Chapter 466
Chapter 466 - 446: The Blessed Land under Divine Favor
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The potential appearance of the Wolf King did not change the exploration team’s travel plans.
After walking for a short while, they stopped in the shallow part of the forest, set up camp, lit a bonfire, and adjusted their condition.
Up to now, their actions had been quite smooth, and Lu Ping’an’s group was treated like pampered young masters, well-protected.
"...I suggest that we either hunt down the Wolf King before moving forward or simply bypass this area and avoid its territory. A wolf pack with a Wolf King is an extremely patient creature, and it would be dangerous to be followed by them..."
Sir Ben’s advice was quite reasonable. Wolves were vengeful and greedy creatures, and if they were really followed, an attack at a critical moment could be quite dangerous.
However, Lu Ping’an could see that Ben had his own thoughts... The city was too close, and if a beast tide was triggered by the Wolf King here, this year’s winter would be difficult.
He was a very loyal and devoted knight, but Lu Ping’an’s smile was quite ambiguous... He had noticed that no knight had been informed of the "truth" by the lord so far.
Only those devout believers were the first to waver, and the spellcasters and priests had relatively acute perceptions. Even Catherine would have been deceived until the last moment if she hadn’t happened to encounter Lu Ping’an.
Although he had his own thoughts, Sir Ben’s words were not excessive. After carefully considering, Lu Ping’an asked.
"If you all go all out, what is the success rate of hunting it down? How much time will it take?"
Upon hearing this, Sir Ben shook his head, for he was not confident.
Even without higher-level intelligence channels, he instinctively detected that something was wrong with this "beast tide". In the past, it would be rare to have one or two mutated creatures in a herd, but now there were none that had not mutated.
"...In the past, such Beast Kings would appear in the late stage of the beast tide, as a result of the devouring of powerful beasts. But now, such magical beasts appear in a normal state, so close to the city, which is not a good thing..."
He was also somewhat hesitant and uneasy. As a guardian knight who had been dealing with demons for many years, he had some understanding of their habits.
Each powerful beast had its own territory, and the closer they got to the city, the poorer it actually was. They were often the weaker and expelled members of the beast tide, and even if the Beast King was born, it should be in the depths of the forest.
"If such a magical creature is encountered on the outskirts, I’m afraid this year’s winter..."
He gripped the handle of his gun and rubbed the scales on his arm, feeling a little itchy and uneasy.
Ever since he entered the forest, he had felt uneasy... It was already this time, why leave the city? They should strengthen the defense for this winter.
"Let’s leave it alone then. If it gets in the way, remove it... When we come back, if we have time, we can try to remove it too. The mission is the priority for now."
Since Lu Ping’an had spoken, Sir Ben sighed helplessly and saluted in agreement.
Lu Ping’an didn’t bother with him... There were some things that he couldn’t say, especially when he couldn’t solve the problem.
He turned his attention to the wolf corpses, checking their mutation status and taking out a research report... which two super Beast Tamers had hurriedly written after he secretly "disappeared" a wolf corpse.
He only glanced at it twice before sighing and closing it.
[...Large-scale mutation, the core has been distorted, DNA has collapsed and disordered, completely unable to be tamed and used, suspected of being exposed to high-concentration radiation sources in the short term...]
"Miss Luanhua... Madam?"
Lu Ping’an directly asked, as he needed the support of Spirit Vision at this time.
"What’s the matter, Captain?" The woman instantly tensed up.
Although Lu Ping’an found the other party’s excessive caution strange, it was a good thing that the arrogant mercenary actually complied.
"The wolf corpse has come into contact with a high-risk radiation source. Help me check it out; if possible, mark it on the map."
Fenglian Flower agreed and, under her husband’s protection, walked up a hillside.
"Nine Eyes..." She looked into the distance, using a peculiar Abnormal Ability. Her third eye in the middle of her forehead opened wide, flashing once, and the next moment, her closed eyes opened as well, with crystal slices inside them.
Multi-layered vision fully opened, the extraordinary race’s innate Spirit Vision began to overlook everything around from various dimensional perspectives... some things, however, were alerted by the instinct of life.
When she instinctively looked back, only to see Lu Ping’an flipping through a book behind her, she shuddered, almost dropping the map.
After taking a deep breath for a while, she finally calmed down and began looking for abnormalities in her surroundings again... but with just one glance, she exclaimed in astonishment.
"How could it be so..." Realizing that someone noticed her, the experienced mercenary quickly covered her mouth.
A while later, when no one was paying attention, she approached Lu Ping’an and whispered the truth.
Upon hearing this, Lu Ping’an was startled, and his pupils contracted sharply. The next moment, his face regained its calm, but his fingers subconsciously tapped on the book... The situation had exceeded his expectations.
"There’s too much. Just in the nearest distance, I found at least seventeen places. In our world, they could have produced Secret Realms of high-risk pollution, but now they’re exposed without any transformation into Secret Realms."
After pondering for a moment, Lu Ping’an waved Catherine over and casually asked.
"I’ve heard that your cities are protected by Deities?"
Hearing this, Catherine was taken aback. After trying to recall, she eventually nodded.
"There is such a claim. Priests of the Twin Stars (Twin Moons) often boast that ’every place reached by civilization, every place touched by moonlight, is under the protection of My Lord’..." Catherine looked unconvinced. As a believer of the Sun God, she didn’t care about the Moon Priest’s claims.
In the eyes of the children of the Sun like her, the "eternal Sun God" was the true protector of civilization, and the followers of the Moon God were just auxiliary fame-seekers.
"... Moonlight?" Looking up at the bright and clear twin moons above their heads, Lu Ping’an sighed helplessly.
"It seems that this is not just propaganda..."
The Deities of this world might be a bit too concerned about mortals.
The Seal Master’s power seals the pollution, the Sun Fire purifies and disperses the pollution, and the Gemini Moon God provides key protection for civilized settlements... It’s likely that the other Main Gods are also integrated into this world in a similar way, protecting the entire world from the erosion of pollution.
This seemed to be a complete "defense" system, but it also seemed to have become a lethal slow-acting poison that numbed them... The current situation of pollution and mutation in the wild was obviously much worse than in the city, and the Gemini Moon Gods were still maintaining their protection.
But how long can they, and the Seal Master, hold on?
Now, the situation in the wild was clearly more serious than anyone had estimated. Were they waiting for a signal, or were they waiting for a natural outbreak of bloodshed?
Lu Ping’an shook his head, focusing his mind. These things had nothing to do with him; he just had to do his own thing.
The map was already in chaos, with more than a dozen points marked around them. To bypass them, they would need some preparation and time.
He thought for a moment and realized that avoiding them completely was unrealistic at this level.
"The nearest one doesn’t seem to be high in intensity? Let’s go and take a look."
— End of Chapter 466 —