In the mountains more than 20 kilometers west of Messina, there is a small hill with no special features. If there is a small river passing through here, a group of water pirates were chased by the crusade team and turned around. When passing by here by boat, even the pirates who studied the treasure map for ten or eight years could not find this place.

Today, this mountain pass suddenly became lively. A row of boats stopped by the bank of the small river. Hundreds of water pirates armed with various weapons scattered, looking for something in the one-meter-high bushes.

Those water pirates eventually lost to greed. In their opinion, what Charles is willing to find with two thousand gold coins is worth at least twenty thousand gold coins.

It's just that the news of this treasure map suddenly spread in the water pirate circle, and the water pirates in Messina came to ask for a share of the pie.

The group of pirates who got the treasure map from Charles had no choice. The pirates in this area were of the same kind, and they often took care of each other during the siege of Messina, so they could only cooperate with the other six groups. The water thieves negotiated to take the big head, the six water thieves also have meat to eat, and the water thieves who do not enter the flow have some soup.

Next, after some research, the pirates finally found the place where the treasure map was drawn.

In order to prevent someone from swallowing it alone, the elite water thieves came out together, and almost all the big leaders came with their confidants.

After arriving at the place, the leader of the water pirates continued to study the treasure map on the shore, and those men searched for clues to the treasure under the scorching sun.

As time passed, the sun gradually moved westward.

At this time, a water pirate minion shouted loudly: "There is something here!"

The leaders of the water pirates rushed over. The robber had already cleared a small space with a machete. The leaders saw a few stone slabs scattered under the thick bushes.

So the scattered minions were called over and began to clear the surrounding bushes from here.

The speed of the violent cutting of the bushes was rapid, and a stone road leading from the river to the far under the cliff was found.

So the pirates cleaned up the cliff along the flagstone road, and not long after that, they made a more important discovery.

When preparing for the evening, the water pirates cleared a large space of about two football fields under the cliff. The space was full of scattered stones, which looked like the traces of a camp.

This semi-circular camp is built at the foot of a cliff, and the stone road leads directly below the cliff.

The excited water pirates continued their efforts, and soon found a hole at the end of the stone road, but the hole was blocked by huge gravel, and it seemed that someone had smashed the rock above the hole.

At this time, Charles breathed a sigh of relief, the picture was really reliable.

The enthusiastic water pirates did not rest, and they began to remove the gravel blocking the hole.

In the evening, a few bonfires were lit by the entrance of the cave, and the minions who had finished removing the stones sat by the bonfire and ate the dry food they brought and drank inferior ale.

The water pirate leaders were all sitting around the bonfire in front of the cave, looking at what they were arguing about.

On the top of the hill diagonally opposite them, there was a big tree that had lived for an unknown number of years, and the trunk of the tree could not be carried by a few people.

A small treehouse opened in the trunk near the top of the tree, and Charles was monitoring the pirates' every move through an observation hole no bigger than a palm.

The actions of the water pirates could not be concealed from him. Today, he followed the water pirates' fleet from a distance and arrived here only half an hour later than the water pirates.

What he has to do today is to wait, waiting for the water pirates to discover the secrets hidden here for more than 300 years, and he is also betting that these water pirates have plans to eat black.

Now that the water pirates are eating simple dry food, Charles is also starting to hurry up to solve the meal tonight.

He sealed the observation hole with a wooden board, and turned on the light in the small book room.

In the dim light, Charles took out a few fried golden rice **** from his storage ring.

Because the food of the Bischberg Kingdom was mainly imported from the Principality of Milan, some of their eating habits were also influenced by the Principality of Milan.

The main ingredients of this rice ball are similar to the risotto that Charles brought to Mordred the night he left Milan, except that the rice is stuffed with tomato stew, ham and cheese, grilled fish in chrysanthemum sauce, etc. , knead into rice **** and deep fry them in hot oil until golden brown on the outside.

As soon as you take a bite, the fried crispy skin of this rice ball makes a "click" sound, the rice in the middle is soft and glutinous, and the chrysanthemum sauce and grilled fish in the middle make people feel refreshed.

The price of this kind of rice **** enjoyed by wealthy people is not cheap, one is worth the average meal for a family of three for a day.

But it tastes good, is high in calories, and is easy to eat, so it became the first choice of Charles, who made some extra money from the water pirates not long ago.

Because of the fight tonight, Charles ate several rice **** in a row, and then leaned against the inner wall of the tree trunk to drink herbal tea while burping.

He was at the age of acne, and if he hadn't been drenched in dragon blood and not afraid of acne, he wouldn't have dared to eat such an angry thing.

After eating and drinking, Charles opened the observation hole again and found that the bandit leader at the entrance of the cave was leading people into the cave.

After thinking about it, Charles used teleportation to teleport himself to the top of the cliff.

This cliff is more than 200 meters high and almost 90 degrees vertical.

Charles searched and finally found the organ that Artoria said above the cave.

Said to be a mechanism, in fact, it was just a few stone **** with a diameter of five meters on the top of the mountain. When the enemy attacked the entrance of the hole, they pushed the stone **** down and killed the enemy under the mountain.

Only three hundred years later, the stone ball is still there, but the track dug back then has been filled with soil, and shrubs and even trees have grown on it, and even the stone ball is covered with vines.

Without hesitation, Charles took out his broadsword to clean up the vines and accumulated soil under the stone ball, and then used teleportation to quickly remove all the soil, shrubs and trees on the track.

The stone ball, which was originally used to defend the demon army, slowly rolled forward under the lever of the demon king's nephew with an earthen lever, then rolled faster and faster, and finally fell towards the bottom of the cliff.

The water pirates under the cliff heard the sound from above, and before they could react, the huge stone ball had fallen on their heads.

Some of the stone **** that fell to the ground burst open, and the gravel carried a huge kinetic energy stem and swept the water pirates resting around the hole.

The stone ball above the hole did not burst, but was embedded in front of the hole, blocking the hole.

In the face of the sudden attack, the headless water pirates outside the cave immediately turned into a pot of porridge.

Fortunately, these water thieves themselves are experienced people, and some of them are sober. They quickly calmed down the others, and then concentrated the still moving ones in front of the cave to be alert, and got the leaders and masters out of it first. .

According to Artoria, the stone **** that blocked the entrance of the cave were specially made to delay the time for the enemy to enter the cave and buy time for the defenders stationed at this important logistics base in the cave.

But after so long, the enhanced magic circle on this stone ball has already weathered, and it is not difficult to smash it.

The water pirates beside the stone ball were shouting and arguing. They thought that the leaders inside had triggered the mechanism or something, causing the stone ball above to fall down. Some people were afraid that smashing the stone ball would trigger the chain mechanism.

At this time, Charles, who teleported himself to the riverside and lay in the bushes, was a little disappointed to see that the water pirates did not take advantage of the chaos to eat and kill each other.

At this time, the pirates guarding the ships also ran to the entrance of the hole, and Charles quietly opened a hole in the bottom of each boat.

Just as the water pirates began to smash the stone balls, a golden light suddenly lit up, and a wall of light made up of countless golden circles appeared in the air.

The "Treasure of Yi" appeared, and the various weapons that Yi had built in the past two years were poured down on those water thieves like pouring rain.

After the golden weapon torrential rain ended, there were not many water pirates who could stand in front of the cave door.

The pirate leaders may have gone so far that their men were slaughtered by Charles outside the cave without realizing it.

This cave was originally a logistics base built during the war more than 300 years ago~lightnovelpub.net~ The materials from various countries of mankind were transported here for storage, and then allocated to the Queen Catherine who was beaten all over the head Pack of Human Allied Forces.

At that time, Arturia borrowed food from the then Grand Duke of Milan, and the Grand Duke of Milan put the map here in a letter and prepared to send it to Arturia, asking her to send someone to fetch the food.

As a result, the letter was not sent, and Artoria was taken away. The letter was left in the Nordall family's archives. As a result, it was not well preserved and was bitten by insects.

Gunnar Nordahl turned this letter, which was not sent back then, from the corner and gave it to Artoria. The people who were waiting to read the gossip were so depressed by the content of the letter. .

Later, Arturia gave Charles the map, and she hid there for fear that he would be hunted down.

The pirate leaders who picked up some rotten weapons in the cave did not know that the things here had already become the capital of the founding king of the Bischberg Kingdom, and they were walking inside with confidence.

Charles, who was outside the cave, cleared the surrounding openings and then opened the stone balls. Then he simply dismantled a few boats, piled the wood and the bushes cut by the pirates at the entrance of the cave, and then set it on fire and smoked it.