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Latest website: In the depth of winter, in a certain sea area south of Pulitzer Harbour, a privateer fleet ostensibly formed by pirates was cruising on the vast sea, looking for "suitable" prey.

Since the main fleet of the Church of Storms is still guarding the Rhosid Islands and other overseas colonies, Roen's naval strength, although not weak, is unable to withstand the coalition forces of Feneport and Fusac, and can only huddle near Pulitzer Port, so this Only a privateering fleet dared to block the main shipping routes and intercept passing material transport ships.

Although under Abner's instruction, all countries have signed the "Tillis City Convention" and no longer allow the army to plunder civilians and caravans at will, how could the Fusac and Feneport military just because of a piece of paper? The agreement allows all kinds of materials to be continuously transported into Backlund?

Therefore, there are naturally more "pirates" near Loen's ports.

Some of them are real pirates hired by the military of Fusac and Feneport, while others are simply pretended to be the navy. The Treaty of Tillis can restrain regular armies, but it cannot restrain pirates, can it?

The current commander of this privateer fleet, Al Manaeus, is similar to Alger. Although he has always been a pirate on the surface, his true identity is an officer of the Fusac Navy.

"Captain, there is a fleet coming from the direction of Damir. They should have spotted us, but they have not turned." At this time, the lookout loudly reported to Commander Alhui.

Before Al could reply, the young adjutant next to him spoke first: "Captain, prepare to fight, our chance to make a difference has come!"

Al Manaeus cast a sidelong glance at his adjutant, and was very dissatisfied with his decision-making for him without authorization. If the other person was not a stupid young man who was forced to be "supervised" by the military, he would have tied him up. Throw it into the sea and feed it to the fishmen.

This kind of ship that dares to come over after clearly seeing the privateer fleet needs to be treated with more caution... Al Manaeus ignored the young adjutant's shouting and shouted directly to the lookout on the mast: "Can you see the flags of those ships?"

"Captain, you can't see clearly yet...wait, that...that seems to be the badge of the Foundation!" The lookout hand was confident at first, but as he spoke, his voice began to tremble.

The Foundation...The Blaine Charitable Foundation? ! Captain Al's eyes widened instantly, and then he shouted loudly without thinking: "Order all ships to disperse and retreat, and leave this sea area as soon as possible."

After hearing the order, the rest of the crew did not have any objections and quickly returned to their respective posts. Only the young adjutant was a little confused. After a while, he asked sternly: "Captain Al, what are you going to do? How dare you let this go? Loen’s merchant ship, are you going to betray..."

"Shut up!" Before the adjutant could finish his words, Al slapped him down on the deck. Then the pirate captain, who was over forty years old, warned in a harsher tone than the other person, "I tell you, in today's world On the sea, the Foundation's fleet is an absolute no-no!

"Even if we go to fight Roen's armored ship, we can't mess with the Foundation's ship.

"The fleet that provokes Loen will stay away from the sea area controlled by the opponent at most, but the ship that provokes the Foundation will have no place on the sea!

"Those are the four pirate kings, and the seven pirate generals have jointly declared that they must not rob!

"Previously, a pirate group several times larger than us blocked the "Foundation's" fleet without belief. As a result, the "Golden Dream" passed through a huge circular door surrounded by firelight on the spot." Shuttle in and annihilate most of the main force of the pirate group.

"And none of the ships that the pirate group escaped met a good end. The Pale Saint, the Black Throne, the Black Death, the Future, and the Dawn successively joined in the roundup of them.

"There was even a pirate ship that was lucky enough to break out of the siege and escape into the 'abyss whirlpool', but it was still destroyed by a sea monster...

"Abyssal Vortex" is the name of a dangerous sea area, not a real abyss.

Captain Al said this, paused, and continued: "And those who escape to land will also have no good results... You should have heard of the 'Convention Guardian'

Bar? "

The young adjutant was told that his face was extremely ugly, and he didn't know whether it was because he was afraid or unconvinced. However, after hearing the other party's question, the stunned young man actually trembled, widened his eyes and said, "Guardian of the Convention. 'Do you still care about this?"

"Convention Guardians" is a newly born assassin organization. The purpose of this organization is to ensure that the "Tillis Convention" can be implemented seriously. Any officer who dares to ignore the contents of the "Convention" will not be prosecuted by the local civil court. Those who are subject to sanctions will be included in the "purification sequence" of the organization and "eradicated" after three warnings without results.

At first, all the political parties scorned the so-called "Purification Sequence" and even openly boycotted the "Convention" signed by high-level officials. However, after the assassination of a demigod admiral from Feneport, everyone corrected their attitude. No one dares to ignore the "sacredness" of the "Tillis City Convention".

This young adjutant came to the sea through connections because he witnessed his boss being killed by a female assassin for plundering civilians, so he was very afraid of the "Guardian of the Convention".

"Isn't what we are doing destroying the sanctity of the Convention? Although the power of the 'Guardians of the Convention' has not spread to the sea, the robbery of the 'Foundation' ship itself is enough for us all to go to the sea. "Purification sequence! Captain Al said angrily.

The adjutant had completely lost his temper and obeyed the captain's arrangement.

But their luck was not very good. Soon after they dispersed and escaped, Al's flagship lost its way due to heavy fog. The thick black fog was cold and slippery, and it soaked into their flesh and souls in a moment...

...

On the outskirts of Backlund, in the newly purchased Blaine Manor by Abner, all the nobles and celebrities of Loen gathered together to hold a charity donation to raise food for the common people.

Unlike in the original work, Earl Hall, Duke Negan and other great nobles clearly had a lot of food in their hands but sat back and watched the Backlund residents fall into famine, this time they were very generous.

The reason is that the situation is different.

In the original work, Earl Hall no longer needs to show love, nor does he need to perform political shows, and there is no profit from charity. Naturally, he focuses on maintaining the dignity and survival of his family, and is unwilling to part ways even for him, which is insignificant.

But after Audrey led the people to fight, he immediately discovered the hidden risks that threatened his family's survival, and then decisively agreed to take the lead in donating food.

In the final analysis, Earl Hall and other great nobles were only calculating gains and losses.

But now, in Backlund, and in most areas of the Northern Continent, it is in the best interests to follow Viscount Brain's wishes.

Therefore, they were naturally willing to donate the food they had hoarded....because it would make Viscount Abner Brain happy. And Abner is happy, so that the interests of each family can be guaranteed.

In the corner of the ball, Audrey, who seemed to have lost all sense of existence, just looked at everyone's hypocritical faces and listened quietly to everyone's utilitarian thoughts, her green eyes like gems.

"I just realized that I am actually a little proud of my noble status in my heart, but..."...

After once again maintaining the food prices in Backlund and several surrounding cities through a dance, Abner was just about to go to Her Majesty Queen Vera to inform her, but his expression suddenly moved, and his eyes immediately showed joy, and he Thought:

"It's just December, and Cattleya has already finished digesting the "Master of Prophecy potion?"

"This speed is slightly slower than that of Klein and I. It's not in vain that I have taken the time to "peep" her secrets every day these days...

"Well, we also have an idea about her promotion ceremony."