I can only achieve nothing and become the Pirate King.

Chapter 370: Deprived of Flame
After everyone had eaten their fill and settled down, Sager finally had time to look at the town.

The town's buildings are all made of stone, and the whole thing looks like a pointed mushroom.

It was clearly stone, but the flames started and turned most of the houses black.

And
Seeing the irregular charred stones scattered on the street, Sager snorted, "It looks like there was an explosion."

Among those buildings, some had holes blown in their mushroom roofs, and some were simply blown off entirely, but no casualties were reported so far.

It seemed as if everyone in the town had gathered at the door.

"How could there be an explosion?"

The Xihai man named Becky was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of something. He clenched his fists and showed a fierce look: "Grace has appeared?!"

"It must be that bastard!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, "Only he has the power to control poisonous fire and explosions. We evacuated when the fire was burning, and then there was an explosion. It must be him!"

"That guy."

Becky gritted his teeth and said, "Why? Why is he still doing this? Haven't he made enough mistakes? That mediocre guy who calls himself a chef, that big liar!"

"Excuse me."

At this moment, Marika walked out of the broken houses, holding strange roots and weed-like plants in her hands.

She opened her smiling eyes at this moment, with a rare solemnity and a bit of confusion in her eyes:

"I didn't see any utensils that used flames. The iron pot was no longer usable. It had been put aside for a long time."

These guys don't seem to be lazy people.

No matter how lazy a person is, if he is about to starve to death, he will still find a way to get food to eat.

Even if there are people who would rather starve to death than eat bad food, they are not like these people.

Because the Bingliang Pills tasted really bad, but they all ate them.

That's not the reason of laziness and weirdness.

And the things in her hand
"Is this how you fill your stomach?" Marika seemed to be hesitant to speak.

As if she felt Sager's gaze, she thought for a moment and said:
"Well, every household has these things, and there are signs of gnawing and chewing on them. You ate them, right?"

She looked at those people, including Becky, and they all nodded.

"Lady Marika, this is indeed what we used to fill our stomachs before. We had no choice but to eat because we were too hungry to bear it anymore," said Becky.

"Sage, these things are not inedible, they are just difficult to eat"

Marika shook the root with bite marks in her hand and said, "I just crushed a little bit and tasted it. It's hard to swallow. It's not something that can be chewed by teeth. It's also very difficult to digest. The only good thing is that it can be eaten and you will feel full after eating it."

"This stuff will eventually be digested, but in the long run it will only make people weaker and weaker without any nutrition."

As she spoke, she picked up the weed-like plant again and said, "It should be a vegetable. It has some water and salt. It should be a plant unique to the islands in the deep sea. It is edible, but the salt it carries has killed its own nutrients. Long-term intake is poisonous."

Even for her, it was difficult to cook with the things in her hands, let alone these people.

"But there is one thing. If you boil water, you can cook the rhizomes until they are mushy. The leaves can be roasted over a fire to evaporate the toxic substances, turning them into a salty, dried kelp-like food."

"It's not very nutritious, but it's still edible."

Marika said slowly to Becky: "But here's the problem. I didn't find any traces of fire, not even a spark. Can you tell me why you didn't use fire?"

"us."

Becky pursed his lips and said, "Lord Sager, Lord Marika, we know how to eat this thing, but the people of Yunshan Kingdom are no longer allowed to use any fire, and we can't find any fire either."

The basin island where the Yunshan Kingdom is located is close to the doldrums and is itself a deep sea area.

The so-called ocean is just water covering the land. Because of the continental shelf, the area close to the continent is the near sea, and the area far from the continent is the deep sea. As for how deep it is, no one knows so far.

In addition to these basic common sense, the magical ocean is more of an existence that subverts common sense.

The Yunshan Kingdom is a large island with no land around it. It is more like a pillar under the ocean, connected to the bottomless ocean.

Islands in the deep sea area will inevitably lead to barren land, and there will be no fish resources around. It is very difficult for deep-sea fish to swim up, and the only ferocious sea kings that occasionally swim up can reach the sea surface.

But the barren land did not make these people give up. This is why they are called the country of chefs and gourmets. Any edible food and spice that can be used can be found here, and with the superb skills of the chefs, they gradually became famous.

But three years ago, the old king died and the new king, Ferngard, came to the throne, and everything changed.

He was a tyrant. Since he took office, he began to search for famous chefs in the kingdom to fill his palace. To this end, he even held a chef conference, inviting famous chefs from all over the country to participate, and selected the top 100 to enter the palace to serve him.

Then he issued a decree that Yunshan Kingdom would no longer allow chefs, and expelled other chefs. Those who refused to leave would be killed. The Kingdom of Chefs began to decline from that moment on.

People at that time were extremely angry and believed that the king had ruined the Unshan Kingdom and caused the country to decline.

Then they realized that they were still conservative.

Two years ago, Ferngard issued an order that even civilians were not allowed to cook privately, otherwise they would be treated as illegal chefs. If they wanted to cook, they had to pay a high cooking tax to be qualified to cook.

Although this was a huge burden, everyone had no choice but to teach him in order to make a living, and secretly cursed Ferngard for being a bad person.

Then they realized that it was too early to say this.

A year ago, Ferngard announced that opening fire was not allowed and confiscated the right to make fire for everyone under his rule!

Fire, flint, wood... Anything that can burn is not allowed to be used. If you want to use fire, you have to pay a combustion tax. In addition, you have to buy expensive wood from him.

The Yunshan Kingdom is an island in a deep sea basin, so barren that it doesn't even have trees. The wood used in the past was brought in by foreign merchants before the kingdom declined.

Now it is in decline, no one comes, and the rare wood is only found in the royal palace.

Flint, fire, and wood all cost money, and using fire costs money, and cooking costs money. And buying ingredients, even if you grow them yourself, still costs money.

In the end, Ferngard waved his hand and took the fire for himself. From then on, no fire-making tools were allowed in this kingdom, and no flint or fire was allowed!
The earliest greatness of mankind, of course, began with making fire. Without fire, people would have to live a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood.

So some went out to sea, some starved, all to find a way to survive.

And in the midst of this disaster, a horror legend emerged in the kingdom.

Someone tricked people into making fire to cook by claiming to use unnatural fire. At first, people were very happy because someone could finally circumvent the king's decree and everyone could make fire again.

But they soon discovered something was wrong. The flame was indeed a flame, but the gas emitted by the flame was poisonous. Not only did that gas make the food toxic, it was also inhaled by people who cooked near the flame. It caused quite a disaster at the time and many people were poisoned.

The culprit, Grace, escaped and began to use this fire in other places. It became even more exaggerated, from poisoning to poisoning plus explosion, making people in the kingdom regard it as a horror legend.

In the whole country, only Grace can use fire, so wherever there are fire and explosions, it must be Grace!
"That's a fellow as hateful as the king!"

Becky clenched his fists tightly. "We're already having a hard time, and yet he's still trying to deceive us, using poisonous flames to make us suffer. We're all civilians, but he's enjoying deceiving us!"

"Becky."

The familiar person next to him patted his shoulder and shook his head, saying, "Forget it, it's in the past. No one blames you."

"No! I won't forgive myself either! Now that I'm a pirate, I have the ability to take revenge! I must make that guy pay the price!" Becky shouted.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a little cold. He turned around and saw Sager looking at him like this, and then waved, "Come here."

"master"

Becky moved closer, and Sag realized that this guy was much taller than he had imagined. He was actually 2.34 meters tall, which was taller than him who was 1.9 meters tall.

Or usually he keeps his head down, being submissive and making people subconsciously ignore him.

If you look carefully.
"How old are you?" asked Sarge.

"Master, I'm fourteen years old," said Becky.

“I didn’t expect that.”

Sager smiled and said, "You seem to be doing well. Come on."

He didn't care much about it before, but after seeing the situation here, he suddenly realized that the guys who could go out to sea as pirates here were really brave and had great willpower.

And this guy named Becky is vaguely the leader of this group of people from West Sea who have joined in.

It seems that with some training, he can become a good subordinate.

"But I don't want to stand and listen to you talk about things now. I'll leave the people here to you to settle. After you're done, lead the way. I want to go to the palace."

Sag had no interest in any conflicts or disputes. He just wanted to take all the people in this country away.

As for the aristocrats, they have the legal right to rule, and people have no concept of resistance. They just accept everything as it comes.

Sager is very familiar with cracking such things.

Just kill it.

If you beat the people to death first, then the country will be ownerless, and the people living here will also be ownerless.

But before that, he really wanted to meet the king.

Such a ruling method should be very rich, right?

(End of this chapter)