Wizard Farming Guide

Chapter 72 Sealed World

In the following days, Rod frequently traveled around Mole Town.

With the help of the artisans who arrived, they worked together to build the blast furnace.

The smelting work at the foot of the mountain was in full swing, and the work on the mountain itself was no exception.

At the mine, many long-abandoned pits, which had become cluttered with gravel and debris, have been cleaned up.

Under the management of the newly established mining guild, the miners in the town have all started working.

For a time, the mine was filled with the clanging sound of picks striking each other.

With the support of iron ore production, the territory's three military camps were expanded accordingly.

Previously, in order to motivate soldiers to train, Rhodes had the army hold a large competition every week with generous rewards.

Strong soldiers with excellent performance were selected.

They will be trained as cavalry in the First Royal Guard Battalion, numbering fifty men.

The number of shield and spear soldiers in the Second Iron Wall Battalion also increased from two hundred to four hundred.

The number of longbowmen in the Third Divine Archer Battalion increased to one hundred, and the number of crossbowmen increased to four hundred.

After confirming that the arrangements were proceeding smoothly, Rod did not rush back to Pingdingshan, but remained in Mole Town.

In a few days, he will need to go to Duanlong Fortress.

The roundtable conference, held every three months, will take place at that time.

It just so happens that we've been busy with construction projects throughout the territory lately and haven't had much opportunity for external communication.

Rhodes also wanted to take this opportunity to learn about the specific circumstances of the other pioneer knights.

Night fell.

He closed his eyes in the room.

Today is Monday, and as usual, I will enter the Northern Remnant.

After the soul ascends to the Star Spirit Heaven, the familiar sense of chaos fades away, and external resistance disappears.

Rhodes opened his eyes.

It was still Miyuki's bedroom in the village.

This time, however, he was alone; the three boisterous sisters were not here.

Rhodes stepped out of the room and saw the ash rat in the fireplace chewing on charcoal, warm flames emanating from its tail.

This made him realize that Sanxue should have been still around not long ago.

It seems she didn't forget to feed the little guy before she left.

This is to maintain the warmth of the room when I arrived.

Recalling the other person's shy, blushing face, Rod chuckled and went out onto the street.

Having had previous encounters and with Sanxue's explanations, the villagers had accepted his presence.

Normally, I would just stare at it curiously for a while before leaving.

But this time was different. Standing by the roadside, Rod noticed something strange about the villagers.

The female villagers, armed with weapons, looked tense and hurried out of the village.

When she saw him, she simply nodded, unlike before when she looked him over with curiosity.

Rhodes looked around and realized this was not an isolated case.

Then he heard a thunderous noise from the village walls, which sounded like the roar of some kind of monster.

The snow on the roof trembled and fell, and Rod frowned as he looked in that direction.

After thinking for a moment, he followed the female villager to the source of the noise.

They followed each other all the way to the back of the village wall.

Rod saw the three sisters.

At this moment, Sanxue was holding a broad-bladed battle axe that was taller than herself, standing among a group of strange humanoid creatures.

White frost and cold air swirled around the axe blade.

With each swing of her battle axe, the chilling air transformed into a massive fan-shaped shockwave, cleaving the strange creature in front of her in two.

The separated upper and lower halves of the body were frozen by the cold air, and after colliding with the ground, they shattered into countless ice crystals.

What is that?

Rod stared at the strange creatures with a puzzled look.

It has a humanoid body, but its head is a canine with a long, protruding snout, and it has a pair of withered wings on its back.

The white skin clung tightly to the bones, like a skinned skeleton, with no sense of flesh or blood.

What really puzzled Rhodes was that he felt a certain attraction to these monsters.

A powerful urge, stemming from his very blood, seemed to be urging him forward to devour these monsters.

"This is a dragon servant, a subordinate of that monster deep in the North." The dwarf blacksmith came to his side, noticing the doubt in his eyes.

The dwarf blacksmith said in a bad mood, "This thing disgusts me. It's only been a thousand years, how come that monster is waking up again? No wonder the queen of the royal city is grooming the next princess."

Rhodes blinked, his doubts deepening.

Just then, an old woman with a hunched back, leaning on a cane, and wearing a white robe with gold trim walked over.

She stood before Rhodes and the dwarf blacksmith, her cloudy eyes fixed on the monsters.

"Dragon servants are the servants of the gods, bearing the hatred and rage of that god for thousands of years after he was sealed away."

"Now, the appearance of the Dragon Servants means that the seal is beginning to break. They will sound the first horn of the White Frost Apocalypse and bring an ice storm that freezes the earth."

The old woman coughed twice and then looked at the dwarf blacksmith.

"How is the 'Ice and Snow Guardian' being built? The village's warriors should also set out on their journey to the Everwinter Royal City to pay homage to the newborn princess."

The dwarf blacksmith looked somewhat embarrassed and quickly waved his hand, saying, "It'll be done soon, just give me another month, don't rush me."

"The dragon servants have only just appeared and are so weak. There's still plenty of time. The dwarves should focus on forging the most perfect armor!"

Upon hearing her words, Rod rolled his eyes.

He had previously helped a dwarven blacksmith, and after several forging attempts, he successfully crafted a suit of armor.

Unfortunately, due to issues with temperature control, its quality only reaches Level 1 Excellent, not Perfect.

Rod clearly remembered that the dwarf blacksmith was lying on a chair drinking wine.

He muttered to himself that he might as well just deliver this defective product.

In any case, outsiders can't tell the difference in quality in a short time.

Finally, under his disdainful gaze, he smashed the failed product in shame and indignation and started the furnace again.

After smiling, Rhodes pondered the words of the dwarf blacksmith and the old woman.

Are dragon servants, servants of the gods?

Considering the unique nature of this spirit world, Rhodes had a general idea in mind.

The truth about the Northern Remnant.

This might be a sealed world existing in the Celestial Realm, recorded in the Wizard's Guidebook.

Because the physical bodies of some transcendent beings are so powerful, it is impossible to destroy their physical forms in reality.

Thus, a seal targeting the soul was born.

He banished that transcendent soul to the Star Spirit Heaven.

Then, using this powerful soul as the core, the spiritual world was created.

While sealing the soul, it uses the powerful gravity emitted by the soul to maintain the existence of the spirit world for a long time.

As long as the spirit world remains intact, the soul cannot return.

That physical body that exists in reality will fall into a permanent slumber, equivalent to death.

Those who are qualified to enjoy this kind of prison treatment must be at least demigods.

Rhodes looked at the dragon servants and felt a chill run down his spine.

Judging from this, the seal here has already malfunctioned, and these dragon servants are a projection of that being's power.

As the seal weakens, the dragon servants' strength will continue to increase.

The turmoil in the Northern Remnant does not affect him for the time being.

But if Rhodes wasn't mistaken, that terrifying being who had just reached the level of a demigod probably had his body deep within the North in reality.

The changes here could very well have a simultaneous impact on the real North!

(End of this chapter)