Emperor Dragon

When Saga went to the Gray Rock Islands.

Whirlpool Sea, somewhere in the south, on the vast blue curtain-like sea, there is an island based on black rock, with woods and lakes on it, and large reefs densely scattered around it.

Not counting the surrounding reefs.

The land area of ​​this island is about the size of the entire Moon Bay.

This is the Black Skull Islands—the base camp of the Black Skull Pirates.

Although it is called an archipelago, except for the largest main island, the rest are just large rocks. Calling it an archipelago is just a little trick of the Black Skull Pirates to make their base sound larger.

The highest point of Black Skull Island is a steeply curved sea cliff peak.

A pirate flag with a black skull pattern fluttered in the wind and made a hunting sound.

In the middle of the island, the trees and rocks were cleared away, and in the open space opened up, there were unnatural buildings criss-crossed.

Shops that sell potions, weapons, and armor, multi-story bamboo or stone buildings where people can live, slave trading places where some intelligent creatures are bound, taverns and brothels, and colosseums where intelligent creatures or monsters fight duels. The architectural style is relatively rough, just like a pirate station.

Here, a large number of pirates come and go.

Some drank poor rye beer in the tavern, bragging and joking with other pirate colleagues, exaggerating their heroic deeds, or telling the secrets of the sea in a mysterious manner.

Some of them held a woman or a humanoid creature with a withered and numb face in one hand, holding their belt in the other hand, and hurriedly burrowed into a small hotel or a small bush.

Some choose from various shops to sell the treasures they have snatched, or buy some weapons and armor to save their lives, etc.

However, the most lively place is the Colosseum.

Surrounded by layers of stairs, the internal space is vast and divided into many different duel areas. A large number of pirates gather here to watch the bloody fight between monsters and slaves, as well as the pirates who volunteered. Shouting at the top of one's voice for the person you bet on, or cursing because you lost the target.

Inside the Colosseum.

What attracts the most attention is the duel in the central duel stage.

A tall and burly man wearing only simple jute shorts, exposing his strong muscles and covered in blood, stretched out his arms, as if he was listening to the calls of the pirates, and seemed to be embracing this cruel world of duels.

Opposite the man was a giant duck-mouse beast that had lost its life breath and had its neck violently broken.

The giant beast with a body like a giant duck and a head like a giant rat remained motionless.

Its body looked intact at first glance, but the flesh and blood under its fur and skin showed a soft and rotten texture. Its flesh and blood had been beaten to the point of being sunken and rotten, its bones had been beaten to the root and broken, and its body was covered with bruises from being punched and kicked. The brutal marks of the kick.

"Barbet!"

"Barbet!"

"Barbet!"

"Barbet!"

The pirates were excited and chanted the man's name.

If you are an intelligent creature who is familiar with the pirate world, your heart will tremble when you hear the name Barbet, and you will realize that this is the name of a pirate general.

The pirate general named in the pirate bounty catalog——

The seventh-level high-ranking ‘Evil Knight’ Barbet was stained with the blood of at least five high-ranking powerful men of the same level!

'Evil Knight' Barbet slowly opened his eyes, and a pair of eyes with huge invisible pressure were revealed. His arms lowered slightly, and the noisy and excited shouts stopped at the same time as if the pause button had been pressed. .

His eyes are different from ordinary people.

There were blood-red pupils in the dark whites of his eyes, and coupled with his cold eyes, they looked particularly strange and violent.

"Pirates, go ahead and unleash your desires."

The evil knight said calmly.

In the sound of the pirates surging again like a wave, the evil knight slightly bent his body, the muscles on his legs bulged and stretched, and then suddenly exerted force and jumped directly like a cannonball, jumping out of the sky dozens of meters high. The open-air facade of the Colosseum.

After a while.

The evil knight Barbet appeared in a simple and monotonous house with his hair carefully combed and a serious face, wearing a silver-white armor with complicated patterns and a bit of sacred charm.

A wooden table.

A hard bed.

A chair.

This is almost all the decoration of the house where he lives. In such an environment, his silver-white armor with a sacred charm seems out of place, but combined with his weird eyes and violent and indifferent gaze, the whole thing is And strangely harmonious.

Sitting upright on the chair, the evil knight was as motionless as a sculpture. There was no expression on his cold face, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

A few minutes later.

The pirate general stretched out his hand, put it inside his breastplate, and then took out a palm-sized object.

This is a strange sign made of metal. The overall structure is a cross-shaped rune. If you look carefully, you can see that there are many skulls carved on the surface, and the whole thing also vaguely reveals the image of an abstract skull.

It was blood red, as if covered with blood.

It appears to be cast from brass, judging by the mottled color in some faded areas.

The evil knight gently rubbed the brass blood plate, and the cold and rough texture came from it, and at the same time, an indescribable violent force was emitted.

The roar and roar that only the Evil Knight could hear kept ringing in his ears.

"Pray with the spurting of blood and the breaking of bones!"

"Sacrifice with endless fighting, violence, and killing!"

"When the world's seawater is replaced by blood, and the world's mountains are covered by skulls, His heroic name will also be revealed!"

"Blood sacrifice to the blood god! Skull sacrifice to the skull throne!"

This is a kind of thing that seems to be mixed with countless spurts of blood, broken bones, and criss-crossing soldiers, like the roar on the slaughter battlefield. Every word makes the tough-minded evil knight frown slightly. He must concentrate on holding on to his heart. Even so, he still can A violent aura crept up his body, affecting him.

His brows relaxed slightly, and the evil knight took a breath.

He lowered his eyes and stared at the brass blood plate quietly, and then looked down at the silver-white armor he was wearing, quietly thinking and remembering.

The evil knight Barbet was once a paladin, and he still retains some of his habits as a paladin.

Different from the Paladins who serve the gods of faith, Barbet obtains power through the Holy Oath. He chooses a path, chooses an oath that has been witnessed by the world, executes and abides by it without sparing any effort, and uses the oath to restrain himself in exchange for powerful power.

Barbet, who became a paladin, chose to protect the oath.

He can resist diseases, heal his companions, and has the holy power to punish evil.

He is loyal, honest, upright, brave, fearless in the face of danger, and has no hesitation in the face of death. He protects his country with the power of a paladin and has won countless honors and medals.

Until, a death plague spread.

The plague demon from the abyss sneaked into the main material world and spread the plague in the kingdom of Paladin Barbet.

Fortunately, the kingdom's spellcasters responded quickly and discovered the existence of the plague demon in time, and determined its location. Paladin Barbet led a team of soldiers to encircle and suppress the plague demon, and won the victory after an arduous battle. .

However, a small town close to the main city of the kingdom has been infected with the plague.

The plague of the plague is very contagious and can be spread directly through the air. It can turn ordinary people who have no means of resistance into mindless monsters, and it spreads extremely quickly.

In order to prevent the plague from spreading to large cities, and in order to prevent the country he protects from suffering greater losses.

The Paladin made a prompt decision.

He asked his soldiers to seal off the plague-infected area, and then entered alone and purified it - that is, he killed all the villagers infected with the plague, including those who might be infected but could not be identified.

Afterwards, the Paladin did not receive flowers or glory.

He went on a killing spree and was spurned, reviled, accused, and punished by many human rights defenders. Countless people wanted to severely punish this terrible and cruel executioner and execute him.

The paladin who was pressed into the prison cell could not understand.

He just followed his oath and wanted to defend his home and country as much as possible.

Leaving a small town to eliminate the possibility of plague infection can save countless more people in the kingdom - this is a very simple truth and the best way to deal with it.

The paladin didn't understand why he had to be punished.

The people who used to admire him as a paladin now looked like they had seen the devil, and the few voices that supported him had long been drowned out by the crowd.

Before execution.

The paladin remained silent all night, broke his oath in the early morning, and became a rare oath-breaking paladin.

Under normal circumstances, if a paladin breaks his oath, he will only lose his power and become an ordinary person, but this paladin's situation is abnormal. He firmly believes that his decision is not wrong. He is to fulfill his oath of guardianship. , it was not himself who broke his oath to protect, but the country and people he protected.

Quite ironically.

After breaking the oath, protection turned into killing, the power of justice turned into evil, healing turned into harm, and the ability to resist diseases turned into spreading plague, just like the plague demon that he personally killed.

The Paladin shattered the cell, fought back and fled all the way while being chased by the Kingdom's Silver Knights. In the end, he was seriously injured and on the verge of death. He jumped into the whirlpool sea and was saved by a group of pirates that he had been ashamed of before.

Since then, the paladin who protects others no longer exists.

Instead, there is Barbet, the evil knight who pursues power and profit and lives only for himself.

As for the brass blood card in his hand, he got it after he punished and killed a group of crazy murderous cult villains when he was still a paladin. The paladin kept it because he felt how extraordinary it was, and originally wanted to use it as a punishment. It is purified and disposed of.

After becoming the Evil Knight, he changed his mind and benefited greatly from it.

Barbet confirmed that the brass blood plate pointed directly to a god-like existence.

He remained motionless like a sculpture for more than ten minutes. After a long period of reflection, Barbet's memory was fixed on the magnificent scene where the Dragon of Eternity and Time appeared and silenced the entire world.

"God, does he have such terrifying and desirable power?"

He lowered his head and stared at the brass blood plate.

After hesitating for several years, the wavering mind gradually became firm.