Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil was floating in the air, as if he had lost the gravity from the earth. He was swaying, his arms were swinging, and his feet were kicking, but he could not use any force to change his position.

He himself did not feel panic, but found it interesting to do breaststroke in mid-air.

Priest Batal, who was not far away from the gate of the central ceremony hall, covered his face with his hands, feeling that this young man Kiel seemed to be swinging between reliable and unreliable.

When I first saw him yesterday, he looked very ordinary. Although he was the one he had been waiting for, he was still a little disappointed despite his excitement. When he saw the fully armed Kiel this morning, he was very excited. After all, the more powerful Kiel was, the greater the possibility of saving the villagers. At that time, he felt that the arrangement given by God was really reliable.

But now, in such a solemn situation, especially in the presence of the great god of agriculture, Kil, who was receiving the blessing of the ceremony, was so bored that he acted strangely during the ceremony.

Priest Batal thought so, not to mention the other priests watching at the door.

Everyone opened their mouths silently in surprise. They did not expect that the witness who was so honored to experience the blessing ceremony led by the gods would be so careless, unself-loving, and unserious.

It is simply that the great God of Agriculture is not taken into consideration or in his heart.

But that's what they thought, but no one at the scene dared to speak up and disturb the ceremony. After all, the gods didn't say anything.

But at the scene, the vice-rector himself felt amused and curled up his lips.

Powerful invisible divine power and pure divine power from the gods surged around him, but his eyes glanced upward.

The gods said nothing.

Because gods are not human beings with limited life spans. In thousands of years, they have seen all kinds of human beings. Faced with the fact that Kil was floating in the air under the cover of divine power and imitating the swimming movements of frogs in a funny way, the God of Agriculture made no comment.

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The divine power of the God of Agriculture was growing more and more around Keel. The power was like a ball, or an ungerminated seed, enveloping Keel, a living person.

The powerful and high-level power also spontaneously produces some effects on the surrounding environment.

Clusters of illusory wheat seedlings quickly grew out of nowhere in the green grass in the entire central ceremony venue.

These wheat seedlings imaginaryly grew and matured from the earth quickly, and within ten breaths, a large number of illusory mature wheats 'grew' in the ceremony venue.

The golden wheat swayed in the absence of wind, forming waves.

People who saw this scene, even though they knew those things were illusory, seemed to really see the sweet sound made by the wheat when it was blown by the wind.

An aroma mixed with the smell of the earth lingered on everyone's noses.

I don't know when the sky was filled with green light, and babies holding huge fruits emerged from the divine blue light.

They giggled and flew around with various ripe fruits in their arms. When they saw someone present, they boldly leaned over and generously raised the fruit with their stubby white hands, wanting to give it to the people present.

One also flew in front of Keir.

The little girl holding an orange had soft hair, clear and lovely eyes, and a smile on her lips. She raised the fruit in her hand in a friendly manner and wanted to give it to Keir to taste.

It was clear that there was a large amount of invisible divine power surrounding Kiel at the moment, but none of it seemed to have any impact on this illusory fruit-bearing baby.

Keir wondered whether the kid in front of him was real, or was it just an phantom that spontaneously occurred wherever the god of agriculture touched his power?

Confused, Kil subconsciously reached out his hand, but unexpectedly pinched the other party's orange with a few fingers of his right hand and picked up the orange for him.

"Cackle, cluck, cluck~"

As if noticing that Keel had caught the fruit, the baby smiled and let go of the fruit, then flew away happily.

However, Kil had a strange look on his face and subconsciously brought the translucent orange in his hand to his mouth.

He has not yet broken open the orange peel with his teeth and eaten the pulp inside. The illusory orange brought to his mouth directly turned into tangible and intangible power and slid into his mouth.

Nourished his body.

A feeling of satisfaction came from the stomach, as if he had eaten something good.

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Not only was Kil, who was at the center of the ceremony, fed fruit by the illusory fruit-bearing babies, but even the young priests who were watching the arrival of the gods and the ceremony at the gate also had two or three fruit-bearing babies fly over.

Not much has passed, so it is difficult for these little ones to give the fruit in their hands to which of the humans present.

A small girl squeezed out from among the priests. She was wearing a clerical robe. She boldly stretched out a hand, opened it, and then waved her palm, as if to tell the baby to hurry up and give him fruit. .

Seeing such a 'foothold', the three fruit-holding babies all crowded over, all wanting to give their fruits to the girl who boldly asked for the fruit.

But as soon as the three of them flew over, the girl took the initiative to grab a bunch of grapes in the hand of one of the fruit-bearing babies.

He retracted his hand and even Guo Daiwa was caught.

The girl Sunny blinked her eyes with a smile, and used her left hand to tug on the translucent, seemingly illusory baby's face. The fleshy, QQ-playing little face was kneaded into several shapes.

The frightened baby dropped the bunch of grapes he was still holding in his hand. He thumped his little fleshy feet in the air a few times, and then immediately flew away and escaped from Sunny's clutches.

This scene frightened the other two fruit-holding babies. They hurriedly threw the fruit in their hands in the direction of the crowd, no matter who they gave it to, and hurriedly caught up with the one who escaped, and flew back to the central ceremony together. Amidst the green light of the gods that fills the sky above the field.

Disappear.

The two thrown fruits were caught by two lucky young priests. All the priests knew what they were, so they all put the illusory fruits to their mouths, and with a swish, they turned into nourishing divine power. In the intestines and stomach.

The girl Qingtian was different. She broke off the grapes in her hand one by one and distributed them to the other priests present.

First came the old priests who followed the vicar, each of whom had the fullest grape, then the young men and women who had a good relationship with her, and finally the smaller grapes were given to those in the same parish, but Priests whom I didn’t know very well.

She herself fiddled with the empty grape branch left and right, and then tentatively brought it to her mouth. Unexpectedly, this illusory branch also turned into a nourishing power, put it into her mouth, and nourished her intestines and stomach.

Everyone got part of the fruit, so they all had special respect for the adopted daughter of the dean of the parish, Sunny Sky.

Only the two young priests who shared a whole fruit by themselves blushed and lowered their heads in shame. But no one said anything about it. In another situation, if he had received the fruit from the fruit-bearing baby, he might have behaved the same way.

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Shortly after Keel swallowed the fruit, some of the fruit-holding babies flying around gave away the fruit, but some failed to find anyone, so they gave up on giving away the fruit and let go of the translucent fruit and dropped it to the ground.

As soon as the fruit touches the ground, it nourishes the grass on the ground and the large tracts of wheat on the ground that are equally translucent and illusory.

Without the fruit, the babies flying in the air quickly circled around Keir.

Then they flew into the sky and dived into the divine blue light. When they reappeared, they were holding petite animal dolls that were as cute as rag dolls.

Each one is no more than the size of an adult's hand, including a strong and majestic lion, a slippery and cold poisonous snake, a strong galloping horse, a tough and tolerant donkey, a dark and noisy black-eyed crow, and a mysterious black cat with secretive movements. , there are clever and greedy fat mice, there are vigorous and powerful cattle, there are clever hares that jump endlessly, there are huge river fish that swim with their tails, there are fierce griffins that soar in the sky, there are weird multi-legged chameleons, there are thirsty and thirsty lizards. There are tall and hungry dromedary camels, honest and majestic giant brown bears, greedy and cheap skua gulls, big-tailed squirrels that are flexible in climbing, gray wolves that hunt long distances, and short-antlered deer that leap with vigilance in the forest. , there are shadow spiders that weave traps, there are hard-working ants who work together, there are dangerous dragons that dominate the sky, there are fast-flying wyverns, there are sly falcons with far-sighted eyes, there are calm tortoises with thick shells, there are docile and cold-resistant long-tailed animals. Wool sheep, goats with extraordinary skills in climbing cliffs, horned sheep with courage in wrestling, tabby cats with quick responses, loyal hounds that sniff and gallop, shepherd dogs with command, and parrots with ever-changing voices. , there is a giant bipedal bird with an upright posture, a giant swamp frog with a long tongue swimming in the water, a terrifying flying mosquito that sucks blood and is invisible, a weevil beetle that is a hundred times more powerful, a giant crocodile hiding in the pool waiting to be hunted, and a foul-smelling and sticky acid. There are slime monsters, simulated shape-shifters with rare changes, deadly tigers that roar in the mountains and forests, stupid civet cats that are honest and lucky, flaming red foxes that are extremely smart and cunning, giant mountain elephants with huge hoods, giant-nosed moose that walk wisely, There are also extremely cold white bears with cold breathing and so on.

These fruit-carrying babies are flying in the air holding these spiritual animal puppets of different styles, spinning around the divine power around Kil.

Under Keir's curious gaze, they flew faster and faster, faster and faster.

It didn't take long to see clearly what puppet he was holding, to the point where only an afterimage remained.

Then the afterimages with various flight trajectories gradually came together. Perhaps the fruit-bearing babies themselves are the products of illusory divine power, so they are not bound by the laws of reality in the world, nor are they subject to the considerations of ordinary people's perception. They rotate rapidly, And gradually merge into a rotating orbit at high speed.

Right in front of Keir, the large track of the palm that changed with colorful and trembling light and shadow seemed to gradually slow down after fusion.

The colorful light beam seemed to incorporate all the previous spiritual animal puppet images, and even the fruit-bearing babies seemed to have merged from dozens into one.

When the light band finally stopped, a baby with a ball in his arms appeared in front of Keir.

The divine power around Kil seemed to have a destination, pouring crazily towards the baby and the changing ball of light it held.

The speed was so fast that it only took more than ten breaths. Except for a small amount of the divine power that kept him in the air, all the other powerful divine powers of Kil's body entered the little baby holding the ball in front of him.

Then the tiny dot that emitted the gleaming blue light became flat, and it looked as if it had been squashed or turned into a two-dimensional image on its own initiative.

This image shrunk in size as it approached Keel, and finally stuck to Keel's abdomen and stomach, sticking to Keel's body.

With a bang, Kil lost consciousness.

Because countless messages poured into his brain from the blessing patterns affixed to his body.

But I don’t know if the gods intervened. The information came in and then shrank away. Only a small amount of information on how to use this powerful blessing was imprinted in Kil’s mind.

Other information about various spiritual beasts was locked inside Blessing and was not really shared with Kiel.

Therefore, even if Geel uses it in the future, he will not be able to clearly understand the blessing and will have to fumble for it by himself. Every spiritual beast is unknown to him. Perhaps some seemingly cute or stupid spiritual beasts also have some extraordinary abilities.

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Kiel's body gradually fell to the ground. When his boots touched the lawn, Kiel's whole body went limp and he fell backwards among the lawn and the illusory wheat field.

A smile appeared on the face of the statue, and then it turned into a white stone statue again.

The beam of light disappeared and the god of agriculture left.

"My lord, the great god of agriculture, Opelochen Didinae, may you take care of all the cultivators on the earth."

No matter who the priests were, they all knelt down to worship the statue and bid farewell to the God of Agriculture.

The illusory scene of wheat fields in the central ceremony ground has not dissipated. They make the rustling sound of wheat ears colliding automatically in the absence of wind.

It tickles people's ears, but it also gives people a sense of solid satisfaction.

The grassy coat on the deputy dean's body receded, the grass blades retracted back to the lawn on the ground, and the young leaves of the branches retracted into the long wooden staff he had been holding high.

He walked towards Kiel, and when he came to Kiel's side, he bent down and touched Kiel's face, and Kiel woke up from his coma.

"Vice-President, Your Excellency, was the ceremony successful?"

The look in Kil's eyes gradually returned and he asked the vice-rector.

The other party nodded and pointed at Kil's stomach: "See for yourself, it's very interesting. This ritual blessing is the first time I've heard of it and participated in it. The knowledge of the God of Agriculture is like a boundless field, stretching as far as the eye can see and always cultivated. Inexhaustible.”

Kil raised his body slightly and looked at his stomach. It was really amazing. This blessing pattern was still changing on the skin of his stomach.

It was a pattern of a smiling baby holding a ball of light, and the whole thing emitted a shimmering light. No one could have predicted how much powerful divine power was hidden in this inconspicuous blessing pattern.

The light ball is constantly changing images of various spiritual beasts, and it changes every time Kil breathes. When Kil's fingers stroked the pattern, the transformation of the spirit beast pattern in the light ball slowed down.

The way the blessing is used comes to mind, and there are some other lesser messages.

The small amount of information was somewhat beyond Kiel's expectations.

After all, the previous 'Fountain of Grass and Trees' blessing had more information than this 'Summoning the Spiritual Beast in the Heart', but he did not faint from the previous blessing, but he fainted from this blessing, but the message was exceptionally small.

He didn't know at all how many spirit beasts there were, and what the abilities and images of each spirit beast were.

This discovery left Keel scratching his head.

"Your Excellency, I don't know the message about the spiritual beast summoned by this blessing?"

If you have any questions, ask someone who knows. Keir directly asked his doubts.

The vice-rector stretched out his hand to pull Kil up. The strength of the skinny arms in the sleeves of his gorgeous short robe was far beyond Kil's imagination. The young warrior was easily pulled up by the old man with one hand.

"Maybe the gods want you to explore the information about these spiritual beasts on your own? After all, it is a powerful ritual blessing that I have never seen before. It may be beyond the limit of what you can bear, so the gods slightly modified the final result."

This answer reassured Keir.

He looked around. Although the lawn of the central ceremony ground was still there, it was blocked by illusory wheat fields. Outside the gate, dozens of Saturnine priests wearing various robes gathered.

There were men and women, old and young, and the female priest named 'Qingtian' who he had met before was also looking at him curiously.

Being stared at by so many people, Kiel didn't think anything of it. He waved to these people generously and smiled. Kiel nodded to the deputy dean and thanked him again.

Then he came to the place where he had placed his weapons and equipment before, found his own weapons and equipment in the illusory wheat, and put them on his body one by one.