"This piece of stone right in front of you is called Heaven Crystal. According to the records of the ruins, there are a total of five Heaven Crystals, corresponding to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and this one is the Fire Heaven Crystal. The five Heaven Crystals will be the key to unlocking the ancient world!
Unfortunately, I have only found the Fire Heaven Crystal. If you are lucky enough to find the other four, try to unlock the ancient world. Maybe it can save humanity..."
As he spoke, the image of the old man began to blur. The device ultimately shut down and the image of the old man disappeared completely.
Everyone present was stunned for a full two minutes.
This discovery was truly unexpected. The mysterious archaeologist recounted the history of the civilization era and even revealed a shocking secret.
"Captain, what should we do now?" Charge King stammered.
Armin pondered for a long time, then suddenly said, "Captain, I have seen in the legendary Captain Frank's logbook that he mentioned mysterious stones!"
"What? What did he say?" Raine exclaimed.
"He said that there are legends of mysterious stones in the Beast-class, King-class, Dragon-class, and Sky-class seas. I don't know if he was referring to this Heaven Crystals!"
Raine frowned, perhaps there was a Heaven Crystal in each of the five major seas... He wondered what would happen if they collected all five Heaven Crystals.
"What exactly is the so-called ancient world, and why do they say it can save humanity?" After thinking for a while, Raine realized that this was a question without an answer, at least not until they collected all the Heaven Crystals.
Since he couldn't figure it out, Raine decided to stop thinking about it. He said to everyone present, "No one should talk about this matter. From the moment we leave this room, forget about it. As for collecting the Heaven Crystals, I will make the arrangements."
"Okay, Captain. This is a secret that cannot be leaked. Such a big secret might even attract the attention of the Sky-class Fleet," the others also recognized the seriousness of the matter and expressed their support.
Fortunately, everyone present was someone Raine could trust.
Although they had acquired some strange things on Bird King Island, Raine still gained a lot. After consuming the Eagle King's body, Little Blacky and the others significantly improved their strength. Little Blacky's body had grown to 18 meters, but it couldn't be considered a true crew member, and the system couldn't accurately calculate its combat power.
Raine did not directly control the Trueking's battle pet, Tiger King, so he also cannot see its attributes.
Only White completely obeyed Raine, but Raine's level cannot yet check its information.
Of course, not being able to see their attributes did not affect their cooperation with Raine. After all, Raine knew they were all stronger than himself.
In addition, Raine also obtained two pairs of high-quality wings, a mysterious bird egg, and nine sets of high-quality weapons.
The weapons were made of titanium alloy, which greatly increased their attack power and strength.
The attack power of ordinary steel claws and daggers was 20, but the attack power of titanium alloy claws and daggers was 120. An increase of 100 points was quite an impressive boost to combat power.
Raine replaced two of his own daggers with titanium alloy ones and then upgraded the equipment of people like Onebear, Twobear, Arsan, and Windbell who use corresponding weapons. By changing weapons, the total combat power of the crew increased by 900 points!
During the days when Raine was away, Terry organized merchant caravans, escort teams, and fishing fleets at the base, and began to visit nearby islands to increase the connection between the base and other islands.
Regarding island defense, one-third of the island defense wall had been built, and Terry had purchased a batch of muskets and formed a garrison on the island.
In addition, Terry had divided the base into multiple zones, such as agricultural, residential, commercial, and manufacturing zones, and the basic construction of each zone was currently in full swing according to Raine's requirements.
Seeing the base was gradually getting into the swing of things, Raine was more relieved.
More people and boats were still needed on the island. Once the island was fully developed, it could begin to engage in trade with other islands and provide services to passing ships, thereby entering a profit-making mode. Of course, this would take a long time.
During this time, Raine returned to his old business with his crew and set sail again.
...
Two years and eight months later, Raine returned from the main route, the "Eastern Route," with 1,200 purchased slaves on board, including 200 Sea King clans and 1,000 slaves from various tribes and factions.
This was not the first time Raine had purchased slaves on a large scale. It had been nearly five years since the Sea King tribe had been sold, and although he was still tirelessly searching for Sea King tribe members, he had also begun to absorb some other faction slaves to quickly populate the base.
Of course, every time Raine went out, his most important job was to search for pirates.
The bounty for an F-class fleet was generally in the range of several thousand black pearls, while an E-class fleet was in the tens of thousands of black pearls. The bounty for these small pirate groups was not much unless it was a top-class well-known pirate group like the Sea King Pirates, whose bounty could reach 200,000.
Raine would attack as long as he saw a pirate group.
In the past three years of missions, Raine had been relentlessly pursuing all kinds of pirates, defeating a total of 133 F-class pirate groups, and 5 E-class pirate groups, and earning 3.49 million black pearls and 500,000 bounties, with a score of 50 million!
However, the bounty level of his bounty group had been stuck at E10.
According to naval regulations, the highest level of a beast-class sea area could only reach E10, and only the navy of the king-class sea area could confer the title of D-class bounty group.
In fact, this was a hard requirement of D-class power. The fleet's combat ability and technological level must be able to support the fleet's entry into the king-class sea area.
It was said that when reaching D-class, the points and bounties would be recalculated and all the extra points earned by Raine would be useless.
"If I can't reach D-class, I won't be able to accept D-class missions... earning money is so slow now." Raine was quite frustrated, standing by the fence and looking at the calm sea.
"Captain, how about we enter the King-level sea area?" Avril leaned against Raine, "You haven't bought any Sea God Fruit in the last three years, maybe only the King-class sea area has high-level Sea God Fruits."
Avril had been following Raine for ten years, but her appearance had hardly changed. The other people on the ship were the same. Perhaps it was a trait of the mutant.
Raine shook his head and said, "As prudent as I am, of course, we need to upgrade before entering the King-class sea area."
"In addition, the base has just been built, although we have the Diamond Guard to guard it, we still need to be careful.
Now that the base wall has been built and there are over ten thousand residents on the island. We have several first-level honor medals from different islands. I only need 4.25 million to upgrade to the next level. We now have 3.99 million, we just need to earn another 260,000."
Hearing about the upgrade again, Avril also seemed excited and said, "The required materials are already being prepared by Terry. Once the money is in place, we can go back to the base and upgrade directly."
Raine nodded. Having a base was great, he did not need to wait months for materials.
Three months later, at Goldfish Point, the captain of an F8 pirate fleet was crying and shouting at Raine.
"Dad! You guys are too much. We haven't robbed any merchant ships for half a year and my brothers haven't had a full meal in a long time. Why are you getting us just for stealing some fish?
Can't you give us a way out? Are there no human rights to being a pirate? Do you have to wipe out all the pirate gangs in the beast-class sea area?
Your levels have all reached the limits, so why are you still crazily hunting down us? I've never seen such a bounty hunter group like you!"
Raine, rare to use a loudspeaker, shouted back, "Calling me Dad won't help! If you want to eat fish, why not replace your ship's cannons with fishing gear? Since you came to rob, that is piracy!
Stop the nonsense. Even if you don't rob, I will still take you down. I can upgrade as long as I take you out!"
Raine then picked up 40 Assassin torpedoes and launched them directly at the opposing fleet!
"This piece of stone right in front of you is called Heaven Crystal. According to the records of the ruins, there are a total of five Heaven Crystals, corresponding to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and this one is the Fire Heaven Crystal. The five Heaven Crystals will be the key to unlocking the ancient world!
Unfortunately, I have only found the Fire Heaven Crystal. If you are lucky enough to find the other four, try to unlock the ancient world. Maybe it can save humanity..."
As he spoke, the image of the old man began to blur. The device ultimately shut down and the image of the old man disappeared completely.
Everyone present was stunned for a full two minutes.
This discovery was truly unexpected. The mysterious archaeologist recounted the history of the civilization era and even revealed a shocking secret.
"Captain, what should we do now?" Charge King stammered.
Armin pondered for a long time, then suddenly said, "Captain, I have seen in the legendary Captain Frank's logbook that he mentioned mysterious stones!"
"What? What did he say?" Raine exclaimed.
"He said that there are legends of mysterious stones in the Beast-class, King-class, Dragon-class, and Sky-class seas. I don't know if he was referring to this Heaven Crystals!"
Raine frowned, perhaps there was a Heaven Crystal in each of the five major seas... He wondered what would happen if they collected all five Heaven Crystals.
"What exactly is the so-called ancient world, and why do they say it can save humanity?" After thinking for a while, Raine realized that this was a question without an answer, at least not until they collected all the Heaven Crystals.
Since he couldn't figure it out, Raine decided to stop thinking about it. He said to everyone present, "No one should talk about this matter. From the moment we leave this room, forget about it. As for collecting the Heaven Crystals, I will make the arrangements."
"Okay, Captain. This is a secret that cannot be leaked. Such a big secret might even attract the attention of the Sky-class Fleet," the others also recognized the seriousness of the matter and expressed their support.
Fortunately, everyone present was someone Raine could trust.
Although they had acquired some strange things on Bird King Island, Raine still gained a lot. After consuming the Eagle King's body, Little Blacky and the others significantly improved their strength. Little Blacky's body had grown to 18 meters, but it couldn't be considered a true crew member, and the system couldn't accurately calculate its combat power.
Raine did not directly control the Trueking's battle pet, Tiger King, so he also cannot see its attributes.
Only White completely obeyed Raine, but Raine's level cannot yet check its information.
Of course, not being able to see their attributes did not affect their cooperation with Raine. After all, Raine knew they were all stronger than himself.
In addition, Raine also obtained two pairs of high-quality wings, a mysterious bird egg, and nine sets of high-quality weapons.
The weapons were made of titanium alloy, which greatly increased their attack power and strength.
The attack power of ordinary steel claws and daggers was 20, but the attack power of titanium alloy claws and daggers was 120. An increase of 100 points was quite an impressive boost to combat power.
Raine replaced two of his own daggers with titanium alloy ones and then upgraded the equipment of people like Onebear, Twobear, Arsan, and Windbell who use corresponding weapons. By changing weapons, the total combat power of the crew increased by 900 points!
During the days when Raine was away, Terry organized merchant caravans, escort teams, and fishing fleets at the base, and began to visit nearby islands to increase the connection between the base and other islands.
Regarding island defense, one-third of the island defense wall had been built, and Terry had purchased a batch of muskets and formed a garrison on the island.
In addition, Terry had divided the base into multiple zones, such as agricultural, residential, commercial, and manufacturing zones, and the basic construction of each zone was currently in full swing according to Raine's requirements.
Seeing the base was gradually getting into the swing of things, Raine was more relieved.
More people and boats were still needed on the island. Once the island was fully developed, it could begin to engage in trade with other islands and provide services to passing ships, thereby entering a profit-making mode. Of course, this would take a long time.
During this time, Raine returned to his old business with his crew and set sail again.
...
Two years and eight months later, Raine returned from the main route, the "Eastern Route," with 1,200 purchased slaves on board, including 200 Sea King clans and 1,000 slaves from various tribes and factions.
This was not the first time Raine had purchased slaves on a large scale. It had been nearly five years since the Sea King tribe had been sold, and although he was still tirelessly searching for Sea King tribe members, he had also begun to absorb some other faction slaves to quickly populate the base.
Of course, every time Raine went out, his most important job was to search for pirates.
The bounty for an F-class fleet was generally in the range of several thousand black pearls, while an E-class fleet was in the tens of thousands of black pearls. The bounty for these small pirate groups was not much unless it was a top-class well-known pirate group like the Sea King Pirates, whose bounty could reach 200,000.
Raine would attack as long as he saw a pirate group.
In the past three years of missions, Raine had been relentlessly pursuing all kinds of pirates, defeating a total of 133 F-class pirate groups, and 5 E-class pirate groups, and earning 3.49 million black pearls and 500,000 bounties, with a score of 50 million!
However, the bounty level of his bounty group had been stuck at E10.
According to naval regulations, the highest level of a beast-class sea area could only reach E10, and only the navy of the king-class sea area could confer the title of D-class bounty group.
In fact, this was a hard requirement of D-class power. The fleet's combat ability and technological level must be able to support the fleet's entry into the king-class sea area.
It was said that when reaching D-class, the points and bounties would be recalculated and all the extra points earned by Raine would be useless.
"If I can't reach D-class, I won't be able to accept D-class missions... earning money is so slow now." Raine was quite frustrated, standing by the fence and looking at the calm sea.
"Captain, how about we enter the King-level sea area?" Avril leaned against Raine, "You haven't bought any Sea God Fruit in the last three years, maybe only the King-class sea area has high-level Sea God Fruits."
Avril had been following Raine for ten years, but her appearance had hardly changed. The other people on the ship were the same. Perhaps it was a trait of the mutant.
Raine shook his head and said, "As prudent as I am, of course, we need to upgrade before entering the King-class sea area."
"In addition, the base has just been built, although we have the Diamond Guard to guard it, we still need to be careful.
Now that the base wall has been built and there are over ten thousand residents on the island. We have several first-level honor medals from different islands. I only need 4.25 million to upgrade to the next level. We now have 3.99 million, we just need to earn another 260,000."
Hearing about the upgrade again, Avril also seemed excited and said, "The required materials are already being prepared by Terry. Once the money is in place, we can go back to the base and upgrade directly."
Raine nodded. Having a base was great, he did not need to wait months for materials.
Three months later, at Goldfish Point, the captain of an F8 pirate fleet was crying and shouting at Raine.
"Dad! You guys are too much. We haven't robbed any merchant ships for half a year and my brothers haven't had a full meal in a long time. Why are you getting us just for stealing some fish?
Can't you give us a way out? Are there no human rights to being a pirate? Do you have to wipe out all the pirate gangs in the beast-class sea area?
Your levels have all reached the limits, so why are you still crazily hunting down us? I've never seen such a bounty hunter group like you!"
Raine, rare to use a loudspeaker, shouted back, "Calling me Dad won't help! If you want to eat fish, why not replace your ship's cannons with fishing gear? Since you came to rob, that is piracy!
Stop the nonsense. Even if you don't rob, I will still take you down. I can upgrade as long as I take you out!"
Raine then picked up 40 Assassin torpedoes and launched them directly at the opposing fleet!
