After Becoming The Tyrant

"Listen to the tone of the typical Rose family." The pirate captain muttered, "Okay, you are right. We did accidentally cause a little trouble... Maybe you are interested in deigning to listen to one short story?"

"I am glad to."

"Have you heard of ghost ships?" the pirate captain asked.

"A little bit."

"Then let our story begin on 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 been a long way from the truth, but one thing's true - Walway owns more than one ghost ship."

The king took the pocket watch.

It is actually an extremely complex foldable astronomical instrument with fine scales on it, including a compass, sundial, etc. It is gold-plated and extremely heavy, with very complicated characters engraved on the front and back of the pocket watch. It does not belong to any current circulation A language, those characters are slender and dense, like many snakes entangled together.

If you look closely, you will have the illusion that those snakes are twisting.

The legend of the ghost ship is widespread.

People firmly believe that there are ships roaming the seas from ancient times to the present. Those ships belong to vengeful ghosts. The ships are full of gold and jewels, but whoever dares to take the jewels on the ship will be cursed by the ancients.

"Do you believe it? There is a ship that is alive."

asked the pirate captain.

"You mean, Volwe holds some living ships?" asked the king.

"Yes."

The Walway pirates who roam the sea all year round have a different definition of "ghost ship".They call a kind of weird ship "ghost ship"-this kind of ship, it is alive in itself!The boat has its own life, its own will, and when you walk on the boat in the dead of night, you can hear the panting of the boat.

When they see other ships at sea, they sometimes avoid them by themselves, and sometimes pass by merchant ships provocatively.

Hence the widely spread "ghost ship" story.

Once the Walway pirates get the news about the "ghost ship", they will immediately search for it. They have their own special way to sign a contract with these ships, so that the ghost ship 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 precisely 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 Cinque Port Alliance, it seems that your ghost ships did not participate in the battle?" 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 refuse us to board the ship now."

Things start a month ago.

At that time, the Walway pirates got a clue of a ghost ship, searched as usual, and they found the ghost ship stranded on the beach of Hanleir Harbor on a stormy night.

Because ghost ships sometimes repel each other before making a contract, they often only drive ordinary ships when searching for new ships.

The boarding process was smooth and it didn't seem to exclude them.

The ship was full of pearls and gold, but when a sailor picked up a pearl at random, black flames rolled 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 ship-some ghost ships are so generous that they are willing to share their treasure with pirates, but others are too petty to allow anyone to touch them.

But, soon, the pirates found that they were wrong——

This is no ordinary ghost ship.

Not only did their successful contract ceremony fail in the past, each of them also got a black tattoo on their bodies.

a trap.

The ghost ship docked quietly and let them board smoothly. It was just a hunting trap. After adding that tattoo, they could vaguely feel that the ship was taking something away from them.

After a fierce battle, the pirate captain took everyone away from the ship smoothly, but when they returned to the Walway pirate base camp, they discovered a bad thing——

Those ghost ships they own deny 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.Perhaps when these black threads completely covered their bodies, their lives would be over.

Seeing the black line on the pirate captain's arm, the king slightly bent his fingers.

He has seen these things.

—when the devil made a contract with him.

However, there is still a big difference between the two. The black lines produced by the devil's signing of the contract form an extremely complex pattern that is beyond human imagination, and that pattern only appears once.Compared with that, these on the pirate captain's body are simply stick figures.

"Hunting ghost ships, driving ghost ships..." the king remained calm, "You are indeed brave."

"A saying among the Volwe brothers," answered the pirate captain, "is the fear of gods and the fearless."

"The fear of gods and the fearless... very wonderful sentence."

King's evaluation.

Comparing the fearless to the gods is not a word of reverence for the gods, but contempt for the gods-the fearless are worthy of the gods.

This is arrogant blasphemy.

The pirate captain winked happily at the king: "You are so interesting... If you are in Walwe, you must be the most charming pirate."

"It's just that I have a little doubt." The king pondered, "Why do you choose to ask me for help? Maybe normal people would choose the monks of the Holy Court when encountering a curse?"

"Have those robed guys put their hands on our heads and say lord forgive you and pour holy water all over our heads? God, that's stupid." The pirate captain exaggerated He made an unbearable expression, and then saw the king still staring at him.

"Okay. Because of the witch."

He compromises.

The members of the Walway Pirates are complex, and there are almost all kinds of people. 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 interpretation of secret language, and it was she who found the way to crack it.

That requires a very complicated ceremony, and the most critical part of the ceremony is "pardon from the king of that world."

"A puzzling thing."

The pirate captain looked at the king inquiringly.

"She thinks you are the king in this lingo."

Unfortunately, the pirate captain was unable to obtain any useful information from the king's face. He showed no sign of embarrassment, and just asked "what steps are needed for the so-called pardon".

"Do you need me to issue a permanent pardon to you?"

asked the king half-jokingly.

"This..." The pirate captain spread his hands helplessly, "She didn't say. Maybe? But since you agreed, I will ask her carefully."

The king was noncommittal.

"You will not tell Monsieur the Duke about this?"

The pirate captain remembered something and asked.

"It depends on your performance."

The king smiled softly.

The king knows the whole thing now.

The Walwe pirates were unfortunately involved in an ancient curse. They needed the king's help. Just now, the king needed the help of the 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 cursed event will definitely draw the sword.Therefore, the pirate captain agreed to the appointment of the admiral and helped the royal fleet defeat the Cinque Port Alliance.

The pirate captain originally thought that the king would never accept a naval general like him.

However, rumors are harmful!

"Mr. General." The king bit the word "General" very hard, "Since you have cleverly used the inflexible characteristics of the five-port alliance ships in the port of Kossoya, then I believe you must have a way to improve this. Bar?"

"Since you really don't mind bashing...well, I will."

Captain Hawkins shrugged and answered.

The king smiled with satisfaction.

Things were barely satisfactory to both parties, and Captain Hawkins was in a hurry to contact the Worwey Witch, so he bid farewell to the king.He hummed a gibberish ditty, adapting the lyrics of the sea "The wise Captain Hawkins is the noble sir from this day... oh oh oh!"

The king ignored his dissolute behavior.

"correct."

The pirate captain took two steps forward as if dancing, then turned around and looked at the king.

"A small request."

"Tell me."

"My stupid first mate asked to enter St. Wythe's Cathedral. Will you grant his little wish?"

The king was slightly surprised: "Of course, but... are the pirates devout?"

"Oh, Your Majesty, please don't confuse us with those monks who are like rotten wood. The Lord does not bless pirates in the sea." The pirate captain replied, "Well... a little personal matter, your father William once owed Charles a little Promise, so he plans to meet him."

The king remembered that William III was buried in St. Wythe's 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 his black hat down.

"He once boasted that he would invite Charles to see the most beautiful snow-capped mountains in Legrand, but now it seems that the bastard is blowing a lie."

When the pirate captain stepped out of the door, he heard the king's voice behind him:

"Please tell Mr. Charles that the sleeping place of St. Wythe is always open to him."

The pirate captain gave a quick whistle to indicate that he heard.

"resembles."

Before he left the palace, he was talking to himself.

The king sat quietly in his study where he was left alone.

Calculating the time, the Black Death is coming soon, plus he promised Captain Hawkins...

Time to summon the devil.