Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 709: The World Changes, Destiny Transfers

"God, don't abandon us!"

"Spare my life, I surrender!"

The few surviving followers of the old gods saw that except for a few of their main gods who died in the battle, the rest had all run away, and each one was more skillful than the other, so they knelt down and begged for mercy.

What happened to the promise to enslave the entire world and turn humans into livestock? What happened to the promise to enfeoff the top members of the clan so that everyone can become a noble with a fiefdom?

Especially those Remit people who had just joined Lucifer with their families and had not yet enjoyed many benefits.

Their world is about to fall!

"We have money. We have treasures that the Remit people have accumulated through thousands of years of usury. We will give them all to you. Don't kill me!"

"The bad things we did were forced upon us by our clan."

"Lord, we are all believers in the Creator. The people of the Holy Spirit will not kill the people of the Holy Father!"

However, this group of people completely forgot that when they were protected by the Barbary pirates, they first followed the instructions of the church to capture the pirates of the lighthouse sequence to create artificial lantern men, and later they acted as guides for Lucifer to capture the Barbary pirate kingdom in one fell swoop.

Some of the Barbaries were eaten, some were transformed into their clans and used as cannon fodder. None of them had a good ending, including the Pirate King [Ocean Throne] Barbarossa Hayreddin.

When humanity is unified and no longer divided and provoked by the Remites with money, who would dare to keep them around? Don't they think they've been stabbed in the back enough?
In the end, no matter how the clans and large numbers of human traitors begged, they were all crushed into pieces on the spot by the armored corps that rushed over with a "boom".

Once the title effect [Iron Torrent] is activated, it will never stop.

They followed the passage created by Byron's punch, and pushed forward from the front line of confrontation between the two sides towards the heart of the Solomon Empire.

Some of the clans in the major cities in the rear received the news in advance and jumped into the Sea of ​​Monsters, or rushed into the Sea of ​​Source from the cracks in the world they controlled.

Most of the world cracks controlled by the clans have mirror islands, secret realms and projections of old gods on the other side, where a group of clansmen who are so deeply polluted that they don't even look like humans are stationed.

Having lost the protection of the law, the mortals did not dare to chase in, allowing them to escape.

At the same time, the Royal Air Force returned to the rear airport to replenish ammunition and took off again.

The advantage of a flapping-wing aircraft is that it can take off on the spot without gliding. As long as there is a flat ground, it can be used as an airport, and the logistical support can keep up.

So the Royal Air Force bombarded all the major cities under the control of the Solomon Empire from north to south, burning all the constructions of the clan for decades or even hundreds of years to ashes.

Most of the lower-class families who remained in the material world naturally became barbecue.

The wind and fire elemental riots and solar storms set off by [Sky Overlord, Grill Master] cleansed the buildings full of pollution from the old gods over and over again.

In these lands, any world rift connecting to the Sea of ​​​​Source and any secret realm are difficult to hide, and the violent conflict with the solar storm allows pilots and artificial machine souls to see them clearly.

Mark it on the map as soon as possible.

In the back, of course, there is the Whale Hunter Jack Harold, the false god who has learned the forbidden book of Leviathan, the Rift Whale, who leads people to repair the cracks.

When encountering a tough nut to crack, as long as the coordinates are provided, the artillery or air force will immediately continue to bomb for a second or third time until the target is completely wiped out.

This is the true meaning of physical exorcism!

Then Sister Theresa of Mercy brought a large number of clergymen from the Royal Church of England to hold purification ceremonies in each city, preparing to resettle immigrants and rebuild new cities and coastal fortresses.

Because all the top leaders know that victory on land is not the end, but just the beginning.

Ten or twenty years later, the "triple point" hidden in the sea of ​​monsters will surely be the first to be hit, ushering in the first wave of world-destroying floods and the returning old gods and their families.

All coastal areas of the Sea of ​​Monsters will become new fronts. If we don’t prepare to build coastal fortresses now, it will be too late to pray to the gods when the time comes.

The outcome of another battlefield in the Corridor of Truth was decided shortly after that of the Beast Paradise.

Following Lucifer's instructions, in order to relieve the pressure on the Solomon Empire's coastal defense and avoid being attacked from both the east and the west, the clan nations of the East Continent also launched a decisive battle at sea with the First Empire on which the Sun Never Sets.

Most of the dreadnoughts were transferred to the west coast of the Corridor of Truth by the fleet commander, Admiral [Holy Wall of the Sun] Bruch, forming a dreadnought fleet of sixty-one steam battleships.

During this period, the front line was turned into a meat grinder, and the rear was also not idle.

Both the shipyard and Violet’s kingdom have been expanding their production capacity, and the mechanical fortress and its affiliated factories have expanded thousands of times since their inception.

With Alpha, the central artificial intelligence, in control, and a group of artificial intelligences assisting, the size of the fleet has increased sixfold compared to last year when it fought the Pyrenees Empire!
The clan nations to the north of the Corridor of Truth also piled all their assets there.

The coalition forces consisting of nearly two hundred alchemical warships of various types accumulated over hundreds of years clearly confronted the human fleet.

However, alchemical warships are very expensive to build, and even if all the clan’s inventory is added together, it may take more than one or two years to build one. These are all the assets they had accumulated before the war.

There is no possibility of industrial explosion in the alchemy workshop under the "wartime system" of the First Empire. If these alchemy warships are consumed here, the clan will completely lose control of the sea in its own territorial waters.

Not to mention attacking human coastal countries again, even their own retreat route back to the Sea of ​​Monsters will be completely cut off.

boom! boom! boom! boom!
Dark clouds hung low in the sky, the wind was howling, and all that could be seen were huge waves. On the pitch-black sea, the rumble of artillery fire was heard, blasting out dazzling orange-red fireballs.

"Execute the ship maneuvering tactics, and each squadron's artificial ship spirits will adjust their main guns at any time.

Squadron forward three! "

Bruch's order was issued to the entire army. The two dreadnought fleets divided in half were divided into three small formations, and like two tridents, they rushed towards the combined fleet of the Families that was using linear tactics to encircle them.

Artillery fire exploded one after another on their hull and along the waterline.

The alchemical artillery was overloaded and its range was not much inferior to that of the breech-loading smoothbore artillery, which put great pressure on the lead ships of each branch fleet.

The clan has indeed grasped the essence of linear tactics, and their use of linear tactics is no worse than that of the inventor of the linear tactics of the Kingdom of Hastings. It is also unknown whether they have mastered the corresponding activation knowledge.

But Byron had already taught his officers the "ship maneuvering tactics" to restrain the "linear tactics" and predicted the update of the next version.

This tactic requires that the fleet be organized into several tactical groups that can act independently during war, using column battle formations to intersperse and divide the enemy fleet's battle formations.

Clamp one part, surround the other, and concentrate firepower to attack the surrounded and isolated enemy ships.

Then, attack the enemy command ship with all your might, paralyzing the enemy fleet's command, and then destroy the enemy ships one by one with superior artillery fire.

Bruch's advantage is that he never tries to be clever and always strictly follows the plan given by Byron.

At this time, every ten dreadnoughts are arranged in a column formation. Through their own maneuverability that ignores wind direction and their firepower, their column formation forms the most advantageous situation horizontally in front of the enemy's column formation route, which is a "T" formation.

Concentrate the main gun firepower of the entire battle group to strike the enemy's leading ship, forcing the enemy formation to only be able to use the firepower of the front guns of its leading ship.

The Alchemy Warship has cannons on the sides just like the Sail Warship. The cannons on the bow are not even considered main guns, but are better than nothing.

The firing range of the rear artillery on the entire front line was also restricted and could not be used, which was equivalent to an alchemical battleship being surrounded and attacked by ten dreadnoughts at every moment.

The key is that it only takes five dreadnoughts to launch the [Demon Slaying Order]. Once it is concentratedly fired upon by ten dreadnoughts, not to mention the alchemical battleship, even the legendary battleship may not be able to withstand it.

When the six squadrons charged into the enemy's formation for close combat, the torpedo tubes on the dreadnought also came in handy.

Amid the roar of the ship's guns, white lines underwater were rushing towards the warships behind, also producing a chain reaction of source tides. The underwater explosion was more lethal than the surface explosion.

Boom! ! !
One ship, two ships, three ships. Huge fireworks bloomed one after another on the sea, and the smell of gunpowder and the pungent smell of burning filled the sea.

The dreadnought was of course also damaged by the enemy's alchemical artillery fire, but the casualty rate was far less than that of the alchemical battleship.

If the Alchemy Battleship can follow suit, dismantle its own huge fleet in time, and also use ship maneuvering tactics, it may not be so easy to defeat this huge fleet in one battle.

But at this moment, Little Hans, the [Construct Lord] in the Dreadnought Fleet, took the lead in launching an "information war" that even Byron found very sexy afterwards.

Their artificial ship spirit technology was learned from the Crucible Church, and the same is true for the artificial ship spirit of the Alchemy Battleship. The core architecture of the two is exactly the same. In other words, the basic code of mysticism is exactly the same.

Om-!
As invisible ripples rushed into the control centers of those alchemical warships at the speed of light.

Following countless rehearsals in advance, Little Hans successfully invaded the enemy ship's artificial ship spirit in the form of digital life.

The opponent had never seen this kind of tactic before, and the defenseless clan ship spirits were quickly "brainwashed" by him.

Little Hans then usurped control of all the weapons of these large constructs, automatically turning the muzzles of the alchemical artillery towards their own people, and fired mercilessly.

"Are you crazy? Stop it!"

"We don't know what happened. The ship spirit has lost control. It has sealed the hatch. Oh no, it's going to kill everyone."

An artificially induced intelligent machine crisis immediately took place.

The killing efficiency of machines is far greater than that of carbon-based organisms.

There was a generation gap in both weapons and tactics, so it was no surprise that the clan's combined fleet was defeated.

In just one day, two-thirds of the warships were sunk.

Steel battleships are not as resistant to sinking as sailing battleships, and whale oil shrapnel shells are not comparable to solid shells. If the battleship sinks, the sailors on it cannot escape.

Many of the remaining alchemical warships have also betrayed and killed all the sailors on board.

At this time, news came from across the sea that the Solomon Empire had been defeated and the main gods had either died or fled, and the morale of the clan collapsed on the spot.

"Retreat! Retreat!"

"Don't go back. The human army is faster than ours. If we are blocked on land by them, we will be doomed.

We're going straight to the Sea of ​​Monsters."

The remaining warships could no longer withstand the huge losses and fled in panic. Under Bruch's order, the Dreadnought Fleet began to chase them all the way.

Most of the high-ranking officials of the clan nations on land went out in full force along with the fleet, and the few who stayed behind also realized that the situation was hopeless.

Without the demigod in front, they were basically fish on the chopping board, and they could not defend any of the countries and human farms on land.

A few high-ranking officials unfolded a piece of paper in their hands with sinister looks on their faces. It was the last order issued by Lucifer before he escaped:
"Execute. Dead Hand Plan!"

The Dead Hand Plan, as the name suggests, is to strike a deadly blow at one's own kingdom.

Before evacuating, they will loot all the treasures, soul gems, and supernatural materials, and also offer blood sacrifices to all the humans who have been captive over the years!
Both the Night Demon Kingdom and other old god forces support a large number of mortals.

In order to prevent the activated knowledge from randomly killing people, they did not go to school and were illiterate under the control of their clan. They had no idea that there were extraordinary powers in this world, nor did they know that they were being kept in captivity by a group of bloodthirsty creatures.

At the same time, thanks to the marriage with the "Grandmother of the Northern Continent" [Bloodthorn Rose] Elsa, the tax systems of many clan countries were established by the Night Demon.

As the saying goes, the fastest way to make money is not to create wealth, but to transfer wealth, and taxation is the redistribution of wealth transfer.

Every country has to face the problem of difficulty in collecting taxes. There are many cases where a country seems to be developing well but cannot collect taxes.

Even humans are like this, how can we expect the clan lords, big and small, to be selfless?
The "Feng Rang Tax Collection" is essentially an extremely efficient tax system that can fully cover tens of millions of individuals at the grassroots level.

Not only is [Panacea] hard currency, but it can also collect all taxes and not let any taxpayer off the hook.

More advanced than the Royal Tax Bureau's armed taxation.

It was thanks to this skill that the Night Demon was able to rule the Dragon Court together with the dragons. The situation is naturally similar today.

However, when the clan leaders were preparing to implement the "Dead Hand Plan", they were shocked to find that all their Night Demon Tax Collectors had disappeared, and the Feng Rang tax collection system had also stopped on the spot.

You know, even if there were a thousand pigs standing there, it would take a while to kill them, let alone tens of millions of humans spread over millions of square kilometers?

It is impossible to kill them all by yourself in a short period of time. If time goes on a little longer, the dark wizards of the Lighthouse Federation will descend from the sky according to the mission map given by Joan of Arc and do their best to kill the family members who are staying behind.

The main forces of the countries in the Silver Continent also marched into the Corridor of Truth with guns in hand, carrying the [Solar Storm] and the human torrent to sweep away all monsters and demons.

The slogan "Kill all the relatives and liberate the Corridor of Truth" resounded throughout the continent.

The development of the war situation was completely different from what Lucifer had imagined at the beginning. Not only did the Solomon Empire fail to complete the final Creation Mountain Sky-Falling Ceremony to cause the "Fallen World", but it also allowed humans to retake the three continents with great force.

Byron led his navy, army and air force to kill many of his relatives.

By June of the Silver Age 1474, there were no more organized clan states or armies in the entire material world, and it had completely become the world of humans!
The Night Watch, a unit that had long been incorporated into the Royal State Religion, also began to intervene, hunting down all kinds of weirdness, evil spirits, and activated knowledge.

We must turn this place back into a paradise for mankind.

The humanized world is advancing in great strides, while the natural world can only keep moving backwards.

The destiny in the dark also shifted accordingly. The three titles of [The First Empire Where the Sun Never Sets] also quietly doubled their abilities.

This is what it means when man conquers nature!
It won’t be long before humans in the Beast Paradise will no longer be just ordinary members competing with countless monsters and evil spirits; the mortals kept in captivity in the Corridor of Truth will no longer need to abide by the “Fool’s Boundary” and keep secrets in order to survive.

The three human gods of the previous era failed to do so.

It was not until Byron, the human emperor, came to power that the supreme status of the master of the human world was completely established.

Perhaps the "Spiral Age" will eventually come, but even until the last moment of the Silver Age, humans will still have the final say in this world.

Just like during the chaotic times at the end of the Han Dynasty, when even the local people were beaten to a bloody pulp, they still found time to beat up the surrounding foreign tribes.

But Byron was not satisfied with this. After ordering the establishment of a trinity deep-sea defense line around the coast of the Sea of ​​Monsters, he began another plan that he had been planning for a long time.

One day in early July.

Byron went deep into the sea of ​​monsters alone. He disappeared in a flash and when he reappeared, he had reached the edge of the collective subconscious of mankind.

Once again I saw that bizarre border area that looked like an abstract oil painting.

On a silk thread hangs an abstract City of Seven Hills and the Pope's Palace; a legless man runs faster than Pegasus; an old, skinny goat carries a hundred barrels of oil and sixty carts of salt on its back;
A stream of sweet honey flowed like water from a deep valley to the mountains; a snail swam in the Rhine and killed two dragons.
The knowledge of the material world is the nourishment for the ever-growing ocean of source. The more information is obtained, the wider its area becomes. Until now, Byron still doesn't know where its boundaries are.

Some even wonder if the Sea of ​​Origin itself is the most core [pillar of the universe]?
“If the Era of Snail Annihilation comes, the entire material world will be sucked into the seabed.

This world may soon become a vast spiritual world that completely breaks the boundaries of matter, energy, information, and even space and time, and connects all the material worlds!
At that time, the Sea of ​​​​Source might be able to become an existence above the pillar.

There is no need for flooding, just one [Spiritual Sun] can bring extraordinary power to countless worlds."

Byron withdrew his wild thoughts and laughed at himself.

His most critical task now is to strive to obtain the [Pillars of the Universe] while being promoted to the Seventh Level. Thinking about the essence of the Sea of ​​Essence is a bit too ambitious.

“Now the probability of weird and evil spirits erupting in the material world has been reduced by 70% to 80%. Humans everywhere have been able to take a breath and gradually begin to recuperate.

Next, the Old God and I will completely change our forms. I can do whatever the weirdo can do, and I can go wherever the weirdo can go. "

He raised his hand and took out the Pharos Lighthouse. The seven deadly sins that Lucifer had gathered together, a wisp of divine fire and immortal divinity were all contained in the lamp chamber.

At this moment, six rays of light were shot out, pointing to the six kingdoms of God hidden in the cracks.

Disappeared like a gust of wind in the Rust Belt.

"This time it's our turn to chase you. You ran away. Everyone, please hide well, hehehe."

(End of this chapter)