Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 532: Angel of Ten Thousand Wings, Guardian of the Kingdom

Looking at the group of people in front of him, especially the reactions of the Protestant representatives, Byron nodded silently in his heart.

The exposure of “one king and two queens” was not due to carelessness, but was intentional from the beginning.

Even if the entry [My rules are rules] did not appear, he would take advantage of today's coronation to reveal the identities of his two queens.

In the past, Byron felt that this matter could not be made public in the short term because once the rules set by the church were challenged, there would be an iron fist of sanctions (Chapter 429).

This "short period of time" refers to the time during which the church can always maintain its peak dominance.

Looking back to the heyday of the church, a single papal decree overwhelmed the entire Old World:

"All monarchs should kiss the Pope's feet"; "The Pope has the power to depose the emperor"; "The Pope has the power to release the people from their oath of allegiance to evil rulers"; "The Pope alone has the power to appoint and dismiss bishops"; "The Pope alone has the power to make new laws".
There are even more outrageous decrees: "The Church has never made a mistake and never will make one"; "No one who is not in harmony with the Church can be considered a believer"; "The Pope can order his subjects to accuse their rulers".
Every decree is digging graves for the rulers of various countries, and even stepping on their faces into the mud one by one before they die.

It was even more restrictive than the Magna Carta, which specifically restricted the royal power, but no monarch dared to resist theocracy.

After the owner of the [Crown], Emperor Henry IV of the Holy Silver Empire, suffered the "Humiliation of Canossa", theocracy reached its peak.

If Byron had been born in that era, he would not have dared to have any bad thoughts towards the church, and would never have thought of "one king and two queens" until his death.

At most, one of the two sisters could be queen in the Old World and the other could be queen in the colonies.

But even if they had foreseen that the Reformation was inevitable, who could have imagined that the church's hegemony would collapse so quickly?

A religious war equivalent to a large-scale civil war broke out at any time, with high-sequence clergy stabbing themselves with two swords.

The fighting power that dominated the whole world has dropped to this level in the blink of an eye.

In addition, with the passage of time, Byron has already been given a new title:
"The son of the prophecy of the revival of the people of Taiwan; the outlaw who killed two cardinals; the potential competitor for the position of captain of the church; the first regional power that dared to destroy the church and confiscate the church's property"

Among these deeds, which one is not a thorn in the eyes and a thorn in the side of the traditional church?

A mere heresy that destroys the sacred institution of marriage is just a small matter.

I've already stabbed them twice, so it won't hurt at all if they get hit by a big bag of ass.

Moreover, the two ravens had already hijacked relevant intelligence while monitoring their next primary target to seize the crown: the Kalmar Union.

The crown prince appointed by the Queen of Eternal Night, the bear man Ulysses, is preparing to attack Hastings on behalf of the Orthodox Church.

Anyway, my face is already torn, so what's the big deal?

“So, compared to the attitude of the church, the feelings of the two sisters are more important.

As a good and responsible man, you should not only treat everyone equally, but also treat everyone equally.

It is an offshore country with unique advantages, and it has a commerce-breaking fleet and the legendary battleship Golden Hind that is expected to take the second place, and is only one step away from competing with the Invincible Armada for the top spot.

If you have the guts, come to the sea and bite me.

Some people fight to be the best in the world while standing, some people fight to be the best in the world while sitting, some people are invincible in land battles, and some people are the best in naval battles.

Now, I, Saint Byron, am the sky of this North Sea!"

At this time, the congregants in the auditorium also recovered from their shock one after another.

Just as Byron expected, except for a few people who looked unhappy, most people's first reaction when looking at the three glittering crowns was not that they were heretics, but:

"Miracle! Another miracle!"

If the Storm King could arbitrarily control the weather with a decree, then the two queen crowns now were completely beyond human capabilities.

Jealousy only occurs when the gap is small; when the gap becomes a chasm, all that's left is admiration.

What's more, the one whose ruling power is being challenged is the church, which has been bleeding for a long time, not them, so the people of Hastings are completely indifferent.

Or rather, as Byron's community of interests, they felt honored.

Especially those represented by [Holy Hammer] Oliver, who couldn't help but feel excited.

“Creator! Is this really a miracle you created through one king and two queens to demonstrate your mighty power that is always with us?
The core power of "Heaven" in the [Silver Law] belongs exclusively to the Almighty Lord.

No one in this world can change the laws except our Lord, but Saint Byron did it.

This is something that every believer should ponder deeply.

Today's anti-Christians are in urgent need of a banner to counter the Orthodox Church, and we must unite all like-minded people who are willing to tide over the difficulties with us and reverse the Orthodox Church's selfish escape plan.

Perhaps it is time we took the lead in recognizing St. Byron as the Messiah, giving him his due, and providing some support to the Kingdom of Hattings.

We Protestants do not have much desire for power. As long as we can survive the future flood, it doesn’t matter who is the captain.”

The more important point in the subtext is.

Even though the Paladins are known to be invincible at the same level, not all of the five Protestant saints are Paladins, so five versus seven is still a huge disadvantage.

Not to mention there is a pope who wears the triple crown of pontifical tiara.

Many people in the church inevitably became pessimistic, feeling that their ideals might not be realized.

Byron's miracle at this time was like a shot in the arm for them.

[Holy Hammer] Oliver and a group of Protestant representatives looked at Byron and the two queens with fiery eyes.

However, the scene was not completely free of noise.

"Blasphemy, Your Majesty, you are blaspheming God, the Church, and marriage!"

Unexpectedly, the person who jumped out was not a foreign envoy, but a neutral noble who had followed the Marquis Neville to defect to Byron in advance and thus survived and was not purged.

Human nature is complex. It is impossible to simply label someone as a good person, a bad person, an ally or an enemy and everything will be fine.

Just like the indignant Earl of Nottingham, he was not only a member of the neutral party but also a devout Orthodox Christian.

His situation is similar to that of the Queen of Eternal Night. These converts care about the interests of the church more than the Orthodox Church itself, and fully support the church both in spirit and in action.

In order to prove their piety, there were many cases in history where people donated all their property in addition to the tithe, which led to their family falling into poverty and entire families starving to death.

For the same thing, due to their different standpoints, their perceptions are completely different from those of other people.

For the sake of faith, pros and cons become secondary matters.

When Byron was crowning himself, he wanted to stop it, but was held down by the neutral leader, Marquis Thomas Neville, who was also his brother-in-law. This time he could no longer hold back and jumped out.

Moreover, in the minds of people like them, defending the church is the most just cause, and even martyrdom is a worthy death.

This kind of superstition that cannot be pulled back even by eight bulls is the most difficult to deal with. If it cannot be properly resolved, Byron’s new personality will be largely destroyed.

Moreover, his identity is sensitive and he is a relative, so we cannot just kill him.

The Earl of Nottingham continued to question Byron:
“The Gospel of Creation says: ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.'

Excuse me, Your Majesty, have you ever heard of the words "husband and wife threesome" appearing in any book that dictates how mortals should live?"

Hearing his accusation, Catherine and Violet, as well as their cousin Edward and his wife who were watching the ceremony, could not help but frown.

Especially the [Headless Horseman] Anne Neville, who was almost pissed off by this unreasonable uncle.

Just as he was about to go forward and drag him away, he was stopped by Byron.

His expression remained unchanged, and instead he felt relieved because a "chicken" finally jumped out today.

His eyes fell on the Earl of Nottingham and he chuckled:
"Count, you yourself said that the Gospel of Creation is the Creator's instructions on how mortals should live.

So what do these instructions have to do with me?
Is not the Trinity the essence of the Creator's power?"

These words made the Earl of Nottingham, who had been looking righteous, stunned.

When he heard the other party's question, "Who in this court is suing me?", he suddenly realized that the person in front of him might actually be a god?
Byron looked up at the high sky and the thing that was breathing with him in the dark.

He has always walked on three legs, and there are three routes for promotion:

“The most basic [Storm King] needs to have another “Pirate Kingship”, and then continue to collect crowns to form a [Crown] that belongs exclusively to the people of the Bay;
[Night Demon King] has a promotion path common to all fifth-tier gods. The wider the diocese, the more believers there are, the richer the will and power, the stronger the strength. Eventually, he can build his own kingdom on earth and be promoted to demigod.

The spiritual realm above [God-seeing] and [God-descending] is the 'all things return to oneness' that is exclusive to the gods."

“Now that we have taken the kingdom as planned, we must proceed with the three routes simultaneously.

Raising the banner of faith, they gradually erode the base of faith in the Creator.

This is why I chose to break through the [False God] first! "

At this moment, in the Book of Books, the Scripture of Scriptures, the forbidden book "The Gospel of Heaven" which contains all the knowledge of the [Old Gods] in the mythological era.

The Creator, who was constantly breaking apart and dispersing the divinity of the gods, had already split off an angel who was highly homogeneous with Byron.

They were exactly the same as the Angel of Death Azrael, the Angel of Blood Lamia, the Angel of Power Asiya, and others he had seen with his own eyes.

"I'm done pretending. Let me give you a little shock from heaven."

With a thought, his ability: [Golden Triangle] was activated, relying on the power of the two queens to form a solid foundation for himself.

A brilliant golden triangle rose behind the three people, and the substantial concepts of stability, immortality, and permanence instantly filled the hall.

Byron adjusted his breathing, resonating with the unconscious angel in the dark, and drawing in a trace of His breath.
A strong wind blew throughout Canterbury Cathedral, and everyone within the area felt uneasy, as if a huge stone was pressing down on them.

Immediately, it seemed as if a high bell from heaven rang from the bottom of everyone's heart.

A white light lit up in the middle of the golden triangle, and then rapidly expanded like a flower bud, revealing a great and sacred figure.

Then, everyone, including Byron himself, finally saw clearly what the new angel that split from the Creator looked like.

Countless wings like the wind are stacked one upon another, appearing and disappearing at will.

The congregants wanted to count the total number of wings, but they all felt dizzy and it seemed as if a strong wind was roaring in every groove of their brains.

It seemed as if the souls of the witnesses would gradually melt away in the wind and become one with the entire world.

The few mid-sequence transcendents who were more firmly anchored tried to open their eyes wide, but they could only see a black-haired boy emitting soft holy light among the countless layers of wings, with a golden halo shining above his head.

It’s just that this angel’s body is covered with storm wings that represent freedom, but His body is tightly bound by heavy chains.

It seems that he has absolute freedom, but he can't move a single step.

This strong symbolism that goes straight to the root of the problem makes many people blurt out subconsciously: "The Bound Creator!"

As soon as the thought came to mind, a hymn from heaven suddenly rang in everyone's ears:

"Holy, Holy, Almighty God!

In the morning our voices pierce the clouds and reach the holy land;
Holy, Holy, Merciful and Almighty,
Glory and majesty are all in one;
Holy, Holy, All Saints Adore,
Wearing a crown of gold, and surrounding the shores of the crystal sea;
Millions of heavenly host bowed down and praised the name of the Lord together."

This time, the Protestant clergy could not help but kneel down on one knee, not to Byron, but to this sacred being who had a faith connection with each of them.

The others all fell to their knees on the ground.

The Earl of Nottingham, who had just started to question, showed a look of shock, struggle, relief, and finally fanaticism.

All images of the Creator in the mind are fundamentally replaced by this angel.

I couldn't help shouting out loud:
"Praise the Holy Spirit! Praise the Winged Angel Saint Byron!"

In the mental network where the three people were inseparable, [Mithril Dragon] Catherine smiled happily for Byron.

It vividly demonstrates what it means: The two-year period has arrived, and we welcome the return of the "True Crooked-Mouth Dragon King"!
Obviously, the part of divinity that the Creator split apart specifically for Byron is called the Ten Thousand Winged Angel.

Orthodox angels have different levels of power according to the number of wings. The six-winged Seraph who once helped the church kill the source of the Black Death, the God of Funeral, is equivalent to a demigod.

What level is Wan Yi?
Even the various angels from "Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven" whose true forms are actually the angels of the old gods, have varying degrees of deformity and distortion, manifested in a large number of eyes, wings, varying degrees of bestiality, and so on.

But the size of the wings of the Ten Thousand Winged Angel is also intimidating enough.

Regardless of whether he is truly the Holy Spirit who has descended to the world, at least his identity as a "favored one" of the Creator has been completely confirmed.

However, Byron's "Everything Becomes One" has not reached 1% of the realm, and he cannot control the [Ten Thousand Winged Angel]. He can only "borrow the power of the tiger" like the blue-haired man in the past.

At best, we can use information pollution to force some of the Creator’s low-level believers to convert face to face.

But who knows he is just kidding?
Just look at the Earl of Nottingham, who in the blink of an eye went from a devout Orthodox Christian to a convert who only knew how to "praise the Holy Spirit."

No one was willing to try again.

Byron's only task now is to preach and follow the original route of the "Son of God" again. The more believers there are, the more genuine the "Holy Spirit" will be.

Later, when those devout believers of the Orthodox and Protestant religions “holy descended” themselves into the [Ten Thousand Winged Angel] from the “Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven”, this new name was considered to be completely mastered.

When the Earl of Nottingham raised his head again, his face was full of fanaticism, but he said something that made all the neutrals tremble in their hearts.

But it was a 180-degree turn.

“Praise the Holy Spirit!
Your Majesty, in order to make up for my sins, I am willing to offer you the territory and manors that the Earldom of Nottingham has expanded over the years.

Keep only the original core territories, disband the private armies, and merge them into your army as freemen.

Since you are the protector of the kingdom, there should be no private armies within the kingdom. All armed forces can only be loyal to one person, and that is you!"

Facing the indifferent gaze of the Ten Thousand Winged Angel, the other neutral nobles, led by Marquis Thomas Neville, wished they could cut the Earl of Nottingham into pieces.

But they could only rush to say:
"Your Majesty, so do we!
What the Earl of Nottingham means is what we mean."

Byron did not refuse and nodded to accept their kindness.

Of course, he was not too harsh on these meritorious "own people". Not only did he allow them to retain their core territories, he also promised:

“After the ceremony, you will go to Queen Catherine to register your property. She will convert your land and manor into shares of Standard Whale Company and Pioneer Colonial Trading Company at market price.

In the future, everyone will share the dividends of the development of the Kingdom of Hastings!"

Upon hearing this, the neutrals, no, the die-hard royalists, immediately smiled happily.

No one wants to do the wool business, which is tiring and hated by others. Now, Your Majesty’s whale oil business represents the future and huge profits!

From now on, it will no longer be land aristocrats, but commercial aristocrats.

Only now did Byron completely defeat all the factions in the country. He killed one faction, beat one faction, and pulled another faction together, uniting everyone under his wing.

The foreign envoys, who were originally prepared to watch the show, discovered that the [King of the Wild Hunt] not only had his feet firmly on both boats, but also took the opportunity to centralize power again.

Not only the Royal Navy, but now even the Army will be given the title of "Royal" and establish a professional army.

This is clearly a military reform that overturned the entire feudal lord system!
But in front of the [Ten Thousand Winged Angel], no one dared to have any more wild thoughts.

Facing this level of existence, it is no longer just talk, but it is a sin to really think about it.

In the whole audience, only a group of Lancasters who had watched Byron grow up and knew his other side well had strange expressions on their faces.

The dead Lancasters were cursed by the fifth-level false god [Father of Sharks] Pohnpei before his death, and could only go ashore one day a year (Chapter 389).

But after Byron was promoted to Level Five, the same level as the [Father of Sharks] before his death, he immediately used the [Surgical Table] to help them remove the curse so that they no longer had to drift on the sea.

Now, everyone is watching the ceremony.

What kind of person was Byron when he was a child? Even if others don’t know, how could they not know?
Especially Edward, as a human-shaped "browsing record" who has personally recorded all of Byron's dark history from childhood to adulthood, it is destined that he cannot leave his innocence in the world.

Witness Byron showing Catherine his little tits, the two brothers sneaking out of the palace dressed as women and parading around the city, secretly sitting on the [Coronation Throne] and bowing to each other. There are countless similar examples.

Every time he came back he would be severely beaten, but he would still act naughty and mischievous and never get tired of it.

A group of Lancasters even suspected that it was because Byron had been beaten too many times since he was a child that he had accumulated enough "magic resistance" to survive the attack of the old god [Touch of the Kraken].

What if this kid is the Holy Spirit?
Then our whole family is the uncle of the Creator.

Prince Edmund Lancaster of Sorenburg, who was one of the few people who knew about the existence of the [Book of Years], couldn't help but whisper:
"Luckily, this kid is pretending to be the Holy Spirit. If he pretends to be the Son of God and reincarnates, my reputation will be ruined. Alas."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was hit hard by his wife, the Little Mermaid, with an elbow.

He will indeed suffer from reputational damage.

But not one but two people were killed.

Because the previous "Virgin Mary" was a virgin and gave birth to the Son of God, that "couple" are both old scapegoats.

Byron glanced at his father and mother and said, "We are robbing the Creator openly now. Can you be serious?"
Then he looked back at the kneeling congregants and continued:
“The so-called orthodoxy has deviated from the teachings of the Creator, and I cannot allow them to lead the Lambs down the wrong path.

I hereby declare that Hastings has established his own church: the Royal State Church, promulgated the Ten Articles of Faith, and used the Golden Triangle as the new holy emblem.

I am the supreme leader of both the secular and spiritual realms. What belongs to the king belongs to me, and what belongs to the gods also belongs to me.

Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury [Sister of Mercy] Theresa as the first Archbishop of the Royal Church of England to oversee religious affairs in Hastings. "

The Sabbat Council, nobles, administrative officials, and Protestant representatives all bowed and touched their chests:

“That’s your right!”

Byron went so far as to modify the holy emblem of his own Protestant religion simply because he thought it was unlucky.

He has always had a question: the Son of God was nailed to the cross. How did the believers feel that the God they believed in would like this thing?

He doesn't want it anyway.

The king's coronation ceremony ended and everyone filed out of the cathedral.

The domestic power of Hastings has been unprecedentedly concentrated. The next step is to replicate industrialization and sharpen the sword towards the three countries of the Kalmar Union, Castile, the world's first maritime power, and the Orthodox Church.

Byron had just walked to the door of the cathedral holding the hands of the two queens and surrounded by the crowd, when he was suddenly struck by inspiration and stopped immediately.

After the Magna Carta was completed by the Golden Rule, his control over the entire Hastings immediately increased by several orders of magnitude, and no disturbance could escape his eyes.

At this moment, at the end of the "Third Gyre", near the border of the kingdom's territorial waters, he discovered the source of the strong fishy smell in the air today.

Amid the heavy rain, many huge black shadows were sneaking at high speed under the sea, heading towards the mainland of Hastings.

And a figure was driving a strange sailboat with a bright glow, chasing and fighting with them.

Byron looked closely and found that it was the legendary knight John Hawkins, who had missed his coronation ceremony for no reason!

(End of this chapter)