"Listen to the typical Rose family tone," muttered the pirate captain, "Okay okay, you're right. We did accidentally get into a little trouble... Maybe you're interested in condescending to listen to a little bit of trouble. story?"
"I am glad to."
"Have you heard of ghost ships?" the pirate captain asked.
"A little bit."
"Then let our story start from the ghost ship." The pirate captain took out a rose gold pocket watch and opened it with a "snap", "Look at this, it was obtained from the ghost ship, although people's rumors It's always a long way from the truth, but one thing is true—Walway has more than one ghost ship."
The king took the pocket watch.
It is actually an extremely complicated foldable astronomical instrument with fine scales on it, including a compass, a sundial, etc. It is plated with gold and has a very heavy hand. The front and back of the pocket watch are engraved with very complicated characters, which do not belong to any current circulation. A language, those words are long and thin, like many snakes entangled together.
If you look closely, there will be an illusion that those snakes are twisting.
The legend of the ghost ship is widespread.
People firmly believe that there are ships roaming the sea from ancient times to the present. Those ships belong to the ghosts full of hatred. The ships are full of gold and jewels, but whoever dares to take the jewels from the ships will be cursed by the ancients.
"Do you believe it? There is a kind of ship, and it is alive."
asked the pirate captain.
"You mean that Volway has some living ships in his hands?" asked the king rhetorically.
"Yes."
The Walway pirates who roam the sea all year round have a different definition of "ghost ship". They call a quirky type of ship a "ghost ship"—a type of ship that is alive! The boat has its own life, its own will, and you can hear the gasp of the boat when you walk on the boat in the dead of night.
When they see other ships at sea, they sometimes avoid them by themselves, and sometimes they pass by merchant ships in a provocative manner.
Hence the widely circulated "ghost ship" story.
Once the Walway pirates get the news about the "ghost ships", they will immediately search for them. They have their own special methods to sign contracts with these ships, so that the ghost ships can join the Walway pirates and become one of them. Prior to this, the Walway Pirates owned a total of three ghost ships.
It is because of the existence of these ghost ships that they can become the most dangerous, strange and mysterious pirates.
"But in the battle of the Five Harbors Alliance, it seems that your ghost ships did not participate in the war?" The king became interested in ghost ships. "Is it because they can't appear in front of people?"
"No." The corners of the pirate captain's lips curved down, showing a bitter expression, "Because they are refusing us to board the ship now."
Things started a month ago.
That's when the Walway pirates got a clue about a ghost ship, and they searched as usual, and they found the ghost ship stranded on the beach in Hanrael Harbour on a stormy night.
Because ghost ships sometimes repel each other before making contracts, they often only drive ordinary ships when they search for new ships.
The boarding process was smooth and it didn't seem to repel them.
The ship was loaded with pearl gold, but when a sailor picked up a pearl at random, black flames swept up and burned him to ashes. At first everyone thought it was because the bastard didn't wait for the contract to be completed and recklessly angered the ghost ships - some ghost ships are very generous and willing to share their treasures with pirates, while others are very stingy and don't allow people to touch them.
But soon, the pirates discovered they were wrong—
This is no ordinary ghost ship.
Not only did their successful contract ceremony in the past fail, but each of them had a black tattoo on their body.
a trap.
The quiet mooring of the ghost ship allowed them to successfully board a hunting trap. After the tattoo was added, they could vaguely feel that the ship was taking something from themselves.
After a fierce battle, the pirate captain successfully took everyone off the ship, but when they returned to the Walway pirate base camp, they discovered something bad—
Those ghost ships they owned refused them boarding.
Because of this, there was no ghost ship participating in this naval battle.
"We are cursed."
The pirate captain rolled up his sleeves and showed the king the black thread on his arm—the curse was spreading. Maybe when these black lines completely cover the whole body, their little lives will be over.
Seeing the black line on the pirate captain's arm, the king's fingers bent slightly.
He has seen these things.
— when the devil made a pact with him.
However, there is still a big difference between the two. The black lines generated by the devil signing the contract form an extremely complex pattern that is beyond human imagination. That pattern only appears once. Compared to that, these pirate captains are simply stick figures.
"Hunting ghost ships, driving ghost ships..." The king said calmly, "You are indeed very brave."
"That's a word among the Wolves," replied the pirate captain, "the fear of gods and the fearless."
"The Fear of Gods and the Fearless... A very wonderful sentence."
King evaluation.
Comparing the fearless with God is not a word of reverence for God, but contempt for the gods—the fearless are comparable to gods.
This is arrogant blasphemy.
The pirate captain winked gleefully at the king: "You are so interesting... If you are in Walway, you must be the most charming pirate."
"It's just that I have a little doubt." The king pondered, "Why did you choose to ask me for help? Maybe normal people would choose the monks of the Holy Court in the event of a curse?"
"Let those guys in robes put their hands on our heads and say ah, the Lord forgive you, and then pour the mess of holy water on our heads? God, that's too stupid." The pirate captain said exaggeratedly. With an unbearable expression, he saw that the king was still watching him.
"Okay. Because of the witch."
He compromised.
The membership of the Volway Pirates is complicated, almost everyone has it. They took in a witch who was almost burned to death by the Holy Court a few years ago. The witch was proficient in ancient divination and cryptic text interpretation, and it was she who found the way to decipher it.
That requires a very complicated ceremony, and the most crucial part of the ceremony is "the forgiveness from the king of that realm."
"A puzzling thing."
The pirate captain looked at the king secretly and inquisitively.
"She thinks you are the king in this cryptic language."
The pirate captain regretted not being able to get any useful information from the king's face, he was nothing but asked "what steps are required for the so-called pardon".
"Do you need me to grant you a pardon all the time?"
the king asked half-jokingly.
"This..." The pirate captain spread his hands helplessly. "She didn't say it. Maybe? But since you agreed, I'll ask her carefully."
The king was noncommittal.
"You won't tell the duke about it, will you?"
The pirate captain remembered something and asked.
"It depends on your performance."
The king smiled gently.
The king now knows the whole thing.
The pirates of Volway are unfortunately involved in an ancient curse. They need the help of the king. They just met the king who needs the help of pirates. However, with the temper of the Duke of Buckingham, if they knew that they dared to let the king participate in this danger The event of the curse will definitely draw the sword. As a result, the pirate captain agreed to the appointment of the admiral and helped the royal fleet defeat the Alliance of Five Harbors.
The pirate captain had thought that the king would never accept an admiral like him.
But rumors hurt people!
"Mr. General." The king took the word "general" very seriously, "Since you have cleverly used the inflexibility of the ships of the Five-Port Alliance in the port of Kossoa, I believe you must have a way to improve this. Bar?"
"Since you really don't take criticism to heart... well, I will."
Captain Hawkins answered with a shrug.
The king smiled contentedly.
The matter was barely satisfactory, and Captain Hawkins, eager to contact the Witch of Walway, bid farewell to the king. He hummed a scrambled tune and adapted the lyrics from the sea "The wise Captain Hawkins is the noble Sir from today... oh oh oh!"
The king ignored his unbridled behavior.
"correct."
The pirate captain took two steps forward like a dance, then turned and looked at the king.
"A small request."
"Tell me."
"My stupid first mate asked to enter St. Weiss Cathedral, can you grant his little wish?"
The king was slightly surprised: "Of course, but... Are pirates religious?"
"Oh, Your Majesty, please don't confuse us with those monks who are like dead wood. The Holy Lord will not bless pirates at sea." The pirate captain replied, "Well... a little personal matter, when your father William owed Charles a little promise , so he's going to meet him."
The king remembered that William III was buried in St. Wieth Cathedral.
He opened the drawer and was about to sign the appropriation: "How much does he owe Mr. Charles?"
"You misunderstood."
The pirate captain turned around and pressed the black hat down.
"He once boasted that he wanted to invite Charles to see the most beautiful snow-capped mountains in Legrand, but now he seems to be a bullshit from that bastard."
When the pirate captain stepped out of the door, he heard the king's voice behind him:
"Please tell Mr. Charles that the resting place of St. With is always open to him."
The pirate captain gave a brisk whistle that he heard it.
"resembles."
Before he left the palace, he muttered to himself.
The king sat silently in the study where he was alone.
Counting the time, the Black Death is coming, plus he promised Captain Hawkins...
Time to summon the devil.