Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 684: Shocking News! The Largest Creature in the World!
"Your Majesty, those hanging seem to be human heads!"

Eight Fingers couldn't help swallowing.

Not to mention a mere human head, they have all seen even the bloodiest scenes, including Eight Fingers, the [Berserker] who himself was the maker of the plasma film.

But the feeling of horror before them was completely different from the pure bloody violence they had encountered before, such as plasma, internal organs, clowns, immortal monsters, etc.

The innocent nursery rhymes sung by children are part of daily life, symbolizing peace and tranquility, making people feel relaxed involuntarily.

However, at this moment, an abnormal corner that made people think carefully was revealed. The more the group of people thought about it, the more scared they became. Even when they gathered together, they felt a chill on their backs.

Even Byron was the same.

This has nothing to do with strength, I just can't help but feel creepy, and always feel that the temple is weird and strange everywhere.

The difference between the two is like when seven people enter a haunted house at the beginning, and in one ending only six come out, while in the other ending only eight come out. Which one do you think is scarier?
He quickly activated the [Solar Storm], and a circle of warm solar energy spread out, which mostly dispelled the creepy chill.

"Come on, let's go over and take a look."

Although everyone was unsure of the origins of those "sunny dolls" on the opposite side, they did not think it would be dangerous to follow their emperor.

He carries with him the effect of Jenny's holy relic [Gather the Missing Materials to Make a Thick Coat], so even if he is far away in a place like the Savage Continent where there is no internet, he can always maintain the sixth-rank status of [Human Emperor].

In the mythological era, the ceiling for those who could walk freely in the material world was at most a sixth-order demigod.

Any evil spirit or cursed spirit that is not as powerful as the Clown cannot be Byron's opponent.

"Your Majesty, I will be the vanguard."

The kingdom's guardian Hawkins and his cousin Drake also rushed over and took the initiative to lead the charge.

He jumped hundreds of meters, stepped on the floating islands of different heights, and jumped onto the giant floating island where the temple was located.

We can see it more clearly from here. There is nothing special about the temple except its rough shape and large area.

But there were dense vegetation all around, and ancient trees that had grown for thousands of years were everywhere, but there was no single person in sight.

Only the white cloth was painted with abstract facial features in blood, with grinning faces and dragging a piece of light white cloth body, forming a series of crude dolls.

The eaves of the entire temple were hung with these dolls wrapped in white cloth, at least hundreds of them, swaying in the night wind, but magically keeping the rain out.

Standing here, the sound of the nursery rhyme that was supposed to be used to pray for clear weather became unusually clear, and even more eerie.

"If you don't, I'll cut off your head" he repeated over and over again.

Everyone standing here felt like a pair of scissors were held to their necks, and could be cut in half with a "snap" at any time.

Byron felt it more deeply than anyone else.

Although the facial features artificially painted on the white cloth were very abstract, he subconsciously felt that they were all the same face, and he had an inexplicable strong sense of familiarity with this face.

I seemed to have seen it often in the past, but now I can't remember it at all.

But the key is that he has a [navigation log] that records everything at any time, and he has a strong spiritual realm, so once he has seen it, he will never forget it.

As soon as this thought came to my mind, things seemed even more weird.

"Miss, do you think the person painted here looks familiar?"

Byron couldn't help but ask his wife, who had been with him on most of his adventures.

Violet looked at it carefully for a long time, and finally shook her head in confusion:
“No impression whatsoever.

Although I am not a Hall of Fame student, I majored in painting and sculpture art design, and I am 100% confident in identifying portraits. Are you sure this is the same person?"

"This"

Byron also began to doubt whether there was something wrong with his feelings.

He simply equipped himself with the [Key of Omniscience], [Sunstone Calendar], and [Ship's Logbook], connected the long river of history, and entered the state of "limited omniscience".

At this time, Drake had already mustered up the courage to take down the two dolls, opened the white cloth package, and revealed two hideous human heads inside.

The size of their heads seemed similar to those of children, but their thick beards showed that they were undoubtedly adults.

[Logbook] After a moment of delay, new words appeared:
“Race: Crypt Dwarf, born as a superhuman, possessing strong fertility and good supernatural resistance, but it is difficult to advance.

Prayer Ceremony: This is an ancient extraordinary species that has survived from the Paleozoic Era to the present. They once climbed up the mountains and hid underground. They are afraid of floods, sea water and rain to the core, and they are constantly pursuing various means of water control.

At the end of the mythological era, a priest who was born with the ability to pray for clear weather appeared among the dwarves of the crypt. He could use his singing to pray for clear weather, and it always worked.

However, when the new era came, heavy rain fell day and night for thirty days, and no matter how the priest sang, it was of no use.

The chief and his people were furious and cut off the priest's hands, but the rain did not stop. A few days later, they were so anxious that they cut off the priest's feet, but the rain still did not stop.

Until one night, perhaps because their desire to control the flood was too strong.

Some people suddenly received divine revelation in their dreams that they needed to "hang up" the priest who had the power to pray for clear weather in order to stop the flood.

So they mercilessly chopped off the priest's head, wrapped it in cloth and hung it on the eaves of the temple.

He also painted the head with the image of the 'god' he saw in his dream.

It was exactly the fortieth day and the heavy rain finally stopped.

The crypt gnomes cried for joy and cheered that they had finally mastered the ritual of praying for clear weather.

But in order to cover up the bloodiness of the ceremony, they gave this sacrifice a childlike name: "Sunny Doll."

From then on, throughout the Silver Age, whenever it rained and flooded, they would chop off hundreds of heads of their own tribe or enemy tribes, and hang up the "Sunny Day Dolls" to stop the rain from falling. "

Byron frowned even more deeply when he saw this:
“During the last era transition, the [Bound Creator] used blocking to control the water, temporarily saving the world and delaying the Great Flood and the Age of Annihilation by 1500 years.

At about the same time, the flood control here was successful, so it was regarded as a miracle by the locals here?
Or is there really a divine revelation? Which god would give these natives a dream?"

Then the words that appeared at the back of the diary dispelled all his doubts.

[Secret: A fatal duel in the Triple Point, historical influence 100] The unlocking density suddenly increased, jumping from 25% to 35%.

Compared to the turtle-like slow progress when the prophecy of the Taiwan people's revival was deciphered, this time it is extremely fast.

It also links together two seemingly unrelated things, "Triple Point Death Match" and "Sunny Day Doll", and the correlation is as strong as 10% solution density!
Byron's face changed, he muttered to himself, and made a reasonable deduction:

“For a known ritual to be effective, it must have a higher occult source.

The source tides outside the material world penetrate the material world through the "triple point", just like the magnetic field of a planet gushing out from the two poles, with one end receiving and the other end sending.

Eventually, a strong spiritual environment was formed in the spherical world, and another core "Spiritual Pole" with opposite properties was shaped on this continent located in the Storm Ocean.

According to the basic principles of mysticism, the planetary radiation of the source tide not only brought powerful extraordinary energy to this ancient pillar continent, but also the hidden information inside the "triplet point".

This kind of sunny doll prayer ceremony is just like "everything is three, and everything will change when it is seven". It is most likely the basic extraordinary rule extended from the "triple point"!

It seems that it is not difficult to guess what the hanging doll represents. "

Many native-born transcendents, because of thousands of years of habit, may have intentionally or unintentionally overlooked the fact that the title of "Bound Creator" seemed to have something wrong from the very beginning.

But Byron, the outsider, would not.

Why would the one and only God who had clearly won the Ragnarok War and gathered all the immortal divinities, and was high above, be "bound"?
Even Byron's own [Ten Thousand Winged Angel], which symbolizes the Holy Spirit, was tied up tightly with golden chains and was also bound.

Although he felt it was a little unbelievable, he had to come to a conclusion that might be very close to the truth:

"So the current state of the [Bound Creator] is actually three hanging 'Sunny Dolls'! They are the sacrifice of this world!
The situation in the triple point may be more complicated and strange than I initially imagined.

The Creator was bound and hung, and the Son of God was nailed to the cross. Neither of them had a good end. As for me, the Holy Spirit who has taken over the baton and is going to continue to control the flood, will I say "Pooh, Pooh, Pooh"? Children speak without restraint.

Byron spits to dispel the crow's mouth.

There is always a strange sense of fate lingering in my heart.

"Let's look for anything else in the temple."

He was about to order a search for other clues in the temple when his ears moved and he looked at a long-dried stone well next to the temple.

At first there was just a slight rustling sound, as if something with many legs was crawling. When everyone else noticed the sound, they turned their heads to look over there.

call--!
Suddenly, a strong fishy wind blew up from the well, and a foul odor filled the air.

A [Cursed Spirit] composed of countless human severed hands, feet, and torsos leaped out of the well, roaring from its neck:
"Head, give me my head back!"

The filthy spiritual light that was unique to the fifth-order high sequence filled the temple, and most of the dark clouds in the sky were dispersed.

I don’t know how many prayer ceremonies have been held, and how long it took to accumulate so many corpses. Some have already decayed into bones, while others are still very fresh.

With countless arms and legs swinging, the cursed spirit rumbled towards Hawkins, who was closest to it, like an out-of-control steam locomotive.

The legendary knight was not flustered at all and casually spat out the bone toothpick he had been holding in his mouth.

The small toothpick drew a red line of fire in the air, hitting the cursed spirit's head, where its chest was opened to serve as a mouth and its jagged ribs were still bleeding.

Boom!

A fire more terrifying than a heavy artillery bombardment exploded, and the violent shock wave blew the head of the cursed spirit into pieces.

It was his magic [Knights Don't Die Barehanded] that made the stones, benches, and plants around him become deadly weapons in Hawkins' hands, giving him a series of extraordinary bonuses and the effects of various powerful relics.

Wet your clothes and tie them into a stick to smash a huge rock with one blow; break a branch to easily cut steel; spit out a toothpick casually and shoot a heavily armored knight from a hundred meters away.
It has long reached the point where even picking leaves and flying flowers can kill people.

He casually picked up the raindrops that were blocked by the sunny doll not far above his head, and shot out a sharp "rainstorm pear blossom needle", which hit the cursed spirit with holes.

Drake next to him immediately stood on one leg, put his hands together and raised them above his head to form a gun shape. His whole body turned into golden bronze, revealing his mythical form as a mythical creature [Bronze Golem].

Hawkins grabbed it in his hand, swung a gun flower, stirred up wind and thunder in the sky, and killed the cursed spirit that was waving its hands and quickly recovering its broken limbs.

Although the fighting power of this cursed spirit is ordinary, its vitality is extremely tenacious and it can recover quickly no matter how much it is crushed.

If Hawkins hadn't received the fire bonus from Byron, each of his attacks would have been able to permanently wear away part of the opponent's limbs with the help of [Solar Storm], and the person would have been numb by now.

But before he could slowly grind the cursed spirit to death.

Wow.
Several deep holes suddenly opened up on the ground inside the temple, and a group of dark dwarfs rushed up like a tide.

As the name suggests, these people called "Crypt Dwarfs" are not normal humans in the conventional sense.

The tallest one among them looked to be only about 1.2 meters tall, which was already considered a remarkable warrior. The other dwarfs were only about 1 meter tall on average.

Riding on the backs of a group of domesticated dwarf oviraptorosaurs, it was like a monkey riding a dog.

It looks murderous, but there is an indescribable sense of humor.

However, the extraordinary spiritual light on them is real. There is not a mortal person to be seen. They are all extraordinary species with awakened spirituality!
Although the vast majority of them were only of low sequence, this scene of everyone being extraordinary was already terrifying enough.

And don't be fooled by their short size, they are extremely fierce when fighting.

Each person held a wooden blowpipe in his hand, and when he puffed up his chest and blew hard, the power was no less than that of a musket bullet, and the blowpipe was also tempered with a blue poison.

Jingle bells
A force field ripple automatically rose in front of Byron, blocking Violet and a group of soldiers behind him, and he re-examined these native savages.

“There are two spiritual poles on this planet. One is in the center of the Sea of ​​Monsters, which gave rise to countless sea monsters and the Sea of ​​Monsters’ notoriety.

Another is that it is here that the extraordinary diversity of this continent has been born.

I have speculated before that, given the active concentration of this spiritual tide, no ordinary human community would be able to survive in this land.

Even if there are intelligent creatures, they must at least be sub-human species that are born extraordinary. Now that I see it, it is just as I expected."

Byron was delighted.

Even if the spiritual awakening rate of the First British Empire increased by 100% from the original level, the extraordinary people would still be a minority group.

If we can understand the secrets of these crypt dwarves, use the [Holy Lance of Origin] to introduce them to the entire human population and gather all the advantages together.

After the material explosion of the whale oil industrial revolution, the ultimate realization of “everyone is like a dragon” is definitely not just a dream!

However, before he could take down these dwarfs himself.

call out!call out!call out!
Suddenly, a sound of breaking air was heard from the floating island on the other side of the temple, and more than a dozen thick arrows, which were comparable to siege crossbows to those crypt dwarves, flew over.

Plowing furrows of flesh and blood through the torrent of dwarfs.

Byron's [Divine Vision] swept over, but he couldn't find out who was shooting the arrows in the dense forest at a glance.

"Hey, come with me!
With such a small number of people like you, you dare to come to the territory of the crypt dwarves and cause trouble. Do you want to die?

Don't you know that the population of any dwarf settlement will not be less than 50,000? I will exhaust you to death!"

A pleasant female voice sounded in their hearts through telepathy.

When I turned my head, I saw the branches and leaves in the woods around me shaking twice, and several figures suddenly appeared.

They wore beautifully shaped leather armor, held longbows, and had their long hair in gold, silver, and green braided into neat braids.

There are only females but no males. They have fair skin, extremely beautiful appearance, and slightly pointed ears, resembling the legendary forest elves.

What is most striking is that each of these women is over two meters tall, close to three meters, far exceeding the height of a normal human.

If the crypt dwarves represent the dwarfism of the islands, then these people represent the gigantism of the islands.

When Byron saw them, he suddenly realized that some of the heads hanging on the eaves were much larger than the crypt dwarves. They should be the same species as these giants who were hunted.

Then, he also saw their tribe from the [Ship Log]:

“Race: Forest Giants, a magical race of pure female extraordinary people.

They can reproduce sexually or asexually, and the children they give birth to will only be girls.”

Byron lamented that the world was so vast and full of wonders, and at the same time he called on his people to follow.

Byron would naturally be happy to see some natives who were friendly to outsiders and able to communicate rationally emerge.

The most crucial reason, of course, is that appearance is justice.

These forest giants just look like better people than those screaming dwarfs.

For beautiful animals, this is an irreversible law of nature!

Led by the Hawkins brothers, the group immediately left their pursuers behind and quickly evacuated with the forest giants.

The blonde female giant at the head introduced herself in a very familiar manner:

"By the way, my name is Ariel Palmleaf, and I'm the hunting captain of the Palmleaf tribe. What's your name?"

She looked at Byron, who was obviously the leader, with a hint of curiosity in her pure eyes, and she was not wary of strangers at all.

Byron always felt that these forest giants were a little careless, too straightforward, and a little too friendly to strangers.

So after introducing myself, I made my suggestion tactfully.

Ariel Palm Leaf waved her hands generously:

“The individual strength of the Crypt Dwarfs is mediocre, but their fertility is stronger than that of mice, which makes their numbers extremely large. They have seriously threatened the ecological security of the Ancient Pillar.

And they never fight alone. Fighting them is more disgusting than poking a hornet's nest.

These guys caused the 'Great Mother' to personally order all races on the continent to artificially reduce their numbers.

There are quite a few humanoid intelligent groups on the Ancient Pillar Continent. The racial differences are huge due to the floating islands, so it is normal that we have never seen them.

But no matter what race you are, as long as you fight the crypt gnomes, we are one of us.

You probably have relatives who were headhunted by those dwarfs, right?"

Byron carefully echoed a few words without revealing his identity as an outsider, and took the opportunity to gather some intelligence.

Especially the "great mother" she mentioned. According to the semantics, this should be a name for God.

After hearing the inside story, I was shocked.

The "great mother" she mentioned turned out to be the Pan Tianhu that can be seen everywhere.

Ordinary creeper is an epiphyte, but the demonized creeper is not. It has the characteristics of both epiphytes and parasitic plants.

A parasitic plant is an organism that grows on or inside another organism and relies on the nutrients of the latter to survive.

Epiphytes are plants that grow on another plant, but their source of nutrients has nothing to do with the attached plant.

When the climbing orchid touches non-living things, it is epiphytic; when it touches living things, especially other plants, it is parasitic and can even mimic the corresponding vegetation.

All the climbing plants on this continent form a dense network. The climbing plants are it, the trees are it, the shrubs are it, the herbs are it, and even the mushrooms everywhere are it.

It can be said that the entire "Ancient Pillar" continent is its skeleton and its body.

It even has a unique title: [The largest creature in the world]!
"Byron and everyone, we're here."

They rushed all the way to the heart of the continent. They were all extraordinary people and with Byron's [Storm Halo] their speed was extremely fast. After just half an hour, Ariel stopped.

Ahead is a vast plain. The blue light on the climbing tiger vines flows from all directions and converges into a sea of ​​light here.

If you look down from high in the sky, you will find that the blue light traces all over the continent are constantly flickering, as if they are a neural network running at high speed.

However, logically speaking, there should be a thickest trunk of the Sky-Climbing Tiger reaching into the sky in the center of the continent.

But at this time, only a huge ancient wooden stake that looked like a stone was left.

It seemed as if the main trunk had been cut off some time ago.

Byron and Violet looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes:

"Where did the main trunk of the Sky-climbing Tiger go? Who can harm a creature of this level?"

At this time, a gentle female voice with a strong sense of fatigue sounded in their hearts, as if it could hear their thoughts, and quietly answered their questions:

"Guess why Noah's Ark, which led the gods through the first flood, did not sink?

Outsiders, are you here to chop off my trunk as well?"

(End of this chapter)