After eating the Braised Rabbit with Bitter Sunflower which had 8 Delicacy Points, the two levels of Anorexia finally disappeared. Liang Lidong let out a sigh of relief.
After dinner, the sun had set. Belin politely bade farewell to the village head and Liang Lidong, but when she faced Kail, she angrily reminded him to sleep early, not to practice his swordsmanship too late, and to remember to wash his face carefully in the morning. He couldn't just casually wipe his face and run off to practice his swordsmanship.
Kail listened with a gloomy face, while the village head watched from behind, laughing.
There were a few empty rooms in the village head's house. Liang Lidong chose the bedroom on the top floor that faced the sun, mainly because of the simple layout inside. There was a bed, a desk, and a chair. The village head tried to persuade him that this house was too simple and not worthy of Lord Beta's identity, but Liang Lidong's "I'm an ascetic believer" was enough to stop him.
After making the bed, Liang Lidong asked for a large wooden bucket from Kail, and then he went to the well in the backyard to fetch a large bucket of water. He used the fire element to heat up the water in the bucket, and slowly raised it to about 40 degrees Celsius. Then he jumped in and took a nice bath. Although Liang Lidong's identity as a warlock prevented him from using formal magic such as the "Fireball Spell", he could use his mental strength to gather the fire element together and create a heated environment. However, with his current mental strength, he couldn't heat the water to more than 60 degrees Celsius.
In the game, these were all common life skills used by spellcasters, and they couldn't be used against enemies. Even a normal person wouldn't be afraid of a water temperature of 60 degrees Celsius, not to mention those professionals who had a certain magic resistance.
After the bath, Liang Lidong chatted with Kail in the living room for a while, talking about the mercenary world. When the night was quiet, the two said good night to each other and returned to their respective rooms. Liang Lidong sat on the bed and started checking his character's stats. After reviving in the main hall, he was in a hurry to come out. It wasn't easy for him to dig a way out, but in the end, he was tired and hungry. When he came out, he realized that something was wrong. He didn't know if he was in a game or some other strange world.
Because he was in a hurry to gather information, he didn't pay attention to his character status. Now that he had some free time, he checked his character system and found something unusual.
He already knew that he couldn't connect to the system and that he didn't have a friends list, but he didn't expect that there would be a piece of paper in his space backpack, a piece of paper with words written on it … Logically speaking, the only thing in his backpack should be the stone spike he brought out from the hall, but this piece of paper was lying quietly in the corner of his backpack. If he hadn't checked his space backpack intentionally, he wouldn't have found it.
Puzzled, he flipped his hand and took out the paper from his backpack.
The paper was made of a weird magic material. It was soft and comfortable to the touch. It was translucent and had platinum magic energy flowing in it. The beautiful Hollevin font was written on the paper. The first line read:
"To our common family, Liang Lidong:"
Written to me? Liang Lidong's whole body trembled and he hurriedly continued reading.
"By the time you read this letter, Reina and I will probably no longer be in this world, but please don't worry about us. We're just temporarily hiding in another way. Our enemy is very powerful, so powerful that you can't imagine it. So, you must not try to find us. Remember, don't try to find us. You just need to live well. When the two of us have gathered enough energy and reappear in this world, that will be the day the three of us reunite.
After you wake up, you may find that this world is very similar to your game world. Please don't be too surprised. It's the two of us who are really surprised. Reina found that a small part of our world's source power was stolen. Although it was only a small part, it still had some impact on this world. We used our mental power to trace it and passed through the barrier between two worlds. We entered your world, and then we found that part of the source power was actually made into a strange projection world, which almost perfectly simulated everything on our side.
Because of the barrier between two worlds, we were very tired, so we could only attach ourselves to a local creature that was the most compatible with us, which could reduce our consumption. We were very lucky that we found you. Even now, I still remember the expression on your face when you saw the two of us, as if you saw a ghost. It was so cute.
Eight years together … The happy time was more than the past eight hundred years for both of us combined. It doesn't matter what you think of us. Reina and I have already regarded you as a lover and family … We originally wanted to stay with you until the end of the world, but you had an accident and your body was destroyed. Your world doesn't allow souls to exist for long, so we had no choice but to pull you into our world.
The souls of the creatures in the two worlds are different. In order to let you be reborn in this world, we had to go through a very complicated and long soul adjustment process. For this, we had no choice but to protect your soul and carry out a slow and painless soul transformation.
We were overjoyed that you came to our world, and we were too happy that we got carried away. This gave the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of us. We had no choice but to cut off the connection between us. The enemy won't find you, and they won't know that you're related to us. So please live in peace and protect yourself. I believe that with your experience in the game world, normal creatures won't be too much of a threat to you.
Although I have a lot of things to say to you, time doesn't allow it. That's right, after reading this letter, eat this letter. Also … Don't … Be … Fickle! '
The letter ended with: Forever in love with your Fina, Reina.
After reading the letter, Liang Lidong crumpled the letter into a ball and stuffed it into his mouth. As soon as the fragrant letter entered his mouth, it turned into a warm stream of energy that flowed into his stomach. Then, he received a system notification. He tapped on it and saw that it said:
'Active energy injection. Lifespan increased by two hundred years.'
Liang Lidong stared at the system notification blankly. After a while, he smiled faintly, jumped off the bed, and walked to the balcony. The moonlight was bright at this time. He looked at the silver moon in the sky, and his grin widened. Just as he was about to laugh out loud, he suddenly slapped his own face. Then, he went back to bed, pulled the blanket over him, and went to sleep.
The next day, Liang Lidong woke up early. He used the flour in the kitchen to make three bowls of knife-shaved noodles. Although they only had a Delicacy Value of six, it was a rare delicacy for the old village chief and Kail.
As Kail wolfed down the food, he looked at Liang Lidong and asked in confusion, "Sir Beta, you seem to be very happy today. Did something good happen?"
"Is it that obvious?" Liang Lidong asked with a chuckle.
The old village chief finished the noodles and drank the broth. It was hard to tell that an old man like him could eat faster than a young man like Kail. "Pastor Beta, tell us what good thing happened."
Liang Lidong thought for a while and said, "It is indeed good. Last night, I received an oracle from the Goddess …"
The old village chief looked at him in surprise.
On the other hand, Kail jumped in excitement. "The Goddess is going to give you money again?"
After what happened the day before, Kail had already equated the oracle of the Goddess Woking with an unexpected windfall.
Liang Lidong waved his hand and said, "There is money being given there every day. If there is an oracle that picks up money every day, the world will be full of the Goddess's believers … Well, the Goddess said that we can build a small temple here to spread her ideas and her grace."
"Really?" The old Village Chief stood up in a flash.
It was no wonder that he was so excited. In this world, there were too many disasters that could take away a person's fragile life. Wild animals, hunger, war, and disease. Among them, disease was the easiest to kill. Even professionals could easily die if they contracted a disease and did not receive effective treatment, not to mention ordinary people who were much weaker. Last year, eight babies were born in the village, but only three survived. The other five all died of fever or diarrhea.
But if there was a temple, it would be different. A regular temple presided over by a priest would produce a weak exorcism enchantment with an effective range of one to two kilometers. Although it could not effectively cure diseases, it could slightly strengthen the physical fitness of ordinary people, making it more difficult for them to be knocked down by diseases. Moreover, if there was a priest in the temple who knew how to get rid of diseases, it would add another layer of protection to one's life.
This was the decision that Liang Lidong had made after reading the letter the night before. The Divine Nobles belonged to the category of Warlocks, so they could not learn other magic spells, but divine spells were different. Warlocks who recognized the God's ideas could borrow the power of the God to use divine spells as long as they were devout enough. This was not in the category of 'learning', but could only be temporarily borrowed. It was similar to using magic scrolls, except that magic scrolls would disappear after being used, while divine spells could be used repeatedly as long as one had enough mental energy.
Liang Lidong wanted to obtain one or two divine spells from the Goddess Woking to increase his strength. More importantly, if he became a priest of the temple and presided over the daily affairs of the temple, he could obtain character experience points. Although the experience points could not be compared to going out to fight, it was safer and easier to build connections.
In Falan Continent, most of the daily activities could produce experience points, such as fighting, traveling, teaching students, and participating in work. Presiding over the various rituals of the temple was also a kind of 'work'.
Liang Lidong understood the reason for the old village head's joy. He nodded very seriously. "Really, I'm not lying to you."
The old village head took a breath. "How big do you need the temple?"
"The main hall should cover an area of about two hundred square meters." Liang Lidong thought for a moment and said, "In addition, the main hall must be made of stone. This is the most important thing."
The old village head sat down and frowned. "This is a bit difficult and a lot of work. If it was a wooden temple, we could help you build it for free, but a stone temple is a bit difficult."
A stone building was not as good as a wooden building. The stones were heavy and physically taxing. They also had to shape the stones into the shape of the stones. To build a 200-square-meter stone building, and a shrine at that, they needed enough strong laborers. Even if all the laborers in the village were to work together, they might not be able to build a qualified shrine within a year.
Liang Lidong, however, said, "I know your difficulties. The old village head can actually ask the people of Seri Village to come and help."
"The temple is built here, not in their place. They probably won't be willing." The old village head shook his head.
"Tell them that everyone who participates in the construction of the temple can choose a child from their family to learn the Hollevin language from me." Liang Lidong said slowly, "You must finish it in six months. In these six months, I will teach the children three Hollevin words a day. Whether they learn it or not is up to them. If they learn all of them, there will be at least 540 words in total, which is enough for them to read ordinary Hollevin books."
The old village head froze and murmured, "This condition is too generous."
Seeing the old village head like this, Liang Lidong knew that his proposal must have been accepted. He was relieved inwardly. The first step of his plan to become stronger had been considered a good start. Blondie and Whitey told him to live a good life and not look for them, then wait to watch them fight the enemy, and only come out when it was over … If he really listened to them and hid in the safe shadows like a rabbit, watching his woman be bullied, would he still be a man?
She actually said such a thing, if those two women stood in front of him, he would have to give them a good scolding