Chapter 217: The Banquet
"We can't use shelling, send someone to touch him, kill him. ”
Flint made his most basic request, but once the shelling was abandoned, the advantage of their ship's large firepower was directly wiped out, and the street fighting in the cabin would sharply increase the casualties.
They can't afford to lose their foothold in Nassau, that's their foundation. Without the deterrence of force, it will be difficult for them to reach a balance of power with Blackbeard, or even be annexed outright.
"We have 172 people now. Charles cautioned: "It's okay to lose some. ”
"But we have to reduce that loss, and we have to have enough reason to get these pirates to go desperate. ”
Sailors on a pirate ship don't have any loyalty, and if you want to convince them to fight with their lives, you need enough benefits and enough reasons.
"We need to bring new people in, and we can't do it on our own. Elenor said this, thinking about the best candidate, the captain of Nassau basically had his own power to rely on, and the only outsider was Marcos, this mad dog.
"We'll talk about that later, let's get out first. ”
As Elenno and the other main figures came down from the second floor, the whole banquet was announced.
The waiters had pieced together a large round table in the center of the hall, and each seemed to have his own fixed seat, which only the captain and the merchant of status were eligible to sit in.
At this time, everyone seemed to be familiar again, greeting each other, and the atmosphere was warm, and you couldn't tell that this banquet was divided into three forces.
Gordon stood with a drenched Mickey and watched as Benjamin, Blackbeard, Edward, Captain Kidd and others took their seats before more people took their seats.
"That's Benjamin......"
He looked at this legendary pirate as a mentor to Blackbeard and the Edward pirates. His eyes are no longer sharp, his beard is beginning to turn white, and he is restrained, like a gentleman?
"Captain, you say that's Benjamin?"
Mickey also seemed a little incredulous that such a famous pirate could be like this.
Benjamin's appearance was different from what Gordon remembered, he remembered that in the plot of Black Flag, Benjamin should be younger and more energetic, and if it weren't for the respect of Edward and Thatch, he wouldn't have believed that it was Benjamin and Hornigold.
About thirty people sat down at the round table, and only Kidd was still concerned about his face: "Evan, come over here." ”
On his left, there was a vacant seat in the center of the banquet, and of course Gordon's face was thick enough to sit down leisurely under the gaze of the people around him, as if he had come to his own home.
The lieutenants brought by the captains would be arranged in the rooms to the side, and the pirates were noisy and noisy, and there seemed to be no rules to speak of.
Bell Bell Bell !!
The crisp sound of a spoon tapping on the cup sounded.
"The Brotherhood of the Coast has been in existence for almost a year. Blackbeard raised his glass and stood up, his voice loud and a little pride in his tone.
"We have more and more brothers, we have more wealth, we have our own port, hahaha. ”
"Hahaha......"
"But!" Thatch's expression grimaced, glancing at everyone seated.
"It's not a precarious day, we need more men, more artillery and more ships, and here I have to make a rule not to kill those who surrender indiscriminately, and to contact more pirates and tell them the news of Nassau. ”
"Now I would like to invite the host of our banquet, Miss Elenor, to say a few words......
Anyway, what is said at the table is a few scenes, and the discussion of specific matters is always after the banquet, which is just a way to increase one's influence and help the top management of the pirate republic.
"I can't seem to find a reason why I was invited. ”
The food on the table at the moment was so rich and delicious that Gordon asked in confusion as he munched on the delicious steak.
The steak is still a little bloody, and the level of seven points is just right, and it doesn't have much taste of raw meat, and it doesn't lose its original flavor.
The sharp meal cuts through the steak, the juice and blood flow, and the steel fork pierces the meat and stuffs it into the mouth.
"I asked you to come. ”
Kidd on the side blinked, looking a little playful.
Well, if it weren't for Gordon's early knowledge that Kidd was a woman, he would definitely be sick to his stomach for this delicate look.
James Kidd, formerly known as Mary Reed, was a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, a brilliant Assassin who studied under Ah Tabai, and of course a pirate.
"You know Tulum, and you should know us a lot, the Night Stalker has sent back news, and we've been keeping an eye on you. Your arrival is even slower than we thought, and I'm curious, what's going on with the El Dorado group?"
Captain Kidd's question was muffled, and no one noticed the sensitive words in the noisy environment.
Gordon pauses in his efforts to cut the steak, but only glances up at Kidd and replies, "You know I've gone to El Dorado? ”
"The Templars have been silent, and we are made aware of this by the news you brought back, but our men seem to be lagging behind. ”
"Some ancient monsters have awakened. ”
Gordon didn't want to talk about these things, Mimir's strength made him feel so powerless that he couldn't imagine how such a character could deal with it if he wanted to destroy humanity.
"The Cathedral of Seville was attacked, Columbus's coffin was opened, and the Templars thought we had done it, but unfortunately it wasn't. ”
Kidd's words made Gordon shake his body in an instant, and made him realize what important thing he had neglected for a long time, that is, the coffin of Columbus was stored in the Cathedral of Seville, and in it, there was an important treasure in the whole world - the apple.
One of the fragments of the Garden of Eden, according to the Templars, the Apple was able to dispel the world's will to rebel, allowing them to easily reach the establishment of a unified and peaceful world.
In other words, the Apple in this world is similar to the mind gem in the Marvel Universe (Gordon has not yet realized the more important role of the Apple at the moment), manipulating people's hearts, and there is nothing to resist in this world.
"Damn, I didn't think of that before. Gordon cursed, but reminded him of something else, that the island that Edward had reached by plundering the Ark had a set of chainmail that was immune to all ranged damage.
And Kidd finally realized that the man in front of him actually knew what was inside: "What's in there? How do you know?"