"We are here to see... where do you put your hands?"
After gently slapping away the greedy little hands that were sneaking towards the food preparation buffet, Herbert looked around.
"This will be my territory in the future. I came here to see if there is any suitable place to open up..."
Herbert recalled the scene he had seen in the sky before, and quickly wrote down the details he had previously noted in the manual.
He had a steady hand and was an expert at drawing, and he easily drew a rough outline of the Misty Mountains.
The Misty Mountains are huge, and the part explored by the monastery only accounts for one-tenth of the entire area, or perhaps even less.
The remaining 90% is in unexplored areas shrouded in thick fog.
After he finished painting, he looked up and found that the mist that had been blown away by the dragon's wings had silently spread around again, and it seemed that there was no change from a while ago.
Herbert raised his palm, half-closed his eyes, carefully felt the composition of the mist, and soon got an unexpected result.
"oh?""
Thanks to the affection of the Siren Queen, he possessed a very good affinity with the water element, but no matter how he called out to the mist, he could not move it at all.
The mist was not composed of water vapor, but some special substance that he could not understand.
“Could it be smog?”
As Herbert was thinking this, he suddenly remembered something and called out to the silent classmate, Harmony God.
"Nenasha! Nenasha! It's your turn to show your power!"
["Um?"]
It's time to show some real technique.
"Hurry up and do it! Isn't this your happy old home?"
Herbert, who was wearing a hungry dragon pendant, pointed his hands at the mist in front of him and slowly pushed it away to both sides.
He waited for the amazing scene of the mist being separated invisibly before his eyes. "Open!"
Then-
Naturally, nothing happened.
Herbert:
Nenasha:
Valentina: "Hoo, hoo—"
In the short time that Herbert was drawing the map, Valentina had already hugged his neck, clamped her legs around his waist, and hung on him like a koala, falling into a sweet dream.
The Harmonious God did not understand Herbert's performance art but was deeply shocked.
["What are you doing?"]
"Of course I'm waiting for you."
Herbert said in a deep voice with a tense expression: "What are you waiting for? Show your true form!"
It's already this late, why are you still pretending here
There are no outsiders here!
At this point, Nenasha finally understood what Herbert meant and hoped to show her miracle.
But for this expectation, he could only say helplessly:
[“I know you want to see me control the mist, but unfortunately, I can’t do that.”]
"Huh!? Why?"
[“I just can’t do it~”]
Nenasha was also helpless about this:
[“This is indeed the remains of my kingdom of God. The mist that is emanating from here is also related to me. However, this place is too close to the monastery.”]
[“It’s already the limit for me to protect you from being harmed in this fog. If you want me to activate the fog,
Unless... you want to lure that guy out."]
"Oh, okay."
Herbert immediately curled his lips and decided not to talk about this helpless topic anymore.
Invincible Old Deng, you are really amazing. But this setback will not dampen Herbert's enthusiasm.
Whether or not Nenasha helps is just icing on the cake. Herbert has an advantage that no one else can match.
The biggest cause of death among adventurers in the Misty Mountains is getting lost.
They lost their way in the fog and eventually died tragically for various reasons.
But Herbert... won't get lost!
With the [Love of the Siren Queen], he will never lose his direction!
He had tried it just now. Even with his eyes closed and walking in the fog, he was still able to move forward according to his own ideas.
With this ability, Herbert can create his own base deep in the thick fog where no one can come!
So the first step is to find a test site.
Chapter 155 The Goddess's Peeping (Additional Updates 11 12)
Snowflakes are floating in the sky.
But those glittering crystals did not take away the thick fog of the Misty Mountains. The two were in clear contact.
There is no blending at all.
Herbert held Valentina from behind to his chest so that she could sleep more comfortably in his arms.
Oh, this is Herbert's tenderness.
There is absolutely no such despicable idea of "wanting to use Valentina as a dragon meat shield or ramming horn"!
Not at all!
Instead of taking the safe path leading to the Misty Monastery, he rashly took another path and headed in another direction.
Perhaps because Valentina was releasing dragon power all the time, Herbert did not encounter any danger in the first hour or so.
To be precise, he didn't even encounter any living creatures. All the creatures hiding in the thick fog fled and scattered after sensing the might of the legendary dragon.
For others, entering the Misty Mountains is an adventure, a risk of life, risking their lives in exchange for wealth.
But for Herbert, this exploration was just a walk.
It's like going home.
"Hmm~Hmm~Ha~ne~Ah~Ah~"
He hummed a lullaby, patted Valentina's back gently, and staggered deeper into the thick fog while coaxing the child.
However, he did not blindly want to rush into the deepest part of the fog in one go.
That's pure suicide.
After so long, no one knew what kind of ghost things were hidden in the depths of the fog - not even Nenasha knew.
It is true that this is the remains of the kingdom of God, but we have been imprisoned here for more than a thousand years and have long lost our sense of this place.
What remains the most in the wreckage of the Kingdom of God is the dissipated divinity.
Divinity is the most magical energy in the world and the source of divine power.
It is the source of all divine power and the origin of all miracles.
It is like a special energy that contains infinite power and infinite mystery, and is the basis for driving the gods.
But it is not only gods that possess divinity. There are many creatures in this world that possess divinity.
When a mortal creature obtains divinity and is not destroyed by that terrifying power, but successfully merges with it - then it will completely transcend the level of mortal creatures and ascend to another level.
Divine creature!
They possess strength far beyond that of ordinary beings, and can also create miracles to a limited extent.
Descendants of God, those favored by God, evil creatures, evil spirits, acquired divine creatures.
The divinity they obtained was either directly bestowed by the gods, or obtained from the corpses of some ancient beings, or they were lucky enough to pick up props containing divinity.
Destiny is magical and free, all kinds of things can happen.
It is even possible that the descendants of divine bloodline may accidentally revert to their ancestral bloodline at a certain point in time and gain the same concentration of divinity as the first generation of descendants of gods. Such a bizarre thing.
Before things are determined, everything is possible.
Moreover, due to the differences in the nature of various divinities, the power that can be exerted by the possessors of divinity is also different.
Various elemental powers, combat abilities, spellcasting abilities, law abilities—···
Well, now you can take a guess.
In a place full of divinity, what kind of monster can be bred in a thousand years
The answer is everything is possible.
Because gods themselves are the most unreasonable miracles, any strange things that appear are reasonable.
Although he had Valentina as his bodyguard, he knew very well that Miss Hungry Dragon was not invincible.
You can spend money, but not too much.
Herbert's purpose this time was actually to find another natural port in the Misty Mountains and set up the base there.
The cost of land transport is too high for the current situation.
If Herbert's base could have a port and transport resources from the sea, many things would become extremely convenient.
Although the Misty Mountains are surrounded by the sea on three sides, two of them are steep cliffs and the sea is full of reefs, making them unsuitable for ships to dock.
Only the sea on the side of the Misty Monastery is relatively calm and the water is extremely deep, making it a natural ice-free harbor.
But he certainly couldn't be so careless as to jump in the monastery's face. That would be pure greed and looking for trouble - at least not for the time being.
In fact, Herbert had always had a very dangerous idea in his mind, which was to absorb the entire monastery into the future Nenasha's divine church system.
There is a ready-made one, can we have it, ah, right
Pretty bold, but doesn't seem completely impossible
Of course, this is a long and arduous goal and cannot be easily attempted in a short period of time.
This kind of poaching from the monastery cannot be rushed.
In order not to irritate the archbishop and other high-level officials, Herbert could only slowly develop his subordinates.
The reformation of Sister Kaplan went quite well. Her attitude towards Valentina has improved a lot. I believe her attitude towards other monster girls will also change in the future.
As for the other paladins, Herbert did not deliberately instill in them the idea that "Monster Girls are not bad."
That's too deliberate and could easily cause a backlash.
Instead, he chose to strengthen his prestige in their hearts.
For the nun, you need to increase the favorability points; for the paladin, you need to increase the prestige points.
In the minds of those good Paladin brothers, Herbert has transformed from a "young Paladin with extremely high talent" into someone else.
Now, in their hearts, Herbert was a hero who "forced the evil nobles of the entire kingdom into a corner and forced them to struggle to death in just one month."
That's right, a hero.
Herbert had the paladins stay in the slums for more than half a month to help the people, just to let them witness with their own eyes everything that the residents of the Frost Crystal Kingdom had suffered.
He did not deliberately tell the paladins what the enemy looked like, but gave them a chance to witness it for themselves.
Look at the kind of lives these people lead to make them believe that all Frost Crystal Nobility are evil.
Herbert wanted them to understand that even though I had done something like slaughtering an entire family of nobles, my actions were completely just.
Everything I do is for the poor people, all for the purpose of giving them a better life.
Eliminate evil and safeguard justice.