Chapter 104
Duke Francis Barbarossa was there.
He was a man who looked like a drowned rat.
The ‘Admiral’ who commands the continent’s most formidable fleet, and a pirate. For Francis, there was never any such thing as innate nobility from the start. After all, he was born a sailor without even a surname.
Born among the seafaring folk of the Four Seas Archipelago, he used his innate charisma to build his power. His true talent, however, lay in piracy—plundering enemies upon the waves.
Before long, Francis became a notorious outlaw of the seas, feared by every continental nation.
Therefore, when the Empire launched its unification war, it bestowed the surname Barbarossa upon Francis, a mere pirate, and simultaneously… appointed Francis Barbarossa as Admiral, entrusting him with command of the entire Imperial Fleet.
Along with a letter of marque, ‘legally permitting the plundering of enemy ships’.
Shortly thereafter, Barbarossa, as Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, achieved victory against the invincible fleet of the ‘Old Kingdom of Britannia’, hailed as the strongest of its time.
That very battle’s crushing defeat dealt the fatal blow that destroyed the former Kingdom of Britannia. Through that achievement, Barbarossa, a mere pirate by origin, rose to become one of the ‘Three Great Dukes of the Empire’ ruling the Four Seas Archipelago.
Saxony, Lancaster, Barbarossa.
Yet even after the Empire unified the continent, Barbarossa did not easily abandon his calling.
