Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 676: Proof of the Overlord: The old king abdicates and the new king is crowned!

In the ancient land of Dragon Court.

The most powerful war machine in the Age of Exploration was the sailing battleship, while the most powerful war machine in the Age of Mythology was the dragon knight!

The wings of the three fifth-level red dragons stirred the air, and the triangular formation moved at lightning speed.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
The biting wind over the North Sea brushed across my cheeks, and the flowing clouds around me and the last afterglow of the setting sun all rapidly retreated.

Fernando II, serving as the tip of the triangle, felt that he was harnessing the irresistible power of an active volcano. Any enemy who dared to stand in his way would be crushed into dust immediately.

He held the [Holy Lance Longinus] flat in his hand and recited the epic poem at a rapid speed.

"When the Son of God was crucified by the ancient Silver Empire, a centurion, Longinus, pierced him with this spear."

The holy spear broke into three pieces, one of which fell into Byron's hands, and the other was still kept by a saint of the church.

This section, which was finally retained by the Habsburg dynasty, symbolizes the supreme royal power.

In order to facilitate use, it was inlaid on a rare spear imitated by a legendary craftsman, which looked golden and majestic.

With every breath, it resonated with the royal trumpet of "Orthodox" above Ferdinand II's head, making a docile low hum.

A shadow enveloped the broken holy spear, which became thicker and longer, quickly transforming into a giant dragon knight spear over ten meters long.

A bright little sun lit up at the tip of the gun, and it was surprisingly much more powerful than when Saint Matthew first used it!
You should know that there are four main types of believers in this world: "general believers, devout believers, fanatics, and true believers". Their levels of belief are higher than each other, but their numbers are smaller than each other.

There is no need to explain the two types with the largest number. Most of the gods' believers are at these two levels.

But the gods love the latter two the most.

Byron had many fanatical followers of his faith.

For the sake of their beliefs, they can ignore the law, public order and morality, and even all the good things in the world.

In order to achieve their ideals and gain the favor of God, many fanatics are willing to use the most brutal force and the most despicable means.

Even many high-ranking clergymen openly declared to believers in their writings: "If the sword can bring glory to our Lord, then we do not have to reject killing."

As long as one shouts, "Everything is for God," he will feel clear conscience no matter what dirty things he does, and God will naturally help him bear the sins.

But true believers are different. Devout believers and fanatical believers can only be considered true believers, not true believers. The two may seem the same, but in fact there are fundamental differences between them, just like the difference between fish and whales.

Devout believers and fanatical believers believe in something in exchange for something; whereas true believers believe in nothing in exchange for nothing. They perfectly fit certain ideas and characteristics of the gods.

No external objects or setbacks can change it.

For true believers, gods are not worshippers or givers, but fathers and mothers, teachers, friends, and even themselves!
Many of these true believers can even make it easy for those seventh-level true gods to complete their holy descent.

Among Byron's subordinates, only Sister Theresa who represented his "goodness", Lockhart who represented his "deception", and Bayezid who represented his "betrayal" could touch the edge of the right faith, while no one else could.

Ferdinand II was a true believer of the Son of God.

Regardless of whether this "orthodox believer" really thinks so in his heart, he has practiced it himself and put in enough effort, and with more people promoting it, the title has become real.

This title of king allows him to forever anchor his status as a true believer of the Son of God.

As a Judge Knight of the Temple Sequence, he can use all the relics related to the Son of God without paying any price. Even using incomplete relics can unleash at least half of the power of the complete version.

At this moment, as the Queen's husband, he held one-third of the [Lance of Longinus], which symbolizes the supreme royal power, and exerted at least 60% of the power of the full version.

Hearing the shouts and cries rising to the sky from the sea, his heart was filled with heroic spirit, and he also shouted:
"Take my shot, kill!"

At this time, a voice came from the other side:
"Take my shot, bang!"

Fernando II's pupils suddenly shrank, and he saw the Mithril Dragon Knight opposite him raised the "Knight's Lance" in his hand and pulled the trigger.

The rune transformed from the mass-energy equation E=mc flashed at the muzzle of the gun.

Since Elemental Lord Nicholas can use source matter to create elemental annihilation bombs, why can't Violet, who can turn any substance into an explosive, do the same?
Gun flames flashed.

A red line of fire turned into a long rainbow, illuminating the deep blue sky where even the last trace of sunset light had disappeared, and then split it neatly in half from the middle.

It can only be used once a day. The 32-fold [Death Roulette] amplifies the War Queen's full-strength attack to the extreme.

"mean!"

Dozens of translucent illusory gun barrels immediately appeared behind Nicholas, the only long-range attacker, and shot out dozens of brilliant fire lines in an attempt to intercept and detonate it prematurely.

Unfortunately, the power levels of both parties may be very similar, but their spiritual realms are very different.

Under Byron's "Everything Returns to One" level of gun fighting, those dozens of fire lines all fell into empty space without even touching the edges of their own bullets.

A long and terrifying rainbow suddenly appeared in front of Fernando II.

The latter naturally felt the terrifying power contained in it, swung the spear in his hand, and stabbed suddenly:
"Give me the Spear of the God-Slayer, break it!"

Two little suns collided head-on, and in an instant the sky over the Strait of Dover was as bright as day, and even time became unusually slow.

Stab it--!
The battlefield was filled with a sharp, tooth-grinding clanging sound.

Byron's shot did not break the Holy Lance Longinus and kill Ferdinand II who was acting as the arrow, but it did cause the spear to rise high up and vibrate violently, so that he almost couldn't hold the buzzing end of the gun.

The Spear of Longinus failed to destroy Byron's elemental shell, but only split it in half.

Two much dimmer streaks of light quickly passed by his side and pounced on the other two "Dragon Knights" who were following not far behind him.

The three of them in the trinity state are indeed comparable to the incarnations of the old gods.

The priesthood is also very unified and all come from the sun, St. Peter [Morning Light], Fernando [Corona], and Nicholas [Twilight].

At the critical moment, the two people behind all burst into spiritual power and transformed into two brilliant suns together with the red dragon under their seats.

Saint Peter held the True Cross in front of himself and chanted a prayer with all his might, and a huge silver cross exploded in front of him.

I don’t know if the ancestors of the church had any special hobbies, but whether it was the cross that nailed the Son of God to death, or the Spear of Longinus that pierced the Son of God to death, there was a hint of celebrating a funeral.

If the Son of God were to come again, this would definitely be a "special attack weapon against the Son of God" and would also be quite powerful against other people.

The projectile exploded on the cross into a blazing white fireball with a core explosion range of hundreds of meters.

The impact caused Saint Peter and the red dragon under him to tumble several times and almost fall into the sea, but they were finally blocked successfully.

St. Peter was able to escape, but Nicholas on the other side was not so lucky.

The latter used all his strength to perform [Rebound], not trying to bounce the projectile back to its original path, but also trying to deflect it out.

It would have been possible to do so with his current status bonus.

But above their heads, in the deadlocked and inextricable network of laws, a [Golden Lion of the King's Army] suddenly swooped down.

The law-breaking aura composed of the thoughts and wishes of millions of people caused the extraordinary ability of this artillery expert, who was only a single-path fifth-level legendary, to be ineffective for a moment at the critical moment.

Just this moment made him fall from heaven to hell.

Although he used the "hiding in the stirrups" trick that the knights often used to avoid arrows in time, he grabbed the red dragon's scales with both hands and hid his whole body on the other side of the giant.

It also let out a scream, and as the entire red dragon was blown into a sky full of magma, it turned into a charred meteor with blazing flames, falling down from the sky.

Only half of his life is left.

In a flash, Byron in the sky also came into close combat with Ferdinand II.

In his hand, Violet turned into a large pump-action shotgun, and with two "bangs", countless law-breaking steel balls were fired, forcing back Saint Peter who was rushing up again.

In the other hand appeared the Holy Lance of Origin that swallowed up one third of Longinus.

Longinus versus Longinus, openly and honestly, going straight for the head of Ferdinand II.

At the critical moment, the Judge Knight drove the red dragon to dive down rapidly to avoid the sharp edge, and used the butt of the spear to barely block the sharp spear head that could pierce through everything.

However, it also caused a long blood groove to be opened on the back of the red dragon under his seat, and a large piece of flesh and blood was swept away by the Mithril Dragon's tail, and a deafening dragon roar of pain came from its mouth.

Byron would not give him the chance to return to the regular battlefield.

Riding Catherine, Violet also dived, using another "Knight's Lance" to shoot coldly.

The emergence of muskets ended the dominance of the Knights Templar, and this time it will also end the dominance of the Dragon Knights.

If the laws of both sides were not in conflict with each other and each had not imposed a "no-fly zone" on the other side, it is possible that several giant dragons would fall from the sky together.

"Damn it! Using hot weapons in a duel between dragon riders, Byron Lancaster, where is your kingly bearing?!"

In fact, Ferdinand also wanted to break the rules of martial ethics.

However, he had no level 0 or level 1 holy relic musket that could hurt the false god, so he could only turn around and reunite with Saint Peter to fight the Byron family together.

The roar of heavy weapons and the roar of dragons intertwined together, bringing the air combat battlefield back to the mythological era.

On the sea at the same time.

call out!call out!call out!
A large amount of spiritual light jumped out from the North Sea Empire’s fleet, and a group of fifth-level legends and false gods rushed towards Nicholas who fell into the sea.

Now that the Pyrenees Empire has already displayed its most hidden legendary battleship skills, its last piece of underwear has been revealed.

Byron, his wife and his two sons resisted the most fierce and probably the final round of counterattack from this maritime power overlord.

The next step is naturally a full-scale general offensive!

They have accumulated so many fifth-order high-sequence transcendents. If they don’t use them now, wouldn’t it be a waste of their accumulation?
The number of high-sequence transcendents from the North Sea Empire and its colonies has swelled to 21. In addition to the family of three, there are a total of ten people participating in the battle this time:
The false gods and succubi [The Mother of Fertility] Therese, [Demon of the Abyss] Dagon, [Disease Girl] Alice;

Two archbishops, [Deacon of Twilight] Lockhart, [Sister of Mercy] Theresa; two kingdom guardians, [J of Spades] Hoggle, [Boneless] Ivana;

Parents: Hathaway, the Little Mermaid, Edmund Lancaster, the Soul Ferryman; and father-in-law Jack Harold, the Whale Hunter.

The others were scattered all over the world at this time. After the [Love Elf] Salome and Renjian escaped from the Rust Belt, they occupied the Lake Kingdom left behind by Lancelot after his death and have never left.

[Swamp Giant] is guarding the second circulation belt, [Winter Tyrant] Iowald is guarding the third circulation belt, and the kingdom guardian [Nest Master] Hawkins is sailing around the world.

Grandpa [Sea King] Atlas and [Pearl of the Black Sea] Evely were responsible for guarding the Mermaid Kingdom, while [Miracle Wizard] Salant went to the southern continent in place of his father.

Faced with this kind of lineup of the North Sea Empire, even though there were a few high-sequence extraordinary people from the Orthodox Alliance camp in the Invincible Fleet, as well as the Freedom Legends hired by the Gold Power Restoration Party, they were immediately killed and defeated.

The high-sequence extraordinary beings cooperated with tens of thousands of wild hunting legions to plow bloody furrows in the angel legions summoned by the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Among them, Alice, who possesses the priesthood of disease, and Hathaway, who possesses the priesthood of the moon, have become the absolute main forces.

In less than half an hour, under the protection of heavy troops, they worked together to take off Nicholas' head.

The [Twilight] among the three suns in the sky suddenly went out.

Fernando II and St. Peter, who were using roaming tactics, looked terribly disappointed:

"The intelligence was wrong. The number of the North Sea Empire's fifth-order warriors is too large and too strong, and has long exceeded the error tolerance of the battle plan.

Nicholas was killed, and the power of our Trinity began to wane."

At this moment, St. Peter's eyes suddenly became blank, and another distorted human face quickly emerged from the depths of his pupils.

At first, the saint's will struggled, but was soon engulfed by a crazy bloody light.

He couldn't help but drive the giant dragon under him to rush towards Byron.

Boom——! ! !
A fifth-level red dragon exploded on the spot, and the devastating explosion forced Byron, Catherine, and Violet to disperse and dodge.

Saint Peter, who was one step behind, held up the True Cross in his hand and sang the epic poem loudly:
“God says: If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.
Our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we would no longer be slaves to sin!

St. Peter, like St. Matthew before him, also publicly manifested the appearance of a fallen angel.

Not only was his own powerful spirituality madly poured into the cross, but even his vitality, flesh and blood were all contributed out at once.

In the blink of an eye, he turned into ashes and disappeared, leaving only a broken cross carrying his last will to kill Byron.

Wow.
The latter wanted to avoid the cross that was shining with silver light, but countless silver chains quickly wrapped around his body like poisonous snakes, tying him to the cross like the Son of God.

Two long nails were driven into the palms of his hands, and the soles of his feet were crossed and pierced by a nail.

Ferdinand II on the other side seized the opportunity without hesitation. Holding Longinus in his hand, man, spear and dragon merged into one, transforming into a sharp rainbow light that shot directly into Byron's chest.

A loud shout:
"die--!"

The last time Saint Matthew brought out the Spear of Longinus he was defeated by Byron. The Church certainly would not hope that the same spear would produce a completely different effect again.

This time, he decisively spent a huge amount of money to deploy the holy relic combination: "True Cross + Spear of Longinus" to re-enact the scene of the fall of the Son of God.

It is also another re-enactment of a myth with a strong mystical connotation – the death of the Son of God!
Use the weapon that killed the Son of God to kill Byron, the "Holy Spirit's Blessed One".

In the past, Byron was just a minor character, not worthy of a noble saint to confront such a clay jar head-on. By the time they realized that the situation was out of control, it was too late.

Today, even if the Pope had to exchange the life of a saint for Byron's, he would still feel that he had made a great profit.

As for whether Mr. St. Peter, who was replaced one by one, felt the same way, that was not within his consideration.

Byron saw the holy spear flying towards him and tried to struggle.

He discovered that the three nails on his hands and feet carried some powerful force of rules, fixing him in place.

He couldn't break free with his current strength, which was comparable to the incarnation of a powerful clergyman.

Byron had a premonition that if he was in this state, he would be killed by the Spear of God Killer.

Be it his nine incarnations of "one is ten thousand, ten thousand is one", the long river of blood "I will not die until the blood river dries up", or the last chance of rebirth in the Golden Triangle, all are useless.

Absolutely dead.

The North Sea Empire's side who witnessed this scene on the battlefield in the sea below all cried out in shock.

"Do not--!"

His father, Prince Sorenburg, and his mother, Hathaway, turned into two rays of divine light and flew over without hesitation to block the fatal shot for him.

Byron himself was not disturbed:
“If it was a complete level zero relic, I might really be dead this time.

Even if the incarnation of the old god came, he could not break free from the cross unless his strength could reach the sixth level.

I can't break free by myself, what about three people? Six people? Nine people?

Now it’s broken so badly!”

Before Edmund and Hathaway pounced on him, Catherine and Violet had already used the [Golden Triangle] to transform into two streams of light and rushed into Byron's body.

Byron also activated "All Things Become One" and communicated with the [Ten Thousand Winged Angel], borrowing the power of the sixth-order demigod.

Within the constraints of the cross, nine fifth-order extreme transcendents were gathered at once, plus a trace of sixth-order divine power that originated from the Son of God.

Suddenly, air began to flow on the surface of Byron's body.

When this kind of "movement" encounters the "stillness" of the surrounding rules, it is like boiling water encountering ice. Although they are essentially the same thing, the former can easily disintegrate the latter.

[Change] He can show his power on the spot. Only he can decide how to change himself. No one else can change his status!
Just when the tip of the God-killing spear was only a few meters away from Byron's chest, he suddenly turned into gas and disappeared without a trace.

clang--! ! !
The next moment, the incomplete zero-level holy relics collided head-on with the incomplete zero-level holy relics.

The Holy Lance broke into two pieces, and the True Cross broke into three pieces, and they flew out like cannonballs.

One of Fernando II's arms also exploded into a bloody mist, and he suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood.

Then, Byron, who appeared behind him like a ghost, stabbed him in the back with a gun. At the end, all he could hear was Byron's slightly mocking and frightened voice:
"It was a close call. I almost hit you."

"you"

He died on the spot.

The three suns of the "Beggar Version of Trinity" were all destroyed.

The legendary battleship skill of the Holy Trinity, “Three Suns of Glory, the Kingdom of God Descends”, suddenly collapsed, and the angel army also disappeared.

The entire invincible fleet was defeated in an instant.

"His Majesty Fernando is dead, run!"

"I surrender, don't kill me!"

Except for a very few warships in the Invincible Fleet that were still resisting, most of the others turned around and fled or raised the white flag.

The world's number one maritime power was defeated, and the "Invincible Banner" of the Invincible Fleet also exploded, no longer living up to its reputation.

People's hearts and minds and the country's destiny shift accordingly.

The old sailors may not understand the mystical significance of this scene, but they know that the old maritime hegemony came to an end here and a new maritime hegemon rose from then on.

Everyone remembered what their captain, Byron Tudor, had said when he had tricked them onto the ship:

“The laws of nature are fair. For nobles and wealthy families, every succession of their descendants is a period of decline.

After the ancestors created great achievements, how many descendants can surpass their ancestors in achievements?

Every major change in society and the world means a complete reshuffle.

The nobles and the powerful are destined to be inferior to the previous generation. In the end, the crown falls to the ground and is picked up by the next trend-setter, starting a new cycle.

Our wealthy fathers have great reputations, but we will conquer the world with our own hands!
Wealth, power, knowledge, honor, fame...all are on this sea.

The tide of the times is rolling forward, and we are the ones riding the crest of the wave. Why can't we be the winners this time?"

Today, just a few years later, he has turned his bold words into reality.

Lead the Kingdom of Hastings to counterattack and pick up the lost crown of the Pyrenees Empire!
It’s not that the “Empire on which the Sun Never Sets” that was achieved previously wasn’t shocking or great enough.

But there is no extraordinary level from one to seven among countries, and whether they are strong or not is not up to them.

Even Hercules had to complete the [Twelve Heroic Skills] to prove that he was worthy of being deified. There is only one way for the second-in-command to become the first-in-command, and that is to see blood!

Fists are power. The best way to prove that you are stronger than him is to punch him again and again until he is killed!
Don’t be fooled by the fact that the Pyrenean Empire is suffering from inflation, manufacturing shrinkage, religious conflicts, and declining people’s livelihood, which makes it look like it is weak.

In fact, the military strength is still at its peak.

Except for the North Sea Empire, no other force in the Silver Continent could withstand his counterattack.

However, when the Orthodox Alliance was defeated and the Church's first lackey was annihilated, no one could question the status of the "First Empire on which the Sun Never Sets" in the material world.

As expected, Byron obtained his own [Certificate of Overlord] and became the new overlord of sea power after the fall of the old overlord.

Feeling an invisible crown quietly falling on his head as people's hearts shifted, Byron curled his lips:
“The shares are even.”

(End of this chapter)