The 2892nd Chapter Flame God (1)

Port Royal on the island of Jamaica, this was an important port city belonging to the British Empire three months ago. It was once the most dazzling pearl of the British Empire in the Caribbean. A brilliant proof of the supremacy of the sea in the hands of many parties!

However, all of this is now a thing of the past!

Because here in Port Royal, since three months ago, it no longer belongs to the British! Now, it is the capital city of a new sect of witches called the Cult of Fire.

So far, in the entire Caribbean region, there is no one who does not know about Vulcanism and witches. Whether it is in the New World or in Europe, some people gradually start talking about the pagans who occupied the city. Five fireball cultists with moving flame patterns.

It is said that the church has worked hard to connect European countries, planning to organize a new sea crusade? Use a huge fleet and military power to teach those witches, let them know that the dignity of the church cannot be offended?

It's just that, the Crusades and so on may definitely be useless within a year or so.

After all, the world's efficiency is not that high, and the preparations for large-scale military operations are not so simple to complete, and the mess caused by the plundering of colonies among countries is not something that the Church can solve in a short period of time. can straighten out and unite them.

Therefore, they decided to temporarily let the witches who were entrenched in Port Royal and wiped out the British Caribbean Sea Fleet continue to chatter for a while...

Now, the port of Port Royal has finally become extremely prosperous again.

In the port, you can see merchant ships of various national styles and flags docked inside and outside. The hired workers on the wharf are also busy loading and unloading various goods and supplies. However, they are now unloading more goods, and there are very few goods loaded, at most they are only some necessary supplies.

Ever since the news of the high reward missions released by the witches occupying Port Royal spread throughout the Caribbean Sea, all kinds of businessmen, like sharks that smelled fishy, ​​gathered in boats from all over the world, and directly issued special rewards. The Port Royal Harbor Office for the mission is overcrowded.

In the port office, merchants or shipowners from various countries gathered noisily, whether they were French, Spanish, Dutch or even British! Even, there are several well-known pirate leaders mixed in among them?

In this day and age, merchants who live on the sea, no matter whether your Port Royal is occupied by the British or witches, as long as they have money to earn and a lot of gold coins to get, they can make them work for you!

As long as the benefits are tempting enough, such as encountering a fat sheep with low armament at sea, it can make a self-proclaimed upright businessman change his job to become a pirate in minutes! What's more, now this is a legitimate transportation job?

In short, it is just a word, as long as there is enough money, these people dare to do anything! Now it's just a task of receiving the reward from the witches, and helping them buy a few ships of goods, let alone.

As for the fear of being retaliated by the British for working for witches?

That's even more ridiculous, as long as you are not blind, you can see the rows of huge and hideous warships parked on the other side of the Port Royal military zone!

It is said that those warships were captured directly after the witches wiped out the Caribbean fleet. They have been moored in the military area of ​​the port for almost a month, right?

There are gossip that the witches are now having a headache what to do with these ships! You know, these witches, they don't have enough captains and sailors to pilot them.

So, under the current circumstances, how dare the British take revenge before they figure out the truth of the facts and the reality of witches?

Not to mention the British, now, here in the Caribbean, even Spanish, French or Dutch warships, when they pass by Port Royal,

But they all avoided it deliberately and walked in a big circle, fearing that they would accidentally provoke the terrifying witch and cause unnecessary trouble.

Since the witches occupied here, Port Royal has become more and more prosperous. The witches and these merchants and ship owners have formed a mutually beneficial situation: the witches rely on the merchants to obtain all kinds of urgently needed supplies, and the merchants also rely on the witches. They have earned a large amount of gold coins, and the citizens of Port Royal have even earned more money than they could have imagined from the sailors who arrived.

After all, merchant ships always have to load and unload after arriving at the port, and they often stop for several days. The crew and sailors always want to eat, drink and have fun, right? Few of the merchant ships that have unloaded are willing to leave empty. You must bring some souvenirs, right? This has inadvertently boosted Port Royal's economy and made it prosperous.

If we only talk about the flow of merchant ships, it is at least several times higher than when the British occupied it now!

It can be seen from the port wharf, because now there are more than 20 new simple wooden wharves for small and medium-sized sailboats to unload and dock!

However, even under such circumstances, the port of Port Royal is still extremely crowded. Many ships have no choice but to anchor directly outside the pier, relying on those small boats to continuously load and unload cargo. .

"Hi! How are you, old Billy? What mission have you been on lately?"

A bearded old man dressed as a captain, reeking of alcohol, walked over with open arms, stepped forward and gave a big hug to another old captain who was supervising the sailors hoisting supplies on the pier trestle.

The boats of the two of them are now docked on both sides of the largest and best stone pier. That's because the ships of the two of them happen to be huge merchant ships, and they have recently helped the witches transport a lot of supplies, so they are naturally qualified to use the largest and best unloading pier.

"So it's you! Old drunkard? Tsk tsk, the smell of alcohol on your body is still so strong!"

After the two embraced enthusiastically, they patted each other on the back before they separated, and then Old Billy began to massacre this old friend in front of him.

"My task is still the same, luxurious building materials, and recruit a group of workers who can sculpture by the way. What about you? What task did you take again?"

They all knew that the witches planned to choose a place outside the city to build a majestic palace, so almost all the transportation tasks recently were related to this matter.

"Me? Haha! I took over a whole ship of lacquer missions!"

The alcoholic captain wiped the wine scum from his beard, and gestured proudly with his hands.

"Raw lacquer? This thing is hard to get..."

Old Billy frowned. Where could he get raw lacquer? Of course he knew that he had seen this mission before.

Although the reward for this task is very high, but, he dislikes that the journey is too long, and it is too time-consuming to go back and forth, so it is not very cost-effective? Therefore, after several considerations, in order to take more missions and earn more money, he gritted his teeth and gave up this mission, and took over the mission of purchasing luxurious and precious building materials.

"Under normal circumstances, it's not easy to get it, after all, the place of production is too far away! But... I recently had a friend who happened to know where there is such a batch of goods, and the price is only 60% of the usual price! So , huh, you understand."

The old drunkard smiled triumphantly at Old Billy, squeezed his eyes, and gave the other party a look that both could understand. When he spoke, there were bursts of unpleasant smells from his big, generous lips. Alcoholic.

"Hehe... I understand, I understand!"

Old Billy looked at his old friend angrily, and patted him on the shoulder vigorously.

This bastard must have bought such a batch of raw lacquer from a pirate again, right? It's really cheap, this old bastard, unexpectedly encountered such a cheap thing at this stall!

You must know that when pirates sell goods, they usually only sell 60% to 80% of the normal price, and sometimes even less! In this way, it is not difficult to imagine, what kind of benefits the drunkard in front of him can earn after this trip?

"Okay, okay! Let's not talk about these annoying things! Now I invite you to drink! My treat! Drink as you like! How about it?"

This old alcoholic who had always been stingy, after making another windfall, had a rare burst of pride. From this point of view, he must have made a lot of money recently?

"Drink..."

Old Billy frowned and thought about it. He estimated in his mind how long it would take his merchant ship to unload and load supplies.

Because, having learned the lesson, he knows that once he goes drinking with this old alcoholic who doesn't drink, he will have a hangover for a day or two! At that time, if you miss the best date for sailing, it will be very bad. After all, the current time is equivalent to shiny gold coins!

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Everyone, get out of the way!"

Just as Old Billy was weighing whether to accept the old drunkard's invitation, groups of cavalrymen in red cloaks rushed directly towards the stone pier where they were standing.

And behind these cavalrymen, there were hundreds of ordinary silver armored soldiers holding muskets. These foot soldiers are not full-body armor like cavalry, but only have a silver breastplate with a flame pattern and a silver open helmet, with a shield on their back and a short sword pinned to their waist.

In the past three months, especially after the annihilation of the Caribbean fleet, the strength of the witches has once again made great progress!

More and more citizens began to believe that witches have enough power to continue to develop here in the Jamaica Islands, so more and more people chose to join the Vulcan Cult.

Therefore, in just three months, Charlotte's subordinates already had more than a hundred battle witches, plus more than a thousand knights from the Knights of the Guardian Order. The outside world also called them flame knights. .

Then, there are nearly 2,000 ordinary soldiers. These ordinary soldiers are also called flame soldiers by the citizens. They are equipped with daggers that are simply enchanted with flames, five iron shields with flame patterns on their backs, a musket, and some ammunition at their waists.

Most of these ordinary soldiers were converted from the British soldiers after being captured. Anyway, the witches captured nearly ten thousand prisoners one after another. The wall is grass! They often only need to slightly adapt and change their costumes, and they will quickly become members of the Vulcan Cult!

Those who refused to do so are still working as coolies on the construction site outside the city! Before no one comes to redeem them, I'm afraid they can only continue to work. How can these two or five boys who have taken refuge in witches live comfortably?

"Whose are these two merchant ships? Now, let's get out of here immediately! This place has been requisitioned temporarily!"

Mary Chaska reined in her steed a little strangely, and narrowly stopped in front of Old Billy and the old drunkard.

It has only been less than three months since she started practicing horse riding. It is already quite good to be able to reach this level without knocking the two of them into the sea!

"Sir, sir? These two ships belong to us. Excuse me, did something happen? Why do you want to requisition the pier?"

The sudden occurrence of this kind of thing caught the two of them a little off guard.

Because both of their ships have just started unloading, and if they want to change the dock, it will waste at least a whole day.

"Don't ask too much! Now, move your boat to the pier over there!"

After Mary took off her helmet, she glared at the two of them fiercely.

Then, holding her red helmet in one hand, she pointed to a wooden temporary pier that was still empty in the distance. Now that things are a little urgent, she doesn't want to spend time here with these two ship owners, otherwise, sister Charlotte will definitely punish herself!

"Yes, yes! We're going right away! Going now!"

Seeing the angry witch on the horse, the two quickly bowed their heads.

Then, they turned their heads to greet their sailors, untied the cables tied to the pier, and prepared to move their respective cargo ships to the low temporary pier in the distance.

"Who is in charge here? Come out quickly!"

After dismissing the two old captains, Mary began to look around anxiously and asked loudly.

This time the time was very tight and the task was arduous, and she seemed to have never had a similar experience, so she couldn't help being nervous!

She just received an order that she must take care of everything here at the pier before dusk.

Afterwards, more people will come towards the pier. Today's mission is very important to them witches and the Fire God Cult, and she cannot tolerate the slightest mistake here!

"Dear Priest Mary, I am Charlie, the Chief Port Affairs Officer here. Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

At this time, a middle-aged man with a gentle appearance hurriedly walked out of the crowd of onlookers, and gracefully took off his hat to Mary Chaska on the horse.

Of course he recognized Mary and the other party's attire, the red battle armor and the golden flame cloak, which were the special armor and cloak for the goddess priests in the Vulcan Cult! It is said that in the entire Vulcan Sect, there are currently only four? Therefore, it is impossible for him to make a mistake.

He, Charlie, was originally a down-and-out little nobleman. Later, relying on the skin of a nobleman, he reluctantly got a job as a small port steward here in Port Royal, and his life was carefree. However, if you want to get rich or get promoted, there is definitely no hope.

However, after the witches occupied Port Royal, he saw the opportunity, and immediately transformed himself into the first group of believers who surrendered to the Vulcan Sect!

Then, as a matter of course, by virtue of his experience and knowledge, he obtained the lucrative position of port affairs officer who manages the entire port and all civilian wharves. In this way, not only his salary doubled, but even gray income made him rich quickly.

Therefore, when it comes to his support and loyalty to the Flame God Sect, perhaps, in the entire Port Royale, he belongs to one of the highest group of people!

"Oh? So it's you... Then it's easy to handle! Now, I hope you will clean up all the debris from the distance from the pier to the city gate before dusk! Moreover, the distance between 50 meters on both sides of this road No one is allowed to come near! These soldiers behind me, they will assist you, is there any problem?"

Of course, Mary knew this Charlie Herbert. He was one of the earliest followers of the Vulcan Sect. Now, the other party also had a high reputation in the Sect.

It is said that his management ability is also very strong, and he is also loyal to the God Cult. Unfortunately, he is a man and too old. He can neither enter the Witch Academy to learn magic, nor can he join the God Cult army. Qualifications, perhaps, he will be a missionary at most in the future? Or be in charge of a place as a governor?

Anyway, Mary also knows that Sister Charlotte will definitely not be satisfied with occupying a Port Royal. She has seen Sister Charlotte draw a big red circle in the entire New World. When the time comes, this Charlie Definitely useful.

"As you wish, my lord priest! Soon, I will take care of everything."

After another salute, Charlie turned and left. He planned to gather his group of subordinates and assign tasks quickly.

For him, this kind of thing is too easy and simple. Before dusk, he will definitely be able to exceed the task!

This action of the Divine Cult was very abnormal. Although he had a vague guess in his heart, he was as wise as he was and didn't ask any further questions.

He has been in the officialdom for many years, so he will not be stupid enough to ask his boss why he does things. For him, it is the right way to bury his head in doing things, so as to leave a good impression on his superiors that he can do things and can do things!

Moreover, he is very confident in the development of the Flame God Cult! Now, he is very satisfied with the speed of the development of the power of the divine religion. In addition, his current status in the divine religion is not low, so he is looking forward to his future achievements!

Although he didn't know the phrase "government grows out of the barrel of a gun", he also understood that if the Vulcan Cult continued to develop steadily in this way, with the extraordinary power of the witches, their fanatical beliefs and magic, this Everything in the world will be unstoppable!

The current Charlie Herbert has long dismissed his original status as a minor British nobleman!

What he wants are those higher and more noble existences! You know, this new continent is very big, and this world is even bigger!

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