Pirate Kingship

Clover Island, Clare County, Shannon Port.

This is a famous safe haven on the coast of the Sea of ​​Monsters, and there are large tracts of pastures as raw material suppliers for the wool textile industry, with unique natural geographical conditions.

More importantly, when Violet was Byron's adviser and was selecting a site for the industrial center, the first best location proposed was the Kingdom of Hattings.

Because both coal and iron ore resources are very rich here, light industry can be seamlessly connected to heavy industry such as the production of steel, machinery, and armored battleships.

Shannon's surrounding areas are also equipped with large coal mines, iron mines, and natural harbors, and have a series of superior conditions from light industry to heavy industry plus water transportation of goods.

Naturally, it became one of the industrial towns selected by Byron, Violet and Catherine for the kingdom by comparing the map and the collective subconscious sea.

While this place was highly expected, it also received a huge amount of resources, including land, funds, manpower, and investment from many nobles.

"Where did the attackers come from?

Even the mid-sequence [Famine Hunters] should not have the power to control the forest on such a large scale.

Their power is used to domesticate wild species and turn them into crops or livestock. This is more like black witchcraft or some kind of weird handwriting."

The first person to discover the accident at the woolen mill was none other than the original lord of Shannon Port, Thomas Neville, the Marquis.

Before building the mill, he had not yet offered land to Byron. This factory area, which is much larger than the Kingston First Woolen Mill, belonged to his land share.

They themselves knew that the output of the land nobles was highly dependent on land and agriculture. Land, a means of production with an upper limit, destined them to be unable to become rich.

Since tasting the sweetness of the Dutch wool industry, they can see the power of the industrial revolution the most, which is dozens or hundreds of times the productivity and national strength.

However, the woolen mill had just been opened and encountered such an extremely vicious incident. How could it recruit workers if it was spread out? How could it continue to make profits and continue to expand the scale of production?

Cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents!

This is both a public and private matter, how could Marquis Neville not be annoyed?

"Report, Your Excellency, there is no trace of any living person in the forest.

[Scene Reproduction] did not respond, only a trace of grotesque residual dirty aura was found, and it was inferred that the murderer's strength should be the fourth level and the same as [Grotesque·Sheep Eating People].

Next, we need to send people to the scene of the accident to get more information, but we cannot be sure whether the murderer has gone far, and we need to continue to call for reinforcements."

As expected, [Crime Buster] Sherlock, as an independent prosecutor of the Star Chamber Court, has been confiscating land everywhere with the Royal Tax Inspection Bureau recently, and this time he ran into this "Wool Mill Murder Case".

The sheriff's face was very ugly, and the security in his jurisdiction seemed to be no good.

"Since the 'Death Stranding Incident' in the capital last year, various bizarre and evil spirit incidents have emerged in the kingdom.

Especially since I first encountered His Majesty, the effect of 'Death is Coming' on me has become more and more obvious.

Originally, I could use murder cases to escape the bill three times out of ten times when I went to a restaurant, but now it has increased to seven or eight times.

Now many restaurants in the capital refuse me entry, which is a headache for me.

Yesterday I met a Kimpses prophet who said that I was doomed, but I am an independent prosecutor, and the only doom that can always shine on me is... cough cough."

He looked around carefully and regained his spirit.

Although the number of supernatural disasters has increased, hundreds of people died at one time, including several craftsmen from the tower sequence. It is undoubtedly the worst supernatural disaster after the "Death Stranding".

Fortunately, they had just finished the preliminary investigation, and support personnel from other departments arrived one after another.

Pop!

Guts, the [Phantom Blade], wearing the [Thunderbird Feathers, Level 3 Relic] imagined by the "Illusionary Treasure House", flew over like a swift lightning.

Behind him were the Doppler Heavy Swordsman [Sword Saint] Herman and a group of Wild Hunt Knights who followed Theresa to the native land of Hastings and joined the Night Watch.

[Guardian Knight] Bruch, wearing the oath dress and incarnated as the [Sun Knight], rode on the fairy Ma Grimgret with infinite physical strength and galloped over.

He was still holding his beautiful wife, the great wizard and dancer [Fairy] Rigrell, who was enough to charm everyone.

The heroic spirits and titles of both of them were deeply bound to the myths and legends of this land, and they were sent out by Byron at the first time.

Soon, the Star Chamber Court, Storm Cloak, Skinned Church, Bloodthirsty Cult, Church Night Watch, and other experts from Byron's organizations gathered here.

Byron himself did not come in person.

Now that he has ascended the throne and the throne of God, he is no longer just a pirate captain, so his style of doing things must change.

The King's Iron Law, which was revised by the [Golden Law], confirmed in advance that there was no high-sequence aura here, so he naturally let others do the work.

If everything had to be done by him, the king and god, why did he keep so many armies, secret police, and officials at all levels?

Who is working for whom? Who is Palu?

Especially Bruch, Gus, Eight Fingers and other right hands of the king who have been with Byron for so long, have never been affected by major events and died, and naturally have also gained considerable growth.

In the previous war for the throne, he killed many enemies, which invisibly met the requirements of his own career promotion. His aura became more and more powerful, and he was getting closer and closer to the fourth level.

For these extraordinary people in the [Ladder of Glory] sequence, the process of doing things and performing duties is the process of career promotion.

If they don't go through experience, they will sooner or later not be able to keep up with Byron's pace and be eliminated to the second line.

They will be replaced by [Succubus Princess] Therese, [Hell Painter] Leonardo, [Angry Fox] Fox, [Star Shooter] Barrett and other latecomers.

This is something that the original team themselves can never accept.

"It is your majesty's will to establish a country with industry. All existences that defy your majesty's will are rebellious and must be completely purged and uprooted!

Follow me in."

Led by Bruch and Rigel, who are the king's close ministers and can best represent Byron's will, the group read Sherlock's preliminary investigation report and immediately strode into the factory that has become a primeval forest.

The giant oak trees, which were exactly the same as the local tree species but much larger in size, filled every space and spread hundreds of meters from the core workshop area.

Bruch was worried that the Sun Sword would ignite a fire, so he simply switched to the [Blood Fighting Method] and pulled out a blood rapier from his wrist.

With a light swing of the sword, the thick oak trees immediately fell down like weeds.

The cut was smooth and did not cause any obstruction to the sword.

It was just the red liquid that slightly seeped out from the cut surface that made him frown.

As a midnight demon who was first embraced by Byron, he was very sure that it was human blood.

This forest eats people!

Not only that, this forest looks lush, but just like the vegetation in the rainforest, it instinctively wants to suck every nutrient in the soil crazily, with an extremely domineering exclusivity.

Except for me, other creatures don't deserve to live.

If you want to find a word to describe it, it is "green desert".

But Sanye Island is obviously a temperate marine climate, and oak trees never have this trait. This is obviously from the murderer behind the scenes.

"Look there."

The [Fairy] Rigel beside Bruch pointed to the depths of the forest.

The spinning workshop was the origin of the accident.

The largest oak tree grew from here, breaking through the roof and strangling everyone working here in an instant. The other trees were differentiated from it.

When they looked over, they saw densely packed human faces.

Hundreds of terrified human faces grew on the trunk of the tree.

They seemed to still have a little consciousness. When they found someone coming in, they looked at them with distorted faces and screamed:

"Save me."

But this was the last sentence they said with self-consciousness, and it was immediately replaced by another more vast and malicious will:

"Sinner!"

"Sinner!"

"Anyone who destroys the natural environment must die!"

"There should be no fire, no swords, no guns, no warships, and no roaring machines. The symbiosis between people and forests is the way of nature!"

The words were full of deep hatred for all unnatural things, especially the "humanized world".

Unfortunately, these people were elites who grew up with Byron from the colonies that were close to the mythological era. The little weirdness produced by this local weak magic environment could not scare them.

And the claims made by the other party were simply anti-human.

Clearly denying all the achievements of human civilization, they wanted to make them return to the primitive era where they could not even use fire and ate raw meat and drank blood.

They even fundamentally deny the "anti-entropy" ability of human beings to establish order, support the natural chaos and "entropy increase" of this world, and even the fate of being completely swallowed by the Sea of ​​​​Source.

Even among the various old god cults that have become minions of the Sea of ​​​​Source, this is the most radical one.

At least the whale oil of the Mei's Leviathan whale will not even produce smoke after burning, let alone serious water resources and air pollution.

Byron's previous life "Fog City" can't be attached to it at all.

This can attract the hostility of nature. If it is replaced by industrialization driven by coal, wouldn't it eat them alive?

Without waiting for Bruch and his party to react.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The oak tree crowns that covered the sky and the sun and thousands of thick branches whipped them fiercely.

The group did not panic at all, and [Fairy] Rigel took the initiative to step forward and unveiled the black cloak on her body.

She was wearing a fiery red dance dress, revealing her white shoulders, slender waist and navel.

Silver bells were tied around her wrists and ankles, and her bare feet were as white as white jade, without a speck of dust on them. They were so white that they almost glowed.

In the dim forest, her long fiery red hair looked particularly bright.

Her beautiful eyes were originally gorgeous heterochromatic pupils, one was a light blue as transparent as the sky, and the other was a gorgeous amber.

As the [Snake Girl] who was promoted to the third-level extraordinary species, they all turned into upright snake pupils, with a unique charm that was dangerous and enchanting.

She looked like a weak and harmless prey, but also extremely bright.

But with the title special effect [Absolute Charm] and the dancer's own professional ability [Body Rhythm], she was also the most dangerous predator among all extraordinary professions.

The most dangerous hunters often appear in the form of prey, and few at the same level can resist her charm.

Ring ring ring.

The slender waist twisted, the hips and hips swayed, and the silver bell rang, like a seductive and beautiful snake. The alienated oak tree, which had just been full of murderous intent towards the group of people, suddenly stopped moving.

Regrel looked directly at the face closest to her and asked in a cat-like voice that was slightly hoarse but full of magnetism:

"Relax, we are not enemies. Tell me who killed you and where did it go?"

That wooden face was already full of obsession, and all the initial anger was gone, and there was even a little pink in the pair of cloudy eyes.

After struggling a little, he told her everything:

“It’s nature itself that kills us!

It is angry, it wants to kill all existences that threaten nature, it has not left, it is still here, it is coming, it is coming

Watch out for its arrows! "

Before he could fully explain, a shadow that did not belong to Bruch's team was reflected in his wooden eyes.

The light and shadow in the dim forest dozens of meters away from them suddenly flickered, and a figure that they had subconsciously ignored all along appeared.

It wasn't until the victim pointed it out that they realized that the figure had always been standing there, but it was completely integrated with the forest.

It was a grotesque half-man, half-deer, with the upper body of a naked, muscular human woman, a pair of antlers much larger than a golden deer on its head, and the lower body of a doe.

Holding a long bow with young leaves in his hand, there is a green natural halo at his feet.

The temperament is pure, primitive, full of vitality, and full of unreasonable savagery.

The tower sequence naturalist accompanying the team read the other party's name: "Weird·Wrath of Nature."

The rule is to kill the natural destroyers who break into the forest indiscriminately, and habitually turn humans into nutrients for the forest.

The standard is that anything artificial, including clothing, counts.

Probably only the nudists who like to run naked will survive. "

No wonder the worker who was killed said that the murderer was nature itself. This should be one of the most primitive natural spirits in the mythical age.

But they don't remember that such a thing has been born in the land of Hetings since the beginning of the Silver Age.

As soon as the opponent appeared, he bent his bow and nocked an arrow, shooting an arrow at the [Fairy] Rigreel at the front.

Although this [Snake Girl] masters many black witchcrafts and has many snake sloughs from [Beast Spirit Warrior], her combat power is very good.

But with her husband Bruch, the guardian knight named [Iron Wall], by her side, she naturally does not need to do the rough work herself.

clang!

The [Holy Sun Sword] in Bruh's hand, which had been on full alert for a long time, exploded with all its strength, and a sun seemed to rise suddenly in the forest.

[Sun Knight]'s ability was obviously restrained against that weirdo, and he cut the opponent's arrow into two pieces in the air with one arrow.

The arrowhead transformed from an acorn fell to the ground, but it took root in an instant and grew into a towering tree in an instant, waving its roots to wrap up all the people nearby.

Others nearby ducked for cover.

They finally understood how the factory under construction had become like this.

The oak tree clearly used all the workers and craftsmen as fertilizer.

While Bruch was defending, [Phantom Blade] Gus, [Juggernaut] Herman and others pounced on him.

Especially Marquis Neville, who was holding the dictator's baton, took the lead and roared:

"The Industrial Revolution is the future of the Neville family. If you dare to cause trouble, you are seeking death!"

At that time, his ancestors were one of the main pushers who forced Byron's eighth generation ancestor John, the Landless King, to sign the Magna Carta.

When the divine monarch Byron came to power and showed the posture of the [Ten Thousand-Winged Angel], he immediately realized that fighting against the royal power would never end well, and he did not hesitate to lead the neutral faction to kneel on the spot.

Take the initiative to hand over the military power in your hands, as well as the land captured by various means.

While their own generation still has the affection to support the new king, they can quickly exchange them for shares of a series of large companies, and the new king will not let them suffer.

Marquis Neville knew very well that although the [King of the Wild Hunt] valued family ties and seemed very easy to talk to, if he dared not be decent, then the other party would have ways to make him respectable.

As he knelt down, the 25-member committee used to supervise the implementation of the Magna Carta disappeared in an instant.

Byron's royal power was no longer restricted.

He himself gained Byron's first support. While gaining a long life, he also became a member of Byron's Sabbat Council.

The Marquis of Neville was highly dependent on Byron in terms of politics, economy, and mysticism. Even his only daughter was married into the Lancastrian royal family. He and he were an undoubted community of interests. Of course, it was impossible to back down when things happened.

There was a "ta-da-da" sound of deft deer hooves.

Weirdness was running through the forest, the big trees automatically avoiding her when she passed by, and trying their best to block her pursuers when they passed by.

But even so, with the continuous arrival of reinforcements from the surrounding areas, the nearby nobles also collectively mobilized to chase and intercept [Wrath of Nature].

Soon the entire forest was surrounded by heavy troops, and it was only a matter of time before she was killed.

"Fire!"

Bolt-action rifles and trench brooms made the grotesque inevitable, and the encirclement grew smaller and smaller.

At this time, the official strength, organizational power and centripetal force of Hattings were far different from those in the past.

Although Byron did not come in person, the raven Muni was watching all this quietly on the treetops.

He was very satisfied with the attitude of his subordinates who represented the interests of various groups and wanted to eat [Nature's Wrath] alive.

"I took the time to take over the Kingdom of Hatings, consolidate power, and modify the Iron Law of the King's Power in order to make my base camp an iron barrel.

Can a mere fourth-level grotesque still be allowed to make trouble in my territory?

Of course, the most important thing is to unite everyone together and integrate forces to the maximum extent to realize the centralized Demon Banquet Parliament and... democratic centralism!"

Obviously, while promoting industrialization, Byron did not forget that software must also keep up.

We cannot continue the old path of the royal family and traditional aristocrats siphoning all resources to suppress social vitality;

We cannot copy the original "parliamentary monarchy" or "constitutional monarchy" when the Industrial Revolution occurred, otherwise we may be robbed by others.

He came from the future and at least learned that the state of productivity determines the production relations, and what kind of productivity will eventually form what kind of production relations.

When the production relations are compatible with the development requirements of productivity, it will strongly promote the development of productivity; when the production relations are incompatible with the development requirements of productivity, it will hinder or even destroy the development of productivity.

Once the production relations are completely incompatible with the development of productivity, it will lead to serious social crises, or even revolutions!

Therefore, within 150 years after the Industrial Revolution in the previous life, the feudal monarchy in the world collapsed.

The kings who were pushed to the guillotine in the previous life are a lesson for the past.

Even the "Royal Army, King's Nemesis" was born from that time, and the fact that the army of a certain country could not be added with the prefix "Royal" was also rooted in this.

Although the world is different, the economic laws are the same. Instead of waiting until that time to be at a loss, it is better to prepare for a rainy day from now on.

Byron retained the parliamentary system, which means that he wanted both centralization and democratic resolution, widely absorbed outstanding talents to transform into [Midnight Demons], guaranteed the upward channel, and did not let the national governance system become rigid.

It is just that the equality and nationality in the macro system cannot cover up the fact of personal dependence in the mysterious field.

If you want to enter the center of power, you must first be his dependent.

Many outstanding talents who can fight their way to the center of power will inevitably continue to strengthen the strength of the "Magic Banquet Parliament".

This targeted parliamentary model not only guarantees the vitality of democracy, but also guarantees the stability of power concentration. It is called: "Black Tingster's democratic centralism".

It is also a kind of democratic centralization.

The Magic Banquet Parliament led by Byron himself ensures stable governance, and the blood inside the parliament is flowing.

Although it is not the voting system of the previous life, it is more scientific.

Byron has seen the advanced form of democracy, giving you two extremely bad options, and then letting you choose one freely.

It is not unheard of to see two eighty-year-old men fighting in the ring.

To sum up the core argument, one says: "I'm not stupid", and the other says: "I'm not crazy".

In the past, some nations were good at dealing with the "relationship between man and nature" and gave birth to science; some were good at dealing with the "relationship between man and God" and gave birth to various spiritual practices to pursue inner peace;

Some were better at dealing with the "relationship between man and man" and gave birth to political science that has withstood various tests and has never been cut off from beginning to end in the centralized environment of thousands of years.

Everyone knows where Byron's inspiration came from.

Soon, [Wrath of Nature] was gradually surrounded and covered in blood. Byron knew that the overall situation was determined and was about to retract his sight.

The [God's Vision], which covered a radius of dozens of kilometers, suddenly heard a rebuke from the forest far away with forcibly suppressed anger:

"Stuart! We need an explanation.

Why did you expose the [Wrath of Nature] you raised in advance before everyone was ready?

Many other sects that have now joined the North Sea area are very dissatisfied with you [Oak Sages].

When doing big things, you shouldn't drag in extreme environmentalists from the Druid sect!"

Byron's heart was shocked.

"Wait, multiple sects? There's more than one causing trouble?!"