Pirate Kingship

Only by having numerous at least devout believers, preferably zealots, true believers, with an extreme "faith" in their own god, can the small world ascend in dimension.

A little by little ascend from the edge of the world to the material world, similar to a Transcendent ascending from the fallen beastly side to the orderly divine aspect, ultimately becoming a true Divine Kingdom.

Like the Inti, who was a Pseudo-God a millennium ago, why did it dawdle for so many years? Yet within a year of the divine system supplementing underworld authority, it took a crucial step?

Byron couldn’t think of it before, but now standing on the same level without a gap in quality, he instantly understands.

Whether it’s the promotion of the Transcendent, the Blood of Transformation, the Panacea, the Philosopher’s Stone... none could do without the "variable" of humans.

The more souls of believers transformed into Kin, the more devout, the quicker this process!

A zealot can surpass a hundred or a thousand ordinary general believers, let alone Andrea, who was a heroic rank bishop of the Fourth Order in life.

Her birth undoubtedly allowed the Flower Mountain Celestial Kingdom, cultivated as a Zero-Level Sacred Relic by the Taya Empire for a thousand years, to take a key step of substantial transformation.

Moreover, the speed must be far faster than [Sun God] Inti!

"With the coordination of the threefold authority of material, energy, and information with my two sisters, there shouldn’t be a faster and more perfect Divine Kingdom than our construction speed in the history of the Mythological Era.

In the future, as more and more Kin settle, it will be like a snowball speeding up the world’s dimension upgrade.

Every zealot and true believer is invaluable to us."

To be honest, Byron previously hated [Evernight Queen] Margaret I, who was fanatically and blindly devoted to the church.

Now he realizes that what he hated was not others being superstitious, but that the object of their superstition wasn’t himself!

At this moment, looking at that [Storm Angel] Andrea, who was tearfully kissing the ground beneath his feet, Byron only wanted to say:

"How delightful!"

From doubting the Evernight Queen, to understanding the Evernight Queen, to becoming the Evernight Queen, and then to surpassing the Evernight Queen!

Byron felt a bit regretful, feeling that he had missed a small goal unintentionally in the past.

He even had an idea that when the time comes to successfully ascend as [Holy Spirit], after successfully stealing the other party’s faith anchor chain, he would find an opportunity to fish out Margaret I from the Ark.

The "faith" on this die-hard zealot must be exceptionally strong.

"No, the Empire governs the world with ’filial piety’, she didn’t act like an elder, but we can’t watch her languish and suffer in the Ark.

This is not coveting her ’faith,’ but letting her spend her old age in the Divine Kingdom, with great fortunes ahead.

This is how it should be."

Byron made up his mind, then looked at the Storm Angel before him and ordered her:

"Andrea, I appoint you as the archangel of the Divine Kingdom, responsible for guiding devout believers below the Middle Sequence to transform into angels through the [Reincarnation Pool]."

"As you command, my Lord!"

In the Divine Kingdom, a god’s word follows the law.

The moment Byron’s voice fell, a stone-carved pool appeared behind Andrea, filled with a pale red liquid.

It was the manifestation of the power of Creativity Authority.

For low-quality souls, this Angel Reincarnation Pool suffices, only Middle Sequence Extraordinary are worth Byron descending personally.

When there are more angels as helpers later, they can complement each other with the mortal world.

When some low Sequence Followers perform a "Saint Descent," those [Storm Angels] with a trace of [Myriad Wings Angel] divinity can also descend and return to the mortal world.

Kin are the direct extension of a god’s power, with everything aligned with the god’s interests as the top priority.

When Byron advances to Demigod, many matters can be entirely handled by the Kin, then it will be truly imposing as a god.

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Southern Hemisphere.

At the southernmost end of the "Hundred Beasts Paradise" on the Southern Continent, which overall resembles a carrot shape and is about half the size of the Old Continent, lies a submerged Glacial Archipelago.

This is the first large island to be submerged after the material world entered the Intertidal Zone.

It is also the end of the First Circulation Zone and the starting point of the Second Circulation Belt within the Echidna Triangular Circulation.

Departing from here through the Second Circulation Belt to the Eastern Continent is currently the only identified feasible ocean route.

Last year, Byron saved his cousin [Sea Magician] Saranthe here.

He also witnessed firsthand the first group of adventurers, filled with adventurous spirit yet somewhat ignorant and fearless, charge into the deep sea.

Since then, numerous adventurers have followed, but until now, no ship has returned news to the Eastern Continent.

Without substantial treasures like gold, spices, or whale oil as carrots dangled before a donkey, human exploration enthusiasm has noticeably decreased.

The "triangular trade" that someone envisioned over a hundred years ago through the Triangular Circulation is still out of reach.

Even Byron, who knows the most about the Eastern Continent, can only vaguely recall local specialties like... fully automatic cotton pickers.

This has led to fewer and fewer adventure ships entering the Second Circulation Belt this year.

A team of Tower Guardians stationed here by the Lighthouse Union, although lighting up the First Level Lighthouse on schedule every day, haven’t seen a single ship in half a month.

Here it is over a thousand kilometers to the nearest Old Continent colony, the land is fraught with danger, and supplies are extremely difficult.