That would be the start of the madness

Just then, Alethea reached up to her mouth, broke the tip of her finger with her teeth and placed it on top of a minuscule stone.

The moment Alethea's finger, which had been left with the blood offering, gently touched the stone, the stone, which should have been everywhere, instantly turned crimson.

Then Alethea twisted the stone first one and a half turns clockwise, then about 30 degrees counterclockwise, and then thirty degrees clockwise again before releasing it.

This reminded Roy of a fantasy film called "The Mummy".

At once, Alethea got up and swam over to an adult-sized rock two doors away and slammed the flat, uninspiring rock so hard that a channel was suddenly created in the rock wall to isolate the lake.

Alethea and Roy stepped inside one after the other.

When Roy reached the gate, he found the dark door with a bubble very similar to the one felt on the Shambles, a method taken to keep the lake water from flowing into the same channel.

But to be honest, it was still a very good method of insurance, not only by setting the secret passage of the mechanism in such a place, but also by using the blood of the royal family as a double insurance for the key.

"Did that so-called grandfather of yours teach you how to open this organ as well?" Roy asked as he walked up to Alethea.

"The "grandfather" was not Alethea's real grandfather, but a king's crony who had escaped from the country's destruction and had chosen to die under the pirates after bringing Alethea out in order not to reveal her identity. perish, live and wait until that day ..."

And that is why Alessia has gathered the courage to live until now.

"Yes, it was a secret letter from my father that he handed to me and destroyed at the first opportunity after I had memorized its contents!" Alethea lamented.

After walking down a damp flight of stairs, the two passed through a second door and then entered a vast space.

The place looked very shabby, as if it were a commoner's cave, and it was evident that no one had been here for a long time.

There was only one thing standing in the vast space, an oversized red monolith, almost three metres high, with black runes inscribed in a black script that even Roy did not recognise.

Roy and Alethea paced up and down, Alethea hugged the monument as if it were a loved one, tears streaming down her eyes, "This is how my father, and my country, died and perished ..."

Said already sobbing, Roy patted her shoulder with his hand, then touched her head, Alessia could no longer bear the feelings of grief that had been suppressed in her chest for so many years, then turned her body and bailed out on Roy all at once, burying her head in Roy's chest and crying loudly.

"Please ... please ... must help me ... take revenge!"

"Grace!" Roy stroked her back, "Don't worry, you will definitely see, with your own eyes, the world government go up in smoke, see the heads of the Skrulls hanging on the cliffs of the Red Earth Continent, and definitely see, the brand new ... New World!"

For a long moment, Alethea wiped her tears away from Roy's chest.

Roy also put his attention on the tablet and whispered to himself, "Is this what the world government wants to get? This, in the end, is ..."

After observing it for a while, Roy said to Alessia after putting his hand down from the red stone tablet, "To overthrow the world government, you don't just need ideas, you also need strength, and right now, you are still too weak!"

Roy's words made Alethea's body startled, how could she not know that her power was so weak that even a small kingdom could not be shaken, let alone the world government!

"But don't worry, the holy light will make you strong slowly, accept the gift of the holy light!" Accept the gift of holy light, said Roy, raising his left hand and pouring holy light into Alethea's body.

Alethea closed her eyes and suddenly felt an incomparably pure power begin to stir in her body, which made her feel stronger than ever.

"This is ..." Alethea snapped her eyes open.

"The power given to you by the Holy Light!" Roy explained simply, and there was no need to elaborate, for exactly what power it was, Alethea could experience it herself.

"For the sake of your dreams, and of course our common ideals, there is now a task for you!" Roy spoke up.

"Go ahead!" Alessia's eyes glittered with golden light, the holy light had completely washed over her body, and the same two red tear marks as Sally Maitreya's appeared at the bottom corners of her eyes.

"The Scarlet Crusade, I need you to create a Scarlet Crusade, there is no need to rush it, we still have plenty of time!" Roy pondered for a moment before saying, "There are still 25 years to complete this mission before 1520 of the Sea Circle calendar, as for how to accomplish it, I believe with your intelligence, it should not be a problem!"

Roy said with a big wave of his hand and directly took the blood-red stone tablet in front of him into his system space.

At this, Alethea was not surprised as she had not yet recovered from the power of the holy light she had suddenly received, and then Roy bent down and kissed Alethea lightly on her forehead before getting up to leave.

"Aren't you afraid that I will betray you if you grant me such great power?" Alessia ventured a final word.

Roy gave a big laugh, "I'm sure not, because, that night, you were already mine, weren't you?"

Alethea blushed after hearing those words, "Don't worry, Great Lord, I will finish the job!"

Roy waved his hand and his body turned into a golden light, disappearing into the spot.

A short time later, by the coast of the Concordia Kingdom's ruins, Roy sat on the throne of his ship and looked up at the sky, "Having obtained something more precious than treasure, what's next, to have some fun with the government?"

Just as Roy was thinking, Gianna suddenly said, "Great lord, you gave that precious power to that Alethea, in case she has bad intentions!"

Looking at Gianna's sour look, Roy's heart did smile, "No need to worry, since I can give her the power, I can naturally take this power back!"

"So chief, why did you mention the year 1520 as a point in time?" Plank asked as he took the helm.

Roy gave a smile, "Because that would be the start of the madness!"

...

Two days later, after finishing a glass of beer and trying to pour another, Roy actually found that he was down to his last beer, "Looks like we'll have to find a place to dock, can't live without beer, I wish the system would come up with more games, I'm tired of playing self-propelled chess ... "

A few kilometres away from Roy's location, a Navy scout ship on patrol, when it saw Roy's big iron ship, the scout immediately reported the situation to the top commander of the warship.

After deliberating for a moment, this Rear Admiral thought he would choose to go stealthy, he would not do the egg on the stone thing, let's report Roy's position to the headquarters first.