Pirate Kingship

As the mutilated ratman on the throne woke up, with the sound of rats chirping, every skull in the church of bones opened its mouth and began to sing:

"A wreath of roses; a whole bag of flowers; A-choo, A-choo; we will all fall down"

The Black Death that occurred more than two hundred years ago killed one-third of the continent's population in just a few years. The entire continent was littered with corpses and flies.

Even the church was helpless for a time.

Those hospital sequence extraordinary people who were severely cracked down by the church could do nothing except wearing bird-beak masks to collect the bodies of the dead.

Many people also mistakenly believed that the Black Death was spread through stench, so they used fragrant flowers such as roses to sew small bags to carry with them, but they still could not avoid death.

This nursery rhyme describes a tragic corner of that era.

The ratman on the skeletal throne raised his hand, and the rat sounds and nursery rhymes all disappeared. A humanized thoughtful look appeared on his ugly, hairy rat face, and he uttered a sharp self-talk:

"Why did part of the 'Qingqing Syndrome' virus suddenly disappear just now?

I am the incarnation of the Black Death and the plague. Even if all the true gods in the world are added, there is no other virus in the world, and no other existence has killed more people than me?

The target this time is just a newly promoted fifth-level false god. How could I accidentally fail?"

Then his face darkened:

"I know.

It must be because I failed to gather all the twelve skeletal churches and take back all my body parts, and I am far from recovering the power of my heyday in my lifetime."

This half-human, half-rat with demigod-level power is none other than the [Demon Rat] Gris who was born in the Black Death that year!

There are very few demigods born in the Silver Continent in the past thousand years, and only "He" and the Hilarious Clown are still active today.

It was during that huge human extinction event, where tens of millions of people died, that this terrifying [Cursed Spirit] was created.

Gris had just been born in an endless sea of ​​blood and corpses, mosquitoes, rats, maggots and flies, and he had become an undisputed sixth-order demigod, and the most terrifying evil god.

He had a series of terrifying names, [Demon Rat], [Death Bell], [Funeral God], which were almost completely anchored to the concept of "death", and became the funeral of all things.

When he was born, the entire Silver Continent was closest to the collapse of the law and the return of the old gods.

Fortunately, the church was not as corrupt as it is now, and the degree of the Creator's split was not as thorough as it is now.

The night watchmen used the bones of some victims of the Black Death to build twelve skeleton churches. They all had endless resentment towards Gris when they were alive.

They summoned demigod-level angels to descend and successfully eliminated the main body of [Funeral God] Gris, and most of the "immortal divinity" was taken away by the archangel.

The remaining "beastly nature" and corpse were chopped into twelve pieces and suppressed in twelve skeleton churches, which were transformed into twelve [First-level Holy Relics·Skeleton Churches].

The afterimage of the Archangel was imprinted on the silver cross of each skeleton church, which could unify the minds and wishes of the believers and consume Gris's corpse day and night.

When Byron went to the Malta Monastery to rescue his aunt and aunts, the Holy Infant Society under St. John had one, which was used to infect them and his mother-in-law Vanessa, who was still the Iron Man at the time.

In the end, Byron "sold" it with the first-level holy relic stocks, extracted the Hades power from it, and then exploded three "Blood and Fire Songs" to completely destroy it.

By the way, the Hades power of the entire world was gathered together, which was able to interfere with the collective subconscious, and then the foundation of today's [Human Emperor] was laid step by step.

As for the remaining eleven skeleton churches, they are naturally in the hands of the church.

Just look at the broken parts of Gris's body and you will know that there are eight churches that fell into the hands of the Arrogant Morning Star Lucifer along with the entire Orthodox Church.

The latter released Him as soon as he came to power, and His tenacious vitality allowed Him to recover quickly.

The eight bone churches also merged into one, becoming the pocket kingdom of the God of Funeral.

As for the last three bone churches, they are still kept by the night watchmen, ascetics, and paladins of the Protestant Church.

This is also normal. Lucifer had already polluted the former Pope Francis IV early on, and prepared for the subsequent plan for decades. During this period, deliberately collecting bone churches was just a matter of convenience.

It was an accident that the Protestant Church could still keep three churches. If the religious war had not suddenly started, those three churches would not have been left.

At this time, the Silver Continent had completely fallen into the hands of Byron, and those corpses could never be taken back under the rule of the "Saint Byron Code".

"Hu——!"

Gris, the god of funeral, also knew this, and could only spit out a deadly green sick air and forcefully suppress the depression in his heart.

His remaining left hand flipped over, and an illusory object symbolizing His own authority appeared in the palm.

The upper half was a white holy grail with the color of pus, and the lower half was a small blue-black bell of similar shape and color like a rotten corpse, with twisted and strange runes engraved all over the body.

The white holy grail was filled with colorful light slurry, and each strand of liquid formed a painful human face, showing the horrible symptoms of a certain disease.

Any mortal who dared to take a look would immediately be infected with the world's most terrifying thousands of plagues through his eyes, and die miserably.

This is the demigod authority of the [God of Funeral] [Plague Holy Grail, Death Knell], representing the highest achievement in the field of plague.

It can call upon the abilities of all bacteria, viruses, parasites and other pathogens in the world to create a new plague, and sound the death knell for living beings through physical and spiritual transmission channels.

Even [Prince of Gluttony] Fly King Beelzebub and [Eel King] Samedi, who also have the field of disease, are not as good as Him.

Gris carefully examined the "Prayer Syndrome" in the Holy Grail, except that he found that there was a little missing for no reason, and there were no other clues.

He could only comfort himself and attribute it to:

"The sun and the storm are indeed the mortal enemies of the deep sea. Among the infected people with a large enough number, there will always be special immune people.

One or two people will not affect the overall situation."

At this time, the door of the Skeleton Church burst open.

The God of Funeral frowned. He did not like the sunlight outside. He shrank into the shadow of the Skeleton Throne, and then raised his eyelids and looked at the newcomer with his burnt yellow eyes.

It was Lucifer who strode into the church with a beautiful young woman. The latter had dragon horns on her head, colorful long hair tied up high, wearing a veil hat and a court dress, like an elegant lady.

The mice around were all frightened by the divine power of the visitor and shrank into the corner.

"Mr. Gris, is our sacrifice ceremony going smoothly?

Ms. Tiamat has just accepted the power of His church and is preparing to incorporate all the totem god tribes bordering the Solomon Empire. After that, she will send ground cannon fodder troops to attack the Sun Empire.

You two can try to cooperate on two fronts, and the efficiency will definitely be greatly improved."

The lady was also the Lord of the Dragon King's Court in the last era [Hundred-Headed Dragon Mother Tiamat], and nodded to Gris imperceptibly.

Although very arrogant, this attitude is already very "humanized" among the old gods.

If you don't say it, no one would think that this noble and beautiful lady would be one of the most powerful old gods in the last era.

Like other old gods, He failed to descend in person, nor could He take back His divinity from the Pantheon. Now He is just an incarnation of a god.

But He has a backup plan that He had laid at the beginning of the era - The Book of the Beast Families.

After He descended, He was ready to extract the divinity from all dragon species [Beast Warriors] and [Totem Gods].

With a large-scale blood sacrifice ceremony, He would eat Himself back to the demigod rank!

But this incarnation is essentially only level 5. If He dares to kill people in the territory of those totem gods who are also level 5 and have gained independence by relying on the Immortal Ladder, He will definitely be surrounded and killed and eaten together.

So He decisively approached Lucifer and suggested that the Solomon Empire start a hot war at the same time, take down the Sun Empire and swallow up the entire southern continent.

Such a huge sacrifice is enough to support several demigods in a short period of time.

Lucifer agreed without much hesitation.

His Creation Mountain Falling Sky Ceremony has completed the personal and collective degeneration, and the ultimate pursuit is the "degeneration of the world".

He is arrogant and conceited by nature. He never envies others, nor does he care who makes great contributions. As long as he can finally achieve the ultimate achievement of the world's fall, he will naturally get unimaginable huge benefits.

He is the best candidate to lead the old gods.

When his twin son [Monarch of the World] Belia comes, he will be crowned the God King immediately.

Large-scale wars and deaths can also enhance the power of the God of Funerals. He will naturally not refuse after hearing the new cooperation plan.

He nodded to Tiamat and answered Lucifer's question:

"Your Majesty the Arrogant Morning Star, today is November 30th.

According to the normal progress, the prayer ceremony will be completed around the end of December this year, or the beginning of the Silver Age 1474, and the sun god Inti will be hung up as a sacrifice."

He did not say the abnormality he had just discovered, thinking it was just an accident and would not affect his progress.

Lucifer praised Him with satisfaction:

"Very good. Mr. Gris did a good job.

After the matter is accomplished, all the hated descendants of the Sun God in the Sun Empire will become our sacrifices, and you can enjoy 20% of them alone.

I am looking forward to what the expressions of those mobs will be when they know that they have killed their ancestors personally, hahahaha"

Raising his hand, the [Golden Holy Ark] responded, presenting the appearance of the collective subconscious sea in the Beast Paradise.

If you listen carefully, you can clearly hear the nursery rhyme of "Sunny Doll, Sunny Doll" getting louder and louder, indicating that the scope of the Sunny Syndrome is spreading wider and wider.

What the group pursues and believes in is never the truth and rationality, but blind obedience, cruelty, paranoia and fanaticism, with only the simplest and extreme emotions left.

Relying solely on this fanatical consciousness, nothing can be done except destruction, and there is no way to protect oneself in front of the source sea.

Only a strong leader who retains his own rationality can control this violent force like a flood.

Before [Alaya] finally matures, it needs to be balanced by the ‘human side’ and the ‘divine side’ to grow into a true unified primate consciousness.

Unfortunately, the biggest weakness of humans at the current stage is that both [The Bound Creator] and [Alaya] are left with only the pan-consciousness representing collectivism, and cannot distinguish between good and bad.

[Human Emperor] Saint Byron is not even a demigod, and the state of unity of all things is far less than 50%, so he cannot bear the responsibility of sorting out the collective subconscious.

Therefore, the collective subconscious of humans is currently at its weakest.

Just like those children who throw tantrums if they are not given toys, no one can stop them unless their desires are satisfied.

As we all know, the desire to keep themselves and the world alive is the most instinctive desire of all primates, and it is also their most essential commonality.

At present, the power of mind and will in this aspect is the strongest.

Coincidentally, the biggest enemy hindering human survival is the flood, which is naturally easy to be guided and used by people.

It can be said that "praying for clear weather" is the biggest political correctness in the primate circle. No one can resist it, and you can imagine how destructive it is.

Once you are involved in this thing, it's all over.

Even if a seventh-level true god allows the desires of believers to come in and out, he may become the shape of countless believers and completely lose himself.

The power of mind and will will in turn become a deadly poison that kills the gods!

This is the basic principle of the "praying for clear weather ceremony".

As the "praying for clear weather syndrome" continues to spread, the echo of the nursery rhyme for praying for clear weather becomes louder and louder in the collective subconscious sea of ​​the Quechua people, and the struggle of the sun god begins to become increasingly powerless.

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When they successfully sacrifice the sun, the material world will immediately change its form.

Lucifer turned his head to look in the direction of the old continent in the north, his eyes gradually cold:

"This time we will hang up the sun god Inti first.

After we have the experience of success, we will also hang up the [Human Emperor] Byron Lancaster, who is entrusted with countless thoughts and wishes, but is only a fifth-level pseudo-god..."

Lucifer suddenly felt his body tighten as he spoke, as if he was entangled in an invisible chain. He swallowed the second half of the sentence back into his stomach with an extremely ugly face:

"Hang it up."

Then he slowly turned his head and "asked" the rat man expressionlessly:

"Come on, Mr. Gris, please explain to me what is going on?

Who are we going to hang next? Ah? Answer me!!!"

Gris:

Lucifer faced an unexpected situation, not only that He had become the object of the prayer ceremony, but was also being slowly coerced by His believers, citizens, and clansmen.

"Load and fire!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A few days later, before Tiamat began to recruit those dragon totem gods, a large number of indigenous "orcs" from different tribes swarmed to the border of the Solomon Empire.

They had weapons and equipment that were somewhat backward in the Silver Empire, but very advanced in the Beast Paradise, and they brazenly went to war with the old gods' followers.

All weapons were inscribed with the inscriptions of the major arsenals of the North Sea Empire, and they were too lazy to even cover it up.

Some elite troops even had instructors sent by the North Sea Empire to directly participate in personnel training and battlefield command.

Firearms are different from bows and arrows. Even if you have never touched them, two or three days are enough to get started, and you can easily equalize the combat power of a group of mortal farmers and plate knights.

On the other hand, the old gods' battles are heavily dependent on the extraordinary followers, and a few alchemy workshops cannot increase production as quickly as the industrial system in a short period of time.

On a small hill in the back, Atahualpa stood between Byron and a group of Taino undead instructors who were not afraid of the long-range explosion of the sun god, and felt that the door to a new world had been opened again.

"Your Majesty, Lord of Heaven, is this what you call a proxy war?

It turns out that this is the true meaning of the imperial system.

As long as you are willing to spend money, you can get others to work for you. It's great, really great!"

Besides instructing [Fairy] Rigeler, who is in charge of the intelligence of the southern continent, to focus on the Solomon Empire, Byron has no plan to directly send troops to the southern continent to attack the Solomon Empire.

Because there are soldiers everywhere here.

Even the army of the Sun Empire is not needed, and those totem god tribes that face the Solomon Empire and have real crises can be directly bribed to fight for them.

Those countries that have established distinctive political, economic, social, military systems and humanistic values ​​in a large geographical area, covering a large population, forming a certain international political system, and promoting and maintaining this system within a certain range can be called empires.

Empires usually have vast territories, have their own dependent countries, and dominate a cultural area.

The tribute system, colonial system, international trade system with fixed ecological niches, military strategic alliance system, etc. are all manifestations of the imperial system.

Regardless of which imperial system is used, it has strong potential strength and influence, and can easily influence the regional situation. It depends on whether the leader of the empire will use it.

For example, today's case is to never easily fall into the quagmire of war. Whoever you want to fight, you can support his enemy as your agent.

Give the agent financial and equipment support, let them fight each other and bleed, and you will reap the benefits.

This time, Atahualpa was saved by Byron again, and the ancestor Sun God was about to capsize, so he took the initiative to apply to become Byron's family, joined the "Magic Banquet Council" and became a real one.

Only then did Byron explain to him the vision and means that the helmsman of the empire should have:

"For the military-industrial complex, as long as there is war in the world, it can continue to make money.

The huge amount of orders can make various factories run at full capacity, provide a large number of jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities, and drive the prosperity of the upstream and downstream industrial chains.

The benefits are endless.

In addition, you are wrong about one thing.

What we pay to our agents is not free war funds, but war loans! The fertile land, minerals, and spices within their jurisdiction need to be used as collateral, and this money needs to be repaid.

And after getting the loan, only we have enough productivity to meet their needs, and the money goes back to our own hands.

When the money is not enough, they have to continue borrowing. "

Atahualpa was dumbfounded and felt that his own Ponzi scheme was not as ruthless as this business.

"Is it possible that those small countries won't buy it?"

Byron waved his hand indifferently:

"As long as we open up the anchor qualifications of the [Golden Law] to the upper levels, as well as the citizenship of the First Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, and even the title of nobility, no one will be able to refuse this temptation.

Even if there is a saint who sticks to the interests of the country, he will always have political opponents, right? Just change someone else. It is not difficult to operate.

And the natives all know that humans don’t eat humans, but the old gods do!

They don’t want themselves and their families to be eaten, so they have no choice but to sacrifice their lives for us.

Finally, when the war begins, all the hot money in the place where the war takes place will flow into the safest empire, the First Empire, where the sun never sets, in order to avoid danger.

You see, once this proxy war started, the suzerain country simply won. "

Atahualpa was deeply shocked by the "great lack of great virtue" in the North Sea Empire, the "mountain country and spiritual homeland". He raised his hand and asked:

"Your Majesty, what should I do if I lose the fight, or if I win the fight, I become a powerful and powerful henchman?"

Byron made a gesture of wiping his neck:

"Isn't this simple? Then continue to support other agents and continue fighting!

Let the member states of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets all contribute money together, including the North Sea Empire, Iris, the Netherlands, the Golden Empire, the Desert Empire, and the Holy Silver Empire that I just obtained.

The alliance system has surged forward, and now the industrial revolution tailored to the resource endowments of various places is in full bloom. Just stacking supplies can consume them to death.

Until all the countries in the region are destroyed, and the locals are either dead or fleeing to other places, we will directly go there to immigrate and take over the land.

Wouldn't it be nice to turn this large piece of land into our direct territory and use it to enthrone our descendants? "

At this point he added meaningfully:

“So we ourselves can remain unified, but the enemy’s land must always be divided and infighting.

Even if there is no trouble, we still have to create trouble for them.

As long as a disputed border line exists, generations of blood will flow in the two countries. "

hiss--!

Even though Atahualpa was a fifth-level Son of the Sun, he felt a chill on the back of his neck. He couldn't help but shrink his neck and whispered in his heart:

‘The biggest pastime for ordinary monarchs like us is just to play genealogy games. You are playing national games!

From now on, you must hug His Majesty St. Byron's thigh tightly, otherwise you will have to help him count his money when he dies. ’

Byron was very satisfied with this little brother's reaction.

If he wanted to kill Inti, the sun god, he would need Atahualpa's cooperation.

The king of the Sun Empire is only equivalent to a professional manager who manages the country for Inti. Not only does he only have management rights, but he is also severely limited.

The former kings who became gods in the past are not mascots. After becoming gods, their desires are stronger. The required power of mind and will, immortal divinity, priesthood, divine kingdom, etc. all need to be obtained from the human empire.

In short, it is impossible to let the ancestor Inti eat for free, let alone let the king say that adding sand is just a basic operation.

Atahualpa actually had many domestic political opponents.

Byron had made the vaccine in advance, and all his own people in the National Reserve Committee were vaccinated, and then sent other filial sons and grandsons who were loyal to the gods to reunite with their ancestors.

At the same time, he imitated Gris' "Qing Qing Syndrome" and poisoned Lucifer, infecting his people and dependents.

Then launch a proxy war to find something to do for the Solomon Empire.

The purpose is to actively control the progress of Inti, the sun god, being hung up.

In Byron's plan, the best time point is early next year, when the [World Change] ceremony is completed and the couple breaks through the sixth level in one breath.

The three of them plus [Goddess of Magic] Marietta and [God of Assassination] Amita, there are five demigods on their side.

At that time, even if the plan to eat the Sun God went wrong, there was enough room for error.

The worst-case scenario is to go down and kill the Solomon Empire!