Chapter 19: God
Without Triton's sword, the only thing Blackbeard can rely on is his zombies.
Due to the direct control of the ship, there are no ordinary crew members on the Queen Anne's Revenge, and all the crew members are zombies made by Edward Titch himself.
These zombies are burly and powerful, two to three times the size of ordinary people, and they duel one-on-one, and no one is their opponent.
But they were faced with a group of Barbossa pirates who were several times larger than them and were equally immortal.
After a decade of killing and plundering, Barbossa's pirates, even the stupidest and dumbest, have developed extraordinary skills.
They are cruel and bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning......
After getting the sword of Triton, Karl in the back did not participate in the battle at all, but just stood on the helm and watched.
Because of his love for the upcoming Revenge, Barbossa did not give the order to open fire, but with the incredible speed of the Black Pearl and his own superb helm level, he easily dodged the two rounds of shelling from the Queen Anne's Revenge, and started the broadside battle directly on the opposite side.
A group of undead pirates leapt onto the deck of Queen Anne's Revenge with their claw hooks like locusts, and the zombies under Blackbeard's command were crushed in a single face.
The zombies are not afraid of death, but without Triton's sword, Blackbeard and his group of zombies add up to only a dozen people, and they can't even get together the manpower to fire the cannon.
On the deck, three or five undead pirates on the Black Pearl besieged a zombie, and no matter how strong these zombies were, they could only stab out one or two swords at most, in exchange for a few cries of pain from the few undead pirates fighting against it.
However, because the tricks were old and the new power was not born, they were seized by a group of pirates and directly cut off their heads.
Such a scene was almost a few yards apart on the deck of the Queen Anne's Revenge.
In the end, if Carl hadn't found out early and ordered Barbossa to stop in advance, even Edward Titch's own head would have been almost cut off by this group of crazy pirates.
......
Magic in the Caribbean is very interesting, magic is almost completely equivalent to knowledge in this world, and the caster does not need to have extraordinary powers, but only needs to know a variety of specific spells and magic rituals, and perform them according to the regulations.
The magic of this world does not have so much light and shadow, it is more hidden, not revealed, and more inclined to the occult.
The reason why they are able to perform magic as mortals is more because they have a magical object with extraordinary powers, not only because they have a god like Calypso who has extraordinary power but is sealed in the human body, but also because they have a magical object with extraordinary power.
Like Jack, although he doesn't know magic, the compass in his hand can always point in the direction he has in mind, and in a way, this can also be counted as a kind of magic, a kind of prophetic magic.
In addition to Jack, Barbossa's immortal body, although he and his men hated it, but in the final analysis, it also counted as a magical effect, and its source was due to the legendary Aztec gold coin.
Among them, Edward Titch is the leader of this way, and at least half of his extraordinary ability comes from the sword of Triton at his waist.
Legend has it that the Sword of Triton can give life to inanimate objects.
Of course, life here does not refer to life in the true sense of the word, but only to the ability to animate inanimate objects.
However, because Triton, the son of Poseidon the god of the sea, the forger of the sword, as a second-generation god who inherited his father's excellent genes, Triton's divine power is only valid on the sea.
As a result, the supernatural nature of Triton's Sword can only be seen on the sea, and it loses its effect on land.
This is also the reason why Blackbeard can only maneuver ships at sea.
The transcendent objects of the Caribbean world are also very interesting, most of them were born from the hands of the transcendents of this world, and they also brought with them the transcendents who created them.
And most of these transcendent beings have the same name in this world - gods.
Therefore, these transcendent items can indeed be called artifacts - not because of how powerful these transcendent items really are, but because they are indeed made by the gods of this world, and therefore carry the attributes of gods.
Just like Jack's compass, this artifact that can point to the mind of the bearer, comes from Calypso, the goddess of the sea, and as such, the compass is as fickle as Calypso, so only a neurotic like Jack can be the true master it recognizes.
However, there are exceptions, like the Aztec gold coin, which Carl has taken back from Barbossa in the past few days, and he has been studying the magic attached to the gold coin.
It was not created by a god, but it also possessed powerful magical powers, as it was attached to one of the few powers that mortals could harness.
Curse.
It is said to be a curse, but the essence is a contract.
The Caribbean world has all sorts of unseen rules and regulations that act in this world, which Carl discovered not long after he arrived in the world.
In this world, as long as the contract is established through a specific ritual, it will be witnessed by the whole world.
The price of breaking the contract was cruel and harsh, like the Aztec gold coin.
It was a gift from the Aztecs to bribe the Spanish colonizer Hernando Coste to avoid the massacre.
Koster accepted the gift and broke his promise, perhaps making a promise, which automatically formed an ancient contract.
However, because of the greed in his heart, Hernando Coste did not fulfill the contract as required, but continued to massacre and destroy the Aztec civilization insatiably.
Thus, the contract was broken, and the world sent punishment, and the punishment of this world formed a curse attached to the Aztec gold coins - anyone who took the gold coins would be tortured for eternity.
These two avenues constitute the source of the extraordinary goods of the Caribbean world.
In addition to manipulating ships at sea, the Sword of Triton also has the ability to make items smaller, and of course, this ability is also limited to the sea.
The only thing that's commendable is Blackbeard's ability to create zombies and voodoo dolls - the only one because it's essentially the same magic.
Blackbeard's zombies are undead, essentially the same as Aztec coins, and the voodoo doll is a curse, in fact, two different ways of applying the same magic.
All of this is not Carl's analysis and speculation, all of this comes from Carl's deceptive thoughts.
......
In the captain's room, looking at Blackbeard, who was staring blankly in front of him, Karl took his wand into his sleeve.
He had already gotten what he wanted, and he had withdrawn the Remembrance of the Deception.
After a few moments, Blackbeard's eyes finally returned to their clarity.
He looked at the boy standing in front of him and the two pirates of different shapes standing to the left and right of the boy.
From just now to now, Blackbeard felt as if he had had had an incomparably long dream, in which he had almost recalled his life, and many memories that he had long forgotten resurfaced in his mind.
"Hello, Captain Edward Titch. Carl smiled softly.
"Hello. Blackbeard nodded subconsciously, and then he came back to his senses and looked around in horror, especially the two people standing on the left and right sides of the boy.
Somehow, Blackbeard suddenly remembered some sporadic rumors he had heard in the past ten years since he retired.
It is said that after his retirement, a new overlord appeared in the Caribbean, and a ghost ship dominated by terrifying undead creatures became the new king of the seas.
After a cold war, Blackbeard immediately remembered the behavior of the pirates in the battle with his men just now—just like the zombies under his command, devouring and killing as if they were dead.
He distinctly remembered that a few pirates had been stabbed in the heart by zombies, but they just screamed and continued to fight.
Before, he had always thought it was nonsense, but now......
Blackbeard's body couldn't stop shaking, he was in fear.
He was not afraid of the so-called undead, or the legendary ghost ships.
He was afraid of their master, the white-haired boy in front of him.
Edward Titch remembered that it was the boy who had taken his sword by unknown means.
Now, he finally knew how the boy did it.
He saw the flames dancing in the boy's fingertips.
And as far as he knew, there was only one being in this world who could use supernatural powers without relying on external objects.
God.