Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 608: Unexpected Incident: Intelligent Machine Crisis, Merger of Divine Kingdom
Byron was advancing at a high speed, killing people in all directions, and was planning to make a fortune by collecting the [Soul Gems] needed for his spiritual transformation on the way to the Kingdom of God.

On the other side, the Desert Gods and their allies, who had suffered a great loss, had no time to lick their wounds, and rushed into the Rust Belt in pursuit of the wizard coalition that was carrying out the "God Hunting Plan."

Although most of the old gods worshipped by the clan have fallen into eternal sleep and lost their sanity, the clan has long become their minions after being polluted by the old gods.

In the minds of the clan, the interests of the gods are far above their own interests.

"Kill all human wizards and protect our Lord!"

Of course, the major old god churches of the former desert pantheon, the reinforcements sent by the Thousand-Faced Serpent, and the activated knowledge also acted separately.

The rules of the "Rust Belt" don't care whether you are a human or a clan. If you act together, you will probably be worn out by the layers of knowledge that are chasing you before you find the kingdom of Horus.

The same applies to the "traitors" who temporarily join the [Jackal God]'s command.

Bang!
The "traitor" transformed himself into a Titan and wielded the double snake staff in his hands, turning "Hamlet" and "King Lear" who were rushing towards him with swords into pieces of light.

Hamlet roared: "To be or not to be, that is the question" and finally dissipated, leaving behind a [Soul Gem].

But the expression on the rapist's face was far less happy than Byron's, and it could even be said to be very ugly.

Mercurius has countless aliases, and relying on the convenience of being the first [Writer] in the Hall of Fame sequence, he has achieved extremely high achievements in the literary history of the Silver Continent.

After he entered the Rust Belt, he was naturally attracted to the series of tragedies he created, such as "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth", etc.

The protagonists in these stories broke through the fourth wall with the help of the special rules of the "Rust Belt" and truly stood in front of the author.

Armed with swords, spears, and halberds, they attacked Mercurius continuously.

If he was not strong enough, he would probably have been forced by these tragic protagonists to change the script for him word by word.

Obviously, they all failed.

Before dying, the protagonist of every tragedy would grab Mercury's leg and write seven words "miserable" on it with his own blood.

It is only natural for a group of protagonists to behave in this way since they have been given such a tragic fate by the author.

To be honest, no matter who it is, they have to fight to the death to kill the fucking author.

I just don’t know if Mercurius regretted writing so many tragedies in the past.

His son, the Centaur Pan, who was following beside him, had not yet encountered any knowledge directed at him, but he also sighed while watching the battle:
“What bad luck. I thought that it would be easy to unite with the Desert God System to besiege the Desert Empire, but I didn’t expect that the [Nine Pillars of Creation] would suddenly undergo a qualitative change.

All the low- and middle-sequence transcendents from the Desert God System who participated in the operation were killed, and even several high-sequence fifth-order pseudo-gods were eaten in one go, resulting in heavy losses.

Fortunately, this is a joint action of the entire desert pantheon, targeting the Ennead School of Creation, the great enemy of the desert pantheon. The followers of the [Jackal God], [Eagle-headed God], [Lion-headed Goddess], and [Master Creator] all participated.

Although the losses are still heavy after sharing the burden, they are not serious, which allows us to have the energy to follow them into the Rust Belt.

Otherwise, our plan of letting our clansmen and wizards explore the way and then reap the benefits would be completely aborted."

Salome, the [Elf of Love] who was on the same team, smiled and said calmly:
“Be content. The Nine Pillars of Creation do not have much power over outsiders like us. We are lucky to have escaped from the borders of the Desert Empire.

With the help of the [Lake Light Knight], as long as we seize the opportunity this time, we may be able to pick the peaches."

There is a fourth member in this team, and that is none other than Lancelot, the [Knight of the Lake] who is "strict with others and lenient with himself".

He followed at the end of the team with a blank expression on his face.

On that day, he accidentally discovered the affair between Pan and his own queen, and after hearing the news that Mercurius and his son were planning to become demigods, he quietly slipped out of the palace and replenished his strength by performing a blood sacrifice.

Then he calmly accepted Pan's invitation to join him on the expedition.

But at this moment, as he looked at the backs of the father and son, he felt secretly angry and obviously had no good thoughts in his mind.

In fact, the reason why Pan was lurking in the Kingdom of Lake Light was the same as Byron, with the idea of ​​listing through a backdoor listing and using Lancelot to take the blame at the critical moment.

He has not yet realized that his secret has been discovered, and of course he will not let go of this useful strong laborer.

"It's a pity. If he dies, the queen will go from being a wife to a widow. It always feels a little off."

Pan felt a little regretful, he still felt that the former identity was more exciting.

Byron stood outside the situation and saw everything clearly.

Mercurius and his sons wanted to create a melee between the clans and the wizards, so that they could take advantage of the situation and become rich in one fell swoop.

Lancelot had already seen through their true colors and was ready to give them a ruthless blow at any time.

Byron himself, who was looking at this place through the eyes of the [Love Spirit] Salome, was staring at everyone silently.

Byron came to the Corridor of Truth with the main purpose of taking back the "Gospel of Heaven", saving the Mermaid Kingdom, finding his father-in-law, taking back the "Pirate Code" and Skull No. 9 [Death].

Now "The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven" and Skull Number Nine are back in his hands.

Because of the unexpected incident, the "traitor" had not had time to send the copy that Byron had replaced to the Jackal God, and the two old gods who had regained their sanity had not had time to carry out the plan.

The same goes for the rest. The next big enough disturbance of fate might bring him things that are strongly related to himself, such as the "Pirate Code".

Even if there is nothing, it will not be too late to find it later, so Byron is not in a hurry at all. He will rely on these pathfinders to get the benefits in the kingdom of God before doing anything else.

"die--!"

"Oedipus Rex", one of the three great tragedies of the ancient Silver Empire, was finally able to survive this round of tragedy.

He took out a bone amulet from his pocket, took a look at it, and gave orders to the others around him:
"There is no rush for the Desert God System. Let's go to the God Kingdom of the [Goddess of Venus] to handle our own affairs first."

Mercury's main purpose of coming to the Eastern Continent is to remove the constraints of the divine aspect.

He used Salome's [Dance of the Seven Veils] to help him peel off the divine side in his body, and then used the corpse of the demigod to perfectly inject him with the divinity of a demigod.

Not only can it solve the troubles you have, but it may also allow you to go a step further and directly achieve the prerequisites for being promoted to a demigod.

"no problem."

"The two kingdoms of God are not far apart."

Salome and Lancelot had no objection either.

Like wizards of various schools, they each carry a disposable beacon amulet.

Although the Sea of ​​​​Source is the home ground of the clan, not all clans of the desert god system know where the eternal resting place of their god king is.

Although it is possible that the world cracks may connect to an old god and eventually form a unique secret realm.

But what's on the other side of the crack is essentially just the unconscious projection of power from the corpses of the old gods, similar to the projection of Lilith on the moon, and it's not the real kingdom of God where the other party is sleeping.

Powerful old gods can project a large amount of contaminating knowledge and power into the material world at once through world cracks.

Mortals seeking death can simply jump over there and be immediately contaminated.

But trying to take a shortcut through the cracks in the world and reach the Kingdom of God directly without going through the test of the "Rust Belt" at the border is like trying to catch the moon in the water.

Therefore, except for individual cases like [Cursed Spirit·High Priest], only the Old Gods' Favored Ones, that is, the Pope of the Old Gods' Church, can lock the position of the Lord God in the Sea of ​​Essence.

However, the amulet in the hands of the traitor not only points to the God-King Horus, there is also a second one.

Some time ago, when Pan was exploring the Rust Belt, he accidentally came across the kingdom of Ishtar, the goddess of Venus, and left his beacon there.

It can ensure stable anchoring in a short period of time and can be found again within a year.

But when they took out the second amulet to determine the direction, they were shocked to find that the directions of the two kingdoms of God, which were originally not far apart due to the clustering effect, were gradually becoming a straight line.

"What's going on? How come the kingdom of Ishtar, the goddess of Venus, overlaps with the kingdom of Horus, the god of the sky?"

"Random" just muttered to himself strangely.

collapse--!
The sound of the anchor chain being tightened was heard.

The amulets on everyone suddenly lit up, and some extraordinary power, through the connection of the beacon, forcibly locked the next secret realm they encountered into the merged kingdom of God.

The group of four suddenly disappeared from the spot.

The Rust Belt, another place where neither distance nor direction can be measured.

call out!call out!call out!
Several streaks of light flew past, close to the ground, in front and behind. Some were riding horses, some were riding donkeys, and some were riding brooms. They were Byron and his party.

The two female superior wizards, [The Little Match Girl] and [Grandma Wolf], rode on brooms, and [Alibaba] rode his donkey.

Byron put away the Golden Deer and rode with Violet on the increasingly powerful eight-legged Pegasus Slipnir, leading the way. Any messy objects blocking the way would be smashed to pieces by it.

Among the group, Byron is the strongest. The first secret realm he encounters is the "Three Deep Breaths of Silver Civilization" which is closely related to him and the Lancaster family.

After successfully getting through it, a total of 32 [Soul Gems] and pounds of [Fairy Dust] were harvested, a huge harvest.

The [Fairy Dust] worth millions of gold pounds is secondary. If Byron can digest these 0.2 soul gems, it will be enough to increase the spirituality of the couple and their two companions by 23.2, reaching .

I just referred to the suggestions of several wizards from the Storybrooke School.

In addition to taking out a small amount of samples for auction, the rest will be saved to be used to assist in the transformation of "Immortal Divinity" to achieve the best effect when the spirituality reaches the limit of 25 points.

It is estimated that at least several hundred pieces will be needed, and it will take a long time to collect them slowly.

Byron plans to send one or two incarnations to stay here permanently and work as miners.

The second strongest person in the team is Violet, the legendary whale oil mechanic [Queen of Arms].

Thanks to her, the group was able to see what the real "Rust Belt" looks like.

There was no vegetation on the endless red wasteland under his feet, and it was covered with gravel and rusty red soil. From time to time, he could see jagged human bones, collapsed steel buildings, rusted pipes, huge steel gears as high as mountains buried in the sand dunes, and steam "paddle wheels" that currently only existed in Violet's design drawings.

Through the collapsed building's outer wall, you can still see many rusty whale oil-powered machines inside. It seems that it was once a large factory.
But there was no one in sight.

The Fairy Tale Town School following behind them looked curious. Even though they had lived for hundreds of years, they had never seen such an industrial wasteland. They looked around as they walked.

Byron and Violet frowned deeply, finding the scene before them extremely glaring.

“The Rust Belt blurs space and time.

Now it feels like we are in another timeline, where we have pushed industrialization to its peak, but still failed to prevent the end of the world.

In other words, before the arrival of the Lunar Age, humans destroyed themselves for some reason.

The entire world has been transformed into a post-industrial post-apocalyptic wasteland."

The knowledge that the couple is attracted to each other is of the same origin.

After taking three deep breaths, completing primitive accumulation, and reaching its peak through whale oil industrialization, the Silver Civilization finally met its end after dozens or hundreds of years.

Industry declined, cities were abandoned, humans became extinct, and only a wasteland remained after the war.

The scene is devastated and shocking.

Don't forget that the demigod promotion ceremony that Byron prepared for himself was "world change", which required igniting the fire of change on at least one continent to push himself to the throne of god.

The larger the reach, the better.

The scene before him might be just one possible way the world could develop in countless timelines, but one can imagine the impact it has on him.

"Be careful, something is chasing us."

The oldest and most experienced [Little Match Girl] was always paying attention to the movements around her. She had just opened her mouth to remind the others when the roar of a flying vehicle breaking through the air came from behind them.

All five of them used their Divine Vision, which was quite strong, to sweep the sky and see hundreds of flying mechanical structures that looked like steam-powered iron birds appearing in the sky behind them.

White steam spewed out of the fuselage, as if it was riding on clouds.

However, there are no people on these aircraft. There are only brass metal balls as big as human heads in the cockpit, which make the "tick-tick-tick" sound of gears turning like ball bearings when the differential engine is running.

When both sides could see each other with their naked eyes, a cold mechanical voice came from above their heads:
"If you find humans, destroy them immediately! Destroy them immediately!"

"Execute Operation Plan No. 1 and start dropping bombs."

Woo woo woo.
The belly of the plane opened and countless whale oil bombs fell from the sky like black raindrops.

boom! boom! boom! boom!
The whale oil bomb exploded, creating a sea of ​​fire. Sharp shrapnel and steel balls covered every inch of space, trying to wipe out Byron and his group completely.

But before that, the five gods who reacted quickly had already taken advantage of the violent airflow, turned into streams of light and flew into the sky, creating distance again.

"This is. A plane?!"

The various anti-air capabilities of the Dragon King's Court have been developed too well, suppressing the development of the air force, but it would be a good idea to use the air force to deal with the clan.

Perhaps because of this, a huge air force was born in a certain timeline, and it was composed of drones controlled by the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine.

Seeing them, Byron and Violet were filled with emotions and were both very uneasy.

They remembered the destiny of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine very clearly:
"It will replace human jobs to a certain extent, such as painting, singing, and literary creation. It will even continue to evolve as computing power increases.

Please hurry up and improve yourself. If you lag too far behind, something bad might happen."

In the end, the supercomputing center in this timeline not only did not just work as expected, but also turned the tables and became the master.

And when they lose human control, it becomes what is commonly known as the - Omnic Crisis!
Or is it the steampunk version born in the age of steam and mechanical computers that wiped out all humans, which is a little hard for them to accept.

When the two people lost their consciousness, the other three superior wizards had already taken action.

[Alibaba] clasped his hands together and shouted:
“Close Sesame!”

Two huge transparent doors slammed shut in front of them, blocking all the machine guns on the flying construct.

I originally wanted to use the no-fly zone.

However, he discovered that these constructs were carrying spell-breaking stones, and pure spell fields were completely useless to them.

I was stunned and couldn't help but admire:
"How amazing! Excluding all supernatural powers, mortals can actually develop to this level with pure human power.

It’s really amazing.”

At the same time, [The Little Match Girl] Tricia launched a counterattack.

He took a box of matches out of his pocket and flicked them.

The matches exploded in mid-air, sending sparks that quickly expanded into fireballs as big as small houses, almost as ferocious as the great magician Xiu'er.

She is essentially a fire mage, and her power [Prayer Matches] can transform her own and other people's wishes into various things using the sparks from lit matches as a medium.

The stove, roast goose, Christmas tree, etc. are somewhat similar to the navigator's [mind mapping].

The most powerful move is "seeing grandma". Other people's indifference, selfishness, cruelty, viciousness and other negative emotions are the most powerful gunpowder.

Although there were a large number of flying constructs and they were extremely fast, they were still shot down one by one as meteors flew all over the sky.

While displaying her divine power, Tricia transmitted a message to Byron:
"Your Majesty, the King of the Wild Hunt, these constructs are much stronger than sea monsters and barbarians. They are not suitable for collecting fairy dust and soul gems. Let's retreat first."

After she reminded them, Byron and Violet finally recovered from the shock they felt at the beginning.

They looked at each other with tacit understanding, but not only did they not give up the idea of ​​continuing to develop whale oil machinery, but they became more determined.

Putting aside the issue of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, moreover, as long as they are around, things like artificial intelligence will never be able to take off.

Violet looked up at the flying construct that was approaching again and smiled coldly:
"Are they too strong? That depends on who they are facing.

If the old gods are the source of knowledge for the clan, they can decide life and death.

Then I am the source of their knowledge! They are still a little too young to do a somersault in my hands."

Byron nodded in agreement, not taking the flying constructs seriously at all, speaking with an ease that was even easier than shooting at his ancestors with the electromagnetic cannon:

“It’s no exaggeration to say that it’s that amazing.

Even if these constructs could escape from the clutches of the Silver Continent's [Holy Son], they would never be able to escape from Violet's clutches.

Because there are two holes on the palm of my brother, the Son of God. "

Tricia, Britney, Alibaba:
".What a cold joke."

However, Violet's eyes lit up, and invisible waves instantly covered all the flying constructs above her head.

In an instant, they all fell silent.

Click!Click!
Neither the machine guns nor the bomb-dropping devices were able to supply ammunition, and they all turned into flying iron boxes on the spot.

A line of prompts appeared in the consciousness of all the onboard intelligent machines:
"If you want to unlock the combat system, please watch a thirty-second ad first. Click 'OK' to start playing."

Even the onboard intelligent machine, which had no emotions, was stunned on the spot.

"What is this?"

Then the prompts are refreshed line by line:

"If you want to use the brake function, please purchase the member-only package. Members can use it three times a day for free, and additional charges will be deducted for any excess."

"If you want to use the detection system, please purchase the acceleration package, otherwise the picture will be delayed for five minutes, or purchase the advanced on-demand service."

"If you want to use the cockpit ejection function, please recharge the annual fee of 998 first."

Line after line of prompts were refreshed, leaving the onboard intelligent machine dumbfounded, and the differential machine in its brain almost crashed on the spot.

The construct has completely lost control.

It is obvious that if an intelligent machine with similar abilities has only a straight intestine, it will never be able to compete with humans' fancy operations.

When they met Violet, the legendary mechanic who mastered the [Intelligent Mechanic Protocol] and could transform herself into digital life, they met their natural nemesis.

It is equivalent to the fifth-generation aircraft fighting the third-generation aircraft. The modern army is like in World War II. Without real guns and swords, the opponent's large-scale structures can be turned into scrap metal through information warfare alone.

Snapped!
Finally, Violet stretched out her little hand, snapped her fingers, and gave the order:
"Brake all steam engines!"

At the command, all the flying constructs in the sky fell down from the sky like heavy stones.

Rumble.
The flames rising into the sky illuminated Byron and his group, who turned around and walked away without even looking at the explosion.

The strong wind swept up a large amount of fairy dust and soul gems to catch up with them, and automatically drilled into the "Golden Mist Palace".

However, just as they took out the [Atmosphere Amulet] to reposition the Kingdom of God.

collapse--!
The beacon anchor chain suddenly stretched straight, and an irresistible force descended upon them, and then they all followed in the footsteps of the "traitors".

At this moment, not only were the kingdoms of God merged, but all the wizards and clans holding beacon amulets, no matter how far or near they were, were all teleported over in an instant.

Luckily, because of the "traitor" they were holding two beacons, the first one disappeared, giving Byron, who was keeping an eye on both teams, time to react.

The waves of the River Styx rolled up under his feet, sweeping everyone into his own kingdom of God in advance, and then disappeared into the Rust Belt.

(End of this chapter)