Heir to the Kingdom of 1.4 billion people

Chapter 155 Tamerlan: Each person takes a portion of the Church of the Sun's treasure, I said.
Spark Hall.

Beneath the towering crystal dome, twelve prisms stand on the cold bronze earth, their torches burning eternally, as if to illuminate the end of time.

Tamerlan, Haggax, and Dolores waited quietly before the hall until the figure enveloped in torchlight slowly appeared. Only then did these prodigies, each possessing the talent to dominate an era, bow in unison and say:

"Good evening, Your Highness."

"Good evening," the black-haired youth said with a slight smile.

"Dorothy, did the Pale Witch harm you after I left?"

After everyone took their seats at the bronze table, Xia Mingyu first inquired about Dorothy's recent situation.

After all, that Moonlit rank witch with a wicked personality was a complete troublemaker from any perspective.

"Your Highness, she did not harm me. On the contrary, I attacked her because of a misunderstanding." The girl shook her head, looking slightly embarrassed.

"What misunderstanding?" Xia Mingyu was taken aback and subconsciously asked.

"After you left, I heard a noise late at night and went outside, where I saw..." Dorothy told everyone about how the entire village had prayed to the Pale Witch to turn them into ice people.

After listening to her story, especially after learning that the villagers in the North had turned into inhuman monsters just to survive by eating ice, the people at the long table had different expressions. Some sighed sadly, some looked sorrowful, and some clenched their fists and remained silent.

Finally, Xia Mingyu gave a heavy summary.

"A harsh and corrupt government is more terrifying than being treated like a monster!"

Everyone fell silent for a moment. Through this sentence, they seemed to see countless ordinary people struggling in the hell of the human world under the dark rule of the Gluttonous King, Raun Sosia.

No one knows what kind of agonizing despair a living person must have endured to willingly turn into a monster.

"Dorothy, when I wake up, I will put more food into the connection space. Please help me deliver it to every village you see in the North that is suffering from famine."

After a long silence, Xia Mingyu slowly spoke.

Although the feeling of exhausting magic each time is as painful as having one's brain split open, if his suffering can bring happiness to millions, then it is worth it for him to persevere.

“Your Highness, thank you for your kindness, but you have already given me a lot of food. Giving more might affect the people of the Southern Territory,” Dorothy said hesitantly.

Although the Southern Territory, which was exempt from grain tax, had a much greater abundance of food than the other three territories, it was still limited.

Although she dreamed of saving the starving, emaciated people of the North, this was by no means based on sacrificing the peace of the people of the South.

After all, no matter where we are, we are still human; we will cry when we are sad and smile when we are happy.

"Don't worry, actually all the food that I put into the connection space before wasn't collected from the Southern Territory, but created by myself," Xia Mingyu told the truth.

Produce our own food?!

Hall of Fame members: "???"

"You mean that the thousands of bags of wheat you gave me before were all created out of thin air by Your Highness!"

Dorothy's face was filled with disbelief, and her voice even trembled slightly.

After all, the ability to create massive amounts of food out of thin air is beyond the scope of humans, and she even began to doubt whether His Highness was a true food fairy.

Thinking about it this way, could the 1.4 billion citizens refer to 1.4 billion fairies, and His Highness actually be the prince of the fairy kingdom?
"It didn't just appear out of thin air. I have an ability similar to the Harvest Man, but slightly stronger. As long as magic power is provided, it can accelerate the growth of crops." Fortunately, Xia Mingyu spoke up in time to interrupt the girl's wild thoughts.

To demonstrate to everyone, he conjured a lush green wheat seedling from the bronze floor.

"May the harvest be plentiful." Xia Mingyu said softly, bending down and extending his finger, which was wrapped in dark flames, to gently touch the emerald green leaves of the wheat seedlings.

The next moment, the wheat seedling began to grow wildly, as if it had eaten a super-powerful version of Fertilizer.

In just a few seconds, it grew into a mature wheat stalk that was over a meter tall.

The golden, heavy, plump ears of wheat looked exceptionally beautiful and alluring under the glow of the torches above.

This miraculous scene left the other three speechless with shock.

This ability to grow seedlings into mature crops in just a few seconds is practically the same as creating food out of thin air!
"Your Highness, you are too modest! With such miraculous power, even without the status of 1.4 billion citizens, you would surely be regarded as an honored guest by any nation," Tamerlan exclaimed sincerely.

He became increasingly confident in his intuition: Your Highness, the future will surely bring glorious salvation to the people of the entire Western Continent.

His mission was undoubtedly to do everything in his power to safeguard His Highness's ideals, and to protect His Highness, who was the most important person in the world, even at the cost of his life, when necessary.

"Dorothy, I need your help."

"Please speak." The girl's expression immediately became solemn.

She secretly vowed in her heart that, having received so much kindness from His Highness, she would complete any task His Highness might ask for perfectly, otherwise she would not be worthy of bearing the honor of the name Mason.

"As I said before, creating food requires magic power, and my own magic power is still insufficient. Therefore, an apothecary friend of mine has concocted a potion that can speed up the recovery of magic power, but it still needs a kind of herb from the North."

Xia Mingyu opened his palm, and a flower with petals resembling ice crystals slowly floated in his palm.

"Ice Crystal Flower?" Dorothy was taken aback. Although this flower was rare in the North, it was not considered precious. Sometimes, it was even eaten by starving people to fill their stomachs.

“Yes, although you can buy Ice Crystal Flowers in the Southern Territory, they lose too much of their medicinal properties. However, if you use the Link Space, you can obtain Ice Crystal Flowers with their complete medicinal properties in the Southern Territory and concoct magic potions with several times the effect,” Xia Mingyu explained patiently.

"So I need you to help me collect as many ice crystal flowers as possible."

"Please rest assured, once I return, I will immediately mobilize my knights to find the Ice Crystal Flower for you," Dorothy said solemnly.

How many knights do you have?

Xia Mingyu was somewhat curious. After all, Dorothy was a descendant of Grand Duke Mason. Given the Grand Duke's charisma, even if the girl was currently in exile, she must have some loyal knights by her side.

"Those who can be considered combatants are only a few dozen Morning Stars, a few Crescent Knights, and two Crescent Knights. Your Highness, please forgive our poor performance," the girl said apologetically.

She felt that her manpower was far too small, as insignificant as a drop of water in the ocean compared to the vast kingdom of 1.4 billion people behind His Highness.

Dozens of morning stars?!

Several Crescent Moon Knights, and even two Crescent Moon Knights?

Good heavens, the knights under her command are more powerful than the entire Southern Territory!

hiss!
Xia Mingyu gasped, momentarily questioning the meaning of life.

He felt that Dorothy was perhaps more suited to the title of "Your Highness" than he was.

Meanwhile, Tamerlan, who was listening to the two talking about using the connection space to teleport ice crystal flowers to maintain their medicinal properties, lowered his head and seemed to be deep in thought.

He thought he might be able to give his companions a small gift.

"Your Highness, may I give each of my companions in the palace a gift? Including you."

Tamerlan walked up to Xia Mingyu, slowly knelt on one knee, and said respectfully.

"Of course. What kind of gift is it?"

Upon hearing this, a hint of curiosity and anticipation flashed in everyone's eyes. "The Church of the Sun has a Blazing Sun Treasury, which is open to all members of the church. It contains the church's treasures that have been stored for thousands of years, including potions, ores, magical tools, magical weapons, and knowledge."

"Anyone who performs meritorious service will receive merit points. With the accumulated merit points, you can exchange them for treasures from the treasury. I happen to have a little merit points left, which I can use to exchange for the treasures you need and deliver them to you through the connection space."

"I hope to contribute to our shared ideals through this," Tamerlan said sincerely, his azure eyes filled with hope.

Even though he was the one giving the gift, he gave the impression of asking for help.

This guy is such a nice guy, he's completely beyond saving.

Xia Mingyu sighed silently in his heart. He quickly helped Tamerlan up and then said:

"Then I won't stand on ceremony. Could you please give me a magic book?"

After much deliberation, Xia Mingyu ultimately chose the magic book over the magic crystal.

After all, what he lacks most right now is offensive means, and the innate magic he finally awakened, Heavenly Punishment Dragon Lightning, is a terrible thing that will drain his magic power once it is used.

It's more valuable to learn a new spell than to simply increase your magical power.

After all, what magician in this world only knows one spell?

"Yes, Your Highness. What type of spellbook do you need?"

"Ice attribute, I guess," Xia Mingyu said after thinking for a moment.

He remembered that Elise had mentioned that she had a high affinity with ice magic, and that she did indeed feel very comfortable casting ice spells.

"Haggex, Miss Dolores, and you two?"

"I need a treasure that can better hone my body, it could be knowledge or a tool."

"Lord Tamerlan, I need a sword technique. As for what type of sword technique, I think you, who often instruct me in swordsmanship, should know better than I do."

Under Xia Mingyu's influence, Haggex and Dorothy also put forward their own requests, which Tamerland readily agreed to.

Click click click.

As the moment of awakening arrived, the pillars of the hall gradually turned into phantoms.

"It's so good to meet everyone." The girl suddenly said at the last moment.

"That's what I think too!" x3
"Ha ha ha ha."

Finally, when the members woke up from their dreams, all they remembered were everyone's smiles.

The Northern Frontier, Snow Sheep Village.

In the early morning, the girl on the bed slowly opened her eyes, revealing a pair of beautiful emerald eyes.

Without the slightest hesitation, Dorothy, who had just woken up, quickly dressed, grabbed the Lionheart Sword, and hurriedly ran out of the room.

This time, instead of practicing her swordplay in the open space at the village entrance as usual, she knocked loudly on the doors of houses one after another.

Before long, she gathered all the knights of the East together.

Although the knights were still a little sleepy, they still held their heads high and puffed out their chests, putting on a spirited appearance.

After all, this was the first time in history that the lord had summoned them all together, and in such an urgent manner, there must be some extremely difficult task to be assigned, right?

For example, could they completely annihilate the Frostfang Knights who came to capture their lord? Or perhaps they could simply launch a surprise attack on Arctic City, kill that villain Morven, and then install a new puppet to unify the North?

Just as the knights were lost in thought, Dorothy solemnly said:

"Gentlemen, please set off immediately and collect as many ice crystal flowers as possible for one of my benefactors."

The knights: "???"

That's it?

My old bones are all fired up, and you're telling me it's all just for picking flowers?
After a while.

Streaks of light left Snow Sheep Village from all directions and plunged into the boundless snowfield.

Despite their slight disappointment, the knights remained loyal and carried out their lord's orders.

As the setting sun dipped behind the distant mountains, painting the sky a fiery golden-red, the knights, laden with their spoils, finally arrived, carrying bags overflowing with ice crystal flowers.

While they competed with each other to see who could pick more ice crystal flowers to prove their loyalty, they followed the girl's instructions to put bags of ice crystal flowers into the emerald green light cave.

"Dorothy, we've basically picked all the Ice Crystal Flowers within a few kilometers. If you want to pick more for your benefactor, you'll have to go to a more remote area," Lansen instructed.

Although he had many questions he wanted to ask the girl, such as who her benefactor was and how she obtained her spatial artifacts, since his lord had not spoken, he, as her servant, would never ask them.

"Hopefully, these ice crystal flowers will satisfy His Highness for now," Dorothy thought worriedly.

This was the first time His Highness had given her a task, and such a simple and safe one at that, so she naturally hoped to satisfy His Highness.

Otherwise, it would be too unfair to His Highness for the kindness he had shown her.

Red Fox Castle, evening.

Upon noticing the changes in the connecting space, Xia Mingyu summoned Youde.

Because he frequently needed to ask Yude to make medicine, he built another medicine workshop for him in Red Fox Castle.

The crimson light emanated from the cave entrance, which opened downwards.

With a whoosh, to Yud's utter astonishment, bags filled with ice crystal flowers fell to the ground, piling up into a small mountain taller than him!
He went over and did a quick check, and found that the bag contained hundreds of ice crystal flowers!
"Your Highness, there are so many Ice Crystal Flowers! Even if I stay up for ten nights straight, I still can't finish making them all!"

Yud was so nervous that his legs started to tremble.

"Don't worry, I definitely won't let you finish making it all at once," Xia Mingyu said, both amused and exasperated.

After calming Yud down, he looked thoughtfully at the mountain of ice crystal flowers piled on the ground.

With so many ice crystal flowers, there must be a lot left over after he squanders them. Perhaps he can sell magic potions to earn some foreign exchange.

However, is it really necessary to sell such strategic materials in Sosia? After all, it would be too dangerous if his future enemies used them.

Xia Mingyu fell into deep thought.

the other side.

Corona City.

Tamerlan, dressed with the help of his maids, took his sword and went out to complete his morning patrol before heading straight for the location of the Blazing Sun Treasury.

That is the Dawn Church, located on the summit of the highest peak of Sun Mountain, the building on the entire continent that is closest to the first rays of dawn.

(End of this chapter)