Time? Destiny?
Brigadier General Norrington sighed deeply in his heart.
This sentence with only four words is a sentence he accidentally learned from the profound culture of the mysterious ancient Eastern power when he was serving in the East India Company. Originally, he did not understand these words very much, nor did he understand the connection between time and destiny, but now, he suddenly felt deeply about it.
A person’s current situation and destiny are always so unsure!
Yesterday, he was still a newly-glorious Royal Brigadier General. He was young and prepared to marry the daughter of the old noble Governor Swan, and was ready to reach the peak of his life and become a hot figure. He is likely to reach a higher position in the British Empire in the future.
But now? In just one afternoon, he became a prisoner in an instant. He lost everything? The changes in the current situation and destiny have been too big, right?
well……
Norrington looked speechlessly at the girls who walked into the Governor's Mansion, big and small, oh... no! They are no longer ordinary girls, but a group of terrifying witches!
If he hadn't experienced it personally, he would never have thought that a brigade general of the British Empire and more than a thousand regular royal soldiers would have been defeated by such opponents?
If this matter is spread, I'm afraid no one will believe it?
The regular army of more than a thousand people, with advanced weapons, extensive training, and strict discipline, actually surrendered to just six witches? If he hadn't experienced this incident from beginning to end, he would have absolutely no way of imagining such a thing!
I believe that in the future, once what happened here in Port Royal is transmitted back to the local area and back to Europe, he and the Governor Swan will definitely become the laughing stock of everyone, right?
Those people will only blame all the reasons and mistakes on the incompetence of him and the governor, instead of trying to verify whether the witch is really as powerful as the legendary one! Moreover, Norrington also knew that his future might have been destroyed from now on...
However, this is the fate. Although it does seem cruel, sometimes you can only choose to accept it!
"Ahhh! I think you must have never thought about today before, right? Dear Brigadier General of the Royal Army?"
When Captain Sparrow followed the Governor's Mansion, he saw another acquaintance, so he went straight up, opened his big mouth with gold teeth, and looked at the other party with an extremely bad smile.
"Let me think, two days ago, the great Captain Sparrow accidentally became a prisoner of your navy and was locked in your dungeon. What did you say at that time? To choose a good day to hang me? Like this?"
Jack Sparrow pinched his neck with his hands and spit out his long tongue to give Brigadier General Norrington a look of being hanged.
"But now? Tsk tsk! Look, you must have never expected it? Two days later, our identities were exchanged directly? Don't you want to say anything about this?"
Jack Sparrow pinched his signature orchid finger, twisted his butt and walked around Norrington, frivolously took off the exquisite short musket from the brigade general's waist and stuffed it into his own holster. Then, this was not over. After he decided that the other party dared not resist, he actually reached out and took off the brigade general's hat and put it on his own head.
"Or, can you post some thoughts?"
“…”
Norrington closed his eyes and took a deep breath at the same time. His chest fluctuated violently for several times before he barely suppressed the urge to pull out the long sword from his waist and stab the shameless pirate to death.
He should have executed this damn Sparrow pirate leader directly. If he had hanged the other party directly at that time, now, he would not have suffered this humiliation, right? I really regret it!
After a while, he calmed down a little, then opened his eyes as if he had made up his mind. Then, he resolutely untied the sword around his waist, took a big step to the witch leader Charlotte, put his feet together to make a tribute to the attention, and then handed the sword he loved to the other party with both hands.
"I, Brigadier General of the Royal British Empire, James Norrington, now representing all the armed soldiers and officials of Port Royal, formally surrender to your witches!"
After handing over his sword, Norrington continued to say:
"I hope you can give you decent treatment that matches our identity! Or you can also ask for compensation from our British Empire. I believe that our family or parliament will be happy to pay the ransom to redeem us!"
He had to surrender to a teenage girl, even if the other party was a powerful witch, Norrington always felt that this might be the biggest shame and stain in his life, right?
This incident may affect his career throughout his life. Even if he will not be resigned from the empire for being punished in the future, he will have no hope of moving forward again, right? His career has just begun, but he has to announce that it has come to an end...
Charlotte took the other party's sword with a cold face and did not speak immediately. Instead, he continued to stare at Norrington's eyes for a while before saying coldly:
"I accept your surrender! But now I have another requirement for you. If you complete it, three months later, we will give you a boat so that you and all of you who want to leave can leave. Otherwise, you will be executed!"
Charlotte's next plan also requires the use of these British royal soldiers, which is crucial.
So, she made a harsh statement directly. Her request must be fulfilled. Otherwise, she would probably burn all the prisoners who dared not cooperate to death as they said just now!
"As the victorious party, you have the right to make any reasonable demands. This is customary and legal. Please tell me!"
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He was not afraid of the other party asking for and asking for conditions, because since the other party still had to put forward conditions, it proved that they would not kill people like them easily, which means that they were still useful; what he was afraid of was that the other party accepted his surrender but did not mention any conditions. In that case, it would be the real danger and the real death!
"Very good, then, now I declare: You are all hired by our witches! And commissions are your lives! I need you to organize your soldiers to completely calm the chaos in the city and maintain order in Port Royal before dark! Three months, after three months, I will give you a ship to leave!"
After finishing his cold words, Charlotte once again reached out and handed back the sword that Brigadier General Norrington had just returned.
This is the method Charlotte had thought of before, taking over Port Royal and completely occupying the transition plan here.
After all, they are only a few people now, and they really have no way to occupy and manage this place. She needs some time to sort out these things and develop and strengthen their witch power. After three months, she believes that the power they have is enough to occupy the city!
"You can be so sure that we won't take the opportunity to escape or make trouble for you during this period?"
Although Norrington didn't do that, he frowned and joked.
This kind of thing that occupied the enemy's cities and hired prisoners to maintain public order sounds quite novel. He Norrington has never encountered it before! Apart from them, I'm afraid no one dares to do this, right?
Besides, they surrendered and became prisoners of the other party because of their defeat, rather than surrendering to the other party. The nature of the two is very different! If the British Empire returns from counterattack in the future and needs to be investigated, it will be difficult to explain clearly.
So, Norrington was a little hesitant for a moment and did not dare to reach out to pick up the sword handed back by the witch.
"Hmph! I believe you won't do that, and we have the confidence to make you won't do that, because we have this now..."
Before she finished speaking, Charlotte stuffed the sword back into the other party's hand, and then grabbed Norrington's arm hard, and a burst of smoke instantly came out of the palm of her grasping the other party's arm.
"ah!!!"
Unpredictable, Norrington screamed. When he tried to break away from Charlotte's palm and pull up his sleeve, he suddenly realized that a strange flame-shaped symbol was burned by the other party on his forearm, and it was still emitting a burst of red light?
"What is this symbol...it is it?"
After seeing this, Norrington began to feel a little shocked. This thing seemed to be obviously not a good thing! The witches actually have this method? Is this the witch's curse? Or is it a certain restrictive preventive measure?
But no matter what it is, something like this weird thing that will glow red is always not so beautiful when it is branded on its arms! These witches are really, and they can't negotiate and sign paper contracts at any time? Why are they so savage?
"Hmph! This mark can ensure that you won't run away within three months. Remember what I said, Brigadier General, otherwise, that flame symbol is not just a symbol. It will turn into a real ball of flame, burning you to the point of no residue, including your soul!"
After signing a contract with Shadow Bear Tibers, Charlotte also gained some strange magic knowledge with its power. This flame curse contract is one of them. This spell is especially suitable for enslaving certain humans or humanoid creatures. The caster only needs to activate the flame rune, and the shadow flame can instantly burn the caster to ashes, and even the soul will not be left.
You know, Tibers followed Little Anne for so long, and basically the two were together all the time, so it naturally learned a lot of magic, and now, these magic has been taught a lot to Charlotte through contracts.
"Okay, now, Brigadier General Norrington, you can go out and lead your soldiers to quell the chaos! Remember, move quickly, it's better to go now!"
After casting a curse on the other party, Charlotte looked at the other party with a smile. With this thing, she was not afraid of them making any small moves. Later, when she had time, she would put this mark on the important officials and generals one by one, not afraid of them not cooperating!
"By the way, I forgot to tell you that even if you cut off the muscle in your hand, it will be useless, because that curse is actually acting on your soul!"
When she saw the other party looking at her arm, Charlotte added in time. She knew Norrington was thinking about something, and she was not afraid that the other party would do it like that.
The reason why magic is called magic is because it is not understood and mastered by mortals. Charlotte is now beginning to understand why the church spares no effort to attack witches. One is for their beliefs; the other is that they are afraid of this power!
However, understanding is understanding, but this cannot be the reason why she forgives the church. The revenge of their witches has just begun!
"you……"
Norrington suppressed his anger and looked at the witch in front of him for a while before turning around and walking straight outside the door. Since this is the case, then go to work honestly.
When passing by Jack Sparrow, he stepped forward and snatched his hat from the pirate's head, then kicked open the door and walked out. After a while, the rapid whistle sounded as the gathering of soldiers came from the lawn outside.
"Ahhh! Congratulations, Brigadier General, you have obtained a beautiful tattoo!"
Sparrow, who was snatched away by Norrington again, was not very angry, but just made a strange gesture to the other party's back outside the door, and then turned around and crawled into the Governor Swan's special luxury wine cabinet, where there were all kinds of fine wines stored, which was his favorite!
"That...you can do whatever you want, don't worry about me."
When Captain Sparrow came back, he was biting a bottle of rum in his mouth and holding two or three bottles in his hand. He soon lay on the sofa and started to drink. He didn't mind the look of others looking at him, so he lay down on the sofa with one hand and waved his hat.
Little did he know that his behavior made Weatherby Swan grin in pain!
These are good things that Governor Swan has treasured for many years, and each bottle is of high quality. Now, they have been ruined like this by this rude pirate. This feeling is really bad.
"Governor Swann?"
After the arrangement of Norrington and seeing that the other party had already begun to gather soldiers to suppress the riot, Charlotte began to turn around and look at Governor Weatherby Swan who had been staying next to him and dared not speak.
"Ah! I'm right here, what are your instructions?"
After hearing the witch's words, Governor Swan was excited and quickly walked over.
Now that the other party has arranged Norrington's work, it should be his turn to deal with him, the governor. He was a little nervous, hoping that her arrangements for her next one would not be too bad, right?
"You heard what I said just now? In the next three months, you will be responsible for the government affairs of Port Royal. We will send someone to take over slowly. During this period, I don't want any trouble in Port Royal! Especially the material warehouse and the vault!"
Charlotte looked at the governor fiercely, trying to make his expression look a little more severe.
"Otherwise! I'll hang you in the harbor soon, just like those pirates!"
Charlotte was not worried about quelling the riots and maintaining order in the city. After a while, when their witches grew stronger, she had the confidence to intimidate and manage order in the city with her own people.
But for government affairs, she had to study slowly, and during this period, she had to rely on this respected Governor Swan, so it was necessary to beat the necessary ones.
"Ah? When, of course, as you wish, I will arrange everything!"
The Governor of Swan, Brigadier General Birnorington, was more aware of his appearance. He was just a nobleman and had no courage to resist the witch. He didn't even dare to say anything tough. What's more, he had a baby daughter. For the sake of Elizabeth's safety, he didn't want to die here so easily.
So, after he agreed, he quickly retreated and led a few guards to the direction of the town hall not far away. He needed to summon other officials to reorganize the chaotic city and announce that Port Royal had changed hands.
call……
Seeing that all the important things were arranged, Charlotte finally relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief.
This is really too difficult for her, who was an ordinary girl a day ago!
If it weren't for the confidence brought by faith and extraordinary power, she wouldn't have been able to do this right now, right? At present, if nothing unexpected happens, as long as you arrange and arrange it properly, in three months, the city will be completely controlled by their witches. She is very confident about this!
Charlotte believed that as long as she persisted, everything would be fine, sure!
"housekeeper!"
After thinking about everything, Charlotte finally shouted to the butler who had been standing in the living room silently.
"What are your instructions?"
The governor's housekeeper walked over quickly, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at the other party.
After all, this is a living witch, a witch who can perform witchcraft! Even Brigadier General Norrington and his master Governor Swan gave in. As a small person, how could he dare to act rashly? The situation is now like this, and he cannot help but serve the other party with all his heart and strength.
"Now, go prepare dinner right now!"
Then, Charlotte turned around and saw Anne sitting on another sofa and began to nap. After a moment of stuttering, he quickly added:
"Also, go and prepare the best room right now!"
Night has already fallen, and little Annie, who has been busy all day, has already started to doze off. She has even missed her nap today.
"But…..."
The old housekeeper looked at Charlotte with a little embarrassedness, and finally replied with a gritty bullet: "The best room is Miss Elizabeth's, she should have rested now..."
"Then let her free up the room and change another one for her!"
Charlotte looked at the housekeeper with dissatisfaction. Is it important to be the master of their witch? Or is it important to be the master of Elizabeth? Now, the witch is the master of this city, not the original Governor Swan!
"Yes, obey the order! Lord Witch!"
Seeing the witch getting angry, the old housekeeper was not calm and quickly called a maid and asked her to go up with her, so that Miss Elizabeth would free up the room first.
After watching the old housekeeper leaving with a servant, Charlotte took a blanket from the other maid and gently draped it on the little Anne who was already asleep on the sofa.
"Take good care of our masters, do you understand?"
After instructing the maid to take good care of Anne who was asleep, Charlotte led her four sisters to the bathroom with another maid. Now they need to take a hot shower, deal with the wounds on their bodies, and then change into quick clothes.
Of course, before leaving, Charlotte glared at Jack Sparrow, who was leaning on another sofa with dissatisfaction. She hated this pirate captain. This bastard was still drinking in front of her. If Master Anne hadn't used him, she would have burned the pirate with fire!
"Ha! Cheers to everyone for victory!"
Jack Sparrow didn't mind Charlotte's savage eyes at all. He even raised the bottle to pay tribute to Charlotte, and then continued to tilt his head and pour it in big mouths. He was drunk and dreaming. After a day, he was counted as a day. This is the daily life of these pirates.
He hasn't lived a good life for a long time. He has been living a very upset since his Black Pearl was stolen by the traitors. Even the broken ship he came to Port Royal this time was tricked by him from a friend!
OK... Then let's think that the person who stole the ship by him was his friend. Anyway, the ship had already sunk after arriving at Port Royal.
"snort!"
Charlotte quickly turned around and left with a dark face. She was afraid that she would not be able to help but throw a fireball at the shameless pirate captain and burn the dirty guy to death.
Chapter completed!