Three thousand kilometers away, on the westernmost side of the archipelago, on the crescent-shaped island of Yucatan.

Torrent Harbor, the only industrial city in the world, is full of smoke, and the roar of hydraulic machinery wakes up another morning light.

In the vast plains outside the city, famine hunters, lumberjacks and spice harvesters begin another day of labor.

Relying on the excellent effect of the [Golden Toilet] and the No. 3 Crystal Skull [Corn God], the corn, potatoes, spices, and teak planted here have once again ushered in a bumper harvest.

Day after day, it provides an inexhaustible supply of raw materials for the rapid development of Riptide Fortress.

Wow——!

With a high-pitched eagle cry, five eagles rose from the tower in one corner of the fortress.

The [gunnery expert] on the Golden Deer, who is also the heir to the throne of Chichen Itza City among the three major city-states, Wyandot, incarnated as an eagle and led his team to start routine inspections.

Recently, Violet, the Governor of Rapids, was away, and the pirate officers who were tasked with defending themselves were even more energetic.

Looking at the thriving city below, and the hard-working indigenous people, Wyandott was heartily delighted.

In particular, the [Grade 2 Relic - Ironmaking Blast Furnace] in the steel factory was able to smelt indestructible steel from the fragile red stone.

To every native, this is a miracle.

There was also a series of factories built around the shipyard, dock No. 1, and heavy cruisers, all of which made him feel proud to be a participant.

Wyandott still vividly remembers what his captain said:

"There's more to a heavy cruiser than just a ship.

It is also a complete set of industrial systems built around it.

Ironmaking, steelmaking, gunpowder, shells, milling machines, boring machines, artillery, muskets, woodworking, tar chemicals, shipbuilding and other subjects need to be tackled.

When the heavy cruiser is built, it will also be the time when the original industrial system of metallurgy, shipbuilding, coal chemical industry, military manufacturing and so on in the territory will be established. ”

The city of Chichen Itza, which has always had a good relationship with Byron, was the first beneficiary of this industrial upgrading.

Inexpensive iron farm tools, composting technology that surpassed the entire era, and various foreign trade versions of weapons and equipment that were already very advanced compared to other powers

He watched his people's lives improve day by day, and he was confident that the future would be better under Byron's leadership.

"The captain has built a system that is larger and more advanced than the Old World, and he must be the legendary son of prophecy in the Taya Empire.

One day, we Taíno people will have the opportunity to become noble colonists, and under the leadership of the captain, we will expand our territory and establish great causes, and regain the glory of the Taya Empire. ”

Wyandott led the patrol along the Candelaria River, the main transport artery of Riptide Fortress, all the way south.

As Riptide Fortress flourished, more and more Old World colonists from the Hattings, Iris, and Castile were sold, and the demand for home ownership grew.

Cultivated land, spice groves, teak groves, various plantations, and estates naturally expanded.

Even if you encounter some grotesque and active forbidden areas, you will be crushed on the spot by the "physical exorcism" that Riptide Fortress is best at.

Today, the crater basin, which is 180 kilometers in diameter, can be seen with buildings and people almost every few kilometers.

It's just that the closer they get to the periphery, the sparser the population, and the weaker the power of the [Golden Law], which also needs them to fill in the gaps as privateer pirates and city guards.

After flying for half an hour, Wyndott noticed that a colorful totem pole carved into the shape of a dragon suddenly appeared in the mountain forest in front of him.

The brows furrowed subconsciously:

"Is this a peripheral tribe that has already met that belongs to Tayapan?

Unconsciously, the spheres of influence of the two families intersected.

It's just that Tayapan's pretentious and pretentious guys are the most annoying, and I don't want to deal with them at all. ”

It is well known that after the collapse of the Taya Empire, it was divided into more than 100 city-states, large and small, with a population of several million.

Each city-state has its own interests, and each wants to recreate the former glory of the Taya Empire under its own leadership.

If the Azk Empire, which had not been in the north, had been eyeing each other, they themselves would have been killed in a river of blood.

With the fall of the Azk Empire and the fragmentation of the former enemy, the signs of this internal unrest are once again revealed.

This has always been the case with the indigenous Taíno people.

Death is never the end, and the guardian spirits of their own city-states and tribes also need to be fed with blood and soul at all times.

The Taya are equally fond of waging blood sacrifices and crown wars.

It's just that due to the lack of strength, it is far less bloody than the Azk Empire.

Today, the Taya Empire has three major city-states each with a crystal skull: Uxmal, Tayapan, and Chichen Itza.

They naively wanted to trade marriage for peace.

As a result, the beautiful princess and the king of their own family were lured to the royal city of Azk to attend the wedding of the previous emperor.

In the end, all of them became sacrifices with the royal city of Tenochtitlan as the core, condensing the "collective subconscious sea" of the Taíno people to create the [Golden Codex].

Uxmal and Tajapan, in particular, were at the vanguard of the formation of the "anti-Azkh coalition".

A large number of high warriors were sent to storm the city of Azk along with the Kingdom of Castile.

In the end, it was not only their own princess and king who accompanied them, but even a considerable part of the elite troops were almost buried by the [Funeral Beak Epidemic Doctor].

Later, if it weren't for the action of the [Father of Medicine], the entire indigenous group would have been finished.

Wyandott's heart throbbed at the thought of his blood-sacrificed princess Moonlight Kyatri.

"My Highness the Princess! When will you come back to me?

I am now the heir of the city-state, and I am worthy of you. ”

Byron had already given him the living human skin of the native princess.

At the beginning, [Variety Enchantress] Beatrice failed to use the human skin substitution technique, and the activity of these activated human skins was retained.

But it also takes a suitable apprentice to resurrect the other party completely.

With the help of the taboo: "Low-level transcendents cannot put on the skin of high-level transcendentals, otherwise they may be quickly replaced by the other party's spirituality and personality, and resurrected through the body." ”

The side effects in this "Ritual of a Thousand Faces" also became his last straw.

Now he is hoping that his captain can take down the Skinning Church as soon as possible, and help him choose a suitable "sacrifice" to resurrect Bai Yueguang.

Oh, maybe three "sacrifices".

The skinned princesses of the other two countries naturally have hope of resurrection.

Even if they are returned to the other two city-states in the future, it will be cost-effective to show the power of the [Father of Medicine] and buy the hearts of the natives.

It's just a pity that not everything goes the way it was planned.

"Ah——!h

A terrible scream suddenly came from the river in the distance.

Wyandott's sharp eagle eyes immediately looked in the direction from which the voice came.

It turned out to be two river coal carriers of the Riptide Fortress that had been attacked.

The fort had insufficient coal reserves, and it had always been a tropical river with abundant water to transport coal from other parts of the interior.

River vessels will be loaded with iron or fertilizer, which is a specialty of the Riptide Fortress, when they depart, and will only pull coal when they return, so they will not waste their capacity empty.

Both ships were apparently fresh from the fort, and both ships were extremely valuable iron artifacts to the natives.

They were attacked by a group of longships made from hollowed-out tree trunks.

And Wyandot happened to know the attackers.

"Dragon lizard warriors? Tayapan?! ”

In front of him, he had already pounced on the coal carrier and went on a killing spree, a group of half-human, half-lizard, three-meter-tall monsters.

That's Tayapan's characteristic beast spirit [Colorful Dragon Lizard]:

"A species of wurm that is extinct in the Old World, but is still very active in the Bantaan Islands.

It's actually a bit reluctant to say that it's a dragon species.

After all, the suffix of the name is no longer a dragon, but a lizard.

They come in five colors and correspond to five different attributes.

There is no reproductive isolation between the five types of lizards, and the eggs laid are all multicolored and look exactly the same.

However, if they are induced and hatched in different environments, different species of dragon lizards will be born.

This kind of wurm species has long been this extremely powerful beast spirit warrior [Dragon Lizard Warrior]!

Before the fall of the Taya Empire, this was the first combat force of the Bantaan Islands. ”

Wyandott also knew that Tayapan was dedicated to the No. 1 Crystal Skeleton [Celestial God] Itsumna.

Among the gods worshipped by the Taya, the dragon-shaped Itsamna has the highest status and is the head of the Taya gods.

He is also the Lord of Heaven, the Lord of Night and Day, the Patron Deity of the Priests, and the Creator of Writing, Science, and Medicine.

The river flowed through Tayapan's sphere of influence, and they were clearly guarding themselves.

Although it seemed that it was only a medium-sized tribe in Tayapan's sphere of influence that was raiding, rather than the main force of the city-state, Wyndot and his team were still furious.

At the same time as immediately asking for help from Rapids, he had already taken the lead in pounce, and his angry shouts pierced through the golden cracked stones:

"Damn lizards, how dare you rob the Vanguard Pilot Colonial Trading Company's cargo ship?!

Dare to rob us pirates, you are poor and crazy, aren't you?! ”