Chapter 1 The Beginning

Despite Armand's seemingly confident demeanor, Fang Senyan still had his own trump card:

Reef!

Once Reef, who could awaken into a colonist at any moment, successfully broke through, Fang Senyan believed that the improvement to the team's strength would be even greater than he imagined! Armand, even if he had set up a thousand deadly moves and ten thousand schemes, his personal strength was still limited. Unless his subordinates could reach the level of sailors on the three legendary warships in terms of lethality, it would be impossible to pose a fatal threat.

In Fang Senyan's calculations, as long as Reef awakened, Armand would at most defeat the three of them miserably, destroy the painstakingly accumulated Sam's ship, and kill all the pirate sailors, but killing him would still be an almost impossible task.

But just as the two sides, each harboring their own plans, were about to start fighting again, another brigantine sailed from afar. The pirates on board started sending out urgent flag signals from a distance: "Retreat immediately!"

When the pirates on the ship got closer, he was heard shouting in exasperation, "That damn Norrington utterly defeated the Chevalle pirate group and has returned in triumph! His fleet will soon pass by here, probably to inspect this convenient island for moorage. If we don't leave now, we won't make it!"

This news struck like a bolt from the blue. Armand's facial muscles twisted instantly, and he grabbed the pirate who brought the news, raging out of control, "Say what? What nonsense are you talking about??!!!" The pirate trembled and said, "It's true! Black Sea Son, I'm not lying! At most, Norrington's fleet will be here in ten minutes!"

"Impossible!!" Armand roared. He suddenly turned to look at Fang Senyan on the opposite ship, his venomous eyes seeming to want to cut off Fang Senyan's flesh piece by piece. Then, he took a deep breath, released the pirate he was holding, and threw him two gold pounds: "Well done, Terji, I just lost my composure. Prepare to weigh anchor, hoist the sails! Leave here immediately!" Fang Senyan looked at Armand, tilted his head, and smiled, making a waving goodbye gesture. Armand turned his back and completely ignored him. The sailors on both sides immediately began to start their ships, and the two ships that had been closely connected creaked and separated.

Fortunately, the tide was gradually rising at this time. Otherwise, Armand's ship had rammed directly into the side of Fang Senyan's ship, and both sides would have been stuck in the sand, making it really difficult to separate.

After Armand's ship set off, Fang Senyan turned back and glanced around, then immediately said to Old Sea Dog next to him, "Are you okay?"

Old Sea Dog was unharmed, but had some scratches all over his body. He breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Armand's departing ship and said, "I'm fine."

Fang Senyan said with a serious face, "Spike should be fine. I just saw him picking up a musket and firing. Go and ask him if our ship can still move?"

Soon, Spike came to Fang Senyan: "Boss, this ship can be started within five minutes, but it can only sail a dozen nautical miles along the coast, and the price will be quite high, because there are no materials on hand now, so we have to cut off a section of the keel on the ship to hold up the damaged side. In this way, the keel of this ship will be useless, and it can only be sailed inshore in the future, and it won't be able to withstand the wind and waves of the ocean." Fang Senyan nodded and said, "Okay, do it now. We have to leave before Norrington arrives no matter what." Spike's carpentry skills were indeed worthy of the gold pounds Fang Senyan paid. As he said, he quickly started the ship, which was already severely damaged. When the island was left behind, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and began to count the losses on the ship.

Fang Senyan suffered a great loss this time. Leaving aside the loss of the ship, the manpower that had been painstakingly cultivated was also heavily damaged. According to Old Sea Dog's statistics, Philip was seriously injured, Black Sails was seriously injured, Kanby was ambushed and severely injured, and then fell into the sea, his life or death unknown, and the newly recruited Quan Lu Hao was killed! In addition, the number of deaths exceeded fifty, and almost everyone who survived was injured.

Fortunately, these pirates were used to making a living at sea, and they were also accustomed to parting from life and death. Moreover, Fang Senyan's killing of the berserker leader in adversity greatly boosted morale. With the magical effects of the miraculous Sudan unguent and Cato's medical skills for treatment, almost all the injured pirates could survive and would not be left with disabilities.

Sailing in the dark night was a great taboo at this time, so after leaving the island at a sufficient distance, Fang Senyan began to order the anchor to be dropped, and the whole ship stopped to rest. However, in order to prevent the occurrence of small probability events, such as Armand's juan tu or Norrington's pursuit, he specially found a hidden bay to dock, and also arranged for someone to be on watch.

At this time, Fang Senyan, who was finally free, returned to the captain's room and took out the silver key that Harold dropped to summon. This time, what was summoned was not a treasure chest, but about half a section of a tree trunk, about half a meter long. The tree trunk had been roughly processed, and both ends were decorated with the unique Viking-style curved neck animal head, which looked particularly tragic.

Isn't this a miniature version of the Blood Boat?

Seeing this summoned thing, Fang Senyan couldn't help but have such a thought in his mind. Of course, he then reached in and looted it. The first thing he moed out was a helmet.

The shape of this helmet is very unique. It is the kind of horned helmet that is very characteristic of the Vikings.

If it is worn on the head, it is quite cool and ostentatious, and looks full of medieval killing intent. The material of this helmet seems to be made of steel, but the two horns are genuine animal horns. After being bent, they are still sharp and aimed at the enemy, very sharp.

After Fang Senyan got this helmet, a series of attributes immediately appeared in his mind: Whisper of the Great Bear (Beast Bone Helmet)

Origin: Dnieper River Basin
Equipment Rarity: Silver Story Grade
Material: Pine, Iron
Attachable Device: Ram (already attached)

Weight: 1500 grams.

Equipment Usage Requirements: Strength must reach 45 points or more, Stamina 20 points or more
Equipment: Never Wears Out
Equipment: Increases your attack damage by 50%

Equipment: Increases your critical strike damage against enemies by 50%

Equipment: You cannot receive any healing effects, and the damage you take when attacked by enemies is doubled! (This damage doubling will directly calculate the theoretical damage value)

Active Ability: Arrogance. If your enemies think that the horns on the helmet are just decorations, then they are very wrong.

After using this ability, you will violently and rapidly charge forward, until you hit the next object you encounter or rush out thirty meters. Creatures hit by you (including friendly forces) will be stunned for five seconds and take 100 points plus your Strength value x2 damage. After the creature wakes up, it will also take 15 points/5 seconds of bleeding damage, lasting for (15+x seconds), (x is your Strength value).

When you accidentally hit an obstacle during the charge, you will take 300 points of damage and be stunned for 10 seconds.

Warning: You cannot remove or replace this equipment during combat (this attribute has priority)

Warning: The spirit of this equipment will only recognize warriors recognized by barbarians and Vikings (the wearer must obtain worship reputation in a barbarian or Viking tribe before completing a certain task), otherwise, all the beneficial effects of this equipment will be halved, and all the negative effects of this equipment will be doubled.

………,………,

After Fang Senyan saw this helmet, he couldn't help but curse "shit." If there was no last warning attribute, he could still find a way to let the ranged attacker try it on. But with the last attribute, despite the 25% attack damage and 25% critical strike damage increase,

the extra damage from enemy attacks being doubled is too abnormal. And this is directly added to the theoretical damage.

If Brother Hei wore this helmet, the theoretical damage of a lead bullet would be 100 points, and he could only lose about 60 points of health. Wearing this helmet under normal circumstances, the enemy's damage would become 200 points. That would be enough to knock off 120 points of health. If he doesn't brush up on Viking reputation now and let Brother Hei wear it directly, then the theoretical damage of that bullet would be 400 points... and he wouldn't be able to be healed if he was hit.

Brother Hei looked at the helmet and suddenly said, "Reef, didn't you learn the forging commercial skill? How long until you can extract equipment attributes?" Reef shook his head: "It's still early! And even after learning the branch ability of extracting equipment attributes, it's not a one-time thing. This attribute also has lv7 to improve. At first, the equipment would be scrapped directly after extracting the attributes. I understand what you mean, you want to extract the negative attributes of this equipment, right? It is estimated that at least you have to reach lv5 to extract equipment attributes." Brother Hei shrugged his shoulders regretfully.

To be honest, the two attributes of this equipment (increases your attack damage by 50%, increases your critical strike damage against enemies by 50%) are a very terrifying improvement for a damage dealer, but unfortunately, the negative effects it brings are also very amazing. Ranged attackers are already short in terms of survivability, and if they wear this, they may encounter other ranged attackers and be put in a near-death state with one shot! How can it not make people sigh?!