Pirate Kingship

With the fusion of [Fertility] and [Thunderstorm] divine positions, the Unity Realm soared to 8% in an instant, seamlessly breathing as one with the overwhelming clouds overhead, effortlessly seizing control from the Heavenly Bull.

This domain, composed of thunderclouds and the sea, instantly became his home ground.

But Byron didn’t stop; instead, he swept past the furious traitor and continued rushing towards the other side of this domain’s boundary.

"Lancaster, stop right there!"

The most maddening thing for the enemy is not hostility but being ignored.

Byron snatched away his prize without even a word of greeting, leaving Mercurius utterly enraged.

But as soon as he shouted, a chill ran down his spine.

Turning his head stiffly, he saw a Sphinx temporarily abandon chasing Byron and turn to attack him instead.

Though still far away, it spat out three riddles at him in rapid succession.

"Without saying, you’ve already said my name. But if you can speak my name with words, it would be a miracle..."

Mercurius, the great writer, was indeed a master riddler.

Realizing that Byron had foisted his enemy onto him, he was so angry he could spit blood.

Yet he was even faster than Byron, answering all three riddles in the blink of an eye.

"Caw—!"

The riddle murder failed, and the "Riddler" took a critical hit once again.

The beastliness in his eyes was almost uncontrollable, and a lion’s head, a goat’s head, and a snake’s head slowly emerged on his neck, each representing one of the four divine positions within him.

The [Royal Iron] divine position immediately exerted its power, forcibly tearing apart the rules anchoring, intending to devour Mercurius whole.

The latter naturally fought with all his might against him.

Boom! Boom! Boom!...

Byron, who had already reached the domain boundary, stopped his steps and reached out his hand.

Though challenging, he finally succeeded in opening the Flower Mountain Celestial Kingdom by coordinating internally and externally with the five divine positions.

Violet stepped out, handing Byron a crimson sphere larger than a pumpkin.

This was the [Blood and Fire Sing As One], synthesized from alchemy gunpowder and flesh materials!

As the level of the "Panacea" within Byron continued to rise, the power of this move also grew increasingly potent.

Combined with Violet’s ability to transform any material into explosives and instantaneously release all energy, it was the most powerful bomb they currently possessed.

Using such an extraordinary bomb for regular soldiers was excessive, but targeting specific powerful foes was perfectly acceptable.

Previously, they only had the ’bomb’ but lacked the deployment capability.

Now, the [Thunderstorm] divine position finally filled this weakness.

Byron tossed the object upward, and countless storm elves and gales swept in, wrapping layer upon layer around this "warhead," instantly forming a person-sized, bullet-like stormforged weapon—an orbital guided missile.

When Byron ascended to [Storm King], he hadn’t directly learned to shoot the enemy’s head off from eight hundred miles away, nor had he mastered the invincible half-ballistic jump technique of descending at Mach 31.

He hadn’t fully mastered the electromagnetic force, one of the Four Basic Forces, either.

Instead, he combined the two and acquired the strange art [Electromagnetic Slingshot].

By leveraging his own spiritual radiance and the planetary magnetic field within a certain range, he could convert electromagnetic force and kinetic energy to propel projectiles or himself.

At this moment, enhanced by the [Thunderstorm] divine position, this capability expanded significantly and achieved a qualitative change, merging [Gun Dueling Technique] and [Electromagnetic Slingshot] into one.

Buzz—!

White light flickered in Byron’s eyes, his hair moving without wind, as he instantly captured the magnetic field changes between heaven and earth.

Even though the distance from Horus had already exceeded visible range, and even the 100-kilometer limit of [Divine Sight], he still easily locked onto Horus’s precise position using atmospheric magnetic field sensing and calculated the flight trajectory.

His fingertips flashed with activation, lightly touching the stormforged weapon as he murmured:

"Fourth Rank: Ballistic Jump! Go!"

The missile exploded with an air blast ring, and only after a line of dazzling lightning cut across the sky did the roaring boom follow.

The speed quickly reached Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, barely brushing the edge of hypersonic speed. But Byron had only just mastered this technique, with much potential still to be tapped in the future.

Byron controlled the missile’s mid-trajectory jump, chuckling lightly:

"Take this strike, Westwind Express, mission accomplished.

This is my exclusive... Sure-Hit Spear, Gungnir!"