On his way to the Limestone Islands.

Somewhere in the south, in the vast expanse of the blue veil, sits an island of black rocks, with woods and lakes, and large reefs around it.

Not counting the surrounding reefs.

The land area of this island is about the size of an entire Moon Bay.

This is the Black Skull Islands, the base of the Black Skull pirates.

Although it is an archipelago, except for the largest main island, the others are just some large reefs, and the archipelago is just a small trick for the Black Skull pirates to make their base sound larger.

At the highest point of Black Skull Island, there is a steep arc of sea cliffs.

A pirate flag with a black skull motif waved in the wind, and the hunt sounded.

In the middle of the island, trees and rocks have been cleared, and unnatural buildings are crisscrossed by open space.

Shops selling potions, weapons, and armor, multi-storey bamboo or stone buildings where people can live, slave trading places where some intelligent creatures are tied, taverns and brothels, and the Colosseum where intelligent creatures and monsters duel and fight are all built in a rough style, like a pirate station.

Here, a large number of pirates come and go.

Some drank shoddy rye beer in taverns, boasted about their heroic deeds with other pirate colleagues, or told the secrets of the sea.

Some of them put their arms around women or humanoids with withered faces in one hand, and the belt of their trousers in the other, and hurriedly burrowed into small hotels or bushes.

Some of them pick and choose from all kinds of shops, sell the treasures they have snatched, or buy some weapons and armor to save their lives, etc.

However, there is no place for the most lively place than the Colosseum.

Surrounded by staircases and a vast interior, the Colosseum is divided into many different duel areas, where a large number of pirates gather, watching the bloody battles between monsters and slaves, as well as the pirates who volunteered, shouting hoarsely for the object of their bets, or cursing for losing the target.

Inside the Colosseum.

The most eye-catching thing is the competition in the central dueling platform.

A tall, burly man, wearing only simple jute shorts, showing a lot of strong muscles, covered in blood, stretched out his arms, as if listening to the call of the pirates, and as if embracing this cruel world of dueling.

On the opposite side of the man was a duck and mouse monster that had lost its breath of life and its neck had been torn off.

The giant beast with a giant duck-like body and a giant rat-like head remained motionless.

Its body is still intact at first glance, but the flesh and blood under the fur and skin show a soft and erosive texture, its flesh is beaten to a depression and erosion, its bones are beaten to the roots, and its body is covered with tragic marks of being punched and kicked.

"Balbert!"

"Balbert!"

"Balbert!"

"Balbert!"

The pirates were in high spirits, chanting the man's name.

If you are an intelligent creature who knows more about the pirate world, when you hear the name Balbert, you will tremble in your heart and realize that this is the name that belongs to a pirate general.

The pirate general named in the pirate bounty catalogue -

The seventh order of the high position, the 'evil knight' Balbet who was stained with the blood of at least five high-ranking powerhouses of the same level on the surface!

'Knight' Balbert slowly opened his eyes, a pair of eyes with a huge invisible oppressive force were revealed, his arms were slightly hemmed, and the noisy and excited shouts seemed to press the pause button, and stopped at the same time.

His eyes were different from those of ordinary people.

In the dark whites of his eyes, he has blood-red eyes, combined with his cold eyes, which looks extremely weird and violent.

"Go on, pirates, and let your desires unleash."

The knight said calmly.

In the sound of the pirates surging like a wave again, the knight's body bent slightly, the muscles on his legs bulged and stretched, and then he suddenly used his strength, jumping directly up like a cannonball, jumping out of the open-air outer wall of the Colosseum dozens of meters high.

A moment later.

Meticulously combed with his hair, with a serious face, and wearing a silver-white armor with a bit of divine charm carved with intricate patterns, Balbert appeared in a simple and monotonous house.

A wooden table.

A hard bed.

A chair.

This was almost all the decoration of his permanent house, and in such an environment, his silver-white armor with a sacred charm seemed out of place, but when combined with his strange eyes and violent and indifferent gaze, the whole was strangely harmonious.

Sitting in his chair, the knight was motionless like a sculpture, with no expression on his cold and hard face, not knowing what he was thinking.

A few minutes later.

The pirate general reached out and placed it inside his breastplate, then removed a palm-sized object.

It is a strange sign made of metal, and the whole is constructed as a cross-shaped rune, and if you look closely, you can see that it depicts numerous skulls on the surface, and the whole is faintly revealed as an abstract skull.

It was blood-red, as if drenched in blood.

Judging by the mottled color in some of the faded places, it appears to be made of brass.

The knight gently rubbed the brass blood card, and a cold, rough texture came from it, and at the same time, an indescribable tyrannical power was emanating from it.

The roar that only the knight could hear rang in his ears.

"Pray with the gushing of blood and the breaking of bones!"

"With never-ending fighting, violence, fighting, and sacrifice!"

"When the waters of the world are replaced by blood, and the mountains of the world are covered by the skull of Jingguan, His name will be revealed!"

"Blood sacrifice to the blood god! Cranial donation! ”

It was a kind of roar that seemed to be mixed with countless blood gushing out, bones shattered, and soldiers intertwined, like a roar resounding on a slaughtering battlefield, and every word made the hardened knight frown slightly, and he had to concentrate on his heart, and even so, there was a tyrannical aura that crept up his body and affected him.

His brow furrowed slightly, and the knight exhaled softly.

He lowered his eyes, stared at the brass blood plate quietly, and then looked down at the silver-white armor he was wearing, quietly thinking and remembering.

The Evil Knight Barbet, who was once a paladin, and some of his habits as a paladin are still retained.

Unlike paladins who serve the gods of faith, Balbert's way to gain power is through the Holy Oath, choose a path, choose an oath that has been witnessed by the world, spare no effort to execute and obey it, and bind himself with the oath in exchange for great power.

Balbert, who became a paladin, chose the Oath of Guardianship.

He can ward off sickness, heal his fellow friends, and have the holy power to punish evil.

He was loyal, honest, upright, brave, fearless in the face of danger, unhesitating in the face of death, and guarded his country with the power of a paladin, winning countless honors and medals.

Until, a death plague spreads.

Plague demons from the abyss have infiltrated the main material world and spread the plague in the realm of the kingdom of Paladin Balbert.

Fortunately, the kingdom's spellcasters reacted quickly and discovered the existence of the plague in time to determine the location of the plague demon, and the paladin Balbert led a team of warriors to surround and suppress the plague demon, and won after a hard-fought battle.

However, a small town near the main city of the kingdom has been infected with the plague.

The plague of the plague is very transmissible, it can spread directly through the air, and can turn ordinary people who have no means of resistance into monsters without minds, and it spreads extremely quickly.

In order to prevent the plague from spreading to large cities, and to prevent the country they are guarding from suffering greater losses.

The paladin made a decision on the spot.

He had his warriors cordon off the plague-infested area, then enter alone and purify it - killing all the villagers infected with the plague, including those who might be infected but could not be distinguished.

Afterwards, the paladins did not receive flowers and glory.

He was spurned by many human rights defenders, abused, accused, and punished, and countless people wanted to severely punish this terrible and cruel executioner, and wanted him to be executed and killed.

The paladin, pressed into a cage in his cell, was incomprehensible.

He just followed his oath and wanted to defend his country as much as possible.

Giving up a small town to prevent the possibility of plague infection can save countless more people of the kingdom - this is a simple truth, and it is also the best way to deal with it.

The paladin did not understand why he should be punished.

The people who admired him in the past as paladins now look like demons, and the few voices that support him have long been drowned out by the crowd.

Before the execution.

The Paladin was silent all night, breaking his oath in the early hours of the morning, and becoming a rare oath-breaking paladin.

Under normal circumstances, if a paladin breaks his oath, he will only lose his strength and become an ordinary person, but this paladin's situation is not normal, he firmly believes that there is nothing wrong with his decision, he is to fulfill his guardian oath, and it is not himself who breaks his guardian oath, but the country and people he guards.

Quite ironically.

After breaking the oath, guardianship becomes killing, the power of justice becomes evil, healing becomes damage, and the skill of warding off disease becomes spreading plague, just like the plague demon he killed himself.

The paladin shattered his cell, fought back and fled under the pursuit of the Silver and White Knights of the Kingdom, and finally died of serious injuries, jumped into the Vortex Sea, and was rescued by a group of pirates who were previously shameless in his past.

Since then, the Paladins who protect others have ceased to exist.

Instead, there is Balbert, a knight who chases power and profit, and lives only for himself.

As for the brass blood card in his hand, it was obtained after he was punished and killed a group of crazy cult villains when he was a paladin, and the paladin left it because he felt its extraordinary, and wanted to purify and dispose of it.

After becoming a knight, he changed his mind and got a lot of benefit from it.

Barbet confirmed that the brass blood plaque pointed directly at a godlike being.

Motionless as a sculpture for more than ten minutes, after a long period of reflection, Barbet's memory freezes on the magnificent scene of eternity and the dragon of time appearing, silencing the whole world.

"God, is there such a terrible, such desirable power?"

He looked down and stared at the brass blood plate.

After hesitating for several years, his mind that had always wavered gradually became firm.

(End of chapter)