Pirate Kingship

Kuroshio Island is located between the northern coast of the New World and the southern border of the celestial circulation belt.

It is in the same waters as the seemingly abandoned "bridgehead" and more than a dozen other islands with similar situations.

It is not far from the old god's mansion, Luoyan City, which is half in the water, half on land, half in reality, and half in dreams.

The not-so-large-scale Kuroshio Town is the only human settlement on this island.

But it is completely different from what outsiders imagine. It is not like the indigenous city-states in the Bantaan Islands, which only have primitive features with extremely backward technology.

It is not because it is close to the old god's mansion that it is full of grotesques, evil spirits, and hell on earth with their dependents.

Instead, it continues the gentleman style of Jörmungandr's suit, top hat, gold-rimmed glasses, and civilized staff.

The stone buildings in the town are lined up one after another, with triangular gables, and towering roofs covered with dark green tiles and protruding eaves.

Axle-wheel or fan-shaped brackets can be seen everywhere, there are corner towers that are fashionable in the old world, balconies with door columns, square chimneys, etc.

Except for the overly humid environment even for a coastal town, everything seems very beautiful.

The most important thing is that many families have black iron doors and flower windows, proving that their technological level in metallurgy is not inferior to that of the old world in the black iron age.

Even in terms of production scale, it is a bit higher.

At least in the homes of ordinary town residents in the old world, this kind of luxury of using iron to make doors and windows is not seen.

This Kuroshio town is unexpected. Well, advanced!

Ding! Ding! Ding!

As the bell of a beautiful clock tower in the center of Kuroshio Town rang six times in a row, the time came to six o'clock in the afternoon.

As night fell, a young man in a blue uniform and a round hat came to a black cast iron lamppost on the street with a ladder.

He has a slightly bronzed skin like the natives, but has a pair of blue eyes that are the signature of the Bay people. He seems to be a mixed-race child of the Bay people and the natives.

The young man put the ladder on the street lamp, climbed up neatly, opened the glass lampshade, and used a silver tinderbox in his hand to light the street lamp fueled by Mei's Leviathan whale oil.

The outer flame was slightly blue, but the extremely bright light instantly illuminated a large area of ​​the street.

This fuel full of source is obviously very energy-efficient, and only a little bit can continue to burn for several days, which is not a luxury in this small town where whaling is the industry.

Nils Henrik, the "lightman" passed down from generation to generation in the town, looked at the steadily burning lights in front of him, and his face seemed to be shining.

He prayed silently:

"Thank Dagon for giving us whale oil technology, thank the ocean elves and whales for their dedication, and may your spiritual energy return to the sea of ​​source soon."

He lit a street lamp and carried the ladder to light the next one.

Since Nils took over this job from his father, every night when it falls, he would walk through the streets and light up every street lamp in the town.

Year after year, day after day, rain or shine.

But every time Nils Henrik finished a day's work, he would not forget to add a sentence after the prayer:

"I hope Dagon's eyes can fall on me and witness my hard work.

I hope that after retirement, I can return to the sea like my father and become a great family!"

Then he stared at the dark sea outside the town that swallowed the sun for a long time, as if he could see his father's figure from there.

Obviously, the "return to the sea" he mentioned is not as simple as it sounds.

"Little Nils, why are you still here? After finishing today's work, hurry up and help the "Fish Day Festival".

Whether it is a slaughterhouse, a public kitchen, a whale oil refining workshop, or a dock, a large number of people are needed."

A sticky and sharp voice suddenly interrupted the young lamplighter's thoughts.

He looked back and saw a middle-aged man wearing a dark green dress and a red bow tie standing behind him.

Compared to the young man's normal mixed-race appearance, this middle-aged man's bloodline seemed to have other unknown things mixed in.

The distance between his eyes was particularly wide, his mouth was particularly flat, and his teeth were dense and sharp when he spoke. There seemed to be a few fish scales shining behind his ears.

Nils did not find it strange, nor was he afraid.

Because this appearance just symbolized the beginning of the "ascension" he had been thinking about, and it was a great thing that he would soon be qualified to return to the bottom of the sea.

After coming to his senses, he immediately took off his hat and saluted the middle-aged man, first reciting a fixed prayer of the church:

"Thank you for everything that our Lord and the subordinate god Dagon have given us."

Then he greeted the visitor himself:

"Mr. Mayor, good evening! Congratulations on your upcoming "ascension" to become a great family following Dagon and serving our Lord."

The middle-aged man, whom he called the mayor, waved his right hand with webbed fingers and corrected him with a stern face:

"No, I just received Dagon's oracle.

He was very satisfied with the sacrifice we just captured and decided to bless every adult resident of Kuroshio Town.

So, the person you should congratulate should not only be me, but also yourself and every adult resident of the town.

This time it is the overall "ascension" of the entire Kuroshio Town, just like the ancestors of the "bridgehead town" hundreds of years ago!"

Speaking of this, the mayor's strange face also showed a bit of leisurely fascination:

“As the Luoyan Era gets closer and closer, the Sea of ​​Origin is getting closer and closer to us, and the sea level is getting higher and higher.

Under the guidance of Dagon, we will eventually enter the arms of our Lord [Sleeping God] and gain new life.

Kuroshio Town is the first among all the descendants of Dagon to receive such grace.

This was all thanks to that group of stupid outsiders, who thought we were simple natives who didn't understand anything until we ate the fish caught at the festival and turned it into sacrifices. "

Hearing the good news, Niels was so excited that he almost jumped up from the ground and confirmed repeatedly in disbelief:

"Is it true? Mr. Mayor, is this true? I am also qualified to ascend?

Am I still in the great dream of my Lord that can fulfill all wishes? "

After confirming that the news was true, he bowed devoutly in the direction of the sea:

"Thank you Dagon!"

According to the legend of the town, Dagon, the beloved of the Sleeping God and the subordinate god, was a member of the original "Bridgehead Town".

It was during the ascension ceremony hundreds of years ago that all the adults among the "exiles" of the Northland Bay people transformed into God's dependents on the same day.

Minors, led by God's messengers, went to the islands and even the mainland to spread their branches.

After combining with the local indigenous people, they gradually established their Kuroshio Town and a series of other subsidiary towns of Luoyan City.

The abandoned bridgehead site also became a no-go zone during the ceremony. Even they, the mixed descendants of Bay residents and New World natives, did not dare to set foot easily.

In the legend, Dagon is one of the founders of the Deep Diving Church. After receiving powerful power from the Sleeping God, he has truly entered the realm of immortality.

He is the subordinate god of the Lord and one of the leaders of the great family. He is also the direct ancestor of all the residents of their Black Tide Town.

Achieving "ascension", following Dagon, and serving the great sleeping god are the greatest wishes of all residents rooted deep in their blood.

The two people talking were completely unaware that two translucent figures had been standing beside them for a long time.

Even talking to each other, they couldn't hear.

“I just said there’s no way this town is as normal as it seems.

The faith of the old gods is no longer a secret religion here, but has become an upright ruler of faith like the Church of the Creator.

However, I know what the Familia of the Sleeping God are, but who is Dagon? "

One of the two figures is wearing a brigadier general's uniform, tall and tall, and the other is wearing a white dress, pretty and cute. They are Byron and Violet who are traveling in the astral body.

Just when the mayor and the lamplighter talked about rising, their emotions surged.

The two Byrons have used [Dream Execution] and [Nightmare Ambush] to gradually read most of the information they wanted to know from their subconscious minds.

In addition to the Familia and Dagon, there are:

"From God? The whale oil technology that has already started in the New World? Sacrifice? Ascension?"

Byron chewed on these key words silently.

In the first meeting, I felt the shock of coming from the New World.

If they hadn't learned from their memories that in order to deal with the invasion of foreign enemies from the north, the true form of Dagon was not here, they would all have wanted to turn around and run away, leaving [Eagle Eye] and the others in trouble.

Today is already their third day starting from the Bantaan Islands.

Step by step, follow the best route drawn up based on the navigation charts of all parties.

Many "road tyrants" were killed on the road, which also laid a solid foundation for them to become new road tyrants in the future.

On the contrary, many first and second echelon expedition ships that had long been exploring the celestial circulation zone were ahead of them.

According to the published navigation chart of [Throne of Ocean], he successfully broke through the many obstacles in the Windless Zone and the Broken Islands, and entered this new yet unnamed sea area.

According to the practice of the Old World, whoever can conquer this place first will be eligible to obtain the right to name it.

After approaching the rescue coordinates given by the Jackdaw, Byron personally acted as a vanguard to detect intelligence, and even brought Violet with him.

He has not forgotten that when Violet accidentally entered Luoyan City, the mansion of the old god, she did not trigger the murder rules there.

This shows that after she engraved the curse mark [blasphemy] with the blood of the octopus battleship, she has been accepted as one of her own in the line of the Sleeping God.

It is obviously even less likely to be seen through in such a lower-level subsidiary town.

This also gave Byron the confidence to sneak into the enemy's rescue field.

Even though he had eaten a drop of Violet's blood before setting off and used human transformation to disguise himself, it was safer to bring the original version.

As for the [Golden Deer], the sailboat brake was started from a distance to balance the wind, and it was anchored on the sea a hundred kilometers away.

It was completely obscured by Jacqueline's shadow robe and the border mystery lock of the [First Overseas Development Order].

A ship is like the eye of a needle on the sea. Even if you search hard, you can't find any trace of it.

The [Fiddler Crab] and the small snail brought also have teleportation capabilities. As long as Byron needs it, they can provide fire support across hundreds of kilometers at any time.

Unexpectedly, I got such unexpected news just after sneaking into the town.

Think back.

If he hadn't waited for the Pirate King to use his strength to lure away the leader here, and had rushed in without knowing the reason for the request for help on the day he received the call for help, it would have been a lot of fun.

Fortunately, fortunately.

"Mayor, I'm going to help with the festival."

Just when young Nils said goodbye to the mayor and ran to the dock happily, his body suddenly swayed.

When he shook his head and continued running forward, the person controlling the body had quietly changed.

Byron instantly possessed him and easily replaced him, while Violet's astral body slipped into the dream of this body and also hid.

Tap tap tap.

As we trotted along, we could see town residents everywhere who had received the good news and chanted the holy name. Everyone’s face was filled with joy.

"Praise be to Dagon!"

"Ancestor Dagon is looking after us!"

With his two-in-one identity of "god" and "favorite", Byron can also clearly see the anchor chains sinking into the void, and finally falling into the spirituality of a powerful existence.

This turned out to be a form of bypassing the legal network in the Old Continent. Instead, the gods were directly anchored to believers, forming a simple local area network.

Although it is far inferior to the equally independent [Golden Law], it already has a similar prototype.

The two people were spiritually connected and their senses were connected. The more they watched, the more shocked they became.

Back then, Skeleton No. 3 explained the nature of transcendence and divinity:

“Beast nature is the ‘id’ that represents desire and primitive drive; divinity is the ‘superego’ that represents morality and collective guidance.

But the 'id' and the 'superego' are two tyrants competing for control of the mind.

The former is a slave to the body, while the latter is colluding with human society.

No matter which one of these two you completely lean towards, both are too extreme and neither is the right path!

Although the ladder of glory rooted in 'divinity' is very stable and safe without any side effects, it is rigid and rigid and you can see the end from the beginning.

If you are always trapped in the rules set by the church and the Creator, you will stop at the top of the world and be destined to be unable to achieve transcendence.

The most correct path for an extraordinary person should be to stabilize the [Anchor] on oneself by constantly touching the [Silver Law] or using other methods.

Then study the [Forbidden Knowledge] in depth and build a [Sail] for breaking out of the safe zone and riding the wind and waves.

Only by being still and moving can the sailboat of yours run fast and steadily, and finally touch the realm of God and become an immortal existence.

This is also the truth behind the fact that in the dark millennium, those dark wizards were regarded as blasphemous by the Inquisition and were hunted to death. "

And this "Dagon" actually used the knowledge of the "Sleeping God" to complete the goals of countless dark wizards, truly touch the divine realm, and even have his own followers!