Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 564: Their respective endings: You are not pious!
Byron turned his head and saw that the person who appeared on the thick branch opposite was not the [Life-threatening Clown] as he had imagined, but the [Puppet King] Louis who was also in the Hall Sequence!
I originally thought that after such a long time, he had died like the [Barcelona Shipping King] in this kingdom of God polluted by the Mother of Monsters.

Unexpectedly, not only did he not die, but he looked unharmed.

"No, this guy is not dead, but he is worse than dead."

Byron was only slightly stunned, then he narrowed his eyes slightly and saw the true state of [Puppet King] Louis.

This ambitious Regent of Castile, probably realized that something was wrong as soon as he entered the small world's ecosystem, so he used his flesh and blood to become useless, and transformed himself into a mechanical doll with his entire body cyborgized.

There is no flesh, blood, or organic matter in the whole body, which allows it to resist the pollution of "aerial roots" to the greatest extent possible, and its survivability is stronger than that of all other fifth-order legends.

He planned to sneak to the Tree of Life to steal the battleship key, and rely on the "Three Commandments of the Ship Spirit" to subdue the spirit of the mythical battleship.

In fact, Byron had already seen the captain's key in the hands of "Jeanne Don Quixote", but he had no interest in taking it.

Even the ship spirit had been replaced by him for thousands of years. If the key that symbolized the command authority was not a trap, he would have dared to eat that thing directly.

[Puppet King] Even if you get it, it will be in vain.

Even more unfortunate was that before he stepped into the pit dug by the Mother of Monsters, he had already stepped into the pit dug by the Death-defying Clown.

More than half a year ago, the Puppet King was ambushed by Byron using the [Golden Joker], and the clown's colorful hair was entangled with his puppet's threads.

If he had not come to the edge of the world, breaking away from the protection of the [Silver Law] and the dam of the human mind and facing the [Life-threatening Clown] directly, it might have taken him a long time to be contaminated by the big golden joker card.

But there is no if.

The "Life-threatening Clown" who supports the "traitor" from behind has no way to interfere with the material world and change the traitor's miserable fate.

However, he followed Byron's breath and waited for his landing point to attack him, and by the way, he completely corrupted the [Puppet King], a legendary puppeteer of the Hall of Fame who was well-known in the entire Silver Continent.

And just like what the Mother of Monsters did to Jeanne Don Quixote, the Clown also stuffed an avatar into the body of the Puppet King.

The mortal's consciousness was completely dissolved by the demigod's will in a very short time.

No matter how ambitious, how self-centered, and how great the Puppet King was, he misjudged the risks of this action, and his life was instantly blown away.

Died as silently as a weed.

He didn't even have time to take revenge on Byron, his hateful enemy who had tricked him by using the identities of "Sea Hunter" and "Wild Hunt".

From now on, there is no more Puppet King in this world, only an empty shell controlled by [Life-threatening Clown]!

At this moment, He stared at the Nibelung Ring, his eyes flashing with greedy golden light, and shouted:
"Bound God and Descended Saint!"

A white halo exploded above his head, and a shadow with a face exactly like the Puppet King emerged behind him. Silk threads shot out from his ten fingers and connected to the main joints of the mechanical puppet's body.

The body suddenly becomes a puppet of the god of self.

But in Byron's [Divine Vision], the back of the neck and limb joints of the self-god [Binding God] also grew colorful puppet threads like a clown's hair, extending upwards and disappearing into the void.

It was as if he was being held in the palm of another puppeteer's hand.

White paint was rapidly seeping out of the Puppet King's cold and hard face, red balls were growing out of his nose, and his hair was also turning colorful.

The real clown turned out to be me?!

The Puppet King, who calls himself the "director" and the manipulator of the strings, probably never imagined that this would be the fate that awaited him until his death.

"The boomerang that was thrown finally landed on Louis's head. Maybe there really is retribution for good and evil in the dark, and there is a hand controlling everything."

Byron once heard his queen Violet, who graduated from the art academy, talk about the art of drama:

"The superior man humbles himself to dust, the proud man seeks but cannot obtain; the prodigal man dies of loyalty, the conspirator dies of loyalty; the thief dies of dedication, the selfish man dies of sacrifice.
Childhood sweethearts turned into enemies, love at first sight but couldn't help themselves; mutual secret love but missed each other forever, living together day and night but each had their own ulterior motives"

And this "Puppet King" who is full of desire for control, who wants to stand at the top of the world, use the whole world as his stage, and control the fate of everyone with the strings in his hands, his eternal destination will be a puppet dancing in the hands of others and being controlled by others.

I don't know if he ever thought that when he used the Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinary to create the "artificial Lantern Man", turned the maid into a doll that never fades, murdered the Famine Hunter who had made great contributions to mankind to create the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, killed his own brother and took his body, and so on, he would have such a day.

It is really full of dramatic gray irony.

While Byron was sighing, he also felt a little scared.

If he had not chosen to trick the Mother of Monsters before leaving and accidentally use the ring to lure out the Deathly Clown, but instead fled the Ark directly, he would probably have escaped from the tiger's den and fallen into the wolf's lair.

If he fell into the hands of the perfect demigod [The Clown], his fate would be even more miserable than being a "stud" on the Mother of Monsters.

collapse--!
The alchemical core in the chest of [Puppet King] glowed brightly, and he exerted force with his feet, stomping on the thick branches beneath his feet until they were bent violently like a longbow, and then he turned into a crossbow and shot at the Mother of Monsters.

Although the latter was bewitched by the Ring of the Nibelung, the entire Noah's Ark was her kingdom of God and could not be attacked by anyone.

Unwilling to throw away the [panacea] that was in his mouth, he grabbed Byron's arm and flew backwards.

At the same time, he waved his hand, and all the surrounding branches turned into palms with mouths in the middle, grabbing towards the [Puppet King], no, the Hilarious Clown.

The clown wielded a sailor knife, and with the extremely sharp [Castilian Sabre] in one hand, the blade light merged into one, cutting all the branches in front of him into pieces.

At the same time, he laughed loudly with his blood-red mouth and took out countless colored papers from his pocket. He stretched out his hand and shook it, and immediately they turned into huge paper dragons with sharp claws.

He opened his mouth and blew, and the paper dragons in the sky turned into a colorful storm and flew towards the surrounding branches and palms.

crackling
Broken palms and torn paper dragons kept falling from the sky like raindrops.

The clown snapped his fingers, and colorful smoke exploded from the fallen branches, turning them all into tiny puppets holding knives, swords, crossbows, and muskets.

They jumped between branches like fleas, using various means to slow down the Mother of Monsters.

And as if he had foresight, every step he took was ahead of the mother of monsters.

The clown's tricks gave the clown the five powers of [disappearance], [change], [prediction], [levitation], and [perspective].

There is no doubt that this is a powerful sixth-order evil god!

Moreover, there is a fundamental conflict between him and Byron over power.

His series of applications of the power of change opened Byron's eyes, as if he had broken through a layer of window paper and saw a wider world.

After a few ups and downs, the Clown had already brought a gust of wind and pounced in front of the Mother of Monsters like lightning, and swung his knife fiercely at Her right hand with the [Ring of the Nibelung].

He wanted to chop off the ring and the hand together without even glancing at Byron who was in his other hand.

Obviously he didn't take this minor role seriously.

Although the ring that Byron extracted from history was not authentic, the curse on it was still irresistible even for demigods.

However, because it is a one-time holy relic, once it is snatched from the body of the Mother of Monsters, it will disappear and will not trigger a protracted war between gods.

In other words, the risks are controllable and will not trigger the end of the world prematurely.

Facing the knife light, the nails on the Monster Mother's right hand suddenly grew and turned into giant eagle-like claws.

Stab it--!
Four scarlet claw marks were drawn in the air, creating a large amount of sparks from the saber in the clown's hand and even swinging it high into the air.

Even two of the puppet strings on his body were cut.

This shows that although these old gods lack fighting skills and versatility due to being half-mad, their absolute strength should not be underestimated.

[Mother of Monsters] did not recognize [Life-Playing Clown] who was just born in the Silver Age, but she could tell from the brief confrontation that this was a complete sixth-rank demigod.

The danger level is even greater than the [Touch of the Kraken] outside.

A pair of wings grew out from his back, carrying Byron up into the sky, straight to the "crown" at the highest level of the Tree of Life.

The clown also chased after him and threw a rope into the sky, which soared straight into the sky.

Only half a step late, the Mother of Monsters' feet had already grown together with the giant tree beneath her feet, and the brilliant red divine light above her head illuminated the entire kingdom of God like the sun.

Then, the [Tree of Life], which originally looked like a tree, quickly transformed into a wooden statue of the goddess. Countless branches entangled with each other and turned into thousands of giant hands and tentacles, each of which was no less powerful than a hill.

He gave up on the technical fighting style and slapped the [Life-threatening Clown] as hard as if he was slapping a mosquito. The powerful force caused white air explosion rings to explode in the sky.

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!
Even though [Life-threatening Clown] foresaw the direction of every attack, he could not find any blind spots that he could pass through, and could only pull the rope and continue to dodge upwards in a hurry.

At the same time, a deck of 54 whist cards was thrown out, among which JQK, which were supposed to have human figures, were all replaced with the Joker himself.

54 cards turned into sharp flying knives, drawing arcs in the air.

Suddenly, as if by magic, they disappeared in full view of everyone, and when they reappeared, they had passed through thousands of giant hands and arrived in front of the mother of monsters.

The cards without human figures inside rushed forward with a sharp roar, and even the steel pillars blocking them would be cut in half with one blow.

Byron, who was held in the hands of the Mother of Monsters, was almost cut in half and quickly huddled up into a ball.

The other fourteen cards, including JQK with human figures, the Big Devil and the Little Devil, suddenly expanded, and the clown patterns inside all jumped out of the cards, grinning with blood-red mouths and laughing loudly, and pounced on the Mother of Monsters.

He threw a bunch of colorful bombs down like they were free, and dazzling flames dozens of meters high shot up from the treetops.

Amid the billowing smoke, Byron finally seized the opportunity when the mother of the monster was preoccupied with herself, and imitated the gecko breaking off its tail to survive, and voluntarily gave away an arm and half of his shoulder to escape.

Don't forget to disrupt all the genetic codes in your arms.

Even if the other party gets his flesh and blood, which can be differentiated almost infinitely, he cannot induce it to differentiate into a "Gou Ba" and then use it to give birth to countless monster children.

Otherwise, even if I had a hundred mouths all over my body, I wouldn't be able to explain it to my two sisters. The consequences of this thing are much more serious than the rubber products picked up from the trash can.

"return!"

[Mother Monster] does not want to give up her precious ring, and of course she also does not want to let go of the father monster who is the most suitable husband in the entire material world.

Just as he was about to make a move to stop him, the clown had already reached in front of him, and the shadow of [God's Kingdom: Black Fairy Tale Paradise] was reflected on the blade of his sword. He used his own power of the Kingdom of God to chop at his right hand again.

As soon as Echidna was distracted to resist, Byron turned into a sharp arrow shooting backwards, running all the way down along the tree trunk.

"The curse of the Ring of the Nibelung will cause the wearer to die. It will not bring joy or luck.

Whoever masters it will be full of worries, and whoever does not master it will be filled with jealousy.

Everyone is greedy for it, but no one can take advantage of it.

Putting on the [Ring of the Nibelung] immediately makes you the target of public criticism. Not only will you face endless external enemies, but you will also gradually be controlled by your desires and animalistic side.

There were even mortals who, after wearing the ring, degenerated into ugly beasts.

The [Mother of Monsters], whose sanity has just returned to a critical point, will probably go crazy soon after putting it on, and indiscriminately kill anyone who may covet the ring.

Although [The Clown] is powerful, it is almost impossible for him to kill the Mother of Monsters, one of the oldest gods.

Of course, I can accept any of them killing me.
Huh? "

Byron turned into lightning, struck a thunderbolt in the air, and in the blink of an eye he reached the edge of the small world's ecosystem.

Suddenly, three figures were discovered. They were the only three fifth-level legends left in the small world. They were trying to break the blockade of the Ark and escape while being besieged by a group of monsters.

It was the strongest force among all the forces that entered the Ark at the beginning - the Orthodox Church.

Only two Grand Masters of the Knights Paladin, Holy Lance and Holy Fist, and the Queen of Eternal Night, Margaret I, who voluntarily joined as external aid, were left.

All three of them were clearly at the end of their strength.

The holy light on the two legendary paladins had dimmed to the extreme, and the rare armor that was once as bright as a mirror was now torn and tattered everywhere.

Among the monsters besieging them, many still had the church's armor and clothing on them, and it was obvious that they had met the same fate as the previous [Night Owl Soldiers].

After Byron activated "All Things Return to One" and borrowed the status of the [Ten Thousand Winged Angel], he could clearly see the "aerial roots" on the three legends that were twisting like worms.

Even though the Holy Light could restrain the chaotic power from the deep sea, their bodies began to show strange pollution and proliferation, and began to transform step by step into the followers of the Mother of Monsters.

Among them, the Queen of Eternal Night, who has no protection from holy light but only firm will and obsession, is the most alienated. The roots behind her are twisting and are about to grow into a human-shaped "seed".

When Byron discovered them, they also saw Byron flying from the sky.

The three of them do not yet know that the war in the North Sea Empire is over, nor do they know that the Ark is no longer in the material world.

I thought Byron was just like everyone else, unable to control his greed for the Ark and coming to steal the battleship key.

The [Queen of Eternal Night] discovered that he was in good condition and said with great joy:
“Lancaster, while the old gods entrenched here are encountering foreign enemies and their defenses are weakened, come and help us break through the kingdom of God and escape.

Two faithful servants of God must not die here.

As long as you help them, the church's "merit bank" will naturally record a merit for you, and your sin of disobeying the church will be reduced.

I hope you can turn back from your mistakes and not make the same mistakes again.

Believe in the church and you will have eternal life! Only by converting to the true religion can the people of Taiwan have hope of surviving the great flood."

Paladins must observe all eight virtues: humility, honesty, mercy, bravery, justice, sacrifice, honor, and faith.

But in terms of faith, the two fifth-level paladins also felt inferior to Margaret I.

Now he is only focused on saving them and not considering himself.

But when Byron heard this, he almost laughed out loud at this superstitious old lady who had brainwashed herself to the point of not understanding the situation.

In my previous life, the old lady next door was also a religious believer, but she was very clear-headed. The only criterion for determining the firmness of her faith was how many eggs were distributed in the church that day.

And after the eggs are brought back, they must be offered in front of the God of Wealth for two days before they can be sold.

Look, those old ladies who haven't even been to school for a few days know that they will never do anything that is not beneficial. How could a pirate den like the Taiwan people produce mutant species like you?
And how can a decent person like me let you church diehards go out and continue to oppose me? Of course I have to secretly kill you when no one is looking!
Byron did not say whether he agreed or not. Instead, he turned on his [Great Kindness Halo] and asked solemnly:
"You keep talking about the church, but do you want to see the true face of the Lord with your own eyes?"

Not only Margaret I, but also the other two devout paladins were stunned.

“The true appearance of the Lord?”

Anyone who is qualified to see the Lord must at least be a saint, right?
Without waiting for their answer.

"Ah! Clown, you're looking for death!"

A shrill roar suddenly came from the top of the big tree in the center of the kingdom of God.

The completely enraged [Mother of Monsters] finally unfolds her most powerful mythical form.

The red divine aura reflected a terrifying and huge figure.

The upper body was a plump naked female body, with long hair that had turned into colorful twisted snake hair and countless triangular snake heads spewing poisonous mist.

The body began to swell suddenly from the lower abdomen, turning into a huge mass of flesh that looked like a black and yellow cloud, constantly expanding, rolling, and festering.

The dark yellow clouds gathered and dispersed from time to time, occasionally forming some kind of horrifying female reproductive organs, sticky black tentacles, and countless huge mouths dripping with mucus.
Or maybe it's a bunch of sticky follicles, or other shriveled tumors used for breastfeeding.
Or the twisted, deformed short legs ending in black hooves that barely qualify as sheep's hooves.
From the festering scars and deformed mammary organs on His body, the orange-red soup of life was flowing continuously.

It seems that all life in the world was born here and will eventually return here.

Then the entire Kingdom of God became part of His Body.

Rumble.
The huge chaotic mountains and forests and all kinds of strange animals all gathered into an endless sea of ​​tentacles, sweeping towards the Life-threatening Clown.

The space around the few people was no exception; even the lifeless ground was wriggling and moving.

The good news is that the barrier of the Kingdom of God has been weakened again.

If we don't escape now while the Divine Kingdom's defense is weak, we will never be able to escape.

However, Byron suddenly landed at the edge of the kingdom of God, blocking the way of the three people, and the shadow of the [Ten Thousand Winged Angel] appeared behind him.

A sacred figure with millions of wings but bound by chains suddenly caught their eyes, making the three of them forget about running away and subconsciously widen their eyes.

Because they can clearly feel that a part of the anchor chain of their faith in the Creator is actually anchored in Him.

I couldn't help but feel shocked:

"Could the rumors be true?!"

At the same time, countless wings peeled back a corner, revealing the face of that sacred being.

It was actually the young version of Byron!
There was no divine favor from the believers as in myths and legends. The [Ten Thousand Winged Angel] made a comment that made them feel as if they were falling into an icy cave:
"You are not pious!"

Such a short and understated sentence struck the three people's hearts like a thunderclap.

Especially the [Queen of Eternal Night], who had studied politics and war all her life but suffered a crushing defeat in the "election"; she "dedicated" her life to the church, but was completely denied by "God".

If you seek benevolence, you will get benevolence; if you seek a hammer, you will get a hammer.

The legendary extraordinary person's obsession of "love what God loves, hate what God hates" also collapsed.

puff--!
Another large mouthful of blood spurted out.

It wouldn't have had much of an impact under normal circumstances, but it cost him his life at this critical moment of escape.

Byron ignored them and turned away.

A much weaker barrier did not pose any obstacle to him. Once the [River of Blood] wrapped around his body, he could easily grasp the genetic code of the entire biosphere.

The last scene that [Shenjian] saw was that [Holy Spear] and [Queen of Eternal Night] instantly disappeared in the sea of ​​tentacles.

Grover, the [Holy Fist] who had the strongest survivability among the three, was simply swept in and did not die for a while.

This is obviously because of the blessing of the [Golden Ark of the Covenant] on him:
“You can’t die during the day, you can’t die at night, you can’t die outdoors, and you can’t die indoors.

Cannot die on the ground or in the air, cannot be harmed by animals or humans, cannot be killed by weapons or bare hands.

In the passage of time, it will eventually return peacefully to the embrace of the Creator."

The effect is stronger than the entry [You are quite capable].

Now it was night time, and all the attacks from the tentacles were bounced off by his body. He would not die in a short time, but he had also lost his last chance to escape.

Byron shook his head.

"The most important thing is that this paladin controls the 'Poor Knights', which is the largest creditor of the countries in the Silver Continent.

At a time when the church is unable to take care of itself, the continent is in chaos, and many countries are on the verge of bankruptcy, and they have lost their strongest fighting force, it is not difficult to imagine what the "Poor Knights" will encounter next.

My sister and I deserve to be rich!"

(End of this chapter)