Pirate Kingship

The people in the Royal Palace could not possibly see what was happening in other places.

But everything happening in the palace square was enough to leave them dumbfounded.

Byron had not fallen victim to the "Alice Virus" when facing the absolute Chaos Beast Horde back then, nor had he had the chance to witness its real power.

He merely regarded it as a rare sample of a supernatural virus, stored it within the Bloodline River.

Only today could he see its terrifying nature firsthand.

Countless sacred beetles, glowing in black-green divine light, covering the sky and earth with their daunting presence, were involuntarily merging into a unified form after being poisoned, transforming back into a human shape.

Revealing the appearance of High Priest Hamna before he suffered the "Insect Devouring Punishment," when he was born as a human.

According to the Desert Empire’s tradition, though bald, he had broad shoulders, a robust physique, well-proportioned flesh and bones, and rather unattractive three-dimensional features.

He was unequivocally a handsome middle-aged man.

It is often said that the ability to carry off baldness is the sole standard for being a handsome gentleman.

In this regard, High Priest Hamna was clearly very qualified; despite being bald, he was a handsome and powerful man.

Otherwise, he could not have possibly seduced the Queen Consort of the Pharaoh King.

Yet, even such seemingly perfect physique could not exempt him from the Alice Virus.

"My body... what’s happening?"

The Alice Virus devours excess fat and useless cells inside the body.

While making a person slim down, it creates a beautiful girl, Alice, who belongs exclusively to the infected.

Essentially, it is a person’s most perfect image of a wife, tantamount to a high-end SVIP custom.

Under normal circumstances, a man’s height minus 105 is approximately his standard weight in kilograms.

Based on this, adding just one kilogram of fat can satisfy the precondition for the Alice Virus’s outbreak.

If someone like Hamna, who has divided himself into billions, with each sacred beetle equivalent to his true form of the Curse Spirit, were to gather all sacred beetles together, even he wouldn’t know just how many thousand tons he is overweight.

Hence, he logically... split apart on the spot.

Rip——!

Because the speed of splitting was too fast, quite a lot of sticky white threads still connected the two parts.

Unaware that Byron had put something into his body, the High Priest was still in shock and anger.

Since he converted to the Old God Horus and successfully broke out from the stone coffin, when had he suffered such a setback?

But when he saw the graceful figure appearing before him, he instantly discarded all unimportant thoughts.

That figure was none other than Sosia, his beloved whom he had yearned for day and night, becoming an obsession for the past three hundred years!

"Sosia, my little nightingale, you’ve come back alive?

How is this possible? Am I not dreaming? Could it be that my lord Horus has manifested, descending great power for us to reunite?"

The High Priest was so excited his voice trembled.

His lover was the only light when Hamna suffered the "Insect Devouring Punishment" sealed in the stone coffin, long becoming the deepest obsession in his bones.

If he walked the Ladder of Glory path among humans, solely relying on this obsession, he could have formally ascended to the Fifth Order Legendary through his own merit, without relying on the King’s Title or Bishop’s Ring as aids.

"Hamna, it’s me, I’ve returned.

I’m sorry, all these years, for letting you suffer. Sob sob sob..."

"Alice" is born from the host’s true body, apart from absorbing fat and cells, it automatically absorbs his wishes and memories.

Therefore, Sosia before him conforms to all of the High Priest’s fantasies about his lover, even more real and perfect than the true Queen Consort of the Pharaoh King!

At this moment, the beauty had tearful eyes, pearly drops falling, pouring out her heartfelt feelings; even a stony heart would instantly melt in her tears.

Hamna was no exception either.

Held in the arms of his yearned-for beauty, caressed on his cheek, he too was mesmerized, involuntarily spreading his arms to hug her tightly, secretly swearing never to let his lover slip away from him again.

Such is the terrifying aspect of the Alice Virus.

The most poisonous is not the toxicity itself, but the addictiveness of the infected deceiving themselves, numbing themselves, unwilling to wake from the dream.

At this moment, even if someone wanted to save him, to help eradicate the Alice Virus, the first person he’d want to kill would be the meddling savior.

As Hamna embraced strongly, he immediately sensed something amiss.

"Alice" was a virus directly splitting from his body, thus wouldn’t possibly be clothed.

Her charming visage and once exclusive graceful figure of his and the Pharaoh King was now laid bare for all to see.

The High Priest’s eyes reddened on the spot, driven by a powerful possessiveness, his fierce gaze swept over everyone in the palace:

"Sosia is mine alone, all of you must die."

However, someone’s possessiveness was even stronger than his.

"Alice" clung to him tightly, her eyes full of adoration and admiration.

"Yes, Hamna, I am yours alone, but you are also mine alone."

Her voice had barely faded.

Hamna’s body split once more.

Amidst the white cellular threads, a second Sosia emerged from behind, forcefully hugging him by the neck.

She sternly countered the previous Sosia:

"Your Hamna? No, this is my Hamna!"