Pirate Kingship

Chapter 1105: Chapter 574: Mad Hunt Deity: Come Find Me!_4

After confirming that the "Divine Aspect" temporarily suppressed would not rebel again, decisively employed his strange arts [True Script], combined with the power of the Sacred Relics, and wrote with his blood and tears:

"The elite forces of the Iris are secretly gathering, yet the many knights of the Impoverished Knights Order have not realized this, and are gathering from various branches to the headquarters, preparing to participate in the election of the new Grand Master.

Meanwhile, the current Deputy Commander of the Order, Jacques de Molay, is also a Legendary Paladin. Should he ascend to the position of Grand Master, he might stabilize the precarious situation.

However, as a senior member of the Order residing in the Iris Kingdom, he is well aware of the character of Louis XI, and vaguely senses the ominous prelude of a looming storm.

Thus, he quietly retrieved a famous [First Level Cursed Object: Ghost Hand Dagger] from the Space Secret Vault, which stores various treasures and collateral of the Order, ahead of time.

And resolutely determined that even if it meant perishing with external enemies, he would not allow them the chance to obtain the key to the Order’s secret vault..."

Byron didn’t need to read further to understand Mercurius’s plan.

He wanted to kill with a borrowed knife, and Mercurius also prepared to kill with a borrowed knife.

Because Byron was also very familiar with the notorious reputation of the [Cursed Object: Ghost Hand Dagger].

"Originally forged by a mad blacksmith who gambled away all his belongings, he cut off his wife’s right hand to make the handle, later using his son’s ribs for the blade, and his own shinbone for the sheath.

He offered it to his creditor at the time, and three days later, that creditor went insane and used the Ghost Hand Dagger to kill his entire family.

Since then, every owner of this dagger and their entire family would die violently and unexpectedly.

Yet everyone who saw it couldn’t help but want to possess it, for holding this dagger granted an ordinary person immense power.

The more people it killed, the stronger its power grew, until it became a power that could rival a First-Class Holy Relic of a high sequence."

Effect: The Ghost Hand Dagger is a Fallen Devil’s dagger, and the mere tempting aura it emits can plunge the weak-willed intelligent species into corruption and madness, as if the devil is beckoning them.

But to those with steadfast will, grasping the handle can grant powerful strength, at the cost of having to sacrifice their entire family.

Based on the quality of the sacrifices, you can gain a power boost comparable to a Legendary level at most.

It can even unleash an unstoppable curse on a specific target, even if the dagger does not kill them, it can curse them... and their whole family to death!

This dagger seems to have a special obsession with wiping out entire families, making it the ultimate treasure for home travel, murder, theft, and familial revenge.

...

Time flew by, and soon it was the second week’s Friday, at dusk.

Located in the northern part of Iris, at the North Sea’s edge, the small city of Tulip Fort was adorned with various flags, and knights of all ranks from the Impoverished Knights Order had gathered.

After hundreds of years of development, the word "impovershed" had long become a thing of the past.

Sergeants, attendants, senior attendants, apprentice knights, professional monks, knights, priests, legion followers, sergeant majors, heretical cavalry chiefs, chief knights, provincial inspector generals, provincial internal affairs directors, Holy City inspector generals, flag bearers, legion commanders, grand abbots, deputy commanders, grand masters... freёweɓnovel.com

The strictly hierarchical Order of Knights was no different from a small, oil-rich country, moreover, all members were military personnel, offering formidable combat power.

During high-level meetings, many Order members had prepared layer upon layer of defensive measures, and sentries had already been deployed far away.

Yet even with such caution, they still hadn’t discovered, hidden under the "National Border Lock" of the Iris Kingdom, a Bronze Great Cannon was already set up a kilometer away on the mountain top.

This was a war monster at 5.34 meters long, with a 0.92 meters caliber, weighing 40 tons, and each cannonball weighing up to a ton.

It was the largest cannon in the world at present.

Its historical impact might be insignificant, but with its enormous size and powerful might, it was transformed into a [Second Level Holy Relic: God of War]!

Wearing silk stockings and heavy makeup, Louis XI personally came here, waved casually to his artillerymen, and said:

"Send them on their way."

"At once, fire!"

BOOM——!

With an earth-shaking roar, the dazzling flame lit up the gradually dimming sky once more.

A massive crimson cannonball shot out of the barrel, like a meteor releasing glorious, dazzling light, then splitting into two, two into four, four into eight...

In the blink of an eye, half the sky was already roaring with meteoric fire rain!