Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 125 Children of Angels, Secret News

The sunlight was intense and bright.

Outside the Mist God Hunting Grounds, the unique fresh air of the forest was filled with undulating dust motes, enveloped by beams of light filtering through the leaves.

Xia Fa's gaze swept over the fair little feet of the seaweed-colored curly-haired girl, then he raised his head and looked at her face with her chin slightly raised.

"Are minors allowed to hunt in the Mist God Hunting Grounds now? Don't your parents care?"

There was no way around it; this seaweed-colored curly-haired girl was really quite petite, only a little over 1.5 meters tall, even shorter than Princess Victoria, which is why Xia Fa asked the question.

"not good--"

Unexpectedly, the expressions of many noble students around them immediately changed, and they rushed over as if to block Xia Fa's way.

"Well!"

The seaweed-colored curly-haired girl suddenly puffed out her cheeks, clenched her small fists, and bulged the veins on her forehead, but even so, she gave the impression of acting cute or being coquettish.

"I'm twenty-two years old! Do you understand what twenty-two is?! I'm already a senior at Nickelheim University!"

She leaned forward, her petite body swaying as she rode atop the giant slime, accusing it with all her might:

"You actually...you still treat me like a child! Why?!"

Xia Fa smiled sheepishly:
"Oh, I see. I was just thinking you were too short... no... a bit too petite."

"not good!!!"

At this, the noble students' expressions changed completely, and they instantly formed a human wall, blocking Xia Fa's way.

"you you you!"

The seaweed-colored curly-haired girl, enraged, suddenly slapped the giant slime she was riding, seemingly trying to make it charge.

One of the noble students turned around with difficulty, faced Xia Fa, and earnestly said:
"Xia Fa, run! Let's lay low for a while. Miss Auf hates it when people say she's short!"

Just as the slime ridden by the seaweed-colored curly-haired girl was about to charge, she suddenly seemed to remember something, sighed softly, and placed her hand on the slime's head.

The slime, which had been gathering its strength, immediately stopped.

"Fine, I'm magnanimous and won't hold it against you this time, since you're new here. Hmph~"

She turned her head away, her little face full of arrogance, as if waiting for Xia Fa to apologize to her.

The group of noble students breathed a sigh of relief. Miss Auf seemed to be in a pretty good mood today; otherwise, if she had really lost her temper like before, they would have been sent flying everywhere.

Xia Fa smiled and said:
"A grown man doesn't hold a grudge against a petty person? Judging from your size, shouldn't you be the petty person?"

The noble students: ...

They all turned to look at Xiafa with either fear or disbelief, as if they were seeing a dying man.

At this moment, a big question arose in the minds of these noble students.

That is... how dare Xia Fa be so brave?
You should know that Miss Off is the daughter of a duke, one of the most prestigious students at Nickelheim University!
Their lineage was only slightly inferior to that of the young people from the Augustus family or the Selene royal family, and they were only inferior to the young people from those two families who were also children of dukes or higher.

Not only that, Miss Off is also one of the most outstanding superhumans at Nickelheim University.

Not only has he reached the whale level and is about to become a demigod, but he has also subdued a whale-level mystic spirit, an extremely rare traveling slime!

Most importantly, this traveling slime also has the potential to become a demigod!

If we were to discuss the most outstanding members of the younger generation in the Kingdom of Augu, aside from His Highness the Prince, Princess Victoria, and the prince from the Augustus family, it would be Miss Ouf and Major General Poincaré.

As everyone knows, what Miss Aw hates most is being told she's short...

Xia Fa broke three taboos right from the start today...

"You! You! You! Ugh! You're making me so angry!"

With a sudden leap, her petite body jumped off the traveling slime, soaring over the heads of the group of noble students and landing in front of Shafa.

She raised her small fist and held it upright in front of her, her large, seaweed-colored eyes filled with defiance and stubbornness.

"You always say I'm short, I challenge you to a duel!"

At that moment, a deep, rough voice came from afar.

"Alright, alright, stop fooling around, Miss Auf. Didn't you just quietly say that you admired Xia Fa? Why do you suddenly want to duel again?"

Xia Fa looked up and saw the burly young man wearing a navy cloak.

The young man reached out and straightened his white baseball cap. He took a step, and his figure suddenly dissipated like flames. The next moment, he appeared between Xia Fa and Ao Fu, blocking the two of them.

"Our goal this time is to hunt down all the supernatural creatures in the Mist God Hunting Grounds within a few days. Arguing is not conducive to cooperation. Besides, what would His Highness think if he came and saw this scene?"

Upon hearing this, Aw crossed her arms over her chest and turned her face to the left:
"Hmph~, you want to be His Highness the Prince's squires? I don't want to, and I don't care. It's Xia Fa's fault for saying I'm underage!"

"Cough cough."

Xia Fa coughed twice and said seriously:
"I'm saying this to say you're young, meaning that even though you're twenty-two, you look like you're fifteen or sixteen."

Auf suddenly turned around, her seaweed-colored eyes widening with delight:

"Really...really?"

Xia Fa nodded solemnly:

"real."

A smile suddenly appeared on Auf's childlike face:

"Okay, I forgive you!"

Xiafa: ...

This young lady seems quite gullible...

Seeing this, the young man, a rear admiral, breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and extended a large, calloused hand to Xia Fa:
"Shaffar, hello, nice to meet you. My name is Poincaré, Poincaré de Schoesar."

Xia Fa was slightly taken aback, not expecting that the person in front of him was Poincaré.

He had heard his colleagues at the church talk about Poincaré before. Poincaré was a twenty-year-old whale-level superhuman who was also a rear admiral in the navy.

Regardless of his background, experience, or abilities, he is outstanding and regarded by the entire Kingdom of Augu as a candidate for future naval admiral.

Moreover, from this first encounter, he could tell that the Poincaré seemed like a good person, rather composed.

Xia Fa extended his hand and shook hands with Poincaré, feeling that his large hand was particularly strong.

"Hello, nice to meet you."

Aw, who had been crossing her arms and looking rather haughty, stretched out a small, fair hand upon seeing this:

"Shafa, let me introduce myself. My name is Off, Off de Oberon."

Auberon?
Xia Fa was slightly taken aback.

Good heavens, so it turns out that everyone in the younger generation of the entire August Kingdom, except for the most outstanding members of the Augustus family and the Selenes royal family, has come?
You should know that Duke Oberon and Duke Shorsa are the only two Grand Dukes in the Kingdom of Augu!
Of course, there were also many dukes in the Augustus family and the Selene royal family, but their backgrounds were different.

More importantly, Duke Oberon and Duke Shoreza... are both angels!
This is also the unspoken rule among the nobles of the Augu Kingdom: only those with the rank of angel are worthy of the title of duke.

A daughter of an angel, a son of an angel… Shafa finally understood why Tyrene had earnestly told him before he left not to offend these noble children.

At least on the surface, he is someone he cannot afford to offend.

As for secretly killing them... they've already killed two.

"Hello, nice to meet you."

As he thought about it, Xia Fa also reached out and grasped Ao Fu's fair and delicate hand.

The surrounding noble students were all stunned, wondering what was wrong with Miss Auf today?
Not only did she not get angry when this Xia Fa called her short three times, but she was also willing to let Xia Fa touch her hand.
You know, at Nikiham University, countless suitors have wanted to get close to Miss Off, but they have all been turned away. To this day, no one has ever touched Miss Off's hand. Xia Fa is the first!
Is this some kind of melodramatic plot from a stage play or movie, where a duke's daughter falls in love with a poor boy from the slums?
"Haha, that's much better. I almost thought you guys were going to fight just now."

Daponz smiled and smoothed things over, quite pleased, though he hadn't expected Poincaré and Auf to accept Shafa so quickly.

"Come on, come on, it's too hot standing outside. Let's go into the hall, have some tea and talk about how to hunt this time."

Daponts was clearly the most tactful among the many noble students, which made everyone happy to have him organize the gatherings.

Therefore, as soon as he spoke, everyone went to the hall.

There were more than thirty noble students present. Fortunately, there were four rows of long sofas in the hall, all surrounding a tea table.

As soon as they sat down, the hierarchy of their social status became apparent. On one of the sofas, Poincaré and Auffert sat on either side, leaving the middle empty.

The others squeezed onto three other sofas, but fortunately the sofas were long enough that each sofa could seat ten people, so it wasn't too crowded.

Xia Fa was the last to enter. Seeing that the other three sofas were all occupied, he was about to look for a seat.

"Xia Fa, come, sit here."

Suddenly, Auf waved to Shafa, gesturing for him to sit next to her.

The other noble students were astonished, but Xia Fa remained noncommittal, walked over, and sat down.

Ao Fu's seaweed-colored eyes secretly glanced at him before she feigned a serious expression and said:

"Don't think I'm interested in you. My dad told me that you've made too many contributions to our Augu Kingdom, and asked me to take good care of you in the Mist God Hunting Grounds."

Upon hearing this, the group of noble students suddenly realized what was going on.

When Auf invited Xiafa to sit down, they almost thought that this haughty young lady had changed her personality, or that she had fallen for Xiafa...

Xia Fa laughed:
"Is that so? Then please thank Duke Oberon for me."

Auf crossed her arms and tilted her chin up:
"Hmph~, shouldn't you be thanking me? You're just a mere Insect-level Transcendent, while I'm a Whale-level! By the way, my old man also told me to remind you not to use those soul-damaging sealing artifacts again. What you should be doing now is to properly understand the contents of the two secret contracts you signed and improve step by step."

Xia Fa was taken aback, never expecting that his deeds would reach the ears of Duke Oberon, who was an angel.
But then he thought about it again and understood.

After all, he had won ten million acres of potato fields for the Augu Kingdom, as well as ten million acres of oil fields that seemed useless now but would be very useful in the future.

Therefore, his actions in the sacred land of the desert must have already reached the ears of these high-ranking nobles.

This naturally includes information about himself, such as the extraordinary descendants of the Baal behemoth, who possess the talent of elemental expansion, and the suspected existence of a sealed artifact that can overdraw soul power.

Unfortunately, all of this is fake...

"By the way, Xia Fa, what was the second secret contract you signed? It wasn't also a high-level secret contract, was it? I heard that the first secret contract you signed was the Ether Source high-level secret contract."

Auf suddenly asked a question, her young face full of curiosity.

Xia Fa smiled:
"more or less."

Not to mention that Pompeii, the demigod, is now searching everywhere for the murderer of Bald and his son, and even speculating that the murderer may have signed the Silver Throne, a supreme-level secret contract, even if they haven't, Xia Fa is not planning to say anything for the time being.

Of course, this kind of thing can't be kept secret forever. Maybe one day he'll encounter an enemy who will force him to use the Silver Throne, and it will be exposed to the public.

But now, Xia Fa has decided to keep it a secret for as long as possible, at least until he signs the overlord-level secret contract with the Lord of the Stars.

Based on the limited information gleaned from the fat boss's words, Xia Fa guessed that the Lord of the Stars, a supreme-level secret contract, should grant him considerable life-saving and escape abilities.

In this situation, coupled with the burning sensation and strange electric current in his body, even if he were exposed and targeted by that ruler, escaping would not be difficult.

He still couldn't win in a fight. Even after signing three secret contracts and becoming an Eagle-level superhuman, he could only fight a demigod at most... Although for an ordinary superhuman, this was already incredibly powerful.

"Wow, you still won't tell me? Do you think you've signed some kind of top-level secret treaty?!"

Auf let out a strange cry, which only fueled her curiosity, and she almost moved closer to Shafa:
"I could have guessed even if you hadn't said anything, it's definitely a high-level secret contract! The first and second ones are both high-level secret contracts, Xia Fa, you have great potential~"

Poincaré, with one hand resting on the back of the sofa and his legs crossed in a rather ostentatious manner, smiled and said upon hearing this:
"I also guessed that your second secret contract, Xiafa, is a high-level secret contract. You have a lot of potential."

Xia Fa smiled noncommittally:

"Yes, you guessed right."

Daponz laughed heartily from the side:

"It could only be a high-level secret agreement, could it be a hegemon-level secret agreement? Even the two dukes have not signed one. Although the Xia brothers are exceptionally talented, it is still unlikely."

He was telling the truth, so even when he mentioned Dukes Oberon and Shorsa, Poincaré and Offe did not refute him.

On the other hand, as nobles, everyone understood that a top-tier secret treaty started at two million gold pounds, and some were even more expensive. How could Xiafa possibly sign such a treaty? They were just joking around.

At that moment, Poincaré suddenly raised his wrist, looked at his watch, and said:

"His Highness should arrive in about ten minutes. Let's wait a little longer."

Everyone nodded, and no one dared to say anything.

Xia Fa then realized why everyone had suddenly come to the living room to chat; they were waiting for His Highness the Prince.

Wait, His Highness the Prince is coming too?

It seems that the scale of this hunt at the Mist God Hunting Grounds is somewhat beyond his expectations.

His Highness the Prince's name is Justinian, and he is thirty-one years old this year. It is said that he became a demigod when he was in his twenties. As for his current rank, Xiafa does not know.

Normally, colleagues in the church rarely talk about this topic, as if there is something to avoid.

Seeing that they were just waiting and had nothing else to do, the students from the three academies took turns coming forward to greet Xia Fa and introduce themselves to each other.

After all, Xia Fa is now considered a relatively well-known young man in the Kingdom of Augu. He has made such great achievements, so it's natural for everyone to want to get to know him.

To Xia Fa's surprise, although most of these people came from noble families, three of them were commoners from the lower city of Augustus who were exceptionally outstanding and were admitted to the three academies.

For some reason, this made him feel quite comfortable.

Suddenly, Ofl spoke with a mysterious expression:
"By the way, have you heard? The latest news about the entity 'Glutton'!"

Apart from Poincaré and Daponz, everyone else looked completely bewildered.

Although the entity known as Gluttony has been making headlines every day lately, it's clear that Miss Off is not referring to any of the previous news stories.

"what happened?"

"What happened?"

"Miss Auf, please stop keeping me in suspense."

Seeing everyone's eager expressions of wanting to know the truth, Ofl raised her head and said rather smugly:
"According to the intelligence my father just obtained, it can almost be confirmed that Lord Gluttony's strength... is enough to rank him among the top three of all entities!"

These words stunned the students of the three academies.

After a brief silence, a heated debate erupted.

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

"That's right! The top three entities can only be the Storyteller, the Bard, and that strongest mysterious entity who has never shown himself yet. How could it be Lord Gluttony?"

"Even though the Glutton is currently in the spotlight, there's no way he can beat the Storyteller and the Bard!"

"I've always felt that, if we don't count the strongest mysterious entity, then the most powerful entity is the Story Answerer!"

"A storyteller? Pshaw! What does he compare to a bard?"

"How could a bard gain the approval of the nine great gods and live from the beginning of the universe to the present? What is the storyteller's answer?"

"If that's the case, has the bard ever displayed any power? Has he wiped out an entire inhabited planet like the storyteller did?"

"Speaking of which, is it really that... does no one like the Poison Patriarch Veronica? She's so beautiful, I'd be willing to plant bee eggs in my body every day!"

"You're defying the heavens, brother, can you please stop being so defying the heavens?"

"You wouldn't be happy if a bee egg were actually implanted in you."

"Speaking of which, Miss Auf, is your source wrong? How can a glutton compare to a storyteller or a bard? And you think you can squeeze into the top three?"

Xia Fa looked at the students from the three academies who had suddenly started arguing with great surprise. They were arguing so heatedly that their faces were red and their spittle was flying everywhere. They even seemed to want to roll up their sleeves and fight.

Surprisingly, judging from their appearance, these students seem to be fans of the physical stores?
But then he thought about it again and understood.

After all, apart from more evil entities like the "Wall of Flesh and Blood" and the "Fanatic Tomb Raiders," most other entities, while facing dire consequences for violating their rules, are still very attractive as long as one doesn't break them.

Putting everything else aside, the near-limitless power of these entities and their mysterious origins, which no one has been able to figure out to this day, are enough to attract people.

In this situation, it seems normal for students from noble families in the three academies to engage in debates in a physical form when they are bored.

As for whether his disguised entity, "The Glutton," could rank in the top three, or whether it could surpass the Storyteller and the Bard, Xia Fa didn't care. He wasn't a real entity to begin with...

At this moment, Poincaré sat up straight and calmly spoke:

"Actually, compared to this, I have some news about the Bald father and son that I'm sure you'll all be interested in."

The Baldre family?
Xia Fa's heart immediately tightened.

(End of this chapter)