Pirate Kingship

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it’s already the seventh day since the [Golden Deer] entered the Second Circulation Belt.

Compared to other regular adventure ships, Byron and his party have already easily covered a month’s journey at full speed.

During this time, they parted ways with the Ferdinand Family, and after witnessing the true face of the "traitor," the members of the Monetary Family no longer planned to venture to the Eastern Continent.

Instead, they turned the Miracle Battleship against the current to return to Peridot... to compete for the position of Great Duke!

For them, even if the sky were to fall right now, it wouldn’t be as important as this.

Byron, on the other hand, redeployed the grand fleet, both to train the soldiers and to familiarize the sailors with the route, preparing for large-scale navigation to follow.

They cleared all safety hazards along the way to the best of their abilities and redrew the nautical chart.

With Byron and Violet holding the line, although they encountered numerous unexpected situations, it was thrilling yet without danger.

As they say, those of High Sequence are the High Sequence of the entire world, the cream of the crop on any continent.

It’s impossible to suddenly descend into obscurity or be reduced to nobodies just for reaching a new place.

Even though Byron’s mother follows alongside, even if he were hit by the "Disfigured Kick," Heather would still recognize him instantly, but she doesn’t find the joke funny at all.

"Mom, is it enough to just wait like this? How can one truly become a fairy tale?"

In the captain’s cabin, Byron, Violet, and Heather huddled together, staring at the exclusive grimoire spread out on the desk, "Alice’s Pillow Fairy Tale Book."

Opening to a crescent fairy town on the cover, presenting the fairy tale of "The Little Mermaid" with the Mermaid Princess Heather herself as the protagonist.

As they drew closer to the Eastern Continent’s [Corridor of Truth], the words of this fairy tale began to shimmer with a dreamlike array of colors.

It seems that through Byron, acting as a "signal base station," a series of phantoms are precipitating from humanity’s collective subconscious sea, narrating the poignant love story of the Little Mermaid.

The story belongs to the Old Continent, yet it blossoms anew on the Eastern Continent.

Heather sensed the progress, her cherry-colored lips curling up, revealing an unstoppable delight:

"We are already within the range of the [Corridor of Truth].

The special rules, combined with the particularly active Source Tide, will induce the fairy tale that has been circulating in the Old Continent for nearly twenty years to come to life and finally descend into the real world.

The entire Eastern Continent actually has two core survival taboos:

First, all that is spoken will be known! Second, it’s not humans pursuing knowledge, but knowledge pursuing humans!

When the ’Little Mermaid Princess’ from this story comes to pursue me, as long as I can successfully defeat and absorb her, I can complete the final promotion ceremony.

To become an Upper-level Wizard, which is the fairy tale itself!

And the ’Immortal Stairway’ is this dreamlike fairy tale that has merged with humanity’s collective subconscious.

As long as it continues to circulate among humans or other wisdom clans, I can maintain immortality!"

Byron and Violet have mostly grasped this Wizard School system.

They know that once school wizards are promoted to the Fifth Order, the path will converge with other systems.

One doesn’t have to wait for the Truth Embodiment to be realized to switch to the normal demigod path.

After all, those Truth Embodiments imagined by each school as at least equivalent to demigods are primarily for safeguarding the early growth of the school’s members.

Perhaps some believe that the Truth Embodiment, having amassed a vast amount of knowledge, will eventually be realized, but it’s unlikely to occur in their generation.

A self-sacrificing Sage may exist, but one cannot expect every member to be such a person.

Most of the cautiously rational wizards don’t wish for the eventual creation to be occupied by a "Chief" with a brain, allowing it to take on a life of its own.

Just like the small to medium-sized city-states in the [Hundred Beasts Paradise], due to insufficient scale, when the Totem God at the anchor’s center loses control, it could affect the entire clan.

And when various schools explore the boundaries of human cognition, who knows when they might inadvertently touch upon the domain of the Pantheon.

If the Truth Embodiment is purely inanimate, that’s one thing, but once it develops "human nature," corruption becomes a possibility, and the risk rises sharply.

Although the "Fairy Town School" has been a millennium-old university faction even in the Corridor of Truth, Heather does not hold much hope for the envisioned "Fairy Town," akin to a Demi-God Kingdom.

In her plans, if she can obtain a [Divine Position] after reaching the Fifth Order, her life would be utterly complete.

At this point, Violet, somewhat worried, asked a critical question:

"Mom, if the Mermaid from the fairy tale finds you, do you have the confidence to defeat it in the ceremony?

In the information you shared, it seems to mention that the fairy tale, once alive, roughly has one foot in the door of the Fifth Order.

To complete the ceremony, you must defeat it with the related witchcraft system and wisdom you have amassed, at the very least using your personally crafted tools, treasures."

Heather, taking a small bear-shaped cookie from the silver plate on the table and popping it into her mouth, waved her fair little hand casually:

"A small matter. Although I’ve slept for nearly twenty years, and the knowledge in my grimoire is far less than others, my exploration into unknown realms is insufficient.