Chapter 1444: Chapter 660: Demon Slaying Order: Open the Gates, Free Trade! (Part 4)
“But regardless of what special abilities exist, I believe that there is an unyielding technological gap between the dreadnought and sail battleship.”
Byron’s gaze was intense.
“Do you have ‘one sword to heaven’? Then watch me open customs with one ship!
After the war, I want there to be no person in this world who dares speak loudly to me.
After invoking the ‘Demon Slaying Order’, the next step is… opening the doors, free trade!”
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Time swiftly moved to October 12th.
The former capital of the West Silver Empire, now the capital of the Star Moon Empire, and the largest city on the Silver Continent, Constantinople.
The streets were festively decorated, and residents poured into the streets singing and dancing, all wanting to witness just how beautiful the ‘Most Beautiful Princess’ Kazal truly was.
The fifty-year-old groom, the ‘Lord of Two Seas and Two Lands’, Muhammad II, in order to showcase power externally, and to display the beauty of the most beautiful princess to his people, did not hold the ceremony at the Royal Palace.
Instead, it was held in the city center’s grand square, where both the people of the Star Moon Empire and foreigners could come and watch.
Showing unparalleled confidence and swagger like a great nation.
Byron, to ensure the plan proceeded smoothly, personally accompanied the Fire Worship Empire’s bridal escort team, arriving in the city one day early.
Wearing a male white robe styled for the desert, with a red checkered cloth on his head, accompanied by Amita, who wore a red veil across her face, sat in the special seat prepared for the Fire Worship Empire.
Taking a cup of seabuckthorn juice poured by a girl, he casually said:
“It can basically be determined that the initial issuer of the assassination task against me was Saint John.
A cleric employed at St. Peter’s Cathedral prayed to me shortly after I returned from the Fire Worship Empire, right after the coronation ceremony.
Saying they clearly heard Saint John in his prayer room in a thunderous rage, didn’t even know who he was cursing ‘useless…’.
But he was probably just the executor; this idea likely came from a collective decision.
I also don’t know how the promotion ceremony for your ‘Assassination’ divine position will count, whether just killing Saint John is enough, or if all the saints of the Council of the Divine Presence and… the Pope need to be killed?”
The series of reactions from the Orthodox Church had become very clear.
On one hand, the Kingdom of Castilia and the Kingdom of Aragon merged to form the Pyrenees Empire.
Since they issued the decree delineating the Church Meridian, Byron had long anticipated this.
The Orthodox Church must support a secular nation of sufficient weight to compete with the thriving North Sea Empire.
On the other hand, solving him will provide a permanent solution.
Both ways, success in either will leave them carefree.
However, suppressing the Protestant Doctrine and the uncontrollable new emperor seemed entirely normal.
Yet Byron, relying on his intuition, and the deepening resonance gradually replacing the ‘Creator’ with ‘Araiyer’.
Could still feel ‘Araiyer’ unconsciously warning him, that his competition with the Pope might not be just a simple disagreement over humanity’s future path.
Things might not be as simple as they appear on the surface.
Thus, seizing the Three Religions Sacred City to become the Holy Spirit Sect ‘Caliph’, elevating the share of the Silver Law was extraordinarily important for Byron.
With this, he had the confidence to overturn the table.
“Your Majesty, it’s starting.”
At Amita’s prompting, Byron looked up towards the square.
The ‘Meat Egg War Chariot’ Kazal, riding on a flying carpet, slowly flew towards the ceremony platform along the red-carpet-covered avenue.
Due to the attitude of those Demonic Banquet Council members from the Fire Worship Empire, she began to doubt her world-shattering allure and proactively lifted the veil from her face.
Boom—!
The spectators along the way stirred in commotion immediately.
“Ah! The most beautiful princess is truly overwhelmingly beautiful.
Look at that enchanting mustache; I’m about to die.”
“I can’t stand it, the thought of such beauty soon becoming someone else’s wife cuts my heart.”
“Hey? Brother, you got it wrong, shouldn’t someone else’s wife be… an added bonus? We should actually like it more.”