"You... are such an idiot!"
Brand's shalessness was enough to infuriate the noble lady from the Empire Flower Leaf Domain. She couldn't understand how Brand could tell such embarrassing things, especially when she kindly reminded him and was simply ignored. Of course, this noble lady would never admit that she said so because she didn't want Brand to display such an embarrassing deanor in front of Veronica.
They found quite a few such battlegrounds throughout the Valhalla ruins; it seed the guardians of the Silver Ancestors resisted street by street, ultimately being defeated. Every ti Brand passed a site, he collected all the weapons and armor, eventually piling them into a mountain in the Dinsion Hole, at least tens of thousands of pieces. Fortunately, the space inside the Dinsion Hole is only related to the creator's strength; Anman's Dinsion Hole space is almost as large as a cave, according to Brand's estimation, its creator was at least a Level 70 spellcaster. Considering not just the original items inside the Dinsion Hole, but the Hole itself, Brand felt like he hit the jackpot, rendering Anman, the transportation leader, unable to rest in peace.
Brand, Qian, Veronica, phisto, and their seven-mber party finally stopped after checking about two-thirds of the Underground City area. They didn't need to go further; they could fully confirm that Valhalla had been completely destroyed, even the magic items inside were naturally gone. After this confirmation, Veronica and phisto lost interest in the place. Especially the Female War God herself, as this trip not only failed to find any trace of what she desired but also cost several excellent young lives. Although this setback wasn't enough to damage her prestige in the Empire, it certainly was a reason for her to have no intention to linger here any longer.
She quickly expressed her desire to leave to Brand, the Empire's Female War God even planned not to return to the Green Tower - as all Empire personnel either left only rare survivors at Holy White Rock or were essentially wiped out. Thus, she intended to return to the Empire directly from Wolf Pass, unwilling to deal with the Druids.
Brand sowhat understood Veronica's mindset; they had had conflicts with the Druids at the Green Tower, and Veronica's pride would never allow her potential enemies to see her in such a wretched state. However, Brand thought, now the Druids might not be doing well either, or rather, any power previously left in this area likely wouldn't fare well.
The Cruz Empire was relatively better among the groups, at least they had so accompanying personnel left. That being said, before the conflict began, the Tonyger faction led by Brand was perhaps the weakest, but after one battle, it unexpectedly beca the least hard faction, even those young people in training suffered barely any losses, thanks to his foreknowledge. However, in Veronica's view, this felt sowhat ironic.
But Brand himself did not intend to stay any longer. Now Valhalla can be described as a dead city, rendering it aningless to him. Moreover, he had already found the second Central Crystal in the previous exploration. This crystal looked entirely different from the first one, dull gray, resembling a walnut. If it weren't for the hints in the lingering information from the first crystal, he wouldn't have recognized this thing.
Brand almost couldn't recognize it, Veronica and the Gray Sword Saint definitely couldn't, so unknowingly, it fell into his hands. With this item in hand, he realized rebuilding Valhalla was no simple task.
This crystal's specification is the top-tier city center. The first-level extension range is a three-kiloter radius and can deliver magic power to twenty building sites simultaneously. It doesn't seem like much, but the buildings requiring magic power delivery are relatively few; Mage Tower, Array, Forge, and nests are all very costly to build. Even with just half of the twenty sites, Brand wouldn't manage to build them in the short term. Currently, his goal was to arrange just a Nine-Headed Snake nest and a Magic Forge.
Later on, he might add an Antitina Magic Laboratory to let this quiet girl focus on researching her Magic Transmission Device. Originally, Brand included Antitina not only out of sympathy but also for this future treasure. Although Antitina volunteered to beco his staff and indeed was outstanding in abilities, comparatively, she hadn't yet discovered her true value, and Brand didn't wish for such a genius to be buried under his watch.
But these are matters for the future, as Brand learned after obtaining the Central Crystal that Valhalla's core is a main hall called the World Tree Temple. First, he needed to establish this hall to activate the Central Crystal he held, allowing the future territory to spread out centered on it.
However, the construction thod of this so-called 'World Tree Temple' turned out to be planting the Central Crystal like a tree, a process which takes nearly two weeks. Although Brand was perplexed as to why such a bizarre thod was required to build a temple, he couldn't possibly stay in this ghost place for two weeks. Since entering the Trade Wind Ring's center region, he had completely lost contact with the outside world. Although no more than a day had passed, his territory was surrounded by formidable foes and could face danger at any mont. He must quickly sort everything out here and take the spoils from this adventure back to counter possible incoming enemies.
As for rebuilding the World Tree Temple, this can entirely be left to Antitina once she's outside, and with a bit of help from the Druids, there should be no issue.
Therefore, when Veronica expressed her intention to leave, Brand readily indicated his desire to depart together. Veronica was sowhat astonished, but welcod the suggestion, as she admired Brand greatly and had no qualms expressing such admiration. After Brand decided to leave, phisto naturally had no reason to stay either; he originally ca alone seeking trouble with Veronica, but by chance ended up forming a temporary alliance with Veronica and Brand.
But now, this temporary small alliance was about to take root and grow beyond the Barbaric edge of Erune.
...(To be continued. If you enjoyed this work, please visit Qidian (qidian) to vote with recomndations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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