Pirate Kingship

The time is slightly advanced.

[Wonder of Civilization·Northern Great Wall] North side.

Because this northern Great Wall, which has been standing on the Channel Islands for thousands of years, was built under the order of Hadrian, the heroic ruler who abolished the settlement of the Remites, it is also called Hadrian's Wall.

From the time it was built to the time it was abandoned, it had always been the northeastern border of the Silver Empire.

The Great Wall of the North includes city walls, watchtowers, forts, castles, etc., and together with the Antonine Wall and the Radiant Wall, it forms the Great Wall system of the ancient Silver Empire.

The main purpose of its construction was to defend against the three major barbarian tribes in the north.

As for why it is no longer useful? And where did the three barbarians go?

Now those who have established the Holy Silver Empire and are the masters of this continent are the barbarians back then.

The true purebred Imperial people have long since disappeared in the wave of national integration.

For the church countries, in addition to the incomplete historical relics, the grand empire that once hung high above their heads and could only look up to them has long since become the dust of history.

That's why there is a consensus that the Holy Silver Empire is neither sacred nor silver nor an empire. It really has nothing to do with the ancient empire.

Now I want to ask where is the legitimacy of the Silver Empire? It may also be a big question mark that is difficult to answer for historians.

tread!

A tall figure, whose body was thin and almost invisible, stepped on the peeling stones of the Great Wall of the North and leapt like flying, leaving no traceable footprints on the snow.

He wears a light armor made of monster fur, with a ferocious wolf head on his shoulder pads, and a hand-and-a-half sword slung around his waist. His hair is gray but not messy, and the signature blue eyes of Bay residents shine with the wolf king. So cunning.

Old Woodville was obviously running for his life at this time, but he seemed extremely calm and composed, and his movements were full of calmness.

In fact, no one can find him.

Even though animal companions released by [Hunters], [Adventurers], and [Animal Tamers] flew overhead from time to time, none of them stayed on him for even a moment.

He was also calm enough. Even when he saw friendly troops, he had no intention of showing up. He just walked towards the core control area of ​​​​the royal party with his head sullenly.

“Haha, as the Bay people say, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

When I was young, I was just an ordinary [Highland Knight]. The only secret to surviving from the Hundred Years War, the War of the Red and White Rose, to the present two-party war is to be cautious!

Now I am the backbone of the entire Woodville family.

Without me, even if the children who have not grown up can still enjoy the honor and favor brought by the queen, they will only be a third-rate family in terms of strength.

I led my family to travel between Lancaster and York, all I wanted was for the Woodville family name to be ranked alongside many great nobles, and to be passed down forever in the Kingdom of Hattings. "

The Woodville family, which was relied upon by Edward IV, actually had no sense of presence in the Kingdom of Hattings in the past.

Because when Old Woodville was young, he was just a steward in the house of Bedford Lancaster, the younger brother of Henry V of the Lancastrian dynasty.

That is, the housekeeper of the second grandfather Byron.

He only holds a knighthood, and he is not even considered a hereditary noble. He is just a civilian knight.

It wasn't until the old prince passed away that he got lucky and married the old prince's second wife, his second wife, Byron's second grandmother, before he officially entered the ranks of the nobility and established the Woodville family.

The couple gave birth to 12 children in one breath, and Elizabeth, who married Edward IV, was the eldest daughter among the children.

There was only one generation before and after the time when he became famous.

His family is more important to him than anything else.

Old Woodville looked up at the end of his field of view in the direction he was heading, as if he saw the castle of Sauron, whose surname was changed from Lancaster to York, and then to Tudor. A fire flashed in his eyes:

"When we defeat the Earl's party and regain the complete royal power, we may be able to change all the properties with the surname Tudor to the surname Woodville.

Although I heard that the Pharos Lighthouse now uses the new [Saint Byron Lens], which can greatly increase the survival rate of [The Lantern Man], that Saint Byron may not die as early as other Lantern Men.

But for some reason, the remnant [Wild Hunt] Byron Lancaster, who possesses fifth-level strength, appears again.

Although the Earl of Stromgarde, the great loyal minister of York, is strong, he should not be able to escape this attack sooner or later.

Those industries will still belong to us sooner or later. When the industry is blessed by then, the Woodville family's position as a great noble will be truly worthy of the name. "

Apparently, the Woodville siblings were planning to facilitate the marriage between Saint Byron and Catherine, and then wait for Saint Byron to die due to his duties as a "Lampbearer", so that their son Frith could marry the "widow" Catherine.

Swallowing in their hands the Pioneer Pilot Colonial Trading Company, the two counties, the International Port, the Pioneer Bank, the Standard Whale Oil Company, and other huge wealth.

The chief director of this series of plans is actually Old Woodville.

His family finally got an opportunity to change their destiny.

Old Woodville, who had been afraid of poverty all his life, did not hesitate to jump between Lancaster and York, but also seized every opportunity to climb up by any means.

He was originally a die-hard Lancastrian, and even his eldest daughter Elizabeth married Sir John Gray, who was also a Lancastrian (Chapter 345).

But when Edward, who was only the Duke of York a few years ago, pursued Elizabeth and extended an olive branch to him, he changed his allegiance without hesitation.

Relying on his familiarity with the Lancaster Party, he killed his former colleagues in large numbers and repeatedly made great contributions to the York family.

Among the people who helped Edward IV the most in ascending the throne, in addition to Warwick the Kingmaker, it was Old Woodville.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the number one traitor of the Lancaster Party.

"The first generation cut through the thorns, the second generation washed their feet and landed on the shore, and stabilized the foundation. Only the third generation is qualified to declare themselves a noble.

During this period, it is inevitable that my hands will be stained with dirty blood, but I don't care.

Not to mention Byron Tudor, even if it is the orphan of the old master Byron Lancaster, I don't mind sending him off in person, so that their family can be neat and tidy.

If you are not ruthless, you can't stand firm. It is because honest people have been bound by ridiculous moral values ​​that they have always been unable to make a name for themselves. You deserve to be poor all your life!"

Take your eyes away from the castle that belonged to Lancaster at the beginning, and a trace of wolf-like viciousness flashed in his eyes.

In fact, if his son-in-law Edward IV died unexpectedly because of his unrestrained sexual intercourse with his daughter, he would not mind being a "Protector of the Country" and "assisting" his grandson Edward V to ascend the throne.

By the way, clean up all the members of the York family who may threaten his position, making the Woodville family the most prominent noble family in Hastings.

"Search quickly, this side."

"There are enemies, kill them!"

The support troops of both sides continued to enter the snow-covered forest, fighting fiercely around Old Woodville, and he remained indifferent to the sound of fighting.

It seemed that these people did not die because of him, but were just a group of indifferent ants.

He raised his hand and gently stroked a tadpole-shaped mark on his chest that was exposed by the [Tear of Rupert]. The head was big and the tail was small, emitting a faint light of glass.

It was this treasure that gave him almost invincible defense and a sense of existence equivalent to that of a small bee, allowing him to escape to the present easily.

Looking at the increasingly dense search network and increasingly fierce fighting around him, Old Woodville showed a meaningful look on his face:

"Everyone thought it would take me a whole day to switch the 'weak door', but do you think this is the truth?

Who would be stupid enough to expose their trump card? Haha."

But he was completely unaware that the aura of disaster with him as the center of the vortex above his head began to rotate at a high speed, pulling more crises and accidents over.

There were also several stars of disaster flickering.

If [disaster witches] like Violet and Vanessa came to take a look, they would definitely be stung by the disaster atmosphere here.

The scale is certainly not qualified to be compared with the Holy Silver Empire, but it is terrifying enough for one person alone.

Suddenly.

"Dang".

Old Woodville seemed to have kicked something accidentally, and when he looked down, he found that it was an exquisite ceramic bottle.

Before he could react, the other party rolled on the ground twice and the bottle cap opened by itself, and a voice came out:

"Hey, old man, you kicked me, pay me!

If you want to pass through here, you must fulfill my three wishes."

Bang!

Before he finished speaking, Old Woodville suddenly kicked him and the ceramic bottle far into the depths of the forest.

The cautious old knight had no intention of paying attention to such a strange thing.

Just as he was about to speed up and leave this place that gave him a bad premonition, his footsteps paused again, and the half-sword in his hand on his waist clanged out of its sheath. He turned his head and faced the direction of the forest next to him as if he was facing a great enemy.

At this moment, the sounds of birds suddenly disappeared, and the sounds of fighting between the scouts of both sides nearby became inaudible.

Only the chilling killing intent that made old Woodville's hair stand on end rushed towards him in waves from the forest.

Then he heard "Trample! Trample! Trample!" The footsteps that were more steady than his sounded, and they went straight to his direction, getting closer and closer, and getting louder and louder.

It was like a hammer hitting his heart again and again.

The voice just now sounded again:

"How dare you kick me, damn bastard? This is the first time I have encountered such a great humiliation since I played the role of the genie in the bottle! I will kill you!"

"Shut up, Leonardo. Are all demons as talkative as you?"

The demon's voice immediately changed from arrogant to flattering:

"Yes, my master. You see, I said that this guy can be found, right?

[Rupert's Tears] can reduce the sense of existence by 99%, but it does not make people disappear completely.

We demons are experts in harvesting souls. When we were ambushed before, he was stolen a wisp of the fifth element by the painting spirit I sent, which was used to perform [Life Hunting Technique]. As long as the distance is close enough, his position can be locked."

Soon, a strange team completely walked out of the forest.

A tall and heroic young man, a beautiful blonde girl holding an umbrella for him, a little man as big as a palm, and a young painter carrying a broken ceramic bottle.

Old Woodville had never seen Therese and Leonardo who had been hiding behind [Painting Spirit·Eighteen Scenes of Hell].

I just felt that the two people in front looked familiar, but because of [Transfiguration] and [Cognitive Correction], I couldn't match them up at all.

I could only say coldly:

"Are you from the Earl's Party? Warwick is no match for His Majesty. I advise you to give up the dark and join the light as soon as possible, otherwise your life will be in danger."

Byron had no intention of talking nonsense to the number one traitor of the Lancaster Party, and strode straight towards him.

He and Catherine grew up in the Galt Highlands since childhood. When he was young, he often followed adults to hunt here. Apart from the sea, this was his most familiar home ground.

In addition to defeating the [Puppet King] and the Cardinal in succession, the number of fourth-level knights he had killed was almost double-digit.

Even if an orthodox [Highland Knight] of the fortress sequence was strong, there was no need for others to besiege together. He alone was enough.

Ten steps, nine steps, eight steps.

The moment he stepped on the seventh step, his slender and powerful legs bent and bounced, a circle of air explosion rings exploded under his feet, and the whole person turned into blood and flew over.

The right hand swept across the wrist of his left hand, and a thin sword made of blood flashed with cold light, and he stepped forward and stabbed.

The specialty of [Night Devil], fighting bloodshed!

Swish——!

Old Woodville's face changed:

"Oh no, this is actually a fourth-level [Mythical Creature]?! Where did Warwick find such a thug?"

It is common sense that the individual abilities of [Glory Ladder] cannot be compared with mythical creatures. He immediately summoned his heroic guards.

The wolf-head shoulder guard suddenly opened its mouth and blew out a cold breath. A large group of frost wolves rushed out and rushed into the heroic battle flag that exploded above his head, adding their own power to him.

Most of his human guards had died in the previous ambush, and now they could only temporarily rely on the power of these ancient heroes [Frost Wolf Knights].

But Byron's stab speed was too fast. Old Woodville had just summoned the guards to help in the battle, and the bloody sword tip had already arrived in front of him.

He did not dodge, and while meeting the sword tip with his chest, he used the "Moon Worship" of [Frost Wolf Swordsmanship] to chop Byron's head with great force.

Ding!

The tip of the stabbing sword arrived first, but it only created a circle of force field ripples on the chest of old Woodville, and failed to penetrate instantly.

Byron was not surprised:

"【Rupert's Tears】 is indeed worthy of its reputation. There are very few dead lines on the body, and the rest of the body is like a piece of iron."

Facing the swift sword swung by the 【Highland Knight】, he just moved his feet slightly and calmly dodged with a trail of afterimages.

Now Byron's movement speed is almost faster than the speed of ordinary fourth-level sword swinging, and the sword blade that can cut through stubborn stones cannot make him feel any threat.

Old Woodville continued to stride and swing the sword, turning the strange half-sword in his hand into a ball of fierce blizzard, smashing it down on Byron's head.

A ferocious wolf head protruded from the sword shadows in the sky, opening its mouth wide and biting him madly.

[Secret: Pack of Wolves Hunting]

This is the swordsmanship that the Bay people living on the Evernight Peninsula learned from the monster Frost Wolf, which is mainly popular in the three countries of the Kalmar Union and other northern countries.

The essence of this swordsmanship is to stick to the rationality as cold as ice in the violent sword moves, and to be crazy but not crazy in the heart.

It also fits the unique natural environment of this land and the national character of the Bay people, and its power is doubled in the ice and snow.

Byron instantly adjusted his breathing method and merged it with the sword light in his hand, leaving only a dazzling sharp blood light moving up and down between the wolf teeth.

He found the right opportunity to stab his "weak door" under the left armpit, which was also the only dead line that [God's Vision] could see.

However, at this moment, old Woodville suddenly showed a cold smile of success:

"I caught you! The secret gun drawing technique!"

Ding!

In Byron's [God's Vision], the "weak door" that could not be moved within a day suddenly moved to the opponent's head.

It's just that the length and width of the line also expanded tenfold at once.

He immediately realized that the rumor was wrong. The opponent's "weak door" could not be moved only after one day, but could be moved in advance at the cost of expanding the weakness tenfold.

"Even the misleading news may have been released by him on his own initiative."

Without waiting for Byron to put away his sword, old Woodville suddenly abandoned his sword with his right hand and shook out a strange-looking musket from his exquisitely designed arm armor.

The back still looks like a normal musket, but the front has more than one barrel, but ten barrels in two rows.

Level 2 Holy Relic [First Organ Gun·Jer Harmonica]:

"The so-called organ gun is named after its rows of barrels that are similar to the pipes of the organ in the church. They are sometimes also called: discharge guns.

But compared with normal muskets, there is no essential difference, except that there are more barrels. The innovation is insufficient, and the influence can only reach level 2 at most.

The ability is called [Hundred Times Penetration]. In theory, even the hardest diamond can be penetrated by this gun, not to mention armor and human body?"

Old guys like Woodville who have grown up step by step from the bottom of the battlefield may not be good at other things, but they are absolutely experienced and insidious.

Bang!

The flames burst out fiercely, and ten bullets blessed with extraordinary powers flew towards Byron's head.

"Hahaha, the more holy relics the better, and the strongest 'shield' and the strongest 'spear' are in my hands.

Who else in this world can kill me?!"

Just as Byron was about to hide, blood suddenly burst out all over his body, and "crash" the whole person turned into a pile of blood-colored bats.

In one tenth of a second, he avoided the bullets and closed up again.

"Old man, times have changed, but unfortunately they haven't changed so thoroughly.

No matter how powerful the gun is, what's the use if it can't hit? "

Just when Old Woodville was stunned, Byron's long and powerful right leg suddenly jumped up from the ground like a steel whip and kicked him hard on the chin from bottom to top.

Click!

With a crisp sound of broken bones, the old knight kicked into the air and was thrown hard in a spin.

"puff--!"

Five or six teeth were scattered all the way along with the blood mist sprayed from the mouth, and then hit the wall of the Great Wall of the North hard.

This was because Byron, a mythical creature, controlled the power. If he kicked with all his strength, he could kick the old man's head into a bloody mist.

The battle was over just as it began.

Old Woodville was about to get up from the ground with difficulty when Byron stepped down and crushed his limbs. He had to clenched his gums tightly to prevent himself from screaming.

Then the [Organ] and [Rupert's Tears] were also confiscated.

Byron dipped in Old Woodville's blood and began to draw a magic circle on the ground, summoned [Bloody Mary] and ordered to her:

"Kill all his blood relatives."

Back then, he used this [blood curse], which is equivalent to the occult theory of killing the entire family, to kill all his old bosses, the Newman family. This time it was finally the turn of the number one traitor, the Woodville family.

Nor will they be the last on Byron's road to revenge.

"Who are you? Why do you do this to me?

Warwick can never afford to hire foreign aid like you! I can give you money, power, and women. My daughter is the most beautiful woman in the kingdom.

No, no! "

Old Woodville, who had half his teeth missing, could hardly speak, but he also knew that Byron was not joking.

He instantly felt the despair of those Lancastrians who had died at his hands over the years.

"You want to know who I am?"

Catherine had already walked up to Byron and held his arm. The two siblings looked down at the miserable old man who had begun to dissolve in the blood like maggots.

Silently lifted the transformation spell on his body, revealing the true colors of Byron Lancaster and Catherine.

This combination is obviously far more exciting than "Catherine + Byron Tudor" or "Violet + Byron Lancaster".

Old Woodville never thought that the person who would kill his whole family would be Lancaster, whom he had abandoned.

Suddenly, he figured out something.

The mouth screams:

"You are. No-!"

Byron deliberately released the blockade of the "Border Mystery Lock", allowing his screams to spread far away, and at the same time extracted his soul and transmutation blood.

Then he winked at [Devil in a Bottle] who had been prepared for a long time.

Let him artificially create a "death stranding" accident and eliminate all traces of the scene.

While making any detective helpless, it also put the shit basin firmly on the head of [Kingmaker] Warwick.

The two sides that were attracted soon let out exclamations of surprise, and what followed was a large-scale fighting in the entire Gaelt Highlands.

The first step of the plan is completed!

Kingston at the same time, Fountain Palace.

Edward IV sat next to Queen Elizabeth and comforted his beauty:

“My queen, don’t worry, your father will be fine.

I have issued an order. If your father cannot be rescued safely, I will let the whole family be buried together! "

As the symptoms of "The Emperor's New Clothes" continued to deepen, Edward IV was like many famous fools in history, obsessed with beauty to the point of forgetfulness.

Especially when the beauty is domineering and revealing, there is a kind of unified, brain-stem missing beauty.

[The most beautiful woman in the Channel Islands] Elizabeth Woodville, holding the box containing her family's life gems in her arms, could only force a smile to her husband.

Every two seconds a glance is taken at the gem in the box.

Just when Edward IV had just finished his harsh words.

Click!

In Elizabeth's horrified eyes, the gem that belonged to old Woodville suddenly broke.

The queen couldn't help crying like blood:

"Father! No-!"

But it's not over yet.

After the first gem shattered, all members of the Woodville family died suddenly in the Channel Islands and other places on the mainland, pursued by [Bloody Mary].

The other gems in the box naturally exploded one after another like firecrackers.

In just a few minutes, there was only a pile of gem powder left.

Even Frith Woodville, the country's uncle who had planned to marry Catherine, was not spared.

The Woodville family is not a prominent family and has little background. Most of them have low-level ranks, and their [anchors] do not exceed their own ranks by much.

Moreover, even if Uncle Frith became the right hand of the king by relying on the "Iron Law of Kingship: Magna Carta", how could he resist the personal curse of an outlaw maniac like Byron who has absolute claim to Hattings?

Only Queen Elizabeth was unscathed by her husband's protection, and [Bloody Mary] did not dare to enter the palace.

But although Elizabeth did not die because of the [blood curse], she was shaken twice by the bad news that made the whole family happy, and then she fell to the ground and fainted.

Edward IV was also shocked and angry:

"Call the doctor quickly. If the queen cannot be cured, I will let all your families bury her with her!"

The Ganquan Palace was suddenly in a state of excitement.

The influence of the harm done to Old Woodville by the "Earl's Party" spread far and wide from this center until it caused a storm.

No matter whether the Royal Party and the Earl's Party were willing or not.

When the blood of many "nobles" began to be shed like money, the intensity of the war was passively raised a thousand times.

Not to mention Edward IV or St. John, even if the Pope came, he would not be able to stop the fight halfway.