Pirate Kingship-Chapter 806 - 500: Threaded Lens, Chronicle of Ages

"Huff... Huff..."

The tropical rainforest road is rugged, and the Barbary people who have been fleeing in the dark for a long time are panting like bellows.

Some truly can't run anymore, and implore the pirate captain Schindler:

"Sch... Schindler, is there no way for us to call for assistance?

Is there any way to send a distress signal to the neighboring Barbary Pirate Kingdom? Ocean Throne Barbarossa Hailidin will definitely not allow those crazy Remit people to continue their rampage.

They might even take back their promise to let them establish a country here, and drive them back into the sea again."

The Barbary people are pirates no worse than the Bayfolk, with many Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinarys, and a certain ruthlessness in their bones.

Suddenly backstabbed by the Remit people they kindly took in, they felt absurd, and all that remained was boundless anger.

All of them wondered if those bankers of the "Monetary Restoration Party" had gone mad, daring to attack Barbary people with a Pirate King overseeing them.

Yet they failed to realize why none of the Church states, which were more familiar with the Remit people, took them in?

Simply because the Barbary people's homeland was far on the West Coast, and they had never suffered at the hands of the Remit people.

The story of the farmer and the snake was foretold from the very beginning.

Upon hearing their words, Schindler could only smile bitterly:

"Request assistance? Haven't you realized, when we mistakenly fell into the trap earlier, we were already bought off by the Remit people's 'Seal Fee'?

I'm just a Second Order 'pirate' of the Lighthouse Sequence, the other side's Order is higher than ours, and I can't nullify their ability.

Don't hope for the Ocean Throne to save us, now there's nothing to do but keep running."

[Seal Fee] is one of the abilities of the Gold Sequence Pawnbroker.

Once you've taken their money, you absolutely cannot leak a word, nor divulge any information unfavorable to the pawnbroker.

The normal usage is to intentionally drop some gold coins, silver coins on the ground for others to pick up, thus effecting the ability.

But these people are even more shameless.

They directly established a new tax law in the land they occupied, specifically targeting non-Remit people:

"In this land, inhaling will be taxed, exhaling will be taxed, holding your breath will be taxed, stopping breathing will also be taxed.

Tying shoelaces will be taxed, wearing shoes will be taxed, going barefoot will be taxed, and if anyone dares protest against these taxes, it will be taxed too..."

Therefore, as soon as one accidentally steps on the land they've enclosed, they'll immediately be forced to pay, falling into debt.

If they don't immediately pay the Remit people the taxes, the 'Seal Fee' will take effect instantly.

What follows is a one-sided great escape game.

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!...

They hadn't run too far in the rainforest when ropes with flying stones were thrown out from the dense jungle behind, tripping many Barbary people, making them fall heavily to the ground.

The stones tied at both ends of the rope spun around by inertia, binding their legs firmly.

Before they could break free and continue fleeing, firearms were pressed against their heads.

"There's no escape, we'll be caught one by one before reaching the river."

"Let's fight them!"

Someone shouted, and the other fugitives responded, each drawing their Fischer Slash Sword, loading their firearms.

Schindler's only organized escort group lined up neatly and lifted the "Deck Cleaner."

It's just that before Byron reclaimed the throne, the bolt-action rifle issuance was restricted, not equipped to their cargo fleet.

Soon after, the opposite hillside shook, and one by one the formidable Remit Slave-catcher Team members walked out, sneering, not taking their resistance to heart at all.

The elderly among the Barbary people angrily rebuked on the spot:

"You despicable Remit people, can't you tell who's the big king, who's the little king in the Southern Continent?

Or do you think Ocean Throne King Barbarossa Hayreddin's sword isn't sharp enough?

Daring to move against the Barbary Pirate Kingdom, are you all crazy!"

The Slave-catcher Team paid no heed to the questioning from mere "prey."

They are authorized by the Church, executing a secret mission, not revealing that their target is precisely these Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinarys, First Order, Second Order, all welcome.

The Remit people aren't foolish either.

Though they've willingly become the Church and Puppet King's Black Gloves, they aren't brainless brawlers.

First, the bankers used their "banknote power" skillfully, anonymously ordering in major black markets, brokers, slave trade firms, and military dispatch companies to capture extraordinary slaves throughout the colonies, stirring the overseas waters completely.

Then secretly targeting the neighboring Barbary people with a high proportion of Lighthouse Sequences themselves.

The Remit people also know that if they only catch Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinarys, it won't take long before they're found out, better off catching them all together.

By then, they'll just hand over the Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinarys to the Church, and sell off the other Sequences, conveniently making a huge profit.

Slave-catching is one of their traditional businesses, they've long been adept at it, having secretly pulled several successful schemes at the border, without any issues.

They're even preparing to plan a separation zone, pushing a part of heretical Barbary people inside, letting them continuously produce Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinarys, only needing to harvest periodically.