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Chapter 129
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The God of Justice, Joel Cartman, had speculated Sui's response, but he never imagined that this mighty jellyfish God with imposing power would actually feel so moved. Sui even worshipped him, and directly recognized himself as the senior.
This gave him quite a sense of absurdity; I hadn't even tried to force you before you fell down, he thought. He got no chance to use the several sets of preparatory statements, so he felt a bit frustrated. The saddest thing was that he was obviously frustrated, but he had no chance to show his anger. When he started to speak, Sui worshipped him. In this case, could he still yell and say, Hey! How can you be so completely paranoid?
At this moment, Ray woke up. Sui Xiong immediately left for Ray's side, and started to talk to him.
"I'm okay, really!" he repeatedly emphasized. "You see, I'm so strong now. Even if there's a fight with the maritime race again, there's no problem!"
"Don't! Don't do it!" Sui Xiong advised him. "The maritime race has already gone. Don't go to find trouble with them, because they will have trouble in the future."
"Ah?" Ray was dumbfounded. Before he asked, the God of Justice spoke.
"Yes. This God you believe in was angry after you were killed. He killed the God of Storm who stealthily commanded the maritime race's troops at the time, and also killed the Goddess of Ocean, who was the maritime race's backing. They are now headless because the newly born Goddess of Ocean only protects the good races. Until the birth of the patron of the evil race of the ocean, they will live a wretched life."
Ray was stunned. He couldn't imagine what it meant to kill two Gods. In particular, these two Gods were not ordinary weak Gods, but famous ones, being the God of Storm and the Goddess of Ocean.
"What did your majesty do when I was dead?!"
Sui Xiong smiled and scratched his head with his tentacles that were not yet healed. "Just trivial things; they don't matter."
"If those are trivial things, then what counts as a big deal!?" Ray shouted. He noticed the broken tentacles of Sui Xiong. Then he took a closer look, and found that the patterns on him were wounds not yet fully healed. He suddenly became dumbfounded.
He was not an inexperienced child, and he knew exactly what these wounds meant. They were so grave that they must have been left by tragic battle, and made the great God suffer. He had not been able to recover!
He thought of the fall of the two famous Gods, and could imagine how severe the fights were, even though he did not see the scenes of battle.
Well, due to his lack of knowledge, Ray imagined the fierce battle by thinking of the fiercest battle he himself had.
He was inexplicably grateful, moved to tears, and deeply felt that he had followed the right person. Due to Ray's death, His Majesty killed the two Gods as revenge, and he suffered serious injuries. It was like a general, caught up alone in the siege, being rescued by his marshal, who broke past enemy lines. After returning to the hospital for treatment, he would have discovered that the marshal was deadly and seriously wounded.
In this situation, what could he say?
He could only remain speechless; he thought later he should pay it back by sacrificing himself!
However, Sui Xiong did not mean to discuss the details, because he felt that these things were not worth talking about.
Is there anything to talk about? Brag about how brave I was? Or recall how angry and sad I was?
Funny! It was not a soap opera! Even if it were a soap opera, it would be about a couple affectionately talking about romance. If the soap opera was about two men doing that, the soap opera would be censored!
So he just smiled and changed the topic.
"By the way, let me introduce him to you." He pointed to the God of Justice who was smiling beside him. "This is the brother I just recognized. He is very righteous and good at helping others…"
The God of Justice was dumbfounded by Sui Xiong, but he didn't dare to frustrate him and could only vaguely agree with his words by putting on a smile. But that look of frustration had completely betrayed him.
Ray was so clever that he knew that His Majesty was talking about nonsense. He smiled and did not take it seriously, but he still solemnly greeted the God of Justice.
The God of Justice is known as the strongest of the Gods, second only to the world's highest sovereign order. Although in the legend, this powerful God is very unreliable in terms of conduct, which is also proved by his look; but could he be more unreliable than His Majesty?
He could not help but feel it was ridiculous.
Like attracts like! This saying also applies to Gods! Good Gods attract good ones, evil Gods attract evil ones, and unreliable Gods attract unreliable ones…
He didn't know that what he was thinking at the moment was seen by the God of Justice, who could not help but be more embarrassed. He, at the same time, sighed. How could he be perceived as unreliable when he was so upright and honest? Even for a God like him, he could do nothing to aid the misunderstanding of the worldly people!
After a few greetings, Sui Xiong suddenly thought of a major event and said, "Big brother, I have a difficult task and I would like to ask you for help…"
The God of Justice was stunned. This guy wants help just after he recognized me as his brother? He lacks courtesy.
However, since Sui Xiong discarded his proud to recognize him as his brother, Sui certainly wanted a good price. He couldn't let this powerful God go before he asked him for help!
He pretended not to see the fake smile of the God of Justice, saying straightforwardly, "I know should not have troubled you, but I have limited abilities."
The God of Justice was straightforward and did not decline. He turned to look at the square. "Is it necessary for me to kill the two over there, to make it a good revenge?"
"No, no, no, I know how to kill people, and I'm not anxious because I will finally kill them!" Sui Xiong said with a smile. "I have some believers who were killed by the Shadow Devil, and even their soul was taken away by the devil.
"Originally, it was on me to rescue them. But I don't know the route. Although I defeated the bastard once before, I do not know where his house is. I can't even find a way to save them if I want to rescue them in his house!
"Brother, you know a lot, you must know where the bastard hides. I don't bother you to rescue them for me, I just want you to show me the way."
"Okay! It's on me!" The God of Justice nodded slightly, reached out and drew a line in the air, then a black crack appeared beside them.
The Shadow World was over there, which was dark. Not far below, there was a huge black palace, which was the Shadowy Devil's house that had been under construction for many years.
"Oh, it's here." God of Justice pointed to that, "Shall I help you solve the situation? It's no trouble."
"No! I won't bother you. I am very good at fighting," Sui Xiong laughed. "But I would like you to see to it that that bastard won't escape again!"
"Rest assured, it can't escape."
With the promise of the God of Justice, Sui Xiong felt confident. He greeted Ray again and jumped into the Shadow World through the cracks.
As soon as he entered the Shadow World, he yelled and turned into a giant jellyfish again. Every tentacle was like a mountain, and his big eyes were like two bright moons, making the dark world a little brighter.
Stimulated by this light, various creatures in the Shadow World have been alerted. When they saw the source of the light, they fled. All the creatures, small and large, were terrified in front of this horrible monster. They just wanted to have more legs.
For a time, the sounds of roaring, screaming, running, and flying became a strange music, and all kinds of grotesque creatures rushed like an army of fugitives away from Sui Xiong.
Sui Xiong ignored these little creatures. He slowly extended a huge tentacle and hung it over the entire palace. He said coldly, "Shadow Devil! Won't you come out and meet me?"
Before, the Shadow Devil had been hit by him, and blew himself up. His vitality was sapped, and he was resting in the palace. He thought that his house was secretive enough to not be found by anyone. However, he did not expect that he would only rest for a while before the enemy found it; moreover, in such an aggressive manner.
"You…what you want to do to me?!" It yelled angrily, with a trembling voice. "I… I blew myself up due to you! You still… what do you want?!"
Sui Xiong's tentacles shook slightly and turned into a giant hand. He unfolded his hand.
"I'm a reasonable person. Now I'll give you two options. You choose yourself."
"What… what options?"
"First, you stubbornly resist until the end, and I kill you and find them myself," said Sui fiercely. "This place is so small, I don't believe they can't be found!"
The Shadow Devil trembled, and shouted, "How about the second?"
"The second is you hand over the souls you robbed," Sui Xiong said loudly. "You should hand over what you robbed from me, and from others before!"
"Those are not yours!" The Shadow Devil shouted.
"Not yours, either!" said Sui Xiong. "I didn't come to reason with you! I came to hit you! If you are bold, you can fight to the end! Believe it or not, I can paralyze you!"
The Shadow Devil wondered what being paralyzed would be like when he was about to be beaten to death, but he never dared to ask.
He trembled violently. Obviously, he was extremely angry. In the end, he did not dare to fight and he could only hand over the souls he had collected over the years, leaving nothing.
Without these souls, the shadow army that it took as a token of pride ran out of sight, and the greatest means of deterrence was lost. In addition, he blew himself up a short time ago, so he was simply frustrated and extremely weak.
Collecting these souls, Sui Xiong laughed and slapped the Shadow Devil.
"You don't keep your words!" The Shadow Devil screamed and struggled to resist. But it couldn't resist and was slapped to the ground. Its whole body changed color.
But it did not die, only heard Sui's laughter. "Rest assured, I did not kill you, I only hit you half dead!"
The Shadow Devil was angry and fainted.
The loud and arrogant laughter of the giant jellyfish echoed over the palace, most of which collapsed due to the shake of the giant palm.
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Chapter 130
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Sui Xiong came back victorious, so he raised his head and looked very proud.
Looking from the other side of the crack created by the God of Justice, Ray praised him. "Your Majesty, you are so excellent! So powerful!"
The God of Justice also smiled and nodded, "Yes, this play is beautiful!"
"Play?" Ray was stunned. "What kind of play?"
"Ha-ha; well, his state was not good at all. He just frightened the Shadow Devil, gathered all of his power, and only hit him once," The God of Justice laughed. "The demigod was purely frightened by him, and only stupidly stood there to be beaten, but as a result, was not killed."
"I really didn't plan to kill him," Sui Xiong explained, "First, I can't eat my words. Second, I did not kill him because I want to leave it to Satan to take revenge!"
Here he couldn't help but smirk. "But, my hit was heavy!"
The God of Justice suddenly realized something. "No wonder you had to work hard, turn your strength into the power of life, and forcibly pour it into its body. To put it bluntly, it means that the two forces of life and death in the body are made in a conflict with one another, so that severe wounds couldn't heal, and Ray would soon exceed it, right?"
"Yes. I said I had to beat it half-dead. It was originally a dead necromancer. To make it half-dead, I needed to give it half of the vitality." Sui Xiong laughed and was trying to boast again. After a few words, he suddenly looked aside, to the square, surprisingly.
The God of Justice responded faster than he did. He waved his hand, and the light and shadow flickered to take him and Ray dozens of miles away to the desert, where the refugees of Gars City gathered. Along with them were many people who still stayed in Gars City. Among them, there was Mrs. Teague, who went to search for news. She was in an adventurer's costume, and she also carried a beautiful girl with a dazed gaze.
Before everyone could understand what was happening, there was a terrible groan from Gars City.
"See you next time; I will beat you!"
Accompanied by this roar, the square was completely suppressed by the Goddess of Marsh. The Goddess of Harvest, who was about to be swallowed, became dazzling green light and then exploded.
A huge mushroom cloud rose, and the raging wind swept countless fragments towards their place, which was kept off by the God of Justice.
When the wind ceased, the mushroom cloud slowly dispersed, and the scene that appeared left them stunned.
There was no Gars City in the distance! Only the ruins of broken walls.
The most prosperous port city on the east coast of the continent, the result of several organizations headed by the Riley family for hundreds of years, was ruined in this explosion.
All of them were dumbfounded for a long time, But when one person cried out, soon all started to cry.
No one thought that this chaos would end up like this.
"Oh, the spring drought is coming. How can such a large group of people survive!" The God of Justice sighed, full of compassion, but knew nothing to do.
In terms of fighting, he was absolutely the strongest of all the gods. But in terms of helping this group of refugees rebuild their homes and live through the difficult time? He could do nothing.
"There will always be a way," Sui Xiong said quietly. "Ray, what do you think?"
"Ah? Me?" Ray was stunned, not knowing how this matter would rely on him.
"Yeah! Don't tell me you've forgotten everything you learned when you were younger about governing a country. Although I don't want to ask you about your origin, if you don't shoulder the responsibility, who else can tidy up this mess?!"
Ray frowned. After a while, he said, "You are right. This time, I cannot leave them here!"
He looked around with a sharp and confident gaze. "The most important thing now is to re-establish order. I plan to rearrange this group of refugees with the adventurers and aristocrats as the center. Then I will lead them to the ruins of Gars to pick up some clothes, food, and money, because we need to find businessmen to buy supplies.
"Furthermore, it is necessary to contact the churches of the gods as soon as possible. The church of the Golden Crown (the God of Commerce and Wealth) has money and business opportunities. If we cooperate with them, they should be able to exchange some of their sovereignty in return for strong support."
"Maritime transportation needs to be restored as soon as possible. Fortunately, the foundation of the port is still there. I will personally go into the water to clean up the reefs, and I should be able to restore the operation of the port. Even if we can only supply business for passing ships, that business can feed many people."
"Yeah! A legendary strong man is helpful in terms of labor or force," Sui Xiong said and nodded. "Actually, I think that the strength of the legendary strongman should be used in construction. There isn't any point in thinking about fighting all day long."
The God of Justice listened thoughtfully, but instead, Ray was dumbfounded.
"The legendary strong man? Are you talking about me?"
"Who else? There isn't a second legendary strong man like you here!" Sui Xiong said, with a smile. "When I just treated you, I found that you had broken through your limits, and gone into the legendary realm that you had sought after for a long time!"
Ray was stunned, then closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and realized his current state.
He immediately discovered that he already undergone a fundamental change. This was not only a matter of being strong, but also a great improvement in his entire level of life.
For example, the pain caused by the poisoning and injuries had disappeared. His other problems that plagued him, such as having relatively weak, or lack of, physical strength, had all been solved. And perhaps because he broke the limits during the fierce battle, he broke through and realized the gained he two legendary abilities of enhanced attack and injury relief.
Now if he encountered the maritime race once again, could withstand the magic bullets. As long as he was protecting certain parts, like the eyes, he wouldn't be hurt!
He clenched his fists with excitement, screaming loudly. His voice became a wind, and shook the dry grass around him as if it feared his power.
"Finally… finally… I finally took this step!"
He shouted loudly, smiled as he roared, and tears flew out of his eyes.
"It's been so many years… It's been so many years… I finally succeeded!"
No one could understand the pain in his heart. Fifteen years ago, he was just one step away from the legendary realm, but after that accident, although he was lucky enough to escape, he lost much strength. For all the time and sweat, he couldn't retrieve it.
After his strength was restored, he always wanted to break through the limits and go further. However, the shadow of the past had always surrounded him, so that he had never been able to take this step. Even though his accumulation of strength had been so profoundly inconceivable, it was difficult to make a progress; it was as if he were locked.
Until the last war: where he completely forgot the shadow of the past due to the fierce battle, and naturally completed the breakthrough.
If it had not been for the fact he was so hurt that he couldn't save his life by breaking through the limits, he could have used the strength to kill the group of maritime race!
And if he had not broken the limit and became better than the mortals, he wouldn't have been able to bid a farewell to Steele and Sui Xiong, considering that his magic was only at the level of bards and knights.
But he didn't realize it…
When the God of Justice finally saw the things were decided, he left. Sui Xiong stayed, and secretly helped Ray dominate the overall situation.
With this legendary strong man, the work of recovering the order of the refugees was proceeding smoothly. After Ray showed off the strength by splitting the clouds in the sky, even the most rebellious and selfish adventurers chose to obey him, and did not dare to make trouble.
Rebel? Make trouble? Are you kidding me!? Don't you see the knight's cold eyes? He's just waiting to punish a foolish man, to establish his prestige!
We take an adventure for money rather than for rebellion. When we do something, suffering is, after all, better than being killed by him!
At this time, Mrs. Teague brought unexpected surprises.
The dull and foolish pretty girl, who seemed to have been stupid, turned out to be Joseph's youngest daughter, Kasalie Riley, who was the legitimate heir to the Riley family.
With Sui's help, Kasalie quickly regained her consciousness. When the little girl understood what had happened, she simply fainted. After waking up, she delegated everything to the handsome, strong, and able Ray, who was just like a Prince Charming.
Oh… he is really a prince, although he does not ride a white horse, but a dragon.
With Kasalie as a support, Ray was doing more justifiably. Especially after he killed the crooks who claimed to be the sons of Joseph, no one would jump out and attempt to take advantage of them.
Kasalie was indeed an inexperienced, beautiful girl without capability, but the dragon knight that was entrusted with full responsibility by her was powerful!
In order to help Ray, Sui Xiong's original body remained in Gars City. But he also sent an avatar back to the Ashes Woods, telling the believers that he was in good condition. He allowed them to build an altar to prepare for Satan's resurrection in the future.
"Resurrection?" The believers who received this news were surprised. They never dreamed that their God had such power. They were immediately overjoyed and became busy building the altar.
The altar that was used to for resurrections caused many difficulties, because they needed to work on the specification, material, orientation, and even surrounding terrain. They had limited workers, and had to work hard for more than half a year until it was completed in the autumn harvest.
In front of the simple and solemn altar, the first prayer was told since the establishment of the Void Mask Church finally begun. It was headed by Leon Igor, the high priest who had returned that night by using the transmission formation.
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Since building a sacrificial altar required a lot of space, the altar of the Church of Void Faceless was built in a rather desolate open field. There was nothing at all in the surrounding area of one kilometer, and the building closest to the altar was a small watch-house.
In the observatory of the watch-house, three huge dragons that had changed into human form were watching carefully at the altar where the followers were praying.
"How amazing. Our church was just a small church, with less than 100 people, but among the followers, there are three legendary strong men already!" Shuang was a bit annoyed. "Is it very easy to be a legendary strong man now?"
"Actually, as long as one stays close to a powerful figure, he will also quickly grow strong."
Snow was smiling and made a small blackboard with frost. Then she drew a light ball on it. Around the light ball sat many people. The light ball was shining and radiating its energy, and the people that sat closest to it also had a halo above their heads.
"Since you put it that way, why are Xian and I still not very strong?"
Hearing someone mention her name, Xian, who had been feeling sleepy, struggled to open her eyes and look around. When she saw nothing special, she leaned on Snow and fell asleep.
Snow sighed and said, "Xian is a bit lazy, and spends most of her time sleeping."
"But I have always been hardworking! I don't sleep as much as she does!" Shuang said.
Snow sighed. "You, however, spend most of your time arguing with others."
Hearing this, Shuang was speechless, and so angry that his chins turned red and swelled up. Then he turned away from Snow, and stopped talking to her.
Seeing this, Snow smiled, turned around, and continued to watch the altar.
The followers of the church of the Void Faceless were very disciplined. The principle priest was standing in the front. He called himself Ray, but the people in the church called him Leon Igor. He was a knight who wearing white armor and a dark blue cloak. In Snow's magic vision, both the armor and the cloak were shining. Obviously, the two objects were very rare.
In fact, Sui Xiong made this armor all by himself. The armor on Ray's head, shoulders, chest and back was greatly strengthened, and the armor on his waist, hips, ribs, and stomach was decorated with metal plates. The metal plates were all of different patterns. They divided into different groups, which consisted either of one plate or a few plates, and each group was a magic array. When Ray was wearing the armor, he could easily practice forty magic spells or so, simply by activating the magic arrays on his armor with the intention to fight. Before, he was just a professional knight. With the help of this armor, he become a versatile knight who could not only perform martial arts, but also practice magic spells.
The first time he wore the armor, Sui Xiong jokingly suggested he should wear a hammer on his back and take a book with him. Then he would become a real 'versatile knight.' However, this joke could only be understood by someone from Earth, which made Sui Xiong feel a bit sad at the time.
As for the cloak, it was a treasured object from the secretive treasure-house of the Riley Family.
Kashali Riley was very naive, but very grateful to anyone who had ever helped her. Ray had been working very hard to help her rebuild Garth City, and to get rid of those greedy people who coveted the money the Riley Family had. So she really wanted to return this favor to Ray.
For a naive girl who was in this situation, the first thing that Kashali came up with was marrying Ray. Ray emphasized that he was sort of a clergy, and the reason he helped her was simply to stand for justice, not because of her beauty. Besides, when Ray heard that Kashali wanted him to marry her so she could return his favor, Ray refused and criticized her. He told her that beauty was not everything, she should spend less time dressing up. Instead she should spend more time studying politics and culture. He told her to stop wasting her time thinking about the boring stuff, and that she'd better begin learning how to deal with government affairs. After hearing this, Kashali immediately threw away her naive and romantic ideas.
Ray rejecting Kashali's offer showed that he was indeed a decent man. This made Kashali think very highly of him and even like him better, but she didn't ask him to marry her again. Instead she spent a long time in the secretive treasure-house, and managed to find an appropriate present for Ray.
This present was the dark blue cloak. It looked very smooth, and on the inner side of the cloak, there was a starry sky made of magic treasure stones, instilled with magic power. This cloak was full of powerful energy and could help its owner greatly offset the damage of certain magic spells. In addition, anyone wearing this cloak could walk on water, and its defensive powers were as strong as a set of well made armor.
Ray liked this cloak very much, so he timidly accepted it. He had no idea that after seeing his embarrassed face, Kashali thought of nothing but Ray when she came back home.
The whole set of armor was called the 'void protection,' and the cloak was called the 'the starry sky above the sky.' Since Ray helped to write the prayers, he got promoted and became the principle priest. Even, so he continued behaving like a knight.
Gerrard and Wor were standing side by side behind Ray. The three people were the most powerful figures in the church of Void Faceless. The group of three was so shockingly strong that everyone was surprised to see them, no matter which country the three went.
Behind them were Palin, Rode, Olian and Steele. They were in the higher levels of the church. Palin was in charge of the collection and management of books, Rode was in charge of foreign commercial trade, Olian was in charge of missionary work in the Geerteng area, and Steele was in charge of managing the medical team of the church.
Since Madame Teague was a follower of the Goddess of Forest, she didn't join the church of Void Faceless. Neither did Liv, since she was a follower of the God of Knights. The two, along with young Nice, were standing in the distance, curiously watching this rare prayer ceremony.
The ordinary followers were standing behind the four. Most of the followers were the pioneers that built the church. There were also two adventurers among the followers who were persuaded by Phil to become followers of Sui Xiong. Even though Phil always said that he only believed in the 'ancient Goddess,' he was really good at the missionary work.
In Garth City, there were also some followers of the church of Void Faceless, but not many. Currently, they were praying together with the two adventurers who just chose to follow Sui Xiong, in an open field.
The solemn sound of prayer was echoing in the air. At the same time, countless tiny spots of light appeared in the air and gradually gathered above the altar. This was the power of belief, the power that both attracted and frightened the Gods.
Among the light spots, the shadow of a floating jellyfish appeared. It waved its tentacles and immediately, many light blue light balls appeared and floated above the altar.
The blue light balls were the souls of the followers that had been killed by the Dark Shadow Evil. When Sui Xiong managed to get them back from the Dark Shadow Evil, he found that these souls had been contaminated by the Dark Shadow Evil's negative energy. He made a huge effort to get most of the negative energy out of their souls, but still, some remained. To solve this problem, Sui Xiong decided to 'contaminate' their souls with his energy, hoping his energy could suppress the negative energy. That was why these souls turned light blue.
Would this cause any bad effects to them? Maybe not… Anyway, it is better than being contaminated by negative energy! Sui Xiong thought.
With the power of belief still gathering, Sui Xiong began to do a spell. This was the first time that he officially did a divine magic spell. He did the classic spell of resurgence, a spell that was worthy of the title of a God.
The magnificent magic energy was flowing out from the jellyfish's shadow and connected Sui Xiong with the light blue spots, the souls of his followers, via the power of belief. The magnificent energy was flowing in the air, and a huge amount of energy and nourishment was pouring into the light blue spots. Then, one could see each light spot gradually growing into a human body.
About half an hour later, ten naked people were lying in disorder on the huge altar.
Sadly, most of the followers didn't come back to life; these followers could roughly be divided to two categories.
A great number of them were not that faithful, or their belief to Sui Xiong was too weak. So their souls couldn't become the bridge that connected them with Sui Xiong, with the help of the power of belief.
Sui Xiong couldn't do anything to help these people. Recently, he had learned quite a lot from the God of Justice, and knew that there were many rules that needed to be followed. Although some of the rules really annoyed him, they were still very reasonable. For example, there should be some limitations with the spell of resurgence.
Bringing a dead person back to life was a precious gift given by a God. If there was no rule to restrict a God's behaviour, then a God could simply bring anyone he liked back to life at will. Then the balance between different churches would be destroyed. Besides, for the dead, being alive again was not that ideal; many dead didn't want to be alive again, and pursued calmness in the afterlife.
Among the followers that hadn't come back to life, there were a small number of followers that wanted to enjoy the calmness of the afterlife and refused to be alive again.
As for those whose faith was not that strong, Sui Xiong thought it was fine that they couldn't come back to life at that moment. When the Holy Kingdom was built, he would see whether their faith had strengthened, and allow them to be admitted into his Holy Kingdom. If they failed to enhance their faith, Sui Xiong would have no choice but to send them to the underworld.
The whole praying ceremony didn't last for too long. When Sui Xiong managed to bring ten people back to life, there was still much power of belief left in the air. Sui Xiong didn't want to hastily absorb it, so instead he stored it in the altar.
He had already witnessed how dangerous the power of belief was before. And before he found a way to properly deal with it, he didn't want to have anything to do with it!
Then he returned a bit of the power of belief to the followers, via the path of belief.
Immediately, all the followers trembled and felt a magnificent power. Although it was only a tiny amount of the power of belief that had flown into their bodies, they felt very comfortable, and their bodies were in the best condition ever. For a long time to come, they would not be ill. At the same time, the two adventurers who hosted the praying ceremony in the Garth City felt that there was a strong power surging from the bottom of their hearts, as if they had also grown much stronger.
This made Sui Xiong's followers become even more faithful.
Of course, not everyone could receive the God's grace. The more faithful a follower was, the wider his path of belief was, and the more power of belief he would get in return.
Sui Xiong felt it was perfectly fine that the amount of the power of belief one could get should be determined by how faithful he was. Just like the people on Earth; the more faithful one was to the Buddha, the more sincere he was, the more grace he would receive.
Everyone showed his gratitude to Sui Xiong, and then the ceremony was over. The jellyfish's shadow slowly disappeared. Still, the followers in the altar remained in solemn silence.
At this moment, a cold breeze brushed the ten naked people, and they all woke up and began to sneeze.
The one who made the loudest noise was Satan.
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Chapter 132
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Satan's coming back to life was really a good thing for the church of the Void Faceless. It was not because this church was in shortage of a spell-caster; it had more to do with the fact Satan was one of the founding member of this church. Besides, Sui Xiong had already officially appointed him as the chief wizard of this church.
Moreover, he was the only one that capable of cultivating new wizards. Since Sui Xiong defeated the legendary wizard Green, 'the green sea dweller,' the relationship between the church of Void Faceless and the Mifata Federation had become very bad. No wizards of the medium high level would be willing to come to teach, no matter how much money Rode offered.
Now that Satan had come back to life, the wizard business was settled. But While this problem was dealt with, another problem showed up.
Recently, the whole church had been busy in building the altar, so they hadn't had the time to open up the wasteland up in the north. It was already autumn, and since the church was in a very high altitude, winter would some soon. It would be impossible for them to proceed to the north when winter came.
In addition, it was not that easy to buy food in the winter. Rode said that their food supply could last for the whole winter with the money he church had collected. Still there was another problem: how to cheer up the followers.
The ordinary people could only feel secure when they could plant their crops and harvest them all by themselves. They would feel worried even if they could get food from the church, or saw that the warehouse was full of food.
The time of harvest was approaching, and the followers had nothing to harvest at all. More and more people were becoming unsettle,d and soon everyone in the church was becoming rather depressed.
Since most of the followers were farmers, they had gotten used to the farming and were used to getting food by working for a certain period of time. Even if farming was more tiring than other work, they still preferred farming. Once they couldn't farm on the land, they would feel unsettled.
Sui Xiong could do nothing about this. Back on earth, even in the 21st century, the politicians also found it very hard to change the farmers' view that their lives were determined by the farming and the farmland. Usually, to tackle this issue, the politicians would use force, but Sui Xiong didn't want to do so.
If Sui Xiong was as powerful as he had been before, he could easily solve all these problems. but he had almost used up all his energy in the last fight with the Goddess of Ocean and the God of Storm. Recently, he was not feeling very well, and was not as energetic as he was before. His body was very feeble, too. To practice a spell of resurgence, he would need to have a good rest in advance, and rely on the power of belief of his followers.
Sui Xiong continually asked the God of Justice when he would recover. The God of Justice said he just needed to rest for a while, but when Sui Xiong asked how long that would take, the God of Justice faltered, and only gave a vague time. It would at least take 30 to 50 decades, and most eight centuries for Sui Xiong to recover.
"Could I have a more precise time?" Sui Xiong was complaining, but still he could do nothing to change the situation.
The two fights with both the Goddess of Ocean and the God of Storm had almost cost him all the magic energy he had. If it were not for his special soul, he could have been tired to death, even if he won. In fact, not only the God of Justice, but also the other powerful Gods, all found it very strange that this jellyfish had such high combat effectiveness and could stand for so long in the fight.
If Sui Xiong hadn't gotten exhausted or injured, or used up almost all the magic energy he had, he would have already been caught by some curious and evil Gods to be carefully examined. When Sui Xiong heard that some Gods wanted to catch and examine him, he was very worried, and imagined many scenes of himself being cut apart and studied. At last, nothing really happened, since the reason Sui Xiong was so powerful was he had been been over-consuming his 'future' energy.
This was all very rare, but in the past, there had also been Gods that had the ability Sui Xiong did.
For example, among the mythical creatures that had been living since ancient times, more than one had a similar ability. Moreover, there was even a mythical creature that had once cooperated with a certain God to find out why they possessed such a brilliant ability, but they failed to get any result.
Actually, this ability to consume 'future' energy was something endowed by nature.
Sui Xiong himself was not sure if he had gotten the ability to consume 'future' energy, but he didn't intend to challenge this definition, and accepted the fact that he had this ability.
Either way, he was very feeble and it would take a very long time for him to fully recover. Compared with a mortal, Sui Xiong was still very powerful, but it was impossible for him to do things like he used to. Thus, Ray and the others had to rely on themselves to cheer these followers up.
"How about holding a banquet?" Gerrard suggested. "I think they would immediately feel happy after they eat delicious food and drink delicious wine."
Hearing this, Sui Xiong sneered and denied this proposal.
These followers were here to exploit the north and to do labour. They didn't come here to live an extravagant life! Eating delicious food and drinking delicious wine… and how about going looting later? How ridiculous! You think these followers are vikings?! Did you intend to give each one of them a horn helmet?
"How about teaching lessons? Teaching them how to read," Ray said. "Since we have a lot of spare time now, we should make use of the time to cultivate some elites."
Sui Xiong thought this was a good idea, and ordered Satan to teach the followers. In less than a week, Satan began to complain to Sui Xiong.
"Your Majesty… I am fed up!" Satan's hair was very messy, and he had bags under his eyes. He looked very haggard, as if he had been had sex with more than one Steele. He said in a very weak voice, "They are even more stupid than the pig!"
Sui Xiong asked him what had happened, and Satan could no longer suppress his feelings and began to complain while crying: these followers had never been to school before, some couldn't even count from one to 20, worse still, they didn't show any interest in studies. Satan and other educated followers had been working very hard to teach them for a week, and were very upset by them, and could no longer continue the teaching anymore.
"If this has to continue, I will definitely burn them to death by throwing a fire ball at them; or myself."
Seeing the haggard and desperate Satan, Sui Xiong had no choice but to abandon this plan.
As a result, Ray's seemingly good plan failed to cheer up the followers made them even more depressed. Satan also felt a bit depressed by the failure of this plan.
Thus, Sui Xiong tried to ask for help from Steele, who was always feeling very happy.
"It is really easy to make them happy!" Steele began to laugh in a slutty way. In the blink of an eye, Steele became a pig.
"Enough! I know what you mean." Sui Xiong sighed and pushed away Steele, who was writing something on a wood board.
He shouldn't have asked Steele, since she was probably the least reliable person in this world, and could never give any decent suggestions. So he turned to others.
Palin couldn't understand why the followers were feeling low. He believed they shouldn't be like this since they had good accommodation as well as enough food and water. After hearing Sui Xiong's explanation, Palin said, "Your Majesty, a shallow person like me can never understand what you are thinking, and I fail to understand what you mean. Please forgive me."
Rode said, "They are feeling low simply because that they haven't got the land to farm? I think they are just feeling bored! Order them to practice the martial arts together with Master Gerrard! They shouldn't stop practicing until they exhaust themselves. This way, they will neither have the time nor the energy to feel bored!"
"This sounds nice… but how about the exploitation to the north?" Sui Xiong asked. "The winter is coming, and after they have been practicing with Gerrard for the whole winter, they will be as strong as the formal soldiers. Would they still be willing to do the exploitation? Would they feel they hadn't been appreciated enough?"
Hearing this, Rode sighed. "Your Majesty, you are being too merciful with them! In my view, there is no need to care about if they are feeling low or not! Picking out the faithful follower from the ordinary followers is just like sifting sand for gold. It takes time. The followers who are in low spirits don't deserve your attention, since they just don't strive to make progress!"
Sui Xiong agreed with Rode, but even so, it was not helping. Since it was Sui Xiong himself who had gathered this people together to push up to the north, Sui Xiong felt he was responsible for these people's happiness. He might seem too merciful on these followers in Rode's view, but he thought that since he had the ability to cheer them up, why not try to work harder to do so?
Later, Sui Xiong went to ask the experienced Snow.
"The morale of the followers is a rather complicated issue, but you are right!" Snow said. "Boosting their morale can not only help to cultivate more faithful followers, but also helps to foster the collectivism among the whole church. Actually, if you don't mind, you can send them to the dragon roaring town, where there are many employers hiring employees all year around. Even if they are not able to work as farmers there, everyone in the dragon roaring town is very positive, and this will do them good."
Sui Xiong though about this for a while, and agreed that this might be a way worth trying out. So he decided to send the followers to the dragon roaring town.
As Snow had said, people in the dragon roaring town were overly positive. If the followers came to this town to work, not only could they learn a skill, they could also be more high spirited.
Emotions are contagious. One could feel more and more depressed if he spent time with the depressed; while one could become happier and happier when he spent time with someone who was feeling happy. Even if those followers were feeling rather low due to the lack of farmland, they could soon become happy and positive if they got the chance to live among the happy villagers and adventurers in the dragon roaring town. This wouldn't do them any harm; laughing is better than crying and being happy is better than being sad.
Later, hundreds of followers were sent to the dragon roaring town. Snow arranged some followers to work as butchers who helped to dismember the evil monsters, and most of the followers to work as backmen. Just as Snow had said, soon the followers gradually become more happy and positive, although they were not working as farmers.
Seeing them finally laughing and smiling, Sui Xiong was relieved. Meanwhile, something else happened.
"Your Majesty, I have met a very interesting person." When the first snow of the year came, Wendy woke up the doppelgänger that had been sleeping in the magic pagoda. "I think he would be of great help to you."
"Ah? Who is he?"
"Akane Pasteur," Wendy said. "He is the son of my teacher's late good friend, a Druid who excels in the spagirism."
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Chapter 133: Chapter 3
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Arcaian Pasteur, male, half elf, nineteen years old, was a fourth generation descendant in Pasteur alchemy school.
What was passed on was the first cheese that was made in human history. His great grandfather, Clarhott Pasteur, could easily research the origins of Pasteur school.
Clarhott Pasteur thought that there was a great spiritual energy that manipulated each microorganism's decomposition activity, and maintained the resolve of the world. He called it the "ash of eternal decay." By thinking through the "ash of eternal decay," he developed a unique alchemy technique, and used it in fermentation and medicine. He then became an honorable alchemist.
The Pasteur family was an important branch of Ancient Forest Druid, and consistently passed down the Druid's profession. Druids upheld the motto "respect nature, revere nature, comply with nature." So alchemists that got aid from the power of magic to twist nature were simply committing heresy, and should have been killed. Parts of the Pasteur family who betrayed Druid's noble beliefs were heavily criticized by Buddy Buress, Arch-Druid's "Orc Judge." So, they had to constantly be on the move to avoid his chase.
Not long ago, Arcaian's father, Teula Pasteur, had an accident during an experiment. Not only was he severely injured, but his spore forest, "Sea of Rot," was damaged and exposed their tracks. Unless his descendants contributed greatly to the forest, or the forest encountered a huge danger that required his power, he would be ice-bound within, and never freed.
Tuela knew that as a tracked down target of an Arch-Druid, he wouldn't be able to run loose. So, before he was arrested, he arranged for his son Arcaian to flee and seek shelter from a good friend that he had known when he was young, Master Tyrian. Who would have guessed that Master Tyrian had passed away long ago? If he didn't bring up the Pasteur family while he was still alive and exhort Wendy to help when she had a chance to, Teula might have died miserably in the piece of flower sea; outside the magic tower that looked beautiful, but in reality, was danger ridden.
"This person is very capable," Wendy emphasized to Sui Xiong. "Very capable indeed! The alchemy technique that was passed down in his family has its profundity. It is entirely different from the standard alchemy techniques that I know of. I think, he could definitely be your right hand man!"
Sui Xiong received Arcaian with curiosity. Although the half elf was almost twenty years old, he looked like a teen that was only twelve. He looked very delicate and young; pretty short too. Standing together with a young girl, Slime, he wasn't any taller than her. He couldn't do much about it. As a person with mixed blood, it was common to find those that were delayed in maturity among half elves. Even though his intelligence was similar to adults, his appearance was like a young child's. According to Wendy's calculation, it would require at least fifty years for him to develop adult features.
Although his father was arrested and sentenced, Arcaian did not hate the Orc judge. He was young and innocent, and only wanted to established a great achievement soon, in order to convince the Arch-Druid to recognize the Pasteur school and release his father.
"Your Majesty Void Mask, I earnestly request you take me in. I will be at your service with my alchemy techniques and I believe I would definitely be beneficial to you," Arcaian said politely. "Of course, if you need me to, I could also fight your battle as a Druid. But battle is not my specialty. Compared to those professional battle masters, my ability is weak."
Sui Xiong couldn't help but laugh. His church lacked human resources; how could he be choosy? Don't forget the fact that Arcaian was an alchemist that Wendy praised highly. Such talent; he wished he could welcome him sooner!
"Then… Master Arcaian, I would like to ask. What you are best at; which kind of alchemy techniques?" He smiled. "Medicine making? Enchantment? Substance transformation?"
"I can do all that," Arcaian said. He displayed confidence on his immature face. "Through research and application, the Pasteur school developed alchemy techniques that uses microorganisms—also known as bacterium or fungi— as main tool. The method that I use is different than other alchemists; but other than that, I can do everything that others can do.
Sui Xiong was thrilled and asked, "Can you develop medicine?"
"Of course," Arcaian answered confidently, but added, "But the skill of Pasteur school is not compatible with the classic school of Master Tyrian's. If I were to assist Miss Wendy, I'm afraid I would cause more trouble than help.
Sui Xiong was stunned and felt regretful.
He originally thought Arcaian's help would increase the speed of Wendy's medicinal research, and allow her to develop it much faster. He didn't expect the situation to be as such.
He pondered. What can I ask from an alchemist who is good in using bacterium and fungus, to fully utilize him?
After a while, he suddenly had an idea and asked, "You said that you are good in researching and using bacterium?"
"…You can say so."
"Then, do you know of mushrooms?" Yao Xun asked enthusiastically. "Mushrooms are considered a kind of fungus, right?"
Arcaian nodded. "That's right, mushrooms are one of the most common fungi. There are six branches in total, and nine types of commonly found subspecies. More than half of them are highly poisonous and only fourteen of them are poison free and could be eaten safely. They are-"
"Chop chop!" Sui Xiong quickly stopped him from explaining and asked straightaway, "Do you know any mushroom that can grow in the northwest Ashes Woods?"
Arcaian was stunned and thought carefully for a long time. He then answered with hesitation, "Such a mushroom… Technically speaking, there should be."
"What do you mean by 'technically'?" Sui Xiong asked doubtfully.
"Mushrooms are good at adjusting themselves according to change. Its ability to adapt to a living environment is very strong. From what I understood, even Shadow Kingdom and Dead Soul Kingdom have mushrooms growing. Although I don't have any impression of mushroom types in Ashes Woods, I'm sure those mushrooms that could grow in Shadow Kingdom and Dead Soul Kingdom could grow even better in the Ashes Woods."
Sui Xiong smiled. This is good news!
"Then, this kind of mushroom; do you keep it?"
"Of course. In the independent space that is passed down in Pasteur School, there are almost all the kinds of mushrooms in the known world. Though the 'sea of rot' that was used to culture new species is no longer there, and the cultivation of new species was hindered; finding a suitable one in the known species took up a lot of time."
So, Sui Xiong delegated the task to Arcaian; to have him find mushrooms that could grow in Shadow Kingdom and Dead Soul Kingdom, and transfer them to the Ashes Woods as soon as possible.
Such a task, of course, couldn't be done in Tyrian's magic tower. So Sui Xiong had no choice but to expend his energy and build another transportation portal that could transfer long distances, so that Arcaian could be transferred to the Ashes Woods.
Who would have guessed that due to the fact that Arcaian had been living in Ancient Forest that was warm all year round, he wouldn't be able to adapt to the cold weather in the north? Once he got to the Ashes Woods, he was frozen. He sneezed constantly and fell ill. Luckily, even thought Sui Xiong was weak, he could heal sickness too. So, the high-level intellectual avoided the life-threatening result of generating light and heat.
In order to let Arcaian live a better life, he was provided with a stable research environment. Sui Xiong discussed the details with him and built him a simple "magic tower."
The "magic tower" was actually a basement with total of five floors. The building structure above the ground was to store miscellaneous items while the floor underground was to store useful consumable items. The second floor was a meeting room, the third floor was a living room, and fourth and fifth floor were alchemy workrooms for research and cultivation.
Compared to the cold on the ground, underground it was comparatively warmer. Three floors underground, even Arcaian who was afraid of the cold could live comfortably. He didn't require any extra measures to keep warm.
The fourth and fifth floors underground used a strong purification array to separate them. The inner purification array blocked off the negative energy completely to cultivate normal mushrooms. At the same time, it was also used to ensure his safety. The fifth floor, which was located out of the purification array, was used to cultivate mushrooms that could grow in environments with strong negative energy, to complete the task given by Sui Xiong.
Arcaian's research progress was decent. After a week's time, he found a mushroom that was able to grow under strong negative energy in the Ashes Woods.
Regrettably, that type of mushroom was similar to most of the mushrooms in the world, which was favored the warm and feared the cold. To let them grow normally, they required a warm environment.
"Temperature is not a problem. It just requires digging an underground basement, or manual heating; very simple," Sui Xiong said, receiving the report. Sui Xiong immediately rushed over to Arcaian in the alchemy workroom. Looking at the black mushrooms that were growing healthy and strong under negative environment on the fifth floors underground, he showed his satisfied smile.
After he smiled, he asked, "How's the taste of the mushrooms?"
Arcaian stunned; he asked in shock, after a while, "You want to eat it?!"
"Of course I want to eat it," Sui Xiong said naturally, in return. "If it isn't for eating, what am I planting it for?"
"Arcaian was shocked. "Is it not for poison making?"
"How fresh! Making poison with so much effort?! How boring would I be to do such things!"
Dealing with Sui Xiong's wanting to eat mushrooms as something in line with the principles of heaven and earth—but seeing making poison with them ridiculous— Arcaian felt upset. He thought the brain that he had been bragging about was inadequate. He spent a long time organizing his thoughts and finally cleared his mind.
"Your Majesty, why would you think that things that are grown in such negative environment could be used practically?" His voice got louder and clearer. "They are poisonous! And highly poisonous!"
Sui Xiong suddenly lost interest and waved its tentacles. "It can't be eaten. What use do I have of it? I want mushroom that can be eaten."
"How could edible mushrooms grow in such a negative environment!" Arcaian suddenly blushed as though he were humiliated. "Are you playing me for a fool?!"
When he saw that Arcaian was angry, Sui Xiong felt embarrassed and smiled. Then he did some explaining.
"You are looking for mushrooms that can be eaten, that could also propagate themselves in the Ashes Woods to let your believers work the land?" Arcaian blinked and pondered for a long while. He couldn't understand Sui Xiong's bizarre thought. "A mushroom farm?"
"That's right; a mushroom farm," Sui Xiong nodded. "Who says one can only farm paddies and vegetables? Mushrooms could do, too!"
Filled with confusion and doubt, Arcaian got back to work according Sui Xiong's arrangement…
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Chapter 134: Chapter 4
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On the north of Federation of Gold Coins, there was a town called "Double Headed Stork."
The town name derived from a famous silver coin from the Eagle Kingdom. On the back of the silver coin, there was a relief of double-headed stork.
The Eagle Kingdom's coins were well known for their beauty. Not only were they famous across mainland, but they had great rebut across the world. Back then, when the pioneers from Federation of Gold Coins named the cities, they liked to use various kinds of coins as names; "Double Headed Stork" was one of them.
The city was similar to the trading center of the Federation of Gold Coins and the four towns of northwest. Food, daily commodities, and luxury goods were constantly sent to the north while from the gorge came ore, metal ingot, various types of gemstones, and magic beast materials.
Although the Federation of Gold Coins established a nation through business, most of the areas were under strict management. Business scale and types in each city were rigidly restricted. Regardless of the scale of businessmen, without ratification, no one could operate presumptuously. Through such methods, they realized the order of arrangement and distribution of all resources so the nation was in order.
The Double Headed Stork mainly operated on logistics, especially freight delivery for staple commodities. Naturally, thieves appeared one after another. According to the calculation of Association of Thieves, the thief organization that moved around and treated the city as their main stronghold had almost 46 members. At its peak, it hit 75 members. As for the exact number of the thieves, they conservatively estimated there were about 2,000 or more.
2,000 was not a small figure. If it were a united front, the federation would have sent out army to wipe them out. But the thieves were formed into organizations of various sizes, and spread out, using the city as their center. They came and went like shadows, always confusing the army with their irregular activity patterns. They emerged like the weeds in the backyard after rain, that would suddenly appear if it were not cleaned for a few days.
Including Double Headed Stork, the entire Federation of Gold Coins attached great importance to hunting and offering rewards for the capture of thieves. Hence the birth of a famous profession called bounty hunter.
Such capable adventurers that hunted thieves as their prey claimed bounty as their income source, like hunting magic beasts. They were the guests that were most welcomed by the travelling salesmen groups on the border of Federation of Gold Coins. They were also Knight errants that were most respected.
But of late, the income for bounty hunters in Double Headed Stork dropped sharply.
It was not because the reward lessened, but because of the appearance of strong competitors.
"Quick! There are people who came across a gang of thieves on the trade route on the west side, led by 'Iron Claw,' who seemed to be very strong. His head was worth five hundred gold coins!" When the sky grew dark, the door of the pub was pushed open. An adventurer that was fully armed dashed in and shouted at his comrades that were sitting in the corner, "We have had almost no income for half a month; we have to grab this one!"
The few comrades that were drinking sadly were suddenly in high spirits and jumped one after another, grabbed their weapons and ran out the door. Someone that seemed like a captain led them and shouted at the boss, "Old rules! Bill the alcohol on credit, wait till we claim our bounty, and we will talk again!"
They were capable and their actions were experienced. As they spoke, they got onto the horses that were tied outside the door and left with the clatter of hooves. The boss waved at them behind the smiling cashier and talked to a brawny man sitting next to the counter. "Stud, why don't you try?"
The man from north who was referred to as "Stud" was tall and strong; he was also commonly known as "barbarian." But unlike a barbarian, he had handsome features. White hair and red eyes didn't look creepy on him, but lessened the feeling of danger that was brought upon people by his body size. The strong build was unlike the normal tribe that brought out their power conspicuously like granite statues, but appeared to be unusually balanced. He was tall and big; even when he sat down, he was taller than the nearby customers. But his gentle smile and the handsome moustache on his face made him look friendly and approachable, without the crude qualities of a barbarian. Even the cuts and bruises on his body did not make him look ferocious, but seemed unusually appropriate.
The only thing that made him look like a barbarian was the tattoo on his right arm. From his shoulders to his upper arm, he had tattooed a vicious winter bear. The bear's eyes gave out ferocious green light, and everyone who was an expert could tell that it wasn't just any tattoo. In it was sealed the soul of a strong magic beast.
Besides that, he did not show one bit of barbaric quality. Maybe the fish fork on the floor and the short axe on his waist could be considered barbaric. But he hardly used them. Under normal situations, he actually preferred the bundle of rope on his shoulders.
The man named Jose was an amazing adventurer, and especially good at lasso. He could ride on a bolting horse and take an apple from a roadside balcony by lasso. When there were four or five enemies dashing towards him, yelling, he could use lasso to tie all their necks to the edge of strangling them to death, in order to claim the highest reward.
But he was even more famous for his amorous character and his seasoned hands in the arena of love. He had been in Double Headed Stork for almost two years, and within those two years, all the 'looser' women had slept with him. There was even one instance where two female adventurers had a duel over him. He stopped the battle by pulling the two of them onto the bed.
That's how he got the name "Stud."
Of course, Jose had his biggest advantage: his sensibility. He never got involved with any respectable women, and never bid farewell reluctantly after he lost interest. This made him an even more welcome bed partner by those dissolute women.
Honestly speaking, a man with his talent could totally live his life by s*x, getting financial support from women. It was not like there were no adventurers that did so; but Jose persisted in pursuing his identity as an adventurer, and remained enthused over maintaining good terms with everyone, constantly heading over to the pub to socialize.
At the pub, he was the most popular customer; not one of them, but the only one.
When the boss asked, Jose put down his beer mug and smiled, "After this mug, I'll go."
"Huh? Shouldn't this kind of thing be earlier rather than later?" A young adventurer asked curiously.
Jose shook his head. "It would make sense if the robbers were nearby. But this is a trade route in the west. By the time anyone got there, they would only be able to watch on the sidelines. A bunch of experts already rushed over a while back."
The other adventurer suddenly understood and asked, "Is it the bunch that is not picky?"
"Who else? Of course it's them." Jose touched his moustache, that was called sexy by countless women, while he nodded with a smile. "When I returned to town earlier, I saw them going west in a hurry. The one who led the group was the bald guy. If he is already there, no one else could killed off anything. It is nothing; a scene only."
Everyone was suddenly disheartened, and grumbled at that.
Ever since the bald guy brought a gang of brawny men into Double Headed Stork, they had been grabbing everyone's business. The gang of men was like their nickname: not picky at all. If there was something to be done, even if the profit was low, they would take action happily like a swarm of locusts: wiping out thieves and bringing back a pile of winnings, dead or alive, to claim their bounty.
Relying on them, the city was in good public order and the number of thieves around the trade routes had obviously diminished. The businessmen and the residents were satisfied.
The only complaints were from the bounty hunters who got all their deals taken away.
Dealing with the bald man who was extremely strong, they couldn't complain much. Fighting for business was a proper right among the strong. The world of adventurers had always been so. Luckily the things that the bald guy did were not considered excessive.
The adventurers ate while they chatted and the time flew by. Jose ate the portion of food before him.
He did not ride his horse but walked very fast. He left quickly and walked along the road towards the west.
About two hundred miles to the west of Double Headed Stork was Iron City. Its name was derived from a famous gold coin among the collectors. Iron City mainly ran projects like the smelting of ore and rough machining of metal. The refined metal ingot and unfinished weaponry was famous across the mainland, and their supply always fell short of demand.
The trade route that connected the two cities became the slab of fat meat in the eyes of the thieves. Not only were there often thieves' groups that came and went, but they fought against each other internally more than once for that route.
"But I never understood; everyone is living their life. They eat, sleep, have s*x, have a bunch of children; such great lives. Why is no one willing to live like that?"
He kicked two thieves who jumped out from the bushes suddenly to mug them. Jose didn't even slow down, but sighed with emotion while he continued to run along the traces left on the route.
The speed of his walking was faster than a bolting horse. By the time sun went down, he had already caught up to the people that left earlier. He saw the shadows from afar, long under the setting sun.
When he caught up to them, the sky was flushed with faint fires.
"Do you think that we will harvest anything?" The leader of the bounty hunter team smiled and asked. He was close to him.
Jose shrugged and pointed to the front. "Isn't the result right before your eyes?"
The bounty hunter did not possess eagle-eyesight like him; he only saw the situation clearly after a while.
They saw a bald giant that was Godlike, holding a giant axe that looked like a door plank, and leading a bunch of brawny men a few sizes smaller than him. He tied the gang of disheartened thieves and threw them onto the cart on his side.
As for the thieves' leader, "Iron Claw," there was a huge pit on the ground that was an awful mess of fresh red. It was the final trace in the world left by the famous man whose head was worth 500 gold coins.
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Chapter 135: Chapter 5
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The bald giant was of course Gerald. He led the team out for training on that trip. Every territory would require a well trained army.
The progress of territory-building had been slowed down due to various accidents that had happened before. However, army building progress couldn't be delayed.
So, with Sui Xiong's arrangement, Gerald brought a batch of young adults who performed well during training to the Federation of Gold Coins to participate in the real war.
Their training opponents were naturally those thieves.
The Federation of Gold Coins was a suitable place, as there were groups of thieves everywhere and they could be found easily beyond the city gate. If one were to follow a business group, they would basically come across gangs of thieves every night, big or small.
Under such circumstances, the young people would be able to accumulate experience faster and would have constant improvements.
Of course, if Gerald wasn't the one that led the troop, these people might have lost a fortune. But with Gerald, the legendary leader, the risk of war had been well under control. There might have been a number of wounded people during the winter, but the number of disabled or even dead were still zero as of then.
Just like the recent war, the man with the nickname "Iron Claw" had extraordinary strength. Even a highly trained adventurer might be killed by "Iron claw" if they were careless.
But, in the end, the outcome of the war was that only one soldier was severely injured. Then, the giant axe that was thrown from the top of his head became a pile of suspicious rubble.
The severely injured soldier received treatment in time and almost recovered, but there would be a terrifying scar on his body.
Gerald left the scar on purpose, so the young people could be alert at all times. It was impossible for him to watch over them forever, they would have to take care of themselves one day. He wished that the young people could get a practical and reliable training through such training methods in order to avoid any unnecessary danger in the future.
The adventurers from far away were upset when they knew they lost their business. They bid farewell to Gerald and left one after another. Only Jose stayed.
"Big guy, what you told me before; you weren't joking, right?" He took a seat next to Gerald while he asked.
Gerald was shocked, and then he recalled that there was once he brought up building territory with him. He nodded and replied, "Of course not. Can this kind of matter be joked about?"
Jose' eyes suddenly brightened up, and then he asked softly, "Is there really a God that look upon the people in your territory?"
"Can this kind of matter be joked about?"
Jose nodded slightly. Indeed, in this world, if we were to take God as a joke, it wouldn't be funny. The God might remember you for that, and cause you some small trouble.
"How about the part when you said that I am welcome to the team? Was that serious too?"
"Of course!" Gerald answered with no hesitation.
Jose obviously deliberated carefully and he nodded again and said solemnly, "Deal! When you are going into action, let me know. I'll come over and help!"
Gerald laughed and patted his back. Then, he passed his flask over.
"Great! You will not regret it! Come, let's drink!"
Jose held the huge flask that was almost bigger than his head with both his hands and took a huge sip. His eyes got even brighter.
Sui Xiong, who was watching the scene through spirit connection, couldn't help but smile.
Ever since he met Jose, he was very curious. He was interested in the handsome barbarian.
Jose was capable, and his way of dealing with people and matters was tactful. If it was only this, it wouldn't be weird. What Sui Xiong found weird was the line of belief on his body.
In this world, whoever had clear belief would have line of belief. It could be seen on Gods and high levels clergymen so belief couldn't be forged. Those fake believers that cheated could only cheat the lower middle class people at most. For clergymen close to God, it wouldn't work.
The line of belief on Jose's body pointed towards the snowfield and snowstorm Goddess in the north, also known as "Queen of North." She was the King of Gods in the "Arctic Federation" God system. She was stronger than the Goddess of Ocean and parallel to God of Storms. Under her command, there were Gods of Snow Capped Mountain, Avalanche, and Snow Monster, that used the the alias of "Master of Snow-Capped Mountain;" and Gods of Glacier and Ice Giant that used the alias "Ruler of Ice." Besides that, although he had another two that were not affiliated directly, they called him leader of their alliance. They were Goddess of winter and north wind, "Chill Maiden" and God of snow beasts, "Snow Lord."
Of systems of Gods that was formed by Gods, there weren't many. But the few Gods' strengths were concentrated north, and their influences were much stronger. So, even though barbarian tribe had their own patron saint, the few that were addressed as "Bear Herding Elder," their influence couldn't be compared to the Gods from Arctic Federation.
For instance, Jose, as a barbarian, did not believe in his own patron saint, but the Goddess of Snowstorm.
If it was just so, that would be alright. But Jose's line of belief shimmered in a weird light. It gave out believer's radiance, but was filled with bright red anger. The combination of two became a heavy curse.
In a more straightforward explanation: he was once the believer of the Goddess of Snowstorm, and he still believed in the Goddess, but was fuelled with rage and anger towards Her too. Such resentment combined with his faithful belief turned into a curse to the Goddess.
A commoner blaming and cursing the God that he believed in?
Sui Xiong felt that there must be a heavy-hearted story behind this.
He was very curious about it so he instructed Gerald to attract Jose to his side.
Of course, if Jose's encounter was worth sympathy, he wouldn't mind lending him a helping hand at his convenience.
Anyway, according to Snowflake's prediction, when he became God officially, Goddess of Snowstorm would probably come to cause trouble. Instead of waiting for Her to bring along a bunch of wicked Gods to cause trouble, he might as well find ways to weaken Her influence and power. It'd be best if he could cause Her some trouble so that She would be unable to fend for herself.
When he saw that Gerald lodged a representation with Jose successfully, Sui Xiong smiled faintly and redirected his attention to the other side.
It was a deep and gloomy underground world, within a natural limestone cave.
In the current world, there wasn't any huge and complicated underground world like those in the fantastical production before Sui Xiong crossed. But they could find a limestone cave that was bigger. Most of them were located at the border of the mountain range, deep underground. Naturally, there would be a unique life form system that was interesting there.
Palin brought a few adventurers into the limestone cave underground to explore with great care.
His mission was to look into ecology underneath and collect specimens of animals, plants and especially mushrooms, in order to aid Arcaian with his research.
To cultivate mushrooms that could grow normally under negative environments and were not poisonous but edible, was not an easy task. Arcaian spent almost the entire winter trying, but only managed to cultivate two kinds of mushroom that barely fit the requirements.
The first type of mushroom could resist negative energy. Not only it could be eaten, it could provide resistance towards negative energy for a short period of time. But its output was problematic. Even within Arcaian's cultivation room that provided it with a better growing environment, its output was not enough to reach the level of "food."
After all… it originally existed as medicinal material.
The second type of mushroom would push the negativity onto the tip of its cap. So, once the tip of the mushroom cap was cut off, the rest of the mushroom could be eaten. But it was impossible for it to smooth away all negativity onto the tip of its cap, so there would still be part of it left on the other parts of the mushroom. According to the experiment results with the animals, any common wild beast would not be able to resolve the remaining negativity. Their activity level would drop and they would be in listless spirits after consumption.
Arcaian didn't want to do human experiments and Sui Xiong didn't want to either. They could both imagine how would a human be like after eating the mushroom. Obviously, any common frontiersmen would never take it as food.
The experiment didn't go well and Arcaian felt sorry but he emphasised that research was a task that required time and luck. It wouldn't be easy to get a satisfying success in a short period of time.
"Then what should we do?" Sui Xiong asked. "Is there any way for you to speed up your research?"
Arcaian pondered in silence and indicated that if he could go to the limestone caves underground to collect more specimens of mushrooms that grow in underground environments as a reference, it might be helpful.
Mushroom was a huge system of organism. Even the Pasteur family that had been researching mushrooms for many years couldn't possibly collect all kinds of mushrooms from all over the world. Those they collected were species that were representative because those were sufficient for their research in the past.
If they were to switch their research to a rare situation according to Sui Xiong's requirements, what the Pasteur family collected was not enough. He would need to scout for more material.
Sui Xiong accepted Arcaian's suggestion to send people to limestone caves nearby to pick some mushrooms.
He sent out two troops. The first troop was Frost and Graupel. The brother and sister were in charge of an isolated limestone cave. It was said to be less dangerous for magic beasts. It would be risky for commoners to visit.
The second troop was Palin. The limestone cave that he was sent to was a famous tourist attraction. Many travellers often visited to explore. To a complete troop with mages, warriors, priests, archers, and thieves, such a place was considered safe.
The development of the task was as expected by Sui Xiong; Palin and his troop had been exploring underground for two days, and they didn't come across any significant danger.
No doubt they slowed down their schedule in order to ensure safety, but the limestone cave itself was pretty safe.
Even though… It was safe, but their working efficiency dropped. These two days they found a few types of mushroom, but judging from the images that were transmitted, they were all types that weren't worth much attention. Arcaian vetoed the mushrooms' values with one glance.
To find mushrooms that he needed, they needed to go deeper underground…
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Chapter 136: Chapter 6
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"We have arrived at the safety line." The scout of the team, Reid, used his spear to pry open some of the stones on the roadside, looked at some inconspicuous markings on the corners, and said quietly, "If we go further, there is no telling what we will see."
The so-called safety line referred to the boundary that was explored and cleared by the soldiers. For this cave, it was the dividing line between 'safe' and 'dangerous' areas.
The cave they explored was located on the western side of the Barren Mountains, adjacent to Rye Town. In order to guard against potentially dangerous things in the cave, soldiers in Rye Town would come here to explore and clean up once every three months, avoiding the proliferation of monsters such as gnomes, and avoiding dangerous creatures.
The safety line was the sign that they left behind before they left, after each exploration and cleanup.
Adventurers with cave exploration experience knew that the main enemy was getting lost before reaching the safety line. After arriving at the safety line, the most important enemy became a variety of monsters that might appear at any time underground.
After all, the adventurers acted in teams. One team was comprised of between three and five people, or as many as 10 people. Compared with armies of 50, the combat effectiveness was much worse. When confronted with monsters that only the army could cope with, they often could only flee, or sometimes couldn't even escape.
In the four northwestern towns, Rye Town was the only town with an 'elite force.' Because this area was rich in food, it was also the most important trading port for the four northwestern towns and the Commonwealth of Gold Coins; so business was also very developed. Therefore, the various organizations that jointly ruled the town could have enough income to support the elite army of 50 people.
Every soldier in this army had armed forces comparable to regular adventurers. He could skillfully use at least two of the most commonly used weapons, including spears, swords, shields, bows, and axes, and could ride horses if necessary. They usually concentrated on training or patrolling the town. When a dangerous monster appeared near the town. When they needed an expedition to clean up the surroundings, they would be fully armed, and they would all wear strong armor. They would be helped by pastors and mages to eliminate all the things that threatened Rye Town.
They often came to explore and clean this cave, named The Great Black Hole. More than once they wiped out the monsters who lived there. Among them, on the fiercest journey, they brought back close to 300 left ears from gnomes, and more than 20 body organs from other monsters, as well as the bodies of two companions.
Their deaths were caused by a horrible monster. It had a cow's head and a human body. It sat taller than a normal person. The hard body was like dried old wood. Arrows shot at it only penetrated it a little. It had four arms, each of which was thicker than an average person's thighs. It was a horrific storm that waved four Tomahawks when fighting!
If it weren't for the caster, who dealt with it properly, that battle would have been deadly. And even with the help of the casters, the soldiers had lost a scout and a warrior.
Not only that, but after that battle, at least 10 soldiers chose to quit. Some of them used the money they saved in those years to do a little business, and some went to safer areas of the confederation to buy land as peasant farmers. The shadow the scary monster left on them made most of the soldiers put down their weapons forever, and never dare to enter the battlefield again.
Some of them later broke through the shadow on their hearts, such as the captain of the expedition team that Palin was in, 'Ground Bear' Divor.
Divor was a very sturdy warrior, and over 6 feet tall. He made great efforts in battle by using an axe to cut off the horrible monster's left ankle and letting it fall to the ground, which could be described as the key to their victory. However, he himself was seriously injured during the monster's counterattack. He broke four ribs, which nearly killed him.
After he retired, he went underground for some time. But eventually, he stood up again and took his winning trophy, one of the monster's four battle axes, back into the battlefield. He did not serve as a soldier, but as an adventurer.
At the time, his nickname was 'Bull-Head Axe.' Later, as he ventured on and accumulated his talent, his nickname was replaced by 'Ground Bear.'
This nickname was proof of his qualifications. He particularly liked to venture into underground caverns, and was also like a symbol among the adventurers in Rye Town. So when Palin recruited people, the attendant of the Association of Adventurers recommended him.
Among the other companions, the ranger and the priest were recommended by him, and both of them were frequent participants of cave exploration.
Reid, an experienced ranger, was nicknamed 'Three Arrows' because while the average ranger could only shoot two arrows in a row, he could shoot three.
'Fire Hammer' Morton was a believer of the human's chief, the God of Glory. He was a pastor with good fighting skills and excellent magic. He was only second to Divor on this team.
The thief on this team was called Laver, and was recommended by Rhode. He was a very powerful thief, and especially good at fighting. Compared to those peers who liked to pickpocket or sneak into homes, he was good at sneaking behind monsters and poking them with his long-beloved dagger. This gave him a title of 'Backstabber.' For thieves good at combat, he who could turn the thieves' best skill into his own nickname was powerful.
However, relatively speaking, Laver was not as proficient in the theft, reconnaissance, and trap dismantling that thieves were usually good at. So he didn't have a good status with the thieves, and most of the time he worked part-time as a soldier. He believed in the God of Thieves and insisted that thieves were not killers, so he was unwilling to sell his skills for money. But a backstabbing expert who refused to be a killer apparently wouldn't have much money.
Rhode recommended him to Palin because he was very reliable, and also because Rhode hoped to do him a favor. If he could have a good relationship with the Void Mask Church due to this thing, then in the future, as desolate as he might be, at least he could live.
Of course, Laver knew what to do, and could see Rhode's concern. He had been very active in these two days by firmly and loyally standing by Palin's side.
So at that moment, he spoke before Palin spoke. "I received the deposit. If you want to keep moving forward, I'll definitely be with you!"
Reid reluctantly rolled his eyes, and there was some resentment in his heart.
To be honest, although the mage Palin was very straightforward when he paid money, if there were any other choice, he really did not want to move into the depths of the cave.
This cave was very deep. Until now, nobody had completely verified its situation. It was better that way. If one went deeper into it, what would happen? He remembered that adventurers who had escaped the caves claimed that they had seen dragons in their depths!
Of course, he absolutely did not believe that there would be a dragon in this cave; the establishment of Rye Town happened hundreds of years ago, but no one had seen the trail of a dragon. Could the dragon have started sleeping deep in the cave hundreds of years ago, and never woken up?
However, the body of a terrifying four-armed bull-headed man was seen by many in the town. He told himself that if they encountered such a monster again, their squad certainly could not defeat it. In a hurry, nobody could guarantee that they would not suffer accidents and stay alive.
Divor was much more straightforward than him. The veteran adventurer did not take going deeper into the ground seriously. He looked at Palin and gave his advice. "It's not dangerous to go forward. According to our speed, it would take at least two more days to exceed the maximum distance I have ever explored."
Palin turned to Morton again to seek the opinion of the priest. The silent Morton did not speak, but looked at Divor and smiled.
Obviously, he chose to believe the captain's vision.
"If so, then go ahead." Palin also made up his mind.
Although His Majesty also said that the most important thing in this trip was to look at the situation on the side of Frost and Graupel, he was only an aid. But even as an aid, if I don't do my best, I am not worthy of his care!
He took out a lollipop and put it into his mouth. He gave Reid, who had been spotting in the front of the team, a spell that could protect him from a long-distance attack. Then the team moved on again.
"Why do you always like to eat sugar?" Divor asked curiously. "I've seen you eating two or three lollipops every day for two days. Is this sugar delicious?"
Palin smiled and took one out, and handed it to him. Then he thought for a moment, and gave everyone one lollipop.
Few people hated sweets. Although the adventurers having a strange candy in their mouths were less majestic, no other people was here, and Palin took the lead. Therefore, nobody refused to eat the lollipops.
"Hey!" Morton first discovered the intrinsic connotation of the lollipop and couldn't help but exclaimed. He took out the candy and looked at it carefully.
"Is there any problem with this candy?" Divor was a bit puzzled, "It tastes good, sweet, and it feels like my body has become warm all of a sudden."
"Vitality!" Morton said. "It can add vitality."
Reid, who was still savoring it, quickly took the lollipop out of his mouth, wrapped it in oil paper again, and put it into his parcel.
What was the concept of 'supplement vitality?' This meant that it could treat injuries, weaknesses, and tiredness. It could even save lives in critical moments!
He couldn't help but regret that he had eaten a bit of the candy.
Laver looked at Palin. "Boss, isn't it a waste?"
Palin smiled. "I'm in bad health. I must eat this regularly, otherwise, I become very tired and dizzy."
"That's not as simple as having 'bad health'!" Divor looked at him worriedly. "You need to eat this regularly to supplement your vitality. Do you instead need to recover for some time?"
"No, no need." Palin smiled a few times and stepped forward again.
He had no soul, and this matter had not been concealed from him by Sui Xiong, but he would never tell anyone else.
His teammates were all experienced. Seeing that he didn't want to say anything, they no longer asked. They just silently put back their own candies, and protected him in the middle.
This poor young man, who was weak enough to rely on this medicine to maintain his strength, was still working hard…
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Chapter 137: Chapter 7
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The exploration after crossing the safety line was much more difficult and dangerous than before, and of course, the efficiency of the exploration was worse.
This was guaranteed because, after all, safety was the most important thing. Even Divor, who explored underground caves all the time, did not dare say that he knew these deep underground areas well. In his adventurous past, accidents and dangers were abound; not to mention the terrifying four-armed bull-headed man.
There was no day or night in places where people did not see the sun. They could only judge the time through the pocket watch carried by Divor. In order to avoid the risk of fatigue, they took a break every three hours, half an hour each time. They camped on the third break, adjusted the schedule, and greatly increased the time for rest and sleep.
Strangely, at first glance, it seemed that the method that should have been useless had produced unexpectedly good results. It was not until one week later that everyone began to feel weary.
"Generally speaking, ordinary people would be uncomfortable living for three to five days without seeing the sun." At the camp, Palin sighed in his sleeping bag as he read his adventurer guide to prepare in advance.
Normally, his book was correct, but the fact was that many of the records were completely different from his experience this time.
This made the young mage, who was accustomed to drawing knowledge from books, feel uneasy, and wonder if what they normally learned was useful or useless.
He worried for a while, put back the book, and silently prayed to Sui Xiong. With the link of faith, he easily contacted him and raised his questions. Sui Xiong looked at the book a little and found the problem.
"This 'Guide for Young Adventurers' is for novices," he said. "It was used to give young inexperienced people universal risk-taking experience and common sense so that they would not be ignorant, and get killed as soon as they embarked on an adventure journey. That's all.
"What you are undertaking now is a very high-level adventure. Even senior adventurers rarely perform this level of adventure. Only Divor, a true professional master, could safely lead the team along the way. His experience and judgment of the situation are far from novice, so he can adjust the schedule according to the actual situation, so that everyone maintains a good state. But if any newcomer takes an adventure in accordance with his practice, I am afraid he not only wouldn't get benefits, but it would be unlucky!"
Palin nodded and pondered for a moment. He could not help but secretly sigh: learning really must be combined with practice!
At this moment, Reid, who was responsible for the investigation, rushed back to the camp and brought a piece of bad news.
In a cave not far ahead of them, fresh corpses were found.
Because he was not good at investigating traps and identifying magic, he did not go to investigate rashly. Instead, he chose to return, to report and discuss, and let others decide what to do.
"If I'm to judge, I'm inclined to head back now," Divor said. "Everyone is almost exhausted. Although it's won't be serious if there are only one or two fights, nobody is guaranteed safe underground. Going back when we are tired is the safest method."
"But what we're looking for hasn't been found yet," Palin said, sighing.
Laver once again expressed his loyalty. "If you want to continue looking for it, I will go with you!"
"But you don't have a clear target for yourself," Reid said. "Going underground to find the right mushroom; what mushroom is right?"
Palin sighed, and was convinced.
So this adventure came to an end. They returned above ground, recovered for a few days, and then set off again.
With the experience of the first exploration under their belts, this time they had a smoother journey, and without spending too much time and energy, they arrived at the camp where they had been before.
But at the camp, they saw signs of fighting and killing.
"Although the bodies have been removed, it is obvious that there was a team of adventurers attacked here." After carefully studying these traces, Reid made some judgements. "There should have been a team of four: one heavily armored warrior, a bard, a ranger, and a priest. They were supposed to be eating, but first, maybe a fire element jumped out of the bonfire; and some monsters may have come from underground. Later someone used spells…"
He took a few steps and came to a dark corner. "The man should have been standing here. His spells were of negative energy. His blow hit the priest severely.
"Then from that corner, a very powerful monster rushed out." He pointed to a corner in the distance, and used special spears to circle the ground with a few conspicuous depressions. "Not very big, but very heavy. It might have worn heavy armor."
"With the participation of that guy, the team collapsed. The next thing was a slaughter," Reid sighed. "In theory, a sophisticated bard should carry a fixed transmission scroll with him with Rye Town as the target. But we hadn't heard the news before. I'm afraid they must have been completely destroyed; not even one could escape."
Everyone's face was downcast. They could not help but admire Divor.
The monster that could destroy an adventurer's team was definitely not easy to deal with. If they had stayed in place or even moved on, perhaps they would be facing the monsters.
With their state at that time, could they have dealt with a group of monsters?
The conclusion was: of course not!
"Now we have two choices," said Divor. "We can move on; only senior adventurers can go, here. Even though they are completely extinguished, those monsters must have suffered tremendous damage. If we follow them, we might have time to catch up with them and destroy them."
Reid laughed twice and looked around, seeming to say, "I don't know anything."
Palin was gloomy, and frowned. He could not easily decide.
"It seems that you all think this choice is not very reliable," Divor sighed. "We could also return now. At least we could bring this news back."
Palin frowned and said, "Isn't it too negative?"
"I think so, too," said Divor. "So I lean towards choosing the former. Adventurers must fight. Our reputation, wealth, and strength must be obtained through the fight against those dangerous monsters. Anyway, at least we only have to deal with a group of monsters that were damaged in strength."
He swept everyone's faces, and the burning in his eyes made everyone's heart feel excited. As he said, adventurers were supposed to kill monsters. There was obviously a good opportunity in front of them, so why should they withdraw?
"A toast!" The priest who seldom spoke waved the light warhammer in his hand, and the enchanted weapon issued a faint white light, leaving a clear track in the dim air.
Reid hesitated, but when he saw Divor's firm gaze, he took a closer look at the attitude of his companions, and he finally sighed deeply.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have come!" he mumbled, his face sullen. "I'd rather kill the monsters on the ground!"
Palin smiled and gave him a golden scroll.
"I remember you also know how to use scrolls, right?"
"Yes, I learned magic. Although I couldn't spellcast, using scrolls is okay." Reid took the scroll and checked it with a bit of mental power. Suddenly his eyes widened.
This was a scroll for 'Transmission of a Group!'
The technique of Transmission was one of the signatures of the mages, and not selling scrolls of transmission was their unspoken rule; not to mention a scroll of transmission that allowed the entire team to return to safety at once. Such a scroll should be more expensive than the sum of the employment fee of the four!
With this treasure, he suddenly felt a little more confident.
Can't I beat it? I can run, at least!
But when thinking of the price of this treasure, he could not help but feel some irritability.
A poor man like me cannot understand the world of you rich people!
After the security issue was resolved, the team converted into combat formation under the command of Divor. Laver surveyed the land in front, as he was always aware of possible traps; Divor and Morton followed, ready to fight; Palin was behind them, but ensured that Laver was in his range of casting spells in order to support the use of magic at any time; Reid was at rear, because he needed enough distance to shoot arrows, and if there was any danger, he could activate the scroll to take everyone to safety.
Because there was no need to search for mushrooms in every dark corner, the team marched significantly faster. It took less than two hours for them to find a trace of the monster.
To be accurate, Morton found the trace of the monster.
"Negative energy," he said. Suddenly, he stopped and raised his hammer to indicate it to everyone.
The warhammer engraved with the sacred emblem of the God of Glory was emitting a burning light. It was the divine power that emitted when the holy power encountered an adversary.
With his reminder, everyone stopped and approached him.
"I don't feel the cold…" Laver murmured. "Doesn't the negative energy make people cold?"
"When you feel cold, you're not far from death," Reid said. "The negative energy is not cold, but deadly. The reason you feel cold is that your vitality is being extracted. Believe me, you don't want to really meet that situation!"
Laver was petrified by his words, and carefully looked around, as if the monsters would rush out in the next moment.
At this time, Morton had given everyone the use of resistance to negative energy. Whether for psychological reasons or not, everyone really felt that their bodies were warmer.
"It seems that the enemy is ahead of us!" Divor smiled and clenched his axe. "I just don't know what to expect…"
This question was quickly answered. Morton could feel negative energy, and of course, their enemies could feel Morton's holy power.
Just as Divor spoke, with an angry roar, a medium-sized, heavily-armored figure rushed out from the darkness ahead of them.
Its footsteps were unusually heavy, and the metal boots on its feet clanged on the stones, giving off a sound like hammering rock.
"Ready to fight!"
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Chapter 138: Chapter 8
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The heavily-armored guy did not move very fast, but his momentum was extremely fierce. Each step was accompanied by violent crashing. The sound echoed in a cave that was not spacious; it got louder and louder, and gradually resembled thunder.
"Now I know why the previous adventurers were completely extinguished." Divor swallowed his saliva and clenched his battle axe with both hands, taking a deep breath and posing in a fighting position.
Laver, out in the front, had disappeared. Apparently, he had exerted the sneaking skills that he was proud of, and hid in the ubiquitous shadow of this underground cave. When it was appropriate, he jumped out and gave the enemy a fatal blow from behind.
"I am on guard!" Reid said loudly, prepared to shoot an arrow. He looked around vigilantly to guard against any possible sneak attacks.
In the face of a team of neatly equipped adventurers, it was almost impossible for their enemy to defeat or even kill them by fighting. For them, the most dangerous thing was not the enemy's possible attack.
Like the previous group of adventurers, what was a danger to them was not the charge of this heavy armored monster, but the joint attack of fire elements, monsters, and casters. If they had not been beaten and frustrated, considering their usual configuration, the outcome was unpredictable!
So although Divor and Morton were to face the seemingly fierce and powerful monster, a task that seemed very dangerous and very important, in fact, the most important task in the team was not on them, but on Reid.
He was to be vigilant against the enemy's sneak attacks; he had to protect his boss, Palin, and prevent the frail young mage from being hurt; he also had to be ready to use the scroll to take everyone to escape. It was indeed a great responsibility for him!
But they all ignored one thing.
Palin, who was protected by them, was young; but he was definitely not weak!
Looking at the heavily armored guy rushing over, Palin took his time in taking the spellcasting material out of the space bag. He quickly drew a circle in the air with his wand. The power of the wand was used instead of the magic casting. Then he read the spell.
A dark yellow light flew out of his hand, hitting the ground in front of the enemy. It instantly spread out and turned into a layer of oil that was visible under low light.
"Greasy Magic!"
This spell could create an area covered with oil. If the enemy was not strong enough and did not have the appropriate spell aids, then they would become clumsy. They could stagger and stumble, and would even continuously fall on the ground.
The enemy wearing heavy armor was obviously not agile. He stepped on the oil layer and fell heavily on the ground and broke his head open, immediately accompanied by a bang.
"Nicely done!" Divor yelled happily.
Greasy Magic was not an advanced spell, and even a novice wizard could cast it. But to use it in a timely and accurate manner in battle was not something a novice mage could do.
Because he had been under their protection before, Palin never had the opportunity to show his strength. He was also very young, making the adventurers mistakenly think him weak; just a rich rookie.
However, his performance demonstrated that he definitely did not act like a rookie. It seems that the dwarf boy who was not yet an adult was a good spellcaster. This was really good news!
The adventurers were animated, and Morton also completed his spells.
He shouted in the name of the God of Glory and lifted the warhammer. The sacred emblem on the warhammer shined with a dazzling light, and a huge holy emblem emerged in the air immediately, enveloping a large area around it.
The light of the emblem had come and gone quickly, but everyone could feel that a force was pouring into their bodies, making them stronger and more determined and full of confidence in victory.
This was the power of the magic of war. The key to the God of Glory being able to become the main god of the human divine system lied in his important holy mission, and the special spells that accompanied the mission.
The range of this magic was extremely large. It not only enveloped all the companions, but it also enveloped enemies that were hidden in the surroundings.
But for the enemy, the effect of this magic was not inspiration and reinforcement, but weakening and suppression.
A noise came from the shadows in the distance. Reid looked to that side and noticed that there was a figure, shaking slightly.
The next moment, with a flash of coldness, Laver—who had long been quietly sneaking behind the enemy—lifted the dagger and stabbed his back!
This act really showed what it meant to be stable, accurate and cruel. He stabbed the knife straight into the enemy's body, as well as stirring the knife. If the enemy had a mortal body, this act would be absolutely fatal. Even an emergency rescue might not be timely enough to salvage it.
However, as he stabbed it, Laver changed his face, and he immediately let go of the dagger. He quickly retreated, shocked as a rabbit.
At the same time, he shouted, "Litch!"
His voice was very loud, and his voice echoed in the cave, shaking everyone's ears with a buzzing sound. But everyone's faces changed before they had time to complain.
Litch? The kind of horrible monster that casters turned into in order to avoid death?
Reid responded quickest, and shot at the black shadow. He even did not bother to look at the effect of this arrow before taking out another with a milky white head from the quiver and shooting again.
He shot with accuracy, and both arrows hit their target. It interrupted the spell that was originally intended to be cast, and the second arrow, which contained sacred power, hit the head with accuracy.
The head was the key to most Litches!
Nonetheless, Reid continued to shoot arrows.
Every one of these powerful arrows would cost a gold coin. They had silver arrowheads that could cause additional damage to many dark creatures, and all the arrowheads were enshrined in the shrine of the God of Glory for at least one month. Special prayers were given to the arrows by the priests, and they were given extra powers of evil-breaking.
Those more fragile arrowheads rarely survived in combat, so each arrow could only be used once, and they were expensive. But when it came to fighting evil monsters, especially deadly monsters, they were undoubtedly the most reliable weapon for archers!
The Litches, of course, were deadly monsters. Not only could the holy arrows inflict great harm on them, but it could also make it impossible for them to focus, and make them unable to cast spells.
Because Reid managed to contain it, everyone became a lot more agile.
Divor showed his extraordinary power under Morton's blessing, and cut the heavily armored guy in half with an axe. Inside the armor was a zombie, and after being cut in half, it smelled terrible; almost as nasty as the Stinking Cloud. Palin used a spell to blow a breeze, which managed to drive away this terrible smell and relieved everyone's nose.
Morton hastened to add a spell to make the zombie completely lose its vitality and quickly turn into ashes, so it could no longer pose a threat to anyone.
After destroying the zombie, they began to siege the Litch.
The unlucky Litch apparently spent a lot of magic in the battle with the adventurers before. Even the protective spells on its body could not be supplemented in time. Faced with Reid who shot arrows accurately, it was frustrated and angry, and roared in vain.
Of course, it had tried to escape, but Laver, who had just leapt into the shadows, jumped out of carrying a short axe. He swung down on its neck.
The Litch's body was only a skeleton protected by magic. Although it was far firmer than usual skeletons, it suffered heavy damage. The head was not cut down directly, but it seemed like the head was swaying, and it was obviously unconscious.
Of course, Laver didn't let go of an opportunity. He picked up the short axe and hit it many times, a motion like chopping down a tree.
After he was slapped by the Litch, Divor rushed in too. His bull-head tomahawk was unparalleled compared to Laver's small axe used for camping. He took an axe with both hands and yelled, heavily cutting into the Litch.
The Litch, who had long been made unconscious by Reid and Lafer, was cut in two halves by the axes before it had time to react. Numerous bones were broken. The lower body was falling apart. The upper body still retained some strength, and was struggling on the ground.
At this time, Palin's spells arrived again. He used ice-blocking. A blue-white light shone on the half body of the Litch, which immediately turned into ice and froze it.
"Morton!" Palin shouted, "Bind it!"
Originally preparing for a sacred prayer, Morton nodded and changed his plan. Through a lengthy prayer, he exerted sacred power, got out a glittering silver chain, and then used that chain to bind the ice and the Litch inside.
This time, it couldn't escape!
"Well, wait until you go back, and send it to the temple for purification." Morton was relieved. Because of his joy, he could say a few more words. "Even if it has the case of life, it can't escape!"
The Litch caused much trouble. If it was simply killed, it would be able to resurrect itself after a period of time by using the prepared case of life. To truly kill it, it was often necessary to use sacred power, such as a sacred weapon that could destroy evil; not a common commodity such as a holy arrow, but a true sacred weapon which was famous in the world.
The sacred weapon was of course very rare, so in most cases, the adventurer's choice was to seal it and send it to the temple for purification.
As for the mages, they tended to use magic to find the Litch's life case, and use it to control the Litch.
Kill them? How wasteful…
With Laver's moan of "Someone help me! There is a pain on my loin!" everyone laughed.
They won!
Soon after, they found five dead bodies not far away. Four of them were dead adventurers. One was a monster who had been killed by them. Another was ashes in a bottle: the remains of that fire element.
Only then did they really feel relaxed, and put an end to this brief and fierce battle in their hearts.
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Chapter 139: Chapter 9
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Being able to win this victory more easily was a bit of a fluke, but it was inevitable.
The previous four adventurers were extraordinary in strength. Even if they used the means of sneak attack, the Litch also spent a lot to kill them all, and for this reason, they also lost their own two powerful subordinates. Much of its magic was consumed, and it failed to restore its body protection spells.
In this case, it only failed when it met four adventurers who were more powerful.
"I just don't understand; why didn't it run?" said Raver was with some doubt, "If it fled directly at the beginning, even if that zombie couldn't run off, should it always run away?"
"Because it wanted to kill us," Palin explained, "Almost all Litches are full of hatred for the living. When it found us, this hatred greatly hampered its judgement of the situation. Especially Mr. Morton's divine power; that was what it hated most, so even if it knew it was in danger, it decided to attack us."
"Is it just like a bull that immediately goes mad when seeing a quivering piece of cloth?" Raver mumbled. "So dumb."
"How much wisdom do you expect a skeleton to have?" Reid sneered. "A truly powerful mage would never choose to become a Litch. They have ways to prolong their lives and do not need to use this method. Even if they want to change into an undead creature, they would not choose to change into bones. In short, this guy is a second-rate creature."
If the Litch could hear him, it must have been angry at this moment. Any Litch was converted from at least a devently high-level mage. If a high-level mage was considered second-rate, what could be considered first-class!
After clearing the battlefield, the bodies of the adventurers were taken into the space bag with their equipment. When Palin returned to the town, they searched for the relatives and friends of these adventurers to perform funerals for them.
If they were lucky, they might be able to revive them.
The rest naturally, were trophies.
The wreckage of the element of fire, the body of the monster, and the parts of the Litch were all good trophies. The heavy armor worn by the zombie was also a valuable commodity. But all needed to be cleaned up and purified. It was necessary for them to be evaluated after the purification.
In addition, the Litch also carried some valuable equipment, but unfortunately, it was also completely impregnated with negative energy and could not be used immediately.
"This is a good harvest. How about going back now?" Reid suggested.
But this time, it was Morton who was silently opposed it. He strongly stated that he would continue to move forward and search for the Litch's lair, and destroy it.
If a clergyman was stubborn, there was no way anyone could deal with it. Moreover, Divor also favored Morton's opinion. After Palin and Laver considered it, they also voted in favor of it.
"Four to one," Reid muttered and complained, and followed everyone along the way.
They walked again for about a day and finally found the Litch's lair.
Passing through the magical secret door that Palin discovered, everyone saw a huge underground space. Around a huge altar, a large number of corpses were piled up. Numerous bizarre plants grew in the pile of corpses, and many strange monsters appeared in them. It seemed to be occupied as a monster paradise.
Palin almost vomited after seeing this scene. The other people's faces did not look good either. Morton was filled with indignation, and felt that he was almost burning.
"Evil," he whispered, "Must be purified!"
No one would stop him then, so everyone joined hands and used large amounts of kerosene to help set up a huge burning field. A fire ignited the entire altar with the corpses, plants, and monsters around it.
The blazing flames illuminated the dark underground space. The monsters screamed and died in the flames, the altar was destroyed, and the bodies of the dead were finally purified.
This fire burned day and night. After it finally went out, the Litch's lair had become a ruin.
Palin rummaged in the ruins for two days and found a lot of useful things. Perhaps there were many that hadn't been noticed; after they went back to the report, the soldiers of Rye Town would come here with the cooperation of the temple priests, purify it thoroughly, and clean up.
Or maybe they would not clean it up, and there would be other adventurers who tried their luck afterwards, but all of this had nothing to do with Palin.
In the cold winds in the sky, the giant jellyfish opened its eyes and showed a funny smile.
The evil practice of the Litch was, of course, abhorrent, but its altars and its surrounding arrangements had inspired Palin.
A large number of dead bodies should have produced a large amount of negative energy. In fact, except for the altar, the negative energy in the rest of its nest was not very strong. Because those enchanted plants absorbed the negative energy, the monsters then used them as food, to further purify the negative energy.
In the incinerated ashes, Palin found many magic nuclei that condensed a lot of negative energy.
Regardless of whether the Litch's actions were intentional or unintentional, through this method, it successfully achieved the collection and condensation of negative energy. Sui Xiong had no interest in collecting and condensing negative energy to obtain such magic nuclei. But this method inspired him. So he found Acaine, who was studying hard, and they talked a lot about it.
Acaine was also a person who knew everything at a glance. He immediately understood Sui's intention. They scrutinized it carefully and thought that this method could indeed be used for reference, and set about setting up a testing ground.
The testing ground was a subterranean cave. Acaine cultivated thriving mushrooms here that could absorb negative energy. Sui Xiong summoned some necrophagous herbivores and let them use these mushrooms as food. The monsters that got ample food grew very fast. When they had grown a certain degree, Sui Xiong released a carnivore among them.
At this time, the concentration of negative energy in the cave became very low, even affecting the growth of mushrooms. So the monsters lacking food began to die in large numbers, and the corpses piled up like mountains.
Acaine had to invest in mushrooms that could decompose the bodies and avoid contamination. This type of mushroom, in turn, turned into a food for herbivorous monsters. In short, the cave became a small biosphere.
The negative energy outside this biosphere was the basic energy source, and the output were magic nuclei that condensed a large amount of negative energy. Their greatest advantage was that they could effectively consume negative energy and achieve purification.
Above the cave, the black soil gradually turned dark brown, and the plants that had been negatively polluted gradually returned to their normal appearance. About three months later, the land was really purified, and there was no feeling of death on it.
Of course, this was the result of the use of magic. If it was allowed to develop naturally, it might take several years, ten or more, before the goal could be achieved.
"It's amazing!" Acaine stood on the ground where he couldn't feel any negative energy. He was feeling a lot of emotion. "I actually realized purification in this way! I never thought I could do it!"
Now, he was already been very convinced about Sui Xiong. If reality was a game, the prestige value of Sui Xiong on his side must have been raised to 'worship.'
Of course, this method could not be regarded as perfect. For example, underground monsters needed to be regularly cleaned up; the particularly strong ones would be rid of to avoid the birth of a powerful monster of terror. If that happened, the city would be in danger.
But this danger was controllable, and those monsters that Sui had chosen were not powerful combat types. As long as they were cleaned up regularly, there was no need to worry about raising enemies.
"I'm suddenly thinking of a game." Sui looked at the transparent model that was suspended in the air; that was what they expected the appearance of the city to be. Sui began sighing. "The town is on the ground, but through the underground enchantment and tunnel is a huge evil maze…"
Acaine couldn't help laughing. "It sounds familiar, and it seems that this would be where an evil devil's dwelling place is."
Whether the evil devil lived in such a place or not, Sui was not sure. But he needed to think of a way to dispel the negative effects of the maze beneath his holy place.
Otherwise, one day, if the rumors came around, like 'under the holy ground of the Void Mask Church, is actually a horrible cave, where they're cultivating evil monsters,' wouldn't Sui become a real evil god?
It was not difficult to get to him, because when he remembered the game, he already thought of a solution to the problem.
"I plan to launch a service in the Holy Land," Sui said. "I'm going to build the underground into a maze and welcome people to explore. Before the exploration, magic that returns them to the city will be bound to them. If they are in great danger while exploring, spells will be automatically triggered and they will be sent back."
"It seems a bit fun."
"Not only that, but I would put some treasure chests full of magic potions, coins, scrolls, and equipment in the maze. In short, I will make the people who explore the maze think that their hard work is worth it."
"Uh-huh…"
"I can then publicize it and launch a tourism project called 'Adventure in an Underground City.' Let those who want to take risks and fear the danger come here to play, and experience the feeling of adventure and treasure-hunting!"
Sui Xiong became more and more proud, and his inspiration was like a volcano. "And it could be used as a training base for young adventurers, and it could train a large number of talents for my church. At that time, I could also carry out regular activities, for example: 'Go Down to the 100th floor if you are a man,' 'Hunt Golden Monsters,' 'Summer Special Equipment Collection…' I would set special prizes for each activity to ensure that they won't stop!
"I also want to open up recharge activities, allowing them to recharge with 100 gold coins to be able to communicate underground; 1,000 coins to use remote storage; 10,000 coins…"
Waving the tentacles, he spoke excitedly, with his eyes full of golden sparkle. He even he began to speak incoherently.
"…I would build a company, recruit customer service, and have a whole array of pretty little girls who should speak softly. All in all: If you don't have enough money, how could you become stronger!"
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Chapter 140: Chapter 10
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Because he was too excited, Sui Xiong spent most of an hour talking, and then calmed down.
Acaine responded at the beginning. Later, he just listened earnestly, and could no longer interpose; because he couldn't understand Chinese.
Yes, when it came to the end, Sui had already lost control of excitement in his heart and spoke Chinese.
This kind of excitement naturally had its reason – how many years had he been away from his home, alone in this foreign place, making a living? He ate raw fish and drank cold water. He only saw strange men, and could not see the traces of his hometown. He could not find the slightest hope to return home, or even have a little thing that could carry his emotion!
But today, he finally found something that could carry his emotions and comfort his homesickness! And it was something he liked very much.
Games!
For him, a former game enthusiast, what could be better than the game that could comfort his homesickness?
Food? Don't tease.Take a look at his current shape; what could he eat to get full? Not to mention that he was only a jellyfish now. He was thankful that he wouldn't be used as a food for others.
Languages? Creating and promoting a language would cause much trouble for others! Let's be honest! When he was a student, the most hated subject was mathematics, the second was physics, and the third was a foreign language!
He hated most subjects, including Chinese, chemistry, biology, geography, history, politics, sports, etc…. Besides music and fine art, he hated everything else!
He couldn't bear to recall his past, and was separated from that period.
Sui Xiong once thought carefully; what methods should be used to place his own homesickness? Now he had finally found it!
So he was excited. He was so excited he was dancing, he was incoherent.
When he gradually calmed down, he began to seriously discuss the feasibility of this plan.
After some discussion, they finally determined that this plan was completely feasible!
"A playground with the theme of adventure and hunting? This is a very appropriate statement!" Acaine praised, admiringly, "Your adjectives have been used very well; and the name is too relevant! The place where people play is a 'playground!'"
It was only then he realized that in this world, there seemed to be no such thing as a playground.
The civilians in this world lived hard lives. They worked all day and they couldn't save much money. A family farmer worked hard for a year, and after paying taxes, and the necessary daily expenses were deducted, perhaps only one gold coin would be left. This also required him to encounter a relatively generous lord; otherwise, the rest could only be calculated by using silver coins.
Why were the pioneers still coming to the turbulent forest? It was because there was no lord here, and no tax was required.
It was the church that controlled the development of the village, and most of the church's priests had little interest in worldly wealth. Good priests were keen to help others. Evil priests were keen to demonstrate majesty. All in all, it was to let the world understand that they believed in the greatness of the Gods. Then as long as they all came to believe, it was good.
As for money? What purpose did it serve? Even if you could eat it, it was not worth paying attention to for these devotees, who voluntarily came to the outbacks of the poor areas to publicize the glory of Gods.
Like the White-leaf Village that Sui had seen before, it seemed to him a terrible place. However, virtually every family could get one or two, or even three gold coins each year. This income level was similar to a middle-class family, compared with the average farmer household on the continent. Sui Xiong only saw the general landscape when playing games.
It was no wonder that even after the war with the Shadow Devil, when Rhode was recruiting pioneers, many people still signed up.
The civilians of this world were really suffering too much!
The civilians had a hard lives and the nobles weren't much better off. They were rich, but their lives were still quite boring. Listening to the poets who occasionally passed by sing songs, holding parties at home, or hunting with servants were all the enjoyment of most nobles.
Under such circumstances, there was an endless stream of desolation in the aristocratic circles.
Sui Xiong had asked Steele, "You are beautiful and talented, and you are the inheritor of a lord. Why are you putting all your energy into having sex? Why don't you use the energy you put into seducing men on learning governmental affairs?"
"Why?" asked Steele.
"This way, you can smoothly inherit the title!"
"After that?"
"You can take over as a female lord."
"Then?"
"Make good governance and strive to make your own territory prosperous!"
"What about then?"
"And then, of course, you can enjoy life!"
"Finally; that's what it is!" Steele laughed, "Geerteng City is shabby. If I want to enjoy life, I only need to have sex. Like what you said, the final thing for me is to be a good lord, but even then, I can only have enjoyment by having sex."
Sui was shocked, and could not help but sigh. "You are so convincing that even I'm speechless…"
This was the life of nobles; and the entertainment of small traders and artisans was not as good as the nobles'. Often, they only spent what they earned in pubs, casinos, and brothels, gaining some insignificant pleasure.
Only places like Gars City would have entertainment venues such as theaters and circuses, allowing those with more spiritual needs to find satisfaction. For example, the wife of the late owner of Gars City was a female artist who was passionate about opera.
However, nothing more.
All in all, people in this world had a very poor spiritual life and lacked proper entertainment. If they could build a safer playground, it was believed that there would be a large number of people with money and spiritual emptiness rushing in and spending here.
Sui Xiong even conceived a lot of facilities for playgrounds, from relaxing spas and massages to music halls and libraries, and pubs that let people boast. He put forward the various entertainment facilities in his own impression, one by one, and he and Acaine carefully discussed their feasibility. Eventually, they finalized a huge plan.
"It's a great design!" Acaine couldn't help but praise. A few days later, when passionate discussions came to an end and they looked at the huge model made by Sui's tactics, Acaine was impressed. "This city is bound to become the world center of entertainment! And you will certainly become the God of Entertainment in this world!"
Sui Xiong laughed three times, proudly.
"God of Entertainment? Oh! This title is for me. I am very satisfied!"
After completing the design, Acaine continued to research and improve the mushrooms. As the foundation of the future city of entertainment, his mushrooms were of great importance, and needed further improvement.
However, Sui Xiong mobilized his body and flew to the largest of the locations Frost and Graupel found to be suitable for the construction of the town, and slowly landed.
"Do it by myself, and I will have a lot of harvests." He smiled to himself and started to dig. Idleness led to nothing, so he decided to dig out the planned underground city.
It was surprisingly cold here, and the deeper he went, the more intense negative the energy was. Therefore, it was not easy to build a large underground city on his own.
Sui Xiong was not a person who cared about superficial prestige. If he thought it was necessary, he would sweep the streets. What was more, this was building his ideal city of entertainment. Doing it on his own not only did no harm to his prestige, but instead gave him a sense of achievement in his construction.
Seeing that the earth was being dug away little by little, and the deep underground was excavated into a huge maze, he was feeling full with satisfaction, and his mood was getting better and better.
He had never understood before why people would spend months building virtual castles in games.
Now he understood! The feeling of building a city was really amazing!
He worked in the dark underground, digging the earth and creating a huge space. Then he used spells to reinforce the walls and columns to ensure they did not collapse.
After completing the basic structure, he added various things to this space. For example, at the center of the maze, the walls would make every explorer dizzy, and give a sense of infinite exploration in a limited space. As for water and fire, the former could enhance liveliness and provide drinking water for the monsters living here, while the latter could provide lighting and enhance the atmosphere of adventure.
Besides, he would also create a large variety of rocks and sculptures, through which he formed a truly cultural atmosphere that allowed every adventurer to actually feel that this maze was not a crude basement, but the foundation of a large cultural system.
His ideas were more and more complex, and more and more places needed to be designed and modified. Almost every day, he had new ideas. After he reviewed, many of them were put into practice by him and became part of this huge underground city.
He would have be building this way until the entire city was completely built. But during the autumn harvest, his work was interrupted.
Ray invited him to go to Gars City, to participate in the revival celebration.
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Chapter 141: Chapter 11!
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Time flew by quickly; the huge explosion that destroyed half of Garth city was one and a half year ago.
Initially, the survivors lived a very tough life. Even though Ray wrecked his brain and took measures that were both legal and illegal, he only wanted to provide the utmost basic material security for victims that had lost their homeland. During winter that year, many of them froze to death, which saddened him.
After the winter, Garth City finally went through a time of repair. Although they were still in a depression and it was still quite a distance from the true "revival," the entire city was on track to develop stably.
The harvest of the year was not too shabby and made Ray, who was ruler, beam with joy. He reckoned that no one would suffer cold and hunger that winter, or die due to poverty.
To celebrate their bumper harvest, when they had completed their work of reaping autumn grain, he who was called "Garth Iron Rooster" decided to splurge. He held a celebration for his people who had been working for one and a half years to relax and have some fun.
"That's great! I totally support the idea!" Sui Xiong said. "Are you lacking money? If you are, I have a batch of magic nuclei that are quite good in quality. Although they are all negative energy, they should be worth quite a bit of money….."
"Money is not a problem," Ray replied with a smile on his face. "A simple celebration wouldn't cost much. A normal barbecue, normal wheat wine, normal water, white bread, normal porridge… If we don't prepare really luxurious items, three thousand gold coins will be sufficient for such celebration. Although it ain't a small figure, for Garth city now, it is affordable."
"Huh? You're not preparing any noble items?"
Ray smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "I have no choice. I can't afford it. A noble celebration would cost three to five gold coins per head, while a commoner's celebration would be able to feed three heads happily with one gold coin. If it was Garth city back then, it wouldn't be a problem to hold a celebration that was of an even bigger scale. But now, we really can't afford it!"
"That's really tough…" Sui Xiong sighed. "Then, is there anything that I can help you with?"
"Of course!" Ray smiled, "I want to invite Your Majesty to join our celebration. I know that you are taking a rest, so sending over your clone would do."
Sui Xiong was stunned and said in confusion, "Why do you want to invite me? I'd really like to join the crowd, but during a celebration for human, if suddenly there was a green jelly fish that flew around… That wouldn't be a good idea."
"What's not good about that? You are the God that I believe in, you are the final settling place of my soul. At such a celebration, if you are not there, that's really not good!"
Seeing Ray being so persistent, Sui Xiong hesitated but accepted his invitation.
It's just another clone after all; it wouldn't expend much of my energy.
So, after half a day, an invisible green jellyfish was flying around happily on Garth Plaza, which was preparing for a celebration. It flew in circles and up and down, just like a naughty kid.
Ray could clearly see Sui Xiong's delighted look from his office window. He couldn't help but smile.
"Even if he is God, he needs entertainment just like human!" He sighed. "All this time; His Majesty must be exhausted from training and building the church. I'm glad he will seize the chance to relax. Looking at people's smiling face would made one feel happy too."
Then, he lowered his head to continue managing government affairs.
Along with Garth City's gradual revival, the government affairs that he had to take care of increased. There were urgent cases every day. Even those that were not urgent, would become so over time. Plus, there would be more unexpected trouble that could happen.
Ever since he took up the post, for the past a year and a half, he didn't even have time for martial arts training during his busiest times.
Fortunately, it had gotten much better…
Sui Xiong didn't know Ray was having a tough live. At that very moment, he was enjoying his time flying around the plaza and savoring the leisure that was hard to come by.
All this time, he had been busy working underground and couldn't see broad daylight. Even though his body didn't feel exhaustion, spiritually it was tiring. He was delighted to be able to relax at the moment.
He flew past the busy crowd happily and saw smiling faces that were filled with anticipation and hope. He was feeling even happier then.
"Ray deserved his origins of a prince. He was capable, just as expected! Within the short timespan of two years, he turned Garth city, which almost fell into ruins, into quite something. Such efficiency; he could be considered as a capable person even on Earth!"
He flew while he sighed with emotion. Suddenly, his body shook and he stopped immediately to look at a corner of the plaza.
It was a stage set up for bard to perform. That very moment, there was a good looking young man that was playing his flute gently on the chair. He was not the kind that had broad chest and enough breath. He didn't look like he was using much effort, but the deep melodious flute seemed to have penetration power to spread all over the plaza, leisurely. It was like a warm wind in summer, warming up everyone's heart.
From what Sui Xiong saw, the young man was engulfed in a layer of intriguing divine light, something any commoner wouldn't possess. Looking at his appearance and aura, and then his actions, his identity was vividly portrayed.
"Who would have guess that the Boy of Ceremony would visit such small celebration." When the flute was done, he flew over. He cast magic to have people overlook the situation there, and greeted the young man with a smile. "Hello, I am Void Mask, a God that gained a few believers in this city."
The one who was called 'Boy of Ceremony' was God of happiness and celebration. He was originally a human named Janvier. After he became God officially, he built a kingdom of god named "Joy of the Wild." He placed it at the border of the Country of Light, God's Kingdom of God for humans turned God. His teachings were to chase after happiness, and enjoy celebration regardless of purpose and standpoint, and to compliment everything about celebration. He himself always appeared as a handsome young man to participate in the celebrations in person, and cast blessed divine spells in large scale at the celebrations. He was a kind popular God.
When he saw Sui Xiong was introducing himself, the young man kept his flute and smiled. "To me, if it's celebration, it deserves compliments. Not to mention that the celebration is filled with countless people's hope and wishes. It's the fruits of their labor. To me, if such celebration doesn't deserve a visit, it's a shame."
Sui Xiong clapped his tentacles and smiled. "You are right! Celebration doesn't need to be luxurious, doesn't need scale. The most important part is sincerity in celebration, and the beauty of hope!"
In just a few words, the two Gods that had never met came to a mutual agreement. After a few minutes, they were seated at a table in the corner, chatting while drinking.
They hit it off well right from the beginning; it was like they were old friends.
"The world is big and there are countless worlds in various sizes. Almost every day there is celebrations. As a god post, I am supposed to sing the praises for every celebration. But actually…" Janvier let out a heavy sigh while he shook the big wooden mug and looked at the wheat wine that was bubbling. He smiled bitterly and said, "There were many celebration that I didn't like!"
"Oh? Why so?"
"Invaders celebrate their victory. They slaughter innocent lives collectively. Shout and jump with joy amongst the bloody and moaning. This is the most common celebration." Janvier hung his head low, and he didn't look happy at all. "Such things; what's the point of such celebration! This kind of celebration is worth praising!"
"Huh? You don't like that kind of celebration?"
"Of course I don't! I am a bard. What I like is for everyone to sing, dance, eat and drink, when everyone is having fun. Invaders cheer among the bloodbath. Such things don't correspond with my concept of aesthetic and moral!"
Janvier sighed and looked up to the sky, "If I knew there would be such things, I wouldn't have asked to be a God officially back then!"
He took a big gulp from the wine glass and finished it. He carried the big wooden pail next to him with his fine arms and poured himself another glass. "Oscar, you have yet to become an official God. As your senior, I'd like to give you an advice. When you are selecting a clergy, you have to be very very careful!"
Sui Xiong nodded lightly to show that he understood what he meant.
"I didn't understand why those strong giant dragons from dragon tribes picked some weak post during officiation; like "birth of golden dragon,""celebration of black dragon;" Totally ridiculous! Then, I understood later on. What's it called? Old fox? They are the old foxes!"
Sui Xiong couldn't help but laugh. Those dragon tribe Gods were cunning!
"And," Janvier continued, "After officiation, you must consider which God system you'd like to join. Let me tell you…"
He suddenly stopped and kept quiet. Then, he let out a heavy sigh.
When Sui Xiong looked at his maturity and haggardness which was entirely different from his face, he let out a sigh too.
Gods, clergy; such heavy topics. Almost every clergy that talked to him about this topic became gloomy and depressed.
He couldn't help but recall the pitiful sight before Goddess of Ocean died. Forget about the physical pain; the hopelessness that surged from the bottom of her heart was even more startling.
"Forget about it." He switched the topic and asked with a smile, "When do you plan to stay here until?"
"Got to wait till the celebration ends," Janvier said. "You know, according to my rules, I have to cast a divinity spell in large scale. What do you think is better? Healing spell? Blessing spell? How about a Luck spell?"
"…Up to you. All good things, anyway," Sui Xiong replied but he suddenly laughed. "I have another friend that just came. Would you like to meet him?"
"Sure!" Janvier took his wine glass in one hand and wine barrel in another hand. He laughed lightly as he stood up.
As a clergy, His range of senses was wide. He could immediately tell who the friend was that Sui Xiong was referring to.
With a flash of light, the two of them were before the sea, facing a breezy cloud that was spinning lightly.
"It seems that you have already combined all the energy that you have gotten from Timsar," Sui Xiong smiled. "Then, how should I address you now? 'Raging Tide' Timsar or 'The Living Tsunami' Sarament?
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Chapter 142: Chapter 12!
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Sui Xiong's question was of course an innuendo. "Name" was the emblem of approval. If it were to approve the name "Heimsarah," it meant that the powerful semi God still maintained his thought and feelings back then, and He was still Sui Xiong's friend; But, if it approved the name "Sarament" instead, they were just acquaintances.
Among the gentle wind, the waves billowed. A steady and deep voice was heard from the sea. "I am still Heimsarah, it's just that I have gotten brand new strength and wisdom. As for Sarament; I am his successor, just that.
If so, everyone's happy.
Then, Heimsarah explained his situation to Sui Xiong in detail. Back then, after it defeated Timsar, it took in the legacy that he had inherited and snuck into bedrock underwater. It then slowly absorbed and fused the legacy.
To a giant like it, time was really not something that he had any concept about. A year plus passed before it realised. If it didn't feel Sui Xiong's scent and want to thank the friend that helped him a lot in person, it would still be fusing slowly in the bedrock underwater.
"You have yet to complete fusing?" Sui Xiong asked curiously. "I thought it had been done."
"The most crucial part is done, but the rest still in its early stages," Heimsarah replied. "The others left were slow workmanship. I reckon, mm, about 100 years will do. It wouldn't be more than 200, 300 years at most."
Sui Xiong was silent for a while. He sighed, "My friend, your concept towards time…. There's really a problem with it!"
From 100 years to 200 or 300 years. The timespan was vastly different!
Heimsarah's original body was still in the bedrock underwater, slowly absorbing power from Timsar. That moment, it was just a clone that appeared before Sui Xiong and Janvier. But, it was nothing big, as Sui Xiong and Javier were using their clones too.
To experts at their level, a clone would be strong enough. If it was just for chatting and fun, it's more than enough.
The three of them discussed and turned into three adventurers along a cloud of smoke. They then returned to Garth City happily. They went to a restaurant that was of the highest class and ordered a sumptuous banquet. Most importantly, they bought a barrel of wine to drink while chatting.
Actually Sui Xiong and Heimsarah weren't alcoholics. The only one that couldn't leave drinks behind was Janvier.
Different from his two friends from the sea, Janvier was a real Day Touring God that strolled every day from dusk till dawn, and made appearances in countless celebrations. Hence, he had extensive knowledge and was well-informed. His knowledge could be as insignificant as that one of the King's newborn babies was actually a production of his concubine and guard; to something as important as two clergies' accumulated resentment over the years, which would explode soon, leading to an inevitable God war. Those were all his topics of conversation.
And he didn't care about the "propriety" of the problem. From what he saw, all the news was only categorized as "interesting" and "not so interesting." As for importance… Was it interesting? If it's wasn't, then no!
During their conversation, Sui Xiong brought up the things that he was busy about at that time.
"I have a bunch of believers in Ashes Woods in the northwest region," He said. "In order to settle them, I will need to build a church."
"This is very common," Janvier said. "Not worth bringing up."
"This is very common indeed, what interesting is at the back," Sui Xiong said with a smile. "As you all know, Ashes Woods has strong negativity, and if the soil is not purified, commoners can't live there, let alone plant crops or raise domestic animals."
"Mm, that's not a good place," Heimsarah said. "I don't like the scent there!"
"Yes; that's why to build the seat of a church, I am planning to get a piece of purified land."
"Purifying using magic? Have you mastered the death realm?" Janvier asked. "If you have yet to master death realm, you can only rely on force; that's such a waste. I have a friend who has profound attainments in death realm. Although his concept of aesthetic is problematic, it's overall worth a discussion."
"In death realm and all, I only know a bit. But what I thought of wasn't to purify the soil with magic, but to use the widespread negativity and make a set of interesting things…"
Sui Xiong spent a long period of time explaining his plan: to build a city that combined adventure and entertainment as a whole, and the underground city acting at its core.
He even used magic to make a model. As of then, the finished part of underground city was a clear sight while part of his plan, especially on the ground, was just shadow.
Looking at the mass model, forget about Heimsarah, that was a bumpkin; Janvier was really shocked.
"Oh god! Such great design! Such ornate concept! Such spectacular – this is simply miracle!" He looked at the model carefully and imagined what the city would look like in the future. He couldn't help but give it compliments.
After compliments, he immediately raised his request. He hoped that his believers could have a footing in the city; it would be best if they could run a hotel or something the sort. It would be perfect!
"Of course it wouldn't be a problem to run a hotel, but my plan was to build a combination theme park that combined food, entertainment and leisure. Could you find me some decent chefs and massage masters?" Sui Xiong asked. "Money is not an issue. I don't even need them to stay, as long as they taught a few apprentices."
Janvier patted his chest immediately and said, "Let me take care of this! Forget about the others. Eating, drinking and having fun is something I'm expert in!"
The three of them laughed and continued feasting.
After they had enough food and drink, they walked around Garth city. Sometimes, they turned into three clouds of green smoke went into the people's home to look at their lives and to drop a few gold coins in the corner; sometimes, they turned into three long breezes and soared up in the sky to compete about their understanding toward God's power. More often than not, they appeared as three adventurers, and had meals in one restaurant after another. Not only did they tried a number of restaurants in Garth city, they even flew into the nearby cities and enjoyed delicacies from the east coast.
Then, Janvier put his talent in eating, drinking and having fun to full use. That guy really didn't bullshit. Every city they got to, he could tell where the good food and fun was at. Not one missed hit.
Not only was he familiar with famous attractions and restaurants, he was familiar with unnoticeable and unique attractions and restaurants that were small and exquisite.
"Not only are you God of happiness and celebration, you are simply the God of eat, drink and fun!" After a few days of fun, Sui Xiong complimented satisfyingly, "I think if there was anything related to eat, drink and fun, there wouldn't be anything that you don't know!"
"Yes. I am preparing in silence, planning to switch my God role," Janvier smiled and said. "I am planning to give up my role in celebration, as I suit eating, drinking and fun more. My plan is to switch me clergy post to "enjoy" clergy plus "happiness" clergy. In short, I will appeal to my believers, to enjoy life. Regardless of the hardship and suffering, they have to find things that make them happy. They have to encourage themselves to face their lives with a smile on their faces. What do you think about this clergy and teaching?"
"Not too shabby," Heimsarah replied. "Very interesting."
"Although it felt too idealistic, it is much more reliable than before." Sui Xiong nodded in agreement. "But, it is not that easy to change your clergy post, right?"
Janvier sighed softly and took another gulp of wine, "Yeah, it's difficult. Maybe it will require another hundred or thousand years. But, no matter how difficult it is, I have to figure out a way! We Gods are as such. You either adapt to the clergy post or change your clergy post. If you want to force yourself to hold strongly at the clergy post that is against your school of thought, there will be trouble over time.
When he said so, Sui Xiong suddenly recalled Goddess of Ocean's encounter, and he nodded continuously.
"Oh yeah; you are not officially promoted to God yet. What kind of clergy post are you looking for?" Janvier suddenly switched the topic and talked about Sui Xiong again. "Although there's nothing bad about being a nature god, the speed of growth as a nature god is a problem. Plus, when you get stronger, you might not be able to stay back at a main dimension in another few hundred years. When you leave the main dimension without an exact clergy post, you will be at a disadvantage.
"I haven't thought about it yet," Sui Xiong said in distress. "The territory power that I possess is not little. Technically, I could seek out many clergy posts. But taking in consideration my outlook on the life, world and values, there are not many choices left. Maybe, I will spend my time and effort on 'ice,' seeking for such nature clergy post that would suit my needs more."
"The competition among nature clergy post is too vigorous. I do not suggest you to seek for that," Janvier said and shook his head. "For instance, for ice. You would have to to fight against the crazy bunch from Arctic Federation, and the few that are not crazy, but mean Gods. Even if you won against them, you would still have to pass through the barrier of King of Four Elements. Unless you are willing to bow to them and swear not to chase after promotion of strong godly power, they wouldn't let you pass through that stage.
Sui Xiong let out a breath of relief. He didn't think much back then. He thought by selecting natural phenomenon as clergy he would be able to avoid the heavy burden of power of belief. Evidently, everyone was not stupid. Everyone wanted to fight for such free and unrestrained clergy. If he were to be promoted as God from that particular direction, it would be even more difficult than it already was!
"I have a suggestion," Janvier said. "The theme park design is very good. I believe it will definitely receive great admiration; there might even be people that follow as an example. Why don't you just be a 'God of Theme Park.'"
"God of Theme Park? This can work?"
"Of course; actually, 'God of Underground City' or 'God of Entertainment' are all good choices. But if you pick the ones before, be ready to battle with a few wicked Gods; if you pick the latter one… Ha-ha, as for those who seek for such clergy, there isn't just me alone!"
Listening to his introduction and analysis, Sui Xiong nodded lightly and was deep in thought.
Unless… He really wanted to suddenly change his identity, from a giant jelly fish, to God of Theme Park, in a flash?
He imagined the entrance of each theme park in the future would have a portrait of his, and he was thrilled.
That was totally a strange world version of Disney…
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Speaking of theme park, he thought of Disney.
Speaking of Disney, what would one think of?
Mickey Mouse? Donald Duck?
Sui Xiong imagined his image after he was promoted as God with the clergy post of "God of Theme Park" and he felt that his balls were in pain.
Would there really come a day where a middle aged uncle that was balding would wear the costume of a green jellyfish in the theme park? Would he be acting cute by saying "Ee yah! Ee yah!" while he distributed candy and balloons to kids that were there?
Okay… It didn't seem that bad… He thought, and he couldn't help but laugh.
Janvier saw his look of stolen happiness and gave an understanding smile.
He could tell that Sui Xiong had already accepted his suggestion.
The clergy post of "God of Theme Park" did not conflict with any other clergy, and the clergy itself was not bounded by belief in extreme measures. Even if there were any changes in the mainland and all theme parks were gone, in tens of thousand of worlds, there needed to be the existence of some other theme park. There was no need to worry about the breakdown of the clergy.
The only downfall was probably that people who were serious would never be able to accept such "lowbrow" clergy. But the world was so huge, there were all kinds of people. If the God himself could pass through the stage, he never had to worry about lacking of believers.
To complain about lowbrow, was he, the "God of Happiness and Celebration," any more serious? Don't forget about the bunch of devils that aimed to destroy the world. There were even evil Gods that insisted on not accepting any clergy post, not building Holy Kingdoms. Instead they built pathways of belief by themselves and closed their door to have fun on their own. Compared to those crazy people and psychopaths, what was wrong with "God of Theme Park"?
It was awesome!
Just then, there was the sound of singing from outside that messed up their thoughts.
It was a bard that was preparing for a celebration performance, rehearsing for the very last time.
Time passed by very quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was the eve of the celebration. Garth City then looked way more crowded compared with before. Not only were there adventurers and bards that came over from the nearby towns, there were also small to medium businessmen that popped by as their saw business opportunities. There were even people that had savings that came by to join the crowd.
"Ray did well!" Looking at the busy scene outside the window, Sui Xiong couldn't help but smile when he said, "Within two years' time, he managed to rectify a ruin to presentable city. If he were to be King, he would definitely be a smart King for the generation!"
"He is really a capable person!" Janvier nodded as he complimented. "Until he is dead, you could appoint him as general in your Holy Kingdom and have him command and control the entire Holy Kingdom. I believe that he could definitely be up to the job!"
Heimsarah bit off a chicken leg with one bite and he chewed the meat and bones together while he spoke. "Maybe he could be promoted as a God, too."
Sui Xiong was suddenly stunned.
He looked to the direction of the resident city owner. Even though the wall blocked his view, he could clearly feel that Ray, who was amending documents felt his gaze upon him, and lifted his head to smile in return.
Such terrifying sensitivity; his unusual capability to put revival of Garth city on track in a short time span of one and a half years; the valour of fighting a battle against an army of thousands of soldiers alone back then. Thinking about it carefully, Ray was really an extremely outstanding figure. If he really did go towards a path to be promoted as God, it wouldn't be surprising.
But, it was still a bit of a shock…
He smiled towards Ray's direction and turned around to look at Janvier, to ask the senior God's opinion.
Janvier was obviously in shock. He looked to the side as he thought about something. After a while, he smiled and nodded. "Such possibility exists, and it is not small. At least, when I was still a commoner back then, I was far weaker compared to him. Even I managed to be promoted as God. He has hope to be promoted, as well"
"But…" He hesitated. Finally he let out the second half of what he intended to say. "Honestly speaking, from what I see, maybe it would be better not to promote him as God."
Sui Xiong was stunned and asked, "Why?"
"If I'm not mistaken, he is the direct descendant of Eagle Kingdom royalty, the Igor family. His bloodline should be quite pure. Considering his age, he probably was the young prince from the rumoured "Blood Dyed Eagle Comb" fifteen years ago, who was shot to death with poisonous arrow in the chaos. The young prince was the genius swordsman, Leon Igor."
Sui Xiong nodded and said, "That's right. He said his name once; that was it."
"If he is Prince Leon, as the son of Eagle, he inherited the bloodline of God of Eagle. In the future, if he were to be promoted as God, I'm afraid it is very possible that the God of Eagle will be resurrected with the help of his descending bloodline, using him as a medium." Janvier let out a breath of regret and continued, saying, "God of Eagle fought against His Majesty, God of Light, for the position of Main God of Human Gods. The two parties had a few fights. In the end, defeated by His Majesty's Buddha Divinity Spell and passed away under his God Hammer. But, he once made an oath that he would definitely return to fight for the supreme honor. Back then I was only a newly joined God. When I looked at the battle from afar, it was soul stirring."
"What you mean is, if Ray were to be promoted as God, the God of Eagle might possess his body?" Sui Xiong's eyes displayed a dangerous light. "He should dare! If the God of Eagle really dares to make any funny moves, I will bash him to the point that he couldn't even be a ghost!"
"The crucial problem is not about whether if the God of Eagle would resurrect, but if His Majesty would tolerate the idea of giving the God of Eagle an opportunity to resurrect."
What Janvier said made Sui Xiong crease his eyebrows. The intention of what these new friends of his said was clear: the King of Human Gods, who was high above, would never allow the previous challenger to make a comeback. In other words, if Ray wanted to be promoted as a God, even if the God of Eagle had no way to possess his body to resurrect, the God of Light would show no mercy and kill him.
"Is there no space for negotiation? He will be okay if the God of Eagle doesn't resurrect, right?"
Janvier smiled bitterly and shook his head. "His Majesty… is not really someone who is open to discussion!"
"Do you know the God of Knights? That one who once created us; Human Gods, our patron saints at the very beginning, the King of Kings that protected his during our tough times. He is senior that we all Clergies respect. I adore him regardless of experience or power. But even He has no rights to speak before His Majesty. Back then when He realised that human society was getting along with the other tribes, but were striving away from Road of Kindness, He once gave suggestion; in the end…"
Janvier was not willing to share such embarrassment in detail but constantly shook his head and sighed heavily.
Although Sui Xiong didn't know how the story went, he knew the consequence was that the God of Knight's camp was sidetracked, from a kind order to a wicked one.
It was well-known among all Gods, to the point where it was once brought up in the information given by God of Redemption.
But Sui Xiong didn't know before that there was such a behind-the-scenes story.
Even if God of Knight had such an encounter, it seemed that it was obviously impossible to consult with God of Light.
Then… how about resistance?
Sui Xiong smiled bitterly while he shook his head, to cast aside such unrealistic thoughts.
There was an entire God system under the command of the God of Light. Even if he was extraordinarily brave and fierce and he defeated a few of them alone, any of the rest of the Gods could easily squish Ray to death like an ant.
"It seems like this could only be left alone…" He smiled in embarrassment and diverted away from the topic.
In his heart, he was deliberating in secret.
The Human Gods system is strong in power, but the range of power is pretty concentrated. Almost ninety percent of the power is concentrated in the main dimension and a few big worlds nearby. If I were to bring Ray to the border of the world, some human power would be extremely weak and even controlled by devils who are extremely hostile towards human world. If Ray were to be promoted as God there, even if God of Light was powerful, He wouldn't be able to stop him.
The only problem is, how do I control or communicate with the devil or demon in those worlds?
Those bastards…. Might not be any easier to talk to compared to God of Light…
He buried all his thought deep in his heart and saved them for when he had the chance to take action.
Anyway, Ray just gotten to the legend realm not too long ago. He still had to slowly level up to semi god, and understand and master the power of the root. Then, finally look for a clergy that was aligned to his belief. Completing that set of tasks would require at least a few centuries at the fastest, and it was normal to take a few thousand years even, if one was slow. He himself had plenty of time to prepare!
Janvier saw that he didn't continue to talk about that topic; he smiled and left it behind too.
Although He was a human, strictly speaking, He was not a core member of Human Gods system, but fell under the pantheistic Gods that lived in territory of the Human God system. It casually reminded Sui Xiong of the emphasis on the God of Light's dignity, who considered himself having given his all. To betray his friend for loyalty? He was not the downline for the stubborn God of Gods!
The topic stopped there. Then, everyone continued to chat like nothing happened; chit-chatting casually and happily, just like few days back.
Gods were all firm and persistent. Which God had not gone through years of trials and tribulations? Which God had not pushed through countless dangers! Since it was left aside at the time being, they wouldn't let that affect their emotions.
Oh, Heimsarah might not have such qualities, but he probably didn't think so far ahead…
But, Sui Xiong knew very soon that he would belittle the man.
In the morning on the second day,the strolling troop which surrounded the simply festooned vehicle entered Garth city through the rebuilt gate. Heimsarah—who was invisible alongside Sui Xiong and Javier by the side of the road—suddenly spoke.
"It's about time to send the news, to let His Majesty to dispatch the envoys up shore to send the presents."
"What?!" Sui Xiong's eyes suddenly opened wide. He looked at Heimsarah, who suddenly turned into a fat man. "What Majesty? What envoys? What present? Why didn't you say anything earlier!"
Heimsarah's honest chubby face showed a round smile. "Your believer is throwing a celebration; how could His Majesty not dispatch an envoy to congratulate him? My friend, did you forget about your identity?"
Sui Xiong thought carefully and recalled that he might be looked upon by the new God of Ocean…
"Even since the birth of His Majesty, He had been in touch with eight of the Sea Kings one by one. We approve of his will and attitude and will acknowledge allegiance to him after he is promoted as God. We will then become his God followers and built an Oceanic Gods system," Heimsarah smiled as he spoke. "The reason why I stayed underwater near Garth city was because I am entrusted to guard this city on his behalf."
"I thought you just looked for a nearby place to randomly stay."
"How would that be possible! Please don't treat me like a dumbass, okay!" Heimsarah didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but shook his head and sighed, "Save the nonsense. I need to send out the news. The envoys that are here to congratulate are arriving at the plaza behind the festooned vehicle in a bit."
Then, there was a light breeze that blew past them, towards the sea surface.
Sui Xiong could clearly feel there was some gentle and friendly aura slowly emerging from under the nearby water.
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Chapter 144: Chapter 14
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Those auras emerging from underwater were from the envoys that were in the sea. They prepared presents and planned to visit Garth city during the celebration, to get along with the neighbors and start a diplomatic friendship.
Sui Xiong of course wouldn't object to the idea. Just when he wanted to thank them, Janvier suddenly smiled and said, "Why not let them wait for a bit. Wait for a little while more; the effect will be even greater."
Sui Xiong and Heimsarah were stunned. Have to "wait for a bit" to send a present? "Greater effects"?
"What so mysterious? What's going on?" Sui Xiong asked.
Janvier smiled cunningly and said, "Don't forget that I'm God of Celebration. I could clearly predict that there would be some accident during today's celebration. If you were to let the envoys that came to congratulate hold on for a bit and make an appearance during a crucial moment, the effect would be very good; unexpectedly great!"
Heimsarah looked at Sui Xiong.
Sui Xiong nodded.
Then, he sent out a message again, to have the envoys who were prepared to depart to wait a little while more and wait for his news.
The time passed by and the festooned vehicle slowly came to the plaza. Along with people cheering, it drove past the arch that was built last minute and stopped before the stage that was not luxurious but still crowded.
Ray changed into formal wear, which was a rare sight, a plain black knight wear that brimmed with mysterious and elegant character. In harmony with his good looking face, his healthy and graceful body and his soldierly aura, it drew everyone's attention. When he stood up to give a speech, there were tons of women gawking at him under the stage.
Ever since he had entered legendary realm, Ray's appearance had been changing gradually. All in all, he looked younger and even more handsome. Compared to the broken down thief that Sui Xiong forcefully took in, he was now daring and energetic, in high spirits; totally deserving of his identity of a prince.
He avoid verbosity but simple reminisced about when Garth City was a ruin. He thanked everyone for working hard and looked ahead to their future, which he firmly believed would be even better.
Honestly, the speech wasn't sensational but it tugged the heartstrings of people staying in Garth city.
Everyone had lived a tough life for the last year or so. From building with every brick and tile in a hopeless situation back then, to finally rebuilding a township from a ruin. Even though he didn't say it, he felt a sense of achievement. When Ray gave his speech, there was surge of emotion in everyone's heart.
There were times of work, abandonment, depression; changing bit by bit, developing bit by bit. Looking back, every drop of sweat left a deep trace. Looking ahead, scenes of booming prosperity were just around the corner!
Not knowing who started first, the people in the plaza started cheering.
There were tearful voices among the cheers, as they were hot with emotion. The sudden hail was thundering; a spirited fervor soared up the sky and made all the Gods that were paying attention looked to the side.
It seemed as though they could see Garth city as a traveller that was once severely injured, but had fully recovered, and was preparing his luggage by the bed to depart again. He was once injured all over and took staggered steps but he had almost recovered now. He was once depressed and disheartened but at the moment he was high spirited and had high morale.
"Garth city will be revived," Sui Xiong said.
"Yes, I can see that." The corner of Janvier's mouth raised faintly, showing a hint of reflection. "Only… maybe there were too many people that could tell; it wouldn't be a good thing!"
After cheering, it was the real city owner's turn to give a speech: Casari Riley.
The east coast maiden that was famous for her beauty was gawking at Ray, especially when his speech stirred high emotions among the crowds. She felt moved. She then walked onto the stage with tears welled up in her eyes and that made people adore her even more.
She was not someone like Ray who could give a short, to-the-point speech. She was also not someone like Ray who had high prestige. But her beauty held a power of persuasiveness, especially when she thanked everyone with her watery eyes, thanked everyone for willing to believe in the Riley family after drastic changes, to have and to hold on, to unite, and to battle for the revival of Garth city. That stirred countless men's hearts and got their blood boiling.
To work for such a cute and innocent girl? Don't even mention about putting in sweat and effort, it wouldn't have been a problem to take their own lives!
After the speeches by archon and city owner, they didn't invite the local head of religion to deliver a speech, according to convention.
The church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest that originally seized ruling position in Garth city suffered severe damage in the war; even the Goddess of Bumper Harvest herself passed away in her incarnation. All the while, they had been low profile, and weren't fond of the limelight.
Of course, even if they tried to court publicity, Ray wouldn't agree with them!
Even the church of God of Wealth who put in a lot of effort and provided a huge sum of loan during rebuilt of Garth city did not go on stage. The God of Wealth was a God that wasn't good at fighting. Even though the Goddess of Bumper Harvest suffered heavy losses, He did not have guts to fight against the old God. Using the method of spreading money to buy in two wall corner would do. If they were to go on stage to deliver a speech, that signified their intention to fight for the position of core belief in Garth city. That meant He fell out with Goddess of Bumper Harvest. Don't forget that Garth city was once fully controlled by the church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest. To Her, the city's belief had a very unique meaning She wouldn't allow anyone to meddle in.
As for the other churches, they never thought of fighting for the leading role for religion in Garth city. Of course they wouldn't go up to the point where the going was the toughest.
Instead, the church of Goddess of Marsh was interested. The Goddess had been keeping Her eyes on Garth city constantly. She even fought with Goddess of Bumper Harvest previously and, in the end, neither sides gained ground. But it was obvious how firm Her intention was. Even since the last war, the Goddess of Marsh went to the dark side and no one knew where she hid or what she did. The Goddess of Marsh was lost; even the God of Justice asked around, but there was no news.
So, the speech by church was skipped. Ray waved his hands and announced that entertainment time started then!
What was the entertainment?
Singing songs, dancing, eating, drinking, having fun; something along those lines.
The most important among all, was eating!
Ray made sufficient preparations. Dozens of chefs were busy by the side of the plaza, the breads that were freshly baked were hot, wheat wine that wasn't mixed with water was fragrant and delicious, and the aroma of barbecued meat and steamed fish made people salivate.
Not only that, there were fresh fruits and vegetables. And, there were even a few strong men that were at the juicery to help people who were interested to juice the fruits and drink on the spot. There was also an unlimited supply of seafood; it didn't matter how much one was to eat.
The most unique among all were the few round pots. They were on low fires, just nice enough to keep the soup in the pot at a simmer. Next to the pots were various ingredients that were cut into slices, and there were some attendants to look after the booth and to prepare seasonings for people who wanted to try them. Under their guidance, the people pairs of tongs made with fine wooden pieces to hold the food and soak them in the boiling soup, take them out when they were just cooked, dip into the seasoning, and eat it while it was hot.
Such a dining method had not been tried before and attracted a large crowd. Steele, who was in charge of food and beverages, had to transfer more helpers and added a another few pots of soup, wooden tongs, and large amount of ingredients with another attendant that taught them how to eat.
"The eating method is very interesting; I have never seen it before," Janvier said as he turned into a normal adventurer and moved over to take a few portion of food. He was very cunning; he picked all the higher quality meat that was most fresh and delicious then he boiled them just so. He took a bite and he beamed with joy. He was full of praises.
"That's awesome! I wonder which chef invented it… He is a genius!"
Sui Xiong smiled faintly and raised his head proudly.
"It's you?" Janvier suddenly understood his hint and he was so shocked that the food in his mouth nearly fell out. He left his mouth hanging open while he looked at Sui Xiong who was smug. He didn't believe his eyes.
"You are a jellyfish, how would you know anything about cooking?!"
"Who stipulated that jellyfish cannot know how to cook? Let me tell you, there are many things that I know of!" Sui Xiong laughed with his head held high. "I know about space and shadow, sketching, symbols of art, expression of colour and feelings, appraisal of art, various views of ancient paintings, visual language, shapes, human body sketching, cartography and design, sculpture and decoration. Let me tell you, actually the clergy that suits me the most is God of Art!"
Janvier nodded blankly. Those things that Sui Xiong said; he could understood them if they were separated, but he couldn't understand them in combination.
It couldn't be said that he didn't know, the rough concept could be understood by a few guesses here and there. But he had never expected Sui Xiong, a jellyfish, would understand so many things about art!
Although the mermaid tribe under the deep sea was abound with artists, they were rich with musicians and singers, a sculptor at most, but never a painter!
"You want to be the God of Art?" After a while, he responded and asked softly. "This clergy has been taken away. You will either share with Him or be ready to fight a battle… are you sure you want to do that?"
"I just said it casually. Don't take it seriously," Sui Xiong laughed. "Come on, eat more!"
"Mm! Eat more!" Heimsarah stuffed the bunch of vegetables that looked red and were drenched in god knows how much seasoning into his mouth. His saliva was splashing all over with the sauce, disgusting many.
Janvier rolled his eyes and wiped away the sauce that splashed onto his face. He then quickly moved two steps further to stay away from the bastard that had bad table manners.
Looking around, most of the people didn't look quite well-mannered. All these condiments and sauces that were fragrant, spicy and sweet, that consisted of Sui Xiong's memory, were like heat that was soaring up in their mouths. There were many people that had their eyes and noses running; their foreheads were also dripping with sweat.
But they didn't have any intention to give up. They were laughing at each other's ugliness in eating while continuing to feast.
Not far away, the bards were performing some happy program while a few clowns were cracking jokes and fooling around. The atmosphere at the plaza was extremely busy.
Almost there, Janvier thought in his heart. He lowered his head and smiled cunningly. The bastard who has a death wish should be here soon.
Just as he expected, just as everyone was busy having fun, a voice that didn't go well with the atmosphere rang.
"Miss Riley; up to this moment of bumper harvest, aren't you supposed to lead everyone to pray to Madam Richness (Goddess of Bumper Harvest) and thank Her for the bestowed flavour upon them?"
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Once the question dropped, Ray and Casari who were originally all smiles turned gloomy.
The one who spoke was the priest from the church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest. Ever since the previous priest Heli Riley passed away, the old man that was originally far away from the control of church got a chance to turn around and become the leader of the church. This past year, he had been keeping a low profile, out of sight. From day to night, he had been praying in the rebuilt temple, so still that he made people think that he was almost a decoration.
But now, the truth proved that he was not a decoration, but waiting for an opportunity.
The very moment when he brought up "praying" in public during the celebration, it gave Ray and Casari a difficult problem.
Praying was nothing big nor small. For instance, visiting the temple for prayers in private was almost nothing. As long as one did not run to temple that was against their own God, it wouldn't be a problem. For example, Ray believed in "Void Mask" but he always visited church of God of Wealth. Every time he went, he had to pray in silence before the statue of God of Wealth.
It was only etiquette, also due etiquette.
But during celebration, leading everyone to pray was entirely different in nature!
Ever since the church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest suffered heavy losses, most of the core experts were killed, even the Goddess herself took great losses and had already lost influence in Garth city. Especially during the process of city rebuilding, as the one who put in effort was mainly the church of God of Wealth. It eroded the roots of the people's belief and elbowed Her out.
The people in this world had a low education level; most of them didn't even know how to read, but they were not dumb. They could tell clearly that who was nice to them and who helped them.
Belief was something from heart; one was not able to fake it. The position of the church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest in Garth city was gradually replaced by the church God of Wealth, that was the reality.
To take back their belief, the most practical way was of course to help people with money, to help people to revive their city. The church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest of course had human and financial resources, but the church was burdened with internal conflicts too. Each local temple saw the chance and sought to replace Garth temple as the main temple for the church. The very moment, why would they take out funds to help people? It was good enough that they were not dragging anyone back!
If the new priest had enough capability or prestige, he might be able to suppress each local temple. But he had none. Besides praying, he had no other ways.
But a while back, a friend from another church visited him and gave him an idea.
"Seize the chance during celebration; why don't you invite Casari to lead everyone to pray to Goddess?" The priest was blank back then; he didn't understand what his friend, who was known for his wittiness, meant.
That friend smiled mysteriously. Even though they were in the private study room, he lowered his voice and explained it to him. He then suddenly saw the light.
Human and material resources were things that he couldn't afford then. But as the church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest forcibly occupied Garth city for so many years, there was far reaching and profound influence. With one opportunity, he could give full play to the influence and reshape his image to retrieve the bad influence from back then.
If it was well manipulated, he could even embezzle the result of hard work that was done by the church of God of Wealth, like the turtledove that occupies the magpie's nest.
The crucial point of the plan was to seize a chance to force the city owner, Casari, to lead everyone to pray to Goddess of Bumper Harvest and to thank Her for granting good harvest.
At first glance, it seemed to be something reasonable. But on such occasion, having the city owner to lead everyone to pray together to thank God equalled to re-establishing the church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest's position as the ruler in Garth religion. It was actually a tradition of Garth city after all. Almost everyone participated in such prayers. If they were to be reminded of the past and linked up with the current situation, it would naturally recover the belief of Goddess of Bumper Harvest.
The ruling position of the church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest was a profound foundation for centuries, deeply tied to the operations of the Riley family. With only one move, they could put the profound foundation to use and immediately have the function of bringing the dead back to life!
Looking at Ray and Casari who were silent, there was a smug look on the priest's old, ashen face. He waved his hands and had the people from the church to prepare for praying ceremony.
He of course could tell the unwillingness of the two, but what could they do even if they were not willing to? Don't forget, the city owner, Casari believed in Goddess of Bumper Harvest since she was little; she was a member of the church herself. Unless she had the courage to turn around, announce the change of her religion and leave the church, she wouldn't be able to reject such reasonable request.
The vase that had no talent but beauty; would she have such courage?
The priest smiled coldly in his heart and was overjoyed.
That period of time, including Casari, many Garths had drifted away from the church of Goddess of Bumper Harvest. What ruined Garth city back then was the Goddess's self destruction due to exasperation. Fighting against an enemy that destroyed their homeland; it was nice enough that they didn't withdraw weapon and fight against them. Why would he expect them to respect and believe in the Goddess of Bumper Harvest like they did before!
From what the priest saw, these people forgot about Her kindness and turned their back on Her; they didn't know the good and the bad. So what if She ruined Garth city? Everything that they had belonged to the Goddess! As a believer, it was only right and proper to dedicate their lives to that God, not just a few houses!
So, he had been boiling with anger all the time, but he suppressed it like a volcano that was accumulating power in silence.
The moment he saw the leader of Garth in a difficult position, he was pleased with the feeling of revenge and held back his laughter.
Of course, he couldn't laugh yet. Wait till everything was done and dusted, when he could lay back and enjoy the fruit of victory. He could then laugh with no worries.
Casari was hesitating. Although she didn't have much ability and experience, she could differentiate between good and the bad. The Goddess of Bumper Harvest had not contributed anything during the revival of the city, but they stood out at the very moment to accept the reputation of revival naturally. It just didn't make sense at all!
As for belief… she hadn't been a devout believer since the very beginning. After going through the terrifying riot and battle, she even felt a sense of fear and distance towards all Gods. For the past year, she had been avoiding each and every temple carefully because every time she looked at a temple, it would remind her of the terrifying memory.
From the angle of a God, it could be tell that there was no line of belief on Casari anymore. She, at the very moment, was one of the so called "faithless."
Whether out of emotion or disbelief, she was not willing to pray to the Goddess of Bumper Harvest. She was even more unwilling to lead everyone to pray and to give credit and blessing to Goddess of Bumper Harvest for the fruition of everyone's effort.
But she was not courageous enough to reject the request of the priest.
As the priest's friend had predicted, Casari was only a vase after all. She had received literature and art education since she was young, but kept completely ignorant towards politics, military, martial arts, and magic. The city owner Joseph's original intention was to let his youngest daughter be an artist that was not involved in politics; to marry her into another city with friendly terms, to be a city owner lady, and to live a smooth and steady life.
Her father was a middle aged legendary expert that could at least live another few centuries; her sister was the priestess of Goddess of Bumper Harvest. Even if she didn't step foot in the legendary realm, she would at least be a high level pastor. Her brother was a genius in sword craft. He also had a bright future ahead of him. She relied on the powerful and influential Riley Family that terrorised the whole of East Coast, and she relied on the commercial city that was in the top few in mainland, Garth. With such backers, she had no need to work hard to enjoy life.
Who knew a storm would arise from a clear sky, with all of Casari's backers wiped out in a night!
She was only a weak woman left alone, and she was pushed towards the toughest point by fate. She was like a piece of fat meat that was just grilled and left in the wild, attracting countless hungry beasts to keep their eye on her.
If she wasn't lucky that she met a knight that with too much sense of justice who happened to be a legendary expert, she would have been eaten up without leaving any scraps behind!
However even though Ray could block off those spies that had bad intentions for her on normal days, he couldn't back her up then. After all, the priest's request was completely reasonable.
That was the advantage of "fit and proper."
Casari was hesitating and subconsciously looked towards Ray.
All this time, she had already gotten used to relying on the upright, strong, handsome knight. Regardless of the size of the matter, if she asked him for help, he would definitely solve it.
It was like Monk Tang who ran when in danger, who always called, "Save me, Wukong." Nobita would always cry and look for Doraemon when he had difficulties. Although it was a different world, the emotion was the same.
Ray sighed and took one step forward. He stood between Casari and the priest.
"The city owner is not feeling too well recently. She needs to rest," he said.
How could the priest let Casari escape so easily! He smiled an affable smile and said, "Not feeling well? Then there's more reason to pray! Pray for a blessing to help the city owner recover."
The way he smiled seemed harmless to all living things on earth, but triggered the anger in Ray.
It was such a pity that at that very moment and venue, it was not suitable for a fight.
The chaos in the previous celebrations had left a deep scar in people's hearts. If there was any accident in the celebration, it would break apart people's hearts that had just been brought together!
He was pissed and he couldn't help but pray to Sui Xiong. He pleaded for him to punish those bastards. Not much; just a "Cannot Hold One's Liquor" spell that would make their head spin and their eyes blur would do!
Sui Xiong immediately received his prayers. He looked toward Janvier and Heimsarah and smiled.
"It's time!" He said.
Heimsarah immediately sent out the news. Along with the light breeze, the sea water near Garth city suddenly rippled and surged. A huge wave didn't splash around but soared up into the sky slowly.
Within the waves, there was melodious singing. The singing was not loud but free, natural and distant. Those who heard it would be attracted and drowned within.
The originally crowded plaza was suddenly quiet. Only singing lingered and reverberated in the air.
It was the most famous singing, the mermaid song, the real sound of nature.
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Chapter 146: Chapter 16
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The creatures consisted of all sorts of strange beings. There were several kinds of them that could charm people with songs.
As it happened, both mermaids and sirens had this, ability and they all lived in the sea. Therefore, people who had little knowledge of the facts compared the two, or even confused the two.
In this matter, the sirens certainly had no objection. What they cared about was eating people. As for what people thought; well, when you ate bread, did you care about what bread thought?
But mermaids had objections; big ones!
"Eat meat?! This is filthy to us!"
Well, what they really cared about was of whether or not they ate people, but the dignity of being a vegetarian.
In marine creatures, the mermaid was one of the few vegetarian species. Perhaps there were one or two exceptions that ate meat, but most of them were vegetarian. They were keen to study the flavors of various seaweeds, which led to the famous dining genre, 'sea combo.' Because of the difference in living conditions, this catering school had only been circulated among aquatic species, and human beings rarely tried it.
Sui Xiong learned about the existence of the dining genre from Vieille, who was specializing in food and drink. He was also surprised because he thought that the mermaid would eat fish and shrimp at the very least.
Besides the question of diet, there were still some differences between the song of the mermaids and the song of sirens.
The siren's song was lingering, full of teasing, and people felt tempted. Young men especially, except for a handful of determined ones, could hardly resist this temptation. Every ocean-going sailors heard their songs, few people could turn them down. Often the entire ship would, panting, rush into the water, and try to swim in the direction of the song.
As a result, they were eaten.
Singing was a predatory mean for Sirens, and all that were tempted by their songs would be eaten by them.
The mermaid's singing voice was far-away and lingering, so that people would feel their heart flying, and fall into a kind of sleeplessness. When they woke up, they often felt physically fatigued, but mentally very refreshed.
This was because the singing of mermaids was essentially a spell unique to their group. This spell could regulate the spirit. Although the cost was the consumption of a lot of physical strength that made the body tired, there were no other side effects. Tiredness was easily restored.
Therefore, there were often powerful mages who flew to the deep sea to record mermaid songs with magical props, as a means of rejuvenation and recovery. This kind of thing rarely emanated, and the price was quite expensive.
As it was today, only tens of thousands of people listened to the voices of mermaids together. In its long history, it was rare.
Many people in the square would be particularly resilient, or wear props that could resist charm. The mermaid's song could not make them intoxicated; this puzzled them.
These people were well-informed, and naturally able to distinguish between the voices of mermaids and sirens. But even the most educated one had never heard of a mermaid who ran to the shore to sing…
The family of a mermaid was not only temperamental, but full of masters. Even the king of a country or a legendary strongman found it impossible to secretly catch a mermaid to sing to him. In history, there was even someone who was so obsessed with the ethereal voice he moved to live in the deep sea.
A mermaid sang ashore; this kind of thing seemed to have happened only in legends. But all involved in this kind of thing were none other than those heroes who left colorful pictures in the history books.
For a moment, many pairs of eyes stared at Ray. Even those with malicious intentions could not help but correct their attitudes, or respect, or want to kill him. Everyone understood that if there was someone in Gars City qualified enough to become a big hero in history, it must be this handsome knight!
The chief priest of the Church of Goddess of Harvest was certainly not charmed by the voice of mermaids, but his face suddenly became gloomy. Everything was going smoothly. How could the mermaids jump out right before the city owner was about to surrender?!
What was even more troublesome was that everybody was tired after listening to the voice, which gave the celebration a natural end, and left no room for prayer.
He had no doubt that Ray would seize this opportunity. The city owner had no strength, but the governor did. The governor would not have been a Watchdog of Gars City if he did not seize this chance.
'Watchdog of Gars City' was Ray's nickname, which someone who hated Ray had come up with. It meant that he was as loyal as a dog, guarding the gates. No one could take advantage of the city.
Originally, everyone thought that the city would be full of adventurers, taking advantage of their own wrongdoings. Many dynamic social organizations sent personnel to seize advantages. As a result, they either fled or died under Ray's sword.
The chief priest also originally thought so. Fortunately, he had good luck. When he arrived, he saw Ray pursuing a group of believers of the God of Fear: a group of thugs. At that time, Ray traveled nearly a hundred miles to kill them, and the bodies were brought back to the public.
The chief priest was scared. When they entered the city, they found out that they were accused of forcing residents to borrow money and then plundering their wealth with terror. After confirming the news, he was silent for a long time. He eventually gave up all the plans he had originally drafted, and became a priest who was reclusive.
Ray must be a tough guy, because he made a big fuss about this trivial thing! I shouldn't confront him!
After that blow, he was already discouraged, and once again used his friends' persuasion to raise his courage…
But the result was this.
"People defeat this God this time… Perhaps this it is fate." The chief priest sighed deeply, apologized to Ray, and angrily retreated.
Ray was relieved and knew that he had tackled a major crisis.
After today, Kasalie and the Church of the Goddess of Harvest were officially halted. The Church of the Goddess of Harvest was to behave itself for a long time. However, time was in their favor: The longer the delay, the less attractive the Church of the Goddess of Harvest would be in Gars City. Maybe next time, they would no longer have to rely on the help of His Majesty the Void Mask.
"Your Majesty, your power is really unfathomable!" Ray heartily praised. "Even the nobles of the deep sea followed your assignment!"
Sui Xiong smiled and silently agreed.
Well, it seemed correct: this matter was to his credit, and the mermaids would come to congratulate him.
After a short pause, the song stopped and a mermaid girl dressed formally went to the square to send gifts to the revitalized Gars City, guarded by several men with obvious aquatic characteristics.
"Governor, you, who live in this world, speak for His Majesty who is our guide. Knowing that you are working hard to promote the revival of the city, I hereby wish you success on behalf of the people of the Sea of Storm."
Ray nodded with a smile and accepted the gift with his own hands. The gifts were not precious, but the meaning they represented was not trivial.
The distant sea was governed by the sea kings. Each sea king had his own name. The Sea of Storms was the distant sea of the east, stretching roughly from the dead desert to the Kingdom of the Blue Moon.
The Mermaid congratulated him in the name of the official representative of the Sea of Storm, which undoubtedly meant the goodwill and support of the king of that sea. With the support of this strong demi-god who had survived from ancient times to the present, the revival of Gars City was really just around the corner! Simply being able to safely conduct maritime trade was a huge point of economic growth.
But after Ray accepted the gift, she said, "We are merging all the people of the sea, and will soon develop our power onto the seashore. In order to strengthen mutual cooperation, I hope that we can build an embassy in Gars City, to facilitate the exchange of information. Of course, if you don't mind, I also hope that we could establish a business center again, so that we can trade goods."
Ray smiled and nodded. He casually agreed to this matter. However, the businessmen who were knowledgeable next to him were already excited. If they had not considered the occasion, they would have already cheered.
Formal diplomacy! Business center! Oh God! The former meant that Gars City had been qualified for an equal exchange with the Sea of Storm, while the latter meant an enormous and incredibly amazing profit!
To synthesize the two factors…
"Maybe Gars City would not only revive; but expand even further," a loyal official from a branch of the Riley family excitedly told Kasalie after the celebration. "What the late city owner had not been able to accomplish will be realized in your hands!"
Kasalie was confused, and couldn't understand what he was really excited about. "The status would be high and the money would be more. This is certainly a good thing. But isn't that what we were like before?"
The official explained to her with excitement, "For all its prosperity, the Gars City was after all a subordinate of the Kingdom of Blue Moon. But now, as long as we can get support from the Sea of Storm, we could break away from the Kingdom of Blue Moon and become an autonomous territory!"
"What good does that do?" Kasalie asked.
The official was silent for a long time and sighed.
She is really dumb. Maybe I can only count on the next generation of city owner. That knight is perfect. The next generation of city owner could only survive even if he has half of his talents.
So, he immediately felt relieved, and had much hope for the future and his absolute confidence in the city owner. Then he enthusiastically returned to work…
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"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"
The mirror did not respond.
Of course, it was really just an ordinary silver plate. Even if it was relatively expensive, it was not a magical prop, so how could it answer?
If it really said, "Beautiful lady, you are the loveliest woman in the world!" then Kasalie might be scared.
She stared at the mirror, finding that the young girl in the mirror was beautiful, with appropriate clothes, and perfect makeup which made her even more stunning. The pearl pendant that hung on her chest, which complimented her ivory white skin, had an especially intoxicating charm. Even the maid beside her, when looking at her smile, felt shy.
But at that moment, the girl in the mirror was very depressed.
Women were trying to dress up, most of the time because they wanted to make lovers happy. When her mother was still alive, she compared the women to flowers that should not casually bloom in front of outsiders. At that time, she did not understand this, and could not fathom why her mother was so happy when her father came back.
Now she understood.
However…
She sighed deeply and the girl in the mirror sighed with her. The beautiful face was so sad so that even the maid beside her felt distressed.
"Mother, what can I do to make him happy?"
The girl in the mirror couldn't answer. The maids couldn't answer. Kasalie returned to the dressing table in a gloomy mood. Her eyes were full of confusion.
"Father, you once said that the best man was one who was not fascinated by my beauty, but simply liked me. Now I have met a man who is completely unfazed by my beauty; but how can he like me?"
She was depressed for a long time, and finally put herself together, completed her makeup, and went out with her maid.
"Good morning, Miss Kasalie."
"Miss Kasalie, are you going out?"
Along the way, servants and bureaucrats greeted her, and she responded to each one. Whenever she responded, that person suddenly felt excited and rejuvenated; especially the young men. It was like they had drank a potion.
When she walked past the door of the Hall of the Governor, she stopped and looked inwards.
The tall, handsome man, who was steady as a mountain, was sitting in front of the desk. A lot of documents were piled on his, desk and people needed him to handle them.
The man was always busy. Before, when Gars City was in ruins, he rushed around the construction sites and took the lead in work. He also personally sneaked into the sea floor of the port of Gars to get rid of the large pieces of gravel that prevented the boats from parking. Afterwards, Gars City was slowly revived, and he dealt with the business that would never be finished all day. He also had to take the time to examine major cases, and deal with various forces. Sometimes needed to lead teams personally to annihilate the powerful monsters that fled from the wilderness and into Gars City.
It was because of his leadership that in the short span of two years, Gars City would be transformed from ruins into a prosperous business port.
If there was no such man, then the refugees who had lost their homes would not be able to rebuild the city, because they couldn't even survive.
If not for him, perhaps she would have already been forcibly taken away by a bully as a plaything, or been competed for by powerful people as a rare collector's item.
She watched the man's figure for a long time, obsessed.
He was always so powerful, so stable, so reliable!
When faced with ruin, everyone else was full of desperation. He was like a fire, not only lighting up people's hearts, but letting people who shivered in the cold have someone to rely on.
When monsters came one after another trying to take advantage of their tragedy, he was like a thunder who smashed them. The monsters either stumbled or fled, or became ghosts under the sword. In more than two months, he had battled more than a dozen times before he finally shocked all the bad guys, and protected the Gars City.
At a time when others forced her to abdicate at the ceremony and she was in a dilemma, he stepped forward, relieving her of pressure. Later he even convinced the great gods who even dispatched messengers to solve problems for her.
Unconsciously, Kasalie's eyes had been completely attracted by the man. She stood fully in the doorway, staring at the man working at the desk, and naturally smiled.
"Oh! You are as beautiful today, as always!" an indecent voice awakened her. She turned and found that it was Steele, who did not take the cold seriously, and was dressed like summer.
She did not like this woman.
Not because of this woman's amazing beauty, or because of this woman's indecent manners, but because the woman was familiar with him, and was one of his few friends.
She let her enter the hall.
Steele walked in with a swagger and sat on his desk, completely ignoring the majesty of the governor, uncaring of whether or not Ray would be able to see her private areas. She even showed the white skin of her thigh by slightly lifting her skirt. The little purple lace of her underwear showed, tempting people to commit a crime.
"What are you here for?" said Ray, unmoved, continuing to look at the documents and not even lifting his head. "Every time you visit here you bring bad news."
Steele appeared to be hurt and sadly said, "Do you really think of me like this? Am I such a bad woman?"
"If you can be a little more decent, you may be able to restore my impression of you."
"Would you fall in love with me?"
"…I would hate you less."
Steele laughed and shook her breasts—intentionally or unintentionally—to tempt Ray.
Ray sighed deeply and put down the paper in his hands, "If you aren't busy, why not go to work in the hospital? I believe the patients would be happy to see you."
"I just came for the things in the hospital," Steele finally put on a serious look. "Recently, there have been a lot more injuries than before!"
A cold look flashed in Ray's eyes. "Why?"
"The number of monsters on the other side of the Great Swamp has not increased significantly, but they have become stronger and more violent."
Ray said, "Is it that their Majesty finally couldn't hold back any longer, and wants to make trouble?"
"Perhaps, but for the time being, there are no obvious traces. There is only this possibility."
Ray nodded his head and took out the pamphlet he used to record important matters and wrote it down.
No matter how good a person's memory was, it was not better than the words written in books. As the Void Mask once said, "Good memory is worse than writing." Ray strongly agreed with this, and felt greatly enlightened, so he prepared such a booklet.
Sui Xiong also helped him to blacken the cover of the booklet, and drew a line of white runes on it.
There were nine strange symbols, five on the left and four on the right. The second symbol was the same as the last symbol. The fourth symbol was the same as the penultimate symbol.
"The black cover and these strange symbols do they have any special significance?" he asked.
Sui laughed and said nothing, but he looked very happy.
A lot of things had been recorded in this booklet, and each of them was very important. It was not known whether it was for fate or not, but almost everything had finally developed into a bloody conflict.
For example, the first thing recorded in the booklet was that the believers of the God of Fear flooded into Gars City. They seemed to want to do something bad, and it was required that everyone be careful.
The final result of the incident was that Ray chased them for hundreds of miles on a copper-crown dragon, and killed all of them.
The notebook, which now said, "Monsters in the Great Swamp Have Unusual Trends, It Is Needed to Organize People To Eliminate Them as Quickly As Possible,"would clearly have a similar development.
After finishing that, Steele left. Ray then turned his eyes to Kasalie, who had been at the door, and he looked puzzled.
"City Owner, do you have anything to command?"
Because he finally noticed her, she was happy, but she also sighed because he called her in an estranged way. Kasalie just smiled and shook her head, and said, "I have nothing to do. I just came to see you. You are so busy, you work so hard!"
"It's nothing," Ray said with a smile. "It's not a lot of work, just few little public affairs."
But he immediately changed his tone and advised her. "City Owner; after all, I'm just an outsider. You're the real owner of Gars City. I think you should learn more about government affairs, because it will be good for you in the future."
Kasalie felt even more depressed. "Aren't you a good governor? Even if I don't study government affairs, it would be okay to keep you in power."
Ray shook his head and said gently, "Although I am a knight, I am essentially a priest, and I am a chief priest of a church. After we have developed our church, I will be sure to govern that church and I cannot stay there in Gars City as a governor forever."
"Can't we build the church here?" Kasalie asked. "We have a large population and convenient transportation. Isn't it the best place to build a church?"
Ray was slightly convinced, and had to admit that she made a good point.
"I would propose this to His Majesty, but you have to know that a God's ideas are different from normal people's," He said. "Perhaps it seems to you and me that the bustling Gars City is far more suitable for the establishment of a church than the bitter cold Ashes Wood, but the willingness of His Majesty is the key to everything."
Kasalie secretly sighed, and they chatted a bit before leaving.
Looking at the pearl pendant on her chest that she had just bought the day before from the Business Center of the Sea of Storm, she sighed deeply.
From the beginning to the end of their conversation, Ray never noticed it…
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"Little Nice, pay attention to safety."
"Little Nice, play in other places. I'm very busy."
"Little Nice, I, your sister, bring you new toys."
Whenever she heard these things, Nice was very sad.
Why did people all call her "Little Nice"! She was obviously not little!
In just a few days, she would be thirteen years old.
A 13-year-old girl seemed to be nearly an adult. In some relatively backward areas, many young girls of this age could even marry and have children. Even on earth, China, the country with the longest history of civilization, had always followed the rule that a 14-year-old woman is able to raise children. Ancient Chinese people used the nominal age, which was exactly 13 years old.
However, because Nice inherited more fairy blood than usual from her mother's side, her growth rate was a bit slow. She was already 13 years old, but it seemed that she was still only about 10 years old, or even younger. In short, she looked juvenile. Because she looked so young, everyone liked to add a "little" when calling her name. Thus "Nice" became "Little Nice."
This made Nice very upset, and she often complained to her mother and sister about it.
"Why does this matter? You are really little," said Mrs. Teague.
"But my sister is only five years older than me!" Nice protested. "People call her 'Miss Liv,' and some even 'Mrs. Liv'!"
Liv couldn't help but smile. "Because I'm more mature. Just a few years down the line, people will start calling you Miss Nice," she said.
Nice stared at her sister's eyes steadfastly. After a few seconds, Liv couldn't help but turn her face away. Nice shouted, "Sister, you're lying!"
"I didn't lie to you. You will grow up in a few years."
"When you were thirteen, you were much taller than I am now!" Nice gestured. "At that time you were almost as tall as your mother!"
Liv grinned. Because she had a more human bloodline, her physical development was basically unaffected. When she was thirteen, she was a small adult.
"We are sisters! Why are we so different?" Nice said sadly. "You must have taken away my height!"
"Can this kind of thing be taken away?" Liv grimaced, turning to look at her mother and get some support.
However, Mrs. Teague just laughed and said nothing; she knew the two daughters were calmly arguing about unfounded issues.
Because she learned a lot of government affairs from her husband, she was also known as an expert in this area. Currently, in Gars City, she was in a position with a not-so-low status, and good income. A good job, of course, also inevitably made her busy. Every day back from work, watching Nice disputing with her sister about height and other issues became light entertainment.
Liv was made speechless, and ended up blurting out nonsense. "You have inherited more elves' heritage. Although you grow up slower, you're aging slower too! When your sister is old and dead, you will be young!"
"I don't want my sister to die!" Nice cried.
After some trouble, Liv, was exhausted and went to take a rest. Nice was tired too, and fell asleep. She slept soundly and had a funny dream.
In the dream, she returned to the original road from Golden Tower City to Cloud Tower City. She held a pink pig in her left hand and a green jellyfish in her right hand, and smiled sweetly.
Just then, the jellyfish opened its mouth.
"Nice, do you want to grow up?"
Nice nodded, naturally. "Yeah! I want to grow up!"
"Why?"
"When I grow up, I can help my mother and my sister."
The green jellyfish could not help but laugh. "You're a good kid," it said.
"I'm not a kid!" Nice protested angrily.
"Okay, okay, you're not a kid," The green jellyfish whispered. "The period has arrived when you've become rebellious."
It ignored Nice when she asked what rebellious meant, and pondered a bit. Eventually it said, with interest, "Do you want to grow up now?"
"Of course!" Nice nodded.
"You should know, growing up may not be a good thing," the jellyfish said, laughing. "When you grow up, it means that you have to live according to the rules of the adults. It may be very hard."
"I want to grow up!"
Seeing her determination, the jellyfish laughed again. "Well, you can find me in your dreams, and it's because we are friends. I'll help you!"
After that, it waved its tentacles and made a strange green bracelet. It put the bracelet on Nice's left wrist.
"If you want to get bigger, turn the bracelet and read the spell."
The next morning, when the sun fell on the bed through the window, Nice opened her eyes.
"Ah… where is the jellyfish?" she asked, confused. Then she realized that she was just dreaming, and could not help but sigh deeply. "I just dreamt…"
Suddenly, she felt as though she had touched something on her left wrist. When she looked down, she found a strange green bracelet, which was the same as what she saw in her dreams. She looked at the bracelet in astonishment. She was a bit embarrassed, and did not know whether she was dreaming or in reality.
After a while, she jumped out of bed, turned the bracelet, and read the spell.
"Magic Girl, Transform!"
A green glow rose from the bracelet and enveloped her. Within a few moments, when the light was dispersed, there was no longer a silver-haired half-elven girl standing by the bed, but a beautiful, vigorous and cheerful woman with green hair.
She still retained some of the characteristics of an elf: sharp ears, slim slender limbs. But in terms of the appearance and body, she was at least equivalent to 17 years old, and full of youthful vitality. In terms of figure, Nice was now even more feminine than her sister Liv.
Before she transformed, she was wearing a child's dressing gown. Now, amazingly, she was wearing a green robe. The main body of this set of robe was a splendid dress with many flashy runes, full of mysterious and noble impressions. There were small bits of armor attached to her arms and legs, which not only provided strong defense, but also could cast some spells when necessary.
According to the instructions of the green jellyfish, Nice drew a strange symbol on her chest with both hands and whispered, "Swords of Wind!"
With her call, the armor on her small arms flew up, twisted in the air, and turned into two curved daggers. A breeze wrapped around them, filling them with wonderful power. She let her hands go, and the Swords of Wind remained still in the air. She tried to direct them with thoughts and they were very obedient to her wills.
Nice smiled happily, and put away the Swords of Wind. She went on to test the other two weapons: Gun of Thunder, and Wings of Fire Phoenix.
The former was made up of the armor on the calves, where the two armors on the legs combined, distorted, and became a spear. It could be used as a weapon in close combat, and it could also be thrown where it would automatically track the target.
The latter were crimson wings that stretched out from her back, allowing her to fly freely and gain unparalleled mobility.
After she tested these wonderful abilities, Nice smiled happily.
Although the transformation only took five minutes, in these five minutes she not only grew up but also had a magical powers!
"It wasn't a dream! It's a good jellyfish!"
The green jellyfish floating high in the air snorted and wondered, "Who is saying bad things about me? Is it Little Nice complaining about me, that the props I gave her could only take effect for five minutes at a time?
"There's no other way. Transformation puts a burden on the body. In order for her not to leave screaming, she can only have almost five minutes of transformation at a time," Sui Xiong said to himself. "Anyway, she's just playing with it. Even if she was trying to save the world, it would not be her turn because she is a fake magic girl."
He convinced himself with this, and he smiled. He turned to lie down in the clouds and slept. The night before, Little Nice intruded his dream and shocked him. Then he was busy making her transforming props all night. It was really exhausting.
In Gars City, Nice had returned to her normal appearance and had finished washing. She ate breakfast, put on her favorite dress, and happily went out. Because her mom and sister were very busy, she always took care of the house to stay in and avoid danger. But today was different. She was already an adult and was fully capable of protecting herself!
A little girl walking alone in the street attracted people's attention. More than one pair of eyes looked at her with malicious intention, but nobody hurried to harm her. There were many adventurers on the streets of Gars City, and there were quite a few people with a strong sense of justice. If someone tried to abduct a young girl, an adventurer would definitely notice. Criminals would find it difficult to escape the official hunt of Gars City even if they could get rid of the adventurers.
So after waiting for a long time, there was a good-looking fat person who came over to talk with her, and the two became very familiar, as if they were friends. It solved the issue of anyone being suspicious of abduction. The fat man eagerly took Nice everywhere in the city, and finally arrived in front of an unattractive house on a slightly deserted alley.
This was their base. In the past, the traffickers headed by him had already abducted four ignorant girls, and gained a lot of money.
And this stupid little girl was the fifth!
"Sister, I am very capable, no?" Nice said twenty minutes later, running up to her sister, who was a patrol guard. Behind her she was dragging the criminals, who were tied up. Liv was shocked. Her eyes and mouth went wide. She was dazed.
What was wrong with this world? Could even little girls catch human traffickers?!
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"So, you didn't catch these traffickers?" Liv asked
"No," Nice said. Little Nice originally wanted to brag about it, but when she remembered that the magical jellyfish asked her to keep the power of being a magical girl a secret, she changed her mind. "Originally, I was going to be caught by these bad guys. At that time, a big-sister-type girl with green clothes and green hair fell from the sky, and knocked them down with a fist! She was really, really awesome!"
Liv looked at the few traffickers and found that they were actually beaten by fists. The marks were still on their faces.
"So, did the sister with green clothes and green hair say who she was?"
Little Nice immediately shook her head. "The sister said nothing except 'this was what I had to do,' and flew away."
Liv ignored the strange words, lost in thought.
Falling from the sky? Flying away? Was she a powerful mage? But why did the mage hit people with fists? Wasn't it simpler to freeze the traffickers? Or… was she a powerful and kind creature—a heavenly creature?
Liv thought for a long time, and thought that this conjecture was more reliable, so she took it down. She asked the subordinates to interrogate the traffickers, then asked a clever trainee soldier escort Little Nice back home.
"I won't go back!" Little Nice shook her head. "I can take care of myself!"
"You were almost caught by the traffickers!"
"The green sister will protect me!"
"Nonsense!" Liv said, holding her sister up. She explained the situation to her companions, and took her sister home.
"Take care of our house!" she said. "If you are bored, read the books and learn something. Or you could go to the yard to practice with the sword; I made a wooden sword for you, so practicing is good. Do not touch the bow and arrow, you are too young to learn that…"
She asked Nice to do many things.
Little Nice listened, angry, and quarrelled with her sister, but in vain.
Liv wanted one thing: don't go outside!
When she left, she locked the door.
In the past, when the door was locked, Little Nice could only read books at home. But now the situation was different. Seeing her sister was walking away, she immediately twisted the bracelet lightly.
Change!
"You won't let me out, but I'm going out!" She rested her hand on her hips and angrily pointed at Liv a few times, just to vent her grievances. After she finished, she stamped her feet and flew directly from the yard over Gars City. In order to ensure safety, the magical girl's war-dress was usually invisible, and almost no one in Gars City could see this invisible body.
Nice happily made circles in the sky, looking for someone who needed help. She remembered in her dream that the magical jellyfish told her a magical girl should help others.
In the port area, in the embassy and business center of the Sea of Storm that had just been built last winter, the ambassador who was reading a book put down the book with some doubt, and came to the window.
"A little green girl flying in the sky? Where did she come from?"
Some people also saw her, including Ray. At that moment he looked puzzled at the sky, not understanding what was going on.
However, these masters did not like to meddle in these affairs. There was no air traffic control in Gars City, and there wasn't a no-fly zone. As long as it was not a cause for trouble, she would not be interfered with.
A few days later, Ray read a report submitted by the guards and looked surprised.
"A beautiful girl with green hair and green clothes is helping people in Gars City."
"Where does she come from? Is she a ranger?" he thought, remembering the girl flying around, then shook his head. "That doesn't fit. She's not like a ranger, but instead like a layman who benefits from magic."
With his rich fighting background, he found that Little Nice did not have fighting experience, at a glance. But he also saw that Little Nice was growing rapidly. Perhaps it would not take long before she could truly grow into an independent expert.
Anyway, since she did good things, then there is no problem, Ray thought.
After he finished, he put away this document and put it in the folder labelled 'Needs Follow-up Attention". As a governor, he was very busy, and had no time to waste on a matter that had no bad influence.
However, all the ghosts and monsters of the Gars city had troubles.
Little Nice did not know anything about wisdom like 'there is no fish in water that is extremely clear,' or 'the most important thing is to learn to compromise.' She only knew that a magical girl should do good things, and her father and mother and sister always taught her to be a good person. Be a good person, and do good things.
So, in just half a month, there were at least thirty thieves, seven or eight robbers, and several gangs of fraudsters who encountered this beautiful young girl with green clothes and green hair. They were all knocked down by her punch, and then tied up and sent to the guards. Thanks to her, the security of Gars City was greatly improved, and there was a sense that there was no need to lock doors at night.
Underground, in the wide sewers, several figures were whispering and discussing countermeasures in anger.
"It can't go on like this!" said a round-headed figure. "That Green Girl is too annoying, and we must kill her!"
"Well, what can we do?" asked a figure that looked like a mouse.
"We can set a trap," said a figure in a black robe. "She looks a little silly. Maybe we can catch her in a trap!"
"Okay! If I grab her, I'll eat her, cut her head off and hang it in the house as a souvenir!" said a muffled voice.
"Let me have intercourse with her before you eat her," A thin figure said with an obscene smile.
Then others also laughed in an obscene way.
The matter was decided.
These people—or creatures (after all, there were several non-human beings among them)—were the big bosses of the underworld forces of Gars City. They had been hiding so deep, that even Ray could not catch them.
All along, they had targeted each other, and the statuses of alliance, hostility, cooperation and betrayal had been constantly changing. But this time, they united to eradicate the unreasonable, uncompromising green woman who was up against them.
After careful discussion, they prepared a plan; a fairly complete, detailed, and feasible one.
However, it turned out that it was not a good plan.
"What? There was an outbreak of war in Ximen District?" Ray asked. After a busy morning, he jumped and hurriedly ate something. He had been preparing to take a short break. "How much is the loss? And casualties?"
The guards who reported the news seemed to be a bit off, and embarrassed. "A lot of money has been lost, but the casualties… according to our preliminary statistics, they are all members of various illegal organizations."
Ray was relieved, sat down again, and asked, "Is it infighting? These guys are getting more and more naughty!"
"According to the witnesses, it is not infighting among the various organizations," the guard said with some amusement. "According to them, they laid ambush against someone. They wanted to destroy or grab the 'Green Girl.' But the ability of the Green Girl far exceeded their imaginations. After a fierce war, they suffered heavy losses. The chiefs are all dead, and the Green Girl has escaped.
Ray couldn't but laugh. "They deserve it! These guys see no law! Pass my orders, that the defence forces should gather and clean up, and see if I can take advantage of this opportunity to catch the guys that I have been wanting to catch!"
The guard gave Ray a salute and hurriedly left. Ray sat there thinking for a while, went to the front of the documents cabinet, took out a folder marked 'Important Documents,' and found several documents in it.
That was the report and analysis of Green Girl all along.
"Strange girl… where exactly are you from?" Looking at the documents, he fell into meditation.
"What the hell is your origin?" Bena, ambassador of the Sea of Storm to Gars, looked puzzled at the little girl who was sleeping in bed, and she was surprised.
Just now, she noticed that a war broke out over Ximen district and was planning to go and see what was going on. However, she noticed that there was a green light flying here. She found that she was the famous Green Girl that was legendary during this period of time.
The girl's armor was damaged in several places, and it was contaminated with a lot of blood. She found several bleeding wounds. So she flew up and stopped the girl, and brought her to the ground.
Perhaps because she was out of danger, the Green Girl fell into a coma after coming down. With a green light, she became the mixed-blooded girl with obvious moon elf characteristics, looking about ten years old. Bena took her back to the embassy in doubt and treated her.
Because she was still unconscious, there was no way to ask her anything. But soon, her subordinates returned to report what went on in the Ximen District.
When Little Nice woke up, she saw a smiling mermaid looking at her, with her blue eyes filled with curiosity.
"You're finally awake," she said. "You've been so reckless this time!"
Little Nice hurried to sit straight and reached, subconsciously touching the bracelet on her left wrist.
"Don't be nervous. I'm not your enemy," Bena said with a laugh. "You haven't been completely cured. You can recover here for some time. We are absolutely safe here."
"But…I'll need go home again," Little Nice said quickly. "If I don't go home, my mother and sister will worry!"
Bena blinked and became more and more curious.
"Then I'll send you back," she said.
Little Nice was not willing to run the risk of being identified and being escorted by her, but because of the injuries, she was now unable to stand, let alone walk.
She eventually returned to her home in a carriage with a fish badge, with Bena's escort. When she arrived home, she saw her mother and sister who were extremely anxious. That night, the famous hero of the Gar City, Green Girl, was scolded to tears by her mother. She was like a poor, hungry puppy.
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Chapter 150: Chapter 20
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio@
In the dark depths, a giant jellyfish was waving his tentacles, trying to dig a maze.
The flexible tentacles combined the powers of multiple tools, so nothing was difficult for it. Around it, a maze was being gradually formed.
Looking from a distance, if you had acute eyes that could see through the darkness, you would see a huge maze, which was just like the ruins of an ancient time. It was buried deep, far away from the ground's surface. There was only a bit of light somewhere to prove that it was still connected to the ground.
Sui Xiong was digging hard, while singing a song.
"There is a monster, there are two monsters. The monster's friend is the third monster. The monster's brother is the fourth monster…"
To be honest, the rhythm of the song was fine, but the lyrics were strange. Fortunately, he sang it in Chinese. No one in the world could understand what he was singing. Even if someone heard it, the feeling was nothing more than…
"Your Majesty, it looks like you are in a good mood today?" After he came out of the deep well, Acaine heard the singing echoing in the darkness. He smiled and flew over and to praise him. "This song is very interesting, and the rhythm of the lyrics is pleasing. Unfortunately, I don't understand the lyrics; is it a folk tune?"
Sui Xiong nodded with a smile, and silently praised the artistic cultivation of this mushroom alchemist. Although this song was actually made by him, the style was indeed true of folk songs.
It was plain that even if the world, people, cultures, and even forms of life were all different, everyone's love of art and understanding of music were similar in the end.
"Why did you come here suddenly? Do you have new results in the research?"
Acaine nodded and said happily, "The two dragons have found several valuable mushrooms. I combined them with the existing varieties and succeeded in finding a species with the ability to absorb negative energy with high efficiency, and transform it into finely-grained crystals. Now the cultivating room can plant them extensively. Formal seeding could be started at any time!"
Sui Xiong gladly clapped his tentacles. "Great! Then I will start preparing for the cultivating pool."
"However, the ability of this mushroom to decompose flesh is very weak," said Acaine. "The mushroom that can be used as a staple food, plus decompose flesh and blood, faces difficulties in cultivating. Existing species are either poisonous or can mutate, and they can not meet the requirements."
"Don't hurry," Sui Xiong said with a smile. "We have some time. Take it easy."
The special mushroom that utilized the flesh of monsters was intended to serve as a reserve staple food. Therefore, there were three requirements for it. The first was for it to be able to quickly and efficiently decompose useless the flesh of monsters, to avoid contamination; the second was for it to be non-toxic and edible; and the third was for it not to produce malignant mutations, lest it become a mushroom monster.
Acaine had developed several kinds of mushrooms that could efficiently decompose the flesh and blood of monsters, but most likely because they derived from mushroom monsters, these mushrooms were either very toxic or they could condense their power from the blood of monsters. They quickly turned into monsters quite dangerous to ordinary people.
This, of course, did not meet the requirements. Therefore, Acaine continued to study, hoping to develop mushrooms that were in full compliance with the requirements. He felt that if he could perfectly cultivate the two kinds of mushrooms proposed by the Void Mask His Majesty, then it would be enough to change the prejudices of the Druids on Pasteurian alchemy. Their family's long-standing bad reputation would be eradicated, and his father could be released!
Because of this he was very motivated, and worked hard every day. He was either in the research room, training room, or bedroom all day. The first two places were used for scientific research, and the last place was where he slept and ate.
If there weren't so many dangerous things are in the lab and training room, he probably wouldn't even leave them to eat!
With such enthusiasm, his research progressed smoothly. In less than two years, he had already obtained results that ordinary mages had not obtained in decades.
Today was a good day to announce the end of one of the two major projects. So after, he prepared to have a vacation and have a good sleep after informing His Majesty. But after learning of his plans, Sui Xiong advised him not to go to bed for a vacation, but to go for a walk.
"You can't find a girlfriend when you're the house all day long," Sui Xiong said. "Even if you were to become a great sage, you would have to have a family!"
"I'm still young. It's too early to think about it," Acaine said.
"Young? One teacher of mine always felt that he was young, devoted his energy to research. Several decades passed and when he finally made a successful study, he discovered that his classmates already had grandsons that became his own students."
"Ha-ha. That is too bad."
"Exactly! So you can't learn from his example! People's youth is precious!"
"But I'm really young…"
"Don't talk nonsense. Climb out of your hole and communicate with people!" Smiling, Sui Xiong used tentacles to wrap him up, and sent him back to the Dragon-roar Town by transmission magic.
Most of the members of the Void Mask Church currently lived there. Some of them were learning various techniques, some were hunting with Gerrard, others were providing logistical support for their companions. They were always busy.
Acaine's arrival was welcomed by Gerrard and others. They even held a small welcome meeting, and welcomed the most senior scholar of the church.
During the welcome meeting, many people cheered with joy when they learned that the mushroom used to remove negative energy had been cultivated, and they could start clearing out an area without worrying about the attacks launched by skeletons in the night. Now the land and drinking water would not be contaminated, and they could live and cultivate normally.
It was known that under the guidance of infinite power of the Void Mask, these things would happen sooner or later. However, when the expectation finally became a reality, and was coming at a predictable speed, nobody could be unhappy.
Starting with Gerrard, everyone toasted to Acaine. They drank numerous cups of wine and in the end, the alchemist master who could eat poisonous mushrooms without changing facial expressions couldn't resist the power of wine, and slept on the ground.
Even in his sleep, he still muttered, "Well said! Yes! Drink another cup!"
The next morning, dizzy with a hangover, he was awakened by the armored wizard Phil. He followed Phil and headed for the depths of Mountains of Barrenness. They went to the lair of the Arctic Tyrant, which was once the dragon hole of an ancient shrine.
"There were a large number of monster corpses in the mountains," Phil said. "To be honest, these corpses are really troublesome, and often attract some disgusting things. I used to tidy them up myself. Now that you have developed the mushroom that could decompose the corpses, why not spread them to the mountains?"
Acaine told him that the mushroom he cultivated would either be poisonous or could mutate into a monster, which wasn't good.
"Then spread the second one," Phil said indifferently. "There are enough monsters in the mountains; I do not care if there is one more strange mushroom. But I have to ask: what capabilities does this kind of magical mushroom have?"
Acaine remembered and said, "The first is movement. Although they are not fast, they can rely on magic to fly slowly in the air, and they can creep slowly on the ground."
"That's nothing."
"The second is that they could use collision and self-detonation. Although the power of self-detonation is not great, it could emit an aroma that would seduce other monsters."
"Well, hopefully not too much."
"If they grow to a certain degree, they would also grow sharp zigzag-shaped arms, like two short knives. Although the power is not great, it could lead to cuts that would be very troublesome to deal with."
"Can't we change it to an ordinary knife arm?" Phil asked.
"No, because this kind of arm is used to divide large corpses of monsters."
Phil shrugged indifferently, "That's all right. Any other problems?"
"If it continues to grow, it could use spells. The first spell is nausea, which could make you nauseous."
Phil laughed. "What an interesting spell! What else?"
Acaine counted on his fingers. "The next thing is Stink Cloud, then Sleep, Body Freezing, Epidemic, Poisonous Fog… and finally Dead Cloud."
Phil stopped laughing. He stopped and turned to look at Acaine.
"Dead Cloud?"
"Yes, Dead Cloud."
"That is a high level spell!" said Phil. "It's a typical mid-level spell. The lower-level mages can't cast it!"
Acaine nodded. "Only the magic mushrooms that have grown to old age have this ability. In my laboratory, after using the spell, mushrooms about the equivalent of about 25 years in terms of maturity would have this grade of ability."
"25 years… it's really not a long time, to tell you the truth." Phil was hesitant, and asked the ages of other spells.
"From the third year onwards, they begin to grow the knife arm. They can use spells from the fifth year onwards, and then they have one more spell for about three to four years. After about 25 years, they will have mastered all the spells." Acaine told everything about his research because he had researched this magical thing in detail. "Even if we continue to cultivate it, there would be no growth. It is estimated that this is the limit of its race. It needs to break through the limit to go further."
Phil thought for a long time, but they could not make up their minds even when they arrived at the dragon's lair.
In the end, he gave Acaine several kinds of mushrooms that were unique to the flower fields in the temple. However, they postponed the affair of the cultivation of mushrooms in the mountains.
But Sui Xiong wasted no time. The first mushroom cultivated by Acaine was quickly cultivated in the underground maze. They quickly absorbed the negative energy that filled the maze. They grew unusually strong, and the clusters of mushrooms glowed with deep black light under the light of luminescent ores, and even had a little metallic texture.
These glowing ores were not the minerals of the Ashes Woods, but minerals in the remote Dead Desert. Sui Xiong purchased a large amount of this mineral through the commercial channel of Gars City, and then went there in person and brought back much once.
They were scattered throughout the maze to provide light. Under the meticulous design of Sui Xiong, most of the entire maze was shrouded in the perfect light which was dim, and only a few places dedicated to the rest of explorers had sufficient lighting.
With the bright light, several guarding formations were seen. They both protected these resting spots and allowed people to relax their nerves, tightened up from the maze.
Of course, resting at the spots cost money. After all, to maintain itself the formation needed to consume magic. If it weren't for the regular supply of magic in Sui Xiong, he would only consume backup energy, in an expensive magic crystal.
There were also several transmission formations in the maze that allowed the explorers to safely leave. It didn't take money to use them, because leaving meant that the expedition was over. If you went in again, you would have to buy tickets again.
When all the luminescent ore settled, this large magnificent underground maze would be preliminarily completed.
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"This is… beyond my imagination!"
The church of Void Mask had a few core members that formed an adventurer's troop. They walked in the huge underground maze and marvelled at the sight.
Those magic beasts that had low fighting power of course couldn't threaten them. When they felt the power that was given off by the three giant dragons, they tore off like wild beasts. The entire way, everyone barely came across any other magic beasts.
This gave them the opportunity to focus on the building itself, to look carefully into the design of the maze, and to experience the cultural ins and outs of it.
"This is unbelievable! I feel that various buildings in the maze have interlinked qualities." Ray, who was the most accomplished artist, was deeply moved. "To be able to feel a complete cultural system, the big and small, noble and humble, kind and evil, elegant and barbaric, holy and filthy… The varieties are vast! It doesn't look like a sheer fabrication but a representation of a huge culture, that was specially built into such historical remain!"
"Yeah, such a magnificent sight!" Snow raised her head and looked at the 'starry sky' above her head. It was a constellation map made of luminous ore in various sizes, and it looked exactly like a real night sky. "I feel that the constellation map is special too; it contains a pattern that is connected to horoscopes."
Sui Xiong laughed but did not explain the origins of the set of culture and constellation map to them. He flew next to Gerald, who was like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Gardens (one that is overwhelmed by new experiences and luxurious surroundings), and asked, "How do you feel? Interesting, right?"
"Mm, very beautiful scenery, but just a little too dark," Gerald said. "I wouldn't be bothered, but would the visitors be unable to see clearly?"
"The theme here is adventure. If it is too bright, it would lose its atmosphere of adventure."
Gerald nodded and said, "Your Majesty is right!"
Sui Xiong looked at his face and he couldn't help but murmur, "Does this bastard really know what atmosphere is? Would he reply to me with 'Your Majesty is right' for everything I say? Isn't this like Sha Monk (one of the three disciples of the Buddhist pilgrim Tang Sanzang)?"
"Palin, what do you think?" He asked again.
Palin, who was dragged out from the library, seemed to be in low spirits. He took out a lollipop and put it in his mouth, and finally regained some strength. He looked at the scenery around and said, "It feels a bit stressful. If you were to let me come here alone, I would definitely not be keen on it!"
"Yeah, maybe only those that are looking for excitement would be interested." Olian said, who left his work of city owner aside and came for a vacation. "To commoners, this is a little too stressful."
"I feel it's okay," Wor said. He was a legendary expert who lived in seclusion that Sui Xiong secretly gave the nickname 'Sweeper Monk.'"It is just the atmosphere. The magic beasts here are weak. As long as one do not ask for it, there won't be any danger."
"I of course cannot let them be in any danger," Sui Xiong smiled and said. "It is a theme park after all. It is supposed to let people enjoy the thrill and excitement. Minor injuries at most, would be sufficient. The life and death situations… that kind of danger would be hard to control."
"Yeah, if there were to be any deadly incidents, it would be troublesome!" Rhode nodded continuously. As a member that was in charge of finance and diplomacy, he had been living by the principles of 'nothing is good thing,' not getting into any trouble and living in stability.
The group leader of mage group, Satan, took a different starting point from the others when he was thinking. He closed his eyes and carefully understood the magic intensity through the air. Then he said with interest, "Actually, it would be a nice place for practicing. The magic intensity is very high, and the negativity was basically eliminated. Your Majesty, may I apply for magic apprentices to come over for practice, to experience the atmosphere of adventure along the way?"
"Of course!" Sui Xiong waved and agreed straightforwardly. He even added, "Inclusive of food and accommodation!"
Alright, it sounded a little improper, but Void Mask was known to speak improperly, and they were all used to it.
"Really can't tell it's the ground…" Frost, who had always been at odds with everyone, was walking around and he couldn't hold back his exclamation. "It's just like an open air historical remain during the night!"
"It's still too bright," The lazy bug Graupel yawned. "It'd be nicer if it was a little dimmer…
"But this place is really spacious, and there are so many magic beasts in front. It would be unlikely to be disturbed. I will only need to find an unnoticeable corner to hide myself." Her voice went deeper, but her eyes got brighter and the corners of her lips tugged upwards and showed a suspicious smile.
After a while, she came next to Sui Xiong and asked intimately, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Void Mask Majesty! Don't you think, there's something lacking in the maze?"
Sui Xiong looked around suspiciously and searched through the entire maze with his soul sensor, but he couldn't tell what was missing.
"Lacking what?" He asked.
Graupel smiled mysteriously and said softly, "In the historical remains, isn't there supposed to be a strong monster?"
Sui Xiong was stunned and nodded subconsciously.
Like she said, whether if its a maze or a historical remains, there should a leader for the monsters.
But… to make a leading kind of monster here? It would make the magic beasts too powerful and increase unnecessary risks for the adventurers.
After all, magic beasts were not things that one could negotiate with. Even if they used carrots and clubs to force them to listen, it would be difficult to guarantee that there wouldn't be any accidents.
Once there was an accident, the adventurers would encounter life threats!
"It's inconvenient!" He sighed. "This place doesn't suit a beast that is overly powerful!"
"It's convenient!" Graupel smiled. "There could be a dragon!"
Dragon?!
Sui Xiong looked at her while she pointed at herself and laughed happily.
"You?!"
"Yes! I can always stay here, and pretend to be the head of the monsters in the maze!" Graupel smiled and said. "Although I am not that old, I am a giant dragon. If I live here and pretend to be the head of the monsters, wouldn't it be suitable?"
"To let a lady stay underground all year round? That's not very nice."
Frost, who was listening quietly, couldn't hold back his laughter anymore. "What's not nice about that? We rock dragons are supposed to stay in underground caves!"
Sui Xiong then responded. Although Graupel held the appearance of a little girl, she was a rock dragon. Rock dragon was a type of giant dragon that liked to stay in underground caves. An environment like the maze would suit her.
"But you are a kid after all. You should eat more, do more exercise, learn more, and walk around outside more."
"Stop treating me like a child!" Graupel said angrily. "I am almost 100 years old!"
"You're only 100 years old. You giant dragons are only considered adults when you are 200 years old."
"You are not a dragon! Why do you care so much!"
Looking at Graupel being angry, Sui Xiong was upset.
Why did she suddenly get angry?
He looked towards Frost. Frost had smile plastered on his face and looked like he was only going to watch.
He sighed and looked towards Snow. "Snow, what is going on?"
Snow waved her hand and there was a blackboard made of ice that appeared in the air. There was a little dragon that looking around that snuck into the basement under the house. It used a cup to cover itself and slept.
"Graupel is a lazy bug. What she likes the most is finding a place to sleep. It wouldn't be a problem for her to sleep for a few days and nights straight."
Sui Xiong nodded faintly. He understood this perfectly.
On the blackboard, the little dragon was dragged out. It was dozing off with tears in its eyes while it work at the counter.
"Needless for me to explain, right?"
Sui Xiong laughed. The painting is too vivid!
In front of the little dragon, there was a deep underground cave, and a huge house in the depths of the cave. It jumped happily into the house and finally came to a corner. There was suddenly a huge blanket that covered it and it started sleeping again.
"Look: it's underground, spacious and no one would bother her. Isn't this the best spot to sleep?" Snow laughed and said. "There weren't many adventurers that could come before her. Even if they were here, would those commoners really dare to challenge a giant dragon?"
Sui Xiong constantly nodded and finally understood what she meant.
On the blackboard, the little dragon slept soundly while the adventurers snuck past her and got into the pub. Every adventurer was drinking while chatting.
No one knew when the piece of signboard appeared next to the little dragon. The signboard had a row of words printed:
Working Hard; In Progress.
Sui Xiong laughed and touched Graupel's hair with his tentacles. "You are such a lazy bug! To be able to sleep under broad daylight, you racked your brain!"
Graupel's stratagem was exposed before her and she blushed. She stuttered but she couldn't say anything. After a while, she became angry out of embarrassment and shouted while she made threatening gestures.
It was noisy in the maze as everyone was laughing happily.
But no doubt, her concept was good. If they were to add a giant dragon in the maze, it would definitely give the adventurers an entirely different and thrilling experience.
And for the lazy bug, maybe only such a job would be suitable for her.
After discussion, it was set. Sui Xiong took action on the spot, and made her a remarkably lifelike dragon cave.
The dragon cave looked like a cave on the surface, but the wall and the ground were full of traces of fights. There were swords and guns, arrows and crossbows, and also magic traces. It seemed like a scene right after a vigorous fight.
Inside the spacious dragon cave, there were many battle marks near the entrance, while the inner section had a pile of gold coins. Behind the pile of gold coins, there was a small hidden door and that would lead them into a house that was not luxurious, but comfortable. There wasn't anything else in the house but a set of warm blankets.
The gold coins were donation from Sui Xiong, while the blanket was Graupel's treasure that wouldn't leave her side.
When the dragon cave was done, Graupel cheered and turned into her original form, and jumped onto the pile of gold coins.
"I will live here then!" She announced. "I won't go anywhere else!"
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Chapter 152: Chapter 22
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Making a trip to the huge underground and looking at landscapes full of a foreign country's style, the visitor group left with sense of fulfilment. Oh; leaving one behind, who was sleeping soundly on the pile of gold coins. She was sleep talking.
Sui Xiong got closer curiously, but he heard dragon language that was echoed from the back of the throat. After he used his ability of command of language, he then understood that she was murmuring, "Gold coin, gold coin, blanket, blanket… Sleep…."
"I can't save this little girl!" He shook his head and quickly cast a ward to disperse Graupel's dragon power to its widest range, in order to prevent the nearby magic beasts to get closer and affect her sleep. It would let the adventurers realise her existence earlier so that they wouldn't get close to her mouth carelessly.
Although Graupel had never eaten any human, under a situation where she was sleepy, who could be certain about it? And, even if she didn't eat anyone, what if she was woken up one day and she got angry, and released Stonifying Dragon Breath? What then?
With Graupel's age and capability, the intensity of her Stonifying Dragon Breath wouldn't be high. Basically any qualified adventurer should be able to withstand it. However, those that would come into the maze for an adventure were just commoners!
After setting up the ward, Sui Xiong thought and put a signboard at the border that said: Authorised personnel only. Beware of beast. Then he left, feeling content.
As for the problem of if the adventurers could understand simplified Chinese, it was totally forgotten.
The maze underground was almost done. Next would be the pathway that connected to the ground and the theme park facilities on ground.
Rhode wanted to ask for help from the trailblazer, but Sui Xiong rejected his suggestion.
"This is interesting," he said. "I tell you, facilities are very interesting!"
Rhodes couldn't understand what the fun of being a laborer was, but he thought that if His Void Mask Majesty could build such a huge maze underground happily, maybe His Majesty liked to play with soil and bricks.
Then, he understood.
From the theme park on the ground to the maze underground, Sui Xiong set up three different pathways.
One was the main pathway, wide and big. The ground and underground was connected with an extremely long and high set of stairs. The steps spiralled upwards, up to 100 meters. Every ten meters there would be a hall. He was preparing to arrange other auxiliary facilities in the future, such as hotels, restaurants, training grounds, restrooms, libraries, and so on.
Although there were similar facilities on the ground, the style on the ground and underground would be entirely different. They could construct a 'foreign culture' atmosphere.
The second pathway was a huge and deep well that was sufficient enough to contain three people walking alongside each other from the top to the bottom of spiral stairs. In the middle, there was a pillar that allowed people to slide down. It was prepared for the people that wanted to take up a challenge. To enter the region where Graupel was, they'd have to go down from there.
The last pathway was an extremely long slope that extend to somewhere far far away. It wouldn't be used normally, but only as a backup for the crucial times.
Of course, besides these normal pathways, there were another two transmission rooms. A huge fixed transportation portal could send users into the transportation point in the rest area in the maze, and vice versa.
Besides that, when users encountered huge danger, the magic that was set up in advance on their bodies would take effect and immediately send them back to the transmission room, in prevention of accidents.
In order to ensure safety, there was another small temple next to the transmission room, for provision of emergency services. If there were any unlucky bastards that got a myocardial infarction or a cerebral hemorrhage and died in the maze, the temple could provide resurrection services.
…Of course, that would come at a price.
The set up of three pathways and transmission rooms used up a lot of Sui Xiong's time. Until the peak of summer he was free to build the theme park.
At that time, the believers in the church of Void Mask were already arriving to this place that was scheduled to be a holy city, one after another, under the guidance of Gerald.
As the negativity that derived from underground had been cut off and the surface of the ground had been purified by Sui Xiong with magic, the woods did not have one bit of gloominess at that time. The dark brown soil was covered with thick weeds. But regardless of the tall trees or the short weeds, it showed a scene of greenery that was not supposed to appear in Ash Woods. There was even a clear river that flowed through the forest. The river was not like the ones that were polluted and gave out unpleasant rust smells. Instead it brought about a fragrant green grass scent.
Not knowing when it was, many birds started coming as well. They found the piece of clean soil and built their nests to reproduce and live there. Every morning, everyone would wake up with the chirping of the birds and would fall asleep with the deer at night.
Even though Sui Xiong did not give out any orders that prohibited hunting, trailblazers were not willing to harm these cute living creatures. They referred these birds as their "neighbors," and even raised a petition to the manager of trailblazers, Madame Liv, to request if they could adjust the distribution of the city in order to keep sufficient living space for the birds.
Since she arrived at Ash Woods from Garth City using transportation portal, Madame Liv, who was promoted from patrol team leader to manager of trailblazers, approved of the idea happily.
She originally thought that she would come to a place with barren hills and untamed rivers, join the rude adventurers and dirty labourers, and be busy fighting with various kinds of dangerous magic beasts. She never expected it would be a forest with picturesque mountain scenery.
Oh, there was nothing wrong with clear water, but green mountain seemed to be incorrect. The nearest mountain was about hundred miles away. Over there, the sky was gray and the ground was black. Even the leaves on the trees were covered with a layer of black soot.
The bad reputation of Ash Woods: even she at the other end of mainland heard about it. But she couldn't imagine what kind of measures Void Mask Majesty took to be able to open up such a human world in a terrifyingly dark forest.
However, she did not go to the theme park construction to ask Sui Xiong, who was busy playing the foreign world real life version of "My World" all the time. She kept the question to herself and concentrated on her work.
His Void Mask Majesty sent out messengers to lend them a helping hand at their hardest time. Madame Liv's teacher was also a believer of His Majesty. I heard that teacher is a deacon. That's weird; why isn't he a knight group leader, but a main deacon? Teacher didn't look like a clergy at all…
With the combination of multiple factors, she felt that this God was reliable, and she should complete the tasks that He gave out.
It was to repay His Void Mask Majesty and her teacher. It was also a great opportunity to realise her own life's value without wasting anything that was thought by her father!
She remembered that her father would occasionally be depressed. He sighed in private that he learned a lot of skills on how to manage the nation and people, but never got a chance to put the skills into practice. Every time he taught his daughter one on one, he would sigh with emotion.
At the moment, it was time to put the things that her dad taught into practice, to see if it was correct, and to certify if her dad had the ability to be a good leader.
Of course, she definitely believed in her father!
The fact was that the set of knowledge that Knight Brian taught his daughter was very useful. Even though the staff that she needed to manage was much more than Garth's patrolling team and their quality was different, she managed to get situated very quickly and maintained the order of the entire region.
Every morning, she would bring along a few soldiers to patrol the region and listen to the trailblazer's opinions, and gather all the problems that they found. After lunch, she would put her hands onto the problems and solve them one by one. In the evening, she would look for Frost, who was in charge of cleaning up, to do a stock count in order to ensure the entire region had stable provisions.
To have Frost to look after the storehouse was her idea. Back then, Frost seemed to be unhappy, and he even threatened her in his giant dragon form. But Liv erupted with a startling courage, and she didn't concede, even when she was dealing with the sharp teeth of the giant dragon. In the end, Frost didn't dare to really bite her to death and finally gave in, unwillingly becoming a store keeper.
The job did suit him. He became a young man that always looked unhappy and treated everyone with a "you owe me money and you better pay me back" kind of expression. Plus, he gave off a faint hint of dragon power, and the trailblazers didn't dare pull any tricks with him. Even the most cunning old foxes didn't try to take advantage of the giant dragon.
They didn't have such strong nerves like Madame Liv, who dared to fight against the angry giant dragon. They'd rather not get into trouble!
Madame Liv was in charge of agriculture management. She worked along with a Druid 'South' that claimed to work for short term, assisted the farmers to cultivate the land, and sowed the seeds of crops using Elf Spells and Nature Spells.
As the soil was purified properly, they did not grow Golden Vine that took too long to grow and tasted bad. Instead they grew stem tubers and cereal crops, and vegetables.
The soil in Ash Woods was rich and fertile and the crops grew really well. It was the midsummer then, and even the temperature in the north of the city was considered warm. When the seeds were sown into the soil and matched up with the effects of magic, they sprouted in a few days. After only half a month, it was the picture of prosperity.
"But the winter here will be very cold," South, the Druid with a weird name, said. "I am afraid that these plants can't pass through the cold winter."
"Don't worry. The God that rules here can manipulate cold air as He wishes. By then, He will have absorbed the surrounding cold air so that it can maintain its warmth around here." Madame Teague, who had communicated with Gerald earlier, and knew the information, replied. "If you are interested, stay back longer to watch it with your own eyes."
South shook his head. "Although it is out of kindness, such actions that go against nature are opposite to what we Druids practice. It's better if I don't stay."
He was a stubborn person and he meant every word. The autumn in the previous years, after the bumper harvest, he helped the farmers to complete the harvest and insisted that "the contract had ended;" then he left.
The autumn in winterland passed by very quickly. It felt like a blink of an eye, and the first snow would gradually fall.
The winter of Ash Woods, arrived earlier, as always…
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Chapter 153: Chapter 23
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In a world of ice and snow, a thin curtain of white rays that were almost unnoticeable turned into a huge semicircular cover.
The world outside the ray cover was coated with ice and snow. The mountains were white, the trees were white, the ground was white, the water streams were white; the usual gloominess of the Ashes Woods seemed to fade away and turned into a pure white world.
Within the ray cover—although there was a cold breeze and snow—it was much better compared to the outside world.
In a calm and still container, it formed a layer of thin ice; on the treetops far away from the village was piled up pure white snow. That only.
Walking towards the inner of the ray cover, the temperature rose slowly. When one arrived before a weird statue right in the middle of the ray cover, it was already warm enough to the point where one did not need to wear thick clothing, as though it was ending of Spring or beginning of Autumn.
A bunch of kids were playing at the plaza around the statue where it was built, and the one taking the lead was Little Nice. She was the King of the kids in the newly built city. She always brought the kids to play and learn, living a full life.
Of course, there were times when she complained, about how some kids were not smart enough and she would need to teach them a simple thing multiple times; or that for her casting spells was very easy. It would be done just with a piu- but they couldn't learn how.
Liv had no comments about all those but only she exhorted again and again. She urged her sister not to reveal to the other kids her ability to transform.
At the same time, she was complaining in her heart, His Void Mask Majesty was no doubt powerful, but how could he be so unreasonable!
Little Nice had to be sensible. Forget about teaching her magic; how could he teach her the amazing ability to transform!
Sui Xiong was wrongfully accused. He taught her transforming, but he didn't teach her magic. That was a tribe gift inherited from Madame Teague.
The coldness on the outside did not affect life in the residency. Although everyone would run to the border of the ray cover to see snow scenery at the beginning and find it astonishing, everyone got used to it very quickly. The snow that was so immutable; they got tired of watching it eventually.
Hence, life went back to normal. Even the crops in the field weren't affected much.
The construction site at the theme park was still bustling with great enthusiasm. Sui Xiong was dancing with his tentacles, enjoying his work.
When spring came and flowers blossomed, he would have built up the initial framework of the theme park and could invite everyone to visit.
But this time, besides Gerald the mad believer, no one else supported his design.
"What is that Ferris Wheel? A huge wheel spinning; that's too terrifying!" Snow shook her head continuously. Even a giant dragon couldn't withstand such fun.
"How is this scary! The roller coaster is the true scare! From falling down from such a high mountain, any timid person would be scared to death." Rhodes's face grew pale and his legs were shaking.
"All your scary things are barely scary. I think 'Ghost House' is the scariest. You never know when there will be something that pops out. My soul nearly left my body when I was frightened!" Palin panted while he held onto the wall to stable himself.
"The water slide is very scary too." Although Frost tried to pretend to be calm, his twitching face betrayed him. "Why, when the little boat was going forward slowly in the water, there would suddenly be a huge wave!"
"Those magic beast statues that move are scary too!" Steele patted her chest. "I was still looking at them closely with interest, and they suddenly moved and spurted flames. Wow! I am going to have nightmares at night!"
Satan kept quiet by the side while his fingers were still quivering. Arcaian was smiling bitterly by the side, not knowing where he found a medicine that could calm himself. He poured some into his mouth while he poured another extra cup for Liv who had yet to recover from shock.
"Luckily, mother is busy today and she had no time to drop by." She drank a cup of medicine and finally felt better. She said softly, "If she were to come, she would definitely bring Little Nice along. Then… I dare not imagine!"
Their comments made Sui Xiong looked crestfallen. In the end, Ray patted him and comforted him. "Actually these things are great. At least they are all very creative. Your Majesty, look, the three of us are fine."
Sui Xiong turned around. Gerald, Wor, and Ray, the three legendary experts were standing there calmly.
"Very interesting! Really!" Gerald smiled honestly. "I think it's great! Very interesting indeed!"
"I would take up the challenge occasionally," Wor said. "It is beneficial for my self control ability as well as my mastery of strength."
Sui Xiong sighed a heavy breath and was at a loss for words.
The people in this world are a bunch of country bumpkins!
Helplessly, he had to knock down the theme park that he had built, and restart. He cast magic to reverse the material into raw material and built it bit by bit from the beginning.
He worked while comforting himself. "I am contributing to GDP! The property industry is at such depressing state, right at the edge of exploding the properties. I will explode them in advance in case of stocking up the commercial buildings."
Then, he started sighing again.
"Damn! I suddenly remembered that I have only paid my down payment for my house. Now that I cross worlds, will my house be taken back by the bank? Will I have nowhere to stay when I return, and even be in debt? Oh god…"
He, who had been thinking of returning home, was really hesitating then.
Rebuilding the theme park, he decided to opt for a milder, less exciting entertainment method; such as a merry-go-round, happy teacups, jumping bed, train trail, seesaw, slides, etc.
"I feel that these are things parents bring their kids to play with, but I don't even have a girlfriend yet."
Just when he was busy, the residency that had yet to be named had an unexpected visitor, and he did not have a choice but to put down the job on hand to play host.
"This is considered a guest?" Looking at the white mountain that was slowly moving outside of the ray cover, he said in distress, "A mountain is also considered a guest? I did not prepare any projects that it could have fun with."
"That is not a mountain; it is one of the few most amazing legendary creatures in Ashes Woods," Rhodes said. "The Snow Elephant King."
The Snow Elephant King originally lived on the iceland in the north. It was heard that it lost in a fight against another demigod when they were fighting for a clergy post. It got angry and left its homeland to stay in the west of the Mountains of Barrenness on the far north border.
Normally, it didn't really move. It was just like a little mountain that squatted on the seaside, not knowing what it was thinking about. This time, not knowing why, it suddenly moved its home and came here instead.
Sui Xiong heard Rhodes's introduction, and turned into the size of the Snow Elephant King. Then, he flew before it slowly.
"Elephant, what do you plan to do?" He asked with his consciousness. "This place of mine is for the normal human being; I did not prepare any project that is suitable for you."
The Snow Elephant King looked around with its big eyes, and towards the huge jellyfish that was floating in the air.
Its consciousness spread over. Unlike Sui Xiong's complicated sentences, its seemed a little monotonous.
It was just curious.
But it was a coincidence that the residency that Sui Xiong selected was close to the border of the Snow Elephant King's territory. The legendary giant beast didn't mind sharing its territory, but it was curious as to what the strong spirit was up to.
He first dug down underground for a long time, then built something on the ground, and even made a huge ray cover to maintain an area's warmth in the world of ice and snow.
Then, it saw that Sui Xiong knocked down things that looked ready and rebuilt them. It couldn't hold back its curiosity but came forward to visit.
When it asked Sui Xiong about the incident that made him upset, he sighed and started complaining to it.
"Those designs of mine were very interesting! Fun, it's all about thrill and excitement, a pumping heartbeat, right? But they don't like them!"
The giant beast was quiet for very long and asked him curiously, Why do you care about other people's opinions?
The concept of "other people's opinions" was not something that it quite understood.
Sui Xiong was stunned and patted the huge elephant's head with his tentacle after a while.
"Poor child; only a body without an equally sized brain."
All in all, communication between Sui Xiong and the Snow Elephant King was considered friendly and happy. Even though the two huge beasts were having a forthright and sincere communication in the nearby forest, that shook the earth and moved the mountain, that bloody nose and swollen face, that did not affect their friendship at all.
"What?! You said friendship?!" Liv gaped. She looked at the huge jellyfish with patches of green and purple and the huge white elephant that was hobbling, and she felt as though there was something wrong with her ears.
The two of you made the huge piece of forest into flatland; that was a demonstration of friendship?
"Of course it's friendship!" Jose, who came forth to watch with Gerald and wanted to help but became a spectator, said. "North people's style is just like that. There are only two ways of making friends: either with fists, or alcohol. They are communicating with their fists now; that's considered half a friendship. When they drink together again soon, they will be friends for life."
"The living style of the people from north; I really don't understand it," Liv shook her head and said helplessly.
She couldn't understand which parts of the two huge beasts looked like they were from the north. An elephant and a jelly fish; how could they use those kinds of methods to become friends?
What kind of sorcery was that!
The visit of Snow Elephant King gave Sui Xiong the idea to visit the neighbors around. He thought about it carefully, and realised that he had been in the Ashes Woods for a very long time, but he didn't visit any of his nearby neighbors. So, he decided to leave the theme park work aside and looked for his neighbors to have a chat.
Of course, it was a great event. But he couldn't just leave as he said so. Hence, he spent some time to re-solidify the entire border, and urged everyone not to let their kids play and roam around the construction area. He then went on his journey happily.
He had seen the Snow Elephant King and according to the order from north to south, the next one with fixed home lived in the depths of the Ashes Woods, a legendary beast that was named "Skeleton Devourer" Junior.
That one was a weird spirit, a huge and strong one. A Mud monster.
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Chapter 154: Chapter 24
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"I've never thought that I would ever visit a Mud Monster." Looking at the grey swamp that came into his view, Sui Xiong only found it funny.
Junior was a mutated soft slime that lived in a gray swamp. As a famous legendary monster in the Ashes Woods, it had a unique appearance and was an independent creature in minds and actions.
Sui Xiong flew slightly closer and he saw its shadow. There was a huge puddle of mud that lied prostrate in the middle of the swap. Its body was dark and shone black, displaying a metallic shine that a mud shouldn't have. The swamp underneath its body gave out a weird aura that wasn't stinky, ferocious, poisonous gas. It was more like… hunger.
Sui Xiong had heard about Junior. The legendary monster was strong and greedy, but its diet was quite bizarre. It did not eat any known living creature, and had no interest in grain, vegetables, or meat. The only thing it was interested in was bone.
More interestingly, under the ground of Ashes Woods was inexhaustible amount of bones. Every night, there would be a large sum of skeletons that attacked the living things around them in a wild manner.
During the daytime, Junior was slept lazily on the ground. When the sky grew dark and it became hungry, it would send out a few mud monsters in each direction to wipe out all skeletons that they could find and feast on them.
Relying on him, in the depths of Ashes Woods, there was a safe zone where no skeleton moved. There were many spirits that lived around there. Among the spirits, those who were wise would refer the to huge mud monster as their patron saint. They built an altar in the swamp where it normally rested and bought magic beasts' bones as sacrificial offerings.
The main source of these sacrificial items was Dragon-roar Town.
Dragon-roar Town, which held magic beast hunting as its main financial income, wouldn't lack magic beasts' bones. Wise creatures that believed in Junior purchased many different kinds of bones to honor it. They finally realized that the mud monster patron saint had very robust but simple requirement for its sacrificial items. The bigger the bones, the better. The bigger the bones, the more it liked them.
So, they shifted their focus onto larger scale magic beasts, to the point where the hunters in Dragon-roar Town formed a habit. If they hunted a large-scale magic beast, even it was tougher and more troublesome, they needed to bring back the bones or drag the entire thing back.
Honestly speaking, these living creatures were poor to the point where they had to rely on Junior to live. They couldn't take out any proper wealth. But hunters in Dragon-roar Town were a bunch of passionate and hospitable people. As long as it didn't cause them much trouble, they were willing to lend a helping hand.
Not only that, but there was power that planned to help Junior, that gave money to the hunters occasionally to let them continue to help the people.
Among them, there was Snow, who went by the alias "Arctic Tyrant."
Junior's believers were poor and could only trade the bones with timber and ore that was rarely seen; with help, they could still exchange quite a number of things, sufficient to maintain their lives.
Just when he got closer to Junior, Sui Xiong gradually descended to avoid the other party's hostility. But he obviously thought too much. The mud monster was lying on the swamp that had almost fully solidified into ice. It was sunbathing without moving an inch and ignoring his arrival entirely.
A few wise creatures on the ground were holding on to their weapons, on high alert.
Sui Xiong looked at Junior's creatures carefully. They looked very human-like, but their bodies were covered in black dust. This layer of dust had special magic powers, and could maintain their body temperature so that they could live normally in the world of ice and snow.
Their lower limbs were a little shorter while their upper limbs were longer. They looked strange. Although they had similar features like eyes and a mouth, there were no eyeballs. Only two pools of mud that were billowing, looking extremely weird.
It was not, of course, a situation that any living creature was supposed to have. In actual fact, only when they get close to Junior would they assume that look. When they left Junior's side, they would turn into another look. The most common one was a barbarian cover with a thick layer of fur coat.
There were some mages that were amazing who once caught this barbarian for research, but found out that there was not much difference between their bodies and bloodlines of humans. But the formation of such weird phenomena would appear because they were too near to Junior, and were affected.
Near the legendary giant beast, the world itself was mutated and turned into the way it used to be. Those wise creatures that stayed that near it were mutated by its power which made an amazing difference.
These wise creatures were not strong enough to resist such mutation. So they did not realize their changes. From what they saw, not matter if they were closer or farther from Junior, they were still the same.
Even though they were communicating with the residents in Dragon-roar Town, and realized that they turned into barbarians that had long hair, they wouldn't feel insecure or worried, but think that it was right and proper, not a big deal at all.
A mage once spent money to buy a few slaves and sent them to stay near Junior for a period of time. Until they experienced changes, he would figure a way to get rid of the alterations. The experiment was quite a success; but those slaves recorded the images of themselves when they were weird looking back then, and didn't find anything inappropriate. According to what they said, there was nothing weird about it.
The mage didn't manage to suppress his fire of curiosity, and moved near Junior. He casted a bunch of defense magic on himself but it didn't seem to work. After a few months, he turned into one of the monsters when he stayed around Junior, and a long-haired barbarian when he was elsewhere.
Luckily he still had friends, and his friends managed to pull him back in time and treat him.
His sacrifice was worthwhile. After the research, the magician finally confirmed that the area around Junior brought about changes like "Holy Kingdom". The magnificent mud monster actually already possessed a god-like power. However, its intelligence level was too low for it to be transformed by its nature. Either that, or the transformation speed was very slow, to the point that it was not noticeable. Hence the formation of such weird phenomena.
Sui Xiong was of course curious towards his enemy. But firstly, he had to communicate with Junior's believers properly to let them know that he was not an enemy.
In fact, it was very easy.
The huge jellyfish waved his tentacles while he took out a terribly huge thighbone.
The bone was not from any magic beast, but made by Sui Xiong himself. It was built of various kinds of minerals and nutrients; no different than building a house.
However, to Junior's believers, it was a generous gift. They suddenly put down their weapons and touched the humongous thighbone that was almost their height when laid vertically on the ground.
"Master would like this gift very much!" A creature that seemed to be the leader said. "Guest from afar, Peace Swamp welcomes you!"
Peace Swamp was the name they gave the region.
It was very safe here if you didn't mind turning into a monster and having your physical and mental state mutated.
Sui Xiong of course couldn't be affected by Junior's power. He landed on the ground and shrunk in size, and started chatting with the residents of Peace Swamp who now thought nothing was fishy. He also took out food to share with them.
These resident diet was not as weird as Junior's, and they would still eat and drink like any normal living creature. In order to avoid the food and drinking water that was polluted by the negativity that was everywhere, they dug an underground storeroom and purchased magic material to build a warehouse that could shield off negativity for storage purposes.
Such building costs were not low, but to them, clean food and drinking water was a precious source. It would be okay if it was winter and the snow on the treetops was polluted lightly. It could turn into a reliable water source. However, there was no access to food but through purchase.
The batch of food that Sui Xiong took out was hunted from the sea when he made a detour, and the amount of food was sizeable. To these people who were living a poor life, it was considered an enormous wealth.
They lit up a bonfire happily and started singing and dancing. Although the actions were weird and creepy, the happiness was not fabricated. Sui Xiong lied down on a tree branch nearby and couldn't help but smile when he saw them so happy.
As the daylight slowly passed, the night sky grew dark, and the believers of Junior used all kinds of tools to drag the extremely huge thigh bone onto the simple altar in the swamp. As the altar was not big enough, they could only put a side of the bone on it.
After that, they prayed and worshiped Junior. Then, they got into the underground cave.
The winter night in the north was bone-piercingly cold. Even with Junior's favor on his followers, it was unbearable. Only hiding underground, which was warmer, could help them through the boundless winter night.
When the moon rose, the huge mud monster that was lying throughout the day without moving an inch slightly shook to shatter the ice that had formed on it, and wiggled until it changed shape.
On the middle of its body, there was a mud-like substance that was slowly moving and gathering into a human figure. But its head looked like a huge octopus, and the hands became four tentacles each. It looked quite weird.
The weird creature and Sui Xiong, who turned back into a huge floating jellyfish, looked at each other for a while, and sent out an inquiry.
The consciousness was unclear, slimy and soft, like a combination of glue and mud. But at least he could understand what it meant.
Sui Xiong smiled and gave out a friendly message, and indicated for him to notice the huge bone above the altar.
After Junior noticed the huge bone, it let out a happy growl.
Just when it was puffing and blowing, trying to eat the bone, Sui Xiong took out another to show that he had more.
So, the world's most powerful mud monster, completely unaware of its identity as Peace Swamp's patron saint, was easily bought over by a bunch of big bones.
When Sui Xiong bid farewell, the b*stard learned the first word in its life out of its nature:
Friend.
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There were about five legendary creatures that lived around the Ashes Wood and surrounding area.
Snow Elephant King in the far north of Mountains of Barrenness; the Arctic Tyrant of Dragon-roar Town; the Skeleton Devourer in Peace Swamp; Shadow Devil; and Greg the Death Knight.
The first three had a fixed territory, but the latter two didn't. The Shadow Devil at least had a rough activity area, but the Death Knight had nothing; it went around the Ashes Wood without aim.
There was not only one adventurer that once got in touch with him, up close. Although the Death Knight was a death soul, it didn't possess the violent and ferocious qualities of a normal death soul. He only held his head, rode on his skeleton horse that only had bones, and murmured, "Who am I?" He asked these sort of philosophical questions all day.
However, meeting him was definitely an unhappy experience because he would pester every person that he met. He asked confusing questions. Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going? What is life? What is true success? What is the value of a human? And so on…
His questions didn't cause pain in one's body, but they were questions that no one could answer. In addition, his whole body was bandaged with strong, death-divine light. If a commoner was touched by divine light, they would be terrified. Even those courageous adventurers would be frightened if they were to stay long enough in the death-divine light. Under such circumstances, who would have enough strength to think about such questions?
Hence, the outcome in the end was mostly these unlucky people who finally broke down under the double attack, mentally and physically. Every one of them fainted on the ground, foaming at the mouth. Many of them even lost part of their memories, and some even faced after effects: when they heard people asking similar questions later they would have epileptic fits.
Of course, some of those who had guts and weren't afraid of death would be angry out of embarrassment due to those questions, and draw their swords at each other. In the end, needless to say, the death knight didn't like to resolve problems with violence; but that didn't mean that he couldn't. Plus, there were not many stronger than him, at least in the main realm.
Sui Xiong was reminiscing on the information and couldn't help but find it funny.
The Death Knight is such an interesting character!
He flew around in the air above the Ashes Woods to find the shadow that was wandering around alone. Not knowing if it was because that he was unlucky, he only found the Death Knight after almost half a month.
It was already a dark night with no moon and no stars, and the snow was falling. Sui Xiong noticed a pile of snow that shook and shattered. Out from it came a skeleton warhorse, and above on horseback, a knight wearing old armor.
It was empty above the knight's neck but his left hand was carrying something round. Looking it carefully, Sui Xiong saw it was a helmet; a closer look revealed there was a skull inside.
"Could it be the large-sized skeleton soldier?"
Sui Xiong whispered curiously, and slowly shrunk its body into average human size. He then slowly descended onto the ground.
Death Knight, of course, noticed him and raised his head to look up at the sky.
It was weird to bring it out; he didn't have a skull, but when he turned around with his chest out, Sui Xiong could clearly feel that he raised his head to look at him. It was a very weird feeling.
"Hello; I am Void Mask, who lives nearby." Sui Xiong flew before him and introduced himself while he smiled. "I was busy earlier, so I didn't manage to greet the neighbors. Now that I am finally free, of course I'd like to visit. Speaking of which, Brother Death Knight, you stay in quite a remote area! I have been looking for you for a very long time!"
Death Knight was silent for a while and then asked, "Who am I?"
"I am here to greet you, not to discuss philosophical questions."
"Who are you?"
"I am your neighbor."
"Who am I?"
"Bro, do you have problem with your brain? Why do you keep going back and forth between these two questions?"
"Why do humans need to think?"
"…I am only passing by. I haven't even washed up and brushed my teeth. Why not wait for me to wash up, and then we can go get some drinks and have some barbecue together? When we have enough drinks and food, we can discuss these questions again," Sui Xiong smiled. "With a full stomach, lying next to a warm bonfire, discussing philosophy is like a lullaby. Ain't that a good idea?"
"Why do we eat? Why do we have to discuss these questions after we have enough food and drink? Why do we sleep?"
Sui Xiong dared not answer. He didn't want to be pestered by the crazy guy!
"…It's late. I have another business appointment," He said. "Then, I shall make a move first. When I'm done with the meeting, I will come and chat with you again."
Then, he leapt and meant to soar up into the sky. But the Death Knight suddenly extended his right hand and held his fist towards him.
A ray of black light trailed from his hand that was only bone, tying Sui Xiong down firmly before he could flee. It connected them closely.
"Why are you running away? You are not busy at all."
When his lie was exposed straightforwardly, even Jellyfish God's thick skin, which could withstand a huge crossbow used for city attacks, couldn't help but blush with embarrassment. He laughed and sat in the air helplessly to chat with the Death Knight.
Chatting with Death Knight was not an interesting experience. The Death Knight's way of thinking was quite dull, and held almost nothing valuable. And he quibbled over all those meaningless questions. From what Sui Xiong could see, questions such as "Who am I,""Where am I from," and "Where should I go," were only asked by people who wanted trouble. Why would any commoner ponder such questions?
But the Death Knight seemed to take these questions to heart. He was bothered by those few questions at all times. Even when Sui Xiong intentionally distracted him to other topics, he would return to these questions.
Sui Xiong answered vaguely with answers like "I come from where I came, I go to where I am going." But because he wasn't a monk, he couldn't fully explain what "where I came from" and "where I am going" meant. The philosophical knowledge that he had learned in college he had returned to his teacher, with no traces left behind.
Er, maybe there weren't any traces to leave anyway. In the subject of philosophy, he didn't seem to pass. But the teacher had a kind heart, as he saw the average mark for the class was almost twenty. He then had no choice but to pass every student that came to class consistently, and that was how he passed the subject.
The conversation with Death Knight gave him a headache. Especially with his terrifying, tin-like, stubborn character. He would pester him if he didn't get an answer; it wouldn't even work if Sui Xiong pretended that he died.
Sui Xiong was bothered by him for three to four days, and finally couldn't take it anymore. He swung his tentacles and pulled out a big tree next to him, and slammed him down using the tree as a club. Then he buried him under the tree that was covered in snow. He seized the chance to get out and flew away in a hurry.
These attacks were nothing to Death Knight. But the legendary death soul wasn't known for his strength. By the time he climbed out from the pile of things, Sui Xiong had been long gone.
The huge jellyfish was speeding off in the air. He flew while he grumbled, "Mental patients have wide trains of thought, and children with learning disabilities have more happiness. What the heck was the guy thinking about! I got to stay far away from him in the future!"
He quickly returned to his residency and made a big wooden signboard at the entrance.
There was a row of words: Psychopaths, vandals, Death Knight, keep out!
After that, Sui Xiong let out a long sigh of relief and returned to the theme park.
He originally planned to resume work then, so that he would be able to launch the theme park at the beginning of spring. But he felt that he had forgotten something important.
"What is it?" The huge jellyfish touched his supposed brain body part with a tentacle and went deep in thought.
After a long while, he finally thought of what he left out.
Among the neighbors in the Ashes Woods, there was one more that he hadn't visited.
Although the neighbor would most likely not welcome him, he had visited all other others but not him. It would seem like he had no manners and didn't treat everyone fairly!
Sui Xiong was one that carried out what he said. He immediately prepared a generous gift. He made one of his clones cast magic to form a space barrier to pass through the main dimension. He brought the present to the destination.
It was a hidden valley in shadow realm. In the valley, there was a messy palace runin. In the ruins, there was a black, white and green striped human figure that was wriggling vigorously. It was struggling to eliminate that energy in conflict with "death" and "shadow."
But looking at the complexity of its colors, its hard work seemed to have very little result.
"Hello! Shadow Devil! How have you been?" Sui Xiong flew over and took out his gift. He put it down near it carefully. "Bro, I have been well. Have some savings. Look at you being so down and out; I feel for you! So I brought a present for you. I believe you will like it!"
Then, he waved his tentacles and opened the present that was tightly wrapped while he vanished into thin air and ran away to the main dimension.
The gift was in a tightly wrapped box. The box opened and there was a solid voice recorder rock. The binding array suddenly dissolved and its power started to break out. The sound that was pre-recorded was then released.
It could only hear a happy voice singing, "…Dance and sing with grandpa and you will not turn old…"
Shadow Devil roared and kicked the voice recorder rock aside. It didn't expect that it would trigger the mechanism within, and a portal was quickly opened. Then, Death Knight, riding on a skeleton horse, walked through the portal calmly.
"Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going?" He looked at Shadow Devil and asked.
The Shadow Devil was stunned and immediately recognized the person from the appearance and even the familiar lines.
Wasn't this the superbly long-winded person that forced him to move his home from Green Fog Forest to Shadow Plane?!
So, it finally wailed hopelessly.
"Why would I even meet you here!"
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What was the happiest thing in the world?
Of course, it was to bully your enemy!
Sui Xiong did not have many enemies because he pursued the principle of 'don't let your hatred remain overnight;' all his contradictions were resolved at that time. Of his enemies, only the Shadow Devil was still alive, who suffered from his 'Buddha's palm,' and was slowly recovering in the ruins of his own palace.
He had now recovered some strength, and it was not impossible to run and completely kill this half-necromancer, but he had already decided to let this guy be killed by Satan, so he would tolerate him living for now.
It was just… although he didn't kill him, he could cause him trouble.
With Gratt's company, the life of the Shadow Devil would surely be fulfilling, and perhaps it would be enriched enough to make it even forget to recover its injuries.
Ah, that kind of life suited it!
"Gratt, Gratt, I'm a good friend, and I've found a good audience for you…" Sui Xiong sang a small tune and happily worked on the construction site.
Because of his good mood, his work efficiency had improved significantly. When the spring came back to earth, thick ice and snow began to melt away. The first phase of the new playground had been basically completed.
Because the last lesson was too painful, this time he took a method of completing the construction in different phases. The entire project was divided into three phases, and the scale was greatly increased, but the total workload in the first phase was reduced.
This first phase of the project was relatively mild and gentle. The starting point was to allow visitors to relax and have fun. The underground maze adventure was already exciting enough. It really did not require more exciting items. Everyone gave praise to the new playground.
Snowflake and Steele were in love with the hot springs. Snowflake felt that being soaked in the sulphurous warm water gave her the feeling of returning to her mother's side. Steele thought this was good for the skin, and that it could enhance her charm.
Wall was interested in the library that had a lot of fantastic stories. He spent days on end in it. Finally, he came out in dismay and asked, "Why there are so many good stories inside that only have half a story?"
Obviously, Sui couldn't say that this was intentional. He came up with an idea and explained, "In a distant country, there was a bard who used a famous tale as his pen name. He was a famous debauched monarch who teased people. He once said, 'The best work is one with no ending, so that readers will always remember it.' I think he made a good point."
Wall was silent for a moment and asked, "Was that guy later killed?"
"As far as I know, no."
"That country must be really peaceful," Wall sighed deeply. "If I meet him, I must tie him up, and force him to complete all his works before I kill him!"
"This is unlikely," Sui Xiong said with a laugh. "I think before he had completed them he would have died. He was not like you, and could not live for many, many years."
"How helpless our lives are!" sighed Wall. "I believe when he was dead, he would be blocked by the readers in the underworld. If he could not finish the novels, he couldn't go to heaven or hell!"
Olian and Palin also liked to read books, but Olian was very busy, and this time she did not come to visit. Palin was completely fascinated by those novels, and he didn't go out the many times that others called him.
The big guy Gerrard's hobby was different. He actually liked the children's entertainment projects, like bumper cars, bumper boats, carousels, slides, seesaws… In order to be able to play, he even found Sui to cast spells on him to make him a child. Now he was playing happily with little Nice, who was a real child.
"Does this mean that he is actually a child, in essence?" Sui Xiong couldn't help asking when he watched the bald young boy who yelled in various children's play structures.
"Perhaps. Human beings are weird," Frost said.
"You don't play? You are very young."
Frost grinned solemnly and expressed his disdain. "I'm a proud dragon! Don't treat me like that kind of fool!"
"But your sister is talks in her sleep while lying on a pile of gold coins. I haven't seen her being 'proud.'"
"She's stupid!"
But the proud young dragon also failed to maintain his pride for a long time. When the specially-made avatar of Sui Xiong, the fat chef in white, began to roast meat, he smelled the scent and couldn't stand it any longer, and approached.
After eating a stick of meat, he immediately occupied the place closest to the barbecue, staring intently at the meat sticks that were sizzling on the flames and continuing to give off a wonderful aroma, and he refused to leave.
"I want two hundred sticks!" he declared. "I will bite to death whoever dares to come to cause me trouble before I finish eating. And bake him!"
Liv also wanted to eat two sticks of meat. Seeing his evil look with red eyes, she left with regret. But shortly afterwards, she settled in the dessert shop and happily devoured various high-calorie desserts.
"Eating too many of these things will make you fat," Sui Xiong warned her seriously. "If you don't want to become a super fat pig who can only roll like a ball, you shouldn't eat like this!"
Liv was frightened, but soon found a solution to the problem.
"It's okay; then I'll cut off the fat from my body," she said. "I will look for a treatment for my wounds that won't leave scars, from Steele."
Was this a magic version of liposuction?
Sui Xiong was speechless. He couldn't even imagine how Liv came up with a solution this quickly!
Liv's mother was more reserved than she was. She only tasted some desserts. She smiled and said, "They are very interesting." Then she went to the children's play area. Little Nice was enough to be worried about, and when she played with Gerrard, who thought in a straightforward way, her mother could eat in peace.
"Haha! Fun! Fun! It's so funny!" Satan took a spring gun with both hands and shot at groups of penguin dolls. He made them in a mess while laughing, full of stress relief.
Sui Xiong looked at him with some doubts. He did not understand why this 'Shoot the Penguin with a Spring Gun' game was exciting.
Then he silently wrote down: Satan seems to be mad when he has the gun. If firearms are developed later, they must not be delivered to him.
He looked around and found that he did not see the figure of Rhode and Ray. After searching, he discovered that they were sitting in the planetarium and drinking in the vast man-made sky.
"It feels wonderful!" said Rhode. "I feel that my entire life is sublimated!"
"Yeah! Only a God could make such amazing things!" Ray praised. "I never thought that mortals would have the opportunity to witness such beautiful scenery, not to mention drink in this environment."
"With such a wonderful view, the wine feels even more mellowing," Rhode said. "Good wine!
"Well, it feels better than the wine I used to drink in the palace."
Sui Xiong secretly left with a smile; that wine was his, specially-made with juice based on distilled wine. Compared with the liquor of this world, the taste was more mellow and more delicious.
The only drawback was that it was slightly easier to get people drunk.
Soon afterwards, the church's chief priest and foreign minister fell asleep, and were carried out by Josh, who was a temporary employee.
"Josh, what do you think of the scenery here?" Sui Xiong grinned at the bulky barbarian man, who was the only one who didn't enjoy the entertainment, instead waiting for tasks.
"It's funny," Josh said. "I expect that there will be a lot of people playing here."
"Yeah. There must be many, many tourists!" Sui Xiong waved a tentacle and announced loudly. "My goal is 100,000 tourists!"
Josh was shocked. He carefully pondered this number, and could not help but praise.
"This is not possible… it's too many!" he said.
"This is ideal!" said Sui Xiong, seriously and solemnly. "If a person has no ideal, what difference does he have from a salted fish!"
Josh was shocked again. He carefully pondered this sentence, and his eyes gradually lit up.
"You are right! Life must have an ideal!"
Sui Xiong nodded, "Yes! We must have ideals!"
"Then my dream is to find a group of good women as soon as possible. I will father three hundred children and rebuild my tribe!"
"Three hundred children?" Sui Xiong was dumbfounded. "Isn't that too many?"
"Not at all!" Josh said loudly. "I asked a special scholar, who said that if a tribe were to be continued and developed steadily, the minimum number of the newly born should be 300! Considering that there may be various accidental deaths, maybe I will need 400 to 500 children!"
"Oh!" Sui Xiong looked at his high-spirited appearance and couldn't help be in awe of him. This ideal was simply too grand! It was just as magnificent as Everest!
"What about your current ideal?" he asked.
"For the time being, I haven't found a woman who would like to have so many children with me," Josh sighed. "But I will continue to work hard!"
"To tell the truth, I feel it may be a bit difficult."
"Yeah, so I have to work harder!" said Josh. "For example, I should enter the legendary world as soon as possible. As long as I become a legendary strongman, I can have a longer lifespan and of course, I will be able to breed more offspring."
"This is the first time I have seen someone wanting to enter the legendary realm with the goal of having more offspring."
"This is my dream!" Josh said with a smile. "As you said, if a person has no ideal, what difference does he have from a salted fish!"
He was speechless; Sui did not expect that Josh would use this remark to refute himself.
He pondered for a long time, and finally, he patted Josh's shoulder with his tentacles.
"We have to work harder!"
A month later, the playground officially started operating.
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The first customer of the amusement park was not a mortal, but a God.
"It looks pretty good," Ville said. Ville went to the dessert shop and took a sweet as if he was a tourist here, and then went to the drink shop and took a fruit wine. He drank the wine while eating the dessert, and praised. "Very original! It's something I haven't seen!"
Sui Xiong floated beside and toured with him. When he listened to his praise, he could not help but smile. "Just call me 'Oscar with originality!'" He said this, and also raised his head high, seeming mighty. However, he forgot one thing: the jellyfish's body was almost a semicircle. Regardless of how he straightened his body, there was no difference.
"This barbecue is also good." After a while, they came to a barbecue stall. Ville ate two sticks of meat with interest and was amazed. "Although the craft is even worse than the chef's, this novelty is unparalleled!"
As a member of the country of gastronomy, Sui Xiong felt proud, and knew about culinary skills. With the help of holy power, the sauces that were secretly inherited by various chefs on the earth were reproduced here, and various kinds of flavored foods naturally came into being.
All the food in this playground were all in the style of the Earth. From the glasses of water on the roadside stalls to the signature dishes in the restaurants; this didn't exist as a style of this world.
Not only that, but the various facilities of the amusement park were also entirely in the style of the Earth; every little piece carefully crafted by Sui. Although the power system was very different, both the appearance and the experience here were not different from those on the Earth.
If there was any difference, it was the workers in the playground. There might be giants, half-orcs, elves, and dwarves in a playground on Earth; but they couldn't be real.
However, in this amusement park, the giant gatekeepers, the half-orc patrollers, the elven and half-elven servants, the dwarf porters, and the dwarf chefs in several stores, were all real. Even the dragon that was lazily lying in the corner, spewing fire to the sky from time to time was real. Oh, no—this was fake.
"Isn't there a problem with putting a big dragon in the playground?" said Ville, pointing to the dragon, which was lying next to the rocky mountain, pretending to sleep.
"There should be no problem, it's not a real dragon." Sui Xiong rushed over and shouted at the red dragon which was half asleep, "Fafnir, are you okay?"
The red dragon, like a small hill, looked up at him with a pair of peachy eyes full of charm. It shook its head. "Not very good. This dress is a bit uncomfortable; I feel a little sorry to have signed a contract valid for a decade with you now."
"Anyway, if you're idle, you're still idle. You can earn money by lying here and doing nothing. What's wrong with you?" Sui Xiong said with a smile. "And it's not like you're wearing it all day. Take it off when you don't work."
The dragon lowered its head drowsily and buried its head in its paws.
"If I had known it was boring, I wouldn't have come…" His muffled voice came out from the paws. "The damn bard said that Your Majesty said it would be the world's most interesting playground, and attract the world's most wealthy people; accompanied by, of course, the best hotels, casinos, and brothels in the world. And I, finally, was deceived to work here! As a believer in the God of Happiness, he is happy; but he cheated me!"
After a glimpse, Ville responded and diligently investigated by using holy power, and found it interesting.
It turned out that this man wearing a dragon-skin coat, posing as a dragon, was a legendary creature named Fafnir. It had a nickname called 'The Big Free Strange Bird.' Although it was a huge strange bird, it was ardent to appear as a human being, and go to all the busy cities to gamble and visit prostitutes. Every time it did that, it dropped a box of gold coins, and then went to eat, drink and play for a few days. The most famous story was that it ran to a famous brothel to 'solely have fun' more than once. It ate and drank and had sex for days and nights; the prostitutes could not get out of bed. After that, it laughed and changed into its original appearance, and left flying.
As a famous 'big player' in the world, it had suffered a great loss this time.
The bard was a high priest of Ville, who had learned from Ville that His Majesty the Void Mask was building the world's premier playground in the Ashes Woods. So once he had chatted with Fafnir in the pub, he spoke of this.
At that time, this person and this bird were drunk. Whatever they said was bragging. In short, Fafnir was interested in this amusement park.
It had always boasted himself as the person—or rather, bird—that could play the most joyfully in the entire continent. Hearing that there was such a good place, how could he not try it? So regardless of the hardships, he flew to the Ashes Woods for thousands of miles, wanting to see if the playground was really so interesting.
Unfortunately, when it came here, the playground was not completed. The so-called 'best hotel, best casino, best brothel,' certainly did not exist.
Fafnir, who felt cheated, was full of anger turned from enthusiasm, and wanted to make trouble. However, it was suppressed by the iron fist of Sui Xiong, and after a warm and friendly negotiation, he eventually became an employee of the playground. The usual job was to put on a red dragon coat that was specially made by Sui to disguise the wearer as a fierce red dragon. It could be touched and looked at by tourists, and from time to time, it was also responsible for roaring or spitting fire to create an atmosphere.
"You fake it too well!" Ville could not help but admire. "You let a legendary creature pretend to be a red dragon, and that dragon skin is so realistic! I was fooled from the beginning!"
Sui Xiong laughed and was very proud.
The ability that could fool the gods was supernatural. He wondered, if he could go back to Earth, maybe he could make a living through this ability of falsification; for example, he could sell knock-off phones and pirated CDs.
No; as a literary person, he could learn from Mr. Zhang Daqian, who at his young age was a master of falsification, specifically forging various kinds of ancient paintings. He also liked to put his name in the paintings to prove it.
But no one had thought that the value of these paintings that he falsified were inferior to the authentic works. Even the counterfeit goods were better than genuine ones.
Sui Xiong believed that his ability to make fakes could be estimated to reach this level.
"To tell the truth, you can build such a magnificent playground and it's all right. You can find so many weird recipes and it's not very strange. What really surprises me is that you can actually gather so many wonderful people." After some more excursion, Ville sat on the viewing platform of the amusement park's tallest restaurant, looking around at the surrounding scenery. He smiled and said, "The most amazing thing is that these people with different personalities, and even unruly legendary creatures, are willing to listen to you and work honestly here."
At the gate of the amusement park, Gerrard held a giant axe as a guard and showed a simple smile to the children passing by. In the office of the management office, Snowflake was yelling at a stupid half-orc. He might have done something that made her angry. In the library, Wall was holding a broom and was slowly sweeping the floor. He looked as calm as an ancient well. Beside the rocky mountain of fire, Fafnir, who was wearing a dragon-skin coat, was still murmuring and complaining about his unluckiness.
Continuing with his holy mind, he soon saw Steele at the entrance to the underground maze, who advised curious visitors to leave; then he saw Acaine, who was sitting in a medical room and compiling a mushroom guide.
"It's nothing; just an ordinary playground," Sui Xiong said.
"This playground is not ordinary at all!" Ville smiled meaningfully.
When he left, he promised Sui that he would ask his faithful bards to spread stories about the playground, and help attract tourists.
However, after more than a month, there were still few tourists at the amusement park.
"Why would that be?" Sui looked at the deficit report that Snowflake handed over to him and was full of wonder. "Isn't this playground fun?"
"It's fun," Snowflake said. "But it's too far away."
"Far? Is there a problem? As a Chinese saying goes, being far away isn't an obstacle to selling good wine! The Confederation of Mifata was also far, but there were many people going there to learn magic!"
"Learning magic is necessary; but playing in a playground is not."
Sui Xiong was speechless, sighed, and looked at the dazzling loss, muttering, "All the supplies are self-produced; why should we lose money? Even if only one person came, there would be a net profit."
"Don't you think that you're looking for such a large group of people, and you don't need to pay people?" Snowflake said coldly. "Even your devout believers are not obliged to work for you for free!"
Sui Xiong was speechless again. He stared at the wooden board that stated all kinds of expenses. He stared at the word 'loss,' specially marked by Snowflake. The fierce eyes were like two sharp swords, which carved two deep grooves on the wooden board.
However, this did not change the problem; the loss was still a loss.
"We need to find a way to attract more tourists!" he said.
But what should I do?
After some thought, he decided to build a gate of transmission in the capitals of all the major countries that headed to the amusement park.
"Hey! That's too costly!" Even as a calm giant dragon, Snowflake was startled by his crazy idea. "Do you know how much precious stuff would be needed to build a fixed gate of transmission?"
"No matter. I'll pay it!"
"But it also costs money to transmit them here!"
He laughed three times and said, "You don't understand! My playground has always been targeted at high-end customers. If they can afford to explore the maze in the underground city, how could they care about the transmission fee?
"I would like to add even more high-end projects, such as arranging a group of moon elf waiters for those wealthy bigwigs. The girls will wear high-split cheongsams, and wear rabbit ears on their heads. They should bow to anyone they meet; the ground should also be covered with a red carpet, from the gate of transmission to the entrance to the underground city; there should be renovation along the way to improve its leveling… guess now, how much money do I have to charge them?"
"One hundred gold coins per team?"
"Three hundred gold coins, per person!"
"Three hundred gold coins per person… that's too much!"
"That's what you don't understand! Those who are willing to spend a lot of money on the transmission, of course, are willing to spend a lot of money on playing! Look at the one who's lying on the floor and pretends to be a dragon; he came with a box of gold coins."
For how dubious Snowflake was about it, the angry and irrational Sui Xiong completely ignored her. He waved his tentacles and made this crazy decision.
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Chapter 158: Chapter 28
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The creation of fixed gates of transmission was a strange magic technique that contained many aspects such as magic, craftsmanship, alchemy, and spells. In general, each gate was made with the leadership of a high-ranking mage, with the assistance of a group of middle and low-level mages, and a lot of time and energy.
To build such a group of gates, people first needed to find a suitable place on the earth, and then build a magical beacon based on the coordinates of the location. This step was very complicated and involved geography and astronomy. For a common scholar who did not spend more than two decades in these areas, it was almost impossible to do.
After the establishment of the magical beacon, two gates of transmission needed to be built separately; two gates of transmission that had not yet been able to transmit.
This required a lot of precious material: an expensive metal with excellent magic conductivity was used to make the core of the magic formation, and another extremely hard expensive metal was used to create the shell of the magic formation. Precious stones and all kinds of materials could only serve as auxiliary materials, or consumables, in the process. Gold coins were quickly used like flowing water.
Because of the limited time of the existence of magical beacons, people needed to try their best to catch up with the time. To work overtime was unavoidable. Mostly sleep was cancelled. Therefore, the sobering medicament naturally became a necessity. This method of overdrawing the body must be criticized by the labor security department and the labor unions on the Earth. But this was an inevitable thing now.
If the speed was fast enough to build the two gates before the two magic beacons dissipated, then they could be joined together through a complicated ceremony. These two doors crossed many mountains and rivers, and ignored the barriers of space, turning the natural obstacle into a thoroughfare.
Going in from one side, people could come out from the other side; as long as you could pay for the transfer.
Yes, although the gate could continue to exist through the acquisition of magic in the natural world after its completion, if you wanted to use it, it was generally necessary to add magic.
The powerful mages could, of course, pay this magical power themselves, and if they did not have this ability, they could only find help from other spellcasters. But the help would not be free. This money was not a small amount.
So, as Snowflake feared, establishing the gates was already a huge expense. The expense of using the gate was not to be underestimated. It was to the point that the cost was so high, that using the gate to solve the problem of being remote might not even reverse the loss.
But Sui wouldn't listen to her. He thought this idea was good. Imagine: in every big city, whenever people want to travel, what would they choose? Would they choose to go to the nearby forest and be close to dangerous monsters? Or would they choose to go to the playground and have an exciting, but by no means dangerous, adventure?
Money? What is money for the rich?!
See that the bird can carry a box of gold coins…
His method of building gates of transmission was very different from that of ordinary mages. He first directly used materials to construct the original slabs of the gates. Then he began to make his avatars—each carrying the gate slab to various countries—build small gates of transmission in their capitals that interconnected with the giant gate located in amusement park.
However, his plan was met with setbacks at the very beginning. The rulers of various countries refused to establish such a gate in their own countries. Not a single country agreed to it.
He was angry, but he felt that he must be reasonable. So he requested that the gate should be built relatively close to the capital city.
This time, most countries gave their consent, but there was still a small country that did not agree. This was Duchy of Thunder, located to the west of the Confederation of Mifata.
The country's rulers seemed to have a perverse delusion, and they always felt that an enemy would rush through the gates and attack the capital easily. No matter how Sui negotiated with them, they would never let go.
As a result, Sui Xiong left angry. Two months later, the giant jellyfish came flying, lifted his tentacles, and removed the city walls from the capital of the Duchy of Thunder.
Naturally, something else happened during this process. For instance, the Duchy of Thunder sent troops to fight against this horrible beast. They issued a huge reward for suppressing this weird jellyfish. The Grand Duke of the Duchy of Thunder was so angry he died of cerebral haemorrhage. In short, small things that didn't have anything to do with Sui Xiong.
He just did some civil work honestly. He was an engineering jellyfish who couldn't compete with the world, so who could make trouble with him?
"How do you like it?" He said to the suppressors who were hung in the air swaying, like a pendulum. "I'm such a good and affable person that I don't compete with the world, so who can be so hard-hearted as to hurt me?"
Those risk-takers who tried to eliminate the horrible big jellyfish for high reward without regard for danger faced each other and were in trepidation. They did not know how to answer.
Sui didn't mean for them to answer. He devoted himself to constructing the gates, and finally successfully completed them.
As for why the base of the gate looked so strange, like the gate to a palace? This was the uncanny workmanship of nature…
The final result of this incident was that the 'unreasonable and eccentric jellyfish' became famous throughout the mortal people's countries on this continent. Everyone knew of the existence of this strange jellyfish and the many legendary stories about him.
In these stories, Sui Xiong was either a villainous demon king, or a funny and amusing clown, or a ridiculous person…
"Oh, these friends have opinions!" Sui Xiong looked at the information that Ray asked people to send him, and looked at the bard that was sent here along with the information. He was very interested, and nodded, "Your idea is very personal! Creative! Extraordinary!"
In that piece of information, it was clearly recorded that bard Thewgue, personally called 'Thewariet von Storlovsky Franz,' sang and told a story on the street. He declared that the "unreasonable giant jellyfish" was actually a special species called the "Jade Jellyfish," and anyone who ate it could enjoy everlasting youth, an endless lifespan, good erections, and be more masculine than any man.
According to Ray's intention, this blasphemous guy should just be tied up and thrown into the fire. However, the city owner Kasalie felt that the bard was singing well, that his stories were interesting, and that his talent was rare. Therefore, under her proposal, Ray temporarily pardoned this guy's fire penalty, and instead sent him to the amusement park so that His Majesty Void Mask could punish him himself.
As for whether he would be devoured or peeled? Or steamed or fried? He deserved it!
Sui Xiong did not think so. His idea was very similar to that of Kasalie. There were many smart people in the world and many could sing. However, there were few who were creative, dared to create their own stories, and were not afraid of dying even after compiling such stories!
It was similar to how there were many people on the earth who liked to compile jokes on the Internet. However, there were extremely few who dared to tirelessly and professionally compile rebellious stories.
The talent was rare! In particular, these kinds of talented people, who were a bit stupid to some extent, were even rarer than giant pandas!
So, in the end, this Thewariet von Storlovsky Franz—his name was too long, so in spite of his protests, Sui wrote Thewgue instead on the verdict—was sentenced to long-term corvée labour. The content of his corvée labour was that he lived in the playground and was responsible for singing, telling stories, and making people happy.
"I protest! Only when I'm happy myself can I make people happy!" Thewgue was tied up by a string, and was held by two fighters with an axe on his neck. Still, he struggled and shouted, "I cannot tell a happy story in the case of doing corvée labour!"
Sui Xiong praised this guy for his spirit of not fearing death. He asked, "What do you need to be happy?"
Thewgue suddenly came to the spirit and said, "I need cute girls! Only with lovely girls around me can I be happy! The more lovely girls I have, the happier I can be!"
Sui raised his eyebrows with a seeming smile, and ordered, "Hand him over to Josh, and remember to tell him about the dialogue between us."
The two strong soldiers took Thewgue out and faithfully executed the orders of Sui Xiong.
"Your idea is good!" Josh smiled and said to Thewgue, after listening to their narrative. "I think your ideals are completely correct, but there is a minor issue that is not worth mentioning."
"What's the problem?" Thewgue looked at Josh's calm smile and felt somewhat nervous.
"First come, first serve. But you are too late!" Josh took Thewgue's belt and put the bard who was tied up on his back as if he were carrying a bag. Then he went to the red dragon that slept beside the rocky mountain.
"Fafnir, wake up! I have an individual to introduce to you!"
The half-asleep red dragon opened its eyes and looked at the sky. Then he said unhappily, "Why don't you wait for a few hours? When the sun goes down and I finish my work, and we can go to the pub and talk about it slowly. Now it's my time for conserving strength and building up my energy…"
Josh slightly smiled and introduced Thewgue to Fafnir.
"Oh?!" Fafnir listened to his introduction, and the hot air of horror slowly rose from him. It stared at Thewgue with its huge eyes, and Thewgue was frightened and sweat on his back.
After a while, Fafnir slowly said, "Medium well-"
"What do you mean?" Thewgue yelled before Josh had time to speak, .
Fafnir ignored him and said to Josh, "-tastes best."
After thinking about it, Josh said, "I can give you a piece of liver, which is suitable for medium rare."
"Don't! Why does it sound like you want to eat me!"
Josh also ignored Thewgue's yelling and screaming. He thought for a while and said, "This guy is a bit dirty. I'll wash him, how about it?"
"Don't bother. The big jellyfish taught me a trick called 'beggar's chicken;' you wrap the guy with moist mud, and then burn it until it's all red. When it cools down naturally, we can get rid of the dirt together, and the rest is cooked meat."
Thewgue was extremely scared. He was not very afraid of death, but he was chilled by the thought of being made a live 'beggar's bard.'
So this guy gave in, wore a fancy robe, painted his face like a clown, painted a note with oil paint on his left face, and honestly played sanxian and flute. He soon became a popular role in the playground.
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The playground was quite lively.
In the main square facing the gate, a group of adults and children listened to Thewgue's performance. He was wearing colorful robes. This guy performed a song by smilingly using flute first, and letting the melodious sound echo in the square, making people refreshed; then he cleared his throat, played the sanxian, and sang cheerful songs.
The flute and sanxian songs were unheard of; even the most knowledgeable people hadn't heard them elsewhere. Therefore, not only ordinary civilians, but also a few scholar-like people came to listen to them. Some of them also held a wooden board and wrote the musical score with charcoal.
There was no concept of copyright in this world, but there was protection for the rights of signing the author's name of the original author. If someone transcribed other people's books or collected other people's songs but erased, or even changed the name of the original writer into his own, then the original writer didn't even have to press charges against him. The God of Literature and Art and the God of Classics would naturally cause him trouble. Even the God of Magic, who had divine power, would punish him, for the simple reason that the priesthood of the God of Magic also contained knowledge. The respect and protection of knowledge was also part of his doctrine.
As far as the issue of profiting through piracy was concerned, one was unlikely to profit through piracy in this world, where the papermaking and printing industry was underdeveloped!
Even so, Sui Xiong often received applications from scholars and poets that the authors of those songs allow them to perform these works elsewhere.
Of course, he did not object to this, but he required them to help publicize the playground no matter where they played.
This requirement was reasonable and everyone was willing to accept it. Therefore, often there were art lovers from afar who, after listening to the pirated songs, rushed to the capital of their country and then arrived at the playground through the formation transmission, just to listen to the original version of Thewgue.
Shortly afterwards, Thewgue was drunk, drinking with Josh and Fafnir on a certain day, and when he was sleeping on the bed of a prostitute, he was called by the God of Literature and Art.
The next morning, he refreshingly and valiantly stated that Mr. Thewariet von Storlovsky Franz received the reward for a melodious song for his outstanding contribution to artistic communication. He was now a high-level adventurer!
When he said this, it irked Josh, who despised this savage who couldn't even write his name well.
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Josh did not argue with him, but that day after they finished work, he pestered Thewgue for treating others to a meal which consumed his whole month's salary, and made Thewgue scream. However, he was totally suppressed by the clamp-like big hand of the big barbarian and couldn't even hit back.
Although the high-level bards were powerful, Josh was a high-level savage. When a bard was caught by the barbarians, could he have a good end?
Fafnir, who transformed itself into a human's form, was enjoying the service of the two young girls. He smiled and watched Josh punishing Thewgue. He could not help but sigh, "Thewgue, this guy is really funny!"
Sui Xiong also saw the God of Literature and Art. The two sides had a friendly exchange on their opinions on the forms, development, cultivation and protection, etc. of art, and gained a lot of consensus. Although in terms of fundamental positions, they still only appreciated rather than supported it. In the end, they had reached an agreement.
According to the agreement, for some time to come, the God of Literature and Art would arrange for her artists to come here for further studies. Her followers would come to build a high-level theater and perform a variety of cultural programs there.
In exchange, Sui Xiong would provide artists with asylum when necessary. As long as they committed no crimes that caused atrocities, no one could capture or kill any artist in the playground.
This agreement was very satisfying to the God of Literature and Art. As a God with weak holy power, she had always hated her lack of force and inability to protect the believers at crucial moments. And her church was so weak that it had no decent military force.
In comparison, the other subordinate God of the God of Magic, the God of Classics, also with weak holy power, had a stable group of church knights. Although there were not many of them, there were still some!
In contrast, although every theater, in theory, was a temple of the God of Literature and Art, she did not even have a stable church, let alone a group of church knights.
"You are quite superior as a God. How can you not even have a stable church?" asked Sui Xiong, stunned.
The delicate girl that the God of Literature and Art changed into sighed and told of her difficulties.
Most of the believers of hers were artists. Among them, most were nobles and adventurers. But adventurers had no determined residence, and often wandered around. Pampered nobles might be willing to pay, but they were unlikely to fight for the God.
In theory, she could recruit people with money; but since the rise of the God of Aristocracy, he had strictly disciplined the conduct of the nobles in supporting other churches. Under the constraints of the Church of the God of Aristocracy, many churches that were originally dependent on the support of nobles to maintain their operations were gradually disintegrating, especially the God of Literature and Art.
Her church originally relied on theaters, but most of these theaters were actually the industry of the aristocrats, and only a small number belonged to the Church of the God of Literature and Art. Under the pressure of the Church of the God of Aristocracy, those theatres whose property rights belonged to the aristocrats were rapidly transformed. Then the theaters of the Church of God of Literature and Art were also excluded and difficult to maintain. They had to be shut down one by one.
Not long ago, the last theater belonging to the Church of the God of Literature and Art finally shut down. Although it was not a heavy blow to the faith that sustained the love of art, it was like a disaster to the church.
Therefore, when Sui Xiong expressed his willingness to provide shelter for the believers of the God of Literature and Art and let them establish a theater here to maintain a stable church, she was really touched and embarrassed.
"I helped him when he was glorified… But I didn't expect the final result to be like this…"
Sui Xiong dismissed her sigh. Speaking of embarrassment, the God of Knights was embarrassed. Could she be even more embarrassed than the human's original patron?
But as for the entry of the Church of the God of Literature and Art into the playground, he was fully supportive. One person couldn't gain all the money. It should be about the way one conducted oneself in society to expand the industry, which let everyone enjoy art together.
Most of the believers of the God of Literature and Art were not difficult to get along with. The arrival of those who were talented and versatile would greatly help improve the cultural atmosphere of the entire playground, and would also play a significant role in improving the image of the playground in the civilized world.
So the two Gods finally reached an agreement happily. Sui Xiong also invited the God of Literature and Art to stay and have a meal. Unfortunately, she seemed to be in a hurry and left.
But it was not so pleasant to talk with a different God.
Koladma, the God of Underground Caves and Underground Relics, was also known as the dark master of the underground, and had medium-level holy power.
This God was not a human being, but a Black Dragon from an ancient era. It lived in a dark unknown cavern, continued to grow, and eventually stepped into the realm of the Gods to kill the former God of Caves. It captured the priesthood of the underground caves and claimed that it was the master of all underground relics. It established the priesthood of underground relics during a long period of time. During the establishment of the two priesthoods, he killed many people and indirectly set off an unknown numbers of killings.
Now, he was the only known God who possessed these two priesthoods, and his prestige had long surpassed the priesthood, and was among the Gods recognized as the top power. He had a position close to the Gods of various holy systems.
This was a very amazing thing to know. There were a lot of intelligent creatures that liked to live underground. But even among the most powerful dwarven races, there were only shallow caves, underground exploration, and the God of Mining in the holy system that had some bearing with the aforementioned creatures. And they did not dare to reach into the domain of control of Koladma.
The God was straightforward did not even greet Sui. He made his intentions clear.
"Those deep dark underground caves and relics inside the caves are mine," the dark skinned, tall man said, in a tone that suggested he took them for granted. He was the incarnation of the black dragon God. "I don't mind if you, a latecomer, use them to profit, but you must hang my holy emblems in the caves and relics, and my followers will manage them. Of course, an offering to me is also indispensable."
After a moment of silence, Sui Xiong asked, "Since you are the God of Caves, you must know that this underground maze and the underground city were built by me. Every piece of them was the result of my labor. If you had comments, why did you not mention them to me in the past few years?"
"How could I have an opinion?" Koladma raised his eyebrows and questioned. "I'm glad to see your actions!"
"Since you have no objection to my construction of underground maze and the underground city, why do you fight for it now?" Sui Xiong frowned and said quietly, "It's mine!"
"The underground caves and remains belong to me," said Koladma, still careless. "It doesn't matter where they come from. All the underground caves and relics are mine."
Sui Xiong took a deep breath and resisted the anger in his chest. He asked, "Even if they were built by another God?"
"Of course!" Koladma laughed. "I'm very satisfied with your act of showing my glory. I want to commend you…"
With a sneer, Sui didn't bother to allow him to finish, and with a wave of tentacles, he made the surrounding space ripple like a wave of water. Koladma's incarnation was like a cannonball that had been shot by a cannon, and nobody knew where he flew to.
"Where did this pervert come from?" After expelling the disgusting guy, Sui Xiong rubbed his temples with his tentacles, secretly groaning, "Famous people have many troubles! Digging a cave can even invite a rustic dog here, barking for sovereignty…"
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Chapter 160: Chapter 30
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
After getting rid of the incarnation of Koladma, the God of Caves, Sui Xiong still felt somewhat unsafe in his heart. He contacted the God of Justice and talked about this.
"Don't worry," replied the God of Justice. "Koladma is eccentric. Don't mind him."
"But if he wants to fight again for the sovereignty of the underground maze?"
"Then kill him," The God of Justice said indifferently.
"I'm worried that fighting will cause much disturbance, that may kill a lot of people on my side, because I now have many people with me." Sui Xiong sighed and couldn't help but regret that he had acted too quickly.
"You are worried about your own believers. Doesn't he worry about his incarnation?" The God of Justice laughed. "Brother, you can't just look at problems from your own point of view. Learn to change perspectives. You just killed the God of Storm and the Goddess of Ocean a while ago. The black dragon is eccentric but not stupid. Is it fun to be killed by you by running to your place for it?"
Sui Xiong still had some worries. "But what if it really does come?"
The God of Justice sighed, then made an avatar in front of him with a flashing light. "I told you that people couldn't think so much. The more we think, the more we worry, and the more we worry, the less fierce we are. If we're not fierce enough, others will bully us. For people or gods, fighting power speaks."
Sui kept silent for a long time and deeply sighed. After all, he still had to worry about it.
"You can't go on like this!" The God of Justice saw his worried look, frowned, and said, "You care so much about this playground and the mortals. You care so much that it is easy for you to be schemed against."
"What should I do then? I can't just stop caring about them."
"Go out, wander, and relieve yourself from worry," said the God of Justice. "I'll take care of this for you now. If Koldama dares to come, I will cut its hand or foot when it reaches out its hand or foot. I guarantee no trouble will happen!"
Sui Xiong thought for a moment, sighed and asked, "Where should I go to relieve myself from worry?"
"The entire main plane. According to your ability, as long as you don't leave the main plane, no one can hurt you. But remember, there will be too many people wanting to kill you, and I'm afraid I can't protect you.
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"When I left the main plane last time, I had no trouble, did I?"
"It was at that time that you got into trouble! Now, as far as I know, at least 20 mid-level or above gods are paying attention to you, mostly with malicious intentions. Some want to seize your strength, some to block you or make you a slave. In short, remember, do not leave the main surface!" The God of Justice thought for a moment, and added, "You could go to the shadow plane and similar places, but don't go to places such as the astral area or outer plane!"
"What if I accidentally trigger the formation of transmission?"
"Then go to the underworld… no, go straight to hell, or to the abyss!" said the God of Justice. "The devils of hell are powerful and severe, but they strictly follow rules, and no one dares to provoke trouble there. If you conduct yourself, there is no danger for you in hell. There was a mess in the abyss, and a variety of devil kings hit each other, and they may totally sabotage others. But in the face of Gods, they all unanimously fight against them. So just disguise yourself as a devil king and lead a large number of demons to beat whoever wants to cause trouble to you, until they cannot take care of themselves!"
"Disguise me to look like a devil king? How?"
The God of Justice smirked twice and passed an idea to Sui Xiong, which was a wonderful spell.
"This is a spell made by me. When I was chased by several Gods, I used this trick to live in the abyss to survive the most difficult period," he said. "Only I know this spell. It is absolutely confidential, and even the God of Magic doesn't know it!"
Sui Xiong was completely relieved. After thanking him, he left an avatar for positioning, then quietly left the playground.
This time he certainly did not dare to run around with the appearance of a big jellyfish. After pondering a little, he transformed himself into a rich, fat man with a round face full and a pair of small eyes. He was wearing a more or less adequate suit, and carrying a large backpack, looking like a businessman.
It's just… a businessman without a horse was really a miserable one.
Instead of thinking so much, Sui Xiong walked happily eastwards.
Although he had taken on a human appearance, he had not really become a human. One step from him covered more than 100 meters. His figure kept flitting in and out, and after a short while, he had covered tens of miles.
Fortunately, it was quite remote here. If someone saw this scene, they either would doubt their own eyes or be extremely scared.
Sui took one morning to walk to the Mountains of Barrenness. He looked up at the mountain range known to be desolate, barren and steep, and for the first time in his life, he observed the scenery from a human perspective.
"What desolation!" After observing for a long time, he muttered to himself, "There isn't even a tree…"
The Mountains of Barrenness were certainly desolate, and Sui Xiong walked in the mountains seeing only ice, snow and gravel. Occasionally, he saw some grass, which was rare green life. As for animals… well, are monsters animals?
"Is it that my change is so intense that I'm treated like a fat sheep?" He looked at the giant worm that suddenly came out from the stone wall beside him, its whole head opening and turning into a three-lobed mouth. Sui couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's about lunchtime, are you planning to take me for lunch?"
Although the monster was big, its intelligence was not high, so how could it understand his words? It only had the idea of, this thing in front of me is good food. It let out a whistling sound and rushed toward Sui to bite his head.
By its stout body and open mouth, Sui's upper body should have been bitten off once it lunged, including his head. A whole person could probably be swallowed directly!
However, when it was about to bite Sui, Sui's body dispersed and turned into an unparalleled huge mouth, which swallowed the entire monster. When he chewed it, the worm was splashed around, and it looked like sweet-and-sour sliced meat as the white teeth—bigger than a person's body—began to chew.
Then this giant mouth slightly changed, and it turned into Sui's appearance again. His face was unpleasant and he spat a mouthful of worm on the ground around him.
"It tastes bad! It's like eating mud…"
After casting a spell to create a lot of clean water to gargle his mouth with, he turned into a better mood, and he continued expediting into the Mountains of Barrenness.
When it was sunset, he stepped out of this steep and desolate mountain and into the snowfields of the east.
The beginning of autumn had arrived, and the weather had not yet begun to turn cold, so there was no snow on the snowfield. Above the frozen soil, there were patches of moss and low weeds. Some shrubs that were particularly cold-resistant were sparsely distributed between these mosses and weeds, adding a little vitality to the snowfield.
Sui Xiong stood on the hillside and watched this wasteland of frozen earth. He saw a number of creatures multiplying in it. The strong ones hunted to feed themselves and their families, while the weaker ones ran away and worked hard to give birth to as many as babies as possible; to make good use of the quantity, to make up for quality. He also saw traces of human activity, of the northlanders living here: commonly known as barbarians.
His figure flashed, and the big fat man, which Sui Xiong changed into, set foot on the wasteland at a speed that the mankind should never have. He walked along the human's trail.
After a while, his eyes were brightened, and he returned to the pace of normal people.
After a while, there was a small pond in front of him. Several tents stood beside the pond. Two or three elderly northlanders were taking care of things to prepare for dinner and rest.
They saw Sui Xiong from far away and said a few words toward the tent. A young man ran out and walked with a spear toward Sui Xiong, stopping him.
"Who are you?" the young man said loudly. "The tribe of grey bears doesn't welcome visitors of unknown origin!"
Sui Xiong saw his nervous look and couldn't help but laugh.
"Young man, don't be so angry," he said. "You're still sick. Take a good rest."
The young man was dumbfounded and could not help but ask, "How did you know?"
Sui Xiong laughed. In his eyes, the psychic activity of mortal people could still be seen by him, not to mention physical illness.
"I can not only see that you are sick, but I can see what kind of illness you have," He said. "You should not have picked up a dead deer and eaten it. The deer died after eating poisonous mushrooms, and you are poisoned by mushrooms."
"Oh?!" The young man was even more surprised. "I threw away its internal organs, and the meat was washed clean again and again, and it was baked thoroughly!"
"That kind of poison isn't that easy to clean," Sui Xiong said and shook his head. "But you are very strong and the poison is not deep, so the most dangerous stage has passed. Now you will just feel dizziness and fatigue from time to time. A good rest will make you recover from the illness."
The young man finally gave in, put away his spear and bowed his head to salute Sui.
Doctor was an extremely respected profession in this deserted, frozen Earth. Although this fat uncle did not look like a northlander, nor did he seem brave, he deserved respect since his medical skill was so brilliant.
Sui grinned and made up an identity for himself and came to this tribe of grey bear. He did not want to eat their food for free, so he diagnosed and treated the tribal people.
He detoxified that voracious eater who had been poisoned, cured the rheumatism on the shoulders of the old chief of the tribe, cured the cough of a herder who had been hurt in a battle with monsters, and also recovered the tendon of the left leg of the previous first warrior of the tribe, whose leg was torn by monsters. That warrior was no longer disabled, and restored to his former strength.
These things made him widely welcomed in the tribe of grey bear. If this was a game, then according to the reputation system, he had already succeeded in having the reputation of "worship."
However, Sui Xiong walked around to relieve his stress, and did not intend to live in this northern land tribe for a long time. After a few days, when the warrior who received the tendon surgery recovered, he left.
"Where do you want to go?" the voracious eater asked curiously, not wanting Sui to leave.
Sui Xiong smiled and pointed to the southeast side. "I will go all the way to the east and the south, through the empire of the Orcs, through the Kingdom of the Divine Angels, and finally to the desert of dead aerolite, to go sightseeing."
"That's far!" the voracious eater gasped with some concern. "The route will be very dangerous!"
He laughed, "What's the danger? As long as I walk on the main road, there is no danger."
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