Chapter 333 Disharmonious Voices
In ten days, the pirates killed and injured many sea creatures with magic depth charges, and the corresponding consumption of bombs was also serious. In the previous battle of Shadow Island, the sea creatures were inexperienced and gathered together on the seabed, so more than 5,000 bombs caused about 10,000 losses to the sea creatures.
In the scattered battles for nearly a month after that, the sea creatures obviously learned from the previous lessons and paid great attention to adjusting their positions in the battles with the pirates, and the formations were also relatively loose. Therefore, more than 5,000 sea creatures were killed and injured in total, but the Shadow Island organization consumed nearly 20,000 magic depth charges.
At this time, Yu Fei gradually saw the reason why the sea creatures or Queen Azshara fought such a scattered war of attrition with the Shadow Island organization regardless of the damage.
After all, the Shadow Island organization is just a pirate organization, without a particularly strict organization, and the subordinate relationship between the pirate groups is not clear. Things like magic depth charges and magic mines are definitely not made by small and medium-sized pirate groups. Only those pirate groups participating in the Shadow Island Council have the ability to make them.
However, the cost of such magic creations is not low. Although the parliament will not trade with the pirate groups below in the form of sales, the raw materials for making bombs and mines - magic crystals and some magic metals, naturally cannot be borne by the pirate groups in the parliament.
At the beginning, the parliament collected materials from the small and medium-sized pirate groups below, and then distributed the magic depth charges and magic mines that had been made and stored on Shadow Island to the pirates below. At the same time, the pirate craftsmen on Shadow Island made these two weapons from the collected materials.
The speed of the pirate craftsmen's production is of course far behind the speed of the pirates' consumption. Although there are still a lot of storage on Shadow Island, the top leaders of Shadow Island have discovered this hidden problem. So in the recent battle, the top leaders have ordered the pirate fleets below to use bombs and mines as sparingly as possible.
But as mentioned earlier, the Shadow Island Organization is only a relatively loose organization after all. The pirate top leaders' idea of defeating the sea clan and then establishing a country managed by pirates is still too far away for the middle and lower pirates.
The middle and lower pirates see more of the immediate benefits. At the beginning, when the organization was confiscating the materials for making magic depth charges and magic mines, everyone was very cooperative, and they were also very excited when they received the "high-end" weapons that they had never seen before.
However, after nearly a month, a large number of materials were confiscated by the top leaders, and the weapons were used to fight against the sea tribe. In the end, the middle and lower-level pirates found that they seemed to have handed over some materials that could be converted into gold coins through the pirates' own channels in vain, but they got nothing.
Of course, it cannot be said that they got nothing. In the process of fighting with the sea tribe, the pirates can occasionally capture some injured or knocked unconscious sea tribes, but most of them are low-level sea tribes, and the main forces of the sea tribe are relatively few, not to mention shark warriors and the like.
For the captured sea tribes, the pirates were still very interested in them at the beginning, because the top leaders told them that these sea tribes could be tamed and become one of the pirates. Indeed, there were many low-level sea tribes that were tamed, which made the pirate groups that had sea tribes excited for a while.
But later, the pirates found that the combat power of low-level sea creatures was about the same as that of stronger pirates, but they were more flexible in the water. At most, they could be used to investigate the situation on the seabed and discover the sea creatures or sea beasts attacking from the seabed earlier than liquid perspective.
The main forces of the sea creatures, such as tuna people and barracuda people, are very difficult to tame. Speaking of which, the pirates are still very interested in these sea creatures, because they are much better than the "water ghosts" among pirates in terms of strength and "technology".
"Water ghost" is the nickname of the part of pirates in a pirate group who dive into the water to drill through the bottom of the enemy ship or even touch the enemy ship to destroy it. Tuna people and barracuda people have the advantages of race and size, so it is much easier for them to do these things than "water ghosts" who are humans.
You should know that when the sea creatures first appeared in this sea area, the ships that were attacked were often sunk by tuna people. If the pirates had not had magicians using liquid perspective to observe, and magic depth charges and magic mines to prevent the sea creatures from approaching and causing damage, they would have been helpless against the sea creatures' method of cutting off the source of the trouble.
But the problem is that until a month later, except for the intermediate sea creatures that Yu Fei had hypnotized, none of the other captured intermediate sea creatures had been successfully tamed. Some pirates did suggest that animal trainers might be able to tame these sea creatures more easily, but animal trainers are rare in the Eslaze continent, and there is no one among the pirates, so naturally there is nothing they can do with these captured intermediate sea creatures.
After paying a considerable amount of magic crystals and magic materials, they got a few low-level sea creatures that could only be used as scouts in the sea, and some dissatisfaction gradually emerged among the middle and lower-level pirates.
For this phenomenon, the top leaders of the Shadow Island Organization had no way to deal with it. After all, they established long-term goals, while the middle and lower-level pirates were more concerned about their own interests. Moreover, the parliament was also very distressed about the difficulty of taming the intermediate sea creatures.
Finally, everyone remembered that the opinion on this matter was first raised by the Fourth Speaker Yorick, and that only the intermediate sea creatures captured in Yorick's initial operation were successfully tamed, so they pushed the problem back to Yorick.
Yu Fei saw that this was not going to work. The pirates were not working hard, and even the middle and lower-level pirates were inclined to strike. In this way, how could he weaken the strength of the sea tribe and eventually conquer the sea tribe and the Naga tribe as planned in the script? So he had to propose a solution to the parliament.
Although the profession of pirate is not so glamorous, for various reasons, there are still some magicians among pirates, although there are relatively few. The method proposed by Yu Fei is to let the pirate magicians sign the middle-level sea tribe as their magic partners to achieve the purpose of utilizing the abilities of these middle-level sea tribes.
This method is still somewhat useful. The number of magicians among pirates is much larger than the captured middle-level sea tribes - after all, it is all the pirates in the northern and eastern waters of Eslaze. After taming the middle-level sea tribes in this way, the complaints of the middle and lower-level pirates have decreased a lot.