When the crew of the [Jackdaw] disembarked, everyone discovered that the ostensible third-order assassin [Hawkeye] James actually had a hidden hand.

That's the resurrection corpse!

It was a group of sturdy men covered in tattered clothes.

The eyes are green, the skin is blue, the canines are protruding, and even after being treated with black magic, it is obvious that you can smell a lingering smell of herbs and corpses from them.

Most of the crew on this adventure ship were not alive, except for a few transcendent pirate officers.

Rather, it is a group of resurrected corpses that Byron and Violet once encountered on Treasure Island (Chapter 229).

He wasn't as surprised as the others.

From the very beginning, when he read the information about the Jackdaw, he glanced at James, the Assassin captain, by the way.

The information read at the same level has been relatively complete, and he naturally saw the hole cards on his body.

"We can't underestimate these adventurers who are active in the front line of adventure all year round and can still be alive.

They are more suitable for the 'leftover is king' comment than pirates.

At the boundary between the human world and the natural world, they don't necessarily have some amazing hole cards in their hands, and there is no easy one. ”

The knowledge of creating a resurrected corpse comes from the voodoo forbidden book, the voodoo ritual.

Those soulless corpses have no reason, no sense of pain, infinite strength, walking like flying, and are not afraid of ordinary bullets, and are often used to work in place of cattle and horses, or as cannon fodder soldiers.

It only takes a small amount of human command to exert extreme power.

It can also enter a dormant state during ocean voyages, which greatly reduces consumption, relieves logistical pressure, and improves single endurance.

Once a certain number is reached, it is an absolute terrible disaster.

Byron also heard that voodoo was growing rapidly in the Bantaan Islands, with branches popping up on the islands of the Sapphire Sea.

The Black Tongue Brotherhood is one of them, with the purpose of "all members are like brothers, keep secrets for brothers, and stick knives in both sides".

I didn't expect to suddenly meet one here.

It's just that it's unclear where [Hawkeye] James Kent learned this forbidden knowledge and whether he joined voodoo.

A moment ago, James was a little depressed because he was compared to the way of the assassin.

At this moment, when he saw his proud work, he immediately regained his spirit, and said proudly:

"Well, Your Excellency the Governor, my crew is good, aren't they?

The corpse of the resurrected corpse has died, and it is one of the most suitable classes to deal with the Coral People, so there is no need to worry about being parasitized by the coral disease.

Moreover, most of these resurrected corpses were my assassination targets and enemies before they died.

I don't need to clean up the battlefield like other assassins.

When they die, they will naturally get up again and clean up their heads and tails, and from then on they will faithfully serve me and make the best use of them.

Isn't this kind of idea of assassins and laborers a one-stop shop? ”

James thought that although he had fallen behind in the way of the Assassins, he had at least made a win back on the use of "loot", and he suddenly regained some self-confidence.

The chest is naturally puffed up.

Byron didn't blow his confidence again, and thought of his series of factories in Riptide Castle, and nodded in appreciation:

"Well, that's pretty good.

If it is used to do simple and repetitive work, and even the wages of the assembly line are saved, I think this thing is really worth setting up a project for our Pioneer Bank to invest in. ”

The civil officials who followed behind him immediately took note of it, and when they turned around, they asked Catherine for funds to mass-produce an army of "workers".

"Captain James, please.

I've just taken office, and there are still a lot of things in the colony that have not yet been handed over, and I am not very familiar with the celestial circulation, so I hope that you, the expert, can bring me some good news. ”

In fact, the souls of the Newman brothers have all become members of the Wild Hunt Legion, as well as the former military commander of [Cave Enemy Opportunity] Berettania.

Byron knew more about the colony than anyone else.

But in other aspects, such as: how the first and second echelons are now exploring the "celestial circulation", and how many first-line adventurers there are, etc., are far inferior to James.

Byron, as the master, led the group back to the living room of the governor's palace.

James, who was sitting across from him, brought him unexpected but reasonable bad news.

"I do have two messages to share with you.

First of all, you'd better not expect too much from our group of supporters.

Except for the strongest Castile, there shouldn't be a fourth-order hero-level transcendent coming back. ”

Byron actually had a premonition, but until the guess was confirmed from the other party's mouth, he still couldn't help but sink in his heart:

"How?"

James didn't go around the bend, put away the flamboyance on his body, and said seriously:

"Your Excellency the Governor, you also know that the Maywind Horn, piloted by the fourth-order hero [Adventurer] Balboa, is also a top-notch existence in the first and second echelons of various countries and major forces.

Except for the fifth-order legendary adventurers who only had a single digit, he was a well-deserved first-rate existence.

Otherwise, even if he had that [Holy Relic Desire Compass] in his hand, he would not be the first to reach the New World.

indirectly made him lose his life and the lives of the whole ship.

But adventure is like that, no one knows which will come first, tomorrow or the unexpected.

Others will not back down, they will only take the misfortune of their predecessors as a warning, become more cautious, and then step on the bones of their predecessors and continue to move forward"

Hearing what the other party said, Byron gradually understood the cause and effect.

Adventurers are one such group of people who go forward for the motto: "I come, I see, I conquer".

The previous owner of the Taiman Islands, the Cat of Nine Lives, died tragically during the adventure, leaving the hard-fought colony to Byron and Catherine.

Balboa, a fourth-order heroic adventurer, fell in the adventure of conquering the New World.

But it also proved to other adventurers that the New World really existed.

Everyone only remembers the first and never cares who the second is.

Knowing that someone almost took the first place that belonged to them, all the adventurers of the first echelon were about to go crazy.

Especially those powerful fifth-order legends felt that they were only one step away from "peace" descending on the new continent.

Even the officials of various countries have issued conscription orders to them because of the blocking of shipping lanes and the dispute over the "right to protect the church".

But unless it's those unlucky ghosts who have received the king's or official funding and have a defense contract on their backs, the real master birds don't bird those decrees.

At this juncture, nothing is more important than the discovery of a new continent.

They want to be pioneers, pioneers, and make a name in history!

As for the crisis in Bantaan?

We'll talk about it when we get back.

Byron couldn't help but be silent:

"I knew that the kingdom was in a hurry to consolidate the forces of the colony itself, and must have anticipated this situation in advance.

Therefore, the reinforcements that come back are all funded people who need to be attached to the kingdom, and the fourth-order ones are not, and at most they may bring back a few strange adventure ships? ”

Even if the transcendent route of this world reaches the top, it is possible to be beaten to death by the lower ranks.

There is never a saying that you can't kill the enemy across the ranks.

If you want to take out a fallen fourth-order, there are two ways, one is to crush the-for-tat high-level combat power, and the other is to besiege a large number of low-level wolf pack tactics.

The confident Castile chose the former, and Hattings clearly chose the latter.

James spread his hands and said that this is exactly the case:

"Because I started as a privateer and then became an adventurer.

The extraordinary knowledge of the Phantom Blade comes from the York family.

After signing an agreement with the kingdom again, I got the promotion resources of the third-order middle sequence, and I had to come this time.

The real elites are still racing against time to replicate the route of the Maywind, striving to be the first to land in the New World. ”

The maid served them two, along with a group of pirate officers, each with a cup of Blue Mountain coffee from the Blue Mountains of the Newman family's fiefdom.

Byron took a sip of mellow coffee, calmed down the disappointment in his heart, and then continued to ask:

"What about the second one?"

James picked up the coffee cup, carefully confirming that there was nothing related to sea creatures before daring to eat, with a little fear on his face:

"The other is not good news either.

On our way back, we made a special pass by the route of the Maywind from the Celestial Circulation back to the Bantaan Islands.

But I was surprised to find that many indigenous islands along the way have fallen into a strange silence.

Broken shipwrecks have appeared on the shores of the islands, and coral people have fused with the reef and ship planks to the limit.

Barnacles, corals, and all sorts of miscellaneous gadgets release large clouds of white mist.

Wherever the fog is reached, there is a stubborn hypnotic effect that puts everyone on the island to sleep.

Once you fall asleep, you can't wake up even if you use fire, and your body is still slowly alienating.

I sent a team of resurrected corpses to the island to check on the fog while the wind was blowing, and only then did I discover the anomaly. ”

"By the way, I also saw a lot of leftover carapaces.

I suspect that the natives fell asleep because of the white mist or the consumption of unclean things.

In other words, a considerable portion of the seafood on the route of the Maywind may have been contaminated.

Both the traits and the mode of transmission of coral diseases have become more abundant.

My advice is not to eat seafood lately, especially not raw. ”

As soon as the words fell.

"Poof!"

Byron and Alfred, who had just finished the menu of his life, squirted coffee out of their mouths.

The "squid seafood soup" from the octopus battleship in the latter's life menu has just been digested.

It is only natural that the captain of the ship, who is also fond of squid, will be invited to share the delicious food.

The evaluation of the two gourmets is: the taste of the world, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and even the clothes are involuntarily loosened.

Alfred could only console himself at this time:

"It's cooked, I'm definitely already cooked with squid whiskers, and there will be no problem."

Byron was not too worried, even if he was suppressed by the person and read the information incomplete, but he would not make such a low-level mistake.

Besides, I have "immune blood", even if the [Sleeping God Kraken] body comes, I dare to hold its foot and bite it hard!

Small scenes, big problems.

In the days that followed, the Bantaan Islands came alive again as reinforcements from various countries returned.

But as James said, most countries just came back with a bunch of strange battleships that could be compared to the titular battleships of the fourth rank.

Undoubtedly, the wolf pack tactics were chosen invariably.

Port Royal Jamestown also welcomed back a [Boar Samurai] and a [Butterflyfish].

Together with the Golden Deer, the Jackdaw, and the fourth-class ship [Support] left by Rear Admiral Newman, they together formed the "Zoo Front" of Hattings.

Didn't make them wait long.

The Governors of the Bantaan Islands ushered in a war meeting co-chaired by the Lighthouse Federation and the Church.

The mission to snipe the [Maywind] has officially begun.