Prologue: King of the Marauders

Characters in this chapter: Captain of the Tomahawk - Nabal, Captain of the Bone Sail - Brabon. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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The sea was raging, and it kept kissing the hull and blades of the Tomahawk.

The sails were folded, and 'Black Monkey' Grace stood at the top of the mast with the mainmast in one hand, swaying from side to side with the waves.

"Bonsail, Brabonn is here, King!" shouted Grez to Nabal on the deck below.

Nabal wears dark red shark skin armor, which is said to have been dyed red with the blood of his enemies. As he approached the bow, the pirates avoided him.

With his left foot on the side of the ship and his right hand on his tomahawk, Nabal looked out at the mist-shrouded sea as a longship approached, the striking red bone pattern on the black sail slowly becoming clear.

Nabal put on his bronze horned helmet, turned and told the pirates, "Brothers, we don't have to fight the old bones, but if he dares to do anything, throw them into the sea for me to feed the sharks!"

Nabal ordered the two longships under the command of Higret and Luda to line up on either side and wait for Brabonne.

"Nabal!" Brabourne's boat was thirty feet away, carrying two Nord battle axes on the bow, dressed in blue-black leather armor and bare arms with knotted muscles, too strong for a man in his fifties.

"Don't you want to see me, I'm coming!" the axes pointed at each of Sigritt and Luda's ships, "I heard that you have subdued both the Shark and the Sea Breeze, and it seems to be true." But don't expect me Brabone to bend my knees in front of you!" Brabone slammed the two tomahawks into sparks, his hazel eyes full of unruliness.

Nabal laughed and asked loudly, "Brabonne, when was the last time your brother had a full meal? I heard that he was chased by the fleet of Gangdeyar from the port of Tiha to the atoll last month, and I heard that the grain stored on the island was almost eaten......, is it true?

"Shut your dog's mouth!" was evidently Blabourne furious, "I don't know how many circles I've taken around the Nord fleet since I boarded the ship at the age of fifteen, you should ask the Nord navy how much sea breeze it drinks!"

Nabal nodded in agreement. "It's great to be able to break out of the siege of the Nord fleet! There are countless powerful pirate leaders in the Nord Seas, such as 'Sea Monster' Okotpis, 'Ironclad' Keller, 'Farmer' Duckry, 'Nosecut' Horad, 'Cyclops' Armand...... One by one, they were scattered and wiped out by Nord's fleet, and for so many years, you were the only one, 'Bloody Bone' Brabonn, who had been rampant in the Sea of Secret Words. ”

Nabal suddenly raised his voice and asked aloud, "Who is it that makes the widow of the coast weep all night?"

"Brabonne!" all the pirates responded.

"Who is it that scares the passing caravans?!"

"Brabonne!!"

"Who is it that makes the King's fleet helpless?"

"Brabonn !!"

"Who is it, who fought against Dirigonyar in the Gulf of Finland, and fell into the sea wearing iron armor, but because of the smell of alcohol, the sea god vomited him out and miraculously survived?"

"Brabonn !!" all the pirates burst into laughter, and Brabonn smiled proudly.

"But!" said Bal, pausing as the pirates' smiles cooled. "From the defeat of the Nord fleet by the 'Sea Monster' Okotpis at the Broken Wave Bay a hundred years ago, and the defeat of the Virgin fleet by the Ironclad Keller at the Crack Ice Gap to the present, who else in the Sea of Secret Languages can face the Nord and Virgian fleets? Tell me who else? 'Ironclad' Keller was shot to death by the Virgian fleet, 'Farmer' Duckrell was hit and sunk by the Nord 'Valian' and died, 'Nosecutter 'Horard' was surrounded by the Nord fleet and shot to death by random arrows,' 'Armand the One-Eyed was hacked to death by the Nord soldiers while boarding the ship, and you have only one ship left from five ships in your heyday, and you are still being chased by the Nord fleet and hiding, I think you should know that one day you will be like them!"

Brabonne's face was gloomy. "If you are afraid of death, you should not come to the ship! The weak should stay at home and wait for starvation to death! We can't beat the Nord fleet, they have hundreds of four-masted warships, we only have one longship, can you fight them?"

"Don't always put old bones on your face," Nabal said laughing. "Nord has hundreds of four-masted ships, but if you see two or three, you will have already turned around and fled, and no more than five ships will be pursued at a time......"

"Fart!" Brabonn roared, "At least six Nord ships came to round me up last month!"

"Well, that's only six," said Nabal, smiling, "what if these six ships were surrounded by thirty longships that were quietly approaching in the night?"

"Fart!" Brabonn roared again, "where did you get thirty longboats?

Nabal cocked his fingers. "There is a boat at Barge Reef, one boat each at Famar and Sickle on the peninsula's beaches, Fat Bona and Grania in the Horse Strait, and Sama and Bloonkana in the South Island fjords......"

Brabonn narrowed his eyes at Nabal, "You want to subdue all the pirates?"

"I call it a union," Nabal corrected him. "Back then, the 'sea monster' Okotpis had two-thirds of the pirates and ships in the Nord Sea, he was able to defeat the Nord fleet, think about it, now there are hundreds of longships on the Sea of Secret Words, what if we unite all the pirates? Of course, if you or others are willing to follow me, I will be very welcome!"

"I have to say that your idea is very exciting," said Brabonne, "I'm fed up with days like this, but your tongue is not enough to want us to follow you!" Brabonn touched his axe, "and I have to rely on this!"

"Okay! Pull over!" said Nabal to the pirates, and the oarsmen swung their oars gently, and the Tomahawk cut through the water like silk.

Without waiting for the ship to approach, Nabal grabbed the iron claws from the deck and threw them out to hook the mast of the Bloodbones, lifting his tomahawk and swinging it down on the deck.

The crew of the Bloodbone drew their axes and swords and surrounded Nabar.

Brabone stood outside the crowd and stared at Nabal. "Boy, aren't you afraid that I'll let them rush up and do you?"

Nabal snorted, "I heard that when you were a sailor, your captain was 'Seahorse' Herman, didn't he teach you 'The Iron Law of the Seawolf' when you got on the ship?"

"Whoa......," the pirates exclaimed.

It was the law set by the two most powerful pirate kings of the pirates, "Sea Monster" Okotpis and "Iron Armor" Keller, two hundred years ago, and it was it that ensured the unity and strength of the pirates at that time, which also made this law famous to everyone, even though these two pirate kings died for hundreds of years, the pirates still followed the rules of this "Iron Law of the Sea Wolf", although they never reached the height of the author.

"Get out of the way!" Brabone roared, and the pirates of the Bloodbone pushed out of the way to make way for him.

"Put away your swords and axes!, the damned law has long since died with their masters!Why do you think we are where we are today?" he complained loudly as he walked up to Nabal, "the iron law says that you can't kill your own accomplices, but how many people abandon them to enemies or islands of the deep sea when the treasure is in front of you? The iron law stipulates that pirates are only allowed to negotiate and fight with each other in a three-way duel, and not to attack each other, but how many pirates have attacked another group of pirates for the spoils of war? The people who have the right to the Iron Law of the Seawolf, no one takes it seriously!

"No!" said Nabal, pointing to Brabonne, "and you Brabonne have been following the law, and what you are doing now is following the law, and it is in your bones, old man, and that's why I came to you!"

Brabone snorted heavily and yelled, "Less nonsense! Let me see how good you are!" As he spoke, he rushed towards the tall Nabal, picked up his left-handed axe and slashed it head-on, taking advantage of Nabal's upward block, the right hand axe slashed him in the lower abdomen, Nabal hurriedly took a step back to let go of the axe, and the backhand diagonal slash was dodged by Brabourne, and the two-handed axe split a crack in the deck. All the pirates shouted and cheered for Nabal and Brabonne, and the masts and sails were crawling with pirates watching the battle.

"Stinky boy, are you here to dismantle my ship?" Brabone roared as he slammed the axe, "If you lose, you'll have to be a sailor and give me a year's deck!" he said and attacked again. Nabal blocked left and right, jumped over the winch to dodge the attack, and took the time to reply, "I won't lose! If you follow me, I'll give you a new four-masted ship!"

"Braggh!" Brabone slashed at Nabal's head with an axe, but he dodged it and slashed it at the mast, "The four-masted ships have a king's fleet!" but the axe was too deep to pull out.

Nabal seized the opportunity to slash at his arm, forcing him to abandon his tomahawk, "I said yes, at least three masts...... Ship of War!" fended off Brabonn's other axe attack and slashed his legs, Brabonn leaped to his feet and rolled backwards to dodge.

"Fart!" Brabonn grabbed a sail rope and swung it over, swinging his axe at Nabal's neck, "You think you're a god?"

Nabal leaned down to avoid being decapitated, and when he got up, he drew his axe from his waist and threw it at the sail line, which broke in response, and Brabone fell to the deck and rolled around, "I am not a god, I am the king of the raiders, Nabal!"

Nabal's two-handed axe caught up with two steps and slashed head-on, Brabone hurriedly got up and raised his axe to parry, but he couldn't resist Nabal's big step back and stepped onto the side of the ship, it turned out that this roll and retreat had already retreated to the side of the boat, and there was no way back.

Nabal pressed down with all his might, and Brabone finally sat down on the side of the ship, Nabal's two-handed tomahawk pressed against his throat.

"How's it going?" Nabal took a step back and withdrew his two-handed tomahawk and held out his left hand to Bradon, "A new ship, a three-masted warship!" Brabourn looked at the big hand, took it, and let Nabal pull him up.

"Remember what you said!" Brabonn walked over to the mast, drew his jammed axe, and threw the twin axes at Nabal's feet, the tips of which slashed into the deck, "My battle axe belongs to you!

Higrit raised his throwing gun and shouted, "Nabal, Nabal, Nabal......"

Luda struck his own cast-iron shield with his battle axe, "Nabal, Nabal, Nabal......"

All the pirates and their weapons joined in the cheer: "Nabal, Nabal, Nabal......"

Nabal drew his axe and handed it to Brabon: "Come, my brother, the humiliation of being hunted by the Nord fleet will be history, and we must show the world that it is not only the Nords, but we are the masters of the Sea of Secret Words!"