Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 20: Deciphering the Strange Object and the Transmuted Blood
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In the dark night, although the strong sea breeze had stopped, a drizzle began to fall quietly again without anyone noticing.

Since there were more than half fewer people on the ship, the accommodation conditions were much more comfortable than before.

Thanks to his position as a chef, Byron could have the entire kitchen to himself and did not have to endure the pirates' stinky body odor and squeeze into a hammock on the lower deck with them.

It was about two o'clock in the morning, when everyone on the ship was sleeping soundly.

Byron, who was lying on a small bed in the corner of the kitchen, suddenly opened his eyes, jumped up, and landed on the ground silently.

After the spiritual glow was anchored with the [Silver Law], his biological clock had an error smaller than the most accurate marine clock in the world.

After making sure that all the doors and windows were closed, he lit a whale oil lamp on the table before sitting back on the bed and taking out the book "Bloody Mary's Gourmet Recipes".

“What the logbook said was indeed correct.

I had just boarded the pirate ship [Man-eating Shark] when [Secret: Captain Salman’s Unspeakable Secret] immediately began to erupt.

The historical influence of 4% concerns the life and death of everyone on a boat!
It seems that the man-eating sharks in the sea and the pirates who drank blood wine are all part of this crisis.

The source is this recipe book that contains [forbidden knowledge]. "

Byron gently stroked the cover of the cookbook, which looked a bit like human skin but gave people an inexplicable strong appetite, and recalled the knowledge related to the strange objects in his mind.

“In this world, there are many kinds of strange objects, and the vast majority of them are carefully crafted by the [Craftsmen] of the High Tower Sequence.

A small part is born naturally due to some unknown principle.

For example, there are evil [cursed objects] that are accompanied by large-scale casualties and tend to be negative; and there are [holy relics] that carry a great piece of history or heroic deeds and tend to be positive.

Moreover, natural wonders are often more powerful than those created artificially.

There is a very famous relic in the Hattings Strait Fleet [the world's first matchlock gun].

It carries the power of weapon transformation in the tide of history, and is more powerful than a third-order mid-sequence transcendent. "

“However, not only are they rare in number, but most of them are self-concealing. Only when certain conditions are met can their power be utilized.

Naturally generated [Relics] are rare, so we will skip them for now.

After an ordinary item is made, it will be given its own [Cutting Inscription] by the [Craftsman] or the first owner.

The easiest way is to read this inscription."

With the help of the [Ship's Logbook], Byron, who is very good at spying, is confident that this crazy captain will not be able to gain anything in return.

I casually flipped open the thick book and saw a recipe written in the common language on every page.

Page 1, Stuffed Dormouse:

The dormouse is stuffed with a mixture of ground pork and dormouse meat, crushed pepper, nuts, herbs, and broth and marinated.

Stuff the pickled dormouse into a ceramic baking pot, bake it in the oven, and then put it into a soup pot to stew.

Turning the pages further, there was the porpoise pudding that we had already seen, as well as pickled puffin, canned herring, pig blood chocolate, and glengar shark jerky.
There is no fixed cuisine from all over the world, it seems to be a compilation of dozens of different chefs.

All in all, this is a recipe that packs a punch.

Just reading the description makes me feel unclean.

But Byron knew that these recipes were all superficial representations, and the common language could not possibly carry [forbidden knowledge].

He took a deep breath and actively triggered the [Echoes of History] of this strange object.

Suddenly, a gleam of light appeared in the blue eyes as deep as the sea, covering the entire cookbook like water waves.

Om-!
Following a subtle sound, Byron felt his own [spiritual energy] being rapidly consumed, and a sense of emptiness came over him.

After a moment of discomfort, he shook his dizzy head.

Using the ancient supernatural language Rune, he read out the hint that appeared on the [Logbook] word by word:
"Praise the Lord of Gluttony."

It is also the [Cutting Inscription] that activates "Bloody Mary's Gourmet Recipe"!
This strange object in the shape of a book exudes a blood-red aura from the inside out. Its texture is somewhat similar to human skin, and it truly shows its original appearance.

It's really a human skin book.

In addition to the title, a line of gold-plated inscriptions appeared in the lower right corner of the cover: Lord of Gluttony. The original common language on the pages also slowly disappeared, replaced by a field of runes and illustrations.

At the same time, some information about this strange object finally appeared in the logbook.

Bloody Mary's gourmet recipe
Ability: When a devout pursuer of culinary skills reads a recipe and gains the corresponding knowledge, the recipe in the reader's memory will also be read synchronously by the recipe.

When all the gourmet knowledge in the reader's memory is drained, the reader will become the nourishment for the recipe, brewing into "blood wine" with magical effects.

The better the chef, the slower he will be drained by the recipe, but the blood wine he brews will be more delicious and powerful!

If you don't know the Judgment Inscription, you can only read ordinary recipes. Only by reading the Judgment Inscription can you read the forbidden knowledge.

Note: Extraordinary people below the middle sequence are not immune to this effect.

But! Great Captain, what is the difference between this and freeloading for you? 】

“I finally understood why those chefs disappeared.

This was Salman's idea when he sent out the recipe.

——Continue to use the chef's feeding recipes to brew [Blood Brew]!"

Byron's eyes just glanced at the logbook and stopped at the runes that appeared in the recipe.

"Compared to the power of the recipe itself, the [forbidden knowledge] recorded on it is the most valuable."

With Byron's knowledge, he could easily see that what was written on it were forbidden recipes for making cocktails using extraordinary blood and various ingredients: [Blood Brew].

It can also be translated as [art wine].

If you learn the taboo knowledge in this book, you can mix hundreds of kinds of "cocktails" on your own.

Instead of being like the ignorant [Blood Eyes] Salman, who could only rely on the power of the recipes themselves to mix the chefs into a single type.

Byron just casually used a recipe for "Nori Egg Drop Soup" in his mind and got the locked formula - [Transmutation Blood].

Raw materials: the body and soul of intelligent creatures.

Efficacy: Homogeneous transformation, different raw materials transform in different directions.

Byron immediately connected the dots between the strange things he had seen and heard on the ship:

"Transmutation can be translated as: transformation, replacement.

In other words, if this thing is used on [Gourmet] Salman himself, it can be regarded as a 'staple food' of the same kind that is highly nutritious.

If used on other people, it can transform other creatures, from soul to body, into its own shape.

This is true for those controlled man-eating sharks and the pirates who dream of becoming extraordinary!

The whole "Blood of Battle" thing is a lie.

In the end, Salman only needs to perform one more ceremony to ignore all the taboos against humans in the [Silver Law] and never do it again."

Suddenly, my ears moved and I heard a strange noise coming from above my head.

It was an extremely short cry for help, and a dying struggle!
"problem occurs!"

Byron quickly grabbed his half-sword as if by reflex and was about to rush out of the kitchen.

But then he remembered the advice of old Hans, the boatman, not to break the rules, and he stopped again.

There is one of the Pirates' Ten Commandments: [Commandment Three: Do not go on deck between 2 and 4 o'clock.]

more importantly.

Byron, who had just dropped a massive amount of purine bombs on a gout patient a few hours ago, knew this best.

Usually, gout attacks are most severe between 2 and 4 in the morning!

(End of this chapter)