Chapter Thirty-Eight: Sorting Out Your Bad Situation

After brunch, Ofeicher walked out of the tavern, followed by Casey.

Finn thought that one of the biggest threats surrounding Charlotte, the organization called the Panthion Society, would no longer be bothering her in the near future, so he lifted Charlotte's caution on going out, and did not send any more apprentices to follow Ophiecher who was running errands for Charlotte.

Strangely, both Finn and the Church have said that there is still another force working with the Panthion Society against Charlotte, and they are responsible for the alternation of the Akatsuki and the Rotten Moon. But after the death attack on the Panthaeon, they didn't seem to pay much attention to guarding against the remaining forces.

Since they didn't take it seriously, presumably the priority of this force was far less important than that of the Panthion Society, and Orfeucher put the issue of this unknown force on the back burner. He had other things to figure out.

As he walked down the street, avoiding the wagons that came and went in the middle of the street, he began to reminisce a little about what he had sorted out over the past few days: making sure that he was able to quickly sort out his priorities if he found himself in an emergency again, or had access to answers to certain questions.

The most important thing for oneself is to sort out the situation caused by the risk factors around you as soon as possible, and at the same time ensure that you are no longer passive in intelligence and handling the situation as soon as possible, so that the outcome of the situation can be in your own interests.

What are the risk factors?

1. The bloodline of the old gods that has great power and is coveted by all parties.

This bloodline power is able to directly extract the bloodline factor through the cheat method like a golden finger of the system, and transform it into essentia crystals in Finn's mouth. It can even be activated into the system, becoming a permanent part of oneself, allowing oneself to activate or deactivate its power at any time.

What about the others? Do I have the advantage of having only direct means over others, while others need to use complex methods such as rituals to accomplish this?

The answer to this question is yes, otherwise there is no such thing as seizing the power of the bloodline. So, what did the others do with it? How strong were their motives? Are these people acting very powerful and rare, or are they sparse and ordinary in this world? What is the attitude of the Church towards these bloodline powers, and how will it treat the owners of bloodline powers?

These answers need to be discovered, but they are not a priority in action - the highest priority is to conceal the fact that he already has multiple powerful bloodline abilities at the same time.

You can steal power from others to strengthen your own bloodline ability, and it takes time to accumulate the favor of people who are accomplished in source energy under harsh conditions, and the other bloodline ability obtained from Charlotte will cause a lot of "movement", which is easy to expose and cannot be easily activated.

That's a ...... It's a test of my planning and coping skills. Ophiecher deduced this conclusion again, and still felt a little dissatisfied.

2. A world of extraordinary power that is alien to the world of ordinary people, and is both needed and rejected by the world.

During the days of recuperation in the Church, where the Paladin Chief Blanca forced Ofiecher to be inspected and treated by the Church, so that he could understand the Church's position and his duties as a citizen of the Empire, he gained a new understanding of what this otherworld was like.

Different from the world in which Ophi Yiche was located before, in recent years, it has gradually been carefully divided into four types of unnatural creatures: demons, demons, ghosts, and monsters, and has tasted the appearance of disasters and visions.

People's beliefs are not only due to the need for spiritual sustenance in the face of incomprehensible and irresistible calamities, or the need to force the ruled to submit to authority based on the needs of the rulers, but also the practical need for the help and protection of the gods.

The unnatural miracle disasters of this world are a sharp double-edged sword against religion.

At first glance, people are forced to cling more closely to religion due to practical needs, but the precise needs of the world disintegrate and harm the right to interpret and develop the space of religion.

When a religion is found to be too vague in its interpretation of reality and too weak in its protection of its congregation, it is easy for people to lose their fear and convincing of it.

Once a new reality emerges that can be relied upon, religious forces are more vulnerable than the world that Orfiecher has traveled to.

...... It's a pity that the original owner is only a servant who knows a little bit about words, and there are few channels to obtain knowledge, so he has no way to make a more comprehensive understanding and analysis of the relationship between the ordinary world and the transcendent world.

However, it is certain that the impact of supernatural forces on the world is not as simple as a few hidden events that endanger people's lives, or as simple as some widespread loss of life and property like ordinary suffering.

Extraordinary power is likely to have become one of the important means for various forces to wrestle, and the brutality of the form of wrestling is likely to involve people other than the target at any time.

But why do people not embrace this supernatural power, but rather stay away from it? This is an unsolved mystery in a world where people are still accustomed to wearing weapons and cannot rely on the thin and crude system of city defense to ensure their own safety, and still rely on self-defense capabilities to a considerable extent.

The more a person fears, the more he will find a way to resist it. It is unlikely that a few words about not approaching supernatural powers will make people shy away from relying on authorities such as the church alone.

From his own point of view, from the moment he crossed over, he had been entangled in the world of transcendent power. His priorities in this regard have also become concrete: to train at Finn's and master the advanced ways of using the Source Qi, to understand some basic concepts of supernatural power through the Church and Finn, and to expand his knowledge of some of the Empire's forces through the trading dialogue of the Subspace Anchor Coin.

The above two points are the risk factors that can endanger their own safety at any time, and they are the sources of danger that need to be dealt with as soon as possible.

Although what he needs most is to find a way to return to his own world, these dangers do not stop for a moment, sending him to the center of the incident.

It's been almost a month since I crossed into this other world, but I haven't been able to recognize the things around me, and I'm always in a state of fear, which is not just uncomfortable.

As they thought about it, they had stepped out into the street, and the autumn wind swept unobstructed over Ofiicher and Casey.

...... Then again, there is no public transportation in this town, and you have to walk everywhere. If you can sit in the carriage compartment and think about things or even take notes, you can make the most of the time you spend on the road.

Unfortunately, at least in the Duchy of Zalahod, where the town of Chahe is located, horse-drawn carriages were only affordable for the nobles, and were a luxury means of transportation.

People who are slightly more affluent and need to travel for a long time will consider getting a horse of their own. The merchants used to pull the wooden wagons were ponies that looked two laps smaller than the horses. When the merchants were transporting goods to the ponies, even they were reluctant to sit on them, for fear that the ponies with little strength would not be able to bear it, let alone carry a few people by the way.

Perhaps the technology and system have not yet reached the point where public transportation can appear, but it is clear that even kerosene lamps are available. O'Feuy complained from the bottom of his heart.

From the perspective of various technologies and applications, this different world seems to be mixed with many situations in medieval Europe before the sixteenth century, and it is difficult to correspond to the situation in a certain period and region.

Due to the existence of rune workshops and rune components, gas turbine technology has not been well developed, but coal has become one of the strategic goods and fuels, and has been vigorously mined, and even a small number of derivatives have become popular. It has become a strong proof that extraordinary power has caused the development of the world to be disordered.

It's time to focus on figuring out a new place to live, and I don't know how much Charlotte's socialization will help her father's situation......

Ofeicher wondered with some regret about the situation of the Goslar family. He quickened his pace and walked towards Elm Street, which was still in the center of town. There is a house for sale closest to the tavern.