Volume 7 The Inverted Man Chapter 33 Milk and Honey
Godforsaken Land, Moon City.
Adar, Sin, and Ruth became unusually agitated all of a sudden when they heard the voice of the High Priest resounding throughout the city-state.
They stood up almost at the same time and carried the long-prepared animal skin bag behind their backs.
Inside there was their allotted mushroom powder, dried mushrooms, and a sheet of monster leather, varying quantities of extraordinary properties in different states.
For them, although they were excited now and had visions for the future, the suffering they had endured in the past made them not dare to be careless, and they all carried as much food as possible.
–Before the lightning flashed several times, the priests of Moon City received a divine message from Mr. Fool to stop sending out hunting teams, and instructed every resident to pack up their important belongings and be ready to leave at any time.
In just a few dozen seconds, Adal and the others walked out of their houses, carrying lanterns, and arrived on the street.
When their eyes met, their ugly or deformed faces were overflowing with undisguised joy, not a bit of negativity towards abandoning Moon City and leaving their hometown.
This place was the source of their nightmares, and it was already unknown how many generations had lost their joy in childhood.
After gathering in the square with the high platform, they held down their excitement and formed orderly lines according to their settlements, and examined their neighbors to see if they had all arrived.
Before long, all the residents of the entire Moon City had arrived, and High Priest Nim walked up to the high platform and spoke with a hard-to-conceal smile:
”Gentlemen, I have received the oracle.
”Mr. ‘Fool’ is about to help us leave this cursed earth and regain our lives.
”Praise be to Mr. ‘Fool’!”
He led the way by pressing his right palm to his left breast.
It was a gesture they had invented to praise Mr. Fool, and Mr. Fool did not deny it.
”Praise Mr. Fool!” The residents of Moon City pressed their right palms to their left chests in unison, loudly expressing their gratitude and devotion.
As the voices echoed, Nim with gray hair and a furrowed face raised his hand and pressed down:
”We’ll go to Silver City first, meet up with the survivors there, and together we’ll travel to that bright world out there.
”Don’t worry, Mr. ‘Fool’ will shelter us.
”Alright, close your eyes and start praying.”
After saying that, this high priest clasped his hands together and held them to his lips, praying to Mr. Fool with devotion, hoping that that great being would fulfill the greatest wish of Moon City that had been accumulated from generation to generation over the past two to three thousand years.
In the next second, the demigod of the “darkness” path was keenly aware of the changes around him, so he opened his eyes and looked around, realizing that a stone pillar was becoming clear, a lantern was hanging on it, and a tall figure was being outlined quickly.
This is Silver City? We have arrived at Silver City …… This is the power of the gods …… Praise to Mr. “Fool”! Adal and Xin and the others followed closely and looked around.
They subconsciously had a certain good feeling about Silver City, because God’s missionary, the honorable Gelman Sparrow, had once mentioned that after he entered this cursed and forsaken land, the first place he arrived at was Silver City.
It was the beginning of the spread of God’s light in the eternal darkness, the starting point of all hope.
The silhouettes quickly and thoroughly presented themselves, the vast majority of them exceeding two meters, with normal features and bodies that showed no deformities, and were surveying the inhabitants of Moon City with gazes that were a mixture of curiosity and wariness.
That very oppressive height and enviable normalcy made Xin and Ruth and the others become nervous, inferior and apprehensive all at once.
However, between sweeps of their gazes, they saw quite a few Silver City residents nibbling on mushrooms with charred surfaces, occasionally sucking steaming liquid from the white and full mushrooms.
This familiar scene made the people of Moon City gradually relax, treating those “half-giants” as their own kind.
”Council of Six,” Chief Wight Hilmon said with a nod to the Moon City chief, the High Priest said to be named Nim:
”Are you ready?”
His gaze was calm and natural, not a little discriminatory because most of the people in Moon City were “scary” looking.
Worried about surprises, Nim immediately responded:
”Ready.”
Wight Hilmon then turned his attention to the residents of Silver City:
”End your meal in three minutes and start praying.”
In less than a minute, the residents of Silver City finished drinking the “milk”, put away the remaining food in their hands, and prayed to Mr. “Fool” with reverence.
–The ancient remnants of Moon City had miraculously appeared in front of them, giving them more confidence in leaving the godforsaken land, and they truly believed in Mr. Fool.
A few seconds later, everyone on the Silver City training grounds disappeared.
The city was completely silent, and it wouldn’t be long before tainted weeds grew and monsters wandered the streets and houses.
It was only a blink or two before the residents of Silver City and Moon City came to the front of the Giant King’s Palace that was solidified in the glow of dusk.
This was a deliberate act by Kraven to give these ancient remnants of the godforsaken land a “ceremony” to bid farewell to the past.
While the people of Moon City were shocked by the grandeur, epicness and mythicism of the “Giant King’s Court”, most of the residents of Silver City subconsciously turned their heads and looked downwards and into the distance.
Beyond the reddish-orange dusk, the earth was completely drowned by darkness, and only occasionally did lightning streak across the sky, revealing the outlines of ancient buildings, towering peaks, and deformed plants.
The lightning fell, and the darkness came once more, leaving everything to be swallowed up anew.
Then the people of both Silver City and Moon City turned back to the depths of the Giant King’s palace.
There was an open door there, and beyond it was an ocean tinted with blazing gold.
The people whose eyes were filled with sunlight whirled around and felt that their surroundings were becoming blurry and the scene was shattering rapidly.
Those fragments rapidly reorganized into the deep blue ocean, the fishy smell of fish, the sound of pounding and the orange-red sun that was not yet close to the sea horizon.
The inhabitants of Moon City and Silver City looked around in shock and anticipation, seeing lush woods that weren’t twisted at all, stone buildings that hadn’t yet had any refurbishment done to them, people such as Liavar, and the road to the harbor and the ships docked over there.
Many of them had their vision blurred at once, as if they were undergoing a baptism of holy light.
They could clearly perceive that there was none of that corrupted, defiled, mystical power here.
Most of the residents of Silver City and Moon City bowed their heads or knelt on the ground, praised Mr. Fool loudly, and kissed the fragrant soil excitedly.
The rest of the people were not ungrateful to Mr. Fool, but they were still immersed in the change of scene, and were shocked both physically and mentally.
When they had recovered sufficiently, Levar greeted them, with only his wife and daughter in his sight.
Upon approaching, he could not hold back his excitement and joy as he opened his mouth, wanting to inform his wife and children of what he had seen and heard during this time, but found that there was simply too much that he wished to share, and like a myriad of rivers rushing by, it all came to his throat and blocked it there.
It was several seconds before Liaval spat out the words:
”We, we have a new home ……”
Before the words left his mouth, the nearly two and a half meter “half-giant” panicked and put his hand into his coat pocket and then reached out, handing it to his wife and daughter.
”This is the God Envoy Lord distributed to us, milk candy, they, they all say it’s very delicious ……” Liawal’s face piled up a smile.
In the quiet of his palm lay two thin paper-wrapped, thumb-sized things, their surfaces crumpled and soaked with a bit of sweat.
”Milk candy ……” Liaval’s wife didn’t quite understand the word, a new word constructed from “milk” and “honey” in the Giant language. ” a new word constructed from the words “milk” and “honey” in the Giant language.
And their daughter, infected by her father’s emotions, boldly took the milk candy and was about to stuff it into her mouth.
”No, no, peel off the outer layer.” Liawal busied himself by taking back the two milk candies, peeling off the wrappers, and handing one in each hand to the mouths of his wife and daughter.
His daughter took a bite, her teeth hard enough to make a crunching sound.
Her eyes then narrowed a little, her expression gradually becoming a little more mesmerized.
She couldn’t even shed a word during this process.
Seeing her daughter’s appearance, Liaval’s wife also took that milk candy into her mouth.
She felt that it was a very precious thing and didn’t directly bite into it, but rather encompassed it with her mouth, letting it dissolve a little bit.
The indescribable milky and sweet flavor slowly radiated out, causing Liaval’s wife to gradually become intoxicated as well.
Seeing this, Liaval’s smile became more and more pronounced, and he phased out the words that had just been clogged at his throat:
”Lord God-Emperor said that we can go to Bayam City to find work, take commissions, and earn gold pounds, that way we can buy more milk candies, and we can also sell our unwanted extraordinary traits and monster leathers to the ‘Sea God’ Church ……
”‘Poseidon’ is Mr. ‘Fool’s’ slave god ……
”It’s going to get dark later, I’ll take you guys to the beach to see the sunset, it’s really beautiful, I go to see it every day, and I always think that when you guys come, I’ll take you there too ……”
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Finally resolved, the anchor is quite solid …… And, granting the wishes of the people of Silver City and Moon City allowed me to digest quite a bit more of my “Miracle Worker” magic potion, but not as much as recreating the city of Constanton, so it’s true that the “God of Wishes “Not the most correct play …… gray fog above the Klein slowly exhaled, the “Star Staff” thrown back into the pile of clutter.
Next, he will continue to wander, create miracles, and from time to time to go to the Godforsaken land, transform some monsters into secret puppets, in order to prepare for the subsequent ceremony.
In the next stage of playing the role of “miracle worker”, Klein intended to accumulate the desire to modify the appearance and figure, until he could solve the problem of the deformed people in Moon City, and then create miracles.
This is not too difficult …… Quite a number of young ladies and ladies have the wish to get rid of acne, cut their eyelids, and make their noses straight, and I also have a certain way to realize it …… By accumulating little by little in this way, from low to high from easy to difficult, sooner or later, I will be able to save the deformed people of the Moon City! …… To the outside world, they are more and more inferior …… Klein muttered a few words in his heart, and then suddenly laughed to himself:
”That way I can call myself ‘the master of the beauty industry, the protector of designers and construction workers, and the miracle worker of long-distance traveling’……”
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After entering the sea without a safe channel, the “Queen of Mystery” Bernadette seemed to have lost her sense of time, and if it weren’t for the accurate wall clock hanging in the captain’s cabin, she would have forgotten just how many days she had been in this dangerous zone.
The winds and rainstorms that sent the ship flying high and sideways seemed to signal the end of days.
Bernadette watched calmly and waited patiently, not interfering much with the condition of the Dawn.
After an unknown period of time, the storm finally subsided.
Just then, some black silhouettes appeared in the distance.