Rigel gave the Pirate Lords a month to prepare and have enough time to reach the island.
He not only wanted them to elect him as King, but also wanted them to obey him as such, he wanted them time to plan how to deal with him, only for him to crush all their hopes head-on.
That month, having delivered his message, Rigel swallowed his pride and, taking advantage of Calypso's apparent exceptional magical talent, gave her the Unbreakable Vow spell, asking her to learn it so that Rigel could forge agreements far more difficult to break.
He wouldn't stay in that sea forever, after he left, everything he had built could crumble, all the subordinates, the free men, the good and the bad. He didn't want that to happen, so he prepared to use the perpetual vow to keep those guys in line even after he was gone.
Calypso, as expected, learned easily, she became very interested in the spell, glancing at Rigel occasionally, sending shivers down his spine. He didn't know what the woman was thinking now, but he felt he had just given wings to the snake.
Leaving that aside, Rigel used this period to promote some of his crew members to captains.
Will and Elizabeth each received a ship, and in addition to them, Rigel also gave a ship to Anamaria, none of his other subordinates were fit to be captains.
The ships were all three-masted vessels with at least twenty cannons, Blackbeard did not keep useless ships, keeping only the best ones.
Will was the only one of them who wasn't really interested in the captaincy, but Rigel, like a good captain, ignored his protests and made him captain anyway.
Well, since he now had 3 captains below him, Rigel styled himself Admiral!
Pirate Admiral, Rigel C. Black.
Yes, that sounds good.
Since they needed crews for all three ships, Rigel took them back to Tortuga, ready to recruit. As these pirates were actually Rigel's subordinates, the effect of the hat worked on all of them.
Rigel let Ragetti and Pintel go to Will's ship, Will was the least pirate-like of them, so Rigel thought it best to send some help to the guy.
Anamaria took Marty and Cotton while Elizabeth took Anna and Clemens.
Rigel even allowed the remaining pirates to be divided among themselves, he himself simply kept the Zombies and Calypso.
In Tortuga, four three-masted ships were docked, in addition to the Ragnarok, the others had the figure of Ouroboros engraved on their sails, identifying them as part of the Rigel Fleet.
Elizabeth named her ship The Lady's Fall, symbolizing her old and new life.
Will named his ship The Bootstrap, in honor of his father.
Anamaria simply called her ship The Black. Rigel sensed there was some history to it, but he didn't ask, he didn't think it was a tribute to him. In the end, Calypso personally blessed all three ships.
In the end, The Black had black wood with white sails, The Bootstrap had brown wood and gray sails, while The Lady's Fall had white sails and a whitish wood, resembling poplar.
They were all pleased with their ships, including Will, who, despite everything, still had pirate blood in his veins.
In terms of recruitment, Anamaria, accustomed to pirates, didn't worry much about how to recruit, recruiting whoever came along. Will, on the other hand, recruited young and strong men. Elizabeth took a different approach, looking for women who weren't afraid to get their dresses dirty and break their nails. In the end, she was lucky to have searched in Tortuga, there were few, but they were still there.
Even so, because of this, her female crew was still the smallest. Clemens, the only man on board, became incredibly uncomfortable, but he didn't complain.
Rigel used some idiots who still hadn't learned their lesson to create more zombies during this period, he gave them to his captains to keep the rest of the crew in line. Being loyal to Rigel doesn't mean being loyal to Rigel's subordinates.
During this time, the ships remained docked in Tortuga, but no one came looking for them. Rigel set off for Shipwreck Cove without haste, arriving exactly one month after his summons.
Shipwreck Cove gets its name because its interior consists of an extinct volcanic crater whose walls are composed of hundreds of shipwrecks and wreckage. The island's entrance was protected by a narrow and deadly shipping channel that sank dozens of ships every year.
For pirates, this graveyard was not a danger, but rather the perfect natural defense. The wreckage and the area's reputation for danger served to deter ordinary sailors and naval forces, guaranteeing pirates a refuge considered "impregnable" and hidden in the heart of the Caribbean.
Pirate lords naturally learn how to cross this place, but Rigel didn't have Barbossa's "tutoring", luckily he had his compass, which perfectly showed him which direction to take. Ragnarok went in first, with Lady's Fall, Bootstrap, and Black following close behind.
When they arrived, they saw dozens of ships already docked around what Rigel considered the greatest monstrosity he had ever seen.
Hundreds of ships piled on top of each other, forming a building that looked like it was about to collapse at any moment, Rigel's lips trembled at the sight, although he admitted that this thing was "cool", this thing was practically a death trap.
Only those idiotic pirates would treat this as a place to live.
Sighing and suppressing his newfound aversion to constructions made by creatures with fewer than three brain cells, Rigel disembarked first, quickly becoming the focus of the pirates, their expressions varied, but mostly there was fear and anger.
Rigel ignored them, with Calypso walking beside him and the zombies with swords at the ready, he waited for his subordinates to dock, soon the group grew rapidly.
Rigel was invited to advance, he took Calypso and his three captains with him, while the others stayed with the ships.
He walked through narrow corridors, past loose floorboards, the smell of rotting wood permeating the entire place. Rigel found his aversion growing as he progressed through that place.
It got to the point where he seriously considered finally practicing his Fiendfyre in the real world.