Pirate Kingship

Ring of Fire Mountains, the Empire of the Sun.

The four major suyu in the north, east, south and west of the country: Chintsuyu, Antisuyu, Coriasuyu and Contisuyu have obviously expanded a lot compared to when Byron first came.

During this period, Atahualpa relied on the earth vein seal plugs and heavy-armored synthetic battalions sold to him by the Golden Empire to conquer cities and territories on the southern continent, changing the situation of previous kings who were not aggressive enough and trapped at home.

The pie is getting bigger and bigger, and land, population, various rare resources, minerals, earth vein nodes, etc. are constantly moved into the warehouse of the empire.

This famous [Hand of Wealth] not only has money himself, but also can lead everyone to eat meat together. Naturally, he has won the support of most military nobles, and his reputation is catching up with Manco, the eldest son of the Sun God [Founder of the Nation].

The only thing that surprised the nobles was that Atahualpa had never been to the administrative center, the Royal City of Cusco, since his coronation.

He had never been to the Machu Picchu Sky City, which was built on the crown of the sacred tree "Cloud Top Giant" next to the royal city.

Instead, he set up Cajamarca, the hot spring city of Chinchasuyu, which had been in operation for many years, as a permanent palace, and also took over his mother, the previous queen, Koya.

The high-ranking officials of the empire were all talking about it, but in the end they had to pinch their noses to accommodate Atahualpa and move with their families.

Under normal circumstances, there is no power vacuum. If you don't occupy it, others will naturally occupy it for you.

If this happened to a mediocre monarch, the ministers and nobles would definitely celebrate and eat away the power that originally belonged to him, the king.

But Atahualpa not only had the exclusive trade rights with the Golden Empire and all the heavy-armored combined battalions, but also successfully promoted to the fifth-level pseudo-god [Hand of Wealth] at a speed that surpassed all his ancestors.

He had money, people, and strength, so the administrative center of the entire empire naturally had to move to the hot spring city together.

However, His Majesty Atahualpa, who should have been in high spirits, is not as comfortable as he imagined.

"Your Majesty, everything has been investigated.

The strange hysteria and the prayer ceremony began to appear in Antisuyu, which is closest to the inland of the Beast Paradise, and then spread rapidly along the entire Ring of Fire Mountains.

Wherever the prayer ceremony was held, there was no more rain. Winter is the dry season, and food production is bound to be reduced on a large scale.

The most important problem is that those civilians who do not have the blood of the ancestor Sun God are fine, but we, the Sons of the Sun, lava giants and lower-level families are the hardest hit areas.

Once we are infected, the 'patient' and his entire family will not survive."

The magnificent palace inlaid with countless gems and gold is now full of gloom.

The captain of the guard, the fourth-level mythical creature Sinch Roca, who was bewitched by the succubus Therese and almost sucked dry, knelt on one knee in front of Atahualpa and reported the intelligence of the risky investigation to his master one by one.

Atahualpa and the nobles and ministers present all looked very unhappy.

If this hysteria was like an ordinary disease, it would only cause mass deaths of mortals, and no one would care, and they would just eat and drink.

The sun of the empire never sets!

But this hysteria was obviously aimed at them, the descendants of the gods. As the scale of infection grew, each of them might be infected.

Some ministers could not help but complain in a low voice:

"The front line of the empire is confronting the Solomon Empire of the old gods, and such a big accident has happened in the rear.

This time the opponent is not the ordinary mythical creatures and false gods of the past, but a real demigod.

If we hadn't repeatedly emphasized to the soldiers that the sun and storms are the mortal enemies of the deep sea, morale would have collapsed.

Why did the ancestors still have no reaction? Even the former kings who have become gods in the sky city of Machu Picchu have not shown up?"

"That's right, what are they thinking? Are they going to abandon our Sun Empire?"

Some people also looked at Atahualpa eagerly:

"Your Majesty, now we can only rely on you.

As long as you give the order, the Imperial Reserve Committee and all the forces under our control will execute your orders 100%."

So far, most of the senior officials have not realized the essence of the prayer ceremony:

"They, the descendants of the gods, are just insignificant tools. The sword of the old god is pointing at the ancestor hanging over their heads."

It is not certain how much rationality the half-step sixth-level sun god still has, so how can he have the energy to care about them?

Atahualpa learned the truth about the prayer ceremony from Byron when he sent the letter for help.

At this time, looking at the members of the "Imperial Reserve Committee" around him who were unaware of the inside story, he felt that the situation was very difficult and panicked:

"This is a fight between demigods. What can I, a pseudo-god, do?

I have just used national bonds to plunder most of the gold in and outside the empire, just to create a financial bomb while improving my strength.

To prevent my ancestors from using me, my wife, and children as nutrients for promotion.

But once the ancestors themselves are in danger, even a financial bomb cannot stop him from using us as firewood at the critical moment of life and death.

Those old gods who are afraid of chaos in the world are really damned!"

Before that, he established a private imperial central reserve bank according to Catherine's plan, and formulated the "Imperial Reserve Law" to grant it corresponding financial and fiscal management powers.

He hid behind the scenes and absorbed the relevant powerful figures in the ruling center to build a huge community of interests "Imperial Reserve Committee".

Then he shared the profits with them and tied them tightly to his chariot.

They used national credit and tax guarantees to issue national bonds to the powerful class, wealthy people, other city-states and tribes on the continent.

Playing the game of passing the parcel, turning other people's money into their own money, they only need to pay high interest to investors in a short period of time.

Relying on this business, Atahualpa's assets expanded rapidly, and most of them were secretly transferred and deposited in the Pioneer Bank of the Golden Empire.

Under the operation of Catherine's asset management company, he further invested in the entire First Empire of the Sun, which was booming with the industrial revolution and business.

This is the entire Sun Empire making money from volcanoes, accumulating gold bit by bit for thousands of years, which is undoubtedly an astronomical figure!

Atahualpa just played an illegal fundraising, but it was faster than the Bay People who worked hard for thousands of years as pirates.

However, when they did this, their "master and apprentice" had no good intentions.

But in the end, when Atahualpa calculated, he unexpectedly found that the annualized interest rate of only 15% of the "Ponzi scheme" for this deal was completely affordable for him!

Whether it was the projects that Catherine helped him invest in or the projects that he invested in, they all made a lot of money.

The trick to investing at this time period is just one word: enter with your eyes closed!

The current First Empire of the Sun Never Sets is a blue ocean. No matter what you invest in, you will make money. It is an excellent outlet that can blow even pigs away.

This gust of wind can blow for at least a few decades.

As long as the technological dividends of this wave of industrial revolution are not eaten up, he can continue to pay high interest without worrying about the problem of capital chain breaking.

Even after paying the interest, he still made a lot of money.

Atahualpa also relied on this source of money to embark on an immortal ladder that was related to the solar field, but obviously different from his ancestors, and changed his job from a "natural god" to a "personal god".

By the way, it was firmly tied to this economic system and the economic systems of the Sun Empire and the First Empire of the Sun Never Sets, and took off rapidly.

"Alas, who could have expected that when the situation was so good, an accident would come so suddenly."

In this country where even brothers were killed every time the throne was changed, Atahualpa had no deep feelings for other descendants of the sun god.

At first, he was quite happy to hear that many of the dead were investors in his own projects.

Because once those nobles and descendants of the gods were hysterical and held a prayer ceremony, they would sacrifice the entire family carrying the blood of the sun god Inti.

Naturally, the interest and principal of the national debt and Ponzi scheme no longer had to be paid. This "real pig-killing scheme" made money much faster than investing in business.

Atahualpa sighed deeply and weakly:

"The fewer the unproductive rentier class, the healthier the wealth appreciation system managed by me, the [Hand of Wealth], will be.

But if even we ourselves are infected and become a rope to hang our ancestor Inti, it will be a big problem.

The money is still there, but the people are gone. This is the greatest sorrow in the world."

Noticing that others were still looking at him, he had to speak to comfort these direct supporters around him:

"Everyone, I have discussed with His Majesty the Lord of Heaven of the Holy Golden Empire, and I can arrange for your family to leave temporarily in advance. The Sun Empire will live in Tayapan on the Yucatan Island.

For the sake of the brother country, His Majesty the Lord of Heaven also promised to come to help as soon as possible.

In the field of law, his status as the [Human Emperor] is equivalent to that of a demigod, and he will definitely keep us safe.

In addition.

Since our ancestors and previous kings can't take care of us, the focus of your next work is to continue to strengthen the [Golden Law] and make this law truly popular!

The stronger the law, the stronger His Majesty the Lord of Heaven will be. "

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Everyone nodded excitedly and no one raised any objections.

What is the First Empire where the Sun Never Sets? That is the [Mountaintop Country·Spiritual Homeland].

I don't know how many people in the Old Continent want the nationality of the North Sea Empire but have no way.

They can join in through the back door, and they have to thank Atahualpa.

After they get what they want, they will inevitably donate a few huge scholarships or teaching buildings to the university and extraordinary vocational college established by Byron.

At this time, no one realized that now their money and family members were outside, and this group of high-level officials who held the power of the Sun Empire had completely become "naked officials".

Who they would lean towards politically in the future was not a question at all.

Just as a group of people sent messages to their families living in the hot spring city, asking them to pack up their things and go abroad with the merchant fleet to seek refuge.

Suddenly, a strange nursery rhyme came from a palace in the palace:

"Sunny doll, sunny doll, I hope tomorrow will be a good day. If so, I will give you a golden bell

I will give you delicious rice wine. If not, I will cut off your head."

When everyone heard this nursery rhyme, their bodies shook violently and their faces turned pale.

Some people even screamed:

"Hysteria. Hysteria has spread to the palace!"

"It's bad, run!"

Among them, Atahualpa's face suddenly changed horribly. He jumped up from his chair, ignoring the strong contagion of hysteria to the Son of the Sun, and flew away in a golden rainbow.

Because he could tell who was singing.

"Aya! Sister!"

He flew all the way, and in a blink of an eye, he flew to the bedroom and saw the beautiful figure humming a nursery rhyme.

His sister and queen, Aya, was as tall and fit as ever, with pale golden eyes and long fiery red hair like a blazing flame.

She was wearing a black silk dress imported from the Holy Golden Empire, and her feet were wearing sparkling ruby ​​high heels, with a face full of maternal tenderness.

The last time Byron came, she was only in the late pregnancy, and was struggling with how many bowls of ice cream she could eat a day to satisfy her appetite without harming the fetus. Now she has a very healthy and cute baby.

This was not Atahualpa's first child, but the first legitimate son born to him and Queen Aya. He had the purest blood and was the best "firewood" in the solar system!

Aya's current state was obviously not right. While humming a nursery rhyme, she lifted her son's clothes with one hand and raised it to the air.

The other hand was glowing red, turning into a red blade emitting scorching heat, slowly approaching her son's neck.

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The child, who was born only a few months ago, didn't know what was going on. He thought his mother was playing with him, waving his little hands and legs, and making a "giggle" laugh.

Atahualpa was shocked when he saw this scene:

"Aya, don't!"

While exclaiming, he relied on the suppression of the fifth-order pseudo-god rank and snatched his son from her hands in a flash.

Just after handing the child to the trembling maid beside her, Aya suddenly swung her hand and chopped at her neck after losing the target of sacrifice and obviously unable to beat her husband and chop off his head.

The hysterical infected people in front were also like this.

After sacrificing the whole family, they would also chop off their own necks and sacrifice themselves together, without any hesitation.

Atahualpa was horrified and hurriedly stepped forward again to grab his wife's hands and hugged her tightly in his arms. Even though she bit his shoulders again and again, bleeding profusely, he did not let go.

He kept calling Aya's name anxiously, trying to wake her up again, but it was all in vain.

He knew very well that once he relaxed a little, his wife would definitely die, and people who really wanted to commit suicide could not be stopped at all.

Heartbroken:

"Aya, please, please, don't die, wake up quickly, okay?

Aya, Aya, don't leave me alone."

This queen who grew up with him and married him before he became famous obviously had a special place in Atahualpa's heart.

Shouting like a helpless child, tears of despair and self-blame flowed from the corners of his eyes, burning dark holes on the ground.

Suddenly.

"Sunny doll, sunny doll, I hope tomorrow will be a good day"

Atahuallpa heard the weird nursery rhyme again, but this time it was a male voice.

The source was his own mouth!

In close contact with his wife, he was also infected with hysteria without any surprise.

Atahualpa's face was full of astonishment, and then turned into boundless horror.

He was deeply afraid of death, otherwise he would not have cooperated with Byron, just to seek a life-saving amulet for himself and his family, but he was more afraid of the tragic future of chopping off the heads of his wife, son, and mother with his own hands.

Aya was only a fourth-level mythical creature, and could not sacrifice their entire family, but he, a fifth-level pseudo-god, could. Even if he had stronger resistance, it was only a matter of time.

One day? Two days? That moment would eventually come.

In just a moment, all the efforts and layouts he had made for more than a year became useless.

In fear, he could not help but hug his beloved wife tightly again. After trying several times, he did not have the courage to ignite the spirit and self-immolate with his wife to block the spread of hysteria.

Sadly and helplessly, he slowly waited for that moment to come.

However, before he could wait for death to come, he first waited for a self-talk of sudden enlightenment:

"It turns out that this hysteria is a man-made 'soul plague', which can also be called the prayer syndrome.

The plague maker is at least a demigod and has priesthood related to [disease] and [plague].

No wonder they only infect the descendants of the sun god, and even mythical creatures and false gods have no strong resistance."

Hearing this voice, Atahualpa, who was ready to wait for death, immediately cheered up and shouted as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw:

"Your Majesty, the Lord of Heaven, you are finally here.

You are the father of medicine. Please save Aya quickly. I am willing to give you all the deposits in Pioneer Bank and the equity of major commercial projects!"

A stream of light landed, but waved his hands at him repeatedly and declined:

"One thing for another, I don't have such an expensive consultation fee.

Besides, we are all friends, it's just a piece of cake."

To be honest, the astronomical assets in the other party's hands are indeed enough to make the gods excited.

The easiest way is not to save their family, but to let them die, and then they can legally receive the gold immediately.

But if this is really done, Byron and Catherine will no longer be the queen of people and finance, but will become slaves of money instead.

As human nature shifts, the most terrifying old god in the world [Financial Titan] must be born on the spot.

It is difficult to learn well, but easy to fall.

One cannot, at least one should not.

In a few words, Byron had already walked up to the two of them.

Although epidemics belong to [Disease Girl] Alice’s area of ​​expertise, his [Surgical Operating Table] is even more domineering.

Just one resection operation removed the spiritual plague "Qingqing Syndrome" from their bodies.

I held it in my hand and observed this strange hysteria.

“I remember there was a similar case in Silver Continent.

Mass mania incidents have emerged one after another in history, and the symptoms are the sudden appearance of a large number of people whose behavior looks like a hypothetical attack.

Among them, dancing disease is the most typical. Infected people will sing, dance, dance, and convulse incessantly, dancing in a craziness day and night until they eventually collapse and die.

Like smallpox, this virus originated from the Silver Continent.

Relying on the [Human] priesthood and [Human Emperor] status, I can also collect the virus deposits in the collective subconscious of mankind and create similar spiritual plagues. "

After returning to normal, Atahualpa and his wife helped them up, and Byron also had a new idea.

“The most fearful thing about poisoning is shooting yourself in the foot.

Could it be that only the sun god Inti has dependents in this world? None of you old gods?

It is too immoral to engage in biological and chemical warfare. Playing with one's own head by destroying it is considered a regular routine. The losses to one's own people may be greater than those of the enemy.

How do you say that? What you lose is just life, what the enemy loses is freedom.

Let me also add some spice to Solomon's Empire. "

At the same time, the deepest part of the Seven Hills City of Solomon's Empire.

A lonely church stood alone in the corner. It looked like a very ordinary Gothic building on the outside, but the inside of the church was creepy.

It is filled with densely packed human bones, and every decoration and appliance inside and outside is made of human bones.

The crosses, crowns and other decorations that can be seen everywhere in the church are all made of bones from different parts of the human body.

In the candlesticks and Baroque altars surrounding the church, every candle is lit on the bones, and the green light stays on forever.

The most eye-catching thing is the large human bone chandelier in the center of the hall.

It is composed of leg bones as the main frame, and the mandible bones are strung together as hanging curtains. The main frame is divided into eight leg bones. The lamp stand supports the pelvic bones arranged in a circle, and each of them holds a head that serves as a candlestick. .

People standing below feel as if they are being stared at by countless skulls, which makes people feel numb.

At this time, a mouse-like figure wearing a bone crown on his head was sitting on the gloomy bone throne.

It's just that a large piece of His body is missing from his right arm to his shoulder, a large piece is missing from his left foot, left leg, and left hip. There is a big hole in his belly, and some of his internal organs are also missing.

There are black sutures in other parts of the body. Counting carefully, his body is made up of eight residual limbs.

About four other missing limbs are unknown.

There was a constant rustling sound in the shadows under the Rat Man's feet, but there were countless rats spreading a thick rat blanket on the ground.

It's simply more creepy than the Skeleton Church next to you.

Just when Byron was helping the Atahualpas to remove Qi Qing's syndrome, the figure on the bone throne and countless pairs of green rat eyes suddenly opened in the rat blanket.

"squeak--!"