Chapter 1058: Chapter 563: Their Respective Fates – You Are Not Devout!
Byron turned his head and saw that it was not the imagined [Capricious Joker] on the opposite thick branch, but [Puppet King] Louis, who also belonged to the Hall Sequence!
He originally thought that after such a long time, Louis had died here, just like the [Boat King of Barcelona], in this Divine Kingdom polluted by the Mother of Monsters.
Unexpectedly, not only was he not dead, but he appeared completely unharmed.
"No, this guy may not be dead, but he’s worse than dead."
Byron was only slightly surprised, his eyes slightly narrowed, seeing clearly the true state of [Puppet King] Louis now.
This ambitious Regent King of Castilia must have realized something was wrong upon entering the small world ecosystem and thus performed Flesh Is Futile, fully converting himself into a mechanical puppet.
His entire body contained no blood and flesh or organic matter, maximizing resistance to the "Aerial Root" pollution, far stronger in survival ability than any other Fifth Order Legend.
He planned to sneak near the Tree of Life and steal the Warship Key, relying on the "Three Great Laws of Warship Spirits" to subdue the mythic warship’s Ship Spirit.
Byron had actually seen that Captain’s Key in the possession of "Jeanne Don Quixote" long ago, but he had no interest in seizing it.
Even the Ship Spirit had been replaced for thousands of years. If that key representing command authority didn’t have pitfalls, he would dare to swallow it whole directly.
[Puppet King], even if he got it, was destined to be futile.
What’s more unfortunate is, before stepping into the pit dug by the Mother of Monsters, he first stepped into the pit dug by the [Capricious Joker].
More than half a year ago, Puppet King was secretly plotted against by Byron with the [Golden Great Devil Card], entangling the clown’s colorful hair tightly with his puppet threads.
If he hadn’t come to the Edge of the World, leaving the protection of the [Silver Law] and the human spiritual dam, facing [Capricious Joker] directly, he would’ve needed much longer to be polluted by that Golden Great Devil Card.
But there was no such "if".
Supporting the "Traitor" behind the scenes, the [Capricious Joker] couldn’t interfere with the Material World or change the traitor’s tragic fate.
Yet he pursued Byron’s aura, waiting at his landing spot to plot against him, and conveniently polluted the [Puppet King], the Hall Sequence Legend Puppeteer who was significant across the Silver Continent.
Furthermore, just like how the Mother of Monsters treated Jeanne Don Quixote, the [Capricious Joker] also inserted an incarnation into Puppet King’s body.
In a short time, the mortal consciousness was completely dissolved by the Demigod’s will.
No matter how ambitious, confident, and self-centered Puppet King had been, after miscalculating the risks of this action, even his life was blown away like dust in the wind.
Dying silently like grass.
He didn’t even have time to take revenge on Byron, who had fooled him using the identities of [The Sea Hunter] and [The Mad Hunt].
From now on, there was no Puppet King in this world, only a hollow shell manipulated by [Capricious Joker]!
At this moment, He stared fixedly at the Nibelung Ring, his eyes glittering with the golden glow of Greed, shouting:
"Binding Divine Descent!"
A white halo exploded above his head, and behind him, a shadow identical to Puppet King’s appearance emerged, shooting threads from ten fingers, connecting to the main joints of this mechanical puppet body.
The body instantly became a puppet of the Self God.
Yet in Byron’s [Divine Sight], the back neck and limb joints of the Self God [Binding God] similarly sprouted puppet threads like colorful clown hair, extending upwards and disappearing into the void.
As if grasped in the palm of another Puppeteer.
Puppet King’s cold, hard face was rapidly seeping white paint, the nose growing a red ball, and the hair turning colorful.
Turning into "The real clown turned out to be me?!"
Self-proclaimed "director" and string-puller [Puppet King] might never have expected such a fate to greet him at the end.
"The boomerang thrown out finally still landed on Louis’s own head, maybe there’s really karma existing in the dark, and a pair of hands orchestrating all this."
Byron once heard from his Queen, Violet, who graduated from art school, about what dramatic art is:
"Supremes are humbled into dust; proud ones are unfulfilled; libertines die of fidelity; schemers die of loyalty; thieves die of giving, and the selfish die of sacrifice...
Childhood sweethearts become enemies; love at first sight is beyond control; mutual secret yearning forever missed; close companions harbor ulterior motives..."
And this Puppet King, full of desire for control, seeking to stand at the world’s peak, using the entire world as a stage and his threads to control everyone’s fate, his eternal resting place only to be a puppet dancing in others’ hands, completely controlled by others.
Whether he recalled when he used the Lighthouse Sequence Extraordinarys to create "Artificial Lantern Person," turned a maid into an undeath doll, plotted against the famine hunter who had great merits to humanity to create the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, killed his elder brother to seize his body... all those wicked deeds, whether he never thought he would have such a day.
It is truly full of dramatically grey irony.
Byron sighed, but also felt a burst of fear.
If he hadn’t chosen to spite the Mother of Monsters sharply before leaving, accidentally using the ring to draw out the [Capricious Joker], but instead directly fled the Ark, perhaps just out of the tiger’s lair he would end up in the wolf’s den.
