Chapter 609: Finding a Place for Xiao Guai
In the messy cave, the big guy and Da Dou looked at each other.
After a while, the big guy’s mind returned, and he remembered when Da Dou humiliated him in battle.
He suddenly flinched back and wanted to flee. Then at that moment, he recalled what the dragonman youngster had said to him repeatedly in his dream.
“Xiao Guai, don’t be scared.”
“Father has already taught that bad red skin giant a lesson.”
“He will listen to you now. You can eat his good food, and if there is a villain that wants to harm you, he will protect you.”
“Wait on that island for now, your father will come pick you up.”
Thinking of that, the big guy barely calmed down.
Meanwhile, Da Dou’s state of mind was endlessly churning, “That was the Divine Descent spell, if I’m not mistaken.”
Da Dou realized the big guy had changed.
Hong Zhu suddenly said, “Lords, we must leave without delay. Although this earth elemental tribe has been defeated, this fierce battle will cause other tribes to investigate.”
Those words were reasonable, and Da Dou propped his body from the ground with an arm and slowly got up.
After being healed by the fishman youngster, his injuries had stabilized, and his serious wounds became minor injuries.
He stood up and coughed twice, but unlike before, no blood came out.
His internal injuries such as his broken bones had been healed.
It could be said that without the fishman youngster’s divine healing spell, Da Dou would have died.
Of course, he had one final way of survival, that was praying to the gods as he neared death.
But Da Dou didn’t have faith in that, he was very clear on how ordinary his conviction was.
“Magnet Archipelago is too small, and earth elemental tribes constantly erupt into war to take territory from each other.”
“We must leave without delay.”
“Ma-, master.” Da Dou said to the big guy.
Hong Zhu’s eyes shrank, and her mind shook, “That really was a slave contract!”
Despite seeing the whole thing with her own eyes, she was sighing incessantly over it.
The grand gold level giant had been reduced to a slave; this end was utterly beyond Hong Zhu’s expectations.
However, upon careful recollection, she felt that this was both rational and natural.
The big guy under the Divine Descent spell was extremely formidable.
Inconceivably powerful!
The earth elemental tribe chief couldn’t even retaliate and had been thrashed the entire time. Hong Zhu also realized that the big guy under Divine Descent seemed to be able to interfere with the enemy’s senses and the earth elemental tribe chief’s attacks never hit anything.
This was the world of the strong.
Since the big guy under Divine Descent was so powerful, then Da Dou surrendering to him was reasonable.
Da Dou extended his right hand to the big guy.
The big guy stared at it foolishly, not daring to take it.
But at that moment, his ears rang with the fishman youngster’s encouragement.
“Father is looking at me.” When the big guy thought that he immediately swelled with courage.
A moment later, he extended his hand.
The two giants grasped each other’s hand.
Da Dou used his strength to pull the big guy up from the ground.
“Human woman, please lead the way.” Da Dou ordered Hong Zhu.
Hong Zhu hurriedly nodded.
Thus, Hong Zhu walked in front, followed by Da Dou and the big guy.
As Da Dou looked at the big guy behind him, he had mixed feelings.
He finally had a peaceful interaction with the big guy, but he didn’t expect it would be in this state, he had been reduced to the big guy’s slave!
White Hair Trench.
The fishman youngster’s mind returned to his body, and he examined himself.
“My internal divine power is nearly exhausted, and divine favor has been severely depleted by 2,000.”
But the battle results were unsurpassed!
The fishman youngster had used many divine spells, playing as the hidden hand that cleverly exploited the conflict between enemies. In the end, he annihilated the gold level earth elemental tribe chief and also subdued a gold level giant magic chef.
“As a divine emissary, when I use these divine spells, I deplete my reserves of divine power and divine favor.”
“Fortunately, the enemies had greatly exhausted the other, otherwise if I was just relying on my own power, saving the big guy would be an easy matter, but obtaining such a battle result would be nearly impossible.”
“Anyways, the large amount of expended divine power and divine favor might be related to Xiao Guai’s beliefs. He is not a Charming Blue believer; he is my fanatical believer.”
The big guy’s body was not affected by divine power and hadn’t been imperceptibly influenced by it over a long period of time.
Naturally, this would lead to a greater loss of divine power.
“If it were on my own body, I would have definitely saved a lot of divine power and divine favor.”
This battle had given the fishman youngster immense gains.
First, he tried out a high level divine spell, gaining valuable combat experience.
Second, he saved the big guy’s life.
Third, he tested out his own combat strength. A gold level divine emissary could fight and direct operations remotely from great distances. Relying on high level divine spells, (most importantly Deceptive Disguise), the fishman youngster could easily defeat gold level elites. But this also exposed his own deficiencies, such as his massive expenditure rate, making him incapable of a prolonged fight. To carry out such a battle, he needed believers to be in place beforehand.
Fourth, he obtained a gold level giant slave!
Saving Da Dou’s life was a thought out decision, not an impulsive one.
He had thought through three things.
The first was that Da Dou’s battle performance, where he truly protected the big guy with all his might had moved the fishman youngster.
Second, Da Dou’s background gave the fishman youngster misgivings. He came from Eruption Island, a legend level power. It would be for the best if they weren’t enemies.
Third, the fishman youngster had given sufficient consideration to the current situation.
Before this, he had believed the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was in a good situation. But from the big guy’s memory, the fishman youngster found out he was being too optimistic.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ branch had been attacked, a gold level assassin attacked “Zong Ge”. This was sufficient to make out that Zi Di and Zong Ge were in a nasty situation.
After the fishman youngster saved the big guy, he no longer wanted him to return to Snow Bird Harbor, it was not safe there and was instead overwhelmed with crisis.
The fishman youngster understood that despite the big guy’s life level advancing by leaps and bounds and his bodily essence being quite visible, the big guy was unable to protect himself, and if he encountered ambush, poison, or other such things, he would be easily disposed of.
The big guy had at least a saint level potential, and during the eating contest, he had exposed some of his aptitude. This caused Da Dou to steal him, surely others took note of that.
Under these circumstances, the fishman youngster sending the big guy back to Snow Bird Harbor might lead to another kidnapping him!
“This time, when I tried Believer Perception, I unexpectedly gained information from the big guy. Next time I might not be so lucky.”
After thinking it over, the fishman youngster felt that continuing to have Da Dou look after the big guy as they stayed temporarily on Magnet Archipelago was for the best.
For one, the big guy would free himself from the hidden parties that coveted his aptitude. Secondly, he could be safe for the time being from enemy attacks. Thirdly, Magnet Archipelago was a better place for the big guy to grow.
The big guy had been starving at the branch location.
Here, the gold level magic chef Da Dou could give the most suitable food to the big guy. This was not something the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was able to do.
To be more precise, after Da Dou compressed the food, he demoted it from gold level to silver level when feeding it to the big guy. Not even Snow Bird Harbor’s City Lord had such lavish treatment!
“The slave contract can ensure Da Dou is obedient.”
“Even if Da Dou frees himself from the contract, he won’t harm Xiao Guai.”
“Moreover, Xiao Guai’s unconditional trust and obedience to me allows me to use Believer Perception to interact with him at any time. If something unexpected appears, I can take care of it.”
After comprehensive consideration, the fishman youngster felt that this was the optimal solution at the moment.
“If this happens, Dao Hen doesn’t need to rush over.”
He originally wanted them to come over here to prepare for a rescue after saving them.
The fishman youngster had extradited Dao Hen mainly for the big guy’s sake.
But he didn’t expect that the fierce battle between the earth elemental tribe chief and Da Dou had given the fishman youngster a golden opportunity. Ultimately, the fishman youngster became the beneficiary, taking advantage of Da Dou’s near death injuries to get him to sign a slave contract.
The big guy’s crisis had been removed.
Dao Hen was just a silver level, and it didn’t matter if he came here or not.
“Instead, he might as well stay on that imperial warship, that seems more appropriate.”
The fishman youngster attached great importance to Tan Mo and the others aboard.
The Blood Light Punishment Institution and imperial investigation team were both things he had to pay attention to.
He was also worried that Cang Xu would be exposed.
On Two Eyes Island, the exposed necromancer Cang Xu had a strong connection with the Wisteria Merchant Alliance, this was quite detrimental to the Wisteria Merchant Alliance.
Dao Hen could remain on Tan Mo’s ship, and with the aid of Deceptive Disguise and other spells, he could steal firsthand information and ascertain which direction the imperial investigation team and Blood Light Punishment Institution were moving to in real time.
This wouldn’t harm, either the dragonman youngster or the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, only benefit them.
Thus, the fishman youngster returned his concentration to Dao Hen.
He found to his surprise that Dao Hen hadn’t left the Treasure Chest yet.
The Treasure Chest used original and sophisticated spatial alchemy technology. Space layered on top of each other, and there were countless similar looking ship cabins and passages, it was just like a labyrinth.
Dao Hen not being able to get out was normal.
The fishman youngster resisted the urge to give Dao Hen directions. He waited until Dao Hen couldn’t endure it any longer as worry filled his heart. Then after several prayers were given, he used a divine spell to give him the right directions.
With these directions, Dao Hen was able to get through 19 levels of space and finally arrived at the Treasure Chest’s deck.
Upon seeing the sky above and the wide ocean, he was emotionally moved.
Just as he was about to jump off, he received the fishman youngster’s oracle. Unexpectedly, he was to return to the ship interior to carry out a spying mission.
Dao Hen’s expression shook, and he hurriedly complied, turning back towards the ship hold.
The fishman youngster had asked him to leave previously, and Dao Hen had failed.
The fishman youngster hadn’t revoked his prior order, rather he had helped Dao Hen smoothly leave the Treasure Chest. After giving him a glimpse of the sky and sea, he had Dao Hen go back.
This was not an unpredictable change in command, and it gave Dao Hen a feeling: the prior order was God testing him. At the same time, God’s true intent was incapable of being comprehended!
After Da Dou and the others left, as expected, other earth elemental tribes visited the battlefield.
Finally, they came to the sacrificial rite cave.
“This was the main battlefield!”
“Two, no three gold levels fought to the death here. In the end, our old enemy died in battle here.”
“Indeed, a loss of face, that grand earth elemental actually let outsiders raid their old nest.”
A few earth elemental tribe chieftains came together, and in the tense ambience, all of them wanted to partition the territory before them.
But a moment later, the Main Earth Elemental God’s divine statue suddenly erupted with light.
Soon after, incomprehensible divine power flooded over everyone present, causing all of the earth elementals present to immediately bow down in worship.
After half a minute, the divine statue’s light faded away.
The earth elementals stood up one after the other, all looking excited.
“The Main God issued an oracle!”
“Find that giant and eliminate him!!”
“No, capture him alive, he is the best sacrificial offering to our grand Main God.”