Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 547: Fight Dagon Again, Kill the Whale with the Fist!
The time was slightly advanced, and we came to another destiny line that was disturbed by the drastic fluctuations in the fate of the Kalmar Union.

The collective subconscious sea of ​​Anchor Bay.

The sea water here is much clearer than the pitch-black source sea outside.

The light of the [Silver Law] shines here, the sea surface shimmers, and every ripple reflects the dreams of many residents of Anchor Bay.

However, due to the mutual influence between the collective subconscious and humans, many people may have not-so-pleasant nightmares tonight.

This is because a legendary battleship [Dragon Head Ship·Valhalla] is holding a black mass ceremony here, summoning the faith anchor chain of the old god [Sleeping God·Kraken] to re-anchor this sea.

A group of deep-sea clans were still busy on the deck.

Regardless of gender, they all have fish heads and human bodies, half human, half fish, and half frog. The main color of their bodies is gray-green, their bellies are smooth and white, they have webbed fingers on their limbs, and their bodies are covered with scales.

The fish has protruding eyes without eyelids, and gills on its neck, which vibrate from time to time and make sounds.

The whole ship was filled with a damp and pungent fishy smell, and even the ship spirit with a dragon head on top couldn't help but frown.

Even if you don't have mysophobia, it's hard to tolerate these indescribable non-humans who have been dirtying their bodies day after day for hundreds of years.

It has been marinated and cannot be washed clean.

A pentagram-shaped magic circle resembling a goat's head was painted on the deck with blood by the deep-sea clans.

Hundreds of clansmen were driven out of the cabin and lay down around the magic circle, forming a huge altar with a circular door.

But there was no fear on anyone's face. Instead, everyone looked very happy.

"Through this ceremony, we will be ascension, return to the embrace of our Lord [Sleeping God Kraken], and truly become a member of the great family."

"Yes, we will live forever with our Lord."

"I wonder if my ancestors are doing well in God's kingdom? I can't wait to meet them."

The other raven had arrived here half a month in advance and landed on the mast of the dragon head ship, watching the clan members perform the ceremony silently.

Seeing his clansmen being sacrificed with great joy, he shook his head with a very complicated expression.

Apart from Dagon and a few mythical creatures, no one understands the "life cycle" of this tribe in the southern continent better than Byron:
"Hunting the natives on the continent, letting them 'blindly eat fish' and then produce 'mermaid tears' to offer to Dagon in exchange for gems, gold, corals, whale oil technology, and an inexhaustible supply of fish from the seabed;

Anyone who works no more than eight hours a day can inherit a property in the town, have no worries about food and clothing, and live a decent life;
People must get married at the age of 18 at the latest, and the gods are responsible for arranging partners and solving marriage problems.

Spouses can only be mixed-race people from other islands with Bay People blood, and a couple must have at least four children before the age of 40;
The more children you have, the better the benefits you receive.

If you live peacefully until you are 40, you can retire and stop working.

The body gradually "ascends", and after several months of alienation, it completely sheds its human form and enters the sea to become a deep-sea clan to follow the gods under the sea."

It all sounds great, but in essence it is high-end predators keeping humans in captivity.

Their "God Cycle" and "Social Clock" are the "Eating Schedule" of a series of gods such as the God of Sleep and Dagon!
These mixed-race people of Taiwan and indigenous people are connected to the Taiwan people on one end and to the indigenous peoples of the New World on the other end, playing the role of providing mental strength and anchoring.

Almost all of one's life is eaten up bit by bit by the god one believes in.

By the time he was forty, only the dregs of his animal nature were left, and he could no longer maintain his human form.

At the end of his life, he made use of his remaining energy to serve as cannon fodder for Dagon, the Nightmare of the Abyss.

For example, their role in this sacrifice is to serve as the "fuel" for the ritual.

“If there really is a good thing like eternal life with the [Sleeping God], it can only be in his belly.

Compared to these spiritually unbalanced Old God churches that no longer recognize themselves as human beings and instead treat their own kind as food, the Creator Church is simply a white lotus. "

The deep-sea creatures lying on the deck have been infected with coral disease.

The parasitic corals on the body quickly differentiated, quickly digesting the original human flesh and blood, and then clung to each other to form a huge circular reef full of corals and various parasites.

There was a flickering light on it, and then an illusory column of light shot straight into the sky, connecting to an existence outside the material world through the collective subconscious of mankind.

"Gulu gulu."

In the blink of an eye, waves of incomprehensible whispers and murmurs filled the entire legendary battleship.

Everyone couldn't help feeling nauseous and wanted to vomit. It seemed that something slippery was wriggling in the grooves of their brains, trying to carry their emotions and memories out of all the holes in the skull.

The mumbling sound began to echo repeatedly in the cranial cavity, becoming clearer and clearer.

"The Era of Luo Yan has arrived, and all living things have died. In the eternal deep sea mansion, the sleeping god who is still dreaming even though he is dead is waiting. Dream, dream."

That was none other than their main god, [the sleeping god] Kraken!

The family members on the ship had a complex set of hallucinations before their eyes. It seemed that the space across the altar had been completely filled by some huge, indescribable thing, which was quietly peeking through the crack in the door at the material world.

The astonishing malice and appetite in his eyes did not make them feel any kindness, but only endless fear and trembling. If they took a wrong step, they might fall into the stomach of their own Lord God.

Only [Abyssal Nightmare] Dagon, who had already anchored the Immortal Stairway, was not affected by the whispers. He took out a copy of the "Luoyan City Textbook" and began to chant:
"In the name of the land of Snails and its inhabitants, praise the sleeping god.

In the name of the Seal of Kish and all who obey it, and in the name of the Gate to the Deep Sea and all who use it."

Then, an illusory figure covered with tentacles began to slowly condense and take shape opposite the circular altar that looked like a door, reflecting the appearance of the old god's body.

An illusory beam of light that was hard to tell whether it was a tentacle or an anchor chain, but was clearly covered with traces of corruption, extended from the altar and penetrated into the sea of ​​collective subconsciousness.

A strong fishy smell filled the entire sea area, making the nearby scenery hazy and distorted, and more and more like the dream city, Luoyan City.

The Deep Dive Church has arranged personnel to preside over ceremonies in all five middle schools in Taiwan.

The black mass to summon the anchor chains of the old god faith is held every seven days, for a total of three times, summoning three anchor chains. Today happens to be the third time.

Although Anchor Bay has the smallest territory and the smallest population among the five nations, it is the core of the collective subconscious of the people of the Bay. "Halls of Valor" is located here, so Dagon, the Nightmare of the Abyss, is in charge of it personally.

Dagon stood at the bow, watching three thick anchor chains rise from the sea in the collective subconscious of the bay residents, all stretched straight to form a triangle, sinking all the way down to the end of the deep sea.

It was as if some huge underwater monster was being towed behind the boat.

Suddenly, he seemed to have seen the bright future of himself ruling the five Gulf nations after the plan succeeded.

“From now on, the people of the Bay will be able to live a life as wonderful as the Deep Sea Clan, living happily until they are forty years old, and then being eaten bit by bit by me and the [Sleeping God].

What's wrong with being able to have enough food to eat just by kneeling down and begging for food in the first half of your life?

How am I, Dagon, the Nightmare of the Abyss, worse than the Creator?
So I am the son of prophecy in the prophecy of the revival of the Taiwanese people!"

Byron was speechless when he heard his words:
"Good fellow, you even deceived us liars?

If this eating schedule could really be implemented, my rule over the Taiwan people's country would probably be severely impacted.

But do you really think this trick will work in the five countries of Taiwan?
The current productivity is simply not satisfactory!
All the means of production and living are bestowed by gods. Can you give them to us?

Perhaps a small country with a small population only needs to firmly hold on to one industrial chain to maintain a high welfare society for decades.

The population size of your original few islands was no more than that of a small city-state, and you could live well by relying on fishing, whaling and gathering.

But if you were to be replaced by the five Taiwan countries with a total population of over 13 million, they would not even be able to support you even if they slaughtered you for oil.

If the population grows further, even after industrialization begins, the profits obtained from mastering the entire industrial chain may not be enough to be shared.

Who can't tell lies?

But wealth will not fall from the sky by itself. If you want to live a happy life, you still have to create wealth by yourself in the end."

And now that he has come here, no matter how Dagon wants to rule the five nations of the Bay, it will no longer be possible.

Soon, Freya, the Goddess of Love and Beauty, who had completed the ceremony, rushed back from the direction of the Kingdom of Hastings, saluted the Father God, and fell behind him.

I took a quick glance at my father's kidneys.

After waiting for a while, the God of War Tiel, who was going to carry out a mission to the three countries of the Kalmar Union with the God of Thunder Thor and the God of Youth Yitong, flew down from the sky.

However, as soon as he landed on the deck, he shouted in panic:
"Archbishop, it's bad. The reformists in the Kalmar Union have launched a military uprising to liquidate the church factions in the country. They have the support of the Wild Hunt King behind them.

On the way back just now, I saw from afar that Thor and Yitong were all killed by the [King of the Wild Hunt]!"

Dagon was shocked when he heard the bad news. He asked Tier, who was walking towards him quickly, in disbelief:
"What did you say?!"

At this moment, another voice came from afar:
"Archbishop, something bad has happened. Tiele and Thor have just been killed by the Alliance's reformists and the King of the Wild Hunt!
If I hadn’t run fast, I would have died.”

Before the shouting ended, a figure landed on the deck.

It turned out to be Yitong, the god of youth who was supposed to have died in Tie'er's words.

He and Tie'er, who arrived earlier, looked at each other and both cried out in surprise:

"Aren't you already dead?"

The three mythical creatures were already jealous of each other over Freya and were almost at loggerheads. Yi Tong's first reaction was:

"I saw Tiel being killed with my own eyes. The [Wild Hunt King] is also a fifth-level [Night Demon Lord]. You must be an enemy impersonating you!"

Tie, who arrived first, immediately retorted:
"If I was a fake, how could I leave you like this? I think you are the fake one, trying to fish in troubled waters, but I accidentally escaped first."

Neither man gave in to the other and drew his weapons to engage in battle.

Before the fight started, a third panicked voice sounded in their ears:

"Archbishop, this is terrible. I saw with my own eyes that Tie'er and Yitong were killed. Huh? Are you human or undead?"

The last one who should have died, Thor, the God of Thunder, also landed on the deck. Seeing his two companions, he subconsciously closed his mouth again.

[The Feast of the Abyss] The expression on Dagon's face changed from shock when he first heard the news of Tiel's death, to suspicion when Yitong reported the death, and then to annoyance when Thor reported the death.

Subconsciously, I believe that there must be something fishy among these three people.

The biggest flaw is that they encountered the fifth-level king and false god [King of the Wild Hunt] alone and witnessed the "murder" scene. How could they come back unscathed?
It can only be that the other party did it on purpose.

There was no time to think about why Byron could find them hiding in the collective subconscious of the Bay residents.

A pair of eyes as sharp as knives scanned the three of them back and forth, but all he saw were three flawless faces that were exactly the same as in his memory.

But
"There are no flaws on the outside, but there are flaws elsewhere!"

He slowly took out his weapon, a first-class man-made wonder [Giant Axe Bergelmir]. According to legend, Bergelmir was the ancestor of the mythical frost giants, and this giant axe was made from the leg bones of the giant.

The axe handle itself is thicker than a mast. When it is swung, it brings with it a winter-like chill that can freeze a mountain.

The next moment, the giant axe swept up the cold wind and chopped fiercely at the later God of Youth Yitong and God of Thunder Thor.

"You can imitate my appearance, but where is the bond of faith between you and my Lord?!"

Yitong and Saul's faces changed drastically.

Suddenly he remembered that when he was running away, there seemed to be a sharp edge passing over his head. He thought he had avoided the attack, but now it was clear that the [King of the Wild Hunt] had used some means to cut off the anchor chain of his faith.

I didn't pay attention to the urgent situation before, and now it's too late.

"archbishop"

After just one sentence of argument, the two were knocked away by the giant axe that was wrapped in divine light. Their immunity to physical attacks was useless. Their bones and tendons were broken in mid-air, and blood was spilled all the way.

This attack fully demonstrated the suppression power of the superiors over the inferior followers in the same taboo system.

If they were taking different paths, how could it be so easy to defeat two fourth-level players?
If you cannot obey God and have no autonomy, you will end up being a small fry.

However, at the moment when [Nightmare of the Abyss] Dagon's old strength was exhausted and new strength had not yet been generated.

The God of War Tiel, whom he had identified as being sound, and his daughter Freya, the goddess of love and beauty, who was the first to return and whom he had never doubted, attacked at the same time from the left and right.

A short gun convenient for close combat popped out from "Tie'er"'s hand. His body served as the gun barrel, his fingers as the gun tip, the strength started from his feet, and the force penetrated the gun tip. The small short gun was unexpectedly like a long spear or a halberd, and it exerted the majestic power of a heavy weapon.

With a loud bang, it exploded on the right lower back.

The halberd in Freya's hand, which was originally intended to stab the two "traitors" Yitong and Thor, suddenly turned around and stabbed him in the left waist.

[Heartache] takes effect, and true damage cannot be immuned by water elementalization.

"Ow—!"

[Nightmare of the Abyss] Dagon was attacked by a fifth-level false god and his daughter who knew him best, and he immediately followed in the footsteps of the two mythical creatures, Yitong and Thor.

It flew out of the dragon head ship like an out-of-control cannonball.

Byron, disguised as the god of war Tiel, the son of the god-king Woden, immediately stirred up a strong wind and chased after him.

In mid-air, he heard a crisp sound like something inside his body cracking, a chill flowed through his body, and the divine aura on his body became brighter and brighter.

That is the power of [Fraud] within him.

Last time, he disguised himself as the Holy Spirit to subdue the first believer, Lockhart, and gave him the seal ring of the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Byron discovered that "playing tricks" was very consistent with the power of "fraud" in the secret box of cold winter.

The higher the rank of the target of successful deception, the faster the digestion process will be, and the more powerful the power itself will become.

After more than half a month of digesting it, and having just deceived three mythical creatures and a fifth-order false god, this power was finally completely digested by him.

With Byron's own innate ability [Cognitive Correction], he can deceive others, deceive himself, and deceive the world, making up for the last shortcoming of the [Change] power, such as the inability to "connect to the Internet" with certain old god beliefs.

Even without using the [Surgical Table] to "transplant" the Chains of Faith from other people, people of the same level or even the returning Old Gods would not be able to detect his disguise.

After opening this gap, it shouldn't take too long to digest the rest of the frost giant's heart.

"It's you! Byron Lancaster, how did you know we were back in Anchor Bay?"

Dagon spat out a mouthful of blood and instinctively blurted out a question, but immediately realized that he had asked a stupid question.

Her daughter played a great role in the deaths of her brother Frey and Archbishop Jörmungandr, as well as the current exposure of the plan.

Dagon didn't know about the existence of [Wild Hunt Servant]. He thought it was the fate of [Mask of the Godhead: God of Love and Beauty] to be easily obsessed with love, and he couldn't help but curse in his heart:

"Besides being young, handsome, rich, powerful, a direct descendant of the God King, and a false God, what other advantages does Byron Lancaster have?
Even if you betrayed me, would he still let you be the Queen of the North Sea Empire? Wishful thinking, idiot! Idiot! "

After his furious mind cooled down a bit, he immediately used the seal ring on his hand to give the order to the [Legendary Battleship]:

"Valhalla, kill them!"

"Yes, Captain!"

The ship spirit with a dragon head on its head agreed and was about to take action.

A pretty little hand, as white and delicate as a magnolia flower, with nails painted with pink polish, was placed on her shoulder.

"Valhalla, please stay where you are."

The ship spirit looked back and saw that it was Violet, wearing the first mate's seal ring, standing behind her.

You know, the Ship Spirit was born in the hands of Harold's royal family hundreds of years ago, and now the only direct descendant of the family appeared in front of her with the first mate's seal ring on his hand.

The control authority is not even half a point lower than that of the "thief" wearing the captain's seal.

After being torn between two conflicting orders, he raised his hand and waved, and all the doors of the battleship were closed, locking all the family members who were about to rush out to help in the cabin.

He also turned into a particle of light and disappeared, as if he had automatically entered a dormant state in which he would not help either side.

Having achieved her basic goal, Violet smiled triumphantly and walked to the side of the deck, facing the direction of Byron and Dagon, and rested her right arm on the bulwark.

The brass bullet on her swan's neck was emitting golden light that spread to her right arm. With a flash of light, it turned into an oversized bolt-action rifle.

The ability of the second-level holy relic Brass Bullet [Body Weaponization]:
"It can transform any part of the body into a weapon known to humans or existing only on blueprints, and amplify it to the level of a second-level holy relic corresponding to the middle sequence limit.

As the influence of whale oil metal fixed bullets expands in the human world, the level of this holy relic will be gradually upgraded and its power will become stronger and stronger. "

The performance of today's bolt-action sniper rifles has been greatly improved compared to the original revolver rifles.

Because even modern sniper rifles use bolt-action mode, which is the most accurate and stable firearm structure.

This weapon uses 20mm×110mm ammunition, weighs 130 grams, is 2.33 meters long, is manually loaded as a single shot, and has a maximum effective range of 1.8 kilometers.

This parameter will still be the best even hundreds of years later.

While uttering the curse of disaster, he drew rune characters with his other hand and added them to the bullet in his hand.

[Demon Breaking], [Explosion of Desire], [Mark of Death], [Penetrating], [Charged Strike]. Layer after layer, the dagger-long bullets flashed with an ominous glow.

Then his left hand shook, and a small silver revolver appeared. He aimed at his head and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Click!Click!
After five consecutive hits, [Death Wheel] increased the power of the gun in his hand by 32 times!
On the opposite side, Dagon failed to get the cover of the legendary battleship, and his face suddenly changed.

Then Byron caught up with him and shot him flying, and his whole body floated on the sea like a stone.

I don’t know how many waves in the ocean of collective subconsciousness I have broken along the way, nor do I know how many dreams of the people of the Taiwan Strait have been shattered.

The unstoppable blood from the two kidneys dyed a large area of ​​the sea red.

During the colonial war of the southern continent, there was a fierce battle between the Ocean Throne and Dagon. Byron, who was only level three at the time, couldn't even understand it.

In the end, the two men only fought one blow head-on when killing Jörmungandr, but Byron ended up with both arms broken and vomiting three liters of blood.

But now the situations of the two have been reversed.

If it weren't for the power of [Fraud] and the concern for that mysterious man whose name cannot even be mentioned, he would have to fight quickly and decisively with the help of the fluctuations of fate. Byron would have been able to kill the opponent head-on without even a sneak attack.

"Ah! Lancaster, I'm going to kill you!"

Dagon tried several times to counterattack by relying on the powerful background of a century-old false god and to open up his own divine domain, but he was always suppressed by Byron and the Golden Deer which also broke in.

He soon realized that he had been targeted by this cunning enemy for who knows how long, that he lacked hard power, and that all intelligence had been leaked. The other party was well prepared and there was no chance for him to counterattack.

"escape!"

As soon as the thought came to his mind, he immediately transformed himself into the fastest flying animal in the mortal world, the brown petrel, and flapped his wings to soar into the sky like an arrow.

The deep-sea clan of [Sleeping God Kraken] has two main branches after being promoted to the fourth-level mythical creatures:
One is [Nightmare], who has a jellyfish-like appearance like Jörmungandr and is good at dream magic;
The other is the [Son of the Abyss], who has a human body and a soft octopus head and can change his own shape at will.

Frey, Freya, and their blood-related father Dagon are all the latter.

Not only can it dissolve all physical attacks with water elements, it also possesses very powerful transformation skills.

Although Dagon had ordinary talents, he had a lot of experience after living for hundreds of years and was undoubtedly a master of Transfiguration.

Compared with Byron, he is a perfect match.

"No, I'm just showing off!
Get down here!"

Byron also transformed himself into a brown petrel, and arrived first, with his claws like hooks, he pounced on Dagon's head.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Dagon immediately turned around and transformed into a larger red-footed booby, pecking at Byron's head.

Byron was not to be outdone. He turned into a "frigate bird" nicknamed "robber bird" and flapped his wings back.

Then, Dagon became a falcon and Byron became a golden eagle; Dagon became the McKinley condor and Byron became the thunderbird.
Chirping, feathers fell all over the ground.

Finally, there was a flash of lightning in the sky, and Dagon, who had run out of tricks, was knocked down from the sky by a claw of Byron, who had transformed into a flying dragon.

It fell into the water covered with wounds, let out a muffled roar, and with a flick of its tail, it turned into a huge killer whale and was about to dive into the deep sea, preparing to escape from the deep sea into the Source Sea.

The immortal ladder he anchored was "water", and he had unparalleled advantages in the water.

But just after he swung his tail and dived, Byron became the "mortal enemy" of the killer whale - the humpback whale, the killer among the killer whales in the ocean.

He roared:
"Hah, Whale Killer Punch!"

The huge fins gathered the water and struck through the air, knocking the entire whale out of the water.

This time, with all his strength, Dagon's spine suddenly bent with a "crack".

Just as the killer whale was knocked out of the water, dizzy and disoriented, and had no time to transform again.

Violet, who was guarding the boat, had already pulled the trigger decisively.

A terrifying red rainbow streaked across the sky above the collective subconscious sea of ​​the Bay residents. Controlled by a [Gun Demon Spirit], it penetrated from one side of Dagon's head and flew out from the other side.

Boom——!
The 32 times powerful explosion, carrying huge kinetic energy, blew his entire head into a bloody mist!
(End of this chapter)