Pirate Kingship

However, the gun salvo of the breaking fleet landed on the target's head before the torpedoes did.

Although Byron did not choose to be promoted to [Storm King], the king's title [Wild Hunt King] has stronger crowd gathering ability.

It's just a piece of cake to wield the complete iron law of royal power and smash it down, and to provide ballistic fine-tuning and storm enchantment for the entire fleet.

In an instant, dense cast iron solid bullets covered the entire ghost fleet.

The bulwarks, covered with barnacles and coral that looked stronger than oak, were almost like paper in the face of heavy artillery shells.

The shells carrying huge kinetic energy screamed and bounced, "rumbling" from one side of the ship to the other.

All the undead soldiers who stood in front of them along the way were crushed into limbs and arms.

Judging from the death conditions, they should not be the original crew of these ghost ships. I don’t know how many rounds have been added, because the death time of the corpses is obviously different.

Some have long since become mummies or even skeletons, leaving only a pile of dried muscles stuck to the bones.

Some are relatively "fresh", with rotten organs and foul-smelling black blood flowing out.

Some heavy artillery pieces had their ropes broken by chance, allowing them to slide back and forth on the artillery deck like wild horses. The hull even tilted to one side, directly smashing the gun doors and falling into the rough sea from one side of the ship. .

More undead soldiers were affected by fragments of wood, shells, and iron, but even though they were riddled with holes, they continued to load cannonballs silently as if nothing happened.

And not a single undead soldier uttered a single scream during the whole process.

It was so quiet that it made my heart palpitate.

It is obvious that even the solid bullets fired by heavy artillery are a bit too weak when targeting these undead creatures.

Unless the ghost battleship can be sunk and they are sent to the bottom of the sea in one go, even if the battleship is turned into a hornet's nest, there will still be a considerable number of undead sailors alive and kicking.

At the same time, those "carbon-based guided torpedoes" with very obvious wakes had also hit everyone's eyes.

Especially since Byron just glanced at it and immediately locked the positions of all fifty-two "carbon-based guided torpedoes" underwater.

The original [divine vision] only simulated the vision of a god, but now Byron is a real god from soul to body.

The range of [Shen Jian] has been greatly expanded to dozens of kilometers, and it is impossible to be attacked by someone at a distance of only a hundred meters.

"These colonists of the Eastern Continent are indeed what Salant said. The whale oil technology tree is very crooked, and they even have torpedoes.

And how could a normal person imagine such a combination of steel, gunpowder, whale oil, and a black iron man?

How much energy does it consume? One melon per 100 kilometers? "

Even if you just rely on common sense, you know that the threat from underwater attacks is completely different from that of surface bombardment.

Surface attacks can penetrate the waterline at most, causing the warship to leak water. If the water pump is cranked fast enough, it may not be able to sink.

However, heavy torpedoes coming from underwater can directly attack the bottom of the ship. Just one shot may sink the warship. Even if the wooden sailboat has superior sinking resistance, it will not be able to block it in time.

No one else in the fleet had seen anything like this, and there really wasn't a good way to deal with torpedoes in the age of sailing battleships.

Byron had many anti-torpedo technologies in his previous life, mainly including passive defense and active equipment confrontation.

But the objects of resistance are also conventional torpedoes.

This kind of weapon that uses black iron carbon-based guidance is a veritable super "black" technology that Byron will never be able to catch up with.

It is an insurmountable peak in the military field and the brightest pearl in the industrial crown!

Whether it is the mainstream sonar and electromagnetic interference in the previous life, or the current "dragon dung potion", they have no effect on this thing.

"Let's try it!"

Vanessa and Violet, mother and daughter, stood up immediately and each took out their first-level holy relics [pump-action shotgun] and [bolt-action rifle].

Chant the [Disaster Curse] to provide the bullet with accuracy and penetration, and then pull the trigger one after another.

Bang! Bang!

A single-head bullet and a rifle bullet dragged a long line of fire into the water, but miraculously did not encounter any resistance, as if two swimming fish instantly crossed five meters of water and landed on the head of a torpedo. .

Boom!

A faint blue fire flashed under the water, and with a thunderous noise, two huge water splashes up to ten meters high shot straight into the sky.

As for the "carbon-based guidance system" used as a plug-in on the torpedo, it was naturally wiped out along with it.

Obviously, the charge of these torpedoes is extremely terrifying. It is absolutely not a problem for a whale oil torpedo to sink a wooden warship.

Witnessing the terrifying power of this thing with their own eyes, many sailors couldn't help but turn pale.

"This is actually an alchemy bomb from the Eastern Continent!"

"This weapon is at least an era ahead of the forward-loading smoothbore cannon and can completely defeat wooden sailing battleships.

If you meet him overseas, you will definitely die. "

However, when the musketeers and gunnery experts on other battleships wanted to imitate them and explode the torpedoes, they found that they did not have the strength of the two mythical creatures, and they did not have the first-level holy relics in their hands.

As soon as the bullet entered the water, its trajectory immediately became skewed, and it quickly sank on its own.

The density of water is more than 800 times that of air. The flying distance of bullets in water is only two or three meters at most. It cannot even kill a person, let alone explode a torpedo.

In addition, the remaining dozens of white water lines in the water were still approaching rapidly, and there was no time for the two disaster witches to slowly explode.

At this time, the piano sound on the [Marijoa Theater] sounded again.

The red spiritual light in the eyes of the undead soldiers in the water was bright, and their speed increased as if they had taken stimulants.

It looked like it was not just a simple guidance system, but also a tragic "corpse explosion" followed by a whale bomb.

Seeing this, Byron decisively took action and used a "ship-pulling technique".

All 58 naval guns on the [Golden Deer] opened fire.

The storm spirits surrounded the shells and deflected them at a large angle, leaving light marks in the air like flowers scattered by fairies, and fell into the water one after another.

He may not have the power of the sea, and he cannot make the bullets immune to the resistance of seawater like the two disaster witches.

But the high-speed rotating storm wrapped the shells and forcibly blasted the seawater, bombarding the whale oil torpedoes one after another, causing them to explode one after another.

In the blink of an eye.

Countless water columns rose up between the fleets of both sides, and the nearest one had wet the deck of a warship when it fell.

It can be said that: you have "carbon-based torpedoes", and I have "human close-in defense guns"!

This magical combination of "manual mode" plus "backward weapons" equals "high-precision equipment" of both sides is probably a wonder that can only be seen in a world where transcendence and technology coexist.

But before the commerce-breaking fleet could breathe a sigh of relief, more whale oil torpedoes emerged from the water on the opposite side.

Apparently, the "carbon-based guidance system" prepared by the ghost fleet is sufficient.

And Byron also made an empirical mistake. The death of slaves in the world without magic is a huge loss for slave owners.

But in the hands of the "Abaddon Cult", death is just another great adventure for slaves. Er, the beginning of another difficult job.

Maybe Byron can rely on his "ship-pulling technique" to accurately detonate those torpedoes, but he almost doesn't have to think about doing anything else.

He changed his tactics immediately.

"Before we come up with a specific conventional response plan, we can only make do with our lack of extraordinary technology."

A shadow under his feet suddenly turned as dark as ink, and the sound of "splashing" water and bubbles surging could be heard.

Then it instantly expanded into a long river with no end in sight, enveloping the entire fleet.

The commerce-breaking fleet was sailing on the sea, and at the same time, it was also sailing on the surface of the [Styx River Styx].

The second batch of torpedoes had just rushed into the boundary between normal sea water and the Styx River water.

Those undead soldiers would immediately be taken away by the floating souls in the river, and then push the torpedoes to turn around and rush towards the ghost fleet.

"No, go back!"

The piano sound on the [Marijoa Theater] suddenly became urgent.

The followers of the Devil Lord also knelt down and chanted her three-part honorific name to provide the power of faith:

"The master of the Abaddon cult, the soul harvester who plays the music of death, the Devil Lord who wanders on the edge of the world and commands all the bottomless pit clans, the great Majesty Lorena!

I dedicate my flesh to you, my spirit to you, and everything to you."

Although [Devil Lord] Lorena is the clan god of the [Abyss Messenger] Great Red Dragon Abaddon, she is obviously not as good as Byron, the [King of the Wild Hunt] who has gathered the three powers in the competition of Hades.

After she found that she couldn't turn the torpedoes back, she could only grit her teeth and detonate these whale oil torpedoes in advance.

Cheering rang out in the commerce-breaking fleet, but Byron had not yet announced his honorific name, so they could only shout: "Praise Saint Byron!"

A black river of the underworld continued to expand forward, and soon even the ghost fleet was covered by the river water, and the undead on the ship shuddered subconsciously.

Every magic or divine art in this world can be developed into a variety of ways of use.

Just like the swordsman profession, some people can only use the same sword to chop wood, while others can become sword masters. The development ability is very different.

[Puppet King] is a typical example. He almost turned a magic [Blood and Flesh Useless] into mechanical ascension.

At this moment, the water range of the Styx is Byron's divine domain, where he is the master of life and death.

Survival or death? It is not a problem for him. Because as long as he gives it, it must be the correct answer!

Byron raised his hand and grabbed it, and issued his own judgment on the undead creatures on the ghost ship:

"Deprive of immortality!"

For a moment, it seemed that something was stripped away, and it seemed that nothing happened.

But the low-level undead in the ghost fleet suddenly felt a long-lost sense of crisis from the opposite artillery.

Byron looked up at the [Death Pianist] opposite him and said coldly:

"Five laws of thermal weapons:

First, thermal weapons never believe in the tears of carbon-based creatures;

Second, all fears come from insufficient firepower;

Third, caliber is justice, range is truth;

Fourth, the essence of contradiction is that high temperature, fragments and shock waves are too weak;

Fifth, under the mushroom cloud, all beings are equal!

Order, shoot on both sides! Fire!"

In theory, if Byron's side is also an ordinary battleship, the main gun on the leeward side should not be able to open.

But the heavy cruiser has only two decks, not only can it place heavy guns, but its gun port is also much higher from the water surface than the battleship.

It does not affect the firing when the sea waves are on the sea.

The gun ports were all opened. Although there were no enemies on the other side, the gun crews of the entire fleet faithfully executed Byron's orders.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

More than 3,000 heavy guns of the entire fleet fired in unison.

Then a magical scene happened.

The shells fired from the side facing away from the ghost fleet flew for dozens of meters and magically flew to the front, producing a superposition effect of two rounds of rapid fire in front and behind.

This is one of the basic abilities of the "Mobius Ring": space distortion.

You can imagine using a piece of paper to rotate half a circle and then sticking the two ends together to get a similar thing.

Originally, a piece of paper has two sides, but after forming a Mobius ring, there will only be one side (surface) and one boundary.

If someone stands on the surface of a huge Mobius strip and walks along the "road" he can see, he can walk along the "straight line" to the other side of the paper.

And he can continue to move forward and never reach the end.

At this time, Byron applied this principle. The heavy cruiser fired shells on both sides at the same time, but under the effect of the Mobius Ring, all of them were concentrated on one side.

Under the double firepower, the ghost fleet was immediately thrown to the ground.

"Ahhhhh. What's going on? It hurts so much!"

"Your Majesty Lorena, save us!"

Those undead soldiers finally understood what Byron had just stripped off their "immortality".

Originally, as long as they were not hit by the shells head-on, they would be fine.

But now, as long as they have a fatal injury in the conventional sense, they will die on the spot like ordinary humans, and there will be no possibility of getting up again.

From then on, the undead body is no longer the invincible golden body that they can ignore ordinary physical attacks.

What's worse is that a melodious violin sounded over the commerce-breaking fleet.

The [singers] in the fleet, led by their cousin [Chameleon] Jacqueline, sang the battle hymn "Katyusha":

"Just as the pear blossoms are blooming all over the world;

The river is floating with soft gauze."

Effect: "The loading efficiency and firepower density of our own shells are increased by 50%, all shells have tracer effects and organ sound effects, and there is a 5% probability of converting kinetic energy into heat energy to cause an explosion when hitting the target.

The enemy's shock and morale collapse rate are increased by 50%.

When fighting a defensive war, the passive mode "Patriotic War" will be triggered, and the effect will increase by 20% on the original basis, and our morale will increase by 100%!"

In the past, Byron and his men always made trouble on other people's territory, probably, possibly, or perhaps not so righteous.

But this time it was to defend the kingdom, the North Sea, the five countries of the Bay People, and even the entire Dragon King's Court.

The "Patriotic War" special effect of "Katyusha" was triggered for the first time!

Hearing the singing, each gun crew felt that their hands, which were loading shells, were suddenly filled with strength.

The frequency and power of the shells were suddenly increased, almost forming a continuous barrage between the two fleets.

With 6% of kinetic energy converted into heat energy, the probability of solid shells turning into shrapnel shells also changed qualitatively under the huge base of 3,000.

Flame pillars rose into the sky in the ghost fleet, and from time to time, ghost ships exploded violently because of the ammunition depot.

"Damn it!"

The devil lord Lolina finally changed her face completely and stood up suddenly from her piano.

I thought I had the advantage and it was a piece of cake to defeat Byron's side, but I didn't expect that the opponent's strength was far beyond her expectations.

Focusing on the fleet battle of gathering people, she was firmly controlled by the opponent, and it was obvious that she was no match.

But as a fifth-level [pseudo-god] with great power attributed to herself, she still had one last trump card, which was herself!

Looking at Byron's eyes on the opposite side of the [Golden Deer] from afar, he said in a low voice:

"I must get what I want! Newly promoted god [King of the Wild Hunt], let me teach you the cruelty of the power battle in the God War.

The divine domain [Marijoa Theater] is unfolding, please invite His Majesty the King of the Wild Hunt to the stage!"

Buzz——!

The majestic divine light on his body resonated with the ghost ship under his feet, and a circle of light waves suddenly spread out, colliding violently with Byron's divine domain [Styx], emitting a group of exciting light waves.

Lorina sat back in front of the piano again, and under the continuous artillery fire from the opposite side, she began to play a piano piece from the Silver Empire, "March of the Guards".

Others did not react when they heard the piano music, but when Byron, who was "invited to the stage" by her, heard it, his spirit suddenly jumped.

He was a little dazed, and when he regained consciousness, he found that he had sat in the center of the stage of a large theater, on a throne made of gold.

Wearing a white robe and a palm crown on his head, he looked like the emperor of the ancient Silver Empire.

Then the palace gate burst open, and the burly guards wearing golden armor and red cockscomb helmets rushed towards him with short swords raised and howling.

"Guards, emperor, palace coup. How come the elements of this large opera look so familiar?"

Although Byron was shocked, he felt that such a scene was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it in the history of the ancient Silver Empire.

In a flash, the first guard had already killed him. Byron caught the blade with his bare hands and took the short sword from his hand.

Then he twisted the blade and cut off his neck.

He immediately found that his body seemed to have turned into a mortal again, and his power was suppressed by the opponent's divine domain in all directions.

In addition to the spiritual realm that no one can take away, he can only use the basic abilities given to the character in this opera.

Even though Byron possesses powerful swordsmanship that surpasses 99% of sword masters, he is still in danger under the siege of hundreds of guards.

"Kill the emperor, and the leader of our imperial guards will be the new emperor!"

The stormy "March of the Praetorian Guards" played by Lorena's fingertips became more and more urgent, leading the entire opera performance to the climax and towards the finale.

This is the exclusive magic [Death Movement] evolved with its immortal ladder and authority as its core:

“Every death movement is a grand tragic story, only tragic and more tragic.

As long as Lorena can invest enough soul currency, she can wave the strings of fate and use the music to guide her enemies to the predetermined ending-death!

The closer the target person fits the role in the movement, the less power she will expend. "

The story prototype of this song "March of the Praetorian Guards" comes from the era of the ancient Silver Empire.

At that time, the "adopted inheritance system" was popular. To put it simply, whoever gets my approval will be recognized as my adopted son, and then if the Senate witnesses it, he will be my heir.

Some smart people think, Hey, I will put a knife on your neck and ask you if you recognize me?

Thus the most distinctive coup inheritance system of the ancient Silver Empire was born.

Because coups often cannot circumvent the Praetorian Guards who are closer to the water, first come first, this inheritance law is also called the "Petorian Guards Succession Law".

It was often the leader of the Praetorian Guard who killed the old emperor, ascended to the throne himself, and was then killed and replaced by a new leader of the Praetorian Guard.

According to statistics, in the 59 emperors of the Silver Empire in 364 years, 44 people died unexpectedly. It can be rated as one of the most dangerous professions in human history.

Especially in the year 238 of the Silver Age, there were seven emperors in one year, six of whom died unexpectedly. It was called the most chaotic year in the history of imperial politics.

Therefore, this special force was nicknamed the "Loyal Guards", which later became the title of their regiment.

Effect: "Together we can be stronger than the lord of the crowd!"

Side effect: "There is a 66% chance of killing the master!"

Because of this period of history, although extraordinary beings can summon various historical heroic guards at the fourth level, no one has ever dared to summon the heroic spirits of this army.

Nothing else but fear of death.

Comparing the two, even Byron, the "big trouble", pales in comparison to them.

At this moment, [Devil Lord] Lorena plays the "March of the Praetorian Guards" to lead Byron, a king who is in tune with the emperor, to the destined fate of being beheaded by the Praetorian Guards and usurping power!

[Heroes] Being stabbed in the back by [Heroes] can be regarded as the reincarnation of fate, and the retribution will be unpleasant.

Seeing this new god still wielding a short sword to resist.

Lorena showed a smile that confounded all living beings, and continued to activate the ability of the battleship under her [Born Noble]:

"Part of the battleship's materials come from the shattered fragments of the supreme dragon's nest [Dragon King's Court] in the mythical era. The owner of the battleship is in the Mariejoia Coliseum, and he is a natural nobleman who is aloof!

Lorena and her chosen people are the protagonists of Destiny.

No matter who comes in, as long as his rank is not higher than hers, he will definitely be a head shorter than her.

If you can't overpower her, you can't escape your fate, and you can't escape from the theater. Even if the kings of other countries come, they have to dance for her. "

Byron's [Navigation Log] also quietly peeked into the details of the Coliseum.

After being stunned for a moment, he thought to himself:

"Do you want your personality to always overwhelm me?

I'm afraid you can't bear it! "

Breathe slightly between your mouth and nose, and use the "breath of all things" to adjust your frequency to match a certain divine being in the taboo book "The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven".

Relying on the high degree of compatibility, he successfully borrowed a trace of the angel's breath, and then held it in his mouth without releasing it.

At this time, George, Duke of Clarence, the "Last York", wearing the armor of the leader of the Praetorian Guards, also appeared in the theater.

"George, come on! You are now the protagonist of this opera. As long as you kill the emperor, you can inherit everything from him."

Under Lorena's urging, George plucked up the courage to rush towards Byron, who seemed to be struggling more and more under the pressure of fate, with a flush of excitement on his face.

"Hahaha, the kingdom of Hetings is finally mine."

Seven steps, five steps, three steps. Just when the "protagonist" George is about to defeat the "villain" Byron and usher in his highlight moment.

Plop!

However, he accidentally stepped on the shadow under Byron's feet and disappeared instantly, along with a large circle of loyal guards around him.

Lorena couldn't help but change her color:

"This is impossible! How could you break through the restrictions of the [Marie Joa Coliseum] and extend your divine domain?

Where did you get George and my Praetorian Guards? "

Byron smiled at her, grabbed out of the shadows, and pulled out a golden "George", then reached out and grabbed a silver "George", and then stretched out his hand again and pulled out an ordinary "George". George.

Asked Lorena:

"Beautiful lady, are you looking for the golden George who represents animality, the silver George who represents divinity, or the fleshy George who represents humanity?"

Then he did the same thing again, capturing a gold guard, a silver guard, and a flesh guard.

Obviously, he had broken through the power of life and death: [Ever-changing], and had completely invaded the [Death Movement] of the Devil Lord.

Then pairs of golden-red dragon pupils opened up and down, left and right, staring at each other.

"I don't believe it, they are all fake monsters!"

Lorina looked at the scene in front of her that was beyond her understanding, and she couldn't help but retreat one after another, looking at Byron as if she was a flood and beast in front of her, and suddenly she screamed:

"Ah——!"

She seemed to see two pairs of white wings growing out of Byron's back, and he suddenly became a higher-level existence than the fifth-level [False God].

Under the effect of the divine domain [Born Noble], when she tried to continue to suppress the other party, she suddenly came into contact with another great will that seemed to have completely lost its self and was constantly breaking apart.

She couldn't help but moan:

"The only God, the Creator! The Lord!"

Then

Swish——!

Her body suddenly split apart, splitting into two demons, one large and one small.

At the same time as the [Devil Lord] split apart, the divine domain that suppressed Byron also collapsed instantly.

Byron's consciousness returned to his body with the spoils of war left behind by the other party.

Looking up, a green light burst out in front of him, and the portal at the edge of the world was opened. Led by the [Marijoa Theater], all the ghost warships that were still able to move started a collective escape.

The [Blue Dragon King], which had been roaming around and waiting for this moment, immediately led its ghost fleet to jump into the world of the dead.

"Kill! Don't let them run away!"

The rest was just a matter of covering up and killing, which was just a matter of the size of the results, and Byron didn't need to worry about it anymore.

He just looked at "Little Lorina" who was gradually melting into the [River of Styx].

He found that he had accidentally obtained a part of the divinity torn from her body, and actually used it as a springboard to touch a part of the [Authority of the Underworld] of the East Continent.

This means that he has completely gathered all the [Authority of the Underworld] in the three continents surrounding the Sea of ​​Monsters.

The size of [Styx] has quietly expanded.

A sense of perfection arises spontaneously.

Not only that, as [Golden Deer] leads the cruiser to defeat the battleship fleet head-on, it has once again achieved the achievement of "Challenging the Impossible".

The spirituality of the entire ship is awakening, and the ship spirit of [Legendary Battleship] is about to emerge!