As the sun rose, Roy slowly opened his eyes and subconsciously turned his head to look.

He was the only one left on the huge double bed, and the female companion next to the pillow had already gotten up.

Arya was leaning against the window in a dressing gown, quietly admiring the scenery outside the window.

The breeze blew, moving the window screen on the side, and even the girl's long hair fluttered slightly, she brushed the hair on her sideburns, and when she saw that Roy had finally gotten up, she turned around and smiled:

"Good morning, young master, it's been a good day today!"

"What time is it?"

Roy asked, getting up to wrap himself in a dressing gown.

"It's time for lunch."

Arya stared at the young man in front of her, the corners of her eyes were full of tenderness, "Young Master, you can go take a shower first, and I'll prepare lunch for you now." ”

Roy nodded, and he did just that.

As he passed by Arya with a change of clothes, he also put his arm around her slender waist and kissed her white neck mischievously.

Arya chuckled and kissed him on the cheek as if she hadn't given up.

The young man who eats the marrow is always enthusiastic, and after lingering for a while, Roy walked out of the bedroom in a good mood.

Arya looked back out the window, the sun shining on the manor's flower beds, each flower reflecting a gentle hazy halo.

"It's a nice day......" she laughed again.

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After washing up, Roy and Arya, who were in good spirits, ate together, probably because they woke up a little late and staggered the meal time, and it was just the two of them for lunch.

"Where's Harvey, where has he been?" Roy chattered.

"He went hunting with Mr. Claude early in the morning."

Arya recalled, "Maybe we all underestimated Harvey's determination."

"It's really good to be able to keep training without being reminded by others, but I don't know how long he can last."

Roy nodded, "Since you can be self-disciplined, don't bother him, this afternoon, where are we going to play."

After eating, he and Arya prepared to go out for a stroll around the ruined mines, Renault was a little uneasy, and wanted to call some guards to accompany them, but Roy refused.

In the ruined mine on the second floor of the World Tree, the level of Warcraft is generally only the first order, and even if it is a lord-level Warcraft, it is at most around the third order.

With his and Arya's current strength, even the lords of this layer can retreat with their whole body, and for them, even going outside the safe zone is no different from stepping into the green.

As the temperature warms up, it seems to herald the arrival of spring, and in the warm afternoon sun, Roy and Arya set off from the manor, stopping all the way to enjoy the unique view of the ruined mine.

The Ruined Mine is a valley rich in ore veins that have been mined by humans for hundreds of years, and the area is full of large and small mines.

The abandoned mine is fenced around and deserted, while the mining site is busy, with mining trucks and workers coming and going, and the two outsiders look out of place.

As an industrial area, there are very few places that can be considered a view, but this is the first time they have seen the mining operations up close, which is a novelty.

And it's not about what you see, it's who you're looking at.

As long as you chat with the people around you, you always feel that the road ahead can go on forever.

"The Ruined Mine accounts for more than eighty percent of the ore mined in West Denia, and the mine we just saw should be the raw ore of the Spirit Power Crystal."

Roy has read a lot of miscellaneous books, and when he glimpses the fineness of the ore transported on the minecart outside, he can guess in his heart.

"The veins of spiritual power crystals are very precious, and these crystal ores will be repeatedly refined later, and they will be turned into finished spiritual power crystals that our inheritors can directly absorb according to the four qualities of cyan, orange, red, and purple.

"Those red spiritual power crystals that Cynthia provided us yesterday estimated that most of their original ore was dug out of this mine."

Arya stuck out her tongue, "That mine seems to be the property of the Paladin family...... Originally, I received so many cultivation resources yesterday, and I thought we had become very rich.

"But compared to the temple family, I suddenly feel that these resources are not a big deal."

Not only the Palatine family, but the assets in the hands of these temple families together almost monopolized the lifeblood of all the industries in Sidney.

In the millennium before the Divine Messenger appeared, they were the greatest rulers and vested interests in Sidney.

Thinking of this, Roy's expression suddenly moved.

It seems that it is precisely because of the disappearance of the divine envoy that after hundreds of years of power in the temple family, the people of Sidneya believe in the existence of gods, but they do not particularly believe in them.

Although there were churches in Sidenia that believed in the gods, the Sidenia temple was also a product of the "divine right of kings", and the temple originally asserted itself as the agent of the will of the gods.

But in the eyes of the people, the temple family is the ruler of Sidney, and the temple is the embodiment of the "will of Sidney", not the "will of God".

Earlier in the wilderness, Cynthia saluted Hitomi and said, "The glory of Sidenia lives on forever." Instead of "God willing."

Sidenia is the kingdom of mankind, it represents the will of mankind, when the people began to believe in Sidenia instead of God, it marked that Sidenia has entered the "rule of man" society.

This also confirmed his previous suspicions.

In this era, even if he reveals his identity as an oracle, as long as he doesn't have the strength to compete with the temple family, he still won't get enough attention.

Leon and Cynthia are willing to help him, I am afraid not only because of the "identity" of the oracle, but because of the "power" of the oracle. ”

After all, in terms of power, the divine envoy is equivalent to the luxurious version of the law envoy ps, no matter what era it is in, only the strong are eternal.

At the same time, after the mysterious disappearance of the first generation of oracles, they did not even leave their own names, which also made the impression of later generations very vague.

The temple family can treat the envoy with courtesy, and of course they will also be in awe of the envoy, but some of these three points of awe are out of faith in the gods, and some are simply out of respect for the strong...... I don't know.

However, he was born in a socialist country and never felt that he was superior to others, and he only regarded the heart of God as a kind of magic...... Machine Spirit?

After all, in the legend, the power of the divine envoy is given by the gods, but in fact, the power of the divine envoy is given by the artifact, and from this point of view, the heart of the god is the legendary god.

However, in his limited contact with the heart of God, the heart of God does not seem to fit the image of the omniscient and omnipotent and somewhat cold god in his mind.

Perhaps the current Sidenia is correct, there are no gods in the real sense of the world, but some mysterious creatures were mistaken for gods by humans in ancient times.

And the so-called oracle is actually not such a mysterious existence, but the lucky one who happens to be in the phase of these creatures?

Suddenly, I felt that the compulsion of the heart of God had dropped a notch......

In the midst of small talk, they had already left the safe zone some distance and came to a relatively gentle hillside.

With little vegetation, rocky rocks and a layer of gravel on the ground, it looks like a good place to build a quarry.

However, it may be because it is too far away from the base camp and its own value is not very high, so it has not been developed so far.

Roy stood on the hillside and looked around, but he didn't see any trace of the demonic beast, and frowned a little suspiciously.

Strange to say, since leaving the safe zone, they haven't encountered any magical beasts along the way.

If you didn't encounter the Warcraft at the beginning, it was because there was always a patrol near the security zone to clear and guard it at any time, then now that you have gone deep into the ruins of the mine, how come you haven't encountered even one or two Warcraft?

It's rare to bring a weapon for self-defense, and he plans to warm up by the way.

After the first period of freshness, there really is nothing special to enjoy in the ruined mine, but it is full of bare hills, potholes, and the occasional sparse woods.

In terms of scenery, his evaluation is inferior to the Irlan Plains, which is the first layer of the World Tree.

"It's almost time, so let's go back the way you came......"

Before Roy could finish speaking, he suddenly felt a strong vibration under his feet.

Earthquake!?

No, something is coming out of the ground!

Roy and Arya immediately dodged to the side, their feet on the rubble, which they had thought were just a shallow layer on the ground, but in fact there were many more rubbles than they had imagined.

At this time, the rubble on the ground was like the flow of water in a flush toilet, attracted and twisted into a vortex by an inexplicably powerful force in the ground.

Immediately after, a huge body rushed out of the center of the whirlpool composed of rubble and pounced on Roy and the others!

It was a snake-like beast covered in rocks, and its body was huge, and its torso was three meters long just by revealing its torso above the surface.

This hillside is its hunting ground, and it has been lurking beneath this pile of rubble, revealing its true colors whenever a creature walks over it, and sprang out to prey on its target.

In the face of the rock snake's surprise attack, Arya's reaction was also fast, she did not retreat but advanced, blocking in front of Roy, the arm shield in her hand was shrouded in a layer of golden light, and resisted the rock snake's first attack head-on.

"This is a third-order demonic beast!"

After the first encounter, Roy immediately made an assessment of the strength of the rock snake in his heart, and he had a bottom in his heart.

He didn't expect that he could encounter the lord-level demonic beasts of this small world by wandering around at will, but his attention was all on Arya's body at this time.

"Hey, when did you get promoted to the second rank?" Roy wondered.

Now Arya has become a second-order holy knight, and with the bonus of the Ritsu sword Cheyvaus, she is a third-order, so she can block the rock serpent's surprise attack head-on.

"Last Night......

In a fighting state, Arya's face flushed slightly.

Since signing the contract with Joyeuse, her strength has been in a state of rapid growth, and it was originally estimated that her advancement would be the most recent thing, and there was a possibility of a breakthrough at any time, but I didn't expect it to be last night.

Well, maybe it was too much of a stimulus last night......

Roy reined in his mind and said in a deep voice: "Since it's rare to come across it, let's clean it up and put an end to this outing." ”

In the face of the rock snake, he did not take out the black sniper from his backpack, but launched a sneak, slowly approaching the rock snake with his bare hands.

In order to deal with the tide of demonic beasts in the wilderness before, he used as a bait to consume all the spiritual power arrows, and he forgot to make up for them after returning to Sidney.

So all he is carrying now is ordinary arrows, and he can't visually break through the defense of this rock snake, so it's better not to use it.

On this side, as Roy entered a stealth state, the rock serpent, which had lost its target, turned to launch a strong attack on Arya.

By this time, it had completely emerged from the rubble, and the huge snake's tail shimmered with a silver-gray sheen like steel, shredding through the rubble in its path and sweeping towards Arya.

The end of the Rock Serpent's sweep was immense, but there was no retreat in the knight's dictionary.

Arya's pupils were faintly burning with golden flames, and the third-order skill "Fever" allowed her to temporarily suppress her pain while increasing her spiritual power output.

The divine armor on her body became more and more condensed, and the arm shield in her hand once again blocked the tail of the rock snake head-on.

The tail sweep brought up a cloud of rubble and dust, and the next moment, a golden giant sword two meters long split the flying dust in two and slashed towards the rock snake!

Joyeuse, armed with the Sword of Dawn, slashed at the Rock Serpent's body, splashing a series of sparks on its steely surface, leaving a deep black scar.

The Rock Serpent was in pain, twisting its body to coil it up, but Roy's figure appeared behind the Rock Serpent, not ready to give it a moment to breathe.

Blessed and fast, he stepped on the body of the rock snake and jumped onto its head, took out a dagger from his waist, infused it with spiritual power, and pierced it into the rock snake's heavenly spirit cover.

Under the protection of Joyeus, he also rose to the third order, and used the third order skill of ruling, "Shatter", so that his blow could ignore the defense of the rock snake.

There was a soft "poof" sound, and the dagger sank into the top of the rock snake's head.

But the limitations of the short weapon were reflected at this time, a monster with a huge body like the rock snake, there was a big lump in the head alone, although his attack could break the defense, but the length of the dagger could not penetrate into its vital parts at all.

The rock snake shook its head to shake off the burden on its head, and Roy grabbed the grip of the dagger to prevent it from being thrown away, and then he was angry and broke for his right hand, giving it a hard punch to the skull.

Although his body was blessed by the heart of the gods and became extremely strong, after all, his physical body collided with a rock, and after a punch, Rao Shi also felt that the tiger's mouth was numb, his hand bones were stinging, and blood was rubbing out of his fists.

But the effect of this punch was also significant, and the rock snake seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer, and was directly smashed to the ground in a daze.

Arya stepped forward, raised her sword of law, and slashed at the neck where the head and body of the rock snake met.

Joyeuse glowed with golden light, and the golden greatsword sliced through the hard shell of the rock serpent with a firm and slow sword, sparks flying like a chainsaw cutting through steel.

Maintaining the highest output of the Sword of Dawn requires the consumption of a huge amount of spiritual power, and Rao is that the sun has not yet set, and with the talent bonus of the Holy Knight, Arya's face can't help but gradually turn pale.

But in the end, she still completely cut the rock snake in two.

Even after being divided, the rock snake was still shaking. Roy jumped off the snake's head, grabbed Arya, and led her off the hillside.

Arya was obediently held in Princess Roy's arms, and it wasn't until Roy found a safe vantage point nearby that she was put down.

Here you can look down on the gravel hillside just now, Roy sat on the ground, watched with interest the corpse of the rock snake struggling in vain, and sighed:

"This rock snake looks quite infiltrating."

Unexpectedly, he finally subdued this rock snake with the brute force of his body, even if the force of the heart of God dropped a little in his eyes, the power it brought was still genuine.

Thinking back to the time when I killed the Demon Lord, even if I wasn't a god, the Heart of God was still the closest thing to a god in this world.

"Hmmm......"

Arya replied softly, holding the red spiritual power crystal in her right hand, quickly recovering her spiritual power, and gently holding Roy's right hand with her left hand.

Her white fingers caressed his broken and bleeding knuckles, and she used her remaining spiritual power to unleash holy healing, healing the wounds on Roy's hands.

Seeing Arya's solemn appearance, Roy couldn't help but laugh and said, "This little injury is at best a little saliva, and it will be fine after a while, why do you need to make such a fuss." ”

Arya blinked twice, as if to ponder the meaning of the sentence, and then she leaned down and put her head in Roy's hand, intending to lick his wounds.

"Don't, it's dirty!"

Roy pulled her into his arms, lowered his head and kissed her on the lips, and whispered, "You can kiss her casually here." ”

"Uh-huh......"

In the middle of the sound, Arya snuggled up in Roy's arms, and the two sat in place, silently overlooking the scenery down the hillside until the sun set.

"Arya ......"

Roy spoke suddenly, and the girl in his arms raised her head and looked at her with starry eyes.

The boy looked at her and said softly, "When we graduate from the Inheritor Academy......"

"Let's get married."

Hearing this, Arya smiled slightly, she nodded, and said softly:

"Okay."

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