With Jack leading the way, the Black Pearl and the Great Emperor sailed day and night, one behind the other, toward White Hat Bay, where the island with the Fountain of Youth was said to lie.
Along the way, they encountered hundreds of pirate ships, armed merchant vessels, and warships from various nations.
Hao Shuai was determined to become the Great Emperor of Pirates, so of course he didn't let a single ship pass. He sank them all, even taking matters into his own hands and sending several warships to the bottom.
After all, in the Age of Discovery, no one who sailed the seas was entirely decent. If they died, they could consider it a service to justice.
Even if there really were good people among them, well, they were just unlucky.
Those pirate ships and warships hadn't failed to consider fighting back~~
But how could they fight against a super battleship equipped with nine 406-millimeter, 50-caliber main guns with a range of 30 kilometers?!
Were they supposed to rely on luck to get close to the Great Emperor and fight by boarding?
Heh~~
Leaving aside the battleship's sheer height, did they really think the more than a thousand Armed Robots aboard Hao Shuai's ship were toys?!
And so, on the way to White Hat Bay, Hao Shuai's Great Emperor cut through the waves, rampaging wherever she went.
In her wake, the wreckage of ship after ship was left behind.
Survivors spread terrifying tales across the seas about the monstrous ship, the Great Emperor.
Before long, sailors trembled at the mention of the Great Emperor, and the Great Emperor's fearsome reputation quickly surpassed that of the Flying Dutchman and Queen Anne's Revenge.
After Barbossa and Captain Jack aboard the Black Pearl saw the Great Emperor's unstoppable might, they completely