Pirate Kingship

Byron’s will possessed the Raven, quickly locating the Gospel of Heaven stored in a lead box.

This book is highly bound to the state of [The Shackled Creator]; even Mercurius, who is already split, may encounter unexpected events just by holding it.

He dared not touch it himself; how the clown handed it to him is how it remains now.

The Raven’s body swelled, swallowed the lead box whole, then spat out an identical lead box.

However, it was replaced with an ordinary Forbidden Book the Nun transcribed, swapping the original "Gospel of Heaven."

[Deceit] ability activated once more.

Deceiving the five senses, the sixth sense, even causing a permanent cognitive distortion.

In battle, it dominates the opponent’s every sense, making them utterly believe Byron’s setup for a specific target’s appearance, shape, quality, texture, even smell.

Speaking of which, relying on [Deceit], it wasn’t too difficult for Byron to mimic the Writer’s flights of fancy, using its more direct and stimulating traits to surpass novels like a short play surpassing a novel.

"Now that Alpha has plugged into the [Golden Law], the network coverage and computing power far exceed before. When we return, we can try to create a ’Second World.’

Bypassing electrification and chips, swiftly stepping into the information age."

Byron achieved the predetermined goal, putting his mind at ease, and began to deal with Mercurius casually.

Violet, who initiated the fight earlier, was already at its climax with the Barbaric Bone Clown.

As the latter upgraded to the Fifth Order relying on the golden great devil card granted by the [Capricious Joker], the strange arts obtained were quite ordinary.

It only randomly enhanced one of the clown’s series of trick abilities: disappearing, transforming, forecasting, levitating, seeing through, named [Hundredfold Barbarian Bone].

Can increase or decrease size by a hundred times, with power increasing when enlarged and maintaining when shrunk.

It can be imagined, driving a body at one percent mass with a power a hundred times over humans—used well, it would be like a real-world Ant-man!

If Byron could devour the [Capricious Joker] who excelled on this path, the divine position [Reform] might be accomplished in one stroke.

At this moment, the Barbaric Bone Clown, under Violet’s heavy hammer blows, was already bone-split and bruised all over, with the mouth corners smeared with paint, and fresh blood continuously flowing from the nostrils.

Even the brain inside the skull seemed already violently scattered.

Violet lifted the gigantic steam power hammer and shouted her [Calamity Curse]:

"Matter Collapse! Death!"

The title ability "Art is Explosion" and the Gate of Truth can both transform matter into energy for an explosive burst.

Facing the enemy, Violet could now transform the water inside the opponent into energy in an instant.

Fortunately, water makes up seventy percent of the human body, more than enough for killing or even extinguishing giant Sea Monsters.

The power giant hammer, transformed from the [Mechanical Fortress], emitted dazzling Divine Light, and amidst the white steam’s exhaling and inhaling, it smashed down with a boom.

"Ah——!"

[Barbaric Bone Clown], forcing himself to stay alert, shouted fiercely, suddenly shrinking to fist-size, attempting to escape with the hammer’s descending force.

Yet at the moment of contact with the heavy hammer, the whole person exploded into a mass of blood mist mixed with countless black ashes.

The Mad Hunt Knight beside them immediately dashed forward, capturing a dazed spirit and casting it into the [Nether River], without wasting the strange art that suited Byron perfectly.

On the other side, Angel Andrea also dealt with the [Bomb Clown] to wipe away past shame and proudly returned to the Flower Mountain Celestial Kingdom.

Only Byron, due to one careless move, let Mercurius’s Serpent Staff slice open the Nether River, allowing the "exhausted" Dancing Girl Salome to retrieve her life.

"Let’s go! First, find Ishtar’s corpse, then come back to kill him."

The Traitor saw Violet turn back, knowing today they couldn’t kill Byron, this great enemy.

Had to stash away the "Divine Comedy," pulling the weak Salome to flee.

Byron feigned pursuit for a while, then stopped again, hoisting the Holy Lance on his shoulder, watching the two vanish on the horizon with a sneering smile:

"If it weren’t for my prior plans, Ishtar’s [Thunderstorm], [War], and [Fertility] would already be enough as main divine positions of various Divine Systems.

The bait’s been cast; before you explore the ’Triple Point’ for me, help me probe into the Divine Kingdom of Venus Goddess Ishtar first."