Chapter 316 316. World Tree Coal, Solar Furnace
"You're curious."
"You want to see me too."
"You still want to know...why I chose you."
——Cloya, who emerged from the light, looked at the boy who had eaten the memory bread, with an encouraging smile on his face: "Ask your doubts, anything is fine."
William looked at Croya. He actually had a lot of things he wanted to ask. Just like Croya said, he actually had a lot of doubts.
But he looked at the warm light lingering around Croya's body, which was like the sunlight that brought warmth to his humble home in winter, and he opened his mouth but still didn't say anything.
Maybe this gift...is really like fairy tales and epic legends?
In the end he just asked: "Dora...will it be with me?"
Even Croya didn't expect that he would ask this. The powerful mage was silent for a moment, and then replied: "Yes, it will be your best friend, like the leaves of ivy, always green."< br>
"Then there's no problem." William hugged the kitten that ran towards him and stroked it gently a few times.
The little blue cat was held in his arms. It looked directly at Croya and called "meow" twice.
"Oh~"
As if he heard something interesting, Croya's face was stunned at first, and then he had a helpless and doting smile.
At this moment, in the little blue cat's body, on the blood vessels made of precious metal and the heart shining with iridescent light, ivy-like lines are slowly forming.
They...are not metal or magic, but flesh and blood.
【Dora Golem (Flesh and Blood of Friendship)】
[Being loved unscrupulously and surrounded by friendship will make you grow flesh and blood. 】
It's very simple to explain, but the flesh and blood and the soul shining in the body of the little blue cat Dora are even more brilliant.
Well, it has proven itself so hard...
Croya looked at its soul solemnly and promised: "Yes, everything I promised will come true."
Everyone present had no idea what the little blue cat had said to him, not even the bishop of the goddess of wisdom who was proficient in animal language and William who had long been connected with the little blue cat Doraemon.
Of course, no one dared to ask.
Things passed like this. William put on the stone hat with the blessings of the three gods and a head full of knowledge and left, rushing towards his own destiny and the arranged epic that he accepted indifferently.
Croya looked at the bishops of the three gods: "I promised that your food will arrive within three days, and I will give you double. Say hello to your gods for me."
The three bishops quickly thanked him for double the food!
With that food, they can feel much more relaxed, and as candidates for communication and contact with Croya, they can also get more favor from God, and their status in the church can also be improved.
Maybe they don't care about the lives of those believers - Croya knows this very well, but it doesn't matter. It's good enough that his food can save some people.
……
Time passes quietly in the turmoil of the human kingdom.
The forces of the Goddess of Light and the Earth Mother are becoming more and more crazy, and they are working hard to create a doomsday scene.
It's a pity that without the two main priests, Miffyin and Deimos, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are completely missing two.
Death and war are a very important part of the doomsday. Without them, the plan of the light and the earth will not go smoothly, and it can even be said to be shaky.
Because...the people led by William, who was guided by Croya, who opposed the light and the earth, were flickering in the human kingdom like a prairie fire.
There are too many people who dislike these two churches. In addition, the turmoil will lead to changes in the world. Even the rivers in the underworld have transported many powerful souls to reincarnate.
This is "heroes emerge from troubled times". All of these heroes were basically gathered under William's command through Croya through internal information. It was simply a horror story.
——Horror stories about the Holy See of Light and the Church of the Mother Earth.
With the almost miraculous magical props provided by Croya, their power has expanded like a snowball. They have even announced that they have occupied more than a dozen cities, have their own army, and have begun to fight against the Holy See of Light and Mother Earth. The Church of God is facing off head-on.
Although those armies were almost filled with the Star Town Mage Association, the favored ones of the other five gods, Croya's apprentices, and adventurers from other races, they were not pure at all.
But William is very clear about his mission. He has no ambition to dominate. He understands that this army can only last until the Holy See of Light and the Mother Earth Church give in or are defeated.
With the help of the little blue cat Doraemon, he worked hard to balance the intricate relationships among his forces so that this huge coalition could be maintained.
The strange thing is that William is not particularly shrewd, and sometimes even a little stupid, but no matter how troublesome the guy is under his command, he will obey orders honestly and even take the initiative to maintain his authority.
Croya knew everything he did, and had been paying attention to his movements in the past three years, and was quite satisfied with him.
Now, he even showed off a little proudly: "Look, the person I picked is good, even the members of your elves are willing to surrender."
Ms. Daphne smiled helplessly: "Is this why you came to me?"
When Croya first arrived, she thought something big had happened, but it turned out that you just came to show off your men to me?
"Yes, and no." Croya's expression became serious, and he took out the ore sent by the fallen angels in the past few years.
It was a very ordinary ore. It looked almost exactly like coal. It was also dark and inconspicuous, and it was completely impossible to tell that it was the product of the "Infinite" Kong Yao Orb.
"It is 'coal', and I found... particles of the World Tree in it." Croya pointed to the dark ores and said: "Your holy tree, the descendant of the World Tree, was once in the abyss of the devil. Grow vigorously, even better than the main plane.”
Daphne knew exactly what this meant.
The elves have four descendants of the World Tree, which are the most proud treasures of the entire elves and the best proof that they are favored by the World Tree.
In order to allow the children of the World Tree to thrive, the elves even shot down a god's kingdom and used the special space formed by the remains of the kingdom to nourish the holy tree.
In countless legends, they are the embodiment of purity, the starting point and end point of all good things - but now it is actually said that there are descendants of the fifth world tree growing in the abyss...
This is appalling history that still affects the present.
Daphne held the dark coals with her hands, and sure enough she found some light green particles that had not been completely carbonized inside, full of the breath of nature and life.
She thought for a while and said: "Can it be burned?"
Croya threw out a ball of flame, and the coal immediately burned. Just like ordinary coal, the surface was surrounded by flames. It was not strong at all, but extremely hot.
The temperature was such that even the surrounding space was burning and unstable.
"It's amazing." Daphne was surprised: "Coal is formed by those trees buried underground, but I never thought that the World Tree can also form coal."
"It not only forms coal." Croya reached out and flicked the flame. There seemed to be a faint breath of life inside, and at the same time, the power of the devil was rising.
"These coals... breed demons."
"..."
Daphne was silent again, then rubbed her forehead with her slender fingers, and sighed: "Why did you tell me this unacceptable truth?"
"Because these demons are my descendants."
"Are you relieved now?"
Cloya was in a good mood after playing a prank, with a happy smile on her face.
"???"
Even the ancestor of the Orpheus family was shocked at this moment, but she reacted the next second and said with surprise and joy: "The chapter of the sun! You are the chapter of the sun just like him and the Sun God!" Although it was early! There were speculations, but it was the first time that Croya admitted it like this, so that Daphne actually had an unreal feeling, and even had some doubts about why Croya suddenly mentioned it.
Croya thought it didn't matter anymore. In the past two years, he relied on Eden and the gradually expanding symphony to level up, becoming an eighth-level powerful mage.
As his strength becomes more and more powerful, it doesn't matter if he speaks outright about things that were inconvenient and needed to be kept secret in the past. If he has strength, he can do whatever he wants.
What he cares about now are these special demons emerging from his flames and the coals of the World Tree.
He had never seen such demons before. After the experiment, he could not make them exist for a long time, and he was at a deadlock for a while.
Originally, he wanted to ask, but it turned out that even Miya didn't know, and the ivy had been running around spreading its leaves every day recently, so he had no choice but to ask Daphne.
Of course, he also prepared a price for this knowledge - a laurel crown.
It was brought by Ellie back then. It was a laurel branch that had been impregnated with divine power by the powerful being called "Apollo" when she was in another world.
Previously, there was "Cupid's lead arrow" that suppressed the fluctuations of magic power. The more passionate Daphne's love was, the easier it was to be completely suppressed by that force.
Analyzing according to the level of divine power, the level of Cupid's lead arrow is estimated to have reached the level between powerful and great, but strangely, it can actually suppress the power of Apollo.
Apollo's divine power is definitely at the level of great divine power.
He guessed that perhaps it was the power of rules that could suppress greatness.
After research, I feel that if these powers can be fully studied, at least the divine power of the goddess of love will be restrained by him.
Daphne held the laurel wreath and could clearly feel the sound of the lyre echoing inside. It was an extremely distant memory, so far away...
"I have forgotten."
She slowly put the laurel wreath on her head and slowly began to describe: "The former sun god created demons, so the flames of the sun can create demons. The only problem is that there are not enough for them. The fuel that gave birth to the devil”
"I didn't expect you to find coal transformed from the World Tree."
Even Daphne felt that this was the guidance of fate, and maybe some people were meant to have a smooth journey.
So she began to teach Croya about a furnace called "Phaethon" created by the Sun God. It is said that it was the super magic circle when the Sun God first created demons.
"Legend has it that the son of Helios was named Phaethon, but he died unexpectedly in a disaster, and he was also related to the god king Zeus.
He was in so much pain that he wanted to use a special furnace to fuse the eternal fire of the sun and the fragments of his soul to resurrect his son.
It's a pity that He failed in the end. What came out of the furnace of the sun was a demon, not His son. ”
Croya listened to her description and compared it with what Ivy said - Ivy said that Helios created the demon in order to stabilize his own destruction, but Daphne said that Helios created the demon to resurrect her son.
Is there... any connection between the two, or does Helios actually want his son to become a demon and live forever?
He didn't ask any questions in this regard, he just listened carefully, asked some questions from time to time, and built a model of the so-called "solar furnace" by the way.
He originally thought that this would be a very complicated model and it would take a lot of time to study it thoroughly. However, he did not expect that this thing was unexpectedly simple.
It can even be said to be simple - you only need to use a special metal to make a mold according to the style of a stove, use Yggdrasil coal as fuel, mix it with his flames, and you're done.
But Croya keenly noticed something was wrong: "The furnace must be fused with something, right? The furnace, fuel and fire are all there. What are the materials?"
"The materials are the demons that were born."
"The coal of the World Tree is so special. The vitality inside can even form life. After being tempered in the flames of the sun, it can become a brand new existence."
Uh...his thoughts were confused for a moment and he really didn't expect it.
"That's it." Croya nodded and asked firmly: "Are you sure you didn't miss anything?"
"No, it's just metal. You need the Midday Sun Iron." Daphne looked serious: "That's a special metal that's only found in my world, in the temple. This world..."
Before she could finish her words, she saw Croya casually taking out a round magic prop with radial stripes, emitting pure sunlight, like a small sun.
Daphne was shocked: "Why do you have a midday sun iron?"
"I got this from a lottery from the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce." Croya stroked the small sun ball: "After I got it, I made it into an ornament and put it on my desk."
In fact, this thing is not just a decoration, but also the center of the entire Hanjiao Island magic array. Only the sunshine composed of his magic power can control the entire magic array.
Now if it is necessary to melt it down and build a new furnace, Croya is really reluctant to do so, and it will be very troublesome in the future.
"Too little." Daphne looked at the "sun" carefully after being surprised, and said with some regret: "Such a small amount can only build a very small furnace, and I don't know how many demons can be born."
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"Let's try it first." Croya thought it didn't matter: "Since the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce has this kind of thing, at worst I will buy some more. I now have tens of millions of magic crystals."
He has never been poor since he came here. He said it very easily. If the money is gone, make it again. Why should you be troubled by money?
Daphne felt that it was not that simple. This kind of midday sun iron required Apollo's priests to perform complex rituals and special materials to create it.
Um?
She suddenly realized something: Since the power properties of Croya and Apollo are very close, can Croya create the Midday Sun Iron by himself?
When it comes to creating new demons, it must be easier to create them with pure power that belongs to you, right?
So she told Croya her thoughts, and then she had to rummage through her memories to find out the process of making solar iron.
Croya listened patiently. The more he listened, the more his brain hurt. Compared to making a solar furnace, making solar iron was really troublesome.
The so-called "midday sun iron" is made at noon when the sun is at its strongest and most energetic. In addition, a lot of rituals are required to bless it.
Cloya's head was a little swollen after listening to those many rituals, but at least he summarized the most important things - dirty and pure iron, essential oils of holy demonic plants, servants of the sun and pure solar magic power.
This is actually equivalent to a ritual of the gods, but there is no "Poetry of Rainbow Colors" that does not follow the path of the gods. Daphne has no choice but to tell everything she knows and wait for Croya to make a decision.
Fortunately, Croya's understanding of rituals involving gods is no worse than any scholar-mage. In addition, he has not deliberately rejected the convenience that faith has brought to him, so it is not troublesome to analyze it now.
After about half a day, he finally thought of a method he could use, and it happened to be related to the magic plants he had engraved - their bodies have their own magic power, aren't they the best servants of the sun? ?
Who says the sun’s attendants have to be human?
Thinking of this, he said goodbye to Daphne, and first came to the place where the Ring of Glory and the Anchor Mushroom of Reality were planted.
After several years of development, this place has long become the home of the Kaba beasts.
The entire bottom of the lake is like a grassland forever shrouded in sunlight, quiet and warm, where some small creatures from the plane of light swim freely.
In the past few years, Croya has found a lot of magical beasts and magical plants from those light planes, and they have all been planted at the bottom of this huge lake.
The sacred magic field formed by these magic plants and monsters alone is close to the legendary level, not to mention there is a mushroom staying there.
Now this place is probably even more sacred and pure than the Holy Land of the Holy See of Light.
The owners of this place, the Kaba beasts, are nesting quietly in the grass, moving their mouths as if they are bored.
But there are piles of metal accumulated around them, shining like hills, and the complex magical brilliance is simply exaggerated.
For such a long time, they have been forging and purifying these metals in cycles. Even Croya needs to admit:
No one will be more attentive than them. Although I have given them a habitat where they have no worries about food and clothing, they have also given them generous rewards——
Legendary level iron ingot.
Thank you all for your support!
(End of chapter)