Pirate Kingship-Chapter 581 - 422 – Burp~ Can’t Finish Absorbing, It’s Endless! (6600 word merge)

The reason why Charm Demon Teres Axuber was so confident in the power of the fragment of the [Zero-Level Sacred Relic: Blood Cup] probably stemmed from her lack of concern about others stealing this knowledge of eternal life.

Thanks to this, the [Bloodline Codex] Byron obtained from Princess Perta's mind was very complete.

The ritual of the [Crimson Holy Grail] demands the creation of a white bone holy cup from the right hands of thirteen loyal servants and the skulls or ribs of six kinfolk.

In the mysticism of the Old Continent, neither thirteen nor six are considered positive numbers, and the completed holy cup looks particularly sinister.

One must pour all the [Blood of Transformation] within oneself into the white bone cup while draining a beloved's blood to make up for one's own deficiencies.

The more completely one drains the blood in this process, the better the effect of the latter half of the ascension ritual.

To meet these ritual demands, the Night Demons of previous generations racked their brains for many methods.

The "Pleasure Banquet Sisterhood" even added annotations, providing a "shortcut" for about 80% of their Fourth Order Succubi to ascend through this method.

It was mainly used for the ascension of female Half-Night Devils, but males could also refer to it:

"Seal your own memories. Relying on your innate charm as a Third Order half-succubus, find a 'beloved' to whom you can entrust your life. Establish a family with them, live together for ten years, and, in the meantime, have children.

Once you've gathered enough 'raw materials,' other members of the sisterhood will help you complete the ritual..."

Even for Byron, who had started as a Pirate and for whom killing was as commonplace as a daily meal, the casual description of this ascension "tip" made his blood run cold.

He could hardly believe that "relatives" so cruel and cold-blooded could exist in this world.

All love and kinship, for them, were nothing but stepping stones on the ladder to eternal life, mere flavoring for the brew of the [Blood of Immortality].

It was all fake from the very beginning.

The entire seemingly warm family was doomed to become a tragic sacrifice!

Compared to those ruthless men in novels he had read in his previous life who "killed their wives for enlightenment," these people were far more vicious; they didn't even deserve to carry their shoes.

Byron immediately resolved to seal this knowledge away. Beneath him, this "orphan" who naturally met the conditions, no one else would be permitted to walk this path.

At most, after his own ascension to a High Sequence, he would, like the [Sun God Inti], redistribute the Bloodline quotas through the First Embrace.

Then, in the form of the "Demonic Banquet Council," he would absorb Black Witches on the same path into his [Royal Iron Law] ruling system.

Those who worship me shall have eternal life!

At the end of the [Crimson Holy Grail] ritual, once the ascendant had completed the preliminary preparations, the bloodline sublimation had to be achieved during a bloody court coup or an act of power usurpation. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

By killing political enemies or other contenders for power, the [Crimson Holy Grail] would automatically absorb their blood, souls, and Rank, mixing it with the original [Blood of Transformation] in the cup, eventually brewing a cup of [Blood of Immortality]!

The amount of political enemies' blood required was not fixed. The higher the ascendant's status, and the more noble and powerful the political enemies, the faster the [Blood of Immortality] would be brewed.

One didn't necessarily have to wait to pluck the ultimate fruit of victory. It was possible to succeed mid-process when a partial victory was achieved.

Similarly, if the political enemies' status was lower and their strength weaker, the speed would correspondingly be slower.

And if the usurped power was insufficient and the bloodshed not ample enough to meet the minimum requirements for the [Blood of Immortality], the bloodline ascension ritual would fail on the spot. Then, one would have to start all over.

Specifically, one had to completely usurp the authority of a Count with Actual Authority or partially usurp the power of even higher-ranked nobility for it to work.

In subsequent promotions, every time power was usurped, the Night Demon's noble title would ascend by one level.

So that was Theresis Achebeir's plan. Even a Fifth-Order Pseudo-God could only achieve it by usurping the power of a king. Besides the Sun Empire nearby, it's indeed tough to find other suitable targets. At the coronation ceremony, we'll probably have to face this Succubus's true form, making it somewhat inappropriate for Guard Captain Xin Qi Luo Ka to take the field anymore.

In the Night Demon Kingdom during the Mythological Era, Third Order included Barons and Viscounts; Fourth Order were Earls and Marquises; Fifth Order were Dukes and Princes.

This was also the forbidden path that shared the strongest commonalities with the [Ladder of Glory] Transcendent System.

The modern noble title system below the [King's Title], in essence, all originates from those Night Demon Nobles of the Mythological Era.

A Night Demon Earl, achieved after a normal ascension to a Fourth Order Mythical Creature, was not a minor figure even in the Mythological Era.

At the same time, "Earl" was also the earliest noble title to appear in the countries of the Silver Era; other ranks were only gradually established thereafter.

It made one suspect what unknown, hidden connection the [Creator] who established the Silver Law and today's Transcendent System had with the [Mother of Creation Lilith] of old.

Byron reviewed the ascension ritual several times, memorizing all the details. Without hesitation, he decisively resolved to begin the ascension immediately.

A power struggle for the throne was imminent in the Sun Empire, a great empire of over 20,000,000 people, presenting what could be called a golden opportunity, one that comes once in a thousand years.

The arrow was nocked and had to be fired. If he missed this chance and had to prepare all over again later, he would waste at least one or two years.

They had been preparing ever since obtaining a fragment of the ritual from the Blood Source Secret Realm, so initiating it now was not rushed.