Pirate Kingship

"Byron, what's wrong? Why are you laughing so happily?"

Catherine and Byron gave Atahualpa some advice.

They also warned him not to go back to the Royal City of Cusco, which is too close to the Sky City of Machu Picchu, where local high temperatures of 4000℃ are likely to occur, and people will die of heat if they are not careful.

It was agreed that he would be able to collect the equipment of ten heavy-armored combined battalions, and a banker advisory group would be delivered together when the trapdoor was opened at the end of the month.

The latter hung up the communication happily, ready to make a big splash in the Empire of the Sun.

The two siblings landed lightly on a small island not far from the east coast.

Byron helped his sister sit on a smooth reef, half-knelt on the ground, pinched her slender ankle, and prepared to help her change a pair of high heels.

The two grew up together in a coastal city, running wildly on the private beach of the prince's territory all day long. Byron followed his sister's buttocks since he was a child, and served as a shoe boy for her.

Until today, he has become the emperor of two empires, and it is natural for him to do such things, and he does not feel that there is anything wrong.

He took out a pair of spare crystal high heels from his pocket space and took off the remaining shoes on Catherine's left foot.

The five toes are crystal clear and slender, and the curved instep is as white and smooth as a crescent.

The toes are painted in bright rose red, like a delicate rose with dew, which is amazing. Holding it in your hand is as delicate and lovely as a work of art, and you can't bear to let it go.

Catherine was held by Byron's little feet, and she felt the scorching heat spreading upward along the white soles of her feet, dyeing her white bare feet, tender calves, and even her beautiful cheeks with a red glow.

Her breathing became slightly heavier, and her whole body gradually exuded a sweet fragrance.

Although they had been "child brides" since childhood and had been married for nearly 20 years, Catherine was never as open as Violet, who was born as a pirate princess, and was particularly shy.

Byron found it interesting and was about to pinch it hard, but he suddenly saw something interesting in front of him and was slightly startled.

After waiting for a long time, Catherine found that Byron had not moved. When she couldn't help but twist her feet and wanted to retract them, Byron came back to his senses and laughed.

The girl immediately realized that Byron should have switched perspectives just now and was attracted by the other incarnations or the things happening around the two ravens and the two giant wolves.

But in the past, any interesting or important information would be shared with her and Violet through the Golden Triangle as soon as possible, but this time it was not shared, which made her more curious, so she asked directly.

"No, nothing.

It's just that Wu Ni has locked onto the 'traitor' [the one whose name cannot be mentioned] and is following him to his most central lair."

Byron just saw through the eyes of the Raven Wu Ni, the 'traitor' who fled the Elysee Palace in a panic, and who was limping as he walked, after suffering so much torture from Louis XI.

The 'traitor' used his own power to seize the identity and sense of existence of the male favorite Nicholas, but his 'divine side' was born because of the fate backlash of the 'angel of ten thousand wings'.

In the past, when the Raven went to Florence to chase his tracks, because of the power, they could not find each other even if they passed by each other.

Now, they can clearly observe each other at close range through the 'divine side'.

As for the 'traitor', the Raven is still an invisible transparent person.

This time, it can be said that the evil will be punished by the evil.

The "traitor" who had killed countless kings and heroes in history and even secretly murdered at least two ancestors of the Lancaster family was obviously miserable in the hands of Louis XI this time.

The more interference he exerted on fate, the more correction power fate would give him.

The previous "natural disasters" might not kill him, but now the "man-made disasters" can make him live a life worse than death!

If he didn't want to alert the enemy for the time being, Byron would have wanted to post his experience directly to major tabloids:

"A young man in the Elysee Palace fled in the middle of the night with his butt covered. Is this a moral decline or a distortion of human nature? "

"A story that a man and another man have to tell"

"Shock! After reading his story, men and women were silent."

The romantic Iris people like to hear and see this kind of story the most, which is enough to make the "traitor" completely socially dead, and the anchor that has been painstakingly cultivated for many years will be broken in an instant.

It is not completely impossible to fall and lose control on the spot.

It's just that it's not convenient to tell Catherine more about the inside story. The relationship between girls is called lily blossoming, but the relationship between men is called chrysanthemum cough cough.

It's better for her to know less about this kind of thing.

Although Catherine was a little suspicious, she felt that Byron had received professional training and would not laugh casually no matter how funny it was, unless he couldn't help it. He must have something happy that he didn't share with her.

But she didn't pester him, but just said eagerly:

"Since we have caught his tail, why don't we do it now?

The two of us together are at least equivalent to five normal fifth-level people walking on one leg. It's definitely not a problem to take down a cripple him."

However, Byron was not in a hurry to act, but took a look at the multiple timelines presented in the [Sunstone Calendar], and determined the opponent's most likely follow-up actions by coarse and fine.

"Don't rush to act first. It's difficult to predict a person's action pattern at ordinary times.

But when he is injured, he must return to the base camp that he thinks is the safest and most secretive to lick his wounds.

We take this opportunity to find out his identity, origin, all the forces under his command, the source of forbidden knowledge, and his motives for betraying humans.

Moreover, the "traitor" and the forces under his command are the important support of [The Clown] in the material world.

Killing him alone is not enough. It would be best if I could uproot this force before I leave for the East Continent so that I can set off with confidence. "

And Byron didn't say one more thing.

Both his aunt and cousin hoped that he could inherit the throne of the Iris Kingdom.

If Byron said that he cared about the relationship between relatives and didn't want this rich land and the 20 million people who could be converted into believers and power, it would be too hypocritical.

For an offshore country like the Kingdom of Hattings, it is inherently deficient, lacking strategic depth and resource endowment. In addition to being a "shit stirrer", there is actually no other way to choose.

And if you want to become a world hegemon, a vast land that will not rebel and a large population are necessary prerequisites.

Only in this way can we ensure that once new technologies emerge, they can be immediately available. With the help of the huge domestic market, complete industrial chain, and industrial structure without shortcomings, technology can be turned into reality.

Even directly reduce the price to cabbage, leaving other competitors with no way to go.

Otherwise, no matter how much development there is, there is a limit, and you can only watch yourself being replaced by the second or third "world factory".

Therefore, within the core ruling range, the more territories that can bring positive benefits, the better.

The narrow North Sea Empire is the five countries of the Gulf People, but the countries along the North Sea coast also include regional powers Iris and the Netherlands.

"It's not that I want to step on several boats, I just want to give every country and its citizens a warm home.

What's wrong with this? "

It's just that Byron couldn't restart the war at this juncture, and use military means to continue to let Hastings and Iris love and hate each other, and consume the limited power of mankind.

But if the "traitor" and Louis XI "turned from love to hatred" to start a deadly fight, or even perish together, he would also be happy to see it happen.

As long as Iris has no legal heir, then his chance has come.

As for the affection between distant relatives?

What is that? I have never heard of it.

At the beginning, the throne was not taken back by relying on the external aid of the Valois royal family, wasn't it to be independent and not interfered with by any outside forces when making major decisions?

As for the problem that the old revolutionary base loves to chop off the king's head?

Would I be afraid of beheading? What a joke!

"I always feel that the throne of Iris is more suitable for the dream title of [Sun King].

To conquer an empire where the sun never sets and to be the [Sun King] is the beginning of 'I am the state'. "

Byron was thinking this in his mind, and he had already helped his sister put on her crystal high heels and helped her stand up.

Just as he was about to inspect the production base of the "Standard Whale Oil Company" and then go home, Byron's [God's Vision] that could cover a radius of dozens of kilometers suddenly discovered a noise coming from the other end of the island.

A glance took in the scene over there.

A group of old gods' followers with white, brown, and black skin and a very complex race pushed a young man who looked like a mixed-race child to the foot of a pointed pyramid.

Each of these followers was blind in one eye, and the remaining eye was flashing with pale golden fire. They stared at the "prisoner" and asked sternly:

"Tell me, where did your accomplice take the things? "

A huge fourth-order mythical creature with a human face, lion body, eagle wings, but no eyes, was circling around the young man, as if choosing where to attack.

After seeing their appearance, Byron and Catherine couldn't help but frown:

"What a coincidence, it turned out to be the Blind Church that believes in the [Eagle-Headed God] and the [Lion-Headed Goddess] and the [Blind People], a clan that likes to hurt themselves the most? "

As the Era of Luo Yan approaches, secrets are revealed one after another, and they learn more and more about the various churches of the old gods.

The core priesthood of the old gods [Blind] and [Falcon God] Horus is the god of heaven, so his eyes represent the sun and the moon respectively.

Whenever the new moon appears, he will become a blind man and transform into [The Eyeless].

In order to express their worship to the gods, the Blind Church likes to dig out their eyeballs after defeating the enemy, or sacrifice [Blind] and [Falcon God] with a bloody slaughter.

In the end, they will dig out the eyeballs of all enemies as sacrifices and food, part of which will be sacrificed to the gods, and part of which will be enjoyed by themselves.

They treat their enemies ruthlessly and I am actually the same.

All believers will dig out one of their eyes when they join the church, just like everyone at the scene has only one eye, and the other eye socket is empty.

When they are promoted to the fourth level, they will sacrifice the last eye, completely abandoning the sense of vision, so that they can gain the ability to peek into the future.

In addition to the most common humanoid [Eyeless], there are mainly two types of fourth-level mythological creatures:

One is [Sphinx] with a human face, lion body, and eagle wings, usually male;

The other is [Griffin], with an eagle's head, wings, claws, and a lion's body, and there are both males and females.

What they have in common is that they all have no eyes.

This should be a forbidden route that combines the God King [Hawk-Headed God] Horus and the God Queen [Lion-Headed Goddess] Hathor.

Just like [Rift Whale Leviathan] has both the two mythological forms of the Witch of Disaster and the Tide Hunter.

The [Sphinx] stared at the captive with his eyeless eye sockets and asked coldly:

"Do you know that the Blind Church serving our Lord [Hawk-Headed God] and the Rotten Swamp Tomb serving [Jackal God] are looking for you and your accomplices?

Tell me, where did you hide the crystal skull containing the "authority of the underworld" of the Beast Paradise of the Southern Continent?

You can suffer less if you tell me."

Hearing this, Byron raised his eyebrows.

When Atahualpa was looking for the remaining three crystal skulls, he found that the ninth skull [Death] had disappeared from the east coast and immediately reported the situation to him.

I didn't expect to connect the clues here by accident.

I can't help but sigh. Although others don't know the epic corresponding to the crystal skull and can't use the power of the holy relic, there are still people who know the goods.

Especially for the death god [Jackal God] who has regained his sanity, the holy relic is insignificant, but the authority inside is the key to prying the natives of the southern continent.

The significance is far more important than a single second-level holy relic.

However, the plan of the Old God Church obviously went wrong. An unknown force intervened and stole the things and took them to the East Continent.

Byron guessed that the most likely person to do bad things to the Old God was a human country on the East Continent that was the first to be impacted by the Luanyan era.

Only they have this motivation and ability.

Seeing the captive pursed his lips and remained unmoved, the Sphinx grinned a vicious smile and continued:

"According to the rules, as long as you can guess my riddle correctly, I will not hurt you, but if you answer incorrectly, your flesh and blood and wisdom will belong to me.

Now please listen to the question.

What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs at night?

When it has the most legs, it is also the slowest and weakest.

As our Sphinx's most powerful riddle, no one has been able to answer this question so far. I sincerely hope that you can be the lucky one."

The young man obviously also knew the Sphinx's killing rules. He pondered for a while, gritted his teeth and finally opened his mouth to try to give an answer:

"A lame lion?"

The Sphinx grinned and showed a creepy smile:

"Wrong answer!"

Wave a claw casually.

"Ah--!"

Accompanied by the young man's howl, the Sphinx actually took out his two eyes in an instant and stuffed them into his mouth happily.

Then he ate a lot, and everything that this eye had seen entered his mind.

After searching carefully for a while, he suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of the East Continent, muttering:

"The things were sent to the Desert Empire, the largest desert in the world that is difficult to reach even the deep sea.

And the mastermind behind the scenes is. [Sedge River Flower Snake], [Queen] Cleopatra VII?

At the same time, is she also the [World's Most Beautiful Woman] certified by the collective subconscious of mankind, with infinite charm and capturing countless men under her skirt?

Things are a bit troublesome."

When Byron and Catherine accidentally learned another secret of the East Continent, another raven, Fukin, also swaggered into the Palace of Danfengbailu.

Standing outside the window, he saw the "great uncle" [Victory King] Charles VII who was lying in bed.

Long-term illness and torture made him emaciated and pale. Not only did he no longer have the demeanor of a king, but he looked like a dried corpse.

As the King of Iris, he was not without conditions to seek help from black magic.

But the root of his illness was just because he was too old. It was rare for people to live to be seventy. His life was about to end and his energy was exhausted. Ordinary black magic from overseas could not save him at all.

At this time, he seemed to have noticed the existence of the raven, opened his hazy eyes and looked out the window without any focus, and uttered a subtle and dry murmur from his throat:

"Joan of Arc. Are you. Coming to pick me up?"

Although the famous saying: "Iris can only win the battle under the leadership of women, foreigners, and dwarves." is not objective.

But if Joan of Arc had not supported him, [King of Victory] might not have been able to sit on the throne of Iris in his lifetime.

Until now, the land of Iris is the private property of Lancaster.

But when Joan of Arc was captured by Hastings, then tried and burned to death, Charles VII did not rescue her.

At the moment of death, it seemed that he still couldn't let go of this matter.

Byron thought of the "Joan of Arc" who was resurrected in the Corridor of Truth as a legend in the mouth of the [Jackal God], and it was difficult to judge the grievances and hatreds of the older generation.

In the end, he just collected a hair of his "great uncle" and flapped his wings to fly to the meeting hall.

Louis XI had been conspiring with his trusted ministers here for a while.

"Everyone, the intelligence personnel I have planted in the Poor Knights have reported that the Knights have determined that the legendary Paladin Grand Master [Holy Fist] Grover will never return.

Prepare to convene the Knights to hold a meeting at the headquarters of the coastal town of Tulip Castle to elect a new Grand Master.

When the time comes, we will be here to catch all the members of the Knights in one fell swoop!"

The ministers had no objection.

There are more or less secretly controlled ghost ships in various countries, and they have obtained a pass to and from the edge of the world.

Even if Byron didn't say anything, the whereabouts of [Noah's Ark] and the legends of other countries have gradually come out.

Many ghost ships have seen the orange-red patch next to the "Bottomless Pit" when they entered and exited the edge of the world.

Even the source of the immortal blessing on [Holy Fist] is the top level zero holy relic [Golden Ark of the Covenant].

There is the foundation of the silver law inside, the [Slate of Holy Words] inscribed with the Ten Commandments of God and Man, which even demigods cannot break.

But they were very sure that even if the church held the power of "earth", there would be no saint who was greedy for life and afraid of death to save him.

Being trapped on the edge of the world and unable to come back is no different than being dead.

So when the final vote was taken, everyone agreed.

"Second!"

"Second."

Everyone's face was full of excitement.

The Poor Knights are the largest creditor of the Iris Kingdom. By coincidence, their headquarters is located within the Iris Kingdom.

Even including [Holy Fist] Grover, most members of the Poor Knights are Iris people.

The Holy Poor Knights own more than 870 castles and 9,000 manors or territories in the church countries. They also started the earliest financial industry and are one of the most financially powerful international organizations.

The annual net income is close to ten million pounds, far exceeding the fiscal revenue of many kingdoms.

While occupying a large amount of Iris' business interests and having tax-free rights, the Knights have become a huge unstable factor that shakes the royal power.

No matter who sits on the throne, it is impossible to tolerate the continued expansion of this huge complex of economic, political, religious, and military organizations.

Moreover, the Knights not only have their own money, but also the money of countless savers and loan contracts from loan customers.

This time, as long as I use the creditor disappearing technique, Iris will not only no longer have to pay off the debt, but I will also be able to obtain a huge wealth that can rival the country.

When the time comes, use a fire dragon to burn the deposit certificates of those savings customers. What you are looking for is the Poor Knights. What does it have to do with me, Iris?

Then take the loan contract to find those loan customers, not even a penny less!

This means that deposits can disappear and loans must be repaid.

Louis XI gave the final word:

“The election meeting will start next Friday, and the time to take action is also scheduled for this day.

Codenamed ‘Project Black Friday’. "

The finance minister added with a smile:

“When the news gets out, the financial sector in the stock market on the online financial street will surely plummet miserably.

Don’t forget to sell in advance, hahaha.”

The ministers burst into laughter.

The top three stocks in the financial sector are now:

The "United Bank of the Netherlands" controlled by the Remites, the "Pioneer Bank" managed by Catherine, and the remaining ones are the "Holy Cross International Bank" under the name of the Poor Knights, which is also the world's earliest multinational bank.

By then, even the knights and the bank will lose all their money, won’t they have to fall into a state of decline?

However, the Bay Folk God King Woden is the root source of "Wednesday", and the God Queen Frigga is the root source of "Friday".

Byron and Catherine's online financial street codenames are Mr. Wednesday and Ms. Friday.

Picking such a code name is clearly the same as pointing at Ms. Friday and scolding: "It's green! It's green!"

After hearing their arrangement through the raven's ears, I didn't know whether Ms. Friday would be green or not, but her fist was already hard.

Start sharpening your sword and be ready to unplug the "network cable" of the Iris Kingdom at any time!

This is the beauty of being both a player and a referee.

But before that, a piece of good news allowed the two of them to put all the mess behind them and return to the industrial center, Rapids Fortress, immediately.

——The difference engine and analysis engine are about to complete the final assembly and successfully roll off the production line!