The year of 1529... A cool autumn night in Genoa. Charles V, the king ogf Spain, was bargaining with Pope Clement VII for a bribe to become the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire when Admiral Rodrigo de Portuondo rushed into the room to tell the news that Barbarossa had raided the city of Oliva and helped 200 Muslim families escape and took Elizabeth, the daughter of the Governor of Oliva, hostage.