Pirate Kingship

Although the Sword in the Stone retains the shape of a sword, after an entire Silver Era of tempering, its fundamental power has undergone a dramatic transformation.

With the release of the first layer of constraint, it suddenly revealed its true essence— a massive golden anchor larger than a First Level battleship!

——The Storm Anchor that tears through the sky and connects to the earth, also the materialization of the human collective unconscious sea of the entire North Sea Region.

Byron’s muscles bulged, and with a mighty roar, he grasped the giant anchor single-handedly, hurling it fiercely at the dark sword light of the opposite [Sword of Devouring Royal Iron].

"Die!"

BOOM!!!

An eye-piercing giant cross light scar suddenly tore through the entire sky, turning the world white as observers instinctively covered their eyes.

In a flash, there was only a heart-wrenching, piercing scream that hurt eardrums.

"No——!"

The black sword light collapsed with a thunderous explosion after just a moment.

At the instant Lancelot was pierced through by the anchor, his body, soul, and even the essence of his existence rapidly dissolved in the golden light.

Conversely, the [Golden Law] that had been forced back by the sword light regrouped, rapidly growing as if it had ingested a Great Tonic Pill, strengthening its weak foundations that had existed for only a few short years.

Rustle...

The tides in the sea of the human collective unconscious surged, allowing everyone to clearly feel the joy and satisfaction within.

This sea of the mind was divided into three parts: consciousness, individual unconscious, and collective unconscious.

If the inner world of all humans is viewed as a vast archipelago above the sea.

Then the land above the water represents the awakened part of individual human consciousness, accessible even to ordinary people, where daily life and lucid dreaming take place;

The part of the land that only appears due to tide movements represents an individual’s personal unconscious, where everything one has seen and heard in a lifetime accumulates, never discarded;

And the seabed, which ultimately serves as the foundation of all islands, symbolizes a nation, a group, a country, and is the collective unconscious of all humanity.

From high to low, it signifies the human spiritual world moving from individual to collective, from individuality to commonality.

When reaching the collective unconscious, it represents the sediment of countless shared experiences passed down through generations in the minds of all humans, where Transcendents of the Tower Sequence often excavate ancient treasures.

At this moment, the [Sword in the Stone] not only unleashed immense energy on the physical level but could also, on the level of rules, directly sever all anchoring on the opponent.

In other words, it broke the boundary between "self" and "external," thoroughly shattering a "small island" on the sea of the collective unconscious.

Allowing the existence of the individual to return to the collective.

Byron had a premonition that with this anchor, he could even shatter entities outside the closed system of the world, merging them into the material world beneath his feet.

In other words, he might enable the world to consume nutrients from the outside and accomplish "entropy reversal," to some extent reversing the current trend of the entire world descending into the deep sea and into madness!

Meanwhile, the [Mandate of Heaven] of the Zero-Level Sacred Relic also surfaced in Byron’s heart:

"The Great Flood is a memory of shared pain for all humankind.

The new [Sword in the Stone] was born from the wishes of countless humans, ultimately growing into an anchor that stabilizes the world and prevents the homeland from further descent.

The holder of the sword can only live and die with the entire world, with no possibility of abandoning their group and escaping alone."

As Byron fed Lancelot’s essence back to the world, he found that his shareholding ratio of this world also increased.

The realm of "Unity of All Things" jumped from the original 3% to 4.6%.

Byron was pleasantly surprised, fully realizing the true significance of this Zero-Level Sacred Relic.

"Escape? This is my world, I won’t leave even if driven out!"

As the light dissipated, Lancelot’s body completely vanished, leaving only a half-dissipated head that fell dejectedly to the ground.

"Bruh!"

The loyal Guardian Knight immediately wielded the [Sun Holy Sword], sending his head flying away, dissolving it completely.

The shadow of the third Knight emerged among the Contracted Heroic Spirits behind him, finally breaking the ancient curse on the Oath Knights.

Clearing the path for Bruh’s Legendary promotion.

Subsequently, the Sword in the Stone flashed with golden light and automatically drilled into Byron’s body.

The [Dragon Slayer Sword Reinhardt] that had been comfortably residing in Byron’s body was rejected and fell to the ground, bouncing twice like a dead fish and lay still.

This Dragon Slayer Sword, reforged by the Pirate Emperor [Blue Dragon King] Reinhardt, was itself a replica modeled after the Sword in the Stone.

With the rightful owner returning, it naturally staged a melodrama of "White Moonlight returns, the substitute swept out the door."

Byron’s body naturally became the new sword scabbard of the [Sword in the Stone].

Rumor has it the "scabbard" is far more valuable than the sword itself, and after coming to the Corridor of Truth, who knows if the long-lost scabbard might reawaken in Byron.

Of course, whether or not it reawakens,

As soon as a [Crown] lands on his head, the Sword in the Stone can completely unseal and become one of the rare complete Zero-Level Sacred Relics of the entire material world!