Mechanical Alchemist Chapter 537: The truth behind the demise of the Pirate King

"Queen Charlotte became the queen? Then she opened the plane channel privately?"

"Yes. The current situation is very bad. The plane channel is in the mountainous area of ​​Zambra Iron Falls Province in the south of Marfa. Although Marfa is concentrating its military strength to resist with all its strength, the war situation is not optimistic. Wait for the plane channel to stabilize. , the top powerhouses from the alien plane will descend on a large scale, leaving us little time in the alchemy plane."

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It was thirty years ago that the Pirate King Black Sam’s pirate group left the Luying Empire and came to the waters of the Kingdom of Jixi Dragon.

Although "Dragon Hunter" Bartolo had heard of Charlotte's name, she was still the queen at that time.

He listened to Su Lun telling what happened, his expression solemn the whole time.

Although he is a wanted pirate, he does not want to see the alchemy that has made him destroyed in the hands of an alien civilization.

However, the process has passed, and the plane invasion has become an irreversible fact.

After listening to this, Bartolo murmured to himself: "No wonder I feel that the laws have been improved a lot recently. I thought there was something wrong with the Hell Volcano, but it turned out to be like this."

After Su Lun finished speaking, he said directly: "Now the magicians from the **** plane have established a teleportation camp near the southern Rainbow Island, which was the former habitat of the Naga tribe. At least tens of thousands of people have come here now. They are looking for the [Fountain of Mimir], and they may have some other purposes. Therefore, I think Senior Bartolo can give us some information. If possible, we at Dawn will do our best to prevent them from achieving their goals."

Bartolo finally understood the reason for his words and asked: "So, you were fighting those people from the plane of gods before?"

He had also heard adventurers describe the strange noise before, and he guessed that it might be the sound of artillery shelling.

Later, I met Su Lun and the others in Atlanta and confirmed this idea. But they didn't expect that the target of their bombardment was not a sea monster, but a plane invader.

Su Lun: "Yes."

Bartolo listened, pondered for a moment, and then asked: "What information do you want to know?"

Su Lun thought for a while and wanted to know too much information, but first asked: "I heard from Tani that the Black Sam Regiment robbed the Marquis of Hayes' fleet more than thirty years ago, and then obtained Da The creature of the Lu tribe [Far's Holy Grail]? I need to find that Holy Grail."

Bartolo thought about it for a moment, and obviously knew: "You are referring to the congratulatory message engraved with the Daru tribe's pattern on the cup, the magical cup that can calm the mind and calm the soul?"

When Su Lun heard this description, it was exactly the same as what Yuta said, and immediately said: "Yes!"

This is the most important thing to solve his mental aberration and break through to the Fugue Realm.

Looking at it now, it seems like there is something going on!

“Oh, I almost forgot about that cup. After all, there were so many weird things on the ship back then.”

Bartolo seemed to recall the adventure he had with his friends.

That cup was also a small trophy from countless robberies.

Because the alchemist can't use it, it's just an ordinary cup gathering ashes in the treasure house.

There are many more like that.

There was confusion in his eyes, and he sighed slightly.

Memories emerged, and the adventure experience with my friends was vivid in my mind, but it seemed like it was an experience in a previous life.

Suellen confirmed that the Holy Grail was indeed on the Pirate King's ship, so he wanted to know where the ship was even more.

He asked: "Senior Bartolo, can I ask?"

Before he finished speaking, Bartolo interrupted him and said with a slightly apologetic tone: "I may disappoint you. Probably no one will be able to find that cup."

Su Lun's expression froze when he heard this, "???"

Bartolo seemed to have recalled something, his eyes dimmed obviously, and he explained: "The cup is on the Saint Mary, but it has been involved in the endless **** of the dead along with the ship and the captain. "

When Su Lun heard this, he immediately frowned and felt something was not good.

Bartolo looked over and asked, "Don't you want to know what happened back then?"

Su Lun nodded, with an expression on his face as if he was listening to what was going on.

Bartolo raised his eyebrows slightly.

Between his brows, Su Lun saw what he looked like when he saw the heroic "Sword Demon" Yasaburo Saito who was on the wanted list thirty years ago.

Bartolo said: "At that time, our Black Sam Group was already known as the 'Pirate King Group' in the world. To put it bluntly, no one is our opponent on the sea, not even the Luying Empire. But we couldn't. Our footprints were farther than any royal adventure exploration team. We explored countless dangerous places, drew the 'Black Sam World Chart' in your hand, and completed the journey of the greatest adventurer in the world at that time. A large circumnavigation route that has never been completed. We have been to the North Sea to fight the legendary North Sea Kraken, to the West Sea to salvage the legendary 'Lolowensa's Golden Shipwreck', and to the Devil's Sea in the South China Sea to find the underwater world. At that time, we thought we owned the whole world, and our sailing adventures brought us joy and illuminated the meaning of life."

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Su Lun listened silently.

Many of these legendary stories are still circulated in the pirate circle today.

That chart also records the glory of the Black Sam Regiment.

But speaking from this person, it was as if he had witnessed the glory days of a legendary pirate group.

Bartolo continued: "Later, we got some ancient nautical charts during our sailing adventure, and learned that there might be ancient civilizations in the far western seas, ruins of battlefields of gods, giant dragons and strange things in mythology. The creature. The captain said, let's go on an adventure! Everyone cheered. Then we brought enough supplies and headed west, across the Black Sea of ​​Evernight, and arrived at the Kingdom of Dragons."

Su Lun listened silently, with only admiration in his heart.

It takes courage to open up unfamiliar waters, because you don’t know where the end is.

It's just some ancient sea charts that no one has authenticated. It's most likely a one-way ticket with no return.

The Black Sam Group successfully crossed the Sea of ​​Eternal Night and arrived at the Kingdom of Dragons.

Bartolo's tone did not restrain his pride at all. This was the pride of his Black Sam Pirates.

He said: "We discovered that human civilization still exists here, and we are extremely happy. Discovering new continents and opening up new routes is the most gratifying thing for any sailing adventurer, a feat worthy of being recorded in history. We sail around During the exploration, we discovered many ancient ruins, and finally determined the location of the ruins of the 'Land of Ancient Dragons'. We have the best captain "Ocean Disaster" Black Sam, the best navigator "Storm Blessed" Arik, and medical skills Miss Elsa, the most skilled ship's doctor "Bloody Witch Doctor", Solomon "Wine Jar" who has a bad temper but is super delicious in cooking. We have fought with dragons, killed Titans and sea monsters, and were chased by Cyclops. Our partners have overcome countless difficulties."

Su Lun heard the names that were so popular in the pirate circle, and his eyes were full of respect for these forerunners.

What an excellent and powerful pirate group this is.

If their experiences were written down, they would definitely be a highlight in the nautical calendar of the alchemical plane!

At this point, Bartolo's tone suddenly changed, and the light in his eyes suddenly dimmed, and he added: "It wasn't until we found the Kingdom of Ancient Dragons and saw the 'ancient battlefield' where it is said that the ancient gods died after fighting. You know, the power of human beings is too small. I still remember what I said back then: Under the gods, we are all ants."

Listening to the serious tone, Su Lun frowned slightly.

Qianjou on the side also looked over.

The two of them were very curious as to what happened.

"Hey"

Bartolo pondered for a moment and then said: "There is a volcano there that connects to hell. Legend has it that the two supreme gods fought and broke the 'plane hole' left by the plane. There is chaos and chaos there. According to the law of order, there are countless powerful undead souls, seventh-level, eighth-level, ninth-level, even indescribably powerful. The **** volcano erupted unexpectedly, covering thousands of miles in radius, and there was no way to avoid it. Undead creatures swept the entire The ancient battlefield. In front of those terrifying **** creatures, human strength seemed extremely pale. We were involved in the ancient battlefield and fought fiercely. Although we repelled countless undead, we were also contaminated with the aura of hell. It didn’t take long. Everyone is deformed, and our friends will remain there forever."

As he spoke, the old swordsman paused, as if to calm down the grief in his heart that was getting stronger with age.

After a long while, he continued: "As for me, because I have fused the reproductive equipment [Hell's Mouth] and Xiu's 'Destruction Domain', I have a certain resistance to the air of hell, and the symptoms of distortion are the mildest. And At that time, there was a space treasure on the ship that could break through planes of teleportation. The captain and my friends gave me the only chance of survival. I teleported out, survived, and am still alive today."

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When Su Lun heard this story, he and Qian Jiao glanced at each other.

Both of them felt that this was very similar to when they were involved in the Kingdom of Underworld.

They are both worlds of the undead, and they cannot leave if they are contaminated with the aura of the underworld. The difference is that the monsters in this "Ancient Battlefield of the Dragon Kingdom" are much higher-level.

It is indeed extremely dangerous to destroy a top team like the Black Sam Pirates.

But the so-called aura of **** and aura of underworld are actually a kind of death-type spiritual power.

It is no stranger to Su Lun today.

He suddenly thought of more.

The current Dawn Group is not weaker than the original Black Sam Group, it is even much stronger!

Not to mention the combat prowess of the team members, Su Lun's small void world has almost the best alchemy technology, personnel, and knowledge reserves in the world. This foundation is simply not comparable to that of ordinary teams!

Furthermore, because he has experienced the Land of Hell, Suellen can more accurately understand the dangers described by Bartolo.

It can also accurately understand the corrosion and distortion caused by the air of hell.

Su Lun himself was once deformed after being corroded by the underworld's energy. After he advanced to the sixth level fusion breeding equipment [Power of Giants] and acquired the ability [Blood Devour], the problem of distortion was slowly solved.

Furthermore, just because others can't get out of the "Ancient Battlefield" doesn't mean that he, who possesses the God King's artifact [Ouroboros Space-Time Circle], can't get out.

Bartolo can teleport, Su Lun himself can certainly do it too!

Even if the entire team is included, Su Lun can take them into the small void world and then bring them out together.

Fear comes from the unknown.

Now that he knew that the "ancient battlefield" was dangerous, Su Lun breathed a sigh of relief.

Based on the current intelligence, although those super-level monsters are invincible, as long as they are well prepared, it may not be a fatal situation.

After Bartolo finished talking about their experience with the Black Sam Group, he looked at Su Lun and Su Lun with solemn expressions, but he didn't seem to give up on taking risks.

At this time, he opened his shirt again, exposing his upper body.

Although he is old, his body is not in decline.

He has strong bronze muscles that have a strong visual impact, and there are large red and green cherry blossom tattoos on his arms. The scarred skin also witnessed the achievements of a legendary swordsman along the way.

Suddenly, he turned around.

What is very strange is that there is a terrifying fuzzy human face on his back.

The ghostly face looked like a living thing, smelling the breath of a living person. The nose on the face even moved, and it immediately became ferocious. It struggled as if trying to break free from the shackles of the skin, and rushed out to bite Su Lun and the two.

The two Su Lun looked at each other with slightly different expressions. With the omniscient eye, he roughly knew what was going on.

Sure enough, the deformation of top professionals is also very terrifying. Bartolo seems to have developed a deformed monster in his body that can seize his will at any time.

This is his breeding equipment [Hell's Mouth] because it absorbed too much **** energy and became distorted.

Bartolo showed it off, put on his clothes again, and said calmly: "As you can see, my body is deformed. Thanks to the fact that I met a wizard from the Silver Dragon Kingdom when I was traveling, I got the A kind of dragon's blood secret medicine has only allowed me to suppress it until now. Otherwise, I would have been deformed long ago. But you can also see that it has reached the point where it is almost uncontrollable and may be deformed at any time."

For alchemists, distortion is a word that makes people talk about it with shame.

But he has seen the end of his life and has accepted that ending. He said in an extremely calm tone: "Unfortunately, I can't live long. Otherwise, I can do my best to face the invasion of the plane." ”

Su Lun pondered for a moment as he listened, thinking about something in his mind.

For others, this degree of distortion is indeed irreversible.

But in the Dawn Group, it is not an unsolvable problem.

Dr. Banks has done in-depth research in this area, and general distortion is really not a problem.

At this time, Bartolo thought that the shock shown by Su Lun and the others was the fear of the deformed monster in his body, and smiled relaxedly: "You hunted that blue dragon before, right? If possible, I would like to Exchange some dragon blood. After all, pure-blooded dragons are very rare, and I need dragon blood to suppress distortion."

Dragon blood is the main ingredient in the wizard's secret recipe, which is also one of the most important reasons why he has been hunting dragons.

"Of course no problem."

Of course there is nothing reluctant to part with a bit of dragon blood, so Su Lun readily agreed.

Thinking about it, he added: "Senior, if possible, I need a piece of flesh and blood tissue from your deformed area. My partner has in-depth research on deformation, and may be able to completely reverse the deformation of your body, or develop a Inhibitors."

Bartolo looked stunned, thinking he heard wrongly, and asked: "Can the distortion be reversed?"

"Yes."

Su Lun nodded and said the mantra of Dr. Banks: "The essence of distortion is the mutation caused by the human body's inability to withstand alien energy. Understanding the essence can actually solve the root cause."

It was difficult for him to explain in detail, after all, people of Bartolo's time simply could not understand the concept of biotechnology.

But before he was sure, Su Lun didn't make a conclusion.

As he spoke, he took out a few high-level distortion potions and said: "This is a general distortion potion that should be used by seniors in emergencies."

The two parties have only met twice, and Su Lun doesn't feel that the other party must trust him, even with Tani's relationship.

Be cautious and it will be easier for both parties.

Bartolo looked at several potions with a slightly doubtful look.

But he didn't refuse and put the potion away.

Now that the topic has been discussed, Bartolo is willing to provide information, and Suellen is also welcome.

He took out the [Dragon Kingdom Sea Area Map] and said, "Senior Bartolo, you are very familiar with the Dragon Kingdom. Can you please help mark the dangerous areas on the map?"

Bartolo was obviously surprised for a moment when he looked at such a complete chart, but he was more surprised by something else. He asked: "Are you still planning to take risks to the east?"

Su Lun shrugged noncommittally and said, "We haven't decided yet. But if we know more detailed information and are confident, we might still want to take a look."

It's hard to say yet.

He wanted to go to the Silver Dragon Capital again to get more information before making a decision.

And there is another factor that determines whether they set sail, and that is the progress of the magicians in the plane of gods.

If those guys went to visit Lei first, their Dawn group would naturally go as well.

If the group is destroyed, they are not in a hurry.

Bartolo smiled slightly when he saw Su Lun's attitude and did not persuade him any more.

Young adventurers still need to have this kind of courage, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to get here.

He did not hide it, pointed at the chart, and marked all the dangerous places in his memory that he has never forgotten.

"We have seen that Horseshoe Island from a distance. It was the territory of the Cyclops. That sea area is very dangerous."

"I remember there is a red dragon near this island, maybe the eighth level. You must avoid it."

"There is a group of sirens in the sea whirlpool here. It is very difficult to deal with. If you really encounter it elsewhere, remember to use kerosene"

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Su Lun listened to Bartolo pointing at the chart and talking about it, and he took notes seriously.

Soon, hundreds of dangerous areas were marked on the chart.

It can be said that in the past, when the Heisam regiment sailed all the way to the east, there was almost no safety.

Because there are too many powerful monsters in this sea area.

Except for giant dragons and the like at the top of the food chain, creatures at the lower end of the food chain are generally lord-level monsters elsewhere.

As Su Lun listened to the dangerous points, the wonderful adventure stories seemed to be right in front of him.

After a long time, the chart markings were completed.

Bartolo explained everything he could remember about the habits, characteristics, combat power, and weaknesses of some dangerous sea monsters.

Suellen got too much useful information.

This information is precious information that cannot be bought with money, and may even save lives at critical moments.

Putting away the chart, Su Lun casually asked a curiosity in his heart, saying: "Senior, you have the title of "Dragon Hunter" in the Dragon Kingdom. You must have hunted many dragons, right? ”

Bartolo said with an unworthy expression: "Most of them are just sub-dragons. I have only killed three true pure-blood dragons in so many years. There are also some with higher blood purity. There are probably dozens of dragons. Anyway, the further east you go, the higher the possibility of encountering a pure-blood dragon."

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Su Lun’s eyes twitched as he listened.

Three heads are not enough?

The Dawn Regiment had to go to great lengths to hunt down the seventh-level blue dragon before. Did you kill three pure-blood giant dragons by yourself?

But obviously, this is not the point.

Su Lun listened to what he said and asked with expectation: "I would like to ask if you have dragon crystal in your hand? I mean, I can exchange it for materials, or buy it."

"Yes."

Bartolo casually pulled out two fist-sized luminous crystal nuclei from the storage ring, which were dazzling and exuding rich energy fluctuations.

One red and one green, like two huge gems.

Su Lun's left eye was shining brightly, and he kept looking at the identified [Seventh-order Red Dragon Sub-dragon Crystal] and [Eight-order Green Dragon Sub-Dragon Crystal].

Bartolo handed it out casually and said: "I have no need for property now, and I have no need for these things. If you need them, I will give you two."

Seeing that this treasured dragon crystal was given away like this, Su Lun was impressed by the grandeur of this old man.

But he looked slightly embarrassed and spoke again: "Well, I have a very presumptuous idea. If possible, I need more dragon crystals."

He looked at Bartolo's obviously stunned gaze and explained: "To tell you the truth, I am a puppet master. I need top-notch perfect crystals like dragon crystal to make energy crystal cores. So the more the better. ."

After hearing this explanation, Bartolo looked at Su Lun as if he was surprised, and said in surprise: "Are you a puppet master?"

No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this physique must be that of a melee professional.

Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a puppet master.

Dragon crystal is indeed an excellent material for making high-level puppet energy cores, but the puppet master only needs a few to make the puppet. Listen to this, how many are needed?

How many puppets are needed?

"Yeah."

Su Lun nodded, summoned dozens of gargoyles, and said in a helpless tone: "I am the inheritor of the Puppet Master lineage, so I need a lot."

Balot looked at the corners of his eyebrows and twitched.

Controlling dozens of puppets at will, this method is irresistible, he must be a master of puppets.

This young man’s career is very strange.

Su Lun did have a reason to speak.

He does have enough [Activated Silver] in his hand now to make gargoyles, and the War Workshop has also produced many basic puppets.

However, the explosive spells of high-level puppets require energy support.

Ordinary energy cores cannot support spells above level six.

So although Su Lun currently has many gargoyle puppets in his hands, only a few of them truly have combat power above level six.

The War Workshop has now almost restored the batch production method of top-level cores such as [Four-Color Elemental Heart], but the only thing missing is a crystal core that is enough to be used as the main material.

And Long Jing is the most perfect choice, bar none!

The more advanced the core, the better it can support more advanced techniques.

As long as there are enough dragon crystals, Su Lun's puppet army will truly have the power to destroy the world.

However, high-grade materials are indeed hard to find.

It’s not easy to meet a “dragon hunter”, so naturally you have to ask.

Seeing the perfect appearance of the gargoyle, even though Bartolo had never seen such a puppet before, he still noticed that it was extraordinary and praised him profusely: "What a puppet!"

Su Lun said again: "I have a big material gap now, so if I can, I would like to exchange for all the dragon crystals in your hand. And those dragon and Warcraft materials, if possible, I need them all . Of course, I will pay enough in exchange for the items."

Dr. Banks' laboratory needs a large number of biological samples to study the genetic sequences of the Titan bloodline and dragon bloodline in this sea area.

Only when there are enough samples can the research progress be faster and more accurate.

If we rely on the Dawn Regiment to hunt by ourselves, we don’t know when.

Giant dragons and the like are hard to come by.

Now that it is ready-made, it is naturally the best.

Looking at the entire Dragon Kingdom, probably except for the royal treasuries of the three kingdoms, no one has more dragon materials than the "Dragon Hunter" Bartolo.

Furthermore, these materials are good for war workshop research and production of colonial clothing and puppets, and cannot be purchased elsewhere.

"You want so much material?"

Bartolo didn't know Su Lun's strength, and his expression became more and more strange after hearing this.

He thought he understood Su Lun before, he was a very outstanding young man.

But at this moment, he seemed to feel that he had no idea what kind of existence he was facing.

How come an adventure group needs kingdom-level materials when they open their mouths?

He vaguely felt that this Dawn Group was much more powerful than what he saw and expected.