Chapter 266 The Pirate Queen's Thoughts

Hearing Anne's last words, Teemo was so scared that his hair stood up:

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Nautilus is actually a deep-sea titan?"

"Are you scared?"

Tristana had a sly smile on her face and put her arm on Teemo's shoulder.

Teemo snorted and straightened his back:

"Scared? I'm not scared! Even if I don't pay the tithe, he has to ask the Empire for permission if he wants to deal with me!"

"What does the Empire have to do with you?" Tristana teased.

"Ahem!" Teemo's face became serious after hearing this. After adjusting his collar, he stood up straight and said, "Teemo, a new recruit of the Noxian Empire, reports here!"

Ha, you really think that Teemo is stupid.

The people with the biggest legs in this world are definitely Noxians. These few days, they just sat on the sea for a few days. They have food and drinks.

Yes! He just thinks the Empire is good, and he is definitely not afraid to find a backer!

Ignoring the playfulness of the Poppies, Seraphine turned her head to Grid and asked uncertainly:

"Mr. Grid, is Annie's story true?"

"You want to ask why he can become a deep-sea titan."

Seeing his apprentice nodding seriously, Grid knew that she was wondering about the reason, and smiled and replied:

"Remember what I said about the gods?"

Seraphine had an idea: "Faith?"

Grid nodded slightly: "The faith and belief of living beings sound like an illusory thought, but it is one of the most powerful forces in the world."

"Could it be that the deep-sea titan is also a kind of god? Because countless people are willing to believe in tithes, it has created a certain symbol." Seraphine guessed.

Grid agreed: "Perhaps it was because of the tithe, or perhaps it was because of Nautilus' last thought before his death that he became what he is today."

"Mr. Grid, um."

Seraphone opened her mouth, and when she saw the jubilant Poppies, she changed her mouth and asked cryptically:

"Have you heard of demons? I feel that deep-sea titans are similar to demons."

"Demons." Grid said happily, "It is a product of negative rules. Take the most famous Fiddlesticks as an example. It is precisely because its legend is widely circulated in the world that he has become a powerful demon."

Hearing this name, Seraphine, Annie, and Riel all looked unhappy. They had all experienced what happened at that time. Fiddlesticks was not a good person.

Seraphone had no doubt that if the two teachers had not helped that time, she and Laxana would have died at the hands of Fiddlesticks.

But fortunately, there was one less cancer in the world after that incident.

"Do you mean he is really a demon?"

If the two are not related, my teacher would not have mentioned it.

Who would have thought that Grid smiled and shook his head:

"Not really, I have done some research on demons. Based on my review of history, I have come to a conclusion that the demon's body existed before the demon. Captain, do you understand what this sentence means?"

"Before the demon." Seraphine asked uncertainly, "Does it mean that the demon was a demon before it became a demon?"

There is an obvious logical flaw in this sentence. If the demon has not become a demon, how can it become a demon?

But this is also what Seraphine heard from her teacher:

Demons are not born as demons, but they are destined to be demons when they are born.

Grid nodded slightly, agreeing with Seraphine's statement:

"Perhaps, the Titan that Nautilus turned into after his death is no longer himself, but a combination of belief and negative emotions. He is currently just a rule, derived from the rule of tithe. But if this legend is further expanded and spreads for a longer time, he will soon become a real demon."

"Is that so?"

Seraphine suddenly realized why the Hextech cannon could not kill the deep-sea Titan. It is not so easy for a demon reserve to die.

She knew very well that even for the two teachers, it was not an easy task to completely kill the demon.

"Is there no way for them to kill it?" Seraphine said distressedly.

She felt very uncomfortable after listening to these weird things.

Tithe, originally just a product of superstition, has now become a curse of death. How can all seafarers collect 1 gold coin? In addition to those large ships, there are still many small boats to go out to sea.

Especially since Bilgewater was impacted by the Noxian currency system, the original golden siren was replaced by the current Trifarix gold coins. It is unknown whether the deep-sea titans recognize Trifarix gold coins.

"It is not difficult to kill the product of rules." Grid smiled, "They succeed and fail because of rules, just make new rules."

"It's not that easy." Seraphine asked uncertainly.

If it were that easy, who would be afraid of demons.

"The most difficult thing for demons to fight is that the symbolic rules are closely related to humans. Fear, greed, lust, secrets. For humans, these are almost impossible to eliminate." Grid said.

"Yes, just like Fiddlesticks, everyone will have fear, so how do we deal with it." Seraphine looked helpless.

"There is a person who breaks the rules, such as you." Grid ignored Seraphine's stunned face and continued with a smile, "As long as your singing can continue to inspire people, it is enough to dispel the fear in the hearts of everyone in Runeland."

"Impossible," Seraphine smiled awkwardly, "This sounds more terrifying than fear."

If she had this ability, she would probably be able to sing fear to death.

Wait a minute!

The more Seraphine thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, and she frowned and said:

"Then old..." Just as she looked up, she saw Grid's half-smiley eyes, why did she change the subject, "But, my teacher who was as powerful as a god before, he defeated the demon with a rare power in the world and captured it, and he didn't use the method you said."

As she said that, she also blinked at Grid.

Hearing Seraphine mention her teacher, the eyes of the others were also attracted. Everyone knows that Seraphine's teacher is one of the few people who can be called the top of Runeland, the Speaker of the Trifaree Council-Ryan Meredith.

Grid smiled and said lightly: "So, Captain, you are not His Majesty the Speaker of the Council. Even if you are as strong as His Majesty, you can only capture them instead of destroying them. This also shows their specialness."

Seraphine's mouth twitched slightly. Such a straightforward reason seems to be true.

She is not her teacher, so she can't do it, and it seems that there is no problem.

"What about the deep-sea titan? It shouldn't be as difficult to deal with as Fiddlesticks." Seraphine asked without giving up.

"Of course!"

Grid replied slowly:

"Since he is transformed by the rules, if everyone distrusts this rule, he will no longer exist."

"How to do it?" Seraphine looked curious.

Well, she didn't really want to eliminate harm for the people or do good deeds every day, she was just curious.

"Let everyone realize that not paying the tithe will not cause danger. Or change the name of the tithe and turn it into a tribute to Nagakabouros."

The former is still within Seraphine's cognition. If everyone does not trust the tithe and the deep-sea titan cannot make an impact, he will slowly die.

But the latter one mentioned by her teacher really surprised Seraphine, and she was even surprised.

There is such a way to play?

The tithe is a tribute to the sea. Before the deep-sea titan appeared, there were also sayings related to the sea beast, but it itself was not closely related to Nagakabouros.

If this is really linked to it, these two will have to fight

After holding it in for a long time, she stammered and uttered a sentence:

"Is it that simple?"

"It's really simple, but the premise is that you have to let Bilgewater cooperate with you." Grid looked at Seraphine with a smile on his lips.

Let him do this, even without these little tricks, it is not a difficult task.

But for Seraphine now, how to make Bilgewater willing to cooperate is not a simple matter.

The current empress is different from Laxana. She is not an easy person to get along with. Bilgewater's strength and independence are her other wishes besides revenge.

This trip to Bilgewater is also time to teach these two girls a lesson

Grid's mouth corners slightly raised, with some interesting expectations in his heart.

...

When the sun rises.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar, take a look!

Today's Bilgewater Bay is unusually lively.

A sea of ​​ships gathered in the bay, all of them hung flags designed by the new Pirate Queen. The flag pattern has many elements but does not look messy. Pirates, bounty hunters, Baru culture, wine, all are things that can represent Bilgewater.

Standing at the highest point of Bilgewater, Sarah proudly looked at the ships gathering below.

Even if she only gave a temporary order, she could summon nearly a hundred large ships tens of meters long. This is the unique ocean power of Bilgewater.

If she were close to the land, she would not dare to have any luck at all. Noxus would definitely kill them like crushing ants.

But this is the sea, their home court of Bilgewater. Especially after hearing that Piltover began to develop towards the aviation industry, she felt that the advantage was in her.

They really couldn't resist Noxus, but Bilgewater was blessed with geography, technology and resources.

There were countless merchant ships traveling on this trade route every day in Noxus. If they were not secretly controlled, even if they knew that looting the imperial merchant ships was worse than death, there would definitely be desperadoes who would do it.

Sarah did not expect Bilgewater to be on an equal footing with Noxus, but only hoped that Bilgewater could guarantee a certain degree of autonomy, and even if it turned to the empire, it must have the power to enter the core.

She still has some confidence in the latter. They are not necessarily weaker than Demacia, not to mention that they are of great value to Noxus because of sea transportation.

In this case, as long as she shows her strength, she believes that it is not difficult to fulfill her demands.

"Tosby, did you see that? This is the strength of our Bilgewater, the most powerful sea combat force." Sarah raised her red lips.

"Lady Empress, you should say this to Lady Seraphine." Tosby had no expression on his face.

He sneered at the scene below in his heart. He had seen the scene of the general landing in Ionia that year.

Bilgewater alone could not stop the general at all.

Those broken wooden ships below would instantly turn into ashes in front of the tsunami raised by the general.

Seeing Tosby's behavior, Sarah shrugged her shoulders and said nothing more.

A fanatical warrior of the Empire, who believed that Noxus was the best in the world, was not her kind of person.

If the other party was not from the Empire, she would have shot him dead long ago.

It was annoying just to watch.

"Let's go, go and greet your Lady Seraphine!"

Sarah said coldly, and strode towards the port below. Stobby did not speak, but followed silently.

After a while, a large ship of dozens of meters left the port and slowly moved outward.

The sea ships that had been docked in Bilgewater Bay also followed behind this large ship, forming a large fleet, sailing towards the distance.

Not far from them, the aerospace battleship was heading towards this side at a very fast speed.

After a while, the two sides could already see each other from a distance.

"Is that a ship?"

Sarah stood at the bow, looking at the huge steel ship not far away, with a look of surprise on her face.

This was not the first time she had seen Noxus' steel ships, but it was the first time she had seen such a large steel ship.

The size of one of the other ships was equivalent to four or five of her vehicles.

She was very curious about how the Noxians put heavy steel on the sea and allowed them to float on the sea without sinking.

As she got closer, she also saw the artillery on the surface of the aerospace battleship. The densely packed gun barrels were aimed at them.

The Hextech cannons with dark blue bases made Sarah feel a little scared.

Even if she only saw the long and thick gun barrels, she would not think that it was just a shelf product.

She was lucky enough to see a Hextech cannon firing once, which seemed to be a Z701 model. One shot could barely smash a 10-meter-long wooden boat. The disadvantage is that the shooting cost is extremely high, and there is a long interval between two shots.

Hextech cannons are powerful, but not invincible.

This is also the reason why she thinks Bilgewater can compete with Noxus. They recently took down a lot of good weapons from Piltover through channels such as the black market.

Those newly acquired artillery were designed by Heimerdinger, the so-called father of Piltover, and they were new models designed a few years ago. Sarah didn't think they would be much weaker than Hextech artillery.

Sarah forced herself to calm down, and gave orders with a calm face:

"Get closer!"

The main ship she was on continued to move forward, while the fleet behind slowly stopped and lined up in rows, forming an extremely oppressive formation.

This was the fleet formation designed by Sarah, in order to give Noxus a head start.

In Bilgewater, even Nagakabouros had to retreat in front of them!

"Interesting."

On the other side of the aerospace battleship, Seraphine raised her eyebrows.

She could guess most of the thoughts of the Pirate Queen without any ability.

In the past, she would really pretend not to see it.

But after the trip to Demacia, she had different ideas:

"Blitzcrank, charge the main gun of the Hextech Gun, aim directly above. We should have a grand meeting with the Queen of Bilgewater."

The Empire has always emphasized strength above all else. Since the other party wants to show off their strength, how can Seraphine, as the representative of the Empire, not accompany them?