Pirate Kingship-Chapter 756 - 487: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Turin Shroud

Chapter 756: Chapter 487: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Turin Shroud

It disregarded gravity and floated in mid-air, standing tall as a two-story building, roughly resembling a third of a human form.

Its head was a thick, rigid cannon barrel, and its hands, feet, and groin were bristling with various heat weapons, with dense bullet chains trailing behind like ribbons.

This was precisely one of the abilities of [The First Bolt-Action Rifle] - [Slaughter Machine].

The fusion of the bolt-action rifle with six gun demon spirits had been completed in advance, and from its outward appearance, no one could deduce its inner connection to the bolt-action rifle.

Facing the charge of the strongest knight order from the old era of land warfare, Violet merely waved her small hand:

"Open fire for me!"

[Slaughter Machine] immediately unleashed a barrage of firepower on the opposing knight order.

Boom——!

Blue flames erupted all over its body, strong light burst forth, countless fiery lines intertwined in mid-air, sending an unknown number of cannonballs and bullets in one breath.

Moreover, all the bullets were endowed with a new title ability [Art is Explosive], turning them into explosive rounds!

The Puppet King’s face turned stiff as he was about to enjoy the massacre of the knight order.

Suddenly, a blazing mushroom cloud soared into the sky, tearing a massive hole in the cumulus clouds above.

Charred puppet limbs, twisted knight armor, tattered military boots... and so on were all blown to several hundred meters in the air.

The upper infrastructure, where they had just been fighting, completely vanished without a trace.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse managed to block a quarter of the firepower thanks to their legion effects, receiving minimal damage, yet they too were all swept away by the shockwave due to the loss of footing.

According to the planned tactics, Debo Siblings lunged at [Conquest Knight], Lady Green, Gulf Stream Matron lunged at [War Knight].

Mountain Demon Bear, Don Quixote lunged at [Famine Knight], Candy Witch, Thief Baron lunged at [Plague and Death Knight].

They did not aim to kill but sought to briefly separate the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, creating an opportunity for their strongest to encircle the Puppet King.

Yet all the Fourth Order beings couldn’t help but wonder:

"Have we lost our numerical advantage because of these Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, leaving only the two Byron gentlemen and their partners? Can they even succeed?"

In the next moment, a storm descended upon the ship.

"Howl——!"

"Roar——!"

Catherine and Violet unfolded their mythical forms once more, one as the Mithril Dragon, the other as the Leviathan Whale.

The main body [Mad Hunt] and incarnation [Sea Hunter] each landed on the back of the two Queens, fully transformed into Mithril Dragon Knight and Leviathan Knight.

The trio, amid a universe of wind and rain, shot directly toward the highest point of Block Castle, targeting Puppet King Louis.

The storm enhanced the five-meter-long dragon rider spear they wielded with [Stormforged Weapon] enchantment, the two spears stabbing simultaneously, as if causing the violently surging atmosphere to crash down together.

The combined strike of the three dual-path Transcendents was truly earth-shattering.

Byron used breath as his anchor, divine light permeating his body, soul, mount, and the world, without wasting a single ounce of power.

In stormy weather, he was the true Storm King, dispatching eleven iron hull... single-masted schooners wouldn’t be a problem.

[Puppet King] Louis sensed the piercing murderous intent, finally recovering from the shock of his knight order’s instant annihilation.

He immediately stamped his feet on the ground, retreating swiftly.

The next instant, the highest structure on the ship was reduced to rubble by the force carried by the dragon rider spears, shaving off an entire layer of the deck.

Puppet King Louis, unable to find any footing, was struck mid-air by Mithril Dragon Catherine’s terrifying steel-tail whip.

Boom——!

Despite the Puppet King raising his knife to block just in time, his body was slammed like a cannonball, shattering several layers of deck floors before crashing heavily onto the open deck.

[Ladder of Glory] sequence at its peak is still mere mortal flesh, at most reaching the human limit, physical power cannot contend with demon monsters, most are fragile.

This was one of the reasons why the three Fourth Order mythical creatures dared to encircle and attack a Fifth Order [Puppeteer].

Catherine, scoring a successful hit, nevertheless reminded:

"Be careful, the touch on the tail didn’t feel right, he doesn’t seem like a flesh and blood body."

Sure enough, Puppet King soon crawled up from the deck, apart from his formal coat being damaged, his body was virtually unharmed.

Yet his expression was dark and frightening.

The originally faintly visible wooden textures on his skin surface now spread across his entire body.

Moreover, rather than possessing any fragility, it shimmered with a metallic gloss like petrified jade, and his eyes turned into glass spheres.

Then the blue gemstone embedded in the chest lit up, syncing to illuminate alchemical runes inside and on his body like gear patterns.

From his pocket, he pulled out a wrench, inserted it into his left chest, turned rapidly, the sound of springs gradually tightening from within.

Byron was suddenly alarmed:

"He’s using Fifth Order Arcane Art [Flesh Is Futile] even on himself, already transforming from a flesh body into a mechanical puppet."

Arcane Art [Flesh Is Futile] can be used on others; of course, it can also be used on oneself.

Current transcendents aiming to ascend to mythical creatures all need to rely on [Bloodline Codex] from a source of knowledge.

Yet Puppet King, unwilling to submit beneath others, chose not to learn forbidden knowledge from any Old God, but used his exclusive arcane art [Flesh Is Futile], embarking on an altogether different path of forsaking the flesh.

Moreover, normal puppeteers wouldn’t use living people as puppets, the primary work is actually handcrafted puppetry using various materials like an artisan.