Chapter VII Five Ways
The Liberty Star was a three-masted galleon with mainsails on the front two masts and a spinnaker on the mast behind the captain's chamber at the stern, which was the sail used to steer the ship in conjunction with the rudder.
The rudder is connected to the rudder blade under the ship, and changes direction by making the rudder blade swing, but steering requires the helmsman to have an almost instinctive judgment of the wind, currents and the delay between the rudder blade and the rudder disc.
And Retolle is not a "helmsman", but a "helmsman" – and at the same time he has the responsibility of directing the sailors to pull the jib cables, rather than simply following the captain's orders to steer the rudder.
Because it was a merchant ship, there were only two gun emplacements in the bow, and there were also four deck guns, and there were no dedicated gun bays below deck.
It is naturally completely incomparable with the professional warships of the Navy - four- or five-masted, with armor on the hull, two layers of densely packed gunwales in the cabins below deck, and large-caliber bow and stern guns in the bow and stern.
"Leave the artillery command to me! I love these big guys. A middle-aged man with rotten teeth and swollen eyes said.
"Good! From now on, you will be the gunner of the ship. D'Artagnan tapped him on the shoulder with the spine of his sword.
Just now it was the same with Retol, I don't know where the custom is.
"Those who will use these big guys, bring them all to me! There are also little cubs who can't stand on their feet, come and help! The gunner immediately shouted.
The crew of the Liberty Star was quite "versatile", and after d'Artagnan greeted him, several crew members who could use artillery immediately went to their gun positions and took their positions, and their reloading and fire were suspended on the twists, just waiting for the order to fire.
Some of the stragglers' "crews" lacked combat effectiveness and could not understand the instructions of the ship, and they were also classified as "gunners".
Ziggy felt that he was becoming more capable of fighting, so he kept holding his sword and signaled that he wanted to be a combatant.
Bang –
Bang –
The Navy had already fired, and most of the shells had landed in the water without a single hit, but some were coming for the deck.
At this time, we can also see the limitations of "strong ships and guns" - I saw that d'Artagnan's figure flashed, and he had already jumped on the bow of the ship, swinging his sword and slashing indiscriminately, and the sword qi slash was about to fall directly on the deck, and the cannonballs flew one after another......
In contrast, the guns on the merchant ship obviously had a much shorter range, and Ren had already been urged, but the new gunner commander was still staring at the opposite side expressionlessly, and did not give the order to fire for a long time.
Fortunately, in the era of sea pirates, the strength of the ship and the guns were only part of the naval battle, and the broadside battle was the more important decisive point!
Ziggy had already joined the fighters in tying the barrels......
Merchant ships obviously couldn't find enough "grappling hooks" – a combination of iron hooks and ropes – to hook onto each other's decks, enough grappling hooks to bring the two ships close together, and when close enough, to set up a gangplank
Brave combatants will force their way onto the opponent's deck with a rope of a grappling hook, usually a pirate-specific equipment.
Without a grappling hook, it becomes more difficult to get on the side, but for the crew of the Sea Pirates, there is no other way.
For example, now, someone has explained to Ziggy - if there is no grappling hook, then tie the weight with a rope, and when it will get closer, throw it directly against the opponent's mast!
Fortunately, there are a lot of ropes on the ship, which should have been used to bundle goods before.
As long as it can be wrapped around the mast, it has the same effect as the grappling hook, except that it ...... The need for strength is much greater, like the barrel that Ziggy is tying up, and there are hundreds of pounds of seawater in it, and then he is going to throw this thing over.
"Hey! Boy, don't flash your waist. A big mouth next to him looked at Ziggy and smiled.
Ziggy just patted his biceps to show that it was okay.
The whole has risen to sequence eight, and the five "professions" are: reasoning students, mind readers, angry people, listeners, and light prayers.
Among them, "reasoning student" is the advancement of "reader", and it is Ziggy's ability that is easiest to understand in the five sequences eight.
It has greatly improved his observation and logical reasoning ability, of which the former can be regarded as the prototype of domineering.
The need for the "acting method" is also very simple, investigate more things, do the work of a detective, and you can improve if you think about it.
As the name suggests, the ability to observe has gone from the surface to the inside, and the judgment of expressions and eyes and expressions has a new understanding.
Although he has not cultivated systematically, when Mary Joya came into contact with other slaves, Ziggy also had a lot of exposure to the power system of this world.
After all, many of Mary Joy's slaves can be called "masters" on the outside.
Speaking of the power system of this world, "domineering" cannot be bypassed, for ordinary people, there are only two kinds of "armed domineering" and "seeing and hearing domineering", in addition to the third "domineering color", which claims to have the qualification of one out of millions of people to be able to have......
Of course, in terms of the population of this world, with such a large base, it is not surprising that there are hundreds of overlords with domineering qualifications.
Armed color domineering can be understood as attack and defense, and seeing and hearing color domineering can be understood as insight and perception.
In addition, there are some characteristics that vary from person to person, such as Ziggy knows that Roger and Luffy in the original work are domineering and can listen to the voice of all things; Katakuri's sights and hearings are domineering, and he can briefly predict the future; Usopp has performed abilities similar to ultra-long-range vision......
Some of these "characteristics" are born after cultivation to the extreme, while others seem to be talents, which are manifested when they are only in the embryonic form.
Ziggy had long guessed that his ability was not the true way of God, but only the part that could adapt to this world.
In other words, his own sights and hearings are domineering, because the "mind reader" has a series of divine paths, which have the characteristics of being biased towards observing people's hearts.
When performing the "cosplay method", one should tend to "observe the mental activity of others".
And the sequence eight of these two divine paths is not obvious for the improvement of force, compared to the "Angry People" promoted by the "Sailor", the effect is much more violent - the strength increase, speed increase, and stronger naval combat ability brought by the improvement of physique......
And as the name suggests, when in a state of rage, your physique will be greatly improved!
For his playing, Ziggy was a little confused - probably...... Do you want to pretend to be an irritable? Is it to pretend to be angry, or is it necessary to be really angry all the time?
As for the remaining two, "Listener" and "Prayer of Light", Ziggy was at a loss for the time being.
The "listener" in The Master of Mystery is considered to be "a madman or a hidden madman" because they can hear the whispers of hidden beings and acquire powerful but distorted knowledge, making it difficult for them to remain rational, and they are passive and cannot be circumvented on their own......
However, in this world, Ziggy speculates that it may be because there are no other high-order existences, so he is confused about the "listener" and can't hear any whispers, the advantage is safety, but the disadvantage is that Ziggy doesn't know how to "play".
Can listening to ordinary people be considered "listeners"?
Nounically, it seems to be okay, but Ziggy always thinks it's not that simple.
However, judging from the fact that the Sequence 9 "Secret Prayer Man" below it can be improved by praying to the Devil Fruit, perhaps the "Listener" should also explore this aspect.
"The Man of Prayer for Light" also confuses Ziggy, and its sequence nine is "The Praiser", which indeed makes Ziggy's singing voice have some inspiring abilities beyond beautiful sound.
In fact, the progress of the "singer" played by Ziggy was extremely slow before, and he could probably guess the reason - the essence of the singer is not "singing", but "singing the praises of the sun".
I just sang to those stupid pigs as a singer, but it didn't really fit its core, so the progress was very slow, and it took two years to succeed.
And Ziggy actually tried to sing the praises of the sun in private, but it didn't have any effect - it's inevitable to think about it, after all, the "sun" in "The Master of Mystery" is the existence of sequence 0, not just stars, but the sun in this world obviously has no such symbol and function.
So for the play and ability development of this series, Ziggy is also confused.
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Before he had time to think about it, when Ziggy tied up the barrel, the hull shook suddenly, and it was clear that the cabin below had been shot!
I was already able to see the navy on the deck of the battleship, with an expression of expectation!
The gunner commander also ordered at this time: "Fire!" ”