Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 541 The Person Whose Name Cannot Be Mentioned

Byron initially thought the attack was a freak accident.

Considering the outstanding fourth-order level of [Nature's Wrath], it doesn't seem like a natural achievement. The most we can guess is that another old god cult like the Abaddon Cult is secretly making trouble.

Now is the critical moment for him to plan the Kalmar Union and the North Sea Empire, and all actions must give way to this matter.

Even if a few colonists from the East Continent appear, the worst that can happen is that we can just fight them with our own strength.

But just a few words from the other party made Byron realize that this group of people was far from being a group of guerrillas as he had guessed, and they were actually going to do a big job for him in his backyard without making any noise.

Flutter.
He immediately ordered the raven to flap its wings and descend to the seaside forest, where he saw a very simple camp.

The main body of the camp is just a small tree house that was grown automatically by an oak tree. There is no campfire, no food reserves, and it is not even as good as a ranger's hut. The ability to provide shelter from wind and rain is already the limit.

There were three people in the hut, covered with tree bark. No, it should be said that they were like tree people, strange creatures with rough tree bark instead of skin.

They are half tree and half human, with their limbs replaced by thick roots and branches. A human face with ravines grows on the top of the trunk, and many green leaves grow on their heads.

It looked even more like a twisted monster than the [Wrath of Nature].

Judging from their body shapes, two of them are sturdier and one is relatively thin, so they should be two men and one woman.

The man and woman are fourth-order mythical creatures, and the male tree man standing at the back as a follower is a third-order one.

With this tree house as the center, the woods within a one-kilometer radius were filled with rustling sounds, which were obviously the insects, beasts, and monsters controlled by them, acting as eyes and ears to defend against foreign enemies.

The defense was already tight enough. If Byron hadn't come here in person, other fourth-level men would have been unable to catch them.

Byron's heart moved:
“Is this the legendary mythical creature [Oak Sage]? He was originally a human, but he eventually transformed himself into a tree through a ritual.

Their living habits, nutrition sources, living conditions, and thinking patterns are very different from those of humans.

Rather than saying that this organization is doing a just cause to protect nature, it is more like protecting their own interests, the interests of the trees.”

Three-Leaf Island is the second largest island in the Channel Islands, second only to the main island, Rose Island. Although it is a small place in a remote corner of the vast Dragon King's Court, it has a very long history.

Byron used the [Authority of the Underworld] to roughly explore the collective subconscious of this land, and also glimpsed many ancient legends and secrets that were banned by the church.

For example, the name of the quasi-legendary battleship [Royal Oak] originated from the ancient extreme environmental protection organization in this mythological era - the "Druids".

This mythical tree-like creature is called the Oak Sage. It masters a variety of natural witchcraft and is widely distributed throughout the Channel Islands.

When the great red dragon Abaddon ruled here, this organization was a notorious troublemaker, relying on the forest to constantly attack human towns.

At the beginning, there were relatively moderate branches among them. For example, the "Balance Faction" believed that it was necessary to seek a balance between man and nature, to live in peace and to develop together.

After all, humans and everything they create are also part of nature.

But in the last hundred years of the mythological age, as the tide continued to rise, the god they believed in, the [God of Plenty] and [Horned One] Sananus, who was closely anchored in nature, adhered to the ways of nature but never paid attention to developing human believers, was the first to lose balance and fell to the chaotic bestial side.

The neutral gods who were doing things that had nothing to do with the matter fell overnight and became the core minions of the Sea of ​​​​Source's invasion of the material world.

His followers naturally became more and more extreme, and the Balance Faction soon disappeared, leaving only the Nature Supremacy Faction, which believed in the law of the jungle and the supremacy of environmental protection.

As a group of extreme environmentalists, they advocate that all humans stop using fire, farming, raising livestock, breeding good varieties, and do anything that violates the laws of nature.

We must make all intelligent creatures return to the most primitive Paleolithic Age.

It is obvious that this sect of the Old Gods had returned to their hometown a thousand years ago at some point in time.

When the Industrial Revolution hit head-on, it immediately became a staunch opponent of the Kingdom's industrialization.

And the means they used were not protesting, blocking roads, or extorting pounds in the name of environmental protection, but outright violent killing!
This was something Byron absolutely could not tolerate.

Relying on the fact that he had been promoted to the fifth level and could fly like a raven, even a false god of the same level could not detect him, he landed directly on the top of the tree house.

Look inside through the gaps between the branches.

In addition to the three [Oak Sages], there is also a white moth-man the size of a palm, which looks as abstract as the Oak Sage. It was it that just rebuked the Druids for their reckless behavior.

The male Oak Sage named Stuart obviously doesn't think he is wrong.

Facing the accusation, he immediately retorted coldly:
"I am following the natural way of my Lord, the God of Plenty, the Horned One, Sananos.

When my lord returns, he will see a clean Sanye Island divine realm.

This place originally belonged to my Lord. Throughout the mythological era, we have been engaged in a tug-of-war with the great red dragon Abaddon. As mortals who are ruled, we have no right to pollute this land."

The female Oak Sage next to her said indignantly:
“Yeah, how dare they?!

Now that the owners of this land have returned, it is time for the country's development to get back on track."

Stuart saw the "moth" opening and closing its mouthparts and trying to hold on to him tightly, so he suddenly waved his hands vigorously:
“Patrick!
We, the pioneers sent by the temporary alliance of various religions, are descendants of immigrants from the Dragon King's Court. We have a natural advantage over others when conquering this land.

Who wouldn’t want to take advantage of this opportunity to reap benefits for their own family first?
A few days ago, the Abaddon Cult suffered a bloody defeat here and returned home in defeat.

Isn't it because they want to help their own main god [the great red dragon Abaddon] to regain the divine domain on earth thousands of years ago before the flood comes?
Don't think I don't know that you people from the Worm Temple are also secretly parasitizing the upper clergy and nobles of the Kalma Union, transforming them into [Mothmen] and lower-level clans.

We are all the same, no one has the right to blame others."

The big white moth, or Patrick the Mothman as the Oak Sage called him, was exposed. He quickly flapped his wings and argued with his tiny mouthparts:

"How can this be the same? The [Queen of Eternal Night] of the Kalmar Alliance is not here, and the Crown Prince Regent was also killed. The internal divisions are serious.

The danger is much less than that of the Kingdom of Hastings, which repelled the attack of the Abaddon Cult.

We took advantage of the beast tide to arrive and the spread of coelenteritis to start our actions quietly, which is fundamentally different from your high-profile killings."

Byron's expression kept changing as he heard their conversation.

Only then did I realize that these followers of the old gods had arrived together with the beast tide from the previous day.

The beast tide was not a natural disaster as they initially thought, but a premeditated man-made action.

It was only because the vanguard of a sect consisted of only a few people and the target was too small that they were not discovered in time.

As a result, the buffer period of one to half a month initially estimated will probably be greatly reduced.

This crisis also does not allow them to adapt gradually while training.

The army of sea monsters controlled by [Hai Si] is probably already on the way. They may encounter them after encountering two more ordinary waves of beasts.

“But if there is no army-level colonial fleet coming, there is no way to implement effective rule. What can these mythical creatures do?
Retaking the lost divine domain of their own Lord God may be part of the plan, but who is the target of bringing together multiple evil cults? Who is the conspirator?

Moreover, although these old gods’ followers are in similar situations, they are by no means synonymous with harmony. Collective action means that there are huge benefits that can make them put aside their prejudices. "

Byron had personally experienced their "brotherly love and respect".

When the colonial war of the southern continent broke out, there were actually quite a few Old God churches that landed on the east coast, but only the Deep Dive Church and the Rift Brotherhood, who were blocking the door, tried to stop them.

There is not even a trace of other sects.

When the Archbishop of the Deep Dive Church, Dagon [Nightmare of the Abyss], was escaping, he performed an opening move that left a particularly deep impression on Byron: "First, fire a flare at friendly forces."

He killed [Father of Sharks] Pohnpei and the entire Rift Order, and escaped with [Legendary Battleship·Dragon Head Ship·Valhalla].

From this we can see that there are also many conflicts among the old god churches, and they would not mind killing each other first if given the chance.

The only thing they could agree on was:
"Help the gods you believe in regain consciousness, regain some of their humanity, and finally ride on the flood to break through the dam of human hearts and stage the return of the dead!"

Byron continued to listen while guessing what they were going to do.

The quarrel in the tree house over "multiple orders" continued.

The female Oak Sage was already getting a little impatient:

"Patrick, that's enough!

The Excellency Whose Name Must Not Be Mentioned came to the Dragon King's Court several decades earlier than us. Hasn't he already thoroughly studied the power system of the Old Continent?

Are we not clear about whether there are risks or not?

A complete [Silver Law] was cut into three parts.

The power to rule the 'human world' belongs to the kings; the power to rule 'hell/hades' belongs to the church; the power to rule 'heaven' belongs to the Creator.

Only the [Pontifical Triple Crown], as the agent of the Creator, has mastered a trace of the Creator's authority and possesses all three powers;

Then there is the Emperor's [Crown] which has two powers;
But the [royal title] of all kings only has the power to control people. No matter how many countries he is the king of or how many crowns he wears, as long as he cannot take back the authority of his own land, he cannot make quantitative change into qualitative change. This is the true meaning behind the crown ruling the countries in the Silver Continent!
It was indeed our mistake to underestimate the reaction speed of the Lancaster royal family, but even if we exposed [Weird Nature's Wrath], they would not be able to find us with their limited authority.

When all creatures in this land were alive, there was no so-called iron law of royal authority!
In order to recapture our Lord's divine domain before the Abaddon Cult, we will bear the losses ourselves. What else do you want?
Now let's get down to business. The cult has been deployed successfully, but you haven't told us what the specific plan of that Excellency is."

[Mothman] Patrick also knows that accusations are accusations, but there is no affiliation between the various sects, and no matter how outrageous something they do, they cannot be punished.

I just hope that when the plan is implemented, these old gods' followers who don't obey each other will not fall behind, so I lowered my voice a little and said:
“You should all already know this.

Since the beginning of the Silver Age, the [Bound Creator] who usurped the throne of our Lord has created the [Silver Law] and promulgated a series of outrageous regulations in order to prevent humans from destroying His anchor.

You can only choose one of the 65 male names and 48 female names in the Gospel of Creation as your child's name, and you are strictly prohibited from choosing any other name;
If you simply take the [Glory Ladder] route, you can be absolutely safe, but the highest rank a person can reach is only the fifth rank of Legend. At best, you can be given the title of King, but you will still experience birth, aging, sickness, and death from beginning to end.
Destroy all the knowledge and legends of the mythological era, turn the entire Dragon King's Court into an information island, and prevent the revitalized knowledge from coming to the door;

They banned scientific and medical research and started a cruel reign that lasted for a thousand years. All of this was done to use the [Silver Law] to seal the hole in the ship that was torn open during the last flood.

In other words, He has been using the method of "blocking" to control the water.

But why did all these rules collapse in the year 1453 of the Silver Age? "

A rare hint of worship for any being other than his own god can be seen in Mothman's compound eyes.

"It was the Excellency Whose Name Must Not Be Mentioned who was in charge of all this!
Since the church countries were completely defeated in the war with the Star-Moon Empire in 1453 and lost the Holy City, the church passively ended its thousand years of dark rule.

In the same year, the Hundred Years' War between the Kingdom of Hattings and the Kingdom of Iris ended.

But what others didn't see was that before that, Henry V, the "Hammer of the Iris", who almost unified the two great powers and established an empire, died young at the age of 35, and Constantine XI, who was stationed in the Holy City, died tragically on the battlefield.
The defeated Holy Silver Empire also fell into long-term internal and external troubles. Apart from the Rhine Alliance, a city-based commercial alliance, it had almost no energy to care about overseas development.

Until the religious war began last year, not only was the Holy Silver Empire shattered, but it was also once again involved in the two strongest overlords on the east and west coasts, Castile and the Star-Moon Empire.

Who would think that all this was just a coincidence?
[Silver Law] is being weakened at an accelerated rate, but that gentleman thinks the weakening is not fast enough and there are too many variables.

This is the fundamental reason why we are here!

The Oak Sage of your Druid sect, the Mothman of our Worm Temple, the Demon of pure evil, the Loa of Voodoo.
The [Nightmare] and [Son of the Abyss] of the Deep Dive Church, as well as the [Sea Heirs] and [Chaos Beasts] of the Blood Beast Lair which are the main forces, are driving the beast tide in wave after wave.

Our task now is to seize the time and quietly invade the collective subconscious of the countries surrounding the North Sea.

We, the related sects, rely on our interference in the domains of the old gods thousands of years ago, and cooperate with the Excellency Whose Name Must Not Be Mentioned to implement the "Dragon King's Court Collapse Plan."

Complete this step first, and then wait for the next order. The fifth-level subordinate gods of each family will also come out one after another in the next few months.

If you ask me what the ultimate plan is and who the target is, I don’t know.

But you can't be just a small person like the king of a human country. I just hope you can restrain yourself and not make a mistake."

The conversation ended here.

The Mothman exploded on the spot and turned into a pile of ordinary moths commonly seen in the forest and disappeared without a trace.

It was obvious that he just projected his own consciousness over and formed an avatar. His real body was not in Hastings at all.

After hearing this, Byron realized that it would be useless if he took down these Oak Sages now, even the Mothman who was the messenger.

The leader of that plan was obviously cautious enough.

Each sect was only responsible for its own part, and then the parts were pieced together in the end. Even if he caught a flaw, he would not be able to see the full picture of the "Dragon Court Collapse Plan."

“Moreover, the reason why my grandfather, [Hammer of the Iris] Henry V, died young and failed to complete the great cause of unifying the two countries was because he was assassinated?

Who is that person whose name cannot be mentioned?

Although Mother and Salant need to abide by the rules of the East Continent, they have at least revealed some valuable information.

But in the mouths of these people, they can't even mention a name, and there is no way to guess who that person is. "

Byron's face looked a little heavy.

Someone is trying to prevent the birth of the empire and is willing to kill key figures. His plan to reunify the North Sea Empire may have fallen into the eyes of someone with ulterior motives.

immediately.

In the ship's log, the unlocking density of [Secret: The fuse of the religious war, historical influence 65] jumped from 58% to 72%.

Apparently, just as he had worried before, in addition to the ideological differences between Protestantism and Orthodoxy and the [Noah's Ark] escape plan, there was indeed a hand that had never been seen in history that was quietly influencing everything.

[Secret: Prophecy, Kingship, and the prophecy of racial revival by the god of the Wild Hunt, Woden, historical influence 69] The decoding density jumped from 61% to 65%.

At the end, a new [Secret: Dragon Court Collapse Plan, Historical Influence 66, Decryption Density 27%] appeared.

Although Byron did not hear the full intelligence, he at least knew something through this level of historical influence.

The cult should not be targeting him, or not just targeting him, they obviously have more valuable targets.

As long as he is not the tallest one, there should be room for him to fish in troubled waters.

"They came at a really bad time, as the campaign to seize the crown of the Kalmar Union has just begun.

If I had the crown of the North Sea Empire in my hand, how could I possibly allow them the opportunity to defeat me one by one? I would take the initiative to attack right now, drag them out and beat them to death like wild dogs. "

At this time, after being riddled with holes by countless whale oil bullets, [Grotesque·Nature's Wrath] with a human head and a deer body was head-severed, the mighty Marquis Neville chopped off his head with an axe by communicating with the law.

Rumble.
More oak trees grew wildly from its corpse, forming a vast oak forest.

Several more soldiers were unable to dodge and were caught up in it, becoming part of the forest in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, countless green spots of light floated out from the acorns, and like fireflies, they were blown away by the wind and disappeared into trees, rocks, rivers, and other natural objects.

Several [Oak Sages] also saw the situation over there, but they just said coldly:
“One [Wrath of Nature] is only the beginning of the transformation of this land. Soon more nature spirits will be born here, making humans exhausted.

Nature is divided into classes. The tall trees can enjoy better sunlight, while the greatest value of the lowly weeds is that they can become nutrients for the trees after they rot.

Only by following the principle of the survival of the fittest can nature prosper.

The weak deserve to be bullied and trampled upon by the strong.

This is the way of nature!
The same goes for human beings. The lower class only needs to obediently obey the orders of the upper class and contribute a little bit of their strength. Only in this way can the upper class become stronger and the world can be stable.

And we, the Druids, are the crown of all the trees."

Byron laughed in his heart when he heard this:
“No one can always be superior, and the rise and fall of all things is also a natural law.

The remnants of the old era who have been eliminated should stop imitating the speeches of the victors.

When one day you become a weed and are trampled underfoot by others, I hope you can still remember what you said and rot obediently to contribute your own value. "

I decided in my heart to keep them under surveillance temporarily, and it would not be too late to deal with them once I had obtained the key information.

After the Kingdom reinforcements cleaned up the mess, they lined up neatly to lay flowers and observe a moment of silence for the victims of the accident.

then
[Wild Hunt Servant] Hermann commanded the Wild Hunt Legion to pull out the victims who had just been eaten and had not yet been assimilated by the oak tree.

Although they certainly could not stay in the material world anymore, they could seamlessly connect to the United Pharmaceutical Company opened by their cousin Edward on the edge of the world.

When Byron drove the raven back here, the human resources staff of United Pharmaceuticals were processing their entry procedures on site.

Any money that is not spent during one's lifetime will be recognized in the afterlife, and one can continue to spend it in the afterlife.

Real estate in the human world can also be exchanged for Yin and Yang through the kingdom’s welfare system, without any worries.

It is quite humane.

Byron did not show up, but quietly used the [Authority of the Underworld] to mark the natural spirits born by the Oak Sage one by one.

Other people’s laws do not have the power to rule over the “earth”, but He does!
Incorporate them into the Golden Rule, use them to enrich the supervisory network, and build your own "Skynet" like in an animistic colony.

Not only can it be used to monitor foreign enemies, but it can also serve as a selfless monitoring and supervisory unit to purify the ruling system at all times.

From this point of view, these [Oak Sages] are not completely useless.

In addition, before the steam battleship was launched, the heavy cruiser had to continue to be built, which required a steady supply of high-quality oak.

Such a useful [Oak Sage] is simply a slave chosen by God.

"You killed my people, destroyed my machines, and you still want to bully everyone?

Sooner or later, I will let you know what the 007 "blessings" of a conscientious entrepreneur is! "

(End of this chapter)