After Becoming The Tyrant

A sharp, long battle horn sounded.

Charles gave the order to fight without hesitation, and the clippers originally belonging to the Walway pirates broke through the waves in the shortest possible time, rushing towards the Cattani ships that kept throwing corpses towards the city behind them.

Captain Hawkins, who was usually idle, grabbed Charles who was about to go to the ship building: "Write to His Majesty immediately!"

"I will command the battle!"

After he finished speaking, he pushed Charles back to the cabin, threw away the flagon in his hand, and pulled out the dagger hanging from his waist with his backhand.He stepped on the side of the ship that was shaking slightly in the night tide, jumped off the ghost ship nimbly, and jumped directly onto a fast boat rushing out of the side of the ship.

With his feet on the deck of the clipper, Captain Hawkins grabbed the mast and stabilized himself.

"Fire!"

His broken gong-like voice resounded in the deep night.

The Walway pirate clippers are like arrows leaving the string, leaving white marks on the sea, quickly approaching the dead ships carrying the plague.

Under the order of Captain Hawkins, two sailors from each clipper rushed to the bow.

After the battle with the Cinque Port Alliance, the two chemists made further improvements to the formula of the "Old Sacred Flame". A special metal structure is installed on the bow. On the surface, it looks like a dragon head with a long neck and a raised head. It seems to be a common bow metal ram. [1]

But in fact, it is a special nozzle made after trial and error.

The Walwe pirates and clippers were approaching the Cattani fleet, and the opposite fleet seemed to have completely ignored other things, and only wanted to race against time to throw the most corpses into the port city behind.

The sailors on the bow grabbed the metal pull bolts, and the special device hidden on the royal fleet made its first appearance in this case.

The metal faucet opened "click" and "click", and the next moment raging fire spewed out from the dragon-like nozzle. The hot red flames rushed out like long red snakes in an instant. The Qahtani fleet that keeps throwing corpses.

On the Katani fleet, the person standing on the deck and commanding hadn't realized what it was, but he saw the raging flames sweeping himself and the ship he was on.

"Son of a bitch!"

"Go to hell!"

……

The Volwe pirates cursed without hesitation. They paddled their oars vigorously, and quickly surrounded the entire Cattani fleet with their long tongues of flame.

Captain Hawkins stood on deck.

Under his command, the fast ship headed straight for the main ship of the Qahtani fleet.Captain Hawkins bit the dagger horizontally in his mouth, and reached out to grab a coil of coarse hemp rope that was piled on the ship.

On the main ship of Katani stood a tall, thin man in a black cloak.

The black cloak spotted the approaching pirate ship. He turned his head and gave orders to the surrounding sailors, as if asking them to ignore other things and throw the corpse with all their strength.

Captain Hawkins shook his hand, and the cable from his hand was like a sensitive and swift poisonous snake. It swept across the air like lightning, and caught the man in the black cloak standing at the bow.

The black cloak couldn't react in time, and it was too late when the subordinates around him realized that something had happened and rushed over to pull it.

Captain Hawkins pushed hard, and the black cloak overturned from the big boat that was much taller than the Clippers, and fell into the water with a plop.Captain Hawkins bit his dagger, stepped on the side of the boat, and jumped directly into the water.

Tongues of fire roared out from the bow of the ship, engulfing the huge main ship in raging flames.The people on the boat screamed and wanted to jump from the boat into the water to escape, but the fire floated on the water, and it was equally fierce.They howled, the fire leaped up, and the number of bodies thrown in the air gradually decreased.

"Captain! Captain! Go!"

On the clipper, the pirates yelled towards the sea.

"The fire is coming!"

wow.

The water splashed on the sea surface, and Captain Hawkins, whose scar on his face was highlighted by the fire, was exposed. He stretched out his left hand to grab the wooden plank on the side of the ship.The pirates hurriedly pulled him up.

Captain Hawkins' right hand was tightly clasping the black cloak's throat like an eagle claw.The hilt of his dagger was in the fellow's shoulder.

"Pooh."

Captain Hawkins threw the guy he captured into the cabin, and he spit out a mouthful of sea water.

Fierce flames crisscrossed the black sea, red flames and black smoke intertwined like sinister ancient pythons swimming out of hell.Cattani's fleet was gradually engulfed by the sea in the fire. Charles quickly finished writing the letter on the ghost ship. The witch with a crow on her shoulder lit the green spiritual fire and threw the letter into the fire.

The sea wind howled, and the pirates were fierce and fearless.

The last of the Qahtani ships sank, and the royal warships turned back.

The horn of battle has awakened the entire city of Kossoya, and General Sean arrived at this time with Iron Rose's cavalry.They came a bit late, because General Sean led the soldiers to the gates of Kossoya Castle the first time.

The drawbridge of the castle was raised, and the gates were slammed shut.

Kossoya, lock down the city.

It wasn't until the end of the naval battle that the rose cavalry finally arrived at the port. With the order of General Sean, they pulled up a long blockade.Immediately afterwards, the soldiers began to quickly check the bodies that were thrown in.

General Sean's heart seemed to be sinking all the time.

The blockade was pulled up, and the corpses were being quickly lifted and thrown into the sea, but the throwing range of the trebuchet was too wide, and it was getting dark at this time. How useful could their blockade be?

he does not know.

People in the blockade were crying and trying to get out.

A businessman was very close to the blockade line. He aimed at the gap blocked by the soldiers and rushed over, trying to escape the blockade line.

In the darkness, a blade of light slashed across.

The businessman's head flew high, and blood spattered out.

"Whoever dares to take half a step! I will kill whoever!"

A black-haired woman with a curved knife came out of the darkness, and she stood in front of the blockade.The wind blew her black hair, and her dark green eyes were sharp.

The pirate ships have returned, and three ghost ships are docked at the port, but the rest of the fast ships have not entered the port.

Brave, lunatic pirates sit on deck.

Pustules began to grow on some people's arms, and some people began to feel hot on their foreheads.A one-eyed pirate with a pustule on his arm staggered to his feet, stepped on the side of the boat, and was about to jump into the sea.The pirate on the same ship reached out and grabbed him.

"Are you fucking blind!"

The one-eyed pirate cursed.

"It's none of your business for me to take a bath in the sea."

"Take a bloody bath!" The pirates on the same boat yelled back, and they dragged the guy back. "Your uncle owes me money for drinks, and you want to pay?"

Not far from them, on the surface of the sea, the ancient sacred fire has not been burned out, and the dark red flame shines on these scolding pirates.They parked the ship outside the port, laughing and cursing, as if death had not yet enveloped them.

Three ghost ships, one hell made the ship stop in the port not far from them, and Charles stood on the ghost ship.

He gripped the railing, watching the pirates standing or sitting in the firelight.

"Hi!"

Captain Hawkins was also standing at the bow, and he waved vigorously towards the pier, but not with Charles.

Charles looked in the direction he was greeting, and saw the dark-haired woman standing on the pier in the firelight, and he was slightly taken aback.

The sea breeze in December was as cold as a knife piercing through the bones. In the wind, on some pirate ship, someone sang at the top of their voices:

"We are not afraid of death - prefer to die with the enemy,

Death, though, is even less interesting than rest.

Come, resign, we snatch the life of life,

If you fall—who cares whether you die by the sword or by disease”[2]

Rough songs echoed above the furious waves of Kothsoya's harbor, and unending fires shone on this sea that would be shrouded in death, and the pirates of Volwy were like brothers.

They lived and died together, rebellious like the wind.

"...Let those crawling and crawling people fall in love with "aging"!

Let them stick to the sick bed and spend their years bitterly;

Let them shake their paralyzed heads and struggle to breathe..."[3]

On the pier is the mad queen Eleanor who finally walked out of the black tower, on the ghost ship is the king godfather Charles holding the railing, and on the deck standing with the pirates is the crazy Captain Hawkins...

Years later, the old friends meet again in the very center of the vortex, and they face death as they did many years ago.

………………

Rose Palace.

The king caught the letter spewed from the green flame.This is the witch's secret method, and every time it is used, it will be a big burden on the witch herself, so unless it is an emergency, Charles will not use this method to contact him.

He opened the letter, and for the first time, Charles' neat handwriting appeared a little scribbled, and the king quickly browsed through it, his brows and eyes covered with ice.

Without hesitation, he would activate the contract to summon the devil.

Before he activated the contract, black mist had already surged in the room, and the devil came out of the sticky darkness first.

"The plague doctors have already rushed over."

The devil bowed to the king, wisely not to provoke the king at this critical moment.

"Your important men are safe and sound."

The king understood the meaning behind the words: "How many people did the Volwe pirates sacrifice? Where are the cavalry?"

The devil was silent for a moment, and reported two numbers.

The king was expressionless, anger suppressed beneath his equanimity.

The devil was a little helpless.

A lord of "greed and ill-gotten wealth" can only let the devil open a small gap without causing the suppression of the law. He can only bring a small group of plague doctors to nip the spread of the Black Death in the bud.During these times, the devil is also running non-stop along the southeast coast.

If it weren't for the king's blockade order, I'm afraid it would not be able to limit the plague so effectively.

However, the outbreak of the plague in Kossoya was man-made. At that time, the devil was leading the plague doctor to solve the epidemic in another village.After he noticed it, he immediately rushed over with the plague doctor.

However, the speed of the artificial throwing infection was too alarming, and the stone throwing machine threw the corpses into every corner in the dark.

Under human factors, in a densely populated city like Kossoya, the rate of plague transmission is much higher than in small villages.When the devil arrived, the plague had completely broken out. It was lucky that the team of plague doctors could protect the king's important cavalry and royal fleet.

"How?"

the king asked.

He didn't forget that the devil planned to wait until the plague broke out in Legrand before solving it.That being the case, it means that there is a way to solve such a large-scale plague.

"One way," replied the devil, "by yourself—by yourself to open the gates of hell."

The king looked at him and realized that this was the real plan of the devil.

——He seems to hope that the king's connection with hell is as close as possible, maybe because it will allow him to take the king to hell earlier.

"This matter has nothing to do with me. My dear majesty." The devil hastily disregarded the relationship, and he changed the subject, "But, are you sure you want to go there in person? You know it... The Holy Court is watching your every move Make a move, this way, you will have no way out."

"The holy court?"

The king sneered after reading these two words.

"All I know is that my soldiers are in Plague City."

The devil let out a mocking laugh.

——The plan that hell gave up after painstaking efforts was finally done by human beings.

Which is the breeding ground for evil, the world or hell?

………………

1432, October.

The Great Plague of Kothsoia.

General Sean, the rose cavalry, ordered the city to be closed, the royal fleet was stationed outside the port, and the king, he went to the southeast in person.

The author has something to say: [1] Referring to the settings of Byzantine warships, they installed special nozzles on fast ships such as Domanes, and then sprayed the liquid spears of Greek fire to the enemy ships through the special nozzles [About Greece Fire has been explained in Chapter 41].Such devices and spears are of great use in close quarters defense.There are related introductions and full-color pictures on page 3000 of "16 Years of Looting: Pirate Legends in World History". If you are interested, you can take a look.

[2][3] Quoting from Byron's poem