Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 669: Stuck in the neck? I'm so far ahead!
All the territories of the "First Empire on which the Sun Never Sets" began to stir as the morning light broke.

However, the geographical barrier that almost spanned the entire material world prevented the major forces in the outside world from realizing what was happening in the first place.

Until an ocean-going trade fleet from the Silver Continent passed through the Southern Continent and drifted in the Second Circumference for more than a month, it finally arrived at the Desert Empire's largest port, Alexandria, in the sunshine of October 10.

Just look at the flags flying on those large merchant ships and you will know that they are from the Rhine Alliance, an economic and military alliance organization composed of 160 cities in the northern part of the Holy Silver Empire.

Some time ago, with the demarcation of the Pope's meridian, the entire material world was artificially divided into two major camps: the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere.

The Eastern Hemisphere camp belongs to Protestantism led by the North Sea Empire, while the Western Hemisphere camp belongs to Orthodoxy led by the Pyrenees Empire.

All the countries on the continent know very well that the Pope wants to use the manpower of Protestantism to fight against the clans and monsters entrenched in the East Continent in order to win development space for the Orthodox Church.

Therefore, even though merchants from the North Sea Empire had already set an example and completed the first lucrative triangular trade, those non-Protestant alliance countries and forces were still somewhat hesitant and wanted to continue to wait and see.

Not only was he afraid that his investment would go down the drain, he was even more afraid that he would be burned at the stake by the court.

However, the Rhine Alliance was located in the north of the Holy Silver Empire, bordering the Eternal Night Peninsula of the North Sea Empire. There were also a large number of Protestant princes gathered within its sphere of influence, so it was naturally framed.

However, they also have massive commercial assets in the areas controlled by the Orthodox Union, and they have no choice but to bow to the Orthodox Church.

Before the situation becomes clear, they can only bet on both sides and helplessly act as fence-sitters.

Boom!
A large merchant ship docked and a well-dressed young man jumped off the ship with several capable clerks.

Looking at the exotic buildings of the Desert Empire in front of him, he sighed:

"What bad luck! Why did my family assign me a task and send me to the East Continent?

Just because my mother died early, and my brother's mother is young, beautiful, and coquettish, and is more favored by the old man?
Will my life from now on be tied to this route and this piece of land?
well! "

Heinrich came from the most powerful branch of the Rhine Confederation: the Lübeck International Trading Company, which held a pivotal position in the alliance.

He thought of his father who was unwilling to take risks and was more optimistic about the Orthodox Alliance, and his own bleak fate of being completely squeezed out of the core of family power and having to come to the East Continent to take the risk of establishing a trading post.

I couldn't help but feel dejected and felt that the future was bleak.

At this time, the chief clerk following behind him had already connected with the port staff reserved by Byron and began to unload the goods for customs inventory.

Hearing Heinrich's sigh, he stepped forward to comfort him:
"Think positively, sir.

At least the triangular trade is lucrative enough, and we are following the North Sea Empire quickly enough. The first to enter the market can always make more money, right? "

The young man did not feel relieved and shook his head:

“How can it be so simple?
The goods need to be shipped back to the company for sale, but the local relationships and real estate need to be built from scratch at our own expense.

But haven't you noticed that the [Lighthouse Matrix] established along the route requires the support of Silver Law. Without legal support, how can the safety of settlements and colonies be guaranteed?
Our task is to choose a suitable location to build a business station or even a private trade port. If we can't even guarantee safety, who would dare to increase investment in large infrastructure with a long payback period?"

“The triangular trade is doing well now because it is still small in scale and locals can meet their needs by bartering with stocks from previous years.

But this kind of scattered transactions cannot last long. Even if you have valuable land, you must continue to invest in development in order to tap its value.

Orthodoxy has now firmly grasped the most vulnerable necks of overseas colonies!
The official hot war between the two sides has not yet begun, but all kinds of tricks have been launched. Now it is the cold war stage between the two major camps.

How do you know that His Holiness the Pope won't take action now, but will wait until the pig is fattened before killing it?

Even if they cannot consume it themselves, they can sell this land to the old gods' followers and monsters to cheat the North Sea Empire.

You think they can't do it?
Although His Majesty Saint Byron has a strong record in battle, that is the [Silver Law] that has ruled the Old World for more than a thousand years, and there is no substitute.

We may be buried with this land someday.

On the other hand, the southern continent developed by the Orthodox Alliance is not only relatively safe, but also has

Boom!
At this moment, a dull sound was heard from behind, as if a heavy object had fallen onto the wooden plank road.

Heinrich looked back and saw a long wooden box fell to the ground. Several nails had fallen out and the box was almost falling apart, revealing the contents inside.

But she was a beautiful "girl" with fair skin, rosy complexion, wearing a white lady's dress, and with shiny blonde hair.

He became furious and pushed away the sailor who was carrying the box. He then carefully took the "girl" out of the box and carefully checked for any damage.

His face was full of pain:

"My Ophelia, this is a private collection that I got from the Empire of the Sun with great difficulty. It's my treasure."

His fingers moved, and an invisible thread suddenly tightened. The girl in his arms suddenly opened a pair of brown eyes like glass beads and stood up by herself.

She hugged Heinrich's arm tightly like a frightened little rabbit.

It turns out that this delicate and lovely girl, who looks not much different from a human, is not a living person, but a new type of doll made of "rubber", a specialty of the southern continent.

As for Mr. Heinrich, who came from a wealthy family, he was not from the common Gold and Yuan sequence among businessmen, but another unconventional Hall Sequence Level 3 [Puppeteer].

The southern continent is rich in rubber. When Atahualpa entertained Byron, he gave him a rubber contraceptive relic [Happy and Carefree], which was eventually used on Edward IV.

Then Byron imported rubber all year round and used it to mass-produce steam engines.

When a puppeteer like Heinrich encounters it, he immediately regards it as a treasure, as if he has met an angel destined for him.

Soon after, in addition to [puppets], a new branch of puppets was created, rubber puppets - like glue and wife!
Use rubber as the main material to make a rubber doll that is extremely similar to a real person, or even a lifelong partner.

Both the touch and appearance are much better than wood.

Mr. Heinrich is obviously a typical representative of them.

He was overjoyed to find a treasure and used his [Puppet Transformation] ability to make several girl dolls. Naturally, like countless innocent boys, he became a heavy model man.

He looked at the innocent, ignorant doll girl in front of him, and felt even sadder. He couldn't help but curse:

“There is nothing good in this world, except for the beautiful puppet girls. With them by my side, how can I bear to die easily?

Pope! I will fuck your whole family! "

He took advantage of the fact that he was not from the local area and did not give the church any face at all.

The group of clerks following behind him were startled and quickly stepped forward to cover his mouth.

The chief looked helpless and whispered to himself:
"My dear young master, is it possible that Mr. Heinrich sent you to the East Continent to fend for yourself because you only love puppets, wooden puppets, rubber puppets, but not flesh puppets?

There is no way to leave any descendants for the Heinrich family?"

But it's useless to say anything now.

All of them had either offended someone in the Lübeck International Trade Company, blocked the way of their connections, or believed in Protestantism.

Even without Heinrich's special hobby, he would still be exiled to the East Continent.

A group of people have a similar mentality to this young master. They don't feel safe here. Although the sun in the sky is exceptionally bright, it can't dispel the haze in their hearts.

Until a clerk took a blank customs declaration form handed to him by the port customs officer and picked up a pen to fill it out.

But unconsciously, I saw the unfamiliar country name and customs seal on the customs declaration form, and my eyes suddenly widened.

I couldn't help but stammer and exclaimed:
"Wait wait wait come and see, I seem to be unable to read all of a sudden."

Heinrich didn't even have time to sigh. He quickly came over and read the words word by word:

". Arrival: Desert Empire. Eastern Lancastrian Dynasty Alexandria?"

The eyes of the group of people were all as big as bells. They rubbed their eyes hard and looked again, and found that they were not mistaken.

"The House of Lancaster? Is that the Lancaster I thought it was?"

"We can only dream of bringing down the prices of those specialties. Has His Majesty Saint Byron simply conquered the Desert Empire?"

The customs officer at the port did not show any surprise at the look on his face at the group of people. It was the same expression on his face when he received the news through the legal network just now.

But as they continued to talk, I couldn't help but open my mouth to remind them:

“Your Majesty Saint Byron did not conquer the Desert Empire, he just ruled the world of the dead in the Lower Desert Empire as the God of the Underworld [Osiris].

After we die, we will all belong to him.

The Pharaoh of the world is actually the son of Saint Byron and Cleopatra, the Sun God Amon Lancaster, who was born and crowned this morning. "

A group of people just thought that their eyes were broken, and now they began to wonder if their ears were broken as well.

Of course, they had already collected information about the Corridor of Truth before they came.

Everyone already knows the name of Cleopatra VII, the ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of the desert empire.

Even though the outside world doesn't know that she has been promoted to demigod, the title of "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" is enough to spread throughout the material world.

Which adventurer, merchant, or sailor who comes to the Corridor of Truth doesn't want to see with his own eyes how beautiful the most beautiful woman in the world is?
Everyone was confused by the news and muttered to themselves:
"It has only been a short time since His Majesty Saint Byron opened up the new route? Not only has the most beautiful woman in the world already fallen into his arms, but she has even given birth to a son for him?
Is this the world of gods?"

But surprisingly, everyone found it difficult to feel jealous of Saint Byron for getting the beauty back.

The gap is so huge that even jealousy makes me feel unqualified.

Finally, the customs official left one more sentence before leaving:
"By the way, Her Majesty the Queen has issued an edict that from today onwards, the [Bronze Law] administered by the East Lancaster Dynasty will be open to legal entrants from outside.

Your Majesty, please rest assured, guests who have come from afar, the Desert Empire will focus on the [Bronze Law] and supplement it with the [Silver Law] to construct a lighthouse matrix and a trimaran-style collective subconscious.

It is just a pipe dream for the Silver Continent to remotely control the Corridor of Truth.

Our Lancaster Dynasty is already far ahead in all aspects! "When the strength was still weak, the existence and strength of the three laws needed to be kept secret. Now Byron has successively taken over the West Coast and Iris, and the equity is only one step away from becoming the highest in the world.

I'm too lazy to play the pig anymore.

In order to make money, they also gave a reassurance to the friendly forces supporting the Protestant Alliance.

There may be some unlucky ones among those who can engage in transcontinental ocean trade, but they are all smart and can immediately figure out the cause and effect.

The Pope and the Orthodox Alliance, who thought they had the upper hand, were clearly fooled by the North Sea Empire from the very beginning.

After being stunned, there was an irrepressible ecstasy:
“Hahaha, the Creator is blessing me!”

"I'm investing in this project. Bet! All in!"

"This is my home from now on. No one can make me leave."

I originally thought that this mission would mean exile, but I didn't expect that the last step would miss the target and I would end up in a golden mountain. Fate is so bizarre.

Choice is always more important than hard work!

Similar things were happening at all the major ports in the Corridor of Truth. All the resentment that had been pent up for several months was swept away at this moment, and the ocean-going merchants and adventurers cheered loudly.

Even happier than them were the citizens of the North Sea Empire who had nationality.

Before the Age of Discovery began, except for a very small number of geniuses in human society, few people were able to independently complete spiritual sublimation before adulthood.

Most extraordinary people begin to take on certain social responsibilities as they grow older and gain more experience, and then they gradually awaken.

Extraordinary people over the age of 20 are the mainstream.

Later, as precious spices flowed into the Old World, the awakening rate of the children of the upper-class nobles increased significantly with the help of potions and spices, and the lower-class civilians, who made up the largest number of people, remained the same as before.

In order to monopolize supernatural powers, the potions and spices of the upper class would never flow to the common people, just like capitalists pouring away excess milk.

As the rate of natural spiritual awakening increased by 100% from the original basis, the difficulty faced by everyone was instantly reduced a lot.

Many citizens of the empire who had been stuck at the threshold for many years had just basked in the sunlight and had naturally completed their awakening.

With the accumulation of many years, the first round of awakening in the entire First Empire of the Sun never sets achieved an explosive blowout.

The fate of countless people was completely changed from this day on.

No matter where these people lived in the colonial empire, when they gained clairvoyance and could touch the three laws around them, they immediately knew why they were able to awaken and who they should thank.

"Praise the Sun King!"

"Praise our wise emperor!"

"Praise our Empire!"

Countless voices of praise almost instantly blocked the legal network, and the faith and willpower gathered on Byron soared.

The "collectivism gene" and "berserker gene" that have been fully awakened among the citizens of the empire have also given the complex multi-ethnic groups a vital commonality.

Common character and values ​​form a unifying cultural bond.

The originally very loose "Five Gulf Countries, the Iris Kingdom, the West Coast, the Yucatan Island and the Lighthouse Federation (not necessarily the United Kingdom)" suddenly had unprecedented cohesion.

Even in the beacon Confederacy, which was still fighting the Civil War, a voice echoed in the collective subconscious: "Our necks are as red as the sun."

The collective subconscious between the three continents has been separated for countless years.

Even with the implementation of the three major laws and the start of the triangular trade, it will take more than one or two years to see results.

The First Empire on which the Sun Never Sets used a huge and sophisticated political system and national cohesion to reinforce this subconscious cycle, greatly increasing the speed of integration.

From now on, the elders’ care for the younger generations will inevitably include a very critical one:
"Get more sun and all diseases will be cured."

This is not just psychological comfort, it is really useful.

Just like "drink more hot water", it has become a warm family motto for many people in the First Empire.

At the same time, this wave of awakened people were discovered by the gods canonized by Byron at the first opportunity.

The relevant departments immediately sent out an admission notice, inviting them to the corresponding public schools to study grammar and corresponding extraordinary knowledge.

There are two major prerequisites for taking up the Ladder of Glory sequence: spiritual awakening and prerequisite knowledge.

After the overall improvement of the spiritual awakening rate, the prerequisite knowledge is no longer a difficult task for them. In fact, the learning cost of the latter is reduced much more than that of the former.

In the past, bagasse paper had only been popular for a short time and not much change was seen. Now, after a long period of fermentation, it has gradually shown its power.

Even if many young people have not entered specialized supernatural training institutions, they have benefited from the spread of knowledge driven by bagasse paper and become wild supernatural beings.

The newly established public schools at all levels in the North Sea Empire, as well as vocational schools covering the entire supernatural career system and even black magic, have greatly increased the speed of talent training.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to the Lighthouse Sequence and Tower Sequence which have a 20% promotion speed bonus, there are two vocational colleges that are particularly outstanding.

A civil engineering school under the "infrastructure maniac" Li Wang Construction Company claims: "If you want the best excavator technology, go to Li Wang in the Golden Empire."

The other is the New West Cooking School where Alfred, the part-time principal of [Blood Red Whiskey], claims: "If you want to be a gourmet, go to the New West. It gathers famous dishes from all over the world and trains elite chefs!"

Byron did not exclude dissidents and massacre pagans like the church did.

Instead, he made the cake of the extraordinary people bigger and bigger. As the two grew stronger, he would be able to defeat the church sooner or later by relying on the equity, even if he did nothing in the future.

In the bedroom of the Desert Empire, Byron, who lived there permanently, lay leisurely on a rattan chair, taking in all these changes through [Divine Vision] and [Bronze Law], and said with great satisfaction:

“The logbook says I have an anchor from ‘proper history’.

Although I don’t know if it’s correct, from the first time I set sail from Anchor Bay to now, I have brought some good changes to the world. Not bad, not bad.”

"Hush! Byron, the children are asleep."

The most beautiful woman in the world next to her raised a jade-white finger to her lips and made a gesture.

The third child, Amon, and the fourth child, Nut, were better developed than ordinary children, but for now they could only laugh and simply call out: "Father" and "Mother".

Babies are still babies after all. After playing with their parents for a while, they fall into a deep sleep.

In their dreams, they will slowly accept the inherited memories, keep learning and improving, and one of their souls and bodies will always be on the road.

Cleopatra waved her hand and sent the children to the children's room next door, then she turned around and snuggled into Byron's arms.

She did not become complacent with her current leading position, as she knew very well that her main enemies had always been the old gods outside the world, and her current achievements were far from enough.

She discussed her next plan with Byron softly:
“I plan to gather wizards to rebuild the [Solar Ship Heliopolis].

The two most important people to me are you, the Sun King, and Amon, the Sun God. When the Loyan Era arrives, you two will be the first to be affected.

This is the most likely thing that can help you in the short term.

Horus, the source of the pollution, is dead, so there is no need to worry about it getting out of control.

Even if someone dares to lay a hand on me, I can kill him with one sword!"

Cleopatra, Amon, and the mother and son Nut can put together their core priesthoods: [Life], [Magic], [Sun], [Night], and [Stars] to build a solar boat.

If knowledge is not enough, power can make up for it.

It is equivalent to regarding oneself as a transcendent source and personally "polluting" the concrete form of truth.

Turn the embodiment of truth [Solar Boat Heliopolis] into your own sixth-order artifact.

Byron was moved. If Catherine was the anchor and Violet was the sail, then Cleopatra was another frigate beside him.

Moreover, as a mother, she is strong. After giving birth to the child, she becomes more gentle to herself and the child, but she is murderous towards all threats and takes precautions everywhere.

After a moment's hesitation, he hugged her arms tightly.

“It just so happens that after you were promoted to [Magic Goddess], you gained a new power [Mysterious Root: Knowledge of All Laws] from the core priesthood [Magic].

There is no black magic or supernatural knowledge in this world that you cannot master, and not only can its power reach the limit of the original owner, but there will also be no side effects.

Calling himself a 'doctor of witchcraft' is not an exaggeration.

I just obtained the title ability [Solar Storm] of [Sun King], which represents the ultimate energy of the material world. It shouldn't be a problem for me to guest-star as the solar furnace.

You can gather them together into your power in the form of fire, and you should be able to exert a power that is no less powerful than mine.

Come, while the sun is shining outside, I will light a fire for you."

As he spoke, his hand reached for her belt.

Unexpectedly, the queen suddenly got out of his arms, giggled and ran to the other end of the rattan chair, one of her white and slender bare feet pressed against his chest, her rosy red lips seemed to be smiling:
"Is this how you pass on fire? Are you sure you want to give me fire? And not something else?"

Byron raised his big hand and grasped the queen's smooth soles, gently stroking her smooth calves, and nodded seriously:
"Trust me. That's how Fire is spread."

The queen's other bare foot slid down his chest naturally, her eyes full of charm and allure:

"Then play it?"

(End of this chapter)