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Angel City.
After school at Public Third Grammar School, Daisy walked home with a classmate, chatting and laughing. They separated at the entrance of the residential area.
When alone, Daisy quickened her pace unconsciously.
This was a habit she developed after being kidnapped. Whenever she was alone, she would go to her destination as quickly as possible, taking the main roads and avoiding the alleys.
If she had to go through an alley, she would observe it beforehand and then run through it.
If there were suspicious people in the alley or some small doors, she would rather cancel her trip than go through such a place.
Daisy quickly arrived at her doorstep, breathing a slight sigh of relief.
In fact, she knew that Angel City had very good public security, but the habit she had developed before was deeply ingrained.
After looking around and seeing no one, Daisy quickly opened the door and entered the house.
As soon as she entered, she saw King Hobert drinking tea in the living room.
He was dressed very plainly, in an Atlantis-style shirt and a pair of pants that looked to be of good quality. He wasn't wearing a top hat and had a hairstyle that looked very energetic.
Daisy certainly knew that this was the person who took her sister away back then, but later she also learned that this matter was not as she had imagined.
And now she also knew that this was the King of the Atlantis Kingdom.
This made Daisy a little at a loss, not knowing whether she should kneel down and salute immediately.
In theory, she should kneel, but her sister Freya had said several times that there was no need to kneel in the Atlantis Kingdom.
Hobert was also looking at Daisy. The little girl looked rosy, dressed appropriately, only her hair still looked a little dry, revealing her experience of malnutrition.
"Your… Your Majesty," Daisy finally spoke, calling out respectfully.
Hobert nodded with a smile: "Go to the kitchen and help your sister."
At this time, the kitchen door opened, and Dennis came out with a kitchen knife: "Ah, Daisy, you're finally back, come quickly! I'm about to be scolded to death by your sister."
Freya's voice came from the kitchen: "It's because you're too stupid, don't blame me for scolding you?"
Dennis quickly stuffed the kitchen knife to Daisy, and took off her schoolbag, before saying to the kitchen: "My Minister, my knife is not for cutting vegetables."
Daisy breathed a sigh of relief, quickly took the kitchen knife and entered the kitchen. She saw Freya's profile, filled with a happy smile.
A smile also appeared on Daisy's face unconsciously, and she skillfully helped her sister cut vegetables.
She knew that Freya was now secretly in love with Dennis. Dennis often came to their house for dinner, or took the sisters out to play.
The reason why it was a secret love was because both of them were senior officials of the kingdom, and they would not announce their relationship until they were sure they were getting married.
In the living room, Hobert and Dennis were drinking tea and chatting, and they first talked about South Colson.
Hobert said: "I just went to South Colson this afternoon. The lakeside railway there has been completed and opened to traffic. It is a good tourist transportation line."
"So fast!" Dennis sighed: "I haven't been back to see it for a long time. I heard that the power plant there is about to be completed?"
"Yes," Hobert took a sip of tea: "After the electricity is connected, it will definitely be a modern city."
South Colson currently has a developed tourism industry, abundant crop yields, and cheap daily necessities, which has attracted many Feynapotter people to immigrate and settle down. Many Feynapotter nobles have also purchased real estate there.
Then they talked about work, and Hobert asked: "I heard that many foreign spies have been caught recently?"
"That's right," Dennis said: "Our household registration system provides a lot of convenience for identifying spies.
"In contrast, the household registration systems of the countries in the Northern Continent are too crude. They still don't fully understand the internal structure of our household registration system, so the people they send are easily exposed."
At this time, Freya said while bringing out the dishes: "What is currently difficult to identify are the spies left behind when the colonists withdrew, because they were also registered when the population was registered. We can only detect and review them after discovering leaks."
Hobert pondered for a while before saying: "The living standards of the people are still too poor. Life in the Northern Continent is still attractive to them…"
Speaking of this, He shook his head: "That's not entirely true. Some people just like to listen to rumors and always feel that they are living in dire straits."
"It's already not bad," Dennis said while helping to bring out the dishes: "I used to stay in Backlund, and the lives of the middle class in Backlund were just like that.
"Especially in terms of food, it is far less abundant and convenient than that of the middle class in Angel City."
Their dinner today was beef stew with potatoes, fried small fish, vegetable salad, fruit platter, a piece of lamb chop for each person, a piece of cream cake, and a bowl of radish soup.
Because Hobert came as a guest, Freya made it a little richer. Usually they would only have one meat dish.
The diet of the middle class in Angel City is about the same as their usual level.
The four of them ate and continued the previous topic. Hobert took a sip of red wine and said: "But the number of middle class in the Atlantis Kingdom is too small.
"In a healthy society, most people should be middle class."
Daisy listened quietly to them discussing some topics that she didn't quite understand. She didn't find it boring, but felt very at ease and safe in her heart.
After discussing the topic of "middle class", Hobert suddenly asked Daisy: "I heard that you are very biased in your subjects?"
Daisy was slightly stunned before saying: "Yes."
"Why? Are you not interested in that course? Or do you not understand?" Hobert then asked.
Daisy carefully considered for a while before deciding to tell the truth: "I don't like the math teacher very much, and that teacher doesn't seem to like me very much either."
Hobert smiled: "Communication is a universal knowledge. You can't delay your studies just because you don't like a teacher.
"It's a bit like that teacher is not qualified enough and didn't make all the students like him, but you are punishing yourself because of this."
Daisy listened more and more attentively, and she felt it made a lot of sense.
Hobert added: "There are no completely fitting clothes in the world, and sometimes people have to adapt to clothes.
"But you can communicate to make the 'clothes' fit better."
Daisy nodded thoughtfully.
Freya sighed slightly, which reminded her of a casual chat with Dennis before. At that time, Dennis said that Freya and Daisy had been lacking fatherly love since they were young, so their perspective on problems would be somewhat one-sided.
At this time, Freya suddenly had a concrete feeling about this problem. Their sisters were indeed lacking in effective communication.
Hobert said to Freya again: "Take Daisy out for a walk more often when you have time, and encourage her to communicate with strangers more."
Freya nodded: "Teacher, I will pay attention to this."
This topic ended, and the three adults talked about the newly built seaside resort. Freya decided to take Daisy there to see it during her vacation.
Dennis raised his hand slightly: "I'll go too, um… mainly to protect your safety."
Hobert held up his wine glass: "Hahaha."
Daisy ate a bite of cream cake with a smile, it was fragrant and sweet.
…
June 8th, the Atlantis Kingdom issued a stern warning, condemning Loen and other countries for interfering in other countries' internal affairs, and condemning their material and manpower support to the Paz Kingdom and the Balam Empire. At the same time, Loen was warned that if it continued to support the confrontation between the countries of the Southern Continent, the Atlantis Kingdom would not rule out using force to solve the problem.
That afternoon, Loen, Intis and other countries publicly condemned the Atlantis Kingdom's war of aggression against the Balam Empire, and pointed out that the Atlantis Kingdom was the unstable factor in the Southern Continent. Unless the Atlantis Kingdom could change its existing political model and return to a normal political track, they would not stop supporting the countries of justice and freedom.
That night, the Atlantis Kingdom responded: If the Loen Kingdom withdraws its troops from East Balam and returns the rule of all territories to the Haagenti Kingdom, the Atlantis Kingdom will withdraw its troops from the Balam Empire.
From this day on, the accusations between the two sides became more and more severe, and the rhetoric of threatening to use force became more and more frequent.
…
The next day, East Chester County, a forest belonging to the Hall family.
Alfred, Hibbert and Audrey led their foxhounds, with a varying number of servants, chasing prey around the edge of the forest.
This was the first time their siblings had hunted together since they came of age.
Now Audrey's identity was a bit special, so Alfred and Hibbert were both subtly making way for Audrey and vaguely protecting her.
During the chase, they rushed out of the forest and saw a wheat field.
Audrey, dressed in hunting attire, saw the village in front and asked, "Where is that?"
This was the first time she had hunted in this forest, and she didn't know where the surrounding areas led.
Hibbert was also not very familiar with it, and turned to his attendant and said, "Ask someone."
While waiting, the three siblings talked about their harvest just now.
And the golden retriever Susie glanced at the foxhounds that wanted to approach her, and made them consciously stop and keep their distance from Susie.
As the three siblings chatted, Alfred sighed: "I'm leaving the day after tomorrow, holidays always go by so fast."
Hibbert nodded: "With the current situation, it's really not good for you to continue your vacation."
In fact, Alfred's vacation at this time was a bit of a way to avoid suspicion. After all, the military was currently assisting the Paz Kingdom in confronting the Atlantis Kingdom, but he was the brother of the Queen of the Atlantis Kingdom. It was actually difficult for the military's high-level officials to trust him.
But it was not a solution to always take a vacation like this, and he could easily be marginalized.
Audrey didn't express any opinion on this. She had also talked to Alfred about whether he was interested in joining the Atlantis army.
Although Hobert rarely allowed the two Empress Borough to touch the kingdom's politics and military, Audrey still had the confidence to arrange for her brother to enter the Atlantis army.
But Alfred said that he hoped to stay in Loen. After all, he had already established many contacts in the Loen military, and everything would have to start over after going to the Atlantis army.
Moreover, he heard that the Atlantis army didn't seem to welcome nobles very much. He also heard that the proportion of Beyonders in the Atlantis army was much higher than that in the Loen army. There, a "Disciplinary Knight" could only be a brigade commander.
At this time, Hibbert's attendant came back to report: "Lord, that village is called Hartlarkh."
Audrey felt that this name was very familiar. After thinking carefully, she finally remembered that she had heard that the Psychology Alchemists had sent people to study the customs here.
It is said that this village worships dragons, which is completely different from the mainstream beliefs of the Northern Continent.
Even more bizarrely, the members of the Psychology Alchemists went crazy shortly after arriving here!
Audrey, who already had a very solid knowledge of mysticism, immediately became vigilant. She didn't think this was a coincidence, or rather, it might indeed be a coincidence, but this coincidence had a "problem".
She took a deep breath and felt that she might be overthinking it, but for the sake of safety, it was best not to get close to that place.
At this time, Hibbert smiled: "I've heard of this village chief. I remember that the family has a manor nearby."
As he spoke, he looked up at the sky: "It's almost evening, why not stay here for the night and continue hunting tomorrow?"
Alfred had no resistance to his brother's suggestion. To him, it didn't matter which manor he stayed in tonight.
So he nodded: "Then send someone back to inform Dad and Mom."
Audrey didn't speak, but her eyes were dyed with a faint gold color that was not easily noticed. Then, her gaze swept across the faces of her two brothers in turn.
Hibbert's brows furrowed slightly. After a few seconds, he said: "Let's go back. The manor here hasn't been notified in advance, so it's definitely not ready, and it may not be able to serve so many horses, hounds and servants.
"Moreover, there is still more than an hour before evening, enough to return."
Seeing that his brother had changed his mind so quickly, Alfred subconsciously wanted to argue, but after thinking about it, he felt that what the other party said still made some sense.
Considering that his sister was also here, he "hmm" and said: "Then let's return as soon as possible."
So they turned around with a group of attendants, servants and hounds, and returned to the other side of the manor along the edge of the forest.
Audrey followed quietly behind, not expressing her opinion on the development of the matter.
When they returned to the manor, it was dinner time.
Of course, there was no shortage of discussions about the current international situation at the dinner table.
Earl Hall said: "In the afternoon, I saw yesterday's 'Backlund Evening News'. The accusations between the two sides are even more severe, and the situation in the Northern and Southern continents has become even more tense."
This place is far away from the big city, but there are special mailmen who send newspapers here, but the time will definitely be later.
For example, you can only see the morning paper in the evening, and you can only see yesterday's evening paper the next afternoon.
Earl Hall asked Audrey worriedly: "At this time, Hobert asked you to return to East Chester County for vacation, is there really no other intention?"
In connection with what happened before, the Loen special envoy went to Angel City for three days and failed to see Hobert. After Audrey went to talk to Hobert, Hobert began to summon special envoys from various countries.
Following closely behind, Audrey also returned to her home country with her parents, declaring that she would rest at their manor in East Chester County for a month.
It seemed as if Hobert was very angry with Audrey's actions and had sent her back to East Chester County.
In reality, no matter how tense the relationship between the Loen Kingdom and the Kingdom of Atlantis became, the Hall family was not in any danger. Even if war broke out, they only needed to avoid appearing in public as much as possible.
This was because whether the Kingdom of Atlantis wanted to propose peace talks in the future, or the Loen Kingdom felt the need to negotiate, both sides needed a channel, and Earl Hall was a very good channel.
He understood this very well, which was why he became low-key when relations between the two countries were strained, allowing his family to vacation at their manor in East Chester County.
The problem was that if Audrey was not by Hobert's side, Earl Hall would lose his role as a "channel."
Audrey smiled and said, "Father, it really doesn't mean anything else."
She still believed in Hobert on this point.
To reassure her father, she added, "If I want to go back, I can go back at any time.
"But you also understand the current situation. Currently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no other business besides issuing a 'statement of condemnation'. I believe the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will only become busy after the war starts."
Alfred joined the conversation, "Audrey, do you think the two sides will go to war?"
"It's certain," Audrey said seriously. "The momentum of confrontation between the two sides is already very obvious, and the conflicts between them cannot be resolved through negotiation."
Hibbert and Alfred said nothing more. They also opposed the Kingdom of Atlantis's policies to some extent. Theoretically, Audrey was the queen of that country, so the Hall family should be the nobles second only to the royal family there.
But the truth was that the Hall family didn't even receive many privileges when doing business in the Kingdom of Atlantis, only some policy conveniences.
Even the most open-minded nobles thought this was wrong.
In their view, some businesses were simply beyond the reach, vision, and ability of ordinary people. Nobles and wealthy people had the ability and vision to maintain the good operation of society through those businesses and industries.
Because of their contributions, they should enjoy some privileges.
Audrey certainly understood her two brothers' thoughts, but she didn't comment on them.
According to her observations, the Kingdom of Atlantis was running quite well without nobles and wealthy people. The bureaucracy was clearly more efficient than the nobles, and it could more easily concentrate wealth and manpower to better complete some construction tasks.
Of course, the bureaucracy also had its problems, such as breeding corruption and 'bureaucracy', which could make efficiency even slower than a political system dominated by nobles.
Now, the government of the Kingdom of Atlantis was still on the rise, and everyone had ideals and a thriving scene.
But what about decades or hundreds of years from now?
That would definitely be an era of 'bureaucracy', so Hobert was already taking precautions against such things from happening.
The way to prevent it was also very simple. First, mobilize the people. If they wanted to report others, they could directly pray to the 'Creator' to report them.
The staff in the 'Creator's' divine kingdom would send people from the inspection department to investigate.
Because of the existence of Beyonder abilities, the investigation process was very simple and would not affect the normal life and work of the person being reported.
Second, the supervisory agency was independent of the government, and the Ministry of Finance specifically allocated funds, with no subordinate relationship to any department.
All of the above were things Audrey heard Him talk about when she chatted with Hobert.
But she didn't want to tell her family about these things, because no matter what, nobles couldn't play any role in the Kingdom of Atlantis and wouldn't receive any extra benefits.
So the topic at the dinner table naturally turned to the interesting things that happened during the hunt today.
After Audrey returned to her room, she and Susie admired the peaceful night of the manor on the terrace. Late at night, Audrey returned to the bedroom, lifted the velvet quilt, and lay down, quickly falling asleep.
In a daze, she suddenly sat up.
Her spiritual perception made her realize that her state was not right. She looked around and saw the familiar dressing table and the entrance to the washroom, but there was no red moon or stars outside the window. It was completely dark outside.
Audrey instantly made a judgment: This is not the real world.
Soon, she came to another conclusion: This is a dream, a rather strange dream that can actively keep her awake.
Audrey immediately got out of bed to look at the 'Order Crystal' on the bedside table. Fortunately, the ornament Hobert gave her was still there. At this time, the jade pendant was emitting a soft black light, which was clearly different from its state in the real world.
Hobert had told her that if she encountered danger, she only needed to inject spirituality into the jade pendant, and Hobert would be able to sense it.
Audrey quickly went over and grabbed the jade pendant, injecting spirituality into it.
She quickly received feedback. A line of letters appeared on the jade pendant: Go out and explore.
Audrey breathed a sigh of relief. This should be Hobert's guidance.
Audrey had great confidence in Hobert's current strength. It shouldn't be a problem for Him to pull her out of the dream or directly shatter the dream.
He didn't do that, but instead told her to explore, which meant that the dream might not be dangerous, or rather, with Hobert's protection, it wouldn't be very dangerous for her.
So Audrey put on a coat, tightly grasped the 'jade pendant,' and opened the door. Outside was a dark corridor. Although there were candlesticks on the wall, the candles emitted a very abnormal dim light, giving people a feeling that ghosts might appear at any time.
Audrey followed her spiritual intuition and walked to the right, reaching the end of the corridor, which was a semi-open solarium.
Her spirituality predicted that the outside was very special, and it didn't correspond to the solarium.
But Hobert had not issued a warning, so Audrey slowly opened the door.
As she expected, the outside was not a solarium, nor was it the scene outside the villa, but an unfamiliar environment. The ground was covered with round stones and clumps of blue-black weeds.
Audrey cautiously walked in, and the door closed behind her with a "creak."
The scenery a little further away suddenly became dim, quickly outlining a huge stone pillar tens of meters high.
At the top of the stone pillar stood a huge monster with large gray-white scales, pale gold and vertical eyes, and a pair of huge wings.
This is a Mind Dragon!
Audrey recalled that the year before, she had explored the surrounding 'ocean of collective consciousness'. At that time, she had seen a Mind Dragon flying in the distance, which should be the one in front of her.
As she looked at it, the Mind Dragon was also looking at Audrey: "Have you ever been to Livseyed?"
It used Dragonese, which Audrey could understand. She was slightly stunned: How did it know?
That was last year when Audrey, together with 'The World' and 'The Star', explored a mystical item called the 'Groselle Travels' and eventually found the 'City of Miracles' Livseyed in the ocean of collective consciousness in this 'Travels'.
The Mind Dragon explained, "Every mind's consciousness is exchanging certain information with the sea of collective unconsciousness, and Livseyed is a very special existence. The imprint it forms in your mind is the same, so I can naturally sense it."
Audrey immediately realized: This Mind Dragon corresponds to Sequence 2 'Discerner'.
Immediately afterward, Audrey thought of the conversation Hobert had with her about how to continue advancing.
But she didn't dare to continue thinking about it, because that would reveal too much information and might startle the dragon.
As her thoughts swirled, Audrey asked, "What do you want to know?"
The huge dragon said, "My name is Ariehogg, one of the only three ancient dragons left."
"Hello, Ariehogg," a strange voice suddenly joined the conversation.
Hobert, wearing pajamas and slippers like Audrey, holding a golden and orange entwined scepter, and wearing a coat outside, appeared beside her.
Ariehogg's eyes narrowed, and he was about to leave immediately!
Before this, He hadn't even noticed the other party, which was enough to show the other party's power!
But in the next second, the dragon's idea of escaping was 'distorted' into the idea of 'seriously answering Hobert's questions'.
Hobert asked, "I really want to know, besides you and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, who is the other dragon? Where is it now? Is it also a Mind Dragon?"
Ariehogg seriously replied, "He is... He is, I forgot."
Hobert curled his lips: "Dealing with 'Spectators' is really troublesome."
As he spoke, the avatar in his hand became a huge twilight-colored giant sword. The next second, Hobert was already standing on the dragon's back.
The desire to survive instantly woke Ariehogg up. As Hobert's giant sword was about to swing down, He had already 'teleported' to the depths of this 'dream'.
This was His home field, and He immediately set up several barriers between Himself and Hobert, which He had prepared in advance.
Those barriers were made up of inescapable nightmares. They were not substantial in the dream space, and even archangels would only be able to detect them after contact.
But at the moment of contact, the target could be pulled into a deeper dream, giving Ariehogg time to escape.
Seeing that Hobert hadn't chased after him, Ariehogg breathed a sigh of relief and was about to hide in a secret place He had found in the ocean of the unconscious when suddenly His vertical pupils narrowed.
Because Hobert actually appeared in front of Him!
At this time, Hobert was standing on a high giant pillar, and below the giant pillar, the beautiful Audrey was still watching the battle below the stone pillar.
Ariehogg immediately changed direction, but in front of Him was still Hobert standing on the stone pillar, and Audrey watching the battle below!
After thinking about it for a while, He realized that the dream He had created had been 'tampered with'. No matter how He flew, He would fly towards the enemy standing on the stone pillar.
It was difficult to escape when encountering such an enemy, so Ariehogg had to flap His wings desperately and fan a 'plague storm' towards Hobert.
Such an attack would turn ordinary people in a large area into lunatics or die in their sleep, which would definitely attract the attention of official Beyonders.
But He couldn't care about that now. Ariehogg had to try His best to escape.
Faced with the dragon's full blow, Hobert just raised his hand slightly and used the ability of 'Disorder'.
Pfft~
This full blow turned into an ordinary gust.
The next moment, Hobert appeared beside Ariehogg, and the giant sword in his hand slashed at the dragon's neck.
Ariehogg immediately retreated, but his idea was to retreat, but his body was 'distorted', and his neck stretched out under the giant sword instead.
At the moment the giant sword touched the dragon's neck, He barely broke free from the 'distorted' state and tried to dodge.
But the giant sword still hit His huge neck.
Shila~
This giant sword had the characteristics of the 'Twilight Giant' pathway. Under Hobert's 'magnification', it was indestructible, like cutting through a thick cloth, cutting through Ariehogg's gray-white, rock-like skin and muscles.
A third of His neck was cut off from top to bottom, and golden blood spurted out.
Hobert quickly tore off a piece of his pajamas and 'distorted' it into a 'cloth bowl': "This can't be wasted."
Ariehogg turned around and fled in pain, golden dragon blood flowing down like a waterfall, but drawing an arc in the air and flowing into the cloth bowl in Hobert's hand.
This cloth bowl was only the size of a normal bowl, but it seemed to never be filled.
While Hobert was 'catching' dragon blood, he took a step forward and stood on the dragon's back again.
Ariehogg immediately turned into an illusion, but Hobert still pierced the back of the illusion's heart with the giant sword in his hand.
Pfft~
The Mind Dragon, which was originally an illusion, returned to its physical form, and Hobert pierced a large hole in its heart.
Hobert had just 'tampered with' the concept between Ariehogg's body and His 'virtual personality'. Piercing the 'virtual personality' was equal to piercing the body.
In Ariehogg's mournful wail, it fell from mid-air.
Hobert 'magnified' His injuries, and this Mind Dragon, which had survived since the Second Epoch, was already dying before landing.
He held the giant sword and stabbed it into the dragon's head, and this dragon, which had survived since the Second Epoch, died instantly.
Hobert then used the ability of 'Exploit'. The Beyonder characteristics of the dragon, which was still twitching all over, had been extracted.
It was a pale golden crystal that looked a bit like an eye, with a mass of moving golden light in the middle, which really looked like an eyeball moving back and forth.
In addition, the dragon's bones, flesh, teeth, heart, etc., were all very good Beyonder ingredients, and Hobert would certainly not waste them. Except for the Beyonder characteristics, they were all sent into the 'Nation of Disorder'.
At this time, cracks appeared around like a broken mirror, and everything became illusory.
Audrey, lying on the bed in her bedroom, suddenly opened her eyes. The 'Order Crystal' was being held in her hand, and the black light was fading away little by little.
Hobert stood on one side of the big bed, holding a scepter in one hand and the Beyonder characteristics of the angel level in the other.
The golden retriever Susie was lying at the end of the bed, looking at Audrey with some concern. Seeing Audrey wake up, she immediately opened her mouth, but as if she suddenly realized something, she distorted her tongue and shouted, "Woof!"
Hobert smiled and said, "Alright, you don't have to pretend. I can clearly sense that you are already a Sequence 5 Golden Retriever, and you should have been able to speak a long time ago."
Susie opened her mouth, a slightly embarrassed expression on her face.
Audrey sat up in bed, looking at the Beyonder characteristic in Hobert's hand: "I didn't expect to have the opportunity to advance so quickly."
Hobert also looked at the characteristic that resembled a phantom eye: "Characteristics at this level require special storage space. I will keep it for you first and help crush it when you need it."
After putting the Beyonder characteristic into the "Nation of Disorder", Hobert said to Susie: "Congratulations, you have the characteristic to advance to a demigod."
This made Susie very happy, and she tried to say as elegantly as possible: "Thank you."
Hobert also put away the "Twilight Scepter", He smiled at Audrey: "This hateful dragon disturbed our good dream, shall we continue to go to bed?"
Seeing that Audrey was fine, Susie quickly left the bedroom.
In the second half of the night, Hobert and Audrey contentedly put on their pajamas and sat down on the terrace, enjoying the beautiful scenery under the moonlight while chatting.
As they chatted, they talked about the problem of angels in the "Spectator" pathway.
Audrey said: "I didn't expect that there are still three dragons alive, um... but after today, there will only be two left."
She took Hobert's hand away: "Among the three ancient dragons, there are two Mind Dragons, plus Hermes, then there are actually three angels in this pathway!"
Hobert put his arms around Audrey and looked at the forest under the moonlight: "Perhaps this pathway also has a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact."
Audrey was stunned: "Why do you say that?"
Hobert glanced at Audrey, who was full of youthful vigor in his arms, and explained with a smile: "Generally speaking, an angel-level Beyonder characteristic in a pathway has 7 to 10 pieces.
"Take the pathway you are in as an example, 'Spectator'…"
Audrey certainly knew that the "Spectator" Hobert was talking about referred to Adam.
"…In the three Sequence 1 characteristics in 'Spectator's' body, there may be a Sequence 2 characteristic in each, because He is born with Uniqueness, and has not undergone advancement below Sequence 2, so these three Sequence 2 characteristics should be all the Sequence 2 characteristics in His body.
"Then even if we calculate according to the minimum of 7 Sequence 2 level Beyonder characteristics, in addition to the 3 from the Sequence 1 pathway, there should be 4 Sequence 2 level characteristics.
"One is in Hermes' body, one is in our hands, one is in that unknown Mind Dragon, theoretically there should be another angel, or a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact of this pathway."
Audrey nodded, feeling that this algorithm was relatively reliable.
She did a simple calculation: "According to this algorithm, there are quite a few angels in this world."
"Well, this is only at the Sequence 2 level." Hobert said: "There is also the Sequence 1 level, for example, as far as I know, there is an archangel in the 'Death' pathway, who is the 'Pale Empress', and there is also a Sealed Artifact of the same level.
"There is also a Sequence 1 characteristic, which should exist in the form of a Beyonder characteristic or a Sealed Artifact.
"For example, in the 'Mystery Pryer' pathway, of which I just received relatively reliable news, there is a Sealed Artifact at the archangel level, and there is at least one Sequence 1 level Beyonder characteristic at the 'Hidden Sage''s place.
"Once there is a god in a pathway, the ownership of the Sequence 1 level is very clear, without guessing."
Audrey calculated: "If you add the two together, angels and Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts should be very common, but why do I always feel that I rarely see Beyonders or Sealed Artifacts at this level?"
Hobert smiled and said: "Of course, it's because after reaching this level, you can hide yourself very discreetly.
"For example, this Mind Dragon named Ariehogg, He has been hiding in the 'Sea of Collective Subconscious' for I don't know how many years. Unless it is a coincidence, it is difficult to find Him.
"There are also many angels in the pathway that are difficult to find, such as the Marauder Pathway. He is parasitized on a member of a orthodox god's church. Who can find Him?"
Audrey was stunned: Are you talking about Mr. Star?
She remembered that when they explored Groselle's Travels together, the descendant of Zoroast guessed that Mr. Star was parasitized.
Hobert continued: "In addition, don't underestimate those former angel families.
"For example, the Abraham family, which has already declined, still has 2 Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts in their hands. There were so many angel families back then, they must all have some 'inventory'.
"I think there are many Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts that are not in the hands of the orthodox church, but are hidden by a secret force somewhere in this world. We rarely see them.
"Another point is that each of these Sealed Artifacts is enough to destroy a city, and it is impossible to take them out for use frequently, so we rarely see them."
For example, Bernadette originally had 3 Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts in her hand, but now there are only two.
Audrey nodded: "This is the mystical world."
Hobert smiled: "Well... we are different. We also control secular power. Many hidden angels will appear in front of us as our friends or enemies."
He believed that Roselle had such a deep accumulation for this reason, and just a part of it was left to Bernadette, which was enough for her to deal with the Moses Ascetic Order for more than a hundred years.
The two of them sat on the terrace and chatted until dawn. Hobert told Audrey that He planned to rest in this scenic manor for a few days.
Audrey was of course very happy. After Hobert returned to the Southern Continent and brought some changes of clothes, she took Hobert's arm and the two of them appeared in the restaurant together.
Everyone was very surprised by Hobert's sudden appearance, and then the servants even saluted the King under the butler's scolding.
Seeing Hobert's sudden arrival, Earl Hall finally believed his daughter's words.
Audrey's two older brothers were very curious about how Hobert came, but Alfred, as a Beyonder, was not very surprised by this.
On this day, Hobert also accompanied the three siblings out hunting. As the group walked, they actually appeared not far from Hartlarkh Village again.
From afar, they heard crying coming from the village.
Seeing that King Hobert seemed very curious about this, Hibbert sent a servant to inquire about it.
Soon the servant came back to report: "Lord, all the dragon statues in the village suddenly collapsed last night, and the villagers have lost their faith, so they are crying."
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