Me and countless me.

Chapter 503 The People Who Sell Nooses

"Kill them! Kill them!"

Amidst the cries of these serfs, one after another was sent to the gallows, many of whom were already covered in wounds or even dead before being sent there.

However, this could not completely extinguish the grief and indignation in their hearts. After hanging all the slave owners and accomplices in the manor, they all looked at Li Ke, wanting to know what to do next.

Li Ke smiled as he looked at another manor not far away, where various fortifications had been erected. The nobles' private armies had united to form one strong defensive line after another to defend against them. So Li Ke chuckled, pointed to the fortifications, and once again drew his long sword.

"Let's go! There's another one!"

He jumped off the execution platform, with nobles and thugs hanging like grapes behind him, along with the corpses of dozens of dogs.

However, none of the serfs present felt that this was wrong. They all raised their torches and followed Li Ke toward the manor where fortifications had been built.

The noble owner of the manor did not sit idly by and wait for his death. He even came to the front of the fortifications himself. After seeing Li Ke enter the firing range, he did not hesitate to swing his long sword!

"Fire!"

With his shout, the cannons that had been laid flat and countless muskets began to fire, and a dense barrage of lead bullets and iron balls rushed mercilessly toward Li Ke and the people behind him.

Li Ke launched a charge the instant he fired, and the people behind him ignored the gun barrels and rushed forward with him!
Then, the lead bullet was cleaved in two by Li Ke, and the cannonball was kicked away by him. The nobleman frantically pulled out a musket wrapped with mysterious magic, but it was still cut in half by Li Ke with a single blow!
His body twisted and struggled, and like the previous nobles, he moved towards the octopus, but it was all in vain. The next moment, the slaves rushed up and smashed him into a pulp with pitchforks and torches. Extraordinary power was completely useless at this moment, because under Li Ke's leadership, these serfs, as they had wished, had also developed a divine nature of resistance!
Divinity and divinity collided and ran together at this moment. The nobles who possessed various mysterious spells and bizarre rituals were crushed into mincemeat without any dignity and transformed into all sorts of strange shapes.

His wife, who was far stronger than the family of three Li Ke had encountered on the island, had just begun to reveal her mystique when the farmers pierced her with pitchforks and threw her to the ground. Before she could even perform any mystical rituals, she was killed.

It was as if these farmers were also performing an incredibly intense and mysterious ritual!
"You ants! How dare you defy me!"

Several mystical nobles stood together, all dressed in identical robes and holding the same magical artifacts. Facing the charging serfs, they unhesitatingly unleashed their spells, summoning creatures from another world.

It was a monster ten meters tall, covered in eyeballs and slime, with tentacles as sharp as steel! Under normal circumstances, it could easily tear apart a small army!

However, under Li Ke's leadership, the swords wielded by these torch-bearing slaves were able to easily sever the monster's limbs, making its body, which was harder than steel, even more fragile than soil!

A farmer, wielding a pitchfork, rushed towards the monster and plunged the pitchfork deep into its eye.

Just as the poisonous blood was about to gush out, another serf poked it with his torch, burning away the monster's flames!
The power that could sweep away an entire army became useless at this moment. The tall, otherworldly flesh and blood monster was easily pushed down by these serfs and then slammed hard to the ground!

Upon witnessing this scene, the once incredibly elegant and noble mystical aristocrats cried out in terror.

"It's a ritual! Someone has invoked their divinity!"

"Damn it! Why do they possess a rebellious divine nature?!"

However, no one would answer their questions. Their pride and mystique were now useless against the waves of flames. In the eyes of these serfs, they were no longer high-ranking nobles, but bastards dressed in strange clothes!

One by one, they were beaten down, screaming as they were punched and kicked and hung on the gallows. Those who hadn't died before being hanged still retained their spellcasting abilities, but what filled them with despair was that when these serfs personally put the noose on their hands, the noose clearly suppressed all their power, leaving them like ordinary people with nothing, only able to let the noose strangle them to death. Countless spells and mysterious rituals also lost all their effect at this moment.

Led by Li Ke, they slaughtered all the slave owners and henchmen in one place before heading to the next. Flames roared and swept across one manor after another on the island, burning the manor owners to the ground.

The fire burned all night, and everyone associated with the oppression vanished within it.

On the morning of the second day, pillars rose from the earth, like plump grapes from a bountiful harvest, hanging from the harvested nobles. Their resentment and grievances transformed into fuel for the flames, becoming something wondrous.

During this time, there were indeed people who possessed mysterious powers who wanted to escape and resist. However, what Li Ke found interesting was that no matter how powerful their mysteries were, they would become utterly powerless in the face of those who stood up to resist, as long as he, as the leader, did not take sides.

“It seems I misunderstood before… Since divinity can be extracted and used by those mystical nobles, then the people who produce this divinity can naturally use it themselves as well.”

Li Ke adjusted his hat and looked at the serfs who were weakened after the frenzy. He realized that he had been wrong all along and that he should have led his men to rebel!
Things like Treasure Island are irrelevant; what Great Britain needs right now is a leader who can rally the nation!

Whether it's mystery or the aristocracy of mysticism, they all ultimately rely on the power they gain by sucking the blood of these people. But once the owner of this power no longer wants them to suck blood and instead uses the power himself, then things will change.

Just as he realized this, Edward walked over, panting heavily and looking exhausted.

"Captain, what do we do next? Leaving them here is just sending them to their deaths, and we're in big trouble now."

As he spoke, Edward glanced at the group of about two thousand people. Although many had fled, most of them followed Li Ke toward the manors, and many had personally participated in killing the nobles.

If they simply left, they would all be hanged; but if they stayed, they would be annihilated by the British fleet. Although he thought Li Ke's attacks were extremely powerful, he felt he was overestimating the capabilities of an empire.

Li Ke looked at them, thought for a moment, and then revealed her plan.

"Let's go to Ireland."

"Ireland?"

Edward paused for a moment, because he remembered very clearly that Ireland was currently experiencing a famine, and the Queen of England had specifically sealed off the area. What was his captain doing there now?
Edward glanced at his companion beside him and asked.

"Are you planning to do something, Captain?"

After asking that question, Edward himself laughed, because what else could they do but reenact the scene before them, hanging the slave owners, executioners, and those exploitative merchants on the gallows, swaying in the wind.

"Yes, after all, the Irish can't get the food they need, and the only food they have has been sold off by grain merchants. So I think they will also need a fire like this, and we can arm them with just one or two wars."

Li Ke pointed to the slaves Edward had previously led. They were now armed with spears and various noble private soldiers, maintaining order under Edward's command and distributing food and gold coins as he had previously requested.

Edward took a deep breath. Although he knew he was on a sinking ship after arriving on the island, he felt much more at ease at this moment because he knew that Li Ke would not treat humans as food like those scoundrels.

So he nodded and handed Li Ke an apple.

“Then let’s go there. I’ve been displeased with the King for a long time, and the Irish do need some help. But I happen to know some people who can contact the Spanish and French. I think if we really go to Ireland, they should be able to help us. At least we can spend the money and other things we’ve captured.”

He thought of his friends and gave Li Ke a shy smile.

"It's just that their reputation isn't very good; they're basically all pirates."

Since learning that this world was the world of Caribbean pirates, Li Ke, who had even thought about becoming a pirate himself, didn't care. He chuckled as he piloted the Atlas to its final landing.

“I don’t care about pirates, Edward. Anyone who is willing to help us when we rebel is our friend. And now, we should go.”

As soon as the words were spoken, the Atlas landed. This steel monster, over a hundred meters long, landed right in front of everyone, eliciting countless gasps of amazement.

Li Ke maneuvered the Atlas to open its entrance and stood in front of it, shouting to the serfs.

"Come on, my friends, let's march to the next battlefield!"

He had figured out his path and had witnessed firsthand how those mystical nobles had fallen at the hands of these slaves, so he had become fearless.

The tide of resistance will not stop.

Not long after Li Ke loaded all those willing to follow him onto the Atlas and took them away, the British warships that had arrived the night before but only dared to set foot on the Little Rose Islands finally dared to land on the island.

But as they looked at the string of hanged nobles and servants, almost all the officers leading the group felt a chill run down their spines, especially the way the nobles stared at them with their eyes wide open in death, which made them feel even more terrified.

"Damn it! What kind of demon could do something so cruel!"

Seeing the scene of several noble children being hanged, the nobles couldn't help but shed tears. Without delay, they went to untie the noose for these poor nobles. But the moment their hands touched the noose, everyone's eyes widened!
The moment they touched the noose, they discovered that their abilities were rendered useless! Just by touching these nooses, the mysterious artifacts on their bodies that could easily kill hundreds of people returned to their original ordinary state, and the various ritual effects that had solidified on their bodies also vanished instantly, as if they had never existed at all!
This noose has been transformed into a precious magic-forbidden artifact!

Even the dismembered corpse retains this effect!
And so, fervent gazes filled the eyes of these nobles! They exchanged glances, and then made a decision together.

That is to turn these people's corpses and nooses into bargaining chips in their struggle against other nobles.

These are countless magic-sealing artifacts! If we could figure out what happened back then and perform the ritual spells, we could mysteriously seal off an entire city!

Without hesitation, several people skilled in esoteric rituals ate some pieces of meat and then performed the ritual, hoping to find out what had happened through the memories contained in the meat.

But when they performed the ritual and looked at the culprit from the perspective of spiritual vision, all they could see was a fire giant commanding thousands of troops!
Upon seeing the giant, it immediately turned around, its eyes, like sparks, instantly igniting the souls of these ritual practitioners, turning them into dust like mantises trying to block the passage of the Great Fortune Crimson!
Flames shot from the eyes of these nobles, and they collapsed engulfed in flames, their last cries being nothing but screams of agony!
"Fire! Flames! Aaaaaah!!"

Thus, without Li Ke's knowledge, these nooses, which contained rebellious divinity and were almost ready to explode at the slightest touch, were personally brought back to Great Britain by these nobles for sale, and precisely delivered to the hands of every mystical noble.

Not only that, but without Li Ke's knowledge, he not only burned some nobles to death, but also gained a group of believers and a new title!
Lord of Fire and Armies!
(End of this chapter)