873 Betrayal (1/2)

In this Great Voyage World, the human race had never been the master.

In other words, the human race had never managed to conquer the entire world, whereas the goblins had.

Although evidence of their existence had mostly vanished in the river of history, there were still some remaining⁠—such as those buildings outside.

However, those buildings only had aesthetic value and little practical value compared to the research institute.

To be seen as a research institute, it should at least contain some useful information or resources from the past, such that one could infer how prosperous the ancient Goblin Empire had been.

It was said that the reason why Ettoman could develop their Ironclad Navy in a very short period of time was due to their discovery of a steam research institute constructed by the ancient Goblin Empire.

Looking at what Fang Yuan had discovered, it was much more astonishing. Not only was its scale huge, but it even had some metal guards left. Although it was unknown whether the Soro Pirates had reactivated the metal guards, it was still surprising enough.

”What a pity… Even though the full set of ironclad technology is here, it's still useless. It takes too long for a completely different industrial system to catch up to this technological level…”

Fang Yuan shook his head indifferently.

Most important to him were things that he could provide him with immediate power—for example, Sun.

”Roar! Roar!”

The metal beasts' eyes flashed red. They roared and leaped forward.

”Block them!” Butcher shouted as he rushed to the front.

Having been shot by the aboriginals' darts and seeing that incident as a disgrace, he urgently needed to do something to release his rage.

Suddenly, a few water streams appeared on his skin, and his body grew larger as blue scales emerged and covered his skin.

Dang!

He waved his giant saber, stopping one metal guard immediately.

”Ovation of the Seas!”

A few Ocean Warlocks combined their powers and activated the rings of blue light on their bodies.

The water in the river suddenly boiled and split, forming a giant blue whale that opened its mouth to swallow a few metal guards.

”KDPNGIL!”

The last three remaining goblin guards, who were faster than the ordinary guards, mumbled in the goblin language and made their way toward Fang Yuan.

”Bind!”

Fang Yuan opened up his hands and released spider net-like blue strings from his fingers that then fell on one of the goblin puppets.

Bang! Bang!

The goblin puppet hit by the blue string turned its head forcefully and attacked another goblin puppet.

”Your Excellency, I'll leave the last one to you!” Fang Yuan said to Blackbeard.

He backed far away, leaving enough room for Blackbeard to deal with the last remaining goblin guard.

What a sly asshole! Blackbeard gritted his teeth in anger and surprise. This Arcane Trickster is too cunning. I need to be more careful next time.

Of course, he was not scared at all. After all, he had been the pirate governor of the Nightmare Ocean and was one of the strongest pirates.

He drew a thin rapier and dashed at the goblin puppet, leaving a hole smaller than his pinky on its chest.

Whoo! Whoo!

Almost immediately, a circle of black smoke rose from the puppet's body, and the puppet became paralyzed.

Obviously, Blackbeard had struck its energy source in that stab.

Bang! Bang!

At the same time, the puppet Fang Yuan was controlling broke down along with the other one.

”Era of Ice!”

The Ocean Warlocks attacked with all their energy. An extremely cold gale blew through, and several ice statues glowing with blue light appeared.

”It seems that those metal guards were just flawed gadgets of the Goblin Empire!” Blackbeard walked forward and kicked the paralyzed goblin statue. ”Maybe the Soro Pirates reactivated them to defend against pirates. However, they're only useful against ordinary pirates. Against us… heh.”

He suddenly stopped speaking.

Fang Yuan had accidentally activated some mechanism while he was examining and touching a metal wall.

Smack! Smack! Smack!

Lamps lit up one after another, making the surroundings as bright as day.

The whole place became clearer. It looked like they were in an immense karst cave, only its walls were much smoother and covered with metal.

The strings of light suspended all around, shining brightly onto a conspicuous object.

There was an enormous steel warship!

The black steel warship occupied more than half of the space inside the mountain, oppressing everything around it.

”Sss…”

Almost all the pirates took a deep breath of cold air.

Usually, the longest ordinary warship was one hundred meters. An ironclad, which was considered very large, was usually around one to two hundred meters long.

However, this warship was at least three hundred meters long. It was undoubtedly the largest warship in the world.

Most importantly, this warship looked simple and classy. It was made of some special dull-colored metal, and there was not a single trace of rust on it after so long.