Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 488 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Shroud of Turin (6200)

In the "Royal Domain·Puppet Kingdom", you cannot imitate the movements of a marionette using a cable to jump on the sidewalk, otherwise you will really become a puppet.

But the toy soldiers stationed on the brick walls still failed to stop Byron and his party from boarding the Dream Castle.

Because Byron has already activated the [Group Flying Technique], short-distance flights do not consume much spiritual energy, and a mere bulwark is nothing more than a matter of catapulting into action.

boom! boom! boom! boom!
The assault fleet, whose ships were relatively shorter, was still launching close-range artillery attacks on the huge enemy ship, continuously draining its durability.

A large group of Marines, led by a group of fourth-level transcendents, have successfully occupied the wall on one side of the building block castle.

The bolt-action rifles, which were not afraid of rain, fired one after another, driving all the toy soldiers who could only fight with bayonets into the sea.

Byron looked up and saw the castle with buildings of different heights and empty plank roads in the middle. At the highest point of the castle stood Louis, the Puppet King, wearing a neat suit and holding a saber.

Behind him, countless toy soldiers lined up in neat rows, led by four brilliant puppet knights, passed their masters and swarmed towards him.

The first knight rides a white wooden horse, holds a longbow, wears a crown, has scriptures from the Gospel of Creation engraved all over his body, and recites the Holy Word:

"I saw the Lamb opening the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, 'Come!'

I looked, and behold, a white horse; and its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him; and he went out conquering and to conquer.”

There is a word engraved in the middle of the chest of the armor: Conquer.

The second knight rode a red wooden horse, holding a big sword in his hand, and also chanting holy words. The word "war" was engraved in the middle of his chest.

The third horseman rode a black wooden horse and held a pair of scales in his hands. He chanted, "A measure of wheat for a denarius, and three measures of barley for a denarius. Do not harm the oil and the wine."

Engraved on his chest was the word: FRAGMENT.

The fourth knight rides a green wooden horse, holding a scythe of death in his hand, and is surrounded by an ominous green mist.

Engraved on the chest are the words: Plague and Death.

Byron's pupils shrank:
“The images of these four horsemen seem to be the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Gospel of Creation, who only appear at the end of the world?
Or it should be a high-end imitation of a puppet, which can also be called a figure after hundreds of years.

The intelligence collected in advance didn't seem to mention them. Is this the puppet king's trump card? "

Puppet King Louis actually designed his own puppets to look like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which was obviously a cosplay of the Creator. In the eyes of believers, it was simply blasphemy.

But given the relationship between the Kingdom of Castile and the traditionalists of the church, even if the matter was exposed, the punishment would probably be light.

At this time, the Green Lady Angelica next to him suddenly pointed at the Famine Knight and exclaimed:

“That seems to be Ms. Madeleine!

Didn't she disappear unexpectedly a few years ago? It turns out that she was turned into a puppet by the Puppet King at some point in time!"

Byron turned his head again to look at the only female among the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He looked at her wooden face for a while and finally recognized her identity.

This was a celebrity in the Kingdom of Castile. He was not a nobleman, nor a great adventurer or navigator, but just a low-level peasant without even a surname.

To be more precise, he is a [Famine Hunter] from the farm sequence, and his motto is: "Eat well! Dress warmly!"

Because in the Old World, no matter how poor the lower class was, it had nothing to do with the upper class, and most of the upper class dignitaries never considered it their duty to help the lower class.

There have never been real poor people among those who are qualified to access extraordinary knowledge. People in the Old World who are ashamed of labor are even less willing to work in the fields all their lives.

Noble priests, lawyers, and knights are what they pursue.

In addition, the real world is not a game, there is no data balance, and there are huge differences between professions. The extraordinary professions in the farm sequence have never been the mainstream of society.

However, this Ms. Madeleine is one of the most outstanding [Famine Hunters] of this era, and her achievements are remarkable.

Although potatoes were transplanted from the Bantayan Islands to the Old World very early, adapting to the new environment during large-scale latitudinal migration was a daunting challenge.

And Ms. Madeleine was the "Famine Hunter" who was in charge of further taming the potato.

As this high-yield crop spreads, she is also the greatest figure who has the greatest hope of being promoted to a fifth-level legend. Such an achievement may even make her a god on the spot in the mythological era.

But one day a few years ago, he suddenly disappeared without a trace for no apparent reason.

I didn't expect that he was made into a puppet by the [Puppet King] just to make up the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

Several other Castilians also exclaimed:

“Ms. Madeleine is worthy of being included in the Hall of Fame of Human History, and even a saint canonized by the Church!

"How cruel! Louis, you can do this to her, you are so cruel!"

"Louis, you deserve to die!"

A group of Castilians, regardless of whether they were the king, the princess, or those in the neutral camp, all shouted curses at the Puppet King without using any honorifics.

Of course, the other three knights were no nameless insignificant figures.

The Fortress Sequence [Archer] who never misses his target, the Fair and Strict Inquisition Sequence [Punishment Knight], and the Cemetery Sequence [Corpse Collector].

But these three were not Castilians, so they did not feel the pain deeply.

[Puppet King] turned a blind eye to these insults. As a senior "director", he firmly believed that the ending of every story in this world must be that justice triumphs over evil.

Because the name of the victor itself is justice.

Just said coldly:
"Kill them all!"

Regardless of whether the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were good or bad guys in their previous lives, they had already lost themselves and took action immediately after hearing this.

The [Conqueror Knight] holding a bow and arrow attacks first, drawing the bow and drawing the arrow.

collapse--!
A stream of light came flying and continuously split into hundreds of golden arrows in mid-air.

Each arrow left a long white trail in the rain, and the piercing whistling sound proved that the power of each strike was no less than that of a siege crossbow.

[Navigator] Katarina raised the Storm in a Bottle, and the strong wind and heavy rain immediately combined into a high-speed rotating bubble ring to block the team.

But unexpectedly, not all of them were blocked. After penetrating the bubbles, the arrows still did not completely lose their power and continued to fall like raindrops.

Wycliffe, a monster hunter and [Giant Beast Buster], followed up and managed to block most of the arrows.

The arrow that fell at his feet sank deeply into the deck, and its tail was still trembling and buzzing.

Seeing this scene, everyone's face changed color.

A normal fourth-level heroic archer should not have such power. Could it be that after becoming a puppet, he can become stronger than when he was alive?

"Do you think I used puppets to imitate the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse just for the sake of a nice name?"

Puppet King Louis laughed and took out a flag and stuck it into the ground.

The flag fluttered in the wind, allowing Byron and his companions to see clearly that the "Heroic Battle Flag" that most of them had had a piece of blood-stained linen sewn on it.

There was also a passage of scripture written on the linen cloth. In addition to the words carved on the four horsemen of the apocalypse, there was an extra line:
“Power was given to them to kill a fourth of the earth with sword, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts.”

The aura is brilliant, like a blazing sun.

Byron could tell at a glance what the sewn strip of cloth was.

"The [Level 0 Holy Relic: Shroud of Turin] (incomplete) that was once used to wrap the body of the Son of God!
He actually used a level-0 holy relic stained with the blood of the true God as a token of his legion, and really summoned the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Was that the Four Horsemen's Legion Special Effect just now?"

Every fourth-level heroic extraordinary person has a universal ability [Heroic Battle Flag].

With the help of the Legion Token, you can summon a certain heroic army from history to attach spirits to your heroic guards (Chapter 292).

It was with the help of a [Javelin of the Silver Wing Knights] that Catherine was able to create her mithril version of the Silver Wing Knights.

The legion's special effects are the very powerful [Holy Silver that Breaks Demons] and [Do Not Disturb Sleeping Dragons].

You should know that the javelin is only a third-level holy relic. You can imagine how powerful the special effects will be if a zero-level holy relic is used as a legion token.

Even Warwick the Kingmaker has an incomplete Level 0 relic, so it is not surprising that Puppet King Louis, the prince of the most powerful maritime nation, also has one.

With this kind of treasure, it is not impossible to obtain conceptual abilities such as "100% ability to catch a sword with bare hands", "ability to kill a person named Tom with one strike", "ability to change anyone's name to Tom".

Without waiting for Byron to throw [Echoes of History], the Puppet King, who was confident of victory, took the initiative to talk about the legion special effects of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:

“Below the high sequence, no matter how many enemies there are, when they appear on the battlefield, one quarter of them will be killed!

The more enemies there are, the stronger they are.”

hiss--!
"One quarter will be killed?"

After hearing this terrifying conceptual ability, the group couldn't help but hesitate. Obviously, no one wanted to be the one quarter that were killed.

It is extremely difficult to defeat the enemy at their home ground where they can easily turn into puppets.

But then the [Ship's Log] read a premise from the hero's battle flag that the Puppet King had deliberately concealed:
"When the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse formed an Order to unite against the enemy."

Byron immediately revealed the other party's past to the other fourth-level heroes and extraordinary people around him, and then ordered:

"Everyone, all you have to do is keep the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse apart and prevent them from working together.

The puppet king and his toy soldiers are handed over to us."

As they were running wildly in the building block castle and urgently formulating tactics, the large army led by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had already appeared on the other side of the aisle.

In the front row were heavily armored cavalrymen that looked like hundreds of iron towers. Led by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, they swept forward like a torrent of steel.

Rumble.
When they moved together, the whole ship was shaking.

Byron and his team were used to crushing opponents with superior equipment. This was the first time they encountered an opponent who also liked to use all kinds of high-end equipment to beat people, and the equipment level and manpower were higher and more numerous than theirs.

The Puppet King really understands what it means to use numbers to bully the minority.

but!

"Can there be more people than bullets?

If I kill one enemy with one hundred bullets, I'll make a lot of money." Byron took a step back, and the [War Witch] Violet stepped forward and casually threw a huge monster out of the pocket space formed by the number five and six crystal skulls.

It ignored gravity and floated in the air, as tall as a two-story building, barely appearing to be three-quarters human.

His head was like a thick gun barrel, his hands, feet and crotch were filled with all kinds of hot weapons, and his back was wrapped with dense ammunition chains like ribbons.

This is exactly one of the abilities of the [First Bolt-Action Rifle], [Killing Machine].

The bolt-action rifle and the six gun spirits were integrated in advance, and outsiders could not see the internal connection between it and the bolt-action rifle just by looking at the appearance.

Facing the charge of the strongest knights in the old era, Violet just waved her hand:
"Fire!"

[Killing Machine] immediately opened fire on the opposing knights.

Boom——!
His whole body exploded with blue flames, strong light burst out, countless lines of fire intertwined in the air, and no one knew how many shells and bullets were fired in one breath.

Moreover, all the warheads are blessed with the new title ability [Art is Explosion] and turned into explosive bombs!

The Puppet King, who was about to admire the massacre of the Knights in the back, suddenly froze in expression.

Immediately, a huge, burning mushroom cloud shot straight into the sky, creating a huge hole in the cumulonimbus clouds in the sky.

The charred puppet limbs, twisted knight armor, tattered military boots, etc. were all blown hundreds of meters into the air.

The superstructure on which they had just stood also completely disappeared without a trace.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse relied on the Legion special effect to block a quarter of the firepower, so the damage they suffered was not too great, but they lost their footing and were all blown away by the shock wave.

According to the predetermined tactics, the Dibo brothers and sisters pounced on the [Knight of Conquest], and the Green Lady and Gulfstream Mother pounced on the [Knight of War].

The Mountain Demon Bear and Don Quixote pounced on the [Famine Knight], and the Candy Witch and the Thief Baron pounced on the [Plague and Death Knight].

They did not seek to kill the enemy, but only to separate the four Apocalypse Horsemen in a short period of time to create an opportunity for their strongest to surround and kill the Puppet King.

But all the fourth order couldn't help but wonder:
"We have lost our numerical advantage because of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Can we make it with only the two Mr. Byrons and their respective female companions?"

The next moment, a strong wind blew on the ship.

"Ow—!"

"Roar--!"

Catherine and Violet re-emerge into their respective mythological forms, a Mithril Dragon and a Leviathan Whale.

The original body [Wild Hunt] and the incarnation [Sea Hunter] each fell on the backs of the two queens, transforming into the complete Mithril Dragon Knight and Leviathan Knight.

The three of them, along with the wind and rain, headed straight for Louis, the Puppet King, who was at the highest point of the building block castle.

Storm added the [Storm Weapon] enchantment to the five-meter dragon lances in their hands. The two lances stabbed down at the same time, one high and one low, as if they were bringing down the violently surging atmosphere together.

The combined attack of the three dual-path transcendents was simply earth-shattering.

Byron used his breathing as an anchor, and his spiritual light penetrated his body, soul, mount, heaven and earth, and every bit of strength was not wasted.

In stormy weather, he was truly the Storm King, and he could easily take on eleven iron boats and a sloop.

[Puppet King] Louis felt the chilling murderous intent, and only then did he come to his senses from the shock of the Knights being annihilated in an instant.

He immediately stepped on the ground with both feet and flew back.

The next second, the tallest building on the ship was blown to pieces by the power of the dragon rider's gun, and a layer of the ship's tower was severely cut off.

The puppet king Louis, who had nowhere to gain support, was hit by the Mithril Dragon Catherine's terrifying tail swing like a steel whip before he could even fall from mid-air.

Boom——!
Although the Puppet King raised his sword to block in time, his body still smashed through several floors of the ship like a cannonball, until it fell heavily onto the open deck.

Even if you reach the top of the [Ladder of Glory] sequence, you are still a mortal being, at most reaching the limit of human beings. Your physical strength is far from enough to fight against monsters, and most of them are fragile.

This is also one of the reasons why the three fourth-level mythical creatures dared to surround and kill a fifth-level [Puppet Master].

Catherine, who scored a goal with one strike, reminded:
"Be careful, the tail doesn't feel right, he doesn't seem to be flesh and blood."

Sure enough, the Puppet King quickly climbed up from the deck again, and except for the damage to his dress coat, he was almost unharmed.

But his face was frighteningly gloomy.

The wood texture that was originally only slightly visible on the surface of the skin now spread to the entire body.

Moreover, there is no fragile wood feeling at all. Instead, it sparkles with an iron-like luster like petrified jade, and the pair of eyes have turned into glass eyeballs.

Then a blue gem embedded in the chest lit up, simultaneously lighting up rows of alchemical runes inside and on the body like gears.

He took out a wrench from his pocket, inserted it into his left chest, and turned it quickly. The sound of the spring being gradually tightened came from inside.

Byron was suddenly shocked:

"He used the fifth-level magic [Blood and Flesh Are Useless] on himself, and has transformed from a flesh and blood body into a mechanical puppet."

The magic [Blood and Flesh Are Useless] can be used on others, and of course, it can also be used on yourself.

Currently, if extraordinary people want to be promoted to mythical creatures, they need to rely on the [Bloodline Codex] from a certain source of knowledge.

But the Puppet King, who was never willing to be inferior to others, did not choose to learn the forbidden knowledge of an old god. Instead, he used his own unique magic [Flesh and Blood Are Useless] and embarked on another path of completely abandoning his flesh and blood.

Moreover, a normal puppeteer would not use living people to make puppets. His main job is to make puppets by hand using various materials, just like a craftsman.

At the third level, there is a supporting ability [Puppet Transformation], which can transform ordinary puppets into various murder weapons, or even powerful strange objects.

It is obvious that Puppet King Louis used the relevant knowledge to deeply transform his body.

It also uses two energy supply systems: alchemy stone and clockwork.

If a few years pass, it might be possible to install a whale oil-powered steam engine.

If he continues to research in this way, maybe he can really achieve another form of immortality.

By then, it will really have some of the flavor of "flesh and blood are weak, machines ascend".

Among all the extraordinary people, they are the most unique ones.

Stab it--!
[Puppet King] exerted force on his feet and instantly turned into an afterimage, dodging a high-speed water gun spit out by Violet.

He stretched out his legs and ran like the wind between the buildings, his body turning almost 180 degrees close to the ground, with circles of terrifying air explosions exploding behind him.

After switching his life essence, Puppet King Louis is no longer a human being, and his body and soul no longer have any shortcomings.

This is not over yet.

He stomped his feet on the ground, leaped into the sky from between the two giant beasts, and shouted in a low voice:
"Bound God and Descended Saint!"

A white halo exploded above his head, and another shadow with an appearance exactly like him emerged behind him. Silk threads shot out from ten fingers and connected to the main joints of the puppet's body.

The body suddenly becomes a puppet of the god of self.

Obviously, the "director" and the puppeteer are not unable to go on stage in person. In fact, he is the strongest "actor" in his own hands.

Better than any other professional actor.

“What a strong aura!”

This was the only extraordinary person Byron had ever seen, other than himself, who had given birth to his own god from "humanity". All the others before him were either "divine" or "animalistic".

Coincidentally, the full name of the Creator is [The Bound Creator], while Louis’ self-god is called [The Bound God].

From his own obsession, to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to the God of Ego, this guy's arrogance and self-conceit are completely consistent.

He truly felt from the bottom of his heart that "I am the only one in the world who is supreme."

It also made Byron realize that the fifth level and the fourth level are completely different. No matter whether it is a legend or a false god, there is absolutely no simple character.

No matter how strong or weak their power is, or how many means they have, they must be extremely strong inside.

"Lancaster, I will grant you the end of the play! Rest in peace."

The Puppet King was about to chop at the [Wild Hunt] on Leviathan's back, but the [Killing Machine] who was responsible for providing long-range fire support had already opened fire on him.

clang!clang!clang!
The holy relic saber in Louis' hand flashed and danced into a ball of silver light, blocking the bullets one by one, and then he continued to pounce on Byron unwaveringly.

What he used in his hands was not the [Supreme Art], but the [Castilian Saber Technique] that all soldiers were practicing.

Core secret: [Six Cuts with Saber]!
There are four diagonal chopping movements, namely up, down, left and right, as well as horizontal cutting in the left and right directions. Although it looks simple, it is actually a process of repeated practice.

There is no shortcut to defeat him. You can only use greater strength and faster speed.

At this time, the fleets belonging to various forces in the surrounding areas were forced to gradually move closer to the core battlefield due to the rapid contraction of the silk thread.

Everyone saw the fierce battle on the Dream Castle, and also saw the powerful fighting posture of [Puppet King] Louis, which had almost no weaknesses.

As he got closer and closer to the Wild Hunt.

[Wild Hunter], who had just broken through to the fourth level, did not seem to have any advantages over this legend in any aspect, and countless hearts were involuntarily hanging in the balance.

At this time, Byron decisively revealed the first trump card that he had prepared long ago.

Boom——!
The storm of light in his eyes grew stronger and stronger, and his aura suddenly rose rapidly.

“Some people may have forgotten that one of the core abilities of the Golden Codex that was stolen by the Wild Hunt was to allow the emperor or regent to temporarily increase their rank by one level within their core territory!
The ability of the Golden Deer, United as One, is to transform its own area within a radius of 100 meters into the royal domain of the Emperor of the Holy Golden Empire.

If I hadn't told you, who would have thought that [Wild Hunt] would have a dream collaboration with [Sea Hunter]'s relic battleship?

Therefore, the reason why [Wild Hunt] has its current strength must be entirely due to itself.

Golden Rule, fill it up for me!

(End of this chapter)