Surviving The Fourth Calamity

Chapter 494: Chapter 292: The actors are in place, and the show is about to begin.

William went directly back to his palace. The cold laugh of the God of Time and Space had already reverberated in his mind.

”Hmph... I’m here mining, and you’re so leisurely?”

”I have a lot of things to deal with too!” William retorted unceremoniously. ”Would you rather be mining, or handling my current affairs?”

The God of Time and Space shut up. Even after all this time, he still detested scheming intrigues.

He contacted William mainly to hand over a portion of crystal stones to him first: ”I can only mine one-fifth of this resource star, and then we’ll need to find another place. It needs time to recover.”

”Weren’t there so many crystal stones before, and you didn’t even use one percent of it?” William was curious. ”What’s gotten into you to mine so much all of a sudden?”

”The earth is about to recover. Once the world becomes whole again, transferring external resources in such large quantities might become a bit difficult.”

”Isn’t it better to have more resources from other worlds?” William didn’t understand. ”Especially crystal stones that provide energy.”

”Not necessarily,” the God of Time and Space said coldly. ”Every world abides by the principle of energy conservation. You think it’s fine because you don’t understand it.”

William couldn’t help but roll his eyes, ”Then what are you planning to do? We need to support the Undead Tribe.”

”Just mine more resource stars. I’ve found quite a few recently,” the God of Time and Space said nonchalantly. ”Before the world closes off, there’s no problem with mining as much as we can.”

William still didn’t understand, but as long as the God of Time and Space thought it was fine, he didn’t bother much: ”Send me a portion soon. I still need to give some to Hill!”

William said with a bit of envy: ”Although I know why Hill is so rich, I can’t help but feel a little jealous! It’s not just a matter of strong abilities; his luck must be off the charts!”

”If Hill hadn’t controlled his bloodline back then, you wouldn’t even see him now,” the God of Time and Space sneered. ”The bloodline of the Earth Bear isn’t something anyone can awaken, nor is it easy to endure.”

”Hill mentioned a bit about it to me, but he seems to think the Earth Bear bloodline is stronger than other bloodlines,” William said frankly. ”Maybe it’s because he desires so little that he could stick to his true heart, hence finding demigod blood easier to handle.”

”Maybe,” the God of Time and Space said mystically. ”Hill is actually very suited to becoming a deity, but it seems he still wants to follow the mage’s path.”

”He’s just a kid; of course, he thinks freedom is more important than anything,” William replied indifferently, and sent the space ring given by the God of Time and Space directly to Hill.

No matter why the God of Time and Space was working so hard, he and Hill were now square.

Hill received a large fortune happily, becoming rich in an instant.

The handiwork of the God of Time and Space was always primarily attributeless crystal stones.

Though they were extremely valuable in this world, to the God of Time and Space, attributeless crystal stones without the elemental properties of other worlds were the only elemental ores he could freely mine.

But these attributeless crystal stones were actually quite useful for the Earth Bear, which needed only the basic attributes of elemental crystal stones. They preferred earth elemental stones, and then these attributeless ones.

Hill considered for a moment. Technically, after receiving the final payment, he could leave, but the yet-to-arrive envoys deeply intrigued him.

So Hill went back, fetched some money, made plenty of food, and silently stayed in Clotho.

Anyway, William had given him this place without specifying how long.

The arrival of the Greenberg envoy caught everyone’s attention.

Even the three envoys hiding in their courtyards came out to stand at the gate.

The magical beasts of the Greenberg envoy, fierce and gigantic, looked even more imposing than the Undead Tribe’s giant elephant magical beast army.

If not for those beasts seeming to have been hit by something, appearing listless and deeply frightened.

The knights riding these enormous magical beasts couldn’t help but look back at the other envoy trailing behind them.

Dionysio actually sent a corps of knights.

Their pure black, red-maned warhorses astonished Hill. Though not true Nightmares, they had the blood of such magical beasts.

The black flames beneath their hooves, blazing as they trod the ground, were highly intimidating.

The massive shark lizards of the Greenberg envoy, entirely armored, indeed looked terrifying, but it was obvious they had been terrorized by the noble church’s knight corps.

The shark lizards had many weaknesses. The biggest one hidden under that heavy armor on their necks, and each holy knight of the noble church could easily kill such a magical beast.

And these creatures were incredibly gluttonous, supposedly consuming anything except elves and detesting dwarves.

Although the Greenberg ones might be weaker strains, it still indicated that this nation once colluded with elves and dwarves.

Hill believed that William allowing the God of Nobility to target Greenberg silently had to do with this.

With the noble church’s nature, they wouldn’t kill the Greenberg envoy outright out of face for the King of Saral, but they wouldn’t make their journey easy either.

So even with the shark lizards’ speed, the journey had been greatly delayed.

The Greenberg people knew their current predicament.

So they were quite bold about it.

Hill watched as a very beautiful princess, wearing a tight-fitting gauzy robe, a crown on her head, and tears in her eyes, stood on the back of a shark lizard.

She gracefully made a starting gesture, and beauties began to appear one by one on the backs of the shark lizards behind her, playing a lingering dance tune with different instruments.

Pitiful and lovely, the little princess danced gracefully on the giant magical beast’s back, appearing especially delicate against the ferocity of the beast.

However, the nobles of Saral, apart from exchange puzzled looks, didn’t have any special reaction.

The beauties of the Undead Tribe could even dance on the backs of embroidered crabs.

High tower spires, sheer cliffs, there was no place they dared not go.

The Greenberg princesses had nothing special about them except their royal status, but they had reduced themselves from noble princesses to performers.

Hill, leaning against the window, sighed lightly.

Had the Greenberg people been beaten senseless by the noble temple?

One of the favorite pastimes of the Undead Tribe, aside from fighting, was dance battles.

They could be as enchanting as could be, as fiery as could be. The undead girls dared to wear very little and often performed in their underwear, probably because many of them were not necessarily women.

The Saral people had seen so much that they could now ignore it.

The princess, despite her tearful eyes and aggrieved expression, danced quite confidently, but unfortunately, she wasn’t as graceful as those who danced ballet on rooftops.

Compared to the Greenberg princess, Hill preferred the Nightmare Knight Corps behind them.

Those horses were stunning! Tall, mighty, surrounded by firelight, their gaze full of arrogance.

The Undead Tribe indeed all bypassed the Greenberg convoy, their eyes aflame as they watched the tall black-clad knights.

The knights, towering at over two meters tall on their high horses standing over two meters high, had initially followed the Greenberg envoy coldly.

However, they soon felt unnerved by the gazes of those pointing girls.

The already fiery-tempered Nightmare steeds started spitting flames.

The undead girls’ restraint now was only that they hadn’t rushed up to touch them.

Hill couldn’t help but laugh.

The priests and clerics, accustomed to the Undead, made the noble church knights seem inexperienced.

The stiffer they acted, the crazier the undead girls became.

The only kindness William showed was not translating or censoring what the girls were saying, so all the knights heard were praises about their handsomeness and noble mounts.

By the time the Greenberg princess reached the reception house, she finally realized her dance had been in vain.

Standing rigidly on the huge shark lizard’s back, the tear persistently clinging to her eye finally turned to ashes.

Hill genuinely thought she was quite a good Water Mage! Such fine control was rare among mages.

Unfortunately, the princess couldn’t hear Hill’s praise as she hastily led her people to pick an estate and rushed inside without looking back at the pointing onlookers.

Dionysio’s knight corps resolutely stayed next to Greenberg’s residence.

Leaving only a group of regretful undead girls outside.

They wished to follow, but they seemed warned. Hill noticed them looking down at their tablets.

The fact the Greenberg envoy managed to enter the capital of Saral on time was probably thanks to the Elf Princess appearing outside Clotho a day later.

Hill sat in his tower study, his expression strange.

He saw a familiar Elven demigod ranger—Virginia’s ex-husband.

Here to escort his kin?

Hill thought he would have suffered along with the former Elf Queen! But he seemed relatively unscathed.

These elves rode variously colored deer. Unlike human kingdoms, their mounts were mid-level magical beasts.

Even the elf princesses rode in carriages pulled by six pretty white deer, not the legendary beautiful unicorns.

Hill was a bit surprised. Unicorns could not be easily stripped from their owners due to their loyalty.

This must mean that none of the princesses sent from the Forest of the Elves were of the good alignment.

Despite the Forest of the Elves being a mess, every few decades, a princess rode a unicorn on a parade that humans witnessed.

The new Empress seemingly maintained the bottom line while purging dissent—keeping the Forest of the Elves’ sole fig leaf intact!