A strange world

Chapter 479 Section 136. The problem of gods

The third Warcraft Mountain Range, outside the forest.

The white dragons flashing in the sun chased each other, and mages and warriors scattered in the forest to search.

Today was their third day in the mountains. During this period, they encountered many creatures living in the forest, including gnolls, goblins, venomous spiders, and even dwarves, but there was no trace of the druid.

"Are the druids hiding from us?" Swain played a sword trick, leaving traces of their presence on an oak tree.

"I don't know. This forest is too big. We probably haven't gotten close to them yet." Swayne's uncle Blom leaned on his sword and watched the surrounding soldiers move forward while clearing the bushes with their swords.

This was still only April, and in June and July, the druids couldn't see them even if they stood ten yards away.

"Uncle...why is Mr. Olmedo unwilling to go to Gem City?" Swain took this opportunity to ask his doubts.

"What do you think?"

"Sir Annan said that he would give Mr. Olmedo the position of deputy city lord. Is it because Mr. Olmedo doesn't want to be under Mr. Annan?"

"Do you think Lord Olmedo is such a person?"

"……no."

Swain shook his head seriously.

The year when Lord Olmedo served as the city lord was the most stable time in Breeze City. The nobles' taxes increased, the knights' benefits improved, and the common people did not starve. Compared with Annan's approach of treating nobles and commoners equally, Olmedo's policy is more in line with the principles of his noble knight.

"Keep thinking, you'll understand when you figure it out."

Swain hesitated to speak, but Blom had already asked: "How did Annan know these druids?"

Swain, who once served as the captain of the Annan Knights, recalled: "I remember Lord Annan placed a magical image in the forest, and then the druids seemed to be attracted..."

"Shall we try too?"

Swain hesitated: "Will this be useful?"

"We didn't find it anyway."

Let a team of mages avoid Fengtang Town to get the magic stone. As night fell, they put down the magic stone and exited the forest.

The light of "The Fall of the Mage Tower" flickers in the forest...

On the fourth day, the team entering the forest found that the magic stone was missing.

"We have driven away all the nearby alien races. Who will come in and take away the magic stone?"

At this time, the white dragon hovering above the forest made a discovery and let out a warning roar.

The humans scattered in this forest rushed to the white dragon's position and saw a tree druid holding a magic stone and calmly facing the surrounding knights.

"Druid, do you still recognize me?" Swain took the initiative to salute it.

The tree man druid has become much more vicissitudes than a year ago, and there are a few more scratches on the bark of the tree.

"Are you Annan's guard?" The tree man druid recognized him.

"It's me. Lord Annan asked us to come to you. His new territory is in trouble."

The tree man druid's face wrinkled: "Sorry, we druids will not participate in your human battles."

"They are not humans. The ones who are causing trouble for Annan are your druid avengers."

"Avenger..." The tree man Druid made a rough rubbing sound, "I'll go with you..."

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"The Port of Luce refuses to allow our merchant ships to dock? Why?"

Annan asked while looking for the location of Port Luce on the map.

This is the port of the Seren Kingdom, the neighboring country to the southwest of the Montabourlock Principality. It is half a neighbor of Liberty City - Port Luce is on the other side of the Forest Mountains.

The current trade between Liberty City and Luce Port only includes Fast Pants and the magic images being promoted. Annan could not think of a reason for his neighbor's change of face.

"It is said that it was because the Mad Dog Archduke put pressure on them."

"Is the Kingdom of Salem so frightened by the successor of a principality?"

"No, it's just that the sister of Lord Wolfboots, the controller of Port Luce, is...one of the wives of Mad Dog Archduke."

Damn aristocratic marriage.

"Lord Wolf Boots is not the only one who has rejected us. Deep Blue Harbor and Wheatear City have also cut off contact with us."

"I know Maisui City...remember that the magic image has been shown there?"

"That's right."

"Then why are they giving up cooperation?"

"The Mad Dog Archduke said he would get Gem Bay back before the rainy season... Do you mind the life and death of the people who keep their money here?"

"I don't mind. If he dies, all the money will be mine... Okay."

Just when Annan was about to sigh at the fragile friendship, a shadow fell from the sky, and majestic vertical pupils stared from the window: "Mine!"

Annan began to feel that it was a mistake to place Ilimoyasi's lair next to the city lord's palace.

"We are talking about financial matters." Annan explained and added: "Your Highness, please set an example in front of your younger brothers and sisters."

Watching Ilimoyas return to the sky, I hope poor Cretalia and the others can get their reward today.

Marking Deep Blue Harbor and Wheat Sui City on the map respectively, together with the Mad Dog Archduke in the north, vaguely formed the siege of the isolated Free City...

"The Mad Dog Archduke doesn't look like a mad dog now."

Annan couldn't help but miss his neighbor in Xingyue Bay, Gemma Diatra of Glacier Port. That was really stupid... Annan would rather believe that there was someone behind the scenes who was advising Mad Dog Archduke, just like himself.

And they are both Gemar, and the female halfling is much cuter than the boy who looks like a girl.

"There is one more thing you need to know." Ingrid became more serious: "Some residents are quietly believing in gods."

"quietly?"

"Well...because they are worried that you will not allow their beliefs, but they are not afraid of breaking the rules of Liberty City."

"Our "Free City Code" does not restrict people's beliefs."

"We don't have any churches either."

The reason for not building a church is simple - the gods are out of touch and there are too many of them.

Human pantheon, elf pantheon, orc pantheon, dwarf pantheon...

Original god, main god, genus god, professional god...

Human beings' beliefs are complex. Crewmen and sailors believe in the goddess of the sea, the silver lady representing the moon, and the primitive storm goddess. Businessmen also believe in the goddess of trade and wealth, the goddess of luck, and the god of nobility. The nobility also believed in the God of Nobles, who also believed in the Lady of Joy and the goddess of joy and dance.

Even Lily Believes: The Cat and the Midnight Lady.

These mainstream gods believed by humans add up to more buildings than there are in Liberty City. Annan could not waste it on them. To put it harshly, Annan would rather house refugees in brand-new houses than inhabit cold statues of gods.

But as Free City really becomes a city-state in the future, these will eventually be problems.

This is a magical world, those who have no faith will only be ostracized, and the city of those who have no faith will not end well.