Pirate Kingship

"Huff. Huff"

The road in the tropical rainforest was rugged and uneven. The Barbarians who had been running for a long time in the night were all panting like bellows.

Some people really couldn't run anymore, and begged the leading pirate captain Schindler:

"Mr. Schindler, can't we actively call for support?

Is there any way to send a distress signal to the Barbary Pirate Kingdom next door? His Majesty Barbarossa Hayreddin of the [Ocean Throne] will definitely not let those crazy people of the Remit continue to do whatever they want.

He may even withdraw the promise to allow them to establish a country here and drive them back into the sea."

The Barbarians are a pirate group that is not inferior to the Bay People. There are many extraordinary people in the Lighthouse Sequence, and they also have a fierceness in their bones.

The Remit people who were taken in by the kindness suddenly backfired. In addition to feeling absurd, the remaining anger was soaring to the sky.

They all thought that the bankers of the "Money Restoration Party" were crazy, daring to rob and kill the Barbary people who had a pirate king in charge.

But they didn't realize why no one in the other church countries who were more familiar with the Remit people and had more dealings with them took them in?

It was simply because the Barbary people's hometown was far away on the west coast, and they had never suffered from the Remit people.

The story of the farmer and the snake was actually doomed from the beginning.

Hearing their words, Schindler could only smile bitterly:

"Ask for help? Didn't you find that when we fell into the trap before, we were already bought by the Remit people's "hush money"?

I am just a second-level [Pirate] of the Lighthouse Sequence. The other party's rank is higher than ours, and there is no way to exempt the other party's ability.

Don't think that the Ocean Throne can come to save us. Now we can't do anything except escape."

[Hush money] is one of the abilities of the [Pawnbroker] of the Gold Yuan Sequence.

As long as you take their money, you will never leak a word again, and it is impossible to reveal any information that is unfavorable to the pawnbroker.

Normal usage is to deliberately drop gold and silver coins on the ground and let others pick them up, and then achieve the effect of the ability.

But these people are even more shameless.

They directly formulated a new tax law on the land they occupied, specifically targeting non-Remit people:

"In this land, inhaling will be taxed, exhaling will be taxed, holding your breath will be taxed, and stopping breathing will also be taxed.

Tying shoelaces will be taxed, wearing shoes will be taxed, and going barefoot will be taxed. If anyone dares to protest the above taxes, they will also be taxed."

Therefore, as long as you accidentally step on the land they have enclosed, you will be forced to deduct fees immediately and be in debt.

If you don't pay the taxes to the Remit people immediately, the [hush money] will take effect immediately.

Then it will be a one-sided battle royale game.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Before they ran too far in the rainforest, a series of flying stone ropes were thrown out from the dense rainforest behind them, tripping many Barbary people and throwing them to the ground.

The stones tied to the ends of the rope pulled the rope in circles under inertia, entangled their legs tightly.

Before they could break free from the rope and continue to run, they were hit by muskets on their heads.

"We can't run away. We will be caught one by one before we reach the river."

"Fight them!"

Someone raised his arm and called out, and other fugitives responded one after another, each drawing their Fisher swords and loading their muskets.

The only organized escort unit under Schindler also lined up neatly and raised the "deck cleaning machine".

However, before Byron regained the throne, the equipment of bolt-action rifles was still restricted and was not equipped to their freight unit.

Then, the opposite forest shook, and the elite Remit slave-hunting team members came out with a sneer, not taking their resistance seriously at all.

The elders among the Barbary people shouted angrily on the spot:

"You despicable Remit people, have you lost your ability to tell who is the big king and who is the small king in the southern continent?

Or do you think the sword of the Pirate King [Ocean Throne] is not sharp enough?

You dare to attack the Barbary Pirate Kingdom, are you crazy!"

The slave-hunting team turned a deaf ear to the questions of the "prey".

They were authorized by the church to carry out confidential tasks, and they would not tell them that their targets were the Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinaries, first-level and second-level, the more the better.

The Remit people were not stupid.

Although they were willing to be the black gloves of the church and the puppet king, they were not mindless and reckless.

The bankers first used their best "money ability" to anonymously place orders in major black markets, intermediaries, slave traders, and military dispatch companies to capture Extraordinary slaves throughout the colony and completely muddy the waters overseas.

Then they secretly took action against the neighboring Barbary people, who had a very high proportion of Lighthouse Sequence.

The Remit people also knew that if they only captured the Lighthouse Sequence Transcendents, they would be exposed in no time, so they might as well capture them all at once.

At that time, they would only hand over the Lighthouse Sequence Transcendents to the church, and then resell the other sequences, and make a lot of money by the way.

Slave hunting is one of their traditional businesses, and they have long been familiar with it. They have secretly done several jobs on the border, and none of them have any problems.

They are even planning to plan an isolation zone, drive some pagan Barbaries in, let them produce Lighthouse Sequence Transcendents continuously, and they only need to harvest them regularly.

It is the same as the taming of wild beasts and raising livestock in ancient times.

As for the pirate king [Ocean Throne] who was regarded as the guardian by the Barbary people?

"Hehe."

The slave-hunting team sneered and split to both sides. A middle-aged clergyman in a white church robe stood out, and a white halo on his head completely illuminated the dim woodland.

However, he did not look simple like a proper clergyman at all. The silk robe was embroidered with gold thread, and each button was made of gems. He also held a gorgeous golden cane in his hand.

He was covered with jewels and gems. At first glance, he was thought to be not a clergyman of the [Creator], but a believer of the God of Wealth.

The fact was similar. The holy emblem hanging around his neck was not the silver cross of the church, but the gemstone hexagram of the Remit Church.

This showed that he was a clergyman of the Remit Church, one of the three religions with the same origin.

The most important thing was that he was wearing a brilliant [Saint's Ring] on the ring finger of his right hand, and there was a majestic holy light accompanying his every move.

With his appearance.

Ding!

The swords in the hands of the Barbary fell to the ground one after another.

Schindler, who had some experience, was instantly desperate and uttered a word with difficulty and weakness:

"Saint?!"

If they knew more about the church, they would find that the [Saint's Ring] in the other party's hand was actually different from other saints.

Although the ring faces were all cross emblems, others' were pure silver white, while his was red as if blood was coagulated.

In fact, just like the "Three Musketeers" actually had four people, it was also common sense that the twelve disciples of the [Son of God] had thirteen.

The ancestor of the Remit people was one of the original twelve disciples, but when he betrayed the Son of God because of the famous holy relic [Thirty Silver Coins], he hanged himself.

The rope he hanged himself with became the [First-level Holy Relic Confessor's Rope] (Chapter 238), and is now in the hands of Byron's ally Sister Theresa.

At the same time, because the ancestors of the Remit people betrayed the Son of God out of greed for money, it indirectly reflects the control of money and power over human nature.

The power of wealth was revealed, and the "Golden Yuan Sequence" was born.

The Remitians were the first to shout out the motto: "Money speaks, truth is silent."

The other disciples took back the [Holy Saint's Ring] that belonged to the traitor, and selected another disciple from the followers of the Son of God to make up the twelve quotas, and also remade a new ring of power.

For many years, the thirteenth ring of power belonging to the ancestors of the Remitians has been sealed, and no orthodox clergy dared to wear this powerful ring.

Just because a terrible curse appeared on it!

[The Son of God] was born in the first year of the Silver Age. He declared himself the king of the Remitians and preached the doctrine to the believers again.

At that time, it was still the reign of the Remit Church. The Remit nobles who were greedy for wealth and power were afraid that their power would be taken away by him.

Not only did they not recognize the Son of God as their god, but they persecuted him.

In the end, the Son of God was executed for "treason", which also caused the traitor's [Holy Ring] to become a [cursed object] carrying "the fate of the country".

While possessing powerful power, there are also unsolvable side effects:

"Any wearer, even individuals and ethnic groups who are only related to it, will suffer from displacement forever.

It is impossible to obtain their own land and establish their own country, and they can only be a wandering nation forever.

All descendants must atone for their contempt for the "King of Kings"! "

This curse even spread from the Holy Ring to the entire Remit ethnic group.

So, for more than a thousand years, they wandered around and encountered misfortunes everywhere, and were hated by the Silver Empire, major city-states, church countries, Star Moon Empire, and other countries and ethnic groups.

Because no matter who the neighbors and rulers are, and whether they are good or bad to them, the Remit people will stab the parasitic objects again and again, and then start wandering again.

This also makes them completely inconsistent with their claims to be descendants of the [Creator].

There is another rumor on the Old Continent:

All the sufferings suffered by the Remit people are precisely because they have deviated from the teachings of the Lord, committed too many evils, and refused to change despite repeated teachings, which led to the [Creator]'s relentless desire to destroy them.

But because of the law that "good people do not live long, and evil will last for thousands of years", their vitality is too tenacious, and it is difficult to completely destroy them.

The only lucky thing is that because they have long been subjected to this "country-losing curse", they are naturally no longer afraid of the side effects of the power ring.

When the saints of the Council of God proposed a deal to them, they immediately agreed to it.

A rare fifth-level legend of the Temple Sequence [Twilight Deacon] in the sect wore the power ring and became the unorthodox thirteenth saint "Saint Joseph".

Although he took the backdoor to the position, resulting in some defects in his power, it is not a problem to be on par with a normal [King].

The "Golden Power Restoration Party", which originally needed to rely on the protection of the [Ocean Throne], suddenly trembled and stabbed the Pirate Kingdom in the back without hesitation.

This is also the result the church wants to see.

One is the Remit Church, and the other is the Holy Spirit Church. Only by making the other two of the three religions fight each other to the point of bloodshed can the traditionalists have a chance to free up their hands to solve the Protestant problem within themselves.

When Saint Joseph appeared, all struggles lost their meaning. What's the difference between this and encountering the final boss just after leaving the novice village?

With the support of foreign forces, Schindler, who was already weak, could not even save himself, let alone the Barbary people.

But he didn't want to sit still and wait for death.

In addition to being one of the first captains, he is also a member of Byron's family and has obtained emergency contact authorization. Even if his mouth is blocked by [hush money], nothing may be spread.

Phew——!

A blood eagle soared into the sky from behind him.

This is a pet beast made by using the black magic of the Bay people [Blood Eagle Punishment] to torture the enemy until death. In its claws, it clutches a blank list with only Schindler's name written on it.

He knows that his captain has extraordinary insight, and any clues may help him find himself. Once he finds [Throne of the Ocean], he may be saved.

Saint Joseph on the opposite side just raised his hand, and the blood eagle and the list were turned into ashes in a burst of holy light.

"Want to ask for help? I also want to try out [Throne of Ocean]'s skills, but unfortunately it seems that there is no chance this time.

Take them all down.

In our eyes, there are no civilians, women and children, all those who appear at the border are 'pirates'!

Men are pirates, women are pirates, old men are pirates, children are pirates, non-Barbary rescuers are pirates, and anyone who dares to sympathize with them is a pirate too.

Remember, we are doing the just cause of getting rid of pirates. "

Saint Joseph was very satisfied with the fact that he had cut off the last hope of these prey, and he never bothered to find out what the blood eagle was grabbing.

Little did he know that the list was a piece of bagasse paper.

The moment Schindler signed the list, it was already displayed on a certain page of [Level 1 Holy Relic·Key to Omniscient] as a pre-arranged distress signal.

Early the next morning, Byron saw the blank list on the "Key of Omniscient" and found that he had lost his sense of Schindler's relative.

He immediately came to the sea of ​​collective subconscious as [Sea Hunter] Byron Tudor and appeared on the lighthouse that belonged to him.

Byron is now running towards the fifth level. The height of this lighthouse is also close to 18 meters. Compared with other lighthouses around him, it looks like a giant.

Coupled with the strong anchors all over the world, even if it serves as the [Lantern Bearer] of both "Treasure Island" and "The Rift Trench" at the same time, the lighthouse remains as stable as a rock.

The light released from the lighthouse at the top of the lighthouse shines for hundreds of kilometers, dispersing the vast darkness and filth in the sea of ​​semen on the opposite side.

When Byron first took up the lighthouse order, he obtained this lighthouse of his own and became qualified to illuminate others.

Now it has grown into the tallest and largest one in a huge area, silently protecting the other buildings behind it.

Farms, fortresses, temples, courts of justice, gladiatorial arenas, cemeteries...the list is endless.

On the coastline on both sides of him, there are thousands of star-like lighthouses.

Each lighthouse represents an extraordinary person in the lighthouse sequence, and together they form the front line facing the black ocean "Sea of ​​Origin".

There are majestic towers that tower into the clouds, emitting light as bright as the sun, and there are also short lighthouses that have just been born. Although the light is weak, they represent the endless hope of mankind.

The network of [Silver Law] above the head connects everyone, and together they form the only bright color in this dark sea.

The clear distinction between light and darkness is deeply shocking.

“This is the spiritual dam of the human race.

‘Human beings are supreme and honor belongs to the collective’ has never been an empty statement.

Since the Silver Age, generations of ancestors have worked hard to build such a stable continent in the Sea of ​​Origin.

No matter what the original intention of the [Creator] was, and how crooked these crooked monks were in the church, they ultimately made a significant contribution to the human race.

However, now that the sea of ​​semen is rising more and more, I don't know how long this dam that uses 'blocking' to control water can last. "

Byron looked down at the sea. The water, which was darker than the night, was constantly rotating and surging, slowly swallowing the light in the sea of ​​human collective subconscious.

Some low islands and reefs have been gradually submerged, proving that the "intertidal zone" has truly arrived.

"It's a pity that I don't have the ability to affect the entire world yet, so I'd better solve the problem of the missing extraordinary person in the lighthouse sequence first.

If a large number of extraordinary people in the lighthouse sequence are lost in a short period of time, even this 'deep sea defense line' built around the collective subconscious of mankind will have gaps. "

He reached out and twitched an anchor chain connected to the lighthouse, which connected the largest lighthouse on the entire deep sea defense line - the wonder of civilization [Level Zero Holy Relic·Pharos Lighthouse].

His body instantly became blurred, and the next moment he appeared inside the huge lighthouse, with the [Navigator] Delia on the Golden Deer in front of him.

The platinum-blonde girl had already prepared her front position for Byron in advance and gave him a skirt-raising ceremony with a smile:

"Captain! Father is waiting for you, please come with me."

She only followed Byron to the sea once and was successfully promoted to the third level. Her parents' restrictions on her have been relaxed a lot. At least she no longer has to wear the same black robe all the time, and her personality has become a lot more cheerful.

Under Delia's guidance, Byron met her father who was on duty - one of the vice-presidents of the Lighthouse Federation and the fifth-level legendary navigator [Starfire] Rudolph.

This is not the first time the two have met. In addition to being colleagues, they also have a personal relationship with Delia, so there are many less formal greetings.

Byron explained the purpose of his visit to Rudolph straight to the point, and also delineated the general scope of the disappearance of Schindler and the transport team members.

His plan is also very simple. If you have difficulties, find an organization.

As a member of Parliament, if I get a clue, I must hand it over to the Lighthouse Federation as soon as possible.

In such troubled times, it is discovered that an unknown organization is secretly hunting for the lighthouse sequence transcendent, and can also block his perception.

How could Byron, the [Storm Lord] in the lighthouse sequence, dare to throw himself into a trap?

Be reckless when you need to be reckless, and be stubborn when you need to be stubborn.

It would be safer if a powerful organization like the Lighthouse Federation, which represents the collective interests of the Lighthouse sequence, takes action.

After Byron introduced Schindler's situation, he asked by the way:

"President Rudolf, the Pharos Lighthouse is a zero-level holy relic. Most anti-divination methods should not be able to prevent the lighthouse from being located, right?

Why haven't the culprits behind this been caught yet? "

Rudolf smiled bitterly:

“That’s true in theory.

If the fuel input is increased, the Pharos Lighthouse can illuminate every lighthouse in the collective subconscious of mankind and provide them with additional protection, so that any accidents can be responded to immediately.

And as long as individuals apply, their location in the real world can even be pinpointed.

But the premise is that the place where those lighthouse sequence extraordinary people disappeared is in the old continent where the [Silver Law] is the most powerful.

Even if a higher-level zero-level holy relic suppresses it, the case must have been solved by now.

The biggest problem now is that the farther away you are from the Old World, the less efficient the light delivery becomes.

Even the Bantaan Islands need a lighthouse network for transit, let alone the southern continent, which has not even completed a complete nautical chart.

The disappearance cases all occurred in the southern continent, and the enemy's traces could not be traced at all. "

After Rudolph said this, he stood up and pulled Byron out of his watch room and came to the dome of the lighthouse on the top floor of the lighthouse.

A mirror is refracting the light of Leviathan's whale oil burning into the sea of ​​the entire human collective subconscious, becoming one of the most important sources of light in the spiritual world.

Rudolf pointed to the lamp room and continued to explain to Byron:

“We also know that the Faros Lighthouse is a 2,000-year-old design and has long lagged behind the times.

As technology advances, we have been thinking of ways to upgrade it.

However, the Pharos Lighthouse as a whole is a zero-level holy relic, and it cannot be modified and accepted at will.

It must be at least a first-level holy relic with huge influence in order to be smoothly assimilated into a whole and promoted from first level to zero level.

The last upgrade was to replace the original bronze mirror with [the world's first glass mirror]. How can it be so easy to continue to improve the performance of the lighthouse in a short period of time?

According to the speculation of our president, who holds the inherited title of [Fire Stealer].

Under the same conditions, the efficiency needs to be improved by at least 20% to effectively cover the Bantaan Islands, and the efficiency needs to be improved by 50% to cover the southern continent.

Only by increasing the efficiency by 100% can we penetrate the dark fog of the Echidna Triangle. If we want to take a picture of what the Eastern Continent looks like, the efficiency may need to be increased several times.

And the higher the efficiency, the stronger the suppression of the cracks in the world. Maybe even the big flood can be delayed for a few years. "

"Does it turn out that the key to everything is the efficiency of the lighthouse?"

Byron's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered something good.

It's not a "new invention" that I just thought of, but I have already recalled it, but it's a pity that I haven't found a good opportunity to bring it out in the past.

Only by giving help in times of need can others realize the value of help, and he will not do stupid things like doing good deeds without leaving a name.

If you help others a lot and you can get benefits and fame yourself, why not do it?

Now that there is a real need, he no longer hides his shame.

After making up his mind, Byron took out a huge piece of bagasse paper from the snakeskin bag and spread it on the ground.

Under the puzzled looks of Rudolph, Delia and a group of staff, he activated the [Wind Elemental Hand] and picked up a few quills for multitasking, and quickly drew a somewhat strange mirror design on the paper.

One side of the lens surface is flat and smooth, and the other side is carved with many concentric circles from small to large.

In Byron's previous life, this thing was called a Fresnel lens, also known as a threaded lens. Its texture was designed based on requirements such as light interference, interference, relative sensitivity, and reception angle.

Ordinary people can't understand the principles just by looking at the design drawings, but they only need to know the effects.

Lampshades made of Fresnel lenses can greatly improve the efficiency of lighthouses.

Before its invention, even the brightest lighthouse beam could only reach 12 kilometers, while the light from a Fresnel lens could shine all the way to 36 kilometers!

Later, scientific testing showed that using an open flame in a lighthouse will lose nearly 97% of the light, using a reflector will lose about 60-80% of the light, but the Fresnel lens will only lose up to 20% of the light.

In other words, when the lampshade is replaced, the efficiency of the lighthouse is not increased by 20%, nor by 50%, but by a full 3-4 times!

Of course, there is no Fresnel in this world, and its name naturally became "St. Byron Lens."

Before the actual object was produced, Byron was putting his final touches.

The design of the "Saint Byron Lens" appeared simultaneously on [Level 1 Holy Relic·Key to Omniscient], and the entire book was illuminated with golden light.

Although it has not yet completely transformed into a Level 0 Relic, a new ability suddenly hit Byron's heart.

——【Book of History】!

There is only one effect: "Modify everything. Historical records."