The Master of the Strange Realm

Standing in the field under the night sky, Jenkins strangled his throat with a painful expression, feeling that his entire lungs were being burned.

He swore that he would never use such power again if it was not necessary. He was a human and an elf, not a dragon, so he shouldn't do this at all. He does not have the organ to emit "dragon roar". Even if he is given spiritual power by the silver dragon, he can only imitate the dragon roar, so he does not have the ability to obtain [dragon roar] unless his [Malicious Transformation] can really turn him into a dragon. .

If it weren't for his strong recovery power, I'm afraid that the blow just now would have directly destroyed his lungs' breathing ability.

But it’s okay if it doesn’t turn into an ability, otherwise Jenkins really doesn’t know where to look for a blank bubble to accommodate the [Uncrowned King].

Summoning the unicorn and cat, he held the sword and flew into the air again. The red flames beat happily in the chest, and a steady stream of vitality was sent to Jenkins' body. The awakening ceremony is not over yet, and the Dragon Soul cannot be considered fully awakened until all wandering souls are resolved.

But now with the power given by the silver dragon, the suppression of the dragon hunter ghosts has disappeared, and the ghosts who died under the power of the dragon have not been resurrected.

The meaning of the Dragon Soul was originally a racial myth forged by ancient humans who admired the dragon's physical power. The red flame could not make Jenkins become a dragon, but it strengthened his body in all aspects, making him almost invisible every moment. I can't even feel tired.

There was a flash of white light, and the swirling sword dance swept around. The grinning black demon flew high into the sky, and behind it, Jenkins, who was lying on the back of the unicorn, also called out those greedy vines.

The emerald green light adheres to the sword, intertwined with the gray decaying aura of death, and together they deliver a heavy blow to the enemy. Jenkins was suddenly inspired. Although he had just made up his mind not to use the new ability, driven by curiosity, he still activated the [Origin of Life] while imagining the feeling of vomiting.

As the roar resounded through the night sky again, the dwarf giant rushing towards Jenkins was directly overwhelmed by the green beam of light. When the light beam disappeared, the dwarf giant, the armor on his body and the mammoth skeleton were all evaporated into dust. The spirit of life and the dragon roar, which were closest to the essence of the world tree, made the most powerful individual among the wandering souls disappear directly.

Jenkins once again covered his throat and coughed violently. He once again determined that this was not an ability that human benefactors should use. Seeing that as the strongest individual among the wandering souls disappeared, the slender red flames on his chest became more powerful, he took this opportunity to raise his sword and cane to the sky again.

In the white light that almost illuminated the entire eastern suburbs of Nolan, the armored wandering souls turned into dust one after another and disappeared into the sky.

When the church arrived at the center of the burst of light, they saw the huge dragon shadow in the night sky shrinking little by little and sinking into the chest of the man on the unicorn's back. When he opened his eyes, the demigods of the church shrank subconsciously. It was an inexplicable pressure.

It is not the suppression of humans by gods, but the suppression of ordinary humans by the chosen human leaders.

"What was that just now? Believer of lies, you have dealt with those wandering souls, right?"

Someone asked loudly, and the voice seemed to be the old gravekeeper of the Church of Death.

"The wandering soul has been dealt with."

He felt the spirit returned from the world, but he did not permanently eliminate those wandering soul individuals, so he did not receive many spirits.

"As for what happened just now, have you heard of the legend of the Four Soul Kings?"

The red dragon was hovering higher in the sky, trying to pretend that it didn't know anything.

"Four King Souls?"

The lady from Destiny Church asked loudly:

"Have you obtained the [Dragon Soul]?"

"Since you have kept the epic of the years, you should know the meaning of the four souls of the four kings that appeared in this era. It seems that fate has chosen us again this time. I am looking forward to meeting you next time and wish you a good start in the meeting tomorrow. smoothly."

After saying that, he held his chest and rode the unicorn and flew away into the distance.

No one in the church stopped her, and Miss Bevanna looked at Miss Audrey with a solemn expression. When Jenkins was in Belduran City, he heard about the King's Soul from a junk shop owner and reported it to the church. Miss Bevanna thought this incident would happen around Jenkins, but she didn't expect to be preempted by believers in lies.

Miss Audrey, who knew most of the things, just showed regret and had no intention of sharing her knowledge of Jenkins.

Miss Bevanna has already made her decision.

On the other side, when Jenkins returned home, as expected, Hathaway had already arrived home. When he walked in, the red-haired girl was sitting on the sofa learning to knit with Julia. Musicians’ hands are great at playing the piano, but not so good at operating those long needles.

"What do you smell like?"

As soon as he walked into the living room, he heard Bryony coming out of the kitchen with a teacup in her hand and asked.

Of course it was the smell of dragon's blood. Although Jenkins had a small area of ​​rain in advance to wash away the blood stains, he didn't expect the smell of dragon's blood to be so strong. Even the chocolate didn't want to stay by Jenkins' side. When the unicorn landed, he rushed home alone. It seemed that he had made up his mind. It would never get close to Jenkins until the smell was removed.

Jenkins smiled awkwardly and did not say that it smelled like blood. He sniffed his clothes with some concern, and then showed a disgusted expression:

"Then I'm going to take a shower."

"The hot water is already boiling."

Julia put the knitting needles in her hand back into the basket, got up and went to the second floor to prepare clothes for Jenkins. Jenkins nodded to her, touched his chest, and felt the vitality that continued to be injected into his body. After a long hesitation, he blushed and whispered:

"Does anyone want to take a bath together?"

So he was hit by a book and a ball of yarn. The cat squatting on the third step leading to the second floor laughed at Jenkins in his heart. It knew that normal people didn't like to take a bath.

So it came to the next day, Saturday, and the long-prepared joint meeting of the twelve churches was finally about to begin.

Early in the morning, Jenkins stood in front of the mirror to sort out his clothes. When the sleepy cat woke up, Jenkins had even washed up and went downstairs.

Chocolate, who woke up, meowed and stood up from the pillow in a daze. Seeing that there was no man on the pillow, he immediately stood up and turned his head 180 degrees from left to right to look around. After confirming that Jenkins was not in the bedroom, it was stunned for a moment, and then it quickly rushed to the corridor, very dissatisfied that Jenkins had gotten up earlier than it.

Chapter 1843 Chapter 1814 Jenkins and the Coachman

Although the Three Kings' Talks are still going on, and after the great progress of the Air Treatment Act, today's topic is to help Cheslan "restore the country". But the attention of the citizens of Nolan is still more focused on the opening ceremony of the joint meeting of the Twelve Churches held at the Astrology Tower outside the city.

At least no one living in this generation has heard of the Twelve Orthodox Churches meeting together. Even if they don't care about the political meaning of this, just watching it as a lively event can attract the attention of the citizens.

Jenkins got up early in the morning to get out of the city as soon as possible. According to the arrangement of the meeting, he was the third to speak on the stage during the opening speech, so he must not be late.

Because it was an occasion with a strong religious atmosphere, Dolores, as the heir to the kingdom, must not appear. Hathaway and Britney also received notes from Marquis Michael and Count Hesha, asking them not to accompany Jenkins to the meeting. After all, Jenkins has not yet ascended the throne, so it is best not for the whole family to appear in sensitive occasions.

Therefore, in the end, Alexia had to accompany Jenkins to the Astrologer Tower in the suburbs, which is the church of believers of the true god [All Stars].

Perhaps most people stayed in the church last night, because when Jenkins found that he arrived, most people had already arrived. As the archbishop of the Sage Church in the Nolan Diocese, Bishop Palod was naturally also a representative to the meeting.

The old man nervously asked the nuns of the church to help Jenkins sort out the wrinkles on his clothes caused by riding in a carriage, and then asked him many times whether he had memorized the speech, looking more nervous than Jenkins who was about to speak in public.

When the opening ceremony of the meeting officially began at 8:30, Jenkins, who was actually a little nervous in his heart, suddenly relaxed. He stood at the end of the audience, his hands naturally drooping and looking at some in front of him, knowing that this was the hope of this century.

The inner peace allowed him to give a better speech. Perhaps it was because he had "rehearsed" a speech about cooperation and future vision in front of the musicians yesterday, so he was more comfortable speaking today.

He did not shout slogans such as unity, but combined with the history of this world he knew, he sincerely explained that this era requires temporary cooperation among pagans. Although the speech was short, less than twenty minutes, it still won applause from the audience.

When Jenkins returned to his seat, Alexia kindly brought him a kettle and smiled and said that Jenkins was not good at doing such things as he described himself.

"I spent nearly a week preparing for this speech."

Jenkins sighed, and then whispered about what happened last night, especially the awakening of the Four Kings' Souls. Alexia has recently been fascinated by the differential engine and summarizing Jenkins' feelings about the saints, and has not studied the Four Kings' Souls, so she just listened to his description and did not give any opinions.

But the short lady knew why Hathaway arrived at the opera house faster than Jenkins:

"Last week, Hathaway asked me if there was a way to move quickly within the city. I gave her a somewhat dangerous method, but I didn't expect her to use it here."

"Dangerous method?"

"Yes, using a strange object."

Seeing that Jenkins' eyes were also dangerous, she explained:

"Don't worry, that's the strange object you know, A-11-2-3301 [Malicious Coachman], the one who sent me to Loen City. I know you will be unhappy, but Hathaway insisted on knowing, so I gave her a sin coin [mixed silver coins], and she will not be charged any other price. I knew you would be unhappy, so I said this to you. If you want to punish me..."

She whispered in Jenkins' ear, and Jenkins' pupils dilated and his face tightened, not letting others know his expression, but the cat who had just got into the formal suit could feel the young writer's heart beating faster.

"Don't touch weird things, they are not safe."

Jenkins was still a little unhappy, he said with a little sadness:

"You'd better not touch weird things for the rest of your life. Even if there are sin coins, those things infected by sin are extremely dangerous."

"I understand. No matter what she says next time, I won't agree. This time it's my fault. I promise you that I won't take the initiative to contact strange things again. Yes, I promise."

She tilted her head again and whispered something private in Jenkins' ear. Chocolate stood on Jenkins' shoulder, somewhat despising Jenkins, because Jenkins blushed.

"Actually, I'd rather know how you summoned the coachman."

Jenkins suddenly had an idea. Maybe Mr. Pisco had really predicted everything.

"When the coachman sent him to Loen last winter, I paid some extra currency and asked for a way to summon it. No, it is different from the evil way the cultists used to summon him. I know that there is a noble who uses the method of living sacrifice. , the boy who broke the nine precepts of travelers was sacrificed to summon the coachman.

Although my way is more expensive, it does not require sacrifice or sacrifice. Do you want to find a coachman too? But your unicorn seems more convenient, right? "

"But unicorns can't go underground or move through dirt and rock formations."

Jenkins said seriously.

"Do you want the coachman to take you to find the differential engine? But the coachman can only take the passengers to the places where the passengers have been. I have traveled briefly in Loen before, so I can be taken there by the coachman."

"No, I'm not looking for the Difference Engine, and I may not be able to fight it now. I'm looking for another machine."

He paused and looked forward, looking at the old bishop who was loudly praising the grand occasion of this meeting:

"Looking for another machine that understands the difference engine."

Like most conferences in this world, there are always all sorts of tedious speeches before anything substantively valuable can be discussed. Even church meetings are like this, and because the meeting is attended by twelve forces, each church will send a representative to speak, which will waste the entire morning here.

The afternoon was the official meeting time, and the first day of the meeting was held in the astrologers' church. The astrologers specially opened the church's internal auditorium and a small number of internal conference rooms for use as meeting occasions.

Jenkins also participated in the first closed-door meeting in the afternoon, which was about the twelve churches exchanging lists of demigods and sons in their respective churches to achieve unified deployment.

I chose this topic as the opening topic because this matter has actually been negotiated privately, and now it is just the details and signatures. It is easy to reach a consensus and achieve the result of making significant progress on the first day of the meeting.

As for which party will take the lead in the union of the Twelve Churches, or the specific strategy for negotiating with believers of lies, these will have to wait until later.

The difference from the Three Kings Meeting is that the joint meeting of the churches does not allow any irrelevant people to participate, let alone reporters. Even though the good newspaper company sent people to wait at the door of the Starry Sky Church early, the guards at the door promised not to let even a mouse sneak in.

The negotiations here will be more difficult than the cooperation between the three countries. After all, it is really difficult to say which is more important, the hatred between countries and the conflict between beliefs. However, most of the people participating in the negotiations are ordinary people in the church, and the precious power of gifters will not be wasted on the negotiating table.

Therefore, Jenkins only symbolically participated in the opening ceremony in the morning and the first meeting in the afternoon because of his status as the Holy Son, and then left with Alexia.

The original plan was to summon the coachman directly to try his conjecture, but before leaving the Church of the Starry Sky, he was stopped by the secret keeper Smith who was waiting at the door.

He took the two of them to the Evergreen Forest, and met Miss Bevanna and another very familiar gentleman under the giant tree. Jenkins thought for a while before he realized that it was Mr. Donald Yassen, the "Left Hand of the Temple" from the Belduran Holy See. But if Jenkins remembers correctly, this gentleman's main responsibility is to protect the Holy See, and he is a demigod stationed in Beldiran all year round. Even if Nolan wants Beldiran to send more reinforcements, there is no reason to let him come.

"Good day, Saint William. The Holy See has asked me to deliver some news."

He looked at the Keeper and Miss Bevanna, who nodded and turned away. Alexia glanced at Jenkins and left temporarily with Miss Bevanna. It wasn't until he confirmed that there were only two people in the open space under the giant tree that Mr. Yassen said in a language with some Beldiland accent:

"Last night in Nolan, the believer of lies appeared again, and there is enough evidence to prove that he obtained the Dragon Soul. The legend of the Four Souls of the Kings was learned from Kamel when you were in Beldiran City. , so you should understand what this means."

"Qualifications of a savior?"

Jenkins said calmly, not looking at Mr. Yassen, but observing the shadow hanging upside down under the tree.

"Yes, we don't know whether the believers of lies last night are the ones we are familiar with or people we don't know. But the witnesses tend to be Mr. Candle. After all, the white cat is too eye-catching. ”

The chocolate on the shoulder meowed~ and brushed Jenkins' neck with the tip of its tail.

"You probably also know that many believers of lies are qualified as saviors, so we are not surprised by their actions. But last night only showed signs of the dragon soul, which means that lies The believers are only on the way and have not yet reached the end. Therefore, Bevanna contacted Beldiran urgently."

"Then the Holy See means to arrest Mr. Candle and force out his secrets?"

"Of course not, they are now partners, why do you think so?"

Mr. Yasen asked in surprise.

PS: You should be able to guess what Jenkins is going to do with the coachman, right?

Chapter 1844 Chapter 1815 The Disaster of the World

Although Mr. Yasen was surprised, he soon nodded in understanding:

"I know you are from Nolan, and I have always hated those mysterious people who appear and disappear in this city. But the believers of lies are different, please don't hold such great hostility... At least for now, the church hopes to treat them more kindly. The church thought that since the Dragon Soul appeared, the other three king souls must have appeared, or at least they are already in Nolan. The four king souls have a common destiny.

The church should not give up this opportunity. Even if we don't get this qualification, we must not let the believers of lies increase their chips again. While I am talking to you, other churches must have already started to act. Dragon, Ice, Tree and Darkness, get one, then I got the bargaining chip for the final negotiation.

Although such bargaining chips are far less than yours, the church does not want to give up. "

"So, the Holy See specially sent you to come to me overnight because..."

"On the one hand, if someone in the Sage Church can possess the King's Soul, the Holy See believes that only you are qualified. After all, the identity of the savior is not something that everyone can take on. But we don't know whether the same person can have multiple qualifications. This remains to be explored, but your connection with the King's Soul is certain.

On the other hand, the church hopes that you can test whether anyone among all the Middleton heirs now has shown any abnormality. The church believes that the Tree Soul should be in Middleton's bloodline. "

The church's reasoning is quite in place, consistent with Jenkins' original idea. But Jenkins acted faster and had already obtained the Tree Soul.

He blinked and waved to Mr. Yasen, asking him to come closer. Then he said softly:

"I have got the soul of the tree."

He pressed his chest and Mr. Yasen looked at him in confusion. After a few seconds, he reacted:

"But you said at first that the tree was not there..."

"Yes, it was not originally with me. But I found it, in a friend. Due to privacy, I cannot tell her name, but the soul of the tree is now with me."

He patted his chest again to indicate the location of the soul of the tree.

"This... is really great, great, very good."

Mr. Yasen smiled, and the middle-aged man acted like a child who got a new toy: