"Thank you for giving me this magical device. I am much more sober now. I... I must have caused you a lot of trouble. I'm sorry!"
"I can't forgive you on behalf of those who have lost their lives to super cold winter and cold syndrome in the past, but seeing that there are reasons for it and that you are sincerely repenting, I personally don't have much hostility towards you. But I sincerely ask you to retract your magical powers!"
"……it is good."
Ajax rubbed his furry hands awkwardly. He felt ashamed when he learned that even if he was sealed, the seal would loosen due to his nightmares and bring disaster to the world again.
And speaking of the other party's nature, he is indeed not an evil god.
Ajax said as he took off the "Wild Crown" and returned it to Dick. He had now recovered from his nightmare, and through his conversation with Dick, he realized that he had inadvertently committed a new mistake against the creatures in the world.
He regretted it very much, but Dick told him that instead of wallowing in regret he should try to make amends.
So after pondering for a moment, Ajax made a decision, which was to take action himself, strengthen the seal on himself, and put another layer of shackles on himself.
In his current state, if he breaks the seal, he can go to the realm of gods, but breaking the seal itself is a huge destructive process that will cause immeasurable damage to the mortal world. It is better to continue to seal it. After reinforcing the seal, he will fall into a real deep sleep to ensure that there will be no abnormal weather such as super cold winter in the future.
Of course! If he wakes up from hibernation one day and has overcome the hurdle in his heart, he will try to create an incarnation, get out of the seal, take a walk, and see the scenery of the human world.
After hearing this, Dick smiled and said to Ajax that if he was still alive at that time, Ajax was welcome to come to him and he would be willing to be his tour guide.
"Thank you again for your understanding, Master Winter God."
"Thank you for listening to me talk about my sins."
Ajax said, raising his hand and tapping Dick's forehead, then smiled.
"A little gift, wishing you the best of luck, interesting mortal boy."
Ajax touched him lightly, and Dick suddenly felt dizzy, just like when he touched the tree and entered this space. His consciousness soon fell into coma again, but he did not feel any pain during the process. It seemed that Ajax was relatively gentle in sending him off.
Not knowing how much time had passed, Dick suddenly opened his eyes and found himself lying in a tent with a magic lamp hanging from the top that generated heat, making the tent very warm. Rita and the black and white gunners were all beside him, resting with their eyes closed, while his uncle Behemoth was sitting cross-legged in meditation a little further away.
It seemed that I had been unconscious for a long time, and for some reason, they did not dare to move me, so they set up a tent to accommodate me on the spot.
The first person to notice that Dick had woken up was Rita. Dick just moved his head, and this slight vibration made her open her eyes immediately. A hint of surprise flashed in her violet eyes, followed by a sigh of relief. Then, Black Gundai and White Gundai also woke up. White Gundai had a look of concern on his face, while Black Gundai was still as naughty as usual and said jokingly.
"If you don't wake up, someone will treat you the same way they treated Sleeping Beauty."
"If you had said so earlier, I would have pretended to sleep a little longer."
Dick smiled and was a little surprised to find that the person with a slightly red face was Bai Qiangdai.
At this time, Behemoth also ended his meditation. He turned his head to look at Dick, who was surrounded by beautiful girls and still talking and laughing. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that people with good looks are popular!
He and his junior brother Grandol had never had such erotic experiences when they were young. After they became high-level magicians, girls began to approach them, but they had both seen through the world and politely declined those women who approached them with ulterior motives.
"How is it? Is it interesting to communicate with gods?"
"It's okay. The winter god named Ajax is surprisingly reasonable."
With Rita's help, Dick sat up from the sleeping bag. He felt very strange at the moment, his mind was clear and energetic, but his body was soft and weak. He could vaguely feel a force flowing in his body, which should be related to Ajax's "gift".
Dick told everyone in detail about his encounter with Ajax in the sealed world, including Ajax's tragic past and the Snow Country that was destroyed due to misunderstanding.
The remains of the gods they saw were the embodiment of Ajax's nightmares, and were also the product of the distortion of secular legends. Over the long course of time, people gradually let some history be forgotten and some stories deviate from their original appearance. Legends created gods, but they also affect gods.
This is why later gods, although they withdrew from the mortal world, created religions, let priests manage believers on their behalf, and used fixed scriptures to consolidate their image.
After listening to this story, several people were moved. It turned out that an ancient winter god was sealed under Laguge. The super cold winter and the mountain monster were the products of his nightmares.
Rita even speculated that Laguge's production of cold iron, which was the highest in the empire, might also be an indirect product of the Winter God's Sealed Land.
Dick was too lazy to continue analyzing these things. He just wanted to lie down for a while. He touched his head and saw that the Wild Crown was still on his head. He pretended to take it off and return it to his uncle.
Relying on his status as a junior, Dick could swallow his pride and act cute to ask his elders for small gifts, but he couldn't open his mouth for treasures of the artifact level.
So now that everything is over, it’s time to return the items to their original owners.
But Behemoth waved his hand and told him to keep wearing it.
"Uncle Master, you're not really going to give it to me, are you? I can't afford this gift!"
As a result, Behemoth snorted in annoyance and rolled his eyes at Dick who was grinning.
"What are you thinking? You don't want to be my apprentice, so why should I give you the artifact? I let you wear it because your current condition is not yet fully recovered. Wait until you have completely absorbed the gift from the God of Winter and then return it to me."
"A gift from the God of Winter? I don't think it's anything special except that I'm extremely tired right now."
"That's the power of the gods, it's not something your mortal body can easily absorb. I estimate that even if you wake up now, you will still need to be weak for three to five days. When you fully recover, you will know what kind of power the God of Winter has given you."
The author says:
Author's words: There will be no additional chapters during the National Day holiday, and the plot nodes have actually been brought forward. I had been thinking of putting the first chapter of "Black and White Gun Sandwich" on the shelves, but now I have to adjust it slightly.
027. Return in triumph
Although Dick had woken up, everyone did not leave immediately.
This was Dick's own request. He had to stay here for two more days, pretending to wipe out the monsters, and then "return in triumph" and let the villagers who had already evacuated several villages go home.
The reason why it was so troublesome was not because Dick wanted to take credit. It was already a great achievement for him to stop the God of Winter from going crazy and put an end to the doomsday winter this year.
It is no exaggeration to say that this move of his is equivalent to saving everyone in Laguge.
But the problem is that the fact that there are sealed gods in Laguge must not be leaked. Otherwise, it will inevitably attract many covetous eyes, and even the aging emperor of the empire who thinks about how to prolong his life every day will have evil thoughts.
So Dick would rather not have the credit than not keep the secret.
Rita and Black and White Gun Dai were easy to talk about, because they were all his people. Dick asked them to keep the secret, so they naturally wouldn't talk nonsense. The key was Uncle Behemoth, who came to Laguge every year to wait for the super cold winter in pursuit of higher levels of power.
Now that what he wanted was right before his eyes, Dick wasn't sure what he would do.
As if he saw Dick's concerns, Behemoth said with a smile that he would help keep the secret, because he was very greedy and would never share things with others if he wanted to have them all to himself!
"I will probably stay here to practice for the next period of time. Since there is a god sealed underneath, meditating here will definitely help my practice."
"If you need my help with anything, please feel free to tell me."
"I don't need your help at all. Just keep your mouth shut and don't let anyone know I'm here."
"Understood! I'll spread the word that you personally solved the problem here and then headed east to the ancient wasteland to continue your adventure."
"Humph!"
After hearing Dick's arrangement, Behemoth nodded with satisfaction.
Three days later, Dick, who had fully recovered, returned the Wild Crown to Behemoth. He felt the flow of magic power in his body and found that it was exactly as his master had said, very different from before.
The gift from the God of Winter was not something that could be seen or touched, but it directly improved Dick's magician physique and completely opened up and connected all the spiritual veins in his body.
This is just like in martial arts novels, where a master teaches you how to open up your Ren and Du meridians.
The qualification of a magician is related to the number and quality of the spiritual veins in the body. The more spiritual veins you have, the thicker they are, and the larger the spiritual vein network they form, the stronger you will be and the higher the upper limit of your cultivation.
Although in theory, the spiritual veins can be improved through acquired practice or taking certain medicines, practice can only clear some of the spiritual veins that already exist but are blocked.
Potions, on the other hand, can expand existing spiritual veins, and they are extremely expensive and have certain side effects.
But the gift from God is different, it comes directly in one step!
Dick could now clearly feel that his spiritual veins were completely connected, spreading throughout his body like a neural network. There were several main veins in each of his limbs and trunk, and the magic power flowing within was as surging and majestic as a never-ending river.
The benefits of the complete expansion of the spiritual vein are obvious.
One is the increase in the total amount of magic power, which is more than three times higher than before.
Secondly, his spellcasting speed was faster and smoother, because his spiritual veins were spread all over his body, and he could now cast spells from any part of his body, giving him more freedom than those magicians who mainly practiced the spiritual veins of their hands.
Third, and most importantly, the talent ceiling has been raised.
With Dick's original qualifications, he has higher talent than humans because of his elven bloodline, and becoming a saint-level magician is a foregone conclusion. However, it is precisely because of his impure elven talent that it may be difficult for him to break through to the sub-god realm, because of his mixed bloodline, although he has many spiritual veins, they are divided into three systems that are incompatible with each other.
His mentor, Grandol, told Dick with regret at the time that you may become the youngest holy-level magician in history, but it is likely that it will be difficult for you to break through to the demigod level in your lifetime.
The God of Winter used his divine power to help him solve this problem. Now as long as he continues to practice, he will not only become the youngest holy-level magician in history, but also the youngest sub-god.
Just based on this gift, it wouldn't be excessive for Dick to run on the snow and kowtow to the God of Winter!
After Dick recovered, he and Behemoth said goodbye. The old man wanted to stay away from people for training, so he planned to find a place to stay in the deep mountains and forests.
Dick immediately took out the map and pointed to a red dot on it, indicating that this place was good.
Behemoth looked at Dick with suspicion. After a period of contact, he found that although this kid had an innocent and cute face, he was actually very cunning. He suddenly took out the map and chose a point marked with a red X from a bunch of colorful points. He must have been holding back!
Dick did not hide anything and said that this place was actually a den of thieves, hiding a group of about thirty or forty bandits. The leader was a knight who had done such evil things as massacring a village and had the strength of a high-level warrior.
One good thing about their hideout is that it is well hidden and there is a hot spring in the cave.
If Uncle Master kills this bandit and then practices there, I will send someone to bring him some supplies and comfort items regularly.
"I heard that Master-uncle likes to taste wine. I have some good fermented grape juice. After you practice, it would be nice to have a couple of sips to quench your thirst!"
"You kid, even your uncle-master is taking advantage of you, you are nothing!"
Although he was cursing, the irrepressible smile on Behemoth's face betrayed his true thoughts.
After saying goodbye to Behemoth, Dick also set out to return to the castle.
They first went to the surrounding forests and looked for some motionless corpses of gods. After the God of Winter regained consciousness and strengthened his self-seal, these things lost their ability to move and became lifeless ice sculptures.
But Dick needed some "trophies" to take back to prove that they had destroyed the monsters, so he chopped off the heads of the ice sculptures, put them into a space bracelet, and then used fireball magic to blow the ice sculptures to pieces.
Dick collected more than a dozen in one go and then set off back to the castle.
On the way back, Dick and Bai Qiangdai rode the white horse Dongstalion, while Rita sat on Hei Qiangdai's horse.
Originally, Hei Qiangdai wanted Dick to ride her horse, but Dick declined.
Are you kidding! If I sit next to you, I'm afraid I'll be sexually harassed all the way.
Boys must learn to protect themselves when they are outside!
On the way back, the four of them spoke with one voice. The real MVP in this monster extermination was the half-step sub-god Behemoth, who was well-known to everyone in the empire. They were just helping out and helping the old man to watch out for his back.
Bai Qiangdai could understand Dick's thoughts, but he felt that giving up all the credit would be unfair to Dick, who was truly willing to risk his life to protect the people.
Dick was quite open-minded. He believed that merit should be moderate. Too much merit might not be a good thing. For now, he had to keep a low profile. Besides, being able to invite Master Behemoth to help and having connections was also part of a governor's strength. Would anyone else have this face?
When everyone returned to the castle, they were immediately welcomed like heroes. Dick spread out the pile of bizarre-looking divine heads in the square, which made people marvel. Many people had never seen such terrifying monsters.
Dick explained that this was a twisted elemental construct, a monster similar to the stone man. An elemental runaway occurred near Kevin's village, which gave rise to this monster.
Fortunately, thanks to the powerful Master Behemoth's help, they destroyed all the monsters and eliminated the elemental vortex. And because of the disappearance of the magic vortex, this year's super cold winter will also weaken, and it should not be able to freeze people to death like in previous years.
Dick's words immediately caused cheers.
People living in Laguge fear winter more than heavy taxes. This year, the new governor announced tax cuts and benefits as soon as he came to power, and also implemented work-for-relief to provide food to everyone as wages. Now even the super cold winter has weakened, and many people simply regard Dick as a savior.
After announcing this, Dick said that the villagers who were forced to relocate could now go back, and the Governor's Office would give each of them 15 kilograms of food as disaster relief, but those patients who had been diagnosed with cold syndrome must stay in the castle's clinic to continue receiving treatment.
With Dick's current prestige, naturally no one would disagree with his words.
Looking at the dispersed crowd, Dick did not return to the castle to rest immediately, but turned and went to the clinic.
Although the problem of super cold winter has been solved, cold syndrome, as an elemental disease, will not disappear just because of the God of Winter's self-sealing.
To put it bluntly, the cold syndrome is caused by the super cold winter, but it has no direct relationship with the winter god. This disease also exists in other cold regions, but Laguge was the high-incidence area before.
Dick half-jokingly told Rita that Hughie's thesis might be saved!
When Dick arrived at the clinic, it was a busy scene. Since the private army had withdrawn to the castle, some of the fire element amulets were handed over to the nurses in the clinic. Although the cold is not contagious between people, there have been too many false rumors for so many years, and too many people believe them. In order to make them work steadily and at ease, even if it was just a psychological effect, Dick still gave them the amulets.
Currently, there are more than 20 patients admitted to the clinic. In addition to the three villages surrounding Songlin, some cases have also appeared in other villages. However, compared with the total population, this number of patients is still acceptable.
At this time, Shizuka Marikawa saw Dick appear and immediately ran towards him with three steps and three steps, and then because he didn't brake, he directly hit him with the ball. Fortunately, Rita stood behind him and helped him up, so he didn't get knocked down, but he was sandwiched by four soft lumps in front and behind.
Dick admitted in his heart that this feeling was actually quite good, and it would be even better if he could move to a private place.
Seeing that she accidentally bumped into someone, Shizuka Marikawa quickly stepped back and apologized, then pulled Dick and ran to the inner room next to the intensive care unit, explaining the situation as she ran.
"Someone's symptoms have worsened, and they need your life-saving trick, brother Governor."
Entering the intensive care unit, Dick saw two patients lying there. Both were children, but one was a little girl wearing coarse cotton and linen clothes, obviously a child from a commoner family, while the other was a young master wearing a custom-made dress made of luxurious fabrics.
The girl had no family members around her, but the boy was surrounded by several people. He knew the two leading the group, who were wealthy local businessmen.
Seeing the governor coming, the wealthy family hurriedly saluted, but then the child's father rushed over and begged Dick to save his child in an almost pleading tone.
Dick asked him to be patient for a while and turned to ask Shizuka Marikawa.
"Explain the situation. Whose symptoms are more severe?"
