The violent energy conflict evaporated a huge amount of sea water, and endless white mist rose up.

The main purpose of sea trials is to test the combat limits of weapons and equipment and conduct tactical assessments.

Byron and Violet tested the data of the Dreadnaught one by one.

Even the Golden Mist Palace was shaking slightly with a series of loud "boom" noises.

When the two sides fought.

Doors kept opening in the port dock, and the little mermaid princess Hathaway and Byron's right hands, each with their own responsibilities, also received the news and came to watch the battle.

At a glance, they have all made great progress compared to before the "Hunter God Plan".

After Hathaway merged with the [Moon] priesthood, she gained the three major incarnations of the moon phases: [New Moon], [Quadrilateral Moon], and [Full Moon], each of which is equivalent to her original body.

As long as they don't attack at the same time, each incarnation is equivalent to a fifth-level pseudo-god.

[New Moon] looks like a loli of only eleven or twelve years old, [Crescent Moon] looks like a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, and the last one, [Full Moon], looks like a mature and beautiful lady of thirty years old.

Following behind Hathaway were two little girls wearing princess dresses, who looked like twin sisters.

She is delicate and graceful, yet has no expression on her face. Her slightly empty eyes contain a different phase of the moon.

These are certainly not the two sisters that Hathaway had just given birth to for Byron, but the extended ability of the Moon priesthood.

It can bless inanimate objects and create eight moonlight elves corresponding to the eight phases of the moon: new moon, crescent moon, first quarter moon, gibbous moon, full moon, gibbous moon, last quarter moon, waning moon and dark moon.

The treasure hunter of the Glory Ladder sequence has a core ability [Activate Treasure Chest]:
“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."

The original source of this extraordinary ability may be the [Moon] priesthood, or more accurately, a certain [Moon and Hunting Goddess].

The treasure hunter's abilities are already pretty good, and the original version will obviously be even stronger.

When Hathaway is enchanting the relics, she can even ignore the side effects of destiny and drive multiple powerful relics at the same time.

The true form of these two three-nothing little girls is the first-level holy relic [Double-Sided Mirror] collected by the Fairy Tale School.

Byron didn't care about having two more sisters, he was just glad that his mother's ability was not "Twelve Crescent Moons".

The other kings' right hands also wore a mask of the deity of the Wanmin pantheon.

While watching the battle, he took the time to digest the new power, striving to become his master's subordinate god as soon as possible.

Byron and his men are constantly accumulating strength and preparing for a big fight. In the sea near the underwater kingdom, the intensity of the war is also rising.

More and more Old God churches are appearing in this sea area.

The two churches that intervened at the beginning, the "Twilight Church" under Lilith and the "Deep Dive Church" under Kraken, were also constantly increasing their troops to besiege the blood beast's lair.

The raven Fukin, who was lurking here, saw with his own eyes a large number of whale oil-powered exotic warships belonging to the Twilight Church.

They take the extraordinary route, which is completely different from the technology trees of Byron and Violet, but they also have their own merits.

The raven flapped its wings and landed on a warship, ready to sneak among these "compatriots" and wait for an opportunity.

"The big troublemaker can be online again. Backstabbing Lilith is a bit exciting just thinking about it, haha."

But no one noticed that in the other direction of the sea.

A pirate ship flying a skull and crossbones flag and filled with fierce pirates is heading into the battlefield together with a group of followers of the Deep Dive Church.

A large black code was placed on a bracket next to the steering wheel, releasing a web of laws that connected every pirate on the ship.

The mottled handwriting on the cover was faintly visible. It was the "Pirate Code" that was stolen by the group of exiles from the bay!
If Byron were here, he would be able to recognize at a glance that the captain commanding this pirate ship is none other than the pirate emperor of the Bay people, [Blue Dragon King] Reinhardt.

There is no doubt that after the "Pirate Code" was presented to the Deep Church by Dagon and his party and sent to the Corridor of Truth, the knowledge and legends contained in it quietly came to life at some point.

On this glorious pirate ship, there is not only the Blue Dragon King Reinhardt, but also all the outstanding pirates who have abided by the Pirate Code since this era.

Even the most inconspicuous ordinary artilleryman on the ship is at least a well-known third-level pirate in history.

It can be said that this ship brings together the essence of pirates from the entire Silver Age.

“Hahahahaha!”

"cheers!"

They drank rum in large glasses and lived a dissolute life on the boat.

War seemed to be just a common occurrence to them and did not bring them any tension.

When the pirates were drunk and their faces were hot, they did not sing pirate songs, but read out loud the laws in the Pirate Code, one sentence at a time:
"1. Everyone obeys internal orders, and the captain gets half of all the spoils;"

"2. Those who escape and keep secrets from their companions will be exiled and given a barrel of gunpowder, a barrel of water and a small weapon;"

"3. Anyone who steals property from the group will be exiled or shot, depending on the value of the property;"

"4. When encountering other exiles, give them the punishment the captain and crew deem appropriate;"

"5. When the article is in the army, whoever strikes another shall be punished by Moses (forty lashes on the naked back);"

"6. Those who break their weapons and hold candles without lampshades will be punished the same as above."

The big pirates on the ship took a sip of wine and shouted out a law.

Suddenly, a clear voice shouted:

"The only use of sheep is for food."

A pirate who looked young but had a high status in the crowd raised his head and flicked his triangular captain's hat, revealing a face that looked exactly like Byron!
(End of this chapter)