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Pirate Legend - Chapter 18

Published at 1st of March 2023 06:50:28 AM


Chapter 18

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Because it exceeds the range of 1,000 yards from the sea, most of the functions of the game system will fail, but the character skills are still available. When it is 1,000 yards away from the sea, the game system will recover naturally.

After reading the prompt, Tonk's expression returned to normal. He hired a carriage, paid the fare generously, and asked the coachman to drag him to the beach. Sitting in the bumpy carriage, he kept observing the game system in his mind. When he got close to the sea, the system was activated again.

After this verification, it was proved that this game system can only be used at sea, and it will fail when it reaches the shore.

He returned to the Black Pearl and took the sailors to an inn. Only the troubler was kept in the cell. Tonk left plenty of food for him. He did not intend to starve it to death.

The seaside is full of various business opportunities. There is a group of people who are specially responsible for soliciting customers. As soon as they see the sailors disembarking, they will surround them and drag them to their own hotels.

Tonk booked more than a dozen double rooms and arranged for the sailors to live there. After eating and drinking, he called them together.

"During the stay in Port Carlin, you can indulge as much as you like, but you must ensure that two people are on standby at the hotel every day, because this time I have to plan to go to sea again, and I need someone to help me run errands." Sailors said.

The sailors agreed, and Tonk also distributed some gold coins to them that was enough for them to spend a month.

"Captain, do you know where there are prostitutes in this place?" a sailor said with a wink.

"Inquire for yourself." Tonk scolded with a smile.

Most of the pirates live a life of drunkenness. When they have no money, they go to sea on a pirate ship. When they have money, they go to the shore to enjoy themselves until they are kicked out by the brothel's prostitute when their pockets are empty.

The sailors were free, but Tonk had several urgent matters. The first major thing was to repair the ship and buy enough artillery.

There were three shipyards built right on the shore with three different sizes. A medium-sized ship like the Black Pearl can be repaired no matter where it goes. Tonk chose a nearby shipyard. After swaggering in, someone immediately greeted him with a smile.

Tonk talked about the situation of the Black Pearl and the location where it was docked. After these ships docked, they would be numbered by the port authority, and every ship was in order. In order to better express his intentions, he pulled the businessman in front of the Black Pearl and said his thoughts while gesturing.

"All the damaged areas have to be repaired and cleaned, and now the boat smells like mold. Besides, I'm going to make a good change to the boat. Give me a black base color for the hull and paint some patterns on it in red. I want something simple, but pretty." He did this to make the boat look like it was not Black Toad.

"Add gun doors on the hull, ten on each side, and carving of a faucet on the bow. Remember, you need to make it fierce! You don't need to install the cannon first, I will choose which gun to install. Prepare more sail whether it is a square sail or a jib. I will choose different sails according to the situation. I also have to change my flag, do you have painters here?"

The businessman recorded Tonk's words in a notebook, raised his head and adjusted his glasses, and said, "Of course, the flags made by our shipyard will never fade. This is famous in the Greenland Empire, and the painters are also famous. A painting is worth dozens of gold coins. But since you are here to repair ships and buy guns, I will give you this flag for free."

Tonk didn't believe this statement. Besides, he didn't understand art. As long as the pirate flag they made was in line with his aesthetics.

His aesthetics were very simple, that's fierce!

Under the leadership of the businessman, he found the painter, who was an old man with a hexagonal hat.

The flag of the Evil Dragon Pirates is naturally drawn with an Evil Dragon. There was a dragon tattoo on Tonk's right shoulder. He liked this tattoo, so he simply took off his clothes, let the artist draw according to the tattoo on his right shoulder, and then made it into a flag.

As soon as he revealed his tattoo, the two of them couldn't help but look at each other with bitter smiles.

A tattoo is a major symbol of pirates. If a person wants to drive a ship into a pirate city, he must reveal his tattoo. The pirate flag is a symbol of a ship, and a tattoo is a symbol of a pirate.

The shipyard opened the door to do business, no matter if you were a merchant ship, a military ship, or a pirate ship. As long as you paid, these people did not ask whether Tonk was a pirate or not. Given enough money, they could even build a first-class warship with 100 guns.

It was still early in the sky after Tonk finished dealing with the flag, and he went straight to the artillery shop built by the shipyard facing the sea. The waves beat against the metal frame. There was a row of various artillery pieces on the stage. It shone with the cold light unique to metal.

These artillery pieces were all breech-bore cannons. A solid shell is plugged in, and the gunpowder is filled to blast it out. The basic theory is this, but the types of guns have developed into diversification according to demand.

First of all, the weight varies. Small artillery pieces weigh about one ton, and large artillery pieces even weigh four or five tons. The displacement of the Black Pearl is 150 tons. Tonk had to refer to this value when installing the artillery. He must calculate the weight of the installed artillery and the recoil when the gun is fired.

Secondly, the range, rate of fire, and reloading time are different. Long-range tactics can be used to weaken the enemy ship with a little detour, but the long distance plus the turbulence of the sea makes the artillery's hit rate pitifully low. If the fire rate is fast, you can choose melee combat. This distance uses a horizontal shooting angle, and artillery can hit even if the hit rate is low.

Tonk chatted with the artillery merchant for a long time and probably figured out the advantages of these cannons. At the suggestion of the merchant, he chose a medium-sized cannon with a high rate of fire. The cannon is 2.7 meters long and weighs two tons.

He had an idea and performed the investigation technique on the selected artillery, which was surprisingly effective. The basic information about the artillery was reflected in his mind.

Name: Medium Cannon
Durability: 90 Every firing of the gun causes wears and tear on the artillery. The gun will be scrapped when the durability is 0
Ammunition types: Solid bullets, chain bullets, shrapnels.
Destructive power:
Bullet speed:
Range: 200 yards.
Loading speed: 2 minutes.
Equipment location: The side of the ship.

Due to the short range and fast reloading speed, the Black Pearl can only choose close combat after being equipped with this kind of artillery. Tonk requested that the mounts be built to be detachable so that they could be used in place of the artillery in the future when the bomb-spitting frogs were recruited.

With a range of 350 yards and a rate of fire of a dozen seconds, the bomb-spitting frog is far superior to this kind of artillery. This time the Black Pearl would have a new look, but the cost was also huge. Tonk's paid almost all of his money to it, and now there are only more than 20 gold coins left in the free money.

The sky was already full of stars when Tonk left the shipyard. The streets in the night light up one after another. There were fewer pedestrians on the streets, and those who were eager to go home were in a hurry, but some drunks were still wandering.

Tonk's stomach was empty for a long time, but he didn't plan to go back to the hotel. Those sailors didn't need to worry at all. Maybe they were all holding the women in their arms and drinking and eating. He was looking for where to settle the dinner as he walked.

The dinner party was not found, but he first saw a notice board with various bounty orders posted on it, and there was an image of the head of the Black Toad Pirates.

Name: Harold Hayson.

Reward amount: 45,000 gold coins.

Ding! Activate the bounty system. You can view the pirate's bounty list.

Although many functions of the system have failed that some recruitment and exchange functions were disabled, the interface could still be viewed. Tonk clicked on the main interface and saw that there was an extra [Reward] system, which was filled with the pirate information he had seen on the bulletin board.

His game system belongs to the absorption type. He can get port information when he encounters a port. He can get artillery information when he sees artillery. In addition, all the artillery pieces he saw in the shipyard appeared in the [Exchange] system, which could be exchanged with reward points.

Red Rose Tavern.

Tonk chose to fill his stomach here.





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