Pirate Kingship

Now both the "Gospel of Heaven" and No. 9 Skeleton have returned to his hands.

Due to an unexpected incident, the "Traitor" did not have time to send the copied version replacing Byron to the Wolf God, and the two Old Gods who had regained their sanity did not have time to execute the plan.

The rest is the same, the next influential stirring of fate might bring things strongly associated with it, like the "Pirate Code," to his presence.

Even if not, it’s not too late to search again then, so Byron was not in a hurry. He first relied on these Pathfinder Stones to gain benefits in the Divine Kingdom before considering other matters.

"Die—!"

The Traitor used a staff to finish King Oedipus, one of the three great tragedies of the Ancient Silver Empire, finally getting through this round of tragic eruption.

He took out a Bone Talisman from his pocket, glanced at it, and ordered the others beside him:

"The matters of the Desert God System are not urgent, let’s first attend to our own business in the Divine Kingdom of the [Venus Goddess]."

The main purpose of Mercurius coming to the Eastern Continent was to relieve the constraints of the Divine Aspect.

By using Salome’s [Seven Layers of Veil Dance] to strip away the Divine Aspect within himself and then using the body of a Demigod to perfectly infuse him with the divinity of a Demigod.

Not only could it solve the troubles on his body, but might also further set the preconditions to directly advance to Demi-god status.

"No problem."

"The two Divine Kingdoms weren’t far apart to begin with."

Salome and Lancelot had no objections.

Like the wizards from various schools, they each had a single-use Beacon Talisman.

Though the Sea of Origin Matter was the main venue for the Kins, not all Kins of the Desert God System knew where their own Divine King’s place of eternal rest was.

While the World Rift could also potentially connect to some Old Gods, eventually forming a unique Secret Realm.

But the essence on the fracture’s other side was merely a projection of the Old Gods’ unconscious power, similar to Lilith’s projection on the moon, not its true Divine Kingdom.

Mighty Old Gods can project numerous polluting knowledge and power to the Material World through the World Rift in one go.

If mortals wish to seek death, they can directly jump over and instantly get polluted.

But if they wish to take a shortcut through the World Rift without going through the Rust Belt’s trial to directly reach the Divine Kingdom, it would be like fishing for the moon in water.

Hence, aside from exceptions like [Curse Spirit · High Priest], only Old God Favored, namely the Pope of the Old God Church, can locate the Chief God within the Primordial Ocean.

However, the talisman in the Traitor’s party hands didn’t just point towards God King Horus, there was a second one.

Not long ago, while exploring the Rust Belt, Pan God inadvertently stumbled upon the Divine Kingdom of [Venus Goddess] Ishtar and left his own beacon there.

It can ensure a stable anchoring for a short time, capable of relocating back within a year.

But when they took out the second talisman to confirm the location, they were stunned to discover that the directions of the two Divine Kingdoms, originally not far due to the aggregation effect, were gradually aligning into a straight line.

"What’s happening? How did [Venus Goddess] Ishtar’s Divine Kingdom overlap with [Sky God] Horus’s Divine Kingdom...?"

The "Traitor" just murmured in wonder.

Bang—!

The sound of anchor chains tightening rang out.

All the talismans on them suddenly lit up, and some superordinate power, relying on the beacons’ connection, forcibly locked their next encounter into the merged Divine Kingdom.

The group of four suddenly disappeared from the spot.

...

The Rust Belt, another position where distance and direction can’t be gauged.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!...

Several streaks of light flew close to the ground both front and back, some riding horses, some donkeys, some booms; it was Byron’s party.

[The Little Match Girl] and [Wolf Grandmother], these two female upper-level wizards were riding brooms, while [Alibaba] rode his donkey.

Byron put away the Golden Deer and rode first with Violet on the back of the increasingly powerful Eight-legged Sky Horse Slipnir, smashing through any obstructive things ahead.

Among the party, Byron was the strongest, and the first Secret Realm he encountered was the "Three Deep Breaths of the Silver Civilization," closely related to him and the Lancaster Family.

After smoothly navigating it, they altogether harvested seventeen [Soul Gems], 32 pounds of [Fairy Dust], reaping a bountiful Harvest.

The [Fairy Dust] worth over a million Gold Pounds was secondary. If Byron could absorb these seventeen Soul Gems, it would be enough to increase the spirituality of three people by 0.2, reaching 23.2.

He merely referenced the advice of several wizards from the Fairy Town School.

Apart from auctioning a small number of samples, the rest would be stored to assist in transforming to the best Immortal Divinity effect when spirituality reaches the threshold of 25 points.

It would probably require at least several hundred pieces, a long time to collect slowly.

Byron planned to later permanently station one or two incarnations here, specifically to act as miners.

Next in strength in the team was Violet, the Legendary Whale Oil Mechanic [Queen of Weapons].

Thanks to her "fortune," the party could witness the true form of the "Rust Belt."

Underfoot was an endless crimson wasteland with no vegetation, scattered with gravel and rust-colored soil.

One could occasionally see jagged human bones, collapsed steel structures, series of rusty pipelines, and sand dunes buried with enormous steel gears the size of mountains, along with the steam "Bright Wheel," currently only existing in Violet’s design blueprint.