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"The three of us are good friends, right?"

Blaze grabbed Herbie's legs, jumped onto the wall, and staggered forward as if he was about to fall.

"Yeah." Herbie nodded. She used to be very talkative, but now she became silent.

"Then good friends will never part, right?"

"That's impossible to say."

"I will never leave, and I will never let go."

"You are so naive. When you grow up a little, you will know that there are no absolutes among adults."

"Huh?!" Blaze's eyes twitched, and the anger of being underestimated surged in his heart.

He immediately grabbed Herbie's hands, threw Herbie out, and then jumped along the edge of the city wall while spinning.

"I'll throw all these messed up thoughts of yours out!"

"Ah ...

Hebi's scream brought the night to Lycaon.

……

“Haha ....”

"vomit--"

Blaze leaned against the wall and retched, while Herbie clung to Blaze in fear like a sloth, gasping for breath.

"It's hard, unbelievable. Why would you suddenly do such a thing?"

"This is to prove to you, I won't let go no matter what." Blaze held on to the wall and tried to catch his breath. He was spinning too fast, and [Dizziness] was stacked to the highest level.

The saddest thing is that he was wearing a full-coverage helmet, and it would be unimaginable if he vomited.

"Are you serious?"

"Seriously." Blaze covered the mouth of his helmet with his hands in vain and nodded seriously.

“You really are…hahahaha…”

Herbie suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so hard that tears streamed down his face.

Blaze didn't know if he had given Herbie the answer she wanted, but he knew that Herbie was no longer afraid.

Chapter 200: Stranger, Middle School and Rebellious

After Blaze wrote the contract that "the three of them have always been good friends", Herbie finally felt relieved. He rolled up the contract with satisfaction and hid it in his arms.

Bourne wisely left early, giving Blaze and Herbie some time alone on the city wall.

"Where are you going next? Are you going to stay in Arcadia?" Herbie leaned back, supported his body with his hands, and swung his feet leisurely.

"[Silver King] will amplify my attributes based on my own abilities, so I probably won't stay in Arcadia. I'll prioritize going somewhere else to level up and become stronger." Blaze thought for a moment and added, "But I'll go to the Beast Plains first and look for it..."

"The clue to your amnesia?" Herbie turned his head with a half-smile on his face.

Blaze avoided his gaze awkwardly. Apparently, the excuse of amnesia wouldn't fool Herbie. Even with amnesia, his behavior was completely different from the rumored Black Beast Knight.

"But I can understand that. After all, my first impression on you was not good."

"It's not bad, it's very bad. If Audrey didn't look like she needed help, I would have turned around and left." Blaze had to emphasize.

"But this is also part of my nature. Give me her acceptance."

After getting the contract, Herbie was like the unreasonable Party A, threatening Blazer by waving the contract that he must abide by.

Of course, after making unreasonable demands, Herbie also gave his opinion quite seriously.

"If you want to find records of the underworld, you can go to the territory of the Holy Cross Kingdom. As the oldest kingdom, it has extremely detailed historical records, of course, embellished by faith."

"Also, if you don't find a way to remove the armor curse in the Beast Plains, you'll need to go to the Holy Cross Kingdom. There, you'll find the world's most powerful curse-removing item—holy water."

"The Holy Cross Theocracy..." Blaze muttered. Herbie blinked, sensing a hint of resistance.

Herbie tilted his head and thought about it, then showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

"Oh~ It's because of that red dragon Marika."

The Holy Cross Kingdom, the oldest kingdom, is not a huge alliance kingdom like the Giant Kingdom Alliance, which is composed of large and small kingdoms united together, but a real unified kingdom with a huge territory.

The core Holy Cross faith has an extremely huge influence. While maintaining the stability of the kingdom, it can even occupy a piece of land in the cities of other kingdoms to build churches and spread the faith.

Blaze's subconscious resistance stemmed from the fact that the Holy Cross was the oldest, most hostile group to mixed-bloods. It also taught that the mixing of two bloods would distort history and create opportunities for the evil Outer Gods to invade.

Although the Giant Kingdom no longer launched blatant attacks due to its growing strength, the hostility simply shifted from the surface to the covert.

Even if they are foreigners, if they are of mixed blood, they will be treated maliciously if they enter the territory of the Holy Cross Kingdom.

"Although it may be a bit difficult for me to say this, you have to forgive them." Herbie patted Blazer on the back and said in a gloating tone.

"You have to know that the first person in this era to combine with an alien species and cause a large-scale disaster was their ancestor."

"This is the first time I've heard of this." Blaze became interested.

Hebi coughed and told the story of a period of history that was undoubtedly dark and humiliating for the Holy Cross.

For thousands of years, the Holy Cross Kingdom was not a purely religious country, but a special structure that was half religious and half royal, and the country's name was also the Supreme Holy Kingdom.

At that time, the Blessed Ones had not yet been born among mankind. The spark of civilization had just begun, and dangerous monsters were everywhere. The Supreme Holy Kingdom was humanity's strong shield and fortress.

The human being known as the Supreme King fabricated a god out of lies, giving hope to those who dared not live under the claws of monsters, telling them that only by living hard could they go to the beautiful paradise after death.

The Supreme Holy Kingdom was built up to its current size brick by brick, and no accidents occurred until the 11th Supreme King.

But during the reign of the 12th High King, monster attacks on humanity reached the largest scale ever recorded in history. Kingdoms that had risen up in various places were destroyed one by one, and the remaining kingdoms were also on the verge of collapse.

The 12th Supreme King came up with a last resort, but with endless consequences: he declared that all species except humans were evil, and that defeating these evil monsters would also allow them to reach the beautiful paradise.

In order to reach heaven, humans bravely resisted the attacks of monsters and even set off a wave of fighting monsters to become heroes.

When everything was flourishing, darkness was quietly growing. Humans gradually regarded hostility towards other species, especially towards intelligent species, as a way to reach heaven, and began to enjoy it.

At that time, it was just to throw stones at passing, non-hostile goblins, to take orc children as slaves, and to execute those who rescued orc slaves.

It turns out that killing evil creatures is much easier than trying to live like a good person.

Although evil and darkness continue to grow, the Supreme Holy Kingdom remains strong, and the strong light is enough to make people ignore the darkness.

Then, naturally, the monster that was used as a ticket to heaven fought back, summoning demons to seduce the next High King, who was then the High Prince.

"What happened in between, even I can't find out, but the result is that the Supreme Prince fell, became the first forbidden existence of interspecies fusion, and summoned the Outer Gods." Herbie blinked and spit out the key words while Blaze listened attentively.

“Everything has turned upside down.”

"What?" Blaze was stunned.

"The Supreme Holy Nation performed some kind of miracle, expelling the fallen Supreme Prince, his army, and the occupied kingdom from this world. The only way to describe it is to turn the world upside down."

"After that, the High Royal Family's bloodline was questioned, and they stepped down. The High Holy Kingdom, realizing the unreliability of concentrating power and hope in one person, exchanged royal power with divine authority, transforming the High Holy Kingdom into the Holy Cross State, supported by religious beliefs."

"I see." Blaze understood what Herbie meant. "If the Holy Cross Church used its own beliefs to embellish history, then the earth-shattering scene that occurred in the Giant Kingdom would undoubtedly be recorded as a miracle of [once again driving out the evil hybrids]."

"Indeed, at that time, the Giant Kingdom and the Holy Cross Theocracy were in constant conflict. Rumors that the Giens were followers of the evil Supreme Prince persist even now."

At this point, Herbie showed a troubled expression, as if she wanted to appear pitiful, but Blaze only saw ill intentions.

"The Holy Cross rejects other gods, non-human life, and mixed-race people. The Arcadian people, who worship the Moon God and are descendants of the great Silver Clan, are undoubtedly a thorn in the Holy Cross's side. Now that Audrey is queen, perhaps only one of the two nations will survive."

"You, you don't want me to destroy the Holy Cross Kingdom, do you?" Blaze immediately sat up straight.

"What are you thinking about?" Herbie raised his eyebrows and smirked when Blaze breathed a sigh of relief.

"Destroying the Holy Cross Theocracy is easy. All we have to do is tell the strangers that the Holy City, the center of the Holy Cross Theocracy, is actually a dungeon hiding a terrifying demon."

"You're saying..."

Before Blaze could finish his words, Greenland popped his head out from the city wall with stars in his eyes.

"What! The Holy City is a copy!?"

Strangers appeared one after another, and more strangers were climbing up the city wall, obviously attracted by the screams of Herbie when Blaze spun her.

They heard Herbie's last words, and Blaze's first.

As we all know, strangers are rebellious and immature.

In their eyes, the self-proclaimed righteous Holy Cross Empire is definitely a bad guy, and Arcadia treats them really well.

then……

"A place like a church must be hiding evil monsters!"

"I've long wanted to use the Holy City as a dungeon!"

"The Pope is definitely a bad guy!"

"Kill the Pope! The beast-eared girl is justice!"

"Oh no! If we don't explain clearly, the Holy City will be captured tomorrow!"

Chapter 201: The Orc Stranger's Special Medicine

When Herbie said that the Holy Cross Kingdom was not a bad group, the stranger left like a zombie, as if he had lost his soul, which made Blaze's mouth twitch constantly.

How much do foreigners hope that the Holy Cross Church is a bad guy, to be so disappointed.

Blaze could see it, and Herbie could see it too, so she added cunningly.

"They are not bad people for now."

This one sentence injected life into the souls of the strangers, and they all rubbed their hands and muttered that they were ready for battle again.

Fortunately, the daytime in Arcadia is now night in the strangers' world, and the strangers need to rest. Attacking the Holy Cross Kingdom is just a verbal joke after all.

……probably.

Greenland stayed. In her own words, she was different from normal strangers. Her day and night were reversed. When normal strangers were active, she was sleeping.

Because Greenland has become Hebi's exclusive action force, Blaze told Greenland about the information about the upheaval and the commission to investigate in the Holy Cross Kingdom.

Greenland always happily accepts any difficult commission, but this time, it was just a simple investigation commission that made Greenland show a resistance.

It's simple. The Holy Cross has a very low favorable impression of orcs. If an orc walks in, he will be attacked directly. And if there is a Death Druid...

"In the past, I might have tolerated it, but now that I've been praised to the skies, I can no longer tolerate any verbal violence." Greenland patted his chest proudly. "If I went to a city in the Holy Cross, I'd probably go on a killing spree."

"The Holy Cross Theocracy already has a bad relationship with the orcs. Please don't add fuel to the fire." Blaze sighed with a headache. "By the way, are there any cities that would treat you well?"

"The people of Mekingiod were very kind to me. I earned my first pot of gold and some food there to replenish my health."

Greenland held hands and recalled the beautiful paradise he had experienced.

She missed the feeling of the flying food hitting her face so much. As a wicked stranger, this was the first time she was treated so kindly. She filled two large sacks with gratitude.

These two large sacks of food had sustained her through countless difficult years, including the battles with the six Seraphim. Even now, in her prosperity, she was reluctant to throw away these highly regenerative foods.

"Do you want to try it too?" Greenland's eyes lit up and he put a brown particle in Blaze's hand.

【Mekingiod City Special Emergency Food】

[This is emergency food made by the cat-loving residents of Mekingjord City, who lovingly compress various meats, cut them up, and dry them.]

"One, one?"

"Hehe, don't blame me for being stingy." Greenland scratched the back of her head embarrassedly. She also felt that this was not a good thing, but there was really not much left in stock.

"This is really useful. I don't know why, but other foods have a fullness value and digestion time, but this kind of food can directly replenish blood without making you feel full."

"This might be a benefit activity I got as a cat beastman. Unfortunately, when I wanted to purchase supplies recently, they didn't give me this kind of food anymore. So this is probably a discontinued item." Greenland crossed his arms and sighed with great regret.

This is probably because as one of the heroes who defeated the Nemean Giants, a future Knight of Arcadia, and an honorary citizen of the Giant Kingdom, the residents of Mekingiod City are no longer hostile to you, so they will not attack you with cheap emergency cat food.

Blaze made a gurgling sound in his mouth and swallowed back everything he wanted to say.

He couldn't destroy Greenland's beautiful fantasy about the city of Mekingjord, nor could he let Greenland know that he had carefully planned it. The food he ate was actually super cheap, just cat food for stray cats.

Herbie on the side smiled and said it before Blaze could stop her.

"I can help you find this food, and even provide better ones as extra payment for future missions."

"Really?!" Greenland opened his mouth wide enough to fit his claws in.