Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 437 As long as there is firewood, the fire will never go out!

Therese, the succubus who had been concentrating and on guard behind him, couldn't help but relax for a moment when the second prince actually reached out to grab the Sun Crown.

I feel that the overall situation has been decided, and all my hard work and planning over the past few years have finally paid off at this moment.

As long as the second prince wears the crown, he can end the trial, leave the secret realm, board the treasure ship filled with gold, and go to the center of the lake as the new king to hold a ceremony to worship the [Sun God].

Even though Byron snatched away a lot of panaceas along the way, I no longer felt so sad.

“The ceremonies for advancing to the fifth level are all modified based on the standard rituals of this path.

In addition to the unified usurpation ceremony, we [Night Demons] also have to formulate exclusive supplementary ceremonies based on the "Immortal Ladder" we have obtained.

Even though I lack a lot of panaceas, as long as the second prince, Huaskar, can become king, my promotion ceremony will not be considered a failure.

It only takes a little more time to replenish the essence.

The fifth-order false gods and subordinate gods are already individuals that are initially independent of the main god, and can gain a certain degree of autonomy even when facing our Lord Lilith.

Most of the power and divine names in your hands are also rooted in this immortal ladder."

Years of hard work were about to bear fruit, and she subconsciously reached out and touched her smooth belly that was branded with the mark of the succubus.

The ladder to immortality found by the succubus Therese is the reproductive cells that can bring eternal life!

Through her research, she discovered that the life of all ordinary creatures currently relies on reproductive cells to reproduce from generation to generation, including plants, animals, and fungi.

Moreover, new cells can only be generated by the division of existing cells and will never be born out of thin air from sea water, volcanic hot springs, mud pits, etc. as described in myths and legends.

So for the existing species in the world, the reproductive cells in their bodies have been continuously differentiating for countless generations over the long years, and their lifespan is as long as the entire ecosystem!

In nature, the lifespan of germ cells is unlimited.

The same is true for humans. Each person is a descendant of the original cell that existed billions of years ago, after continuous division and mutation.

Humans will age, but the lifespan of the primordial germ cells, which serve as the medium of life, will never decrease in the slightest.

No need for experiments, just reasonable inference.

Assuming that the human species has a history of 100 million years from its birth to the present, and if each generation takes 20 years, then the human species has at least 5 generations.

Facts have proved that after such a long period of time, the average human life expectancy has not only not declined with each generation, but has become longer and longer due to improved living conditions.

This is all because germ cells have gained immortality from the very beginning!
Using this knowledge as a ladder to immortality is a perfect match for the succubus who already worship the fertility of the old gods.

Including her secret spell [Mark of the Succubus] is also rooted in this. Only reproductive cells can differentiate infinitely, and even if only a piece of flesh is left in the body, it can be restored to wholeness.

“So, after I usurp power, I need to give birth to many children developed from my own reproductive cells to serve as the medium for supplementing the ritual.

Let the succubus bloodline that started with me be passed down forever among the human race.

These blood descendants are my eternal anchor!"

But when she talked about having children, the first person she looked at was not the second prince [Playboy] Huascar Capac, but the [Night Devil Prince] Byron who was one step behind them.

He subconsciously squeezed his eight legs again.

In the mythological era, succubi were not a powerful group, either within the night demon group or among all mythological creatures.

It is their instinct to admire the strong, and of course they want to have a group of the most powerful offspring to complete the ritual.

Compared to the second prince who has nothing good except a good background, the emperor of a foreign country, the Night Demon Prince who follows the same path, the wise and powerful superior extraordinary person is obviously a better choice.

Unfortunately, Byron apparently had no interest in her at all.

Therese licked her bright red lips:

“However, when I reach the fifth level and can resist the control of the Night Demon Prince, I will definitely catch him and have a taste of him.

A ten-year agreement? Ha, for the immortals, it would pass in the blink of an eye.

At that time, the way I expand my reproductive power is to keep having children with strong people of different races and anchor my bloodline to each race.

The culmination of this path is not until you give birth to a 'Sea of ​​Monsters Biosphere' like Echidna, the Mother of Monsters!

I believe that my [Playboy] His Majesty Vascar will definitely forgive me when the time comes, hehe."

however.

Just at this moment, a shrill scream suddenly interrupted her beautiful vision of the future.

"what--!"

Looking up suddenly, he found that the second prince, who should have been wearing the new king's sun crown, was shaking violently as if he had seen something horrible.

But he seemed to be possessed by something and still knelt there, unable to move.

He even let go of the new crown that should have belonged to him with trembling hands, and then raised high up the ancient crown that had been worn on the head of the previous king for a hundred years.

Although Therese didn't understand what was happening, the mythical creature's keen instincts made her realize how wrong this behavior was.

"Stop! Don't wear it!"

However, the second prince, who used to obey her orders, seemed not to have heard her words at all this time.

Without waiting for Therese to swing her whip to touch the ancient crown in her hand, she put it on her head.

call--!
A cold gust of wind mixed with ghostly blue fire blew up from the old king's rotten mummy, blowing out fiercely through all the orifices in his body.

Wrapped in a translucent illusory crystal skull, it rushed into the body of the second prince [Playboy].

The latter was a fourth-order mythical creature after all. When faced with the invasion of foreign objects, his spirit instinctively resisted spontaneously, and a huge golden ring of fire exploded all over his body.

But when faced with the biting cold wind, he had no power to resist at all.

In just a moment, the other party rushed into his body, easily occupied this body that was of the same bloodline, and suppressed the consciousness of the second prince.

Byron, who deliberately slowed down and did not rush to the middle level, had already taken in the entire scene with the help of [Divine Vision].

"The mastermind behind this is really the old King Huayna Capac who should have died long ago?! Is the second prince finished so easily?"

In addition to the fear, the term that Byron had associated with Atahualpa's introduction to the ceremony came to his mind again: "Acting as a god!"

When those descendants of gods pass through the "Holy Lake Coronation Ceremony", they will once again experience the hardships that the founders of the country had experienced, and inadvertently complete the act of acting as gods.

Injury, falling behind, death, being cursed, etc. are all possible fates that the brothers may encounter, and in the end only one person can be the first to reach the finish line successfully.

When the trial-taker reaches this step, it is equivalent to passively completing a part of an ancient ritual, and becoming infinitely close to the founder of the country.

Only by wearing the [Sun Crown] blessed by the Sun God can one become the new king of this country and the heir of God.

However, it is precisely because they are descendants of the Sun God and adhere to the tradition of inbreeding that their bloodline has not changed much for thousands of years. In addition, the rituals of performing gods make them infinitely close to their ancestors, which greatly increases their homogeneity.

When the ancestors earlier in the family tree wanted to do something to the descendants, the descendants had almost no power to resist.

Not to mention the second prince who was almost drained dry by the succubus, even if the eldest, third, and fourth princes were tied together, their fate would not be any better than his.

“But if you can’t chant the epic poem corresponding to Skull No. 13 correctly.

The effect of [Suicide Goddess] is only to open a portal to the edge of the world, sheltering the souls of the suicides and anchoring them between life and death, allowing them to maintain sanity and exist in the material world for a long time like natural spirits.

It cannot bring the dead back to life, nor can it transform ordinary undead spirits into totem gods.

Why is this former king, who failed to ascend to godhood before his lifespan ran out, relying on the crystal skull to forcibly stay in the human world and secretly collecting the life essence of each of his sons after their death?"

Byron didn't have to wait long, the other party quickly gave him an answer.

After Huayna Capac successfully took over the body of his son Huascar Capac by using his crown, he dodged the whip that attacked him from behind.

He immediately grabbed the new crown from his own corpse's hand, and with a little force from both hands, he kneaded it into a pool of hot golden water.

The golden crown, which symbolizes the next generation of royal power, was completely destroyed.

Then he twisted his neck to adapt to his new body, and said to himself expressionlessly:
"Huascar has been indulging himself in women for many years, not for procreation but for pleasure. I warned him many times but he didn't listen.

Until I destroyed one of the spare bodies prepared for me beyond recognition.

I was careless. Even I didn't expect that it would be you, a playboy and frivolous person, who would end up in this situation.

But for me, the body is secondary.

With the help of this resurrection from the dead, I have completely mastered my own ladder to immortality. As long as I complete the final ritual of ascension to godhood, my body will naturally be completely reshaped.

The boundary between life and death will be completely broken, allowing me to go from being a spirit between life and death to an immortal fifth-order subordinate god!"

At this time, the Council of Nobles outside the secret realm was also panicked by this sudden incident.

"What's going on? The late king actually retained his consciousness and took away the body of his successor.

What about the ceremony? Find a solution quickly, find a solution quickly."

"This is blasphemy, Your Majesty, please stop it immediately!"

"This is the first of the 14 trials to become king since the founding of the country. How dare you, my king, desecrate the sacred ceremony like this?"

The old king Huayna Capac looked up at the aristocratic council that was in chaos outside the secret realm but had no solution, and a stiff smile appeared on the corner of his mouth:

“Hehe, the Holy Lake Coronation Ceremony is still very fair.

In the secret realm, apart from the mummy of the previous king, there is only a group of trial-takers, and no outsiders can interfere.

The only sign of the end of the ceremony is that a trial-taker, after going through a "performance of god", wears a new crown blessed by the [Sun God] at the gate of heaven.

Now even the crown is gone, and no one can escape. Only after I successfully ascend to godhood can I follow the sacred tree and the giant cloud top directly into the upper world.

This plan is perfect!"

With a wave of his hand, his own dried mummy collapsed instantly, and a brilliant translucent gold powder rushed into the young body like the last embers in a furnace.

Teng!
It was as if charcoal powder was blown into a furnace, and golden flames rose all over the new body, with a faint hint of white in the hottest outer flames.

As we all know, the temperature of flames and magma can be roughly determined from the color of the flames and magma.

隐约可见的红色岩浆≥475℃；暗红色岩浆在550-625℃；明亮的鲜红岩浆≥700℃；橙色岩浆≥900℃；金黄色岩浆≥1090℃；白色岩浆的温度≥1150℃。

The transition from gold to white indicates that the temperature has obviously risen a lot.

At the same time, the old king turned and faced the other trial-takers who had arrived at the wooden platform of the middle world one after another behind him.

One after another, dazzling stripes extended from his violently burning body and swung out like long whips of fire.

This is exactly the secret spell he studied during his lifetime, [Touch of the Firewood Gatherer].

“Children, I have one last lesson for you.

As long as there is firewood, the fire will never go out!

Please pass on all the firewood and flames in your body to me, and help my father to hold high the godhood."

A third-level prince who rushed past Byron to the middle level was suddenly pierced through the chest by the strip.

Between the flickering of light and shadow, all the matter in the body was sucked away in the blink of an eye, leaving only a pile of ashes falling from the sacred tree.

The flame on the old king's body became brighter and brighter, revealing a youthful aura from the inside out, like the rising sun.

If we choose an accurate word to describe his state at this moment, it is like the sun that accidentally fell from the sky and is now "rising" again!
Little by little, he returned to the glorious and supreme position that originally belonged to him.

However, before he could rely on his overwhelming status to absorb the second prince.

Therese, who was once again intercepted, rushed to him like a madman, swung her whip, and launched a [Painful Whip] aimed at her soul:
"Huascar is mine. No matter who you are, get out of his body right now!"

It was not until this moment that she realized that Byron was not the only one who had stolen her panacea.

(End of this chapter)