The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

"This is my power. Please use it wisely. If you break the contract, you will lose your magical girl powers," said the Frost Signal Halberd.

"Then you'd better watch carefully." Under the moonlight, she walked into the factory.

He smiled because Xue Dinglu suddenly discovered that this child had a trace of the world's blessing. Although it was not much, it proved that his original guess was that the protagonist and hero chosen by the world to save Him was actually the daughter of the Mind Flayer.

wonderful!

The hero's daughter and the demon king's father, and goodbye to my cowardice.

Xue Luding's lips curled slightly, and he was wearing a white robe. Here, he would also collect the suffering of this world and bear the pain of the world for everyone.

Then, he poured all this suffering into the Frost Signal Halberd.

"Actually, I suddenly realized the true purpose of my charm-boosting buff." He seemed to be talking to himself, or perhaps he was used to having an old man inside him keeping him company, even though there was no one inside him now.

"The blessing that Alaye gave me to increase my charm is actually used for public speaking and persuading others." Xue Dinglu looked at this world and joked, "It's just a pity that this theocracy doesn't even have a tavern."

"That's true. Most boys are hung in trees right after they're born, so what need is there for a tavern?"

……

The following day, news of the destruction of a birthing factory became the hottest topic in the capital city in recent years.

The factory was destroyed, but all the ordinary people inside were knocked unconscious, and when they woke up, they all said they didn't remember anything.

What shocked everyone even more was that many of the original degenerated humans had returned to normal, and the physical deformities caused by the veterinary drugs had also been restored.

The people of the capital city all believed that this was a blessing from the gods.

Only the divine families who had actually come into contact with the God-King began to wonder and sent people to investigate what was going on here.

This news overshadowed the appearance of a magician in the slums who could cure all diseases, and who, in just one night, transformed most of the degenerated people in the slums back into normal humans.

However, these divine nobles were completely unaware of this, because they had never previously compiled statistics on the proportion of degenerate people in the slums.

On this day, the entire capital was extremely lively. The once desolate and stagnant theocracy seemed to have finally come alive, and everyone came to check what was going on.

In this environment, a carriage slowly drove out of the north gate of the capital.

"Yes... no, Xerides, where are we headed next?" Lan Lin'er asked from across the carriage.

“Rosmar on the northern border,” Xue replied, writing in his book.

"Xerides, you've been writing in a book the whole time, what are you writing?" she asked curiously.

"Just my travelogue." Xue Dinglu revealed the cover, which prominently displayed the title "The Travels of Xue Diles".

"After you finish writing, can I be the first reader?"

"Perhaps."

As Xue Dinglu responded, thorns slowly pierced his body from beneath his pure white hood.

He turned to a new page and wrote on it.

Innovation Era: Day Three, Blizzard

……

On the other side, the young general walked wearily, with a lizardman supporting him and looking shy beside him?

To be precise, they should be half-dragons, but their faces, filled with lizard features, are really not flattering. Even as a minor demon in the Book of Hejudah, such a transformation would be considered grotesque.

“Young Master Hachimedes, we are about to reach the habitat of the Spirit Bird Clan,” said the shy half-dragon maid.

"Oh...oh..." The young general forced himself to cheer up and then looked at the spirit bird race of this world.

He secretly hoped this would go smoothly.

The Spirit Bird race is one of the most powerful races in this world's magical beasts, just like the Wyvern race. They are also a race that has pseudo-Tier 5 Spirit Birds, which is why the young general had to come here.

His goal was to gather all the magical beasts that possessed near-Tier 5 Beast King attributes, so that other smaller magical beast groups would naturally join him, thus creating a considerable force.

This power may have unexpected effects in the fight against Mind Flayers.

So no matter how tired he was, he had to pull himself together. His work wasn't finished yet, but thinking about the suffering in the world gave him motivation again.

"Who goes there!" came a clear voice from the spirit bird clan.

"I am the Dragon Queen, the Spirit Bird King. We have a way to help you take another step on the path of human transformation. You see, I am the best proof." This time, the half-dragon queen stepped forward to negotiate like a wise and helpful wife.

The wind from flapping its wings stirred up water droplets in the forest, and a raptor that looked like it had the head of a clucking chicken appeared in front of the two.

Upon seeing the half-dragon queen, the spirit bird king was greatly surprised. Although from a human's perspective, this was an incomplete transformation, from a magical beast's perspective, it was a transformation that he had always dreamed of.

"Young master, what is your name?"

"Hakimed - The Sad Wind".

After some negotiation and several hours of transformation magic, a "bird-woman" appeared, with bird-like feet, a human body covered in feathers, and a chicken-head on her head.

Overwhelmed with emotion, she embraced the young general and said, "Lord Hachimedes, I am deeply grateful for your kindness and wish to repay you with my body."

Young general: "..."

"Young master, you smell so good! Let's build our love nest together. But please don't mind, we birds share a burrow for both breeding and excretion. But I just cleaned myself..." the bird-man with the face of a clucking chicken said sweetly.

"Gently..." This was the young player's last act of defiance.

……

The half-dragon queen silently gave a look, leaving the space to this side, because she had already eaten her fill.

A few minutes later, a mournful sound came from the mountain spring.

"Hmph-hmph-hmph, ahhhhhhh!"

Chapter 272 Observations on the Northern Border

"Hmm? What's that noise?" Xue Daoli lifted the carriage lid and saw the direction of the Demon Beast Forest. There seemed to have been some movement just now.

"It's probably the wind." He ignored it and silently returned to the carriage, where the books and pen floated around him and began to write automatically.

……

Although the Holy Kingdom is a unified human territory that encompasses the entire world, its land area is not large.

The distance from the far north to the far south is less than 800 kilometers, while the distance from the far east to the far west is only a little over 1200 kilometers.

This area probably occupies less than one-tenth of the entire continent; the rest of the land is filled with unimaginable primeval forests and mountains, providing habitat and breeding grounds for magical beasts.

Although this area is not large, it occupies the most fertile plains carved out by the rivers of the entire continent, making it the most suitable place for farming.

However, this land, most suitable for farming, did not belong to ordinary people, but to gods and nobles.

Yes, all the land in the entire theocracy belongs to the gods and nobles; ordinary people have no right to cultivate it.

During the journey, Xue Dinglu could see a large number of expressionless, dead-looking people planting crops in the fields. These were the units used by the divine nobles specifically for farming.

And all of this food will become food in exchange for the baby.

Xue only hired a carriage, not a driver, because he only needed to give the horse a command to carry it out.

The carriage stopped by the roadside, and Xue Dinglu got off the carriage and saw those people working like corpses.

He stepped forward and then realized he didn't need to go any further.

Those farming fellows were not human, or perhaps they were once human, but upon closer inspection, Xue discovered their true nature beneath their masks.

Plant monsters are similar to the 6 million monsters in the parallel world. They work like tireless robots. Xue's Law can even see plant monsters sticking their hands into the mud. The next moment, the seedlings in this land grow rapidly in the naked eye.

He looked up into the distance and saw that the densely packed farmland was filled with these monsters on guard. They stood eternally in their fields, killing birds and insects that tried to cause trouble, just like preying on plants, to feed themselves, while simultaneously cultivating their own fields.

Like a scarecrow that can move in a rice paddy.

“Xerylus, those in the rice paddies are… Deadpools? No, why are all the people in the paddies Deadpools?” Lan Lin’er stared blankly at the mechanically moving figures in the rice paddies, her face full of shock.

"Are you very familiar with these things?" Xue asked knowingly.

“Ugh…that’s my father…no, someone I’ve seen in my family, called a Deadpool. But all the people I’ve seen in my family are combatants. Does that mean all the fields we’ve been through have been planted by Deadpools?” she asked blankly.

Xue Dinglu nodded.

A gentle breeze rustled the white robe, and seedlings were visibly growing in the distant rice paddies. However, the scene lacked any vitality; instead, it depicted a bizarre cycle of plants nurturing new plants.

"Then... the land has been planted by the Dead Servants, how do ordinary people survive?" Lan Lin'er asked an extremely foolish question.

It's such a stupid question that she, as a local, didn't even know.

"Have a baby." Xue Luding turned around and left the place.

"Huh?" Lan Lin'er was stunned for a moment. She stared blankly at the lifeless fields, which stretched as far as the eye could see, all flat farmland.

A gentle breeze stirred, and she hugged herself tightly, as if only in this way could she dispel the chill in her heart.

Why is everything I see completely opposite to what my mother said? My mother said that humans would cultivate the land, harvest food, and that it would be the same every year, with birds singing and children singing in the fields.

But now, everywhere you look, there is no sign of life.

What is Father doing? What does he want to do?

She knew that these Dead Servants were trained by her family, but what she didn't know was why her father was doing this.

Would he feel happy to see the hellish human world?

For the first time, she felt doubt and resentment towards her stern and unsmiling father.

If one could deceive oneself by blaming the birth factories and slums of the capital city on the nobles and branch families, then here, she felt the strongest doubt about her father, who was always talking about righteousness and the world.

Why does my father say one thing and do another?

Once this seed is planted in your heart, it's like opening Pandora's box, constantly taking root and sprouting.

……

Rosmar, on the northern border.

The carriage finally arrived here; in fact, this border region is only a few hundred kilometers away from the capital.

On Earth, it would probably only take a few hours to get there by simply stepping on the gas.

But here, even at such a short distance, there's a chill in the air—a climate and environment completely different from the capital.

"We've arrived in Rosmar. This is the last stop on the fertile land. Further north lies frozen soil unsuitable for planting," Xue Dinglu said quietly, referring to the environment he had learned about through human geography.

The imperial region south of Rosmar has a temperate climate, while the area north of this border has a subarctic climate.