Chapter 993: The Age of Plunder
Ever since the beginning of his consciousness under the magnetic sea, King Cobalt Magnet knew that he must have a mission. Although there was no reason for this, he just took it for granted.
On the black and gray sea with surging waves, he drifted alone.
This situation lasted for many years.
Until King Cobalt Magnet found a glowing floating island, this repetitive process changed.
The light of the island shot straight into the sky, and the magnetic field it formed was like a giant capsule. The magnetic force twisted and looped on the island, exposing only a small part of the sea surface, and more was deep under the sea.
King Cobalt Magnet swam all the way to that strange place and observed carefully.
The bottom of the island extended to the deep bottom of the magnetic sea.
Even King Cobalt Magnet could not go too deep. Because the deeper the magnetic sea, the more violent the magnetic force. These forces would not only disrupt and destroy the magnetic field, but also tear the magnet into gravel.
King Cobalt Magnet couldn't figure out how the floating island remained stable under the extremely dangerous sea.
This light island must have some mysterious power.
It landed on the island.
Cobalt Magnet King found a newborn magnetic life on the island. But the other party was very different from himself, because it looked weak and stupid, shaped like a gray-black sphere formed by a lot of gravel, and the only thing it could do was roll on the island.
But after Cobalt Magnet King landed on the island, magnetic life began to follow it closely and move closer to its magnetic field.
This was its first soldier.
Cobalt Magnet King stayed on the island.
Time passed, and new soldiers were born on the Magnetic Light Island one after another. Cobalt Magnet King gathered these soldiers and asked them to patrol around continuously, officially marking this place as his territory.
After it had 18 soldiers, the first civilian appeared.
Cobalt Magnet King found it under the Magnetic Light Island.
It looks like an ordinary sheet of magnet, but it will make some mysterious shakes, or shake left and right meaninglessly, which is different from other magnetic fragments that run with the magnetic field.
So Cobalt Magnet King studied it and separated the magnetic man trapped in it.
It looks so small, shaped like a Y-shaped branch, even ordinary soldiers look like giants in front of it.
Unlike soldiers, the magnetic man is more fragile, but also very active.
It will pick up some slightly larger magnetic blocks available on the beach, combine these blocks and squeeze them into a ball. The magnetic man fills the gaps with gravel, and then keeps hitting, so that these small fragments condense into a stable and solid large block, and then insert it on the island.
Like playing, but also like some kind of instinct.
Civilians enjoy playing this game of fishing and combination.
Cobalt Magnet King realized that if there are enough such operations, the Magnetic Light Island can be expanded little by little, and then there will be more soil for the birth of soldiers and more civilians.
As long as the island is large enough, it will be difficult for storms and tsunamis to shake it!
Cobalt Magnet King began to look for traces of civilians everywhere.
Most of them are hidden deep in the island, like a locked box, and the external constraints must be opened to liberate their nature and abilities.
So King Cobalt Magnet spent a lot of time and patience to rescue the civilians from the magnet cage and let them participate in the construction and expansion of the island territory.
During this period, it also encountered many dangers and challenges.
The formation of magnetic sea storms is irregular, and it is usually very close to the territory when it is discovered. King Cobalt Magnet will let the soldiers take the civilians to hide on the spot, relying on the soldiers' magnetic force to pull the fragile civilians and try to fix them on the ground of the island.
However, there will still be civilians blown away by the storm or killed or injured.
King Cobalt Magnet has tried many ways, such as building a large number of windbreaks and caves, but the effect is very small.
Because the magnetic sea storm is composed of two parts.
The first part is the pulling force of the magnetic field, and the second part is the strong magnetic storm. When the two are superimposed, the magnetic storm will make the magnet immobile and extremely weak, and the pull of the magnetic field may sweep it away.
The truly effective countermeasure is to enhance the magnet strength of the soldiers and civilians themselves so that they can withstand the storm. But it is more difficult to do this than to build fortifications.
It takes a long time for magnets to grow.
Cobalt Magnetic King can only turn on his magnetic field to maintain the safety of civilians.
This is a continuous consumption for it.
Then there is the tsunami.
The source of the tsunami in the magnetic sea is the power transmitted from the chaos on the seabed to the sea surface. This power will set off huge magnetic turbulence. The turbulence will gather on the sea surface and form shock waves that rush to the surroundings.
The spread of the shock wave will roll out high-wall-like waves, and the impact will also be high temperature, which is a disaster for most magnets.
Their magnetic force will be eliminated and weakened under high temperature. The lighter ones will lose their ability to move for a period of time, and the magnetic field will be disordered. The heavier ones will fall into a long-term coma, and even die from severe damage to the magnetic field.
In addition to these natural disasters, there are challenges from other magnetic kings.
They are eyeing the Magnetic Light Island. Several magnetic kings have launched attacks with soldiers, but they were all repelled by Cobalt Magnetic King.
Cobalt Magnetic King also realized that he was born stronger than most magnetic kings. Those magnetic kings were born later than him, and the natural growth of magnets was inherently weaker.
I am the strongest king!
With this mentality, King Cobalt Magnetism began to strictly demand every aspect of the territory, and he must maintain the island in the way of the strongest.
This indeed brought it a strong atmosphere. Civilians were respectful to it, soldiers were on high alert, and outsiders dared not approach or offend.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The rise of pirates dealt a huge blow to the Cobalt Magnetic King.
The magnetic sailboats wandered on the sea. Some civilians working in the sea would be sucked away by their magnetic field, and some magnet raw materials would also be taken away by those pirate ships.
They were very fast. As soon as the Cobalt Magnetic King led the soldiers to chase, they fled.
The territory was continuously harassed by passing sailboats.
Not only the Cobalt Magnetic King, but all the territories of the Magnetic Kings fell into a similar dilemma. If they chased out, the empty rear would be more likely to be taken advantage of, but just defending in place was very passive.
This was a difficult period.
I don’t remember which day it started, but the Cobalt Magnetic King suddenly found that the nearby Magnetic Kings became particularly powerful. Although they had few soldiers, they were all mighty and strong, with extremely high magnetic strength.
It was challenged and attacked by the Magnets. This time, Cobalt Magnets lost battle after battle and had to shrink its manpower and abandon the newly built islands on the periphery. Later, even the Magnet Light Island was captured by the invaders, and it had to flee with a few civilians and soldiers.
Everything happened too fast.
At this time, Cobalt Magnets realized that the Magnets had found a new way to become stronger. They ate civilians wantonly, turned civilians into their own magnetic power, and trained soldiers to do so.
They first ate all the civilians under their command, and then launched an attack, plundering the territories and civilians of other Magnets around them, continuing to fight to support the war, and constantly devouring, and the army became stronger and stronger. The latecomers could no longer keep up with the magnetic strength of the pioneers, and had to retreat again and again, hiding in those desolate seas to start from scratch.
However, when these wandering Magnets built their territories again, those powerful Magnets who had secretly targeted them would start plundering again and turn them into their sustainable granaries.
The weak had almost no room to rise.
The peaceful classical era ended, and the cold era of plunder arrived.
Although King Cobalt Magnetism tried his best to resist and encourage civilians to join the war, he still couldn't stop the defeat, and he had to flee and wander all the way.
When he encountered a Yao satellite, his exile fate took an unexpected turn.
King Cobalt Magnetism respects the strong.
He usually faces them with a competitive and challenging mentality.
But the subordinates of God Yao to face are too strong... So King Cobalt Magnetism has no psychological burden, just like facing storms and tsunamis, he accepts his slave status.
Civilians are to King Cobalt Magnetism as he is to God Yao.
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Using the disaster area as a springboard to return to the magnetic sea, King Cobalt Magnetism can't help but feel that things have changed.
The magnetic sea is a disaster and curse for the civilians of the magnetic people, but it is considered a precious treasure by the mysterious God Yao.
He needs a lot of magnets.
After receiving his order, King Cobalt Magnetism took the last four soldiers and transformed into a magnetic field sailboat to collect relatively high-quality magnets in the magnetic sea.
This operation does not require much technical content, just screen and absorb it, and the magnetic sea is full of them. On the contrary, it took the most time to return to the disaster area and accumulate enough gears to leave through the method taught by the Yao tribe.
While collecting magnets, the Cobalt Magnet King noticed that there were refugees struggling hard in the magnetic sea.
These were civilians who escaped from the rule of the Magnet King. The reason for their escape was easy to understand, they did not want to be eaten.
As long as the war started, they would become food to strengthen the soldiers.
After the plundering era began, the number of refugees increased dramatically. As long as there was a chance, they would desperately flee. If they could meet a ship, even if they were torn apart and only a part of their bodies remained, they would go with the ship.
The two refugees along the way swam all the way towards the mining fleet of the Cobalt Magnet King.
"Help, help!"
The Cobalt Magnet King asked the satellite in the sky: "Lord Eugene, can these refugees be taken and brought to Lord Yao? Lord Yao also needs magnets, and they are also magnetic life forms. I think they should also meet the requirements of the mission."
"Of course, please."
After getting permission, it led the other four ships to rescue the refugees immediately.
According to the previous plan, the Cobalt Magnet King and the soldiers remained silent throughout the process.
The refugees who boarded the ship were very curious about the ship, and they touched and looked at it one by one.
"Is this the magnetic sailboat? I'm so lucky. If I hadn't encountered it, I might have died in the next storm."
"But don't sailboats act alone? There are five ships here, they look very powerful!"
"Finally escaped the butcher knife of the magnetic king, so close."
The magnetic people who survived the disaster were very excited and talked about their experiences.
One of the magnetic people said: "No, this magnetic field is not right. I have been on a magnetic sailboat, but was swept into the magnetic sea by a tsunami. Our ship is not like this. The magnetic field intensity of this ship is too high, even similar to that of the magnetic king... I didn't see the captain at all. Without the captain, why are these ships sailing so orderly and still absorbing magnets? It's very strange, it's not right."
"Now that you mention it, it's true. There is also a very strange ball above the ship. I don't know what it is. It has been following. Could it be that this ship..."
The cobalt magnetic king was shocked.
It's over, it's going to be exposed!
It racked its brains, thinking of a way to transform itself and show that it was not imitating the magnetic sailboat, but had an important mission.
As a king, face and dignity in front of civilians are the most important!
The magnet who had been to the sailboat said: "I know! This is another form of the magnetic field sailboat evolved! How can Magnetron become a sailboat? They are man-eating monsters. The sailboat is what helps us. Magnetron can't help us."
"Indeed."
"The black ball in the air should be the key to controlling these ships. Its magnetic field is so curved that the intensity cannot be identified."
Cobalt Magnetron was relieved, but also a little inexplicably melancholy.
Once upon a time, the civilians who supported Magnetron now regarded Magnetron as a monster.
Those pirate ships that really looked like monsters have become their saviors and hopes.
At this time, it suddenly sensed a strong magnetic field reaction nearby.
On the sea surface of the reaction area, a group of magnetic monsters connected to each other and turned into a square array of iron chains to quickly surround this side. The leader was an old-fashioned Magnetron who was much stronger than himself-Samarium Magnetron.
Samarium Magnet was originally a powerful and ancient Magnet. It quickly caught up with the plundering era and plundered extensively after transformation. It can be said that it has entered a different fork with Cobalt Magnet.
The refugees on the ship have begun to tremble and be afraid.
Cobalt Magnet is about to launch a charge to break through.
Eugene's voice sounded in the magnetic field.
"Mr. Cobalt Magnet, I will deal with them. Please continue your work and don't worry."