Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 501: Spiral Lens, History Book of Time

"Huchi. Huchi"

The road in the tropical rain forest was rugged and bumpy. The Barbary people who had been running for a long time in the night were all panting like bellows.

Some people couldn't run any longer, so they pleaded with the leading pirate captain Schindler:

"Mr. Schindler, is there no way for us to actively call for backup?
Is there any way to send the distress signal to the neighboring Barbary Pirate Kingdom? His Majesty Barbarossa Hayreddin of the Ocean Throne will definitely not allow those crazy people of the Remit to continue to do whatever they want.

Even retract the promise to allow them to establish a country here and drive them back into the sea."

The Barbaries are a pirate group that is in no way inferior to the Bay People. They have many extraordinary people in the Lighthouse Sequence and are ruthless in their bones.

Suddenly, the Remit people who had taken him in with such good intentions retaliated against him. Besides feeling absurd, all that was left was a surge of rage.

Everyone thought that those bankers of the "Money Restoration Party" were crazy as they dared to rob and kill the Barbary people who had a pirate king in charge.

But they didn't realize at all why no one from other church countries that were more familiar with the Remit people and had more dealings with them took them in?
It was simply because the Barbary people's hometown was far away on the west coast and they had never suffered any losses from the Remit people.

The story of the farmer and the snake was actually destined from the beginning.

Hearing their words, Schindler could only smile bitterly:

"Ask for help? Didn't you realize that when we fell into the trap earlier, we were bribed by the Remit people's 'hush money'?
I am just a second-level [Pirate] of the Lighthouse Sequence. The opponent's rank is higher than ours, and there is no way to be immune to his ability.

Don't think that Ocean Throne can come to rescue us. There is nothing we can do now except escape."

[Hush Money] is one of the abilities of [Pawnbroker] in the Gold Yuan Sequence.

As long as you take their money, you will never leak a single word, nor will you reveal any information that is unfavorable to the pawnbroker.

The normal usage is to deliberately drop gold and silver coins on the ground and let others pick them up, thereby achieving the effect of the ability.

But these people are even more shameless.

They created new tax laws directly in the lands they occupied, specifically targeting non-Remitans:

"In this land, breathing in is taxed, breathing out is taxed, holding your breath is taxed, and stopping breathing is taxed.

There is a tax on tying shoelaces, there is a tax on wearing shoes, there is a tax on going barefoot, and if anyone dares to protest against the above taxes, they will also be taxed."

Therefore, if you accidentally step onto the land they have fenced off, you will be immediately charged and put in debt.

If the tax is not paid to the Remit immediately, the [hush money] will take effect immediately.

What follows is a one-sided battle royale game.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Before they ran too far in the rainforest, flying stone ropes were thrown out from the dense rainforest behind them, tripping many Barbary people and throwing them to the ground.

The stones tied to both ends of the rope pulled the rope in circles due to inertia, entangled their legs tightly.

Before he could break free from the rope and continue running away, a musket was pointed at his head.

"We can't run away. They will catch us all before we even reach the river."

"Fight them!"

Someone raised his arm and called out, and the other fugitives responded one after another, drawing their Fisher swords and loading their muskets.

Schindler's only organized escort unit also lined up neatly and lifted up the "deck clearing machine".

However, before Byron regained the throne, the deployment of bolt-action rifles was still restricted and was not equipped to their freight unit.

Then, the forest on the opposite side shook, and one by one, the elite Remit slave-hunting team members came out with a sneer, not taking their resistance seriously at all.

The elders among the Barbary people shouted angrily on the spot:
“You despicable Remit people, have you lost your ability to tell who is the great king and who is the lesser king in the Southern Continent?

Or do you think the sword of His Majesty the Pirate King [Ocean Throne] is not sharp enough?

You must be crazy to dare to attack the Barbary Pirate Kingdom!"

The slave-hunting team turned a deaf ear to the questions of their "prey".

They are authorized by the church to carry out confidential missions, and they will not be told that their targets are the Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinaries like them, either level one or level two, the more the better.

The Remites are not stupid either.

Although they were willing to serve as the black gloves of the church and the Puppet King, they were not brainless and reckless men.

The bankers first used their most powerful "cash power" to anonymously place orders in major black markets, intermediaries, slave trading companies, and military dispatch companies to capture extraordinary slaves throughout the colony and completely muddy the waters overseas.

Then he secretly attacked the neighboring Barbary people, who had a very high proportion of lighthouse sequences.

The Remit people also knew that if they only captured the extraordinary people of the Lighthouse Sequence, they would be exposed soon, so they might as well capture them all at once.

At that time, only the extraordinary people of the Lighthouse Sequence will be handed over to the church, and those of other sequences will be resold, making a lot of money by the way.

Slave hunting is one of their traditional businesses, and they are already very familiar with it. They have secretly done several slave operations along the border, and nothing went wrong.

He even planned to plan an isolation zone, drive some pagan Barbaries in, let them produce Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinary People continuously, and he would only need to harvest them regularly.

It is the same as the domestication of wild animals and the raising of livestock in ancient times.

As for the pirate king [Ocean Throne] who was regarded as a guardian by the Barbary people?
"Hmm."

The slave-hunting team sneered and split to the sides. A middle-aged priest in a white robe stood out from the crowd. A white halo around his head completely illuminated the dim woodland.

But he did not have the simple appearance of a proper clergyman at all. His silk robe was embroidered with gold thread, and every button was made of gems. He also held a gorgeous golden staff in his hand.

He was covered in jewels and precious stones. At first glance, one would think that he was not a clergyman of the Creator, but a believer of the God of Wealth.

The fact is similar. The holy emblem hanging around his neck is not the silver cross of the church, but the jeweled hexagram of the Remit religion.

This shows that he is a priest of the Remitian religion, one of the three religions with the same origin.

The most important thing is that he is wearing a brilliant [Saint's Ring] on his right ring finger, and every move he makes is accompanied by a majestic holy light.

With his appearance.

clang!
The swords in the hands of the Barbaries fell to the ground one after another.

Schindler, who had some experience, was instantly in despair and uttered a word with difficulty and powerlessness:

"Holy Saint?!"

If they knew more about the church, they would find that the [Saint's Ring] in the other party's hand was actually different from that of other saints.

Although the ring faces also had the holy cross emblem, others' were pure silver-white, while his was a red as solidified blood.

In fact, just as there were actually four people in the "Three Musketeers", it is also common sense that there were thirteen of the twelve disciples of the Son of God.

The ancestor of the Remitians was one of the original twelve disciples, but after he betrayed the Son of God for the famous relic [30 silver coins], he hanged himself.

The rope he was hanged on became the [First-Class Relic: The Confessor's Rope] (Chapter 238), and is now in the hands of Byron's ally Sister Teresa.

At the same time, because the ancestors of the Remit people betrayed the Son of God due to greed, it indirectly reflects the control of money and power over human nature.

The power of wealth was demonstrated, and the "Gold and Yuan Sequence" was born.

The Remit people were also the first to shout out the motto: "Money speaks, truth is silent."

The other disciples took back the [Saint's Ring of Authority] that belonged to the traitor, selected another disciple from the followers of the Son of God to make up the twelve places, and re-forged a new ring of authority.

For many years, the thirteenth ring belonging to the ancestors of the Remit people has been sealed, and no orthodox clergy dared to wear this ring with powerful power.

Just because a terrible curse appeared on it!

The Son of God was born in the first year of the Silver Age. He declared himself the king of the Remit people and preached the doctrine to the believers again.

It was still the period of Remitian rule, and the Remit nobles who were greedy for wealth and power were afraid that their power would be taken away by him.

Not only did they not acknowledge the Son of God as their God, but they persecuted Him.

Eventually, the Son of God was executed for "treason", and the traitor's [Holy Ring] turned into a [cursed object] that carried the "destiny of the destruction of the country".

While possessing great power, there are also unsolvable side effects:

"Anyone who wears it, or even just has any connection with it, will suffer from perpetual displacement.

It is impossible to obtain our own land and establish our own country, and we can only be a wandering nation forever.

All future generations will have to atone for their contempt for the 'King of Kings'!"

This curse even spread from the Saint's Ring to the entire Remit tribe.

So, for more than a thousand years, they wandered around and encountered misfortunes everywhere, and were hated by the Silver Empire, major city-states, church countries, the Star-Moon Empire, and other countries and ethnic groups.

Because no matter who their neighbors and rulers are, and whether they are good or bad to them, the Remit people will stab the parasitic objects again and again, and then start wandering again.

This also makes them completely inconsistent with their claim to be descendants of the Creator.

There is another rumor in the Old World:

All the sufferings that the Remit people endured were because they had deviated from the Lord's teachings, committed too many evil things, and refused to change despite repeated admonitions, which led to the Creator's relentless desire to destroy them.

However, due to the law that "good people don't live long, but evil people leave their mark for thousands of years", its vitality is too tenacious and it is difficult to completely eliminate it.

The only lucky thing is that, because they had already suffered from this "country-destroying curse" a long time ago, they were naturally no longer afraid of the side effects of the power ring.

When the saints of the Council of God proposed a deal to them, they immediately agreed.

A rare fifth-level legend of the Temple Sequence [Twilight Deacon] within the sect put on the ring of authority and became the unorthodox thirteenth saint "Saint Joseph".

Even though he got to the position through the backdoor, which resulted in some flaws in his strength, it was not a problem for him to be on par with a normal [King].

The "Golden Restoration Party" that originally needed to rely on the protection of the [Ocean Throne] suddenly began to tremble, and without hesitation stabbed the Pirate Kingdom in the back.

This is also the result that the church wants to see.

One is the Remitian Church, and the other is the Holy Spirit Church. Only by making the other two of the three religions with the same origin fight each other to a bloody pulp can the traditionalists have the opportunity to free up their hands to solve the Protestant problems within their own ranks.

The moment Saint Joseph appeared, all struggles became meaningless. What's the difference between this and encountering the final boss right after leaving the Novice Village?
With the support of foreign forces, the already weak Schindler couldn't even save himself, let alone the Barbary people. But he didn't want to sit and wait for death.

In addition to being one of the first captains, he is also a member of Byron's family and has obtained emergency contact authorization. Even if he is silenced by the "hush money", it does not mean that nothing can be leaked.

Phew——!
A bloody eagle soared into the sky from behind him.

This is a pet beast made by torturing the enemy to death using the black witchcraft of the Bay people [Blood Eagle Punishment]. In its claws, it is tightly grasping a blank list with only Schindler's name written on it.

He knew very well that his captain had extraordinary insight, and any clues could help him find him. Once he found the [Oceanic Throne], he might be saved.

Saint Joseph on the opposite side just raised his hand, and the blood eagle and the list turned into ashes in a burst of holy light.

"Want to ask for help? I would also like to try the power of [Ocean Throne], but it seems that there is no chance this time.

Take them all away.

In our eyes, there are no civilians, women and children. All those who appear on the border are "pirates"!
Men were pirates, women were pirates, old men were pirates, children were pirates, non-Barber rescuers were pirates, and anyone who dared to sympathize with them was also a pirate.

Remember, we are doing the good cause of eliminating pirates."

Saint Joseph was very satisfied with himself for having cut off the last hope of his prey, and he no longer cared to find out what the Blood Eagle was holding.

But I didn't know that the list was a piece of bagasse paper.

The moment Schindler signed the list, it was presented on a certain page of the [First-Level Relic: Key of Omniscience] as a pre-agreed distress signal.

Early the next morning, Byron saw the blank list on the [Key of Omniscience] and found that he had lost the sense of Schindler's relative.

He immediately arrived at the collective subconscious ocean as [Sea Hunter] Byron Tudor and appeared on the lighthouse that belonged to him.

Now Byron is running all the way to the fifth level. The height of this lighthouse is close to 18 meters. Compared with other lighthouses around it, it looks like a giant.

With powerful anchors all over the world, the lighthouse remains as solid as a rock even if it serves as the Lantern Bearer of both Treasure Island and the Rift Trench.

The light released from the lamp room at the top of the lighthouse illuminates for hundreds of kilometers, dispelling the darkness and filth in the sea of ​​source opposite.

When Byron first took up his post in the Lighthouse Order, he obtained this lighthouse of his own and became qualified to illuminate others.

Now it has grown into the tallest and largest one in a huge area, silently protecting the other sequence buildings behind it from wind and rain.

Farms, fortresses, temples, tribunals, arenas, cemeteries...too many to count.

On the coastlines on both sides of him, there are thousands of lighthouses like stars.

Each lighthouse represents a transcendent being in the lighthouse sequence, and together they constitute the first line facing the vast black ocean, the "Sea of ​​Source".

There are towering towers that radiate light as bright as the sun, and there are also small lighthouses that were built not long ago. Although the light is dim, it represents the endless hope of mankind.

The network of [Silver Law] above their heads connects everyone together, and together they constitute the only bright color in this dark sea.

The clear distinction between light and darkness is deeply shocking.

"This is the spiritual dam of the human race.

'Humanity is supreme, and honor belongs to the collective' has never been an empty phrase.

Since the Silver Age, generations of ancestors have built such a stable continent in the Sea of ​​Essence.

No matter what the original intention of the Creator was, no matter how crookedly these crooked monks in the church recited the scriptures, they ultimately made a significant contribution to the human race.

However, the source sea is rising more and more, and I don’t know how long this dam that uses the method of ‘blocking’ to control the water can last.”

Byron looked down at the sea. The water, darker than the night, was constantly swirling and surging, slowly swallowing up the light in the ocean of humanity's collective subconscious.

Some low islands and reefs have been gradually submerged, proving that the "intertidal zone" has truly arrived.

"Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to influence the entire world yet, so I should first solve the problem of the disappearance of the Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinaries.

If a large number of Lighthouse Sequence Transcendents are lost in a short period of time, even this 'deep sea defense line' built around the collective subconscious of humanity will be breached."

He reached out and moved an anchor chain connected to the lighthouse, connecting to the largest lighthouse on the entire deep-sea defense line - the wonder of civilization [Level Zero Holy Relic - Faros Lighthouse].

His body instantly became ethereal, and the next moment he appeared inside the huge lighthouse. In front of him appeared Delia, the [Navigator] of the Golden Deer.

The girl with platinum blonde hair had already helped Byron get ahead of him and smiled as she lifted his skirt:

"Captain! Father is waiting for you, please follow me."

She successfully advanced to the third level after just one voyage with Byron. Her parents also relaxed a lot of restrictions on her. At least she didn't have to wear the same old black robe all the time, and her personality also became a lot more cheerful.

Under Delia's guidance, Byron met her father who was on duty - one of the vice presidents of the Lighthouse Federation, the fifth-level legendary navigator [Spark] Rudolph.

This was not the first time the two had met. Besides being colleagues, they also had Delia's personal relationship, so there was less polite greetings.

Byron went straight to the point and explained his purpose to Rudolf, and also outlined the approximate area where Schindler and the transport team disappeared.

His plan was very simple: if he encountered difficulties, he would seek help from the organization.

As a member of parliament, once I get a clue, of course I have to hand it over to the Lighthouse Federation as soon as possible.

In such troubled times, it was discovered that an unknown organization was secretly hunting down Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinary People and was also able to block his perception.

How could Byron, the Storm Lord of the Lighthouse Sequence, dare to fall into the trap?

Be reckless when you need to be reckless, and be timid when you need to be timid.

It would be safer to have a powerful organization like the Lighthouse Federation, which represents the collective interests of the Lighthouse sequence, take action.

After Byron introduced Schindler's situation, he asked:
“President Rudolf, the Farrow Lighthouse is a Level 0 holy relic. Most anti-divination methods should not be able to prevent the lighthouse from locating, right?

How come the mastermind hasn’t been caught yet?”

Rudolph smiled bitterly:
“In theory, that’s right.

If more fuel is invested, the Pharos Lighthouse will be able to illuminate every lighthouse in the collective subconscious of humanity and provide them with additional protection, so that they can respond immediately to any accidents.

And once an individual applies, their location in the real world can even be pinpointed.

But the prerequisite is that the place where those Lighthouse Sequence extraordinary people disappeared is in the Old Continent where the [Silver Law] is the most powerful.

Even if there was a higher-level zero-level holy relic suppressing it, the case would have been solved by now.

The biggest problem now is that the farther away from the Old World, the less efficient the light transmission becomes.

Even the Bantaan Islands require a lighthouse network for transit, not to mention the southern continent which does not even have a complete nautical chart.

All the missing cases occurred in the southern continent, and we cannot track down the enemy at all."

Rudolf said this, stood up, took Byron and walked out of his duty room to the dome of the lamp room on the top floor of the lighthouse.

A mirror is refracting the light of the burning Leviathan whale oil into the ocean of the entire human collective subconscious, becoming one of the most important sources of light in the spiritual world.

Rudolph pointed to the lamp room and continued to explain to Byron:

“We also know that the Pharos Lighthouse is a 2,000-year-old design that is no longer in line with the times.

As technology advances, we are always looking for ways to upgrade it.

However, as a level-0 holy relic, the entirety of the Pharos Lighthouse cannot be modified in any way.

It had to be at least a first-level relic with great influence to be successfully assimilated into a whole and upgraded from level one to level zero.

The last upgrade was to replace the original bronze mirror with the [world's first glass mirror]. How could it be so easy to continue to improve the performance of the lighthouse in a short period of time?
This is according to our president who holds the inherited title of "Fire Thief".

Under the same conditions, the efficiency needs to be improved by at least 20% to effectively cover the Bantaan Islands, and the efficiency needs to be improved by 50% to cover the southern continent.

Only by increasing efficiency by 100% can we penetrate the dark fog of the Echidna Triangle. If we want to take a picture of what the Eastern Continent looks like, the efficiency may need to be increased several times.

And the higher the efficiency, the stronger the suppression of the world's cracks will be, and maybe even the Great Flood can be delayed for a few years."

"So the key to everything is the efficiency of the lighthouse?"

Byron's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered something good.

It’s not a “new invention” that I just thought of, but it’s something I’ve remembered for a long time. It’s a pity that I haven’t found a good opportunity to bring it out in the past.

Only when you help others in times of need can they appreciate the value of charcoal. People will not do foolish things like doing good deeds without leaving a name.

If you can help others a lot and gain benefits and fame yourself, why not do it?
Now that there is a real need, he will no longer hide his shortcomings.

Having made up his mind, Byron took out a huge piece of bagasse paper from the snakeskin bag and spread it on the ground.

Under the puzzled gazes of Rudolph, Delia and a group of staff, he activated the [Hand of Wind Element], picked up a few feather pens and multitasked, quickly drawing a somewhat strange mirror design on the paper.

One side of the lens is smooth and shiny, while the other side is engraved with many concentric circles from small to large.

In Byron's previous life, this thing was called Fresnel lens, also known as spiral lens. Its texture was designed based on the requirements of light interference, disturbance, relative sensitivity and receiving angle.

Ordinary people cannot understand the principle just by looking at the design drawings, but it is enough to know the effect.

Lampshades made of Fresnel lenses can greatly improve the efficiency of lighthouses.

Before its invention, even the brightest lighthouse beams could only reach 12 kilometers, but the light emitted by a Fresnel lens can reach up to 36 kilometers away!

Later scientific tests showed that a lighthouse would lose nearly 97% of its light using an open flame, and about 60-80% of its light using a reflector, but a Fresnel lens would only lose a maximum of 20% of its light.

In other words, once the lampshade is replaced, the efficiency of the lighthouse is not increased by 20% or 50%, but by a full 3-4 times!
Of course, there is no Fresnel in this world, so its name naturally became "Saint Byron Lens".

Before the actual object was produced, Byron put the final stroke on it.

The design drawing of the "Saint Byron Lens" simultaneously appeared on the [First-Level Holy Relic: Key of Omniscience], and the entire book was filled with golden light.

Although it has not yet completely transformed into a level-0 relic, a new ability suddenly hit Byron's heart.

——[History Book of Time]!
There is only one effect: "Modify everything. History."

(End of this chapter)