The Grim Reaper is mentioned in the prologue at the beginning, so how did the Grim Reaper come about?

The Holy Trinity is a Spanish first-class sail warship, the largest warship in the entire sail era, and one of the few four-deck warships. Originally built, it already had 120 guns, but when it was rebuilt, a fourth full-gun deck was added, and the number of guns reached an unprecedented 140.

Later, the Holy Trinity took part in the Battle of St. Vincent and was the flagship of the Spanish fleet, having been narrowly captured by Nelson. Later, in the Battle of Trafalgar, the British Empire's "Victory" was severely wounded by heavy artillery fire.

Unfortunately, Spain had already emptied its treasury after many wars with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and was unable to compete with the British Empire for maritime supremacy. Coupled with the lack of outstanding generals and leaders, the Holy Trinity was eventually captured by the British and sank by a storm during the tug.

However, how could this ship, once the pride of the Spanish royal family, succumb so easily?

The sunken Holy Trinity and its crew were naturally taken to the realm of the Grim Reaper - the underworld after death, and if it had been put in the past, the undead on the ocean would have been under the joint jurisdiction of the Grim Reaper and the god of the sea.

But that immortal melee eventually led to many immortals dying, wounded, and fleeing. In the past, many people ate public meals, but now the iron rice bowl is gone, and no one cares about the chaos. Lead the gods to fight, and the following will be happy, right? And the most important thing is that neither the former sea god nor the female sea god no longer manages the sea, so those messy sea monsters, legends, wizard curses, the more tired they are.

Then the Holy Trinity came to the realm of the Grim Reaper, and the underworld itself is the focus and starting point of all things in the world. Similar to the reincarnation that Chinese folk say, then many of the gods are reluctant to go to the underworld, because in the mythology of many countries, the underworld or the ghost world or the 'inner world' their painting style looks very depressing.

Then the underworld at this time is a fragrant bait, and the reason is very simple, it is caused by the great brawl of the gods. In fact, everything has life and death, it is nothing more than the length of time, for example, when a tree dies, there is a special tree god, and all kinds of animals die with corresponding gods to watch. The underworld mainly cares for dead humans.

However, human beings have opened the Age of Discovery, and it is common for them to die on the sea, but the sea god and the female sea god don't care about it, and there are many more undead who have nowhere to go on this side of the Grim Reaper, and the number of Grim Reapers' is not enough, and the efficiency of the management is as slow as a sloth, so you want to be reincarnated or go to heaven?

Therefore, Hades came up with a good way to get a group of agents to help him deal with these extra undead, that is, according to what he did before his death. This is a bit more embarrassing, because in the age of great discovery, most of the people who wandered on the seas did not have blood on their hands, and every sailor had several lives on their hands.

The Hades thought about it, according to the old rules, all the undead basically stay in the underworld forever, and the underworld is still full of 'spirits', so everyone said that otherwise, they could still be leaders! Of course, there is still a limit to this decentralization, and among them is the Holy Trinity, which signed a contract with Hades, which is also known as the Grim Reaper.

Swim across the Sea of the Dead to find and rescue the souls of the dead on the oceans of the sea, and then carry out a kind of extradition similar work, where the sailors on the Grim Reaper make the first round of selection, determined by what they do before they die. Then the second round is selected by the Grim Reaper, who are stationed on the Grim Reaper, and finally reported to Hades to decide whether to go to heaven or hell in the future.

However, generally speaking, since the Reaper can sail freely between the human world and the underworld, and the first round is basically predetermined, it is said that the second round will be over at a glance. To put it bluntly, this routine is applicable everywhere in the world, no matter where it is.

And what about the captain of the Reaper, who signed a pact with Hades? It just so happened that a Spaniard was chosen, because this person was still very prestigious, and this person was Don Juan de Austria. He was a general in the heyday of the Spanish Empire and the victor at the Battle of Lepanto.

So who is Don Juan?

He was the illegitimate son of King Carlos I of Spain and Barbara Bloomberg and the half-brother of King Philip II of France. Just born to be raised by a Barcelona nobleman.

Philip II once took him to meet his reclusive father for the first time, and gave him the name Don Juan of Austria, and it was only at this time that he truly recognized his ancestors.

Later, he led a detachment of troops to conquer the Barbary pirates who were active south of Spain. Later, in the outbreak of the war between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, in order to aid Venice and dominate the Mediterranean, Spain responded to the call of Pope Pius V and sent troops to help in the war. As I said earlier, Spain, like Germany later, fought on two fronts, with Ottoman Turkey on one side and the British Empire on the other. In the long run, it slowly collapsed.

Having said that, the combined Catholic fleet composed of Spain, Venice and other countries fought fiercely with Ottoman Turkish warships in the waters near Greece. At that time, Don Juan was the commander of the Holy Alliance fleet, and he dismantled the fleets of the various countries and remixed them into formation, which was more conducive to the cooperation and mutual supervision of the fleets of the various countries.

In addition, six huge warships lined up in front of the battle line, and the Turkish army was disrupted with artillery formation, which defeated the Turkish navy and annihilated the Ottoman Turkish naval forces. It can be said that it was the fame of the First World War, and Don Juan made the prestige of the Spanish fleet shake the entire Christian world. Unfortunately, his strategic vision was not very high, and he was not able to further expand the results. Later, he fought the Ottoman Empire for Tunisia, and after several back-and-forth wars, he was finally thwarted by the rebuilt Turkish fleet.

In later years, the situation in the Netherlands deteriorated, and it was basically equivalent to the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and north of France. Don Juan becomes Governor of the Netherlands. He had good intentions and wanted to negotiate a solution to the problem, and at first, his genius leadership and extraordinary statesmanship won the favor of everyone, but the bottom line of the negotiation between the two sides was not negotiable, and after a year he finally lost patience.

He sent his army to occupy Namur and resumed the fighting, although he defeated the revolutionary army at Brapen, and almost completely annihilated the Dutch army. However, the French and German armies immediately marched into the Netherlands, and the Dutch rebellion became international, and Don Juan tried to fight with it with all his might, but was unable to recover, and died of illness on the outskirts of Rangbulu, the Netherlands.

It can be said that Don Juan was very generous, brave, and a very outstanding general. Although everyone has shortcomings, after all, no one is perfect. But he had the demeanor of a leader and a lot of energy, and that was enough.

And Mark had met Don Juan by chance before, for the simple reason that Mark, who was also from the Netherlands, which is now the Netherlands, naturally accidentally found a personal belongings that once belonged to Don Juan, a very delicate pocket watch.

Although the Netherlands was independent from the Kingdom of Spain, it has been a hundred years, so it doesn't have much to do with it, and the Netherlands itself has a tolerant social climate, so Mark doesn't care too much about that. So much so that Mark later worked on the Grim Reaper for a period of time, and also helped the Grim Reaper sneak attack on the nemesis, the Elizabeth of the British Empire.

So let's talk about now, in order to find the true story of Drake's sword, we must find a person through the Grim Reaper. You must know that the so-called bell must be tied to the bell, and to find the real secret behind it, you must go to the underworld to find it - Drake himself!