In an area of the Sonia Sea that deviates from the channel, strong winds are raging, dark clouds are rolling in, and the sun is blocked. The sea in the distance is as deep as the dark clouds in the sky. The two are connected and difficult to distinguish from each other.
This is the most common phenomenon and danger on the sea. Even the safe channel that has been explored will have similar situations, not to mention that the sea area here deviates from the channel.
The heavy rain is still deposited in the clouds. The sudden flash of lightning can illuminate the sea area, and then it falls into darkness. Thunder roars between the vast sea and sky. The sea water surges more than ten meters with the raging wind and rolls again.
It hit the sea surface and caused even bigger waves.
The thick, ink-stained clouds finally couldn't hold on any longer, and huge raindrops were released from high in the sky, connecting the sea and sky together. Lightning flashed, thunder roared, and countless wave peaks rose and fell.
In this sea where huge waves, heavy rain, strong winds, and thunder and lightning were raging, a huge three-masted sailing ship covered in pure black and unconventional was sailing quietly, with lanterns hanging one after another on both sides.
One hundred meters high, there are three sides of dark canvas hanging.
Without electric light, it fell into the dark sea, and the dim and swaying masses reflected the empty deck. On the deck, with its back to the cabin, there was a mottled stone chair two or three meters high. No one was sitting on it at this time.
The huge sailboat sailed by, and the surging waves immediately became smaller and receded. Countless raindrops also flew in all directions, far away from the sailboat. The surrounding dozens of meters turned out to be like a calm lake.
This is the "Black Emperor", which is the symbol of Nast Solomon, the "King of the Five Seas".
In the captain's room, candlesticks hang down from high places, 41 on the left and 40 on the right, with different numbers. At their end, a black platform rises, surrounded by an iron-black seat, "King of the Five Seas"
"Nast is sitting on it!
He wears a scaled-down spire crown and a robe with a black background and silver edges. His face has hard lines, slightly wrinkled forehead, a short black beard on his chin, and dark red light flowing in his deep black eyes.
It makes people want to lower their heads unconsciously.
Dozens of candles were clearly in front of him, but they also cast his shadow in front of him. A huge and unnatural shadow enveloped the captain's room.
Seven or eight steps away from the seat, under the black platform, a person maintained a slightly bowed posture. There was no shadow under the candlelight, because the person was also shrouded in Nast's shadow, and it was impossible to distinguish between male and female.
, and can’t tell their appearance and age.
"MI9 is looking for Edward Leto?"
A deep and majestic voice sounded, and the candlelight on the candlestick swayed, but Nast's shadow did not change at all.
"Yes, Your Excellency."
The man shrouded in Nast's shadow replied that it was a man's voice.
He is the second officer of the "Black Emperor", "Dread Viscount" Bird Mustang.
Edward Leto is the former first mate of the "Black Emperor". He was selected by Nast and trained as a demigod, but he betrayed the "King of the Five Seas".
It's a huge shame. But even if Nast is the "King of the Five Seas", it is extremely difficult to hunt down a demigod who wants to hide.
"reason?"
Bird Mustang's head dropped even lower, and Nast was asking why MI9 was only now putting so much effort into finding Edward Leto.
As the former first mate of the "Black Emperor", Edward Leto was subject to a bounty. The bounty was even higher than that of most pirate generals, reaching 39,000 pounds. After he betrayed Nast, the intelligence organizations of various countries and
Secret organizations tried to win over him, but no trace of him was ever found.
"I guess it has something to do with Loen's ironclad ship. They seem to trust the power of that ironclad ship. They want to find Edward Leto because they want to cooperate with him to fight against us."
The "Black Emperor" is a ghost ship left over from the Solomon Empire in the Fourth Age. It can not only become invisible and roam the spiritual world, but also has various wonderful abilities. Now it is also the ship of the "King of the Five Seas", with its trajectory all over the five seas.
. Without the cooperation of a familiar person like Edward Leto, the probability of Runen meeting Nast is extremely low.
"The armored ship is not important, what is important is the people on it." Nast sat on the iron black seat like a statue, without making any movement.
For an Extraordinary like him who is close to the angel level, even the giant ships and cannons can no longer have any impact on him. The only ones who can affect him are Extraordinaries of the same level.
"Rolls reported a week ago that the ironclad ship will conduct a long-distance training voyage. He will take a certain warship to Bayam. The specific route is from Pulitzer Port to Tuscat Island. Our people also saw
A fleet stayed at Damir Port for a few hours and should have entered the waters near the Rhoad Islands by now."
Nast was silent for a while, and his hard-lined face softened a bit:
"Is that Mason's kid?"
"Yes." Bird Mustang raised his head slightly, with a smile on his face, "He inherited Mason's law firm, which is now the largest law firm in Backlund. He and conservative supporter Palles
·We have made good friends with Negan’s son, Philip Negan, and this time he is helping Philip complete a task.”
"Let the manpower of the Rhoside Islands cooperate with him, and at the same time let him report the situation of the fleet."
"yes."
…
The Rhoad Islands, also known as the Spice Islands, are home to a variety of exotic spices, and plantations in this area are the mainstay of the economy.
Among them, the Blue Mountain Island where Bayam is located occupies more than half of the land area of the archipelago. It has gold, silver, copper, coal, iron and other mineral deposits. It has high forest coverage, many varieties of fruits, and the land is extremely fertile. Because of this, the third
A group of colonists named the city they built on the seaside "City of Bountiful", believing that it was a treasure land flowing with milk and mead promised by the gods.
After another day and a half, the armored fleet of the USS Pritz had arrived in Bayam. Under the cover of Colonel Delin Hacker, the captain of the "Glory", Rawls set foot on the land of Bayam.
It is already mid-October, and Backlund is already experiencing a bleak autumn, but this "City of Generosity" still maintains the heat of summer. It is now noon again, and although Rawls is only wearing a shirt on his upper body, he is still
He could feel the heat wave hitting his face, so he had to find a hotel to stay temporarily.
After resting in the hotel for a few hours, as the night gradually grew, Rawls took out the dusty money bag from his arms, took out the materials he had prepared, and used the table in the room as a temporary altar to hold the summons.
The ritual of the messenger.
“Invisible creatures that roam the upper realms;
the existence of unfettered freedom;
A messenger unique to Alicia Tamara."
Under the dim blue candlelight, nearly transparent ripples rippled, and a translucent creature emerged. It had three wings and the head of a human and the body of a fish. The right half of its face was blank, and its facial features were crowded on the other left half.
On the face, the fish body looks like a manta ray, dragging a tail that looks like a snake's tail.
Rawls handed the folded letter to the messenger and asked her to inform Alicia that she had disembarked in Bayam and asked her to return to Bayam from Olavi Island.
Immediately afterwards, he cleared the table, arranged an altar again, crossed his index fingers against his forehead, sat on a chair and recited in a low voice in ancient Hermetic language:
"You are a fool who does not belong to this age;"
"You are the mysterious master above the gray fog;"
"You are the yellow and black king of good luck."
…
"Dear Mr. Fool, I have prepared the gift ceremony..."
After praying, Rawls sat on a chair and waited quietly for Klein's answer.
…
Above the gray mist, in the majestic giant-like palace, Klein the Fool sat at the top of a long bronze table, leaning back against the back of the chair, with a leisurely posture and a smile. The table to his right was covered with a
A playing card with complicated and gorgeous patterns on the back.
This is the "blasphemous card" he got yesterday, a "blasphemous card" that contains the path to becoming a god, the "Black Emperor" card.
Although he took a lot of risks to get this card, he first got the card under the guard of the "Machine Heart", then encountered a mysterious strong man who blocked him, and he also accidentally met the real murderer of the serial murderer, a serial killer.
The real "Devil Dog".
But it's all worth it!
He stretched out his right hand and turned the card over, revealing the image of Russell on the card. He sat on an ancient stone throne, wearing a black crown inlaid with various gems on his head. He wore pitch-black armor.
Covered in a cloak of the same color, holding a scepter in his hand and looking forward with cold eyes.
Klein rested his fingers on his chin, propped his elbows on the long bronze table, and looked at the crimson star corresponding to the "Emperor". He appeared here now to wait for the "Emperor" and send the "Hanged Man" early.
The things that were sacrificed were given to the "Emperor". Naturally, he had already read these information.
At the same time, he also took this time to think about Mr. "Emperor".
According to his speculation, Mr. "Emperor" is a member of the Augustus family and should be the "arbitrator". However, the symbol behind him is a twisted and asymmetrical symbol composed of several shadow lines.
, in the middle are several inverted or upright pyramids.
This has nothing to do with "arbitrator"!
And Klein now also knows why the symbol behind Miss Justice, who is the "audience", is a dragon, but he has never figured out why the symbol behind "Emperor" is, and which path does it correspond to?
After obtaining the "Black Emperor" card, he learned that the "Emperor" is an extraordinary person of the "Lawyer" path. The biggest feature of this path is that it gradually evolves into a shadow of order, and the asymmetry is also in line with the three great empires of the Fourth Age.
The style, as for the several inverted or upright pyramids in the middle, corresponds to the godhood ceremony of the Sequence 0 "Black Emperor".
To be promoted from the Sequence 1 "Prince Killer" to the "Black Emperor", the required ceremony is to have a country of your own, to associate your name with the title of emperor and become common sense among the people. In addition, you also need to establish a
A set of strict and complex rules that go against normal circumstances, including architectural style.
Then, the people were driven to secretly build nine pyramid-like mausoleums. Then, they entered one of them and took the Sequence 0 potion in the corresponding sacrificial ceremony scattered in different cities in which most of the people participated.
Once the promotion is successful, the "Black Emperor" will not really die until all nine secret mausoleums are destroyed. Even if he dies, he will still be able to wake up and return from one of the mausoleums.
What is even more frightening is that even if the god is successfully killed and all nine tombs are destroyed, as long as there is still a certain amount of order established by that god, it is possible for him to resurrect strangely, which seems to have taken advantage of a loophole in death.
It seems that the Loen royal family not only controls the "Arbiter" sequence, but also controls the "Black Emperor" sequence, but I don't know if it is complete... This makes sense, although there is no record of Augustus in the Fourth Age in history.
Family, but it is conceivable that it must be related to the three empires of the Fourth Age, and the Solomon Empire controls the "Black Emperor" path.
It's just that the "Black Emperor" path mastered by the Augustus family is incomplete. If it is incomplete... Klein picks up the "Black Emperor" card, and then I can obtain a lot of mystical knowledge from the "Emperor".
But I can't ask as a "fool", because it will affect my image and status in the Tarot Club.
Klein's eyes swept from both sides of the long bronze table, stopping for a moment at the positions of "Justice" and "World"... Mr. Fool was able to get the "Black Emperor" card because of Miss "Justice" and "The World".
"Mr. World" cooperates, then they naturally have the "control" of the "Black Emperor" card.
However, this is based on the fact that the Augustus family only masters part of the "Black Emperor" path, but judging from the fact that Mr. "Emperor" chose this title, he at least understands the secrets at the top of this path.
At this time, the deep red color representing the "Emperor" above the gray fog began to expand and contract regularly, and the prayer of the "Emperor" echoed in Klein's ears.
He clicked on the crimson star and saw the "Emperor" sitting on a chair with his head bowed in prayer in the blurry picture. After hearing that he was ready for the bestowal ceremony, he reached out and picked up the stack of papers floating on the side of the gray mist.
come over.
He glanced at the above content again and sighed:
"Mr. 'The Hanged Man''s handwriting is really bad! He can compete with Emperor Russell... If I go to sea one day, I won't be afraid of not being able to buy weapons. I just hope that Mr. 'Emperor' doesn't have one at that time."
Clean up these black markets."
…
“Your faithful servant begs your attention;”
“I pray that you will open the gates of your kingdom;”
"I pray for your strength."
On the table that served as a temporary altar, a stack of paper appeared on the long table.
Rawls lowered his head slightly, put his hand on his chest and said:
"Praise you, Mr. Fool."
The gray fog dissipated in front of his eyes. Rawls reached out and picked up the stack of papers. He frowned after just one glance. The words on it were so intertwined that it was impossible to make them out clearly without looking carefully.
"I forgot, Alger doesn't seem to have gone to school."