My friends are all pirates

The outside of the window gradually became quiet, there was no sound of rainstorm hitting the glass, and there was sunshine.

Asherid walked to the window, and outside was the calm sea despite the ups and downs.

He picked up the long sword, tied it around his waist again, opened the door and walked out.

"Captain, how are you resting?"

When the companions on the deck saw him coming out, they all greeted Ashred.

No kidding, Ah Sherid is now the king of the boat, exploding in popularity.

For someone else, try hiding in the cabin when the weather is bad like him?Immediate layoff is the basic practice.

"It's okay, it's okay, everyone has worked hard." Asherid was smiling all over his face. Happiness came so quickly, and he was still a little unaccustomed to it.

Getting used to the enthusiasm of companions is much slower than getting used to the nature-type Devil Fruit.

The choppy sea was a perfect description of his mood right now.

This fruit completely disrupted his plans for his future.

The game between people also includes the comparison of chips. Knowledge is the chip, and so is ability.

Devil Fruit users, whether they like it or not, will definitely "stand out" from the crowd and become a must-have active character on stages.

Alsherid, who has always been accustomed to clinging to trends and making money silently, has not completely transformed from his original role at this time, and he is still not sure how to adjust.

Then he saw the shipwreck survivor who had joined the expedition, Daniel Coker.

Except for the somewhat unhappy episode, everyone on the Imagination is generally satisfied with Daniel Coke. He can abide by the rules on the ship, and he can fully cooperate with everyone's work on the island. In the end, in the When it came to saying goodbye to his island home, he didn't slack off, working hard at first, helping to load the last lumber, casks, salted fish onto the boat.

His thin body due to living alone for too long may even make people worry about whether he will be injured by an accident.

In any case, Daniel Koch used his performance to defuse the bad impression he had given to the crew of the Imagination because of his Devil Fruit.

Daniel Kok was assigned to the middle deck. The people on the middle deck did not have high requirements for experience and skills. They belonged to an unimportant position among skilled workers. They were mainly responsible for using the winches on the ship. Daniel Kok saw that Ya When she was in Sherid, he quickly and respectfully called the captain.

Although privateers and pirate ships do the same thing, their small societies are more like merchant ships than pirates, with a strict hierarchy.

Daniel Coke, who was born on a privateer, has a sense of fear of the captain's authority in his bones.

Asherid didn't bother to correct the other party, since his companions let it go, there must be a reason.

Better weather didn't bring better luck.

The ensuing voyage of the Kink was frustrating. It drifted for weeks without a ship in sight and the mood of the crew became increasingly gloomy. Broken legs, lying in the hammock and moaning, the atmosphere on the boat is even worse.

Maybe it's because the previous disaster has not faded from everyone's memory, and no one transfers their grievances to Asherid, but Asherid knows that if the situation does not change, the Imagination may have to take another risk.

Finding and capturing rich loot for everyone is the basic duty of the captain of a pirate ship.

If the ship cannot be encountered again, then the Imagination will inevitably consider another channel-giving up looking for merchant ships and going directly to the islands to attack those rich towns.

The wealth of land naturally far exceeds that of merchant ships with limited capacity.

In Blue Star, regardless of things, wealth obtained from land has always been one of the main sources of income for the pirate group, but the risk of attacking land is much higher than attacking merchant ships. The longer the pirates stay on land, the more It is easy to be counter-killed by the assembled land forces.

But in the world of One Piece, geographical environment is no longer the decisive factor in land battles.

Just like on the Blue Star, one hundred Spanish colonists in Pizarro could slaughter thousands of Inca warriors, and the Chinese Empire, with more than one million troops, would be grandiosely landed ashore by thousands of invaders, burned, killed and looted. The ability to face opponents without domineering or other supernatural combat power can easily have the same "dimension reduction strike" effect.

Ashred is actually unwilling to adopt this method, not entirely because of morality, after all he has become a pirate, but from a utilitarian point of view, he is also a risk averse.

When pirates are having fun, the longer the time on land, the better, and vice versa when working.

A ship appeared in time, saving Alcherid from immediately choosing this option, which he regarded as a "bad" option.

It was a lousy prize, though—a sixteen-ton coastal trading barque captured by the Fantastic, whose presence suggested that the Fantastic was approaching an island.

There were only seven crew members and eight slaves on the ship. When the pirate flag was hoisted on the Imagination, the crew surrendered neatly.

The Crew of the Wonder had no satisfactory spoils from the ship, much less the ship itself.

But similar trophies began to appear in a steady stream.

Henry found a deserted island covered in guano nearby. The Imagination used this deserted island as a base and began its raiding activities. In just a few days, it captured four ships, one of which was It weighs five hundred tons, but its main cargo is the pirates' least favorite slaves.

Pirate ships with scattered revenue and concentrated costs have no room for slaves at all. The only way they accept slaves is to let slaves join their ranks as companions instead of continuing to use them as slaves.

The Curiosity could neither host these slaves nor treat them as enemies.

There were 73 slaves on this ship, most of whom were women and children. Their names were sorted according to gender and category in the accounts. Two of them were marked as "useful men", both sailors, and two baby girls. Upon questioning, these people were all from non-member countries and were not protected by the laws of the world government. They were trafficked to nearby islands and worked to death all their lives, but their masters recently sold them again.

It was a rich island of slaves.

Most of the crew members of the Imagination have wives and children. As pirates, they can usually refuse the requests of strangers without thinking, but when faced with a large group of women and children, especially children and babies, many people have a hard heart be more thorough.

The crew of the Imagination temporarily hid the captured ship and these slaves on a deserted island, but this did not solve the problem fundamentally.

Ashred began to change from the captain of the Imagination to the leader of a small fleet, with more and more prisoners and slaves, but when the number of slaves exceeded 200, as the water storage decreased rapidly, Asherid knew that now it was not a question of how to choose, but that they had to go to land.

A crew meeting was held. At the meeting, everyone quickly reached a consensus—since the whereabouts were to be exposed, they should simply surprise them and directly attack the rich towns built on the bones of slaves.

Chapter 23 Let the Slave Master Die

According to the information provided by the slaves, the island they came to is no longer a society that allows slavery, but a complete slave society. When buying slaves, they will also sell them. There will be dozens of hundreds of ships every year. The number of slaves on the island far exceeds that of urban residents, and the so-called urban residents are actually limited to farmers, managers, servants, officials and subordinates of urban institutions, and no one else be free.

This makes the "residents" feel fear occasionally, fearing that these slaves working in farms, ranches or workshops will riot. In order to maintain order, they implement strict slave laws, and slave owners can punish them in any way. Although there is a fine for killing without reason, the punishment for slaves includes castration, cutting off limbs or burning alive, and these do not require any legal procedures.

Even so, there are still slaves fleeing desperately every year. The successful ones establish their simple settlements in the mountains, where they grow crops, raise their families, believe in their own religion, train jungle warriors who appear and rob farms, or find Opportunity raids towns, frees slaves, and slays brutal slave owners.

Every slave on the island believed that those who had escaped and returned to freedom were led by a witch who would protect her warriors with magical spells.

Hearing this, Asherid's previous worries disappeared. In such a hell on earth, beating it is 100% for his own merits.

Moreover, from the mouths of the slaves, the crew also learned that some towns had just had a plague, and although it had subsided, the defense force was almost abolished.

They are still rich. After all, the plague attacks people, not property. The loss of manpower caused by the plague will also make it impossible for the slave owners to transfer their wealth immediately even if they are attacked.

This is truly a God-given opportunity.

But what to do with the pirate's landing is really a blind spot for Asherid.

If you want to ask him why he pulled out tens of thousands of people from both sides to find a big plain to fight together, he is familiar with it. If it is impossible, it is not impossible to go to the forest to fight guerrillas. A town of a thousand people is completely blacked out.

But then Henry told him - no need, the messier the other party, the better.

And they are not just dozens of people.

Among the more than 200 slaves who temporarily regained their freedom due to the Imagination, some of them were young and strong. Because they had traveled to the sea many times, they were somewhat adapted to life at sea, and could even handle ships and weapons. They lived as slaves and exercised their organizational skills. This part of the people expressed their willingness to accompany the crew of the Imagination to attack their former masters.

As the object of the petition, Ah Sherid agreed after much consideration.

It's not that he has no defense against others, but that he is very familiar with the eyes of these people.

In Longland Diyuan, he had seen many eyes of the same style, the eyes determined to take revenge at all costs.

Before departure, the people, or the slaves, killed all the captured slave ship crew members, lest these people cause trouble after the Imagination left.

People engaged in the slave trade were no longer considered human beings, and no one felt that they were killing people when they were killed.

And the "combat power" erupted by the slaves also made Asherid determined to take these people to land together.

The Imagination sailed away from the deserted island in the evening, accompanied by another ship of the same specification named "Start" that was captured by them. Part of the crew of the Imagination was transferred to that ship. The rest, under the guidance of the former slaves, marched towards the island.

This is probably what Fuji Tailai meant. It didn’t take long for the Imagination and the Beginning to encounter another ship. Judging from the direction, this ship came from exactly where Asherid and the others were going.

As the saying goes, don't miss it when you pass by, it's here.

Considering that the main purpose of this operation was to attack the land at night rather than plunder at sea, it was the first time that Asherid used his ability in a fight in front of everyone.

He wants to save time.

Asherid's first appearance as a person with the ability to burn fruit was quite shocking. Standing on the bow of the ship in full view, Asherid turned his right arm into a flame jet, engulfing the opponent's mast.

Asherid gave this trick a name in a serious manner, called the Red Lotus Hand.

Then the Imagination and the Beginning surrounded the sailing ship that had lost its ability to move. The people on the poor sailing ship were stunned by the "red lotus hand" sent by Asherid. When they reacted, the pirates and slaves They're already on deck.

When Asherid also jumped onto the deck, the crew of the ship obediently surrendered without the courage to resist.

After searching, they found that the ship was carrying a large number of pearls, 74 slaves and several wealthy "passengers", which greatly boosted everyone's morale.

Of course, the crew of this ship would not end well just based on the slave trade, and the 74 slaves were all young and strong.

When the Imagination and the Beginning set off again, the plundered ship had been disintegrated in the fire and became garbage temporarily floating on the sea. As for the passengers on board, except for 74 slaves, none of them survived.

The 74 slaves were all "mature" slaves, so they also hated the slave owners, and they joined the team of Asherid and others.

Most of the slaves in the comics have lost their ability to resist. This is probably related to the fact that they are mostly from Marie Gioia. Obviously, the place where Asherid and the others are going, the ability to "tame" the slaves is worse than that of the world's nobles Far.

As long as these slaves seize the opportunity, they will passionately send the slave master to death.

As the night deepened, the Imagination and the Beginning finally arrived at their destination.

What appeared in front of us was a town located at the mouth of a river.

Asherid has long known from the slaves that its name is Guaya.

But the fight was ridiculous from the start.

Because cheers came from the city of Guaya in the night.

Taking this voice as the other side's Alsherid who was already in full battle, he immediately ordered to attack.

The first sound was the shelling of the Kinkaku and the Beginning.

When the shells flew over the city wall, the cheers quickly turned into screams of horror, which made Alsherid feel that something was wrong, but he had no time to think about it after all the shots were fired.

The commander on the Commencement was the first mate, Diss. When he saw that the Imagination had lowered the longboat, the Commencement immediately followed up.

The two boats stayed outside the mouth of the river, and more than [-] people from each rowed a long boat and started to land.

The whole login process was almost effortless.

When the pirates rushed into the town led by the slaves, they discovered that the previous cheers were people from this town celebrating.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

The angry slaves familiarly led the pirates to rush to the mansions where their former masters were. With the swordsman and naturalist Asherid, the town's armed forces could not stop it at all.

The specially thickened door was easily blasted open.

A guard rushed out, and they met Hades immediately after meeting him.

Al Sherid's long sword was soon stained with blood, and these armed guards were no match for him at all.

It also failed to become a threat to others.

As Henry said, the messier the better.

Faced with a sudden sea raid and ensuing slave riots, the armed forces in Guaya were disorganized from the start.

There was only one time when Asherid saw a cannon set up on the opposite side as soon as he entered the door, so he sent a shot of "Red Lotus Hand" over without saying a word, and blasted the other party to the sky together with the cannon.

In front of the "burning man" of Asherid, the armed forces of the slave owners did not work at all. The fanatical slaves couldn't even wait for Asherid to open the gates one by one. The walls used by the slave owners to protect the mansion, and the devils who had been able to treat them cruelly before were drawn out of their hiding places and beaten to death one by one.

The pirates' search went smoothly, and the battle was much smoother than they expected, mainly due to the abused slaves.

Not the "liberated" slaves who came with the pirates, although they were one of them, but the slaves who were still suffering in this town were the main force.

The people killed by them were far more than those killed by pirates. Many slave owners were dragged to the street and trampled to death by them.

At the same time, they know exactly where their master hides their wealth, which greatly shortens the time for pirates to collect property.

Pirates can even be so luxurious that they only choose the most valuable things as trophies.

After a night of "carnival", there was no longer a living slave owner in the city of Guaya.

The slaves spontaneously helped the pirates move their favorite spoils to the two large ships parked at the mouth of the river. Some slaves decided to follow the pirates' footsteps and leave the island, while others decided to go into the mountains to find the magical The witch, and the other slave owners on this island are immortal.

There are also some people who decided to become pirates. They seized the unowned ships in the port and took away everything they felt necessary in the town.

When the Imagination and the Began set sail again, the original crew members of the Imagination felt like they were in a dream, because the ship was full of looted property. In the history of the Brotherhood of the Coast, there had never been such a rich loot. From this moment on, most people can consider ending their life as pirates and going back to their hometowns.

What they need to consider most now is how to realize these properties.

And this needs to rely on the trading network of the underground world.

Back on the deserted island, the first problem Asherid and his companions faced was distributing the spoils and changing ships.

Due to the various sloppy things on this trip, the Imagination is no longer suitable for Ya Sherid and the others to continue as a ship, and the successful raid on Guaya City gave them a better choice.

It was not just the Beginning that accompanied the Imagination back to the deserted island, but also the former slaves who were determined to follow the path of pirates, and many sailors. They drove several ships out of the port of Guaya, and the rest were taken by them. There was a fire.

And this unknown deserted island, although it is full of bird droppings, is a good stronghold in the eyes of the slaves.