Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 499 Ark Coordinates: Tudor Dynasty (6900)!
"Mom!"

Seeing the figure of the little mermaid in the boat coffin, Byron was overjoyed and was about to drive the [eight-legged Pegasus] Slipnir into the lake.

The secret treasure of the Taiwanese people is only a secondary goal. Before the next "Death Stranding" incident, rescuing Hathaway is the first priority.

At this moment, a line of information suddenly appeared on the [Navigation Log] in the right eye.

It was not aimed at Hathaway's ghost, but rather at the secret behind the "mirage" above her head:

"【Noah's Ark】, Silver Age 1452 Coordinates: centered at '36 degrees 32 minutes N, 006 degrees 18 minutes W', within nautical miles, the underwater mermaid kingdom, the polluted Tudor dynasty
Status: Still moving.
God said to Noah: "Build an ark of gopher wood, with rooms in it, and pitch it inside and out. It should be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high."
You and all your household must enter the ark. You must take seven of every clean animal, male and female; one male and one female of every unclean animal; and seven of every bird of the air, male and female.
For in seven days it will rain on the earth for 7 days and 40 nights, and every living thing will be wiped out from the face of the earth.”

Seeing this unexpected development, Byron subconsciously pulled the reins and stopped. Looking at the word "Noah's Ark", his heart skipped a beat:
"Noah's Ark? How come the real Noah's Ark appeared in my mother's memory?

Twenty years ago, she had seen this treasure with her own eyes? And the location was in the Mermaid Kingdom near the East Continent?"

Byron certainly knew what Noah's Ark was.

This treasure is recorded in the Gospel of Creation.

It was born about 2600 years before the Silver Age, when the Mythological Age had not yet begun. Its mission was to help the humans of that time and all existing creatures survive the last great flood.

When Byron read the records in the scriptures, he thought it was just an ordinary mythological story.

After realizing the truth that a flood could even drown gods, he never dared to underestimate this treasure again.

It is speculated that this ship is probably an independent small world similar to the Bay People's [Valhalla] or the indigenous Taya Empire [Huashan Heaven], otherwise it would be impossible to accommodate an entire biosphere of the material world.

Then, like the traditional saint St. John, Byron instinctively thought that if he could find Noah's Ark before the next flood came, it would definitely be a way out.

If water control fails, the chances of survival will be greatly increased.

Before I could get excited, a line of messy handwriting suddenly appeared at the end of the logbook, like a ferocious beast with fangs and claws bared:

".Mythical Battleship Noah's Ark World Ecosphere Polluted Blood Beast Lair. Monster Mother Echidna Wrong Wrong"

Byron was suddenly shocked:

“No, there’s something wrong with Mom’s memory.

This is not just information that the [Logbook] actively peeks into, but also living knowledge that is actively pouring into our brains!

Violet, close your eyes and don't look at that boat."

The memory that escaped from Hathaway's mind seemed to notice their gaze and changed in an instant.

The underwater mermaid's long hair turned into tentacles, her skin was covered with a layer of lead gray, and her beautiful fish tail grew extra fins, limbs, and even a deformed second tail.

There are countless growths on the body, such as barnacles, corals, scales, feathers, hooves, etc.

It looks even more horrible than the effect of the original "coral disease", as if it had been contaminated by other foreign genetic information in the "world ecosystem" in an instant.

At the same time, on the tattered ark on the water, strange blood was continuously flowing out of the cracks and merging into the sea.

Then, behind the cracks all over the hull, pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly opened.

Among them are the round pupils of humans, the square pupils of sheep, the vertical pupils of eagles, the oval pupils of dogs, and the compound eyes of insects. It seems that the eyes of all living things in the world can be found here.

What’s even more horrifying is that each pair of eyes is completely different, as if the owners of the eyes themselves look “messy”, even more chaotic than the polluted mermaids underwater.

This ark does not seem like a refuge that saves humans and various creatures, but rather a biological laboratory where genetic information has gone out of control.

Moreover, both the mermaid and the eyes in the cracks of the boat looked at Byron and Violet at the same time.

"Hiss! What is this weird thing?"

The images in the mother's memory actually underwent completely different changes when someone was observing and when someone was not observing.

It's like when you're watching a horror movie and the evil ghost in the picture suddenly turns around and stares at the audience. It's really too scary.

Seeing this scene, Byron immediately recalled the information he had collected from his cousin Salant.

“The Old Continent has the weakest intellectual activity, followed by the Southern Continent, and the Eastern Continent has the strongest intellectual activity.

It has become so strong that it has begun to actively chase humans like a predator. The one who is at the top and rules there is "knowledge" itself!
Unknown, bizarre, and cursed spirits from ancient history, myths, legends, and horror stories sit high on the throne, shepherding all living things.

There is a similar existence in the Old World - the [Cursed Spirit - Life-threatening Clown], which made the Church's Night Watchmen go to the lengths of modifying the cognition of everyone on the entire continent in an attempt to seal it.

In the Eastern Continent, the extraordinary world and the mortal world are clearly divided. Mortals can only continue their race with great difficulty by keeping secrets, observing precepts, and isolating themselves.

And with the spread of the flood, a number of mermaid populations similar to the Tudor family or other ocean kingdoms were formed, together forming a relatively closed inner world.

Together, we struggled to resist the constant invasion from the source sea."

Byron's speculation about the activation of "knowledge" in the East Continent is obviously not far from the facts.

When those eyes looked back at them, they also established a medium of information communication through line of sight.

The bloodstained double helix chains were about to be anchored to their bodies through sight.

You know, Hathaway is carrying a fragment of the [Aquaman Trident] that symbolizes solidity, which can freeze all tangible and intangible things, even conceptual things, and block material changes.

In this state, this thing can still come out and cause trouble, which shows how high the mysterious level of the corresponding knowledge is.

Of course, they also benefited from the lock of the level 0 relic [Sea King's Trident], which gave them enough time and ability to counterattack.

Byron raised his palm and made a "no-go" gesture to the countless eyes, and shouted in a low voice:
"Surgical table, unfold!"

Om-!
A spherical space with a diameter of three meters immediately enveloped the two of them.

Then Byron flicked his finger and a drop of blood popped out. He used the secret spell [River of Blood] to transform it into a bat. Then he "transplanted" all the invisible and intangible sight and transmitted information into its body.

The latter immediately began to expand and mutate rapidly like blowing air.

Soon it changed from a small bat the size of a palm into a monster more than two meters long, with a series of cumbersome and ferocious organs growing on its body, such as fish gills, fish scales, insect mouthparts, etc.

The other party actually projected the genetic information of other creatures simply through line of sight, contaminating the bat.

It is conceivable what kind of disaster would occur if we really faced [Noah's Ark] head on.

Not only that, the bat monsters' aggressiveness also skyrocketed, and even Byron's [Dominated Lower Servants] were impacted, trying to break free from the bloodline constraints and attack them.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the other party's attention was diverted, Byron drove the eight-legged Pegasus under his crotch to activate the [Rainbow Bridge] and rushed to his mother's side in an instant.

The crystal coffin containing the mermaid's corpse was taken out from the snakeskin bag. The trident blade held in the corpse's hand immediately glowed with light, further blocking the transmission of information from the dead soul.

In his other hand, Byron holds an invisible conceptual scalpel:

“The status of that weird thing opposite is too high. If the biological body has been contaminated, it would be difficult for me, the [Father of Medical Care], who is only at the fourth level of extraordinary rank, to reverse the situation.

But with the suppression of a Level 0 relic, it shouldn't be a problem to simply remove this memory from my mother."

As he thought about it, he swung the knife down in an instant.

Stab it--!
The mirage above the lake suddenly disappeared, and Hathaway's memory was transplanted by Byron into a photo crystal.

Violet, who was beside her, quickly covered it with a layer of white lead.

Just like the blade of the trident, they were all placed in Hathaway's hands.

Memory is an important part of the soul and personality. It can be temporarily removed now and then accepted back in the future when one is able to bear it without affecting its integrity.

Byron did not forget to snap his fingers, causing blood flames to ignite in the bat's body. In the blink of an eye, the bat was completely burned to ashes, without even the smallest cell nucleus left.

Blocking any channel for genetic information contamination.

This thing is much more disgusting than the "whoever you stare at will get pregnant" thing in the Maltese monastery. It affects not only independent individuals, but once leaked, it may endanger the entire ecosystem.

As the crisis on site was resolved.

The information in the logbook changed again.

[Secret: The fuse of the religious war, historical influence 65] The decoding density jumped from 45% to 52%.

[Secret: Prophecy, Kingship, and the prophecy of racial revival by the god of the Wild Hunt, Woden, historical influence 69] The decoding density also jumped from 58% to 60%.

Byron did not expect that this memory from his mother would be related to two events with great influence: religious wars and revival prophecies.

After a moment of shock, I immediately realized that the news about [Noah's Ark] was indeed like a thread that connected many messy clues together:
“According to the timeline.

About 4100 years ago, Noah's Ark, which was born in the last flood, helped the ancients survive the flood. But for some unknown reason it drifted to the Sea of ​​Monsters, which was full of dangers and seriously polluted by the Sea of ​​Essence.

After thousands of years, it may have been contaminated by [Echidna, the Mother of Monsters].

A normally normal myth was thus revived in it, giving rise to something extremely terrifying.

Since then, it has been drifting in the Sea of ​​Monsters and has become a moving disaster.

About twenty years ago, it drifted to the top of the Mermaid Kingdom, which was already having a hard time in the East Continent due to the rising tide.

The Tudor dynasty that ruled there suddenly suffered a devastating disaster.

Holding the fragments of the level zero holy relic, mother Hathaway, who can restrain pollution to a certain extent, and cousin Salant fled from the East Continent one after another.

Among them, after her death, the mother accidentally brought the news of the Mermaid Kingdom and Noah's Ark to Valhalla.

The last person who came here was his father-in-law [Whale Hunter] Jack Harold. When he was looking for the secret of the great treasure on the ninth floor, even if he didn't take the initiative to look for it, he would probably be caught up by his mother's scattered memories.

This also explains why my father-in-law accidentally rescued my cousin Salant overseas. He must have successfully arrived near that coordinate.

As for the religious wars

Byron hesitated for a moment before guessing:

“As the largest force in the material world, the Church must know much more about the Great Flood than I do, and would have made preparations at least dozens or hundreds of years in advance.

The struggle between Protestants and Traditionalists is essentially a struggle over faith and anchoring. How similar is their dispute to the War of the Gods at the end of the last era?

It's just that the gods who attributed their power to themselves have been replaced by cardinals, saints, and kings of various countries who support them. They are essentially the same.

And the treasure like Noah's Ark, which has successfully proven itself to be able to help people survive the flood, will definitely become one of their emergency plans.

No matter which faction they are from, they certainly don't want to let go of the life-saving treasure, Noah's Ark.

But I'm afraid no one knows that this thing has a big problem. It's unfortunate if it can't be found, and it's even more unfortunate if it is found. In addition, I haven't heard of any great achievements by the church's exploration ship. The first to enter the unknown world overseas was only the [Whale Hunter].

At present, there is still a key piece of information missing to confirm whether my father-in-law's hasty adventure out to sea, in addition to exploring the secrets of the revival prophecy, has anything to do with the church's plan to find [Noah's Ark]?"

If you can't figure it out for now, just put it aside. Anyway, Byron won't be able to go find this weird-looking thing in a short time.

Byron and Violet dismounted and placed Hathaway's soul and body side by side.

Now Byron understood why his mother did not pass on any powerful mermaid bloodline to him even though she had reached the level of a fourth-order mythical creature during her lifetime.

It is probably because they are worried that genetic contamination from Noah's Ark will cause future troubles, so it is better to leave nothing from the beginning.

"Back then, the children of [Abyssal Nightmare] Dagon were already at the fourth level at a young age, not because of their hard work but because they had a good father.

The same goes for my mother. Her powerful bloodline inheritance allowed her to grow to the level of a fourth-order mythical creature when she was less than 20 years old.

If the three of us can give birth to offspring after being promoted to the fifth-level [False God], the first generation of Sons of God will probably also be able to have this terrifying growth rate.

This is why some people are born as cattle and horses, while others are born in Rome. "

Byron introduced his mother to Violet and suddenly asked:
"So, Miss, what do you think this proves?"

Violet touched her pointed chin, then suddenly clenched her right fist and knocked it on the palm of her left hand, saying seriously:

"I understand. It is better to raise yourself than to raise your children. The end point we can reach determines the starting point of our babies. The higher our own rank when giving birth, the higher the qualifications of our offspring.

So we should marry and have children later, and have fewer and better children! "

"Pfft! Cough cough cough"

Byron was almost choked by his fiancée's words, and it took him a while to recover.

But after thinking about it carefully, she found that what Violet said actually made a lot of sense and she was completely speechless.

At this time, the girl reached out and hugged his arm, stood on tiptoe and kissed him hard on the cheek, and said with a smile:

“As the saying goes, children are just accidents, we are the true love.

I think although many people have placed great expectations on you as the 'Last Lancaster', you have done a great job.

In my heart, Byron is always the best!
Don't put too much pressure on yourself, just let it go.

You see, our Harold family really has the throne to inherit, and my parents don't have to give birth to a boy to inherit the throne.

However, as long as you are willing, the sisters can continue to have children with you.

Under the eternal life scale, even if there are 70 billion people in the future, creating a race is not a fantasy.

There is no need for any extraordinary ability to have many children and be blessed with many children. The powerful [Anchor] alone is enough to withstand any stormy waves."

Byron was deeply moved. He hugged his good wife tightly and then started to prepare to wake his mother up.

Hathaway's soul and body look almost identical on the outside.

This is because under the effect of the "solid" trident, her body and soul were forever frozen at the moment of death, and even after a thousand years, there was no difference between them being new.

He had examined Hathaway's "cause" of sudden death at a young age in advance.

It was not because of some kind of knowledge about the consequences brought back from the East Continent as imagined, but because it was somewhat similar to the altitude sickness of mortals.

The Old World is mystically higher in terrain, and the source tides are not as active.

Especially twenty years ago, at the end of the Dark Millennium, the situation was particularly serious.

Whether it is mermaids, deep-sea families, or mythical creatures like Byron and Violet, they were all originally humans, but they have undergone adaptive evolution and are more adapted to the demon-rich environment.

If you are away from this environment for a long time, various problems will naturally follow.

When Hathaway came to the Channel Islands from the lower-lying Eastern Continent, it was like a mortal suddenly coming to the roof of the world from the plains. A serious reaction could be fatal.

The current situation is much better than it was twenty years ago. After entering the intertidal zone, the tides are becoming more active day by day.

Since these mythical creatures who were promoted later are fine, Hathaway will definitely be fine in the future.

"Let me think about which method is the most appropriate to revive my mother now."

Byron took stock of the various supernatural powers he had at his disposal.

Death means that the [anchor] between the soul and the body is completely broken, the system itself collapses and becomes disordered, and it loses the order that allowed it to operate stably.

In this world, miracles can be achieved as long as order can be restored.

The previous king of the Solar Empire was able to research the knowledge of "vampire stars". As long as there is firewood, the fire will not go out.

The same goes for normal humans. As long as there is "change", they can always be alive and well.

The process from death to life is also a process of "anti-entropy". In order to make future progress, it is necessary to provide sufficient anchors to prevent disorder from happening again.

“The easiest way is undoubtedly to transform into a monstrous creature called a Wild Hunt Servant, like [Conqueror] Cortes and [Sword Master] Herman.

All he has to do is to possess his own body that just died.

However, the future can only depend on oneself and can never go against one's will.

My mother doesn’t even dare to hit me, is she still a mother? "

Although this train of thought is a bit strange, for someone like Byron who has never experienced maternal love in two lifetimes, this is the most intuitive idea.

Byron couldn't bear to see Hathaway suffer that injustice.

“The second is the route of natural spirits, which is also the original intention of the gods of the Solar Empire to seize the [Authority of the Underworld].

Transform dead transcendents into natural spirits.

Bypassing the limitation of having no legal network to provide an anchor, they built their own faith network from scratch, using people as believers and as anchors.

Then continue to strengthen the bloodline descendants, let them spread out like stallions, constantly expand their territory and tribes, and disperse their own bestiality and chaos, so that the descendants of gods become their most powerful anchor in the material world.

Just like pouring cold water into boiling water, it greatly reduces the level of chaos in the entire system."

But Byron only had to think about it, his mother was just like Queen Elizabeth, the most beautiful woman in the Channel Islands. She was either pregnant or on the way to get pregnant every day, and she and her father would give birth to a group of brothers and sisters for him.

It is very likely that his children are younger than his grandchildren, so Byron shook his head like a rattle.

"The key is that my father has just transformed into a fourth-level mythical creature, the Shipbound Spirit. He has no way of giving birth before he ascends to godhood."

So he opened the lid of the crystal coffin, decisively bit Hathaway on the neck, used the Night Prince's [First Embrace] on her, and took the initiative to cut off control.

Use the [panacea] that does not conflict with any bloodline classics to bring the corpse that just died "last second" back to life.

At the same time, he mobilized the [Golden Law] and lightly touched the center of Hathaway's ghost's eyebrows, leaving an imprint of a golden crown.

This is one of the anchor places of the Holy Golden Empire.

As more and more believers surrendered to the unified empire, the golden law built around the golden triangle, thirteen crystal skulls (incomplete) and a group of guardian spirits with only divinity left has become increasingly solid.

In addition to the seventeen vacancies for the [King's Right Hand], many middle and lower-level official positions are also sufficient to provide an opportunity for those third-order transcendents who have reached the critical point but dare not be promoted to a higher position to walk on two legs.

Positions are mainly divided into three routes: administrative official route, military route, and clergy route.

Now it is nothing more than customizing a royal route specially for my mother, blessing her with the honorable title of "Queen Mother", and the degree of anchoring stability is only second to "one king and two queens".

Then he used the multiple underworld authorities of [Lord of Heaven], [King of the Wild Hunt], and [Mask of the Divinity] to gently push Hathaway's soul into her body, and they instantly became one.

The surgical table uses conceptual needles and threads to perfectly sew the soul and the body back together.

It takes seven days for the Son of God to be perfectly resurrected. Hathaway needs at least this number of days. All she has to do now is wait.

Next to him, while Byron was busy, Violet stared at the [Desire Compass] in her hand and frowned.

"Strange? Why can't I find my mother's soul?

She was also at the fourth level when she was alive. Theoretically, she should also be sleeping at this level. Why is the compass reacting like this?"

Originally, the process of rescuing Hathaway was going very smoothly, and I thought finding Vanessa would be a piece of cake, but the needle of the [Desire Compass] was spinning around and couldn't lock onto the target at all.

You should know that [Compass of Desire] is only a second-level holy relic.

But under normal circumstances, all anti-divination measures cannot completely block its perception. At most, they can only blur its precise positioning, expanding from a few meters to hundreds or thousands of meters, or even farther.

This kind of headless situation is the first time I have seen it.

"Maybe. It really was blocked."

Theoretically, it would not be blocked, but Byron happened to know of one exception - [Level Zero Relic].

Not to mention the small [Compass of Desire], even the prying of the logbook can be blocked.

Perhaps the detection capability of the Desire Compass is strong enough, but as long as there is a "range of 300 kilometers, error of 1700 kilometers" to blur its positioning to the whole world, it will be the same if it detects anything.

There was no result from divination using the [double-sided dice].

Patting Violet on the shoulder, he consoled her:

“That might not be a bad thing.

A dead person is not worth suppressing with a level zero relic.

So I guess. Queen Vanessa might still be alive!

Didn't you say that she had an accident when she went to the Kalmar Union to visit the [Queen of Eternal Night]? Maybe she has some clues.

As the queen of three kingdoms, it is impossible for her to be unaware of what is happening in her own territory. It is also impossible for the Whale Hunter to just let it go. He must have secretly investigated the truth.

There are only a few forces in this world that have the ability to make the Whale Hunters retreat.

No, it should be said that the only force that can make the [Queen of Eternal Night] and the [Whale Hunter] bow their heads together and not even dare to tell you the truth is you.”

When Byron said this, his eyes suddenly lit up:
"Wait! I think I know the connection between the church's plan to search for [Noah's Ark] and my father-in-law's sea expedition!"

(End of this chapter)