Seeing the strangely looking soldiers on the opposite side, everyone else on the ship also showed surprise.

They had roamed overseas for many years, encountering Bearkin, Eagle People, Shark People, Frog People frequently, but it was their first time seeing such a group that seemed like pure humans with skin black as charcoal.

"Devils! These are indeed the kin of the devils!"

"Luckily it’s still daytime now; if they launched a night attack, we would definitely suffer."

"Yes, this kin group has a one hundred percent night battle boost, naturally born for nocturnal combat.

If they were to raid at night, others wouldn’t even notice.

Even a [Painter] with the ability to complete a [Mind Sketching] within a tenth of a second wouldn’t be able to capture their silhouettes, let alone distinguish who is who."

"We pirates have met our nemesis." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Among both pirate officers and regular pirates, many believed this was the skin color of the kin of devils.

Of course, at the moment Byron successfully ascended to become King, they had completely shed their pirate identity, becoming the legitimate Navy of the Kingdom of Hightins, though they hadn’t fully adjusted yet.

It was his cousin [Sea Magician] Saranthe, who also hailed from the Eastern Continent, that answered their confusion.

He habitually first confirmed in his mind that this piece of information did not violate any taboo and did not interact with a high-ranking presence before lightly coughing and explaining:

"Among the three continents surrounding the Sea of Monsters, the Old Continent [Dragon Court] has the highest terrain, and the Eastern Continent [Corridor of Truth] has the lowest.

When the Blue Hole randomly appears globally, it brings the ’immigrants’ and unique species from around the world to the Eastern Continent.

Therefore, the [Corridor of Truth] can be considered a human museum of the Material World.

White skin, red skin, yellow skin, black skin, all kinds of humanoids, Ancient God’s Chosen Races..., almost anything you can imagine can be found there.

I also heard about the exiled princess of the Ancient Silver Empire’s last royal family, who rooted herself in one of the countries in the [Corridor of Truth] and married its King, so saying the Empire’s orthodoxy lies in the Eastern Continent wouldn’t be too far-fetched."

"As for these black-skinned soldiers, they belong to a group living in the tropical south of a continent, self-proclaimed as: the Black Iron People, considered one of the native peoples of the Eastern Continent.

But as early as several hundred years ago, they were subdued, ruled, and enslaved by increasing numbers of outsiders, with most pushed into plantations as slaves and a few trained as soldiers.

Oh, right, they apparently have a nickname: ’Biological Automatic Cotton Harvester’, something I heard from some coastal southern cotton farm owners during idle chats.

However, with so many years gone by, a considerable number have climbed out of slavery to high positions, accounting for roughly 15% of all racial numbers.

After all, in the eyes of many living ’knowledge’, they don’t care about the race of the rulers, for them, it’s merely their ’reserve food.’

While we Mermaids Kingdom reside in the water, we’ve heard that aside from the Black Iron Race, it seems there’s also a Black Merfolk kingdom in the southern seas.

Due to the slaves being constantly ’splashing’ into the water when transported by sea, that underwater kingdom must have been transformed into Black Merfolk.

Our ancestors worried that our children might have nightmares, so they never made contact with them."

Violet heard this and curiously asked:

"The Eastern Continent already has Whale Oil technology, hasn’t it? Why do they continue using inefficient slavery for centuries?"

Saranthe shook his head:

"Whale Oil technology follows the Miracle Object path, usable only by Black Witches, a world isolated from ordinary people.

Many lower-level ordinary people don’t even know an Extraordinary World exists.

Though Whale Oil technology is considered a widely used standardized Miracle Object, its cost is still too high for agricultural production, far less economical than using slaves.

Moreover, since there are plentiful cheap laborers available, those ’knowledge’ ruling the Corridor of Truth have little interest in expanding social welfare, developing agricultural machinery.

Instead, they invest the tech tree completely into the military domain, birthing numerous weapons and equipment like Whale Oil Powered Sentries, Whale Oil Chainswords, Siege Engines, Bombs, War Chariots, Electro Towers..."

Byron looked at the "Black Iron Race" soldiers on the opposite side, feeling a strong sense of déjà vu and temporal dislocation absurdity.

It was known that the Echidna Triangular Circulation rotates counterclockwise.

As the Source Tide rises, after opening the route, these black-skinned colonizers sail along the "Third Ring Current Zone" and flood into the Dragon Court.

Capturing white slaves and then sending them along the "First Circulation Zone" to the Hundred Beasts Paradise colony abundant in fertile land, selling them to various Old God Church and Kin forces on the East Coast.

Then they load up with various Gold, Silver, Spices, Herbal Medicines from the Southern Continent’s specialties and return via the "Second Circulation Belt" to the Eastern Continent.

Supplying their upper class members or developing their extraordinary version of Whale Oil technology and various military techniques.

"Is this not the legendary... triangular trade?

Just in this world, the colonizers landed not on ’Black Africa,’ but ’White Europe.’

Some early developing Black Iron Race members serve as the main force of the colonizers, hunting the white-skinned slaves on the New Continent Dragon Court.

Fortune Emperor is not Fortune Emperor, Luck Emperor is not Luck Emperor, simply reverse heaven gang."

Byron suddenly seemed to see the dark tides surging endlessly from across the opposite sea, breaking through all order, a subtle feeling of being hit by a boomerang rose in his heart.