Chapter 710: Long Meng’s Invitation
A divine spell’s radiance lingered on the dragonman youngster’s body, waning from bright to dark, then fading away.
The Glacier God bishop coughed, exposing a weak expression.
The priest behind him had been staring at the dragonman youngster the moment he saw him until it finished, and despite how long the treatment was, the excitement and veneration in his face was not reduced by even a hairsbreadth.
The priest was quite young, and from his appearance one could see he was similarly looking to the bishop.
“Lord Bishop, many thanks.” The dragonman youngster moved his dragon claw as he expressed his thanks.
This treatment had fully healed the injuries he had incurred during the battle.
Of the three transcendent systems, divine spells were the best at healing. Magic could not imitate it, nor could battle skills supersede it, rather it was divine power, a universally applicable energy source, that gave healing divine spells a very broad range of applications.
The Glacier Bishop was solemn and respectful, expressing that he really wanted to treat the dragonman youngster. If he required his aid in the future, he would be willing to do it again.
Soon after, when the dragonman youngster wanted to pay for the treatment, the Glacier Bishop gave him a discount of 20% as a friendship price.
As they left, the young priest behind him finally couldn’t restraint himself, and he said to the dragonman youngster, “Lord Long Fu, I personally watched your decisive battle with Mi Fang. Your attack was truly bold and unconstrained!”
The young priest gave the dragonman youngster a thumbs up, remarkably like a fanboy.
The dragonman youngster smiled, “So, you were a supporter of mine.”
“Come here I’ll give you a small gift.”
The dragonman youngster waved his hand, and an attendant sprang to action, taking out an ice sculpture.
“Your distinguished country’s alchemy technology is the best in the present age. It is especially good at ice sculptures, and I too follow the local customs, so I hired an ice sculpture great master to carve some gifts.”
“After every major duel, regardless of the result, I will make some ice sculptures and use them to repay my supporters.”
“Please accept it.”
The Glacier bishop slightly frowned, he had a wide field of view and immediately noticed that this ice sculpture was made out of high grade materials and that its workmanship was extremely exquisite. It was made from many kinds of gold level materials, and from the engravings, one could see the alchemy techniques in it, it was certain to be some great master’s style.
“This is too precious…” The Glacier bishop was just about to refuse when the young priest seemed to move like lightning to take it.
“Are you really giving it to me?”
“This is wonderful, so wonderful!”
“Oh, it truly is excellent!!”
The young priest was utterly delighted as he excitedly held the ice sculpture of Long Fu, his eyes shining with overwhelming joy.
The posture of the Long Fu ice sculpture was of him throwing the gigantic battle qi ball as he swooped downwards. The ice sculpture was true to life, perfectly depicting the dragonman youngster’s bravery, ferocity, determination, and grace.
When the Glacier bishop saw how red with excitement the young priest was, he let out an exasperated sigh and expressed his sincere and cordial gratitude to the dragonman youngster.
The dragonman youngster accompanied the two people to the inn’s doorway.
This hotel had an astonishing backer, it was the Han Yu Clan’s property, and it represented the Han Yu Clan’s face to a degree, and when the dragonman youngster chose it, it became their temporary residence in the capital.
The grand noble Han Yu Clan was only second to the Ice Sculpture Royal Family in the kingdom and was far stronger than the Li Jian Clan.
The two clergymen the dragonman youngster sent off belonged to the Glacier Church.
The Glacier God was one of the main gods of the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, and the Glacier Church was the largest and strongest religious institution in the entire nation. Although they hadn’t set up their religious headquarters here, to serve as the Ice Sculpture Capital’s Bishop, an organization naturally had to be extraordinary.
“My identity as Long Fu, my promotion to the gold level, and my victory over Mi Fang is sufficient enough to face the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s high class squarely.” The dragonman youngster thought.
He was himself a cleric and simultaneously a gold level magician, completely capable of healing himself.
But he didn’t do that, instead he specifically asked the Glacier bishop to come over.
Of course, this was no random decision.
The young priest was the Glacier bishop’s son and was usually a favorite of the latter. During the duel between the dragonman youngster and Mi Fang, he shouted enthusiastically from the sidelines.
“With the Glacier bishop’s healing, my injuries can be confirmed, and I will also get a witness to my saint level aptitude.”
“But my fighter strength can still be improved.”
The dragonman youngster knew that he was able to defeat Mi Fang mainly due to psychological warfare. If Mi Fang really fought, with just his fighter skills, it would be a narrow win for him.
“As Long Fu, I cannot use magic or divine spells.”
“Equipment can’t also constitute and advantage.”
“Only bloodlines can be focused on.”
“A saint level bloodline can spurt a massive growth rate, and it is feasible for ‘Long Fu’, a newly promoted gold level, to rise to his peak combat power rapidly.”
“The question here is my saint level aptitude is from the Bloodcore’s compound transformation, and the growth rate isn’t ideal with Bursting Explosion battle qi.”
In the Snow Bird Harbor battlefield, the young man used his Suring Wave fishman form, its 100% god level bloodline amplified his divine spells immensely, and that left a deep impression on the young man.
But during his duel with Mi Fang, although his Flame Dragon King bloodline was legend level, its concentration was not high enough and its power amplification could not compare to the Surging Wave fishman bloodline’s terrifying amplification of divine spells.
To display a saint level disposition, the dragoman youngster surreptitiously used the Bloodcore to turn into other dragon species. These altered traits were internal, invisible to the outside, and concealed from the entire audience.
If it was just the Flame Dragon King bloodline, with the dragonman youngster’s current bloodline concentration, it would not be enough to bear so many enhancement spells.
Now the problem was the other transformations were interchangeable dragon bloodlines or ice type dragon bloodlines, while the bulk of his form was the Flame Dragon King bloodline, and the Bursting Explosion amplification rate was not high in other respects (such as ice resistance), and he had to make up for this deficiency.
“Therefore, I have to raise the Flame Dragon King bloodline vigorously.” The dragonman youngster sighed to himself.
With regards to this, after he returned, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ efforts doubled. Under the pretense of alchemy and medicine refinement, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps went on a crazy buying spree.
Regretfully, the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s natural environment had few times of wyverns reproducing that had bloodlines close to the Flame Dragon King.
As far as this was concerned, the dragonman youngster was without a solution, and could only throw a wide net.
However, with the Bloodcore’s compound transformations, his aptitude was enough for the time being.
“Hm?”
The dragoman youngster’s eyes flashed a different color.
His face did not reveal anything as he serenely turned around and returned to his room.
After reaching his bedroom, he secretly crushed a Pearl Bubble and used a divine spell to replenish his disguise.
Since officially returning to the capital and repelling “Hua Tang”, all parties were investigating and divining him.
Before, the dragonman youngster was not strong enough, but after he returned, he mastered divine spells and magic, becoming a triple system gold level transcendent, thus he could observe deception divine spells being depleted.
At the hotel doorway, he felt the deception divine spell on him suddenly depleting rapidly.
As he returned to his room, that depletion hadn’t stopped.
“This is a Han Yu Clan hotel, and it has tight defenses.”
“It seems this is not an observation method, but a divination method. Some expert or power is directly divining about me.”
Since the dragonman youngster’s duel with Mi Fang, these kinds of divinations and investigations clearly increased and strengthened.
The dragonman youngster had no way of confirming who was doing these investigations and divinations.
There were too many people and powers that had motive to do so.
The Alchemy Guild, the Li Jian Clan, the Jing Xiang Clan, Tranquil Hill’s duelists…
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ entrance into the capital also created a whirlpool of tussles with the powers here.
The dragonman youngster sensed the deception divine spell being expended, yet his body and mind were very tranquil.
He now had many Pearl Bubbles on hand and wasn’t worried about this kind of expenditure. In fact, on the contrary, it was advantageous to him because any divination was oriented towards the façade the dragonman youngster deliberately set up.
The dragonman youngster’s thoughts were now on the Glacier bishop and his son who just departed.
“His young son is a Glacier Church priest, yet he is unexpectedly enthusiastic about duels.”
“I can sense that this young chap thinks highly of me. This is a gain from my duel with Mi Fang.”
“As expected, my meticulous choice of a heroic battle style has been favored by the Ice Sculpture citizens.”
“Although the bulk of the Ice Sculpture Kingdom is composed of snow elves, the popular customs are quite plucky.”
From the young priest’s passion, the dragonman youngster could surmise and get a deeper feel of how duels permeated popular sentiment.
“If even a cleric who believes in the Glacier God is like this, to say nothing about others.”
“That priest is relatively young and perhaps has no appreciation of the gravity of things, but his father, as a bishop level figure, was there the entire time and saw how his son acted. If the ramifications were huge, he would have given the priest a stern lecture.”
From this observation, the dragonman youngster could make out what every large church’s attitude to duels was.
“If in the future the Dueling God appeared, what would happen?” The dragonman youngster was no outside passer-by, the divine blessings had given him abundant clerical experience.
If there really was a Dueling God, then every large church would have an entirely different attitude towards duels!
The gods had to fight over faith for their own benefits.
“Now the question is, does the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s high class now about the Dueling God, the duelists on Tranquil Hill, and other such secrets or not?”
The dragonman youngster’s eyes were indistinct.
He learned of the Dueling Godhead in Tranquil Hill because of Charming Blue’ divine oracle.
But the divine oracle did not tell him what other people or powers were conspiring for the Dueling Godhead.
Did they exist or not?
Did the Ice Sculpture high class know? If they didn’t, the situation would be relatively simple. The real fear was that the high class was well aware and, most importantly, involved in it.
The dragonman youngster consulted a lot of information and discovered that duels were always supported and popularized by the Ice Sculpture Government, they wholly treated it as a national policy that was energetically carried out.
In this aspect, the Ice Sculpture Kingdom never changed the slightest.
This inevitably caused the dragonman youngster to break out in misgivings.
“Even if the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s high class is unaware, those duelists in Tranquil Hill at minimum are a big hindrance.”
“If only I could get in contact with Lan Zao…”
Regretfully, when the Dueling Divine Domain spatial crack was closed up, the dragonman youngster found reaching Lan Zao was very difficult.
“There will eventually be a chance later.”
The dragonman youngster was following Lan Zao, the big guy, and Snow Bird Harbor closely as he waited for public sentiment to develop.
The main thing he was waiting for was the Li Jian and Jing Xiang Clans’ reaction.
Although he had decided to take all of the profits from the mount potions alone, he didn’t want to immediately brave forth in spite of the obstacles.
Direct force would cause immense resistance, and it was far better to feign cooperation and paralyze the other powers, perhaps provoking the outside powers into depleting each other and alleviating the resistance on him.
One day later, the dragonman youngster hadn’t gotten any envoys from the Li Jian or Jing Xiang Clan, instead he received an unexpected invitation.
“Oh? Long Meng sent a person over to invite me over for a meeting?”
Long Meng!
The first among the duelists and publicly known as the strongest gold level in the entire Ice Sculpture Kingdom.
He naturally was the most popular candidate for being the champion of this year’s National Ceremony Grand Duel.
The dragonman youngster knew that Long Meng’s distinguished name was engraved on some tombstone located on the top of Tranquil Hill.
He also understood that Long Men was quite strong, and even if he was in his fishman form, he wasn’t sure if he’d win, it would take a genuine battle to ascertain that.
To say nothing of his current identity as Long Fu right now.
“Why is Long Meng inviting me over? What is his aim?”