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Blaze could understand the reason. The treasure miners had been sleeping for so long that everything had changed.

Perhaps the treasure miners were reluctant to leave Hope City for this reason. The [world above] no longer had any of their old friends, and they were afraid that even traces of their friends would be gone.

But this is nothing to worry about.

Blaze held Marika's hand, looked at the banquet in the castle, and prayed for the treasure miners in his heart.

The Giant Emperor appeared, as bold and carefree as ever. He walked straight to the treasure miners and shook their hands.

That hand used a strength that made him feel at ease, and it was also the strength that allowed the treasure miners to feel their hands being touched.

Just a handshake, and the people in the mines smiled, as if they found that nothing in the past had changed.

This is the meaning of the surname. Their friends became surnames and passed them down one by one.

They took their seats, facing the table full of delicious food like ordinary people, and ate the gourmet monsters with gusto.

Seeing that the treasure miners ate in the same way as they did, the royals of the allied kingdoms felt relieved, ate the delicacies on the table seriously, and mustered up the courage to try the sweet food monsters.

Delicious food is so magical that even the royal families of the allied kingdoms who had just been quarreling in the street over economic friction began to praise the deliciousness in unison.

The royal chef took a proud look at the banquet and returned to his busy work in the kitchen.

They are proud of their work, chef is a profession that can bring peace.

Because they like the same taste and the same dishes, they will create common ground one after another and use this common ground as the center to create opportunities for mutual understanding.

A treasure miner was chewing the food in his mouth and suddenly laughed, with crystal tears flowing down the corners of his eyes.

"It's... salty."

He seemed to be saying to a friend who had been sleeping for a thousand years, "I have finally come to your world."

It just tasted salty.

"It's great to be able to have dinner together." Blaze retracted his gaze, raised his head and chuckled.

"You have contributed to the peace as well," Marika said, pointing at the castle.

Blaze didn't deny it, but nodded. He also pointed over there, extremely proud.

"Look, those smiles, those laughs, and those sweet tears, that's my reward for this wonderful adventure."

“Everyone’s happiness and joy are different, so my adventure will never end.”

Blazer never worried that one day when there would be no major crisis in the world, he would feel bored, lonely, or even miserable.

Because the world will never be perfect, there will always be places and people who need help.

If enjoying adventure is his happiness, then he will not stop and will keep walking. After all, isn’t it natural to walk for happiness?

"Sweet tears?" Marika tilted her head, her red hair lifted by the night wind, and rubbed it into Blaze's ear as if whispering.

"Tears are salty."

She corrected it seriously.

"That's true, tears are salty." Blaze suddenly smiled. He remembered what someone told him, that the ocean is tears, so it is salty.

One has to cry so hard to make the sea so salty.

He suddenly became childish and protested seriously.

"Why can't tears be sweet? Tears when you are sad are salty. Tears when you are happy and touched are also salty. Don't you think it's unfair?"

"Well, that's right. It was the negligence of the gods who created us." Marika nodded seriously and said, "Maybe they didn't shed happy and sweet tears themselves, so they didn't give us this ability."

"That's right, you don't even have the ability to shed happy and sweet tears, yet you still call yourself a great being."

Blaze waved his fist in agreement. If he ever encountered someone saying that humans were like ants and how great he was, he would use this question to fight back.

He can't even shed sweet tears of happiness, and yet he still says he is extremely great.

Have you never felt happiness?

"Hmm." Blaze covered his mouth with his right hand and turned his head.

There were one or two times when he spoke the truth and it seemed to touch the enemy's sore spot and completely infuriated him.

He is a reflective person and occasionally wonders if he has said something bad.

It seems that this [Sweet Tears] is a weapon that can hit the pain point of any enemy, so let's not talk about it.

"what happened?"

"No, I'm just reflecting on myself every day." Blaze shrugged and wanted to continue the previous topic, but he was suddenly stunned.

“[If only I could make my tears sweet.]”

“Is this a solution to the saltiness crisis in the food continent?”

Marika blinked and soon understood what Blaze was talking about. She chuckled helplessly. Although he was standing here, he was always running.

She felt a little lonely, but she also didn't want to hold him back and stop him from running.

“But if there are sweet tears, wouldn’t it be too sweet?” Marika tilted her head and clenched her right hand tightly, enjoying the peace of mind at the moment.

"Isn't it just right with salty tears?" Blaze shook his left hand that was clasped with Marika's.

"I won't leave, at least not tonight."

"I am needed here, and this is where I find happiness."

Chapter 1594 Special Repayment Method

The sudden banquet of the Giant Kingdom Alliance ended quite smoothly. All the allies finally made formal contact, and Hope City was officially recognized as a city-state in the alliance.

The Giant Kingdom Alliance also officially became the first major kingdom to expand its territory in the new era.

However, this is more about reclaiming past territory than expansion.

This incident soon caused turmoil, but this turmoil was not about the expansion impulse of the Holy Cross Kingdom and the Eternal Kingdom, but about the [Olympus Games].

The major kingdoms have not expanded. In addition to the fear of interference from other kingdoms, the main reason is the cost issue.

It is extremely difficult to build a city on a completely unknown land, and the cost cannot be recovered in decades. Therefore, since ancient times, wars among humans have been a fight for the cities that have already been built.

But now we have the Olympic Games, an event that replaces war and can bring huge benefits.

The smallest unit for participating in the Olympic Games is a village, and the cost of building a village is affordable.

Here we have to mention the [Territorial Law] certified by the three major kingdoms.

The village is the smallest unit, and its territory is limited to the scope of the village, and above the village is the city.

The territory owned by a city is difficult to define. Generally, the border lines are determined through war, friction, and negotiation and divided on maps.

Now the Giant Kingdom Alliance already has its first large city in World B - Hope City. That large city has not yet declared its own territory. If it wishes, the entire World B can be Hope City's territory.

Since there is no other human kingdom stationed on World B and there is no competitor, Hope City is naturally the only owner.

Although they know that Hope City will not do the foolish thing of ruling the entire World B, the other kingdoms will still begin to take action to justify the division of land in the future.

You only need to build the smallest unit village in that unknown area, and then win the [Olympic Games] as a village. You can use the rewards to operate the village, expand the village into a city, and get the maximum benefit with the minimum expenditure.

This result was what Hermes's Traveling Hat was most happy to see. Although the activity plan of the Olympic Games was recognized by the three major kingdoms, it was ultimately an activity in which towns and villages participated, and participation could not be guaranteed.

Especially in the Eternal Kingdom, the power structure under the Eternal Queen Morgan is extremely chaotic.

Now that the Giant Kingdom Alliance has a large allied city in World B that has not yet been demarcated, this sense of crisis will prompt those kingdoms and city-states with evil intentions to curry favor with it.

It sounds a bit harsh to say "fawning on others", but judging by the results it seems like a show of unity.

In order to ensure that the [Olympus Games] are lively enough, [Hermes' Traveling Hat] will wait until the kingdoms have built enough villages in the new area before starting the event.

It is expected that there will be a large number of tasks such as conquest, expulsion, land reclamation, construction, etc. for a long time in the future.

If you want to build a village in an unknown area quickly, you can only hire strangers.

However, the kingdoms will not be active in the near future. Now that Atlantis has just surfaced, the attention of the foreigners is all focused on the development of Atlantis and the problem of conquering the mermaids. They will not be so tactless as to ask for trouble.

Of course, it would seem to be a better option to station a village directly on Atlantis, which is rich and huge, but no kingdom chooses to do so.

Anyone with a little insight would know that this place would be the base of a powerful race called mermaids. Not to mention occupying it, they should prepare gifts as friendly allies.

Blaze vaguely sensed the huge turmoil that this Giant Kingdom Alliance banquet had brought, but he knew very well that that was the part that Hebi and the others should take care of, so he didn't need to worry about it.

Just like the fight between the kings of Atlantis, the kingdoms abide by the rules, and he cannot act according to his personal preferences but must abide by the rules.

"It's also a rule to clean up after eating."

Blaze sighed while holding a broom. After every event, the participants could leave satisfied, but the mess on the floor would be left to be cleaned up by the organizer.

Unfortunately, he, who provided the gourmet monster, was also the person who organized the event and had the task of cleaning up the aftermath, which included cleaning the royal castle.

He was hesitant to mention the word reward, but Herbie had already tried it for him.

Just a few minutes ago, Herbie, as the representative of [Hermes's Traveling Hat], was directing the employees to clean up the castle.

Princess Farasha came to express gratitude to Hebi on behalf of the royal family. The miners who had not left happened to see this scene, so they came over to express their gratitude together and offered to give him rewards.

Hebie would not ask for compensation on her own initiative. Banquets were like owing favors, and favors were much better than actual compensation. But if there was real compensation, she would not refuse it.

So what happened next left a huge psychological trauma on Herbie and Farah.

The treasure miner simply placed his hand on the table and chopped off his arm with a knife.

The body of the treasure miner is crystal, and crystal is one of the three major magic ores. It is extremely rare, even rarer than the other two magic ores - orichalcum and mithril.

Although crystal is called magic ore, it cannot be hammered as an ore. It is a very fragile mineral, close to a gem.

Generally speaking, crystals are used as the core of magic equipment. But crystals are a kind of magic ore after all, and they can only play their greatest value when used as hard-hitting weapons and armor.

If you want to increase the hardness of crystal, you have to look for naturally huge crystals. Naturally formed crystals are extremely strong and can be used after a little polishing.

And one of the crystal arms of the treasure miner easily exceeds the weight of the largest natural crystal mined.

Hebie was frightened by the treasure miner's trick and stared at the crystal arm on the table in a daze, but the treasure miner mistakenly thought that it was not enough, so he immediately greeted the other treasure miners and asked them to chop off a few more arms in the tone of adding a few more dishes.

This gangster-like behavior made Hebie, who had seen countless big things, terrified. Some miners even lifted her clothes and asked her which organ she wanted.

Hebie could still hold on, but the underage third princess, Farasha, ran away shouting for her mother when the treasure miner chopped her arm.

I guess he went to ask for help.

Chapter 1595 It’s hard to refuse such hospitality

Blazer had always believed that the idea that the treasure miners would smash him into pieces as a gift was an exaggeration, just like what he had heard as a child, that if you were disobedient you would be caught and threatened.

But I didn't expect it to be true, and it wasn't an exaggeration at all.

Although the Baokuang people are already sitting at the same table with everyone to eat, there are still huge differences in some fundamental behavioral logic.

However, the Baokuang people's twisted way of repaying others is actually the conclusion they came to after being hunted by humans for too long.

The treasure miners knew from the fanaticism of the humans who were chasing them that their bodies were extremely precious and rare to humans, so they would use their bodies as a reward.

Farasha soon brought in reinforcements, the current Giant Queen, a human. Bringing the Giant Emperor would definitely not work, and the Giant Queen, the Giant Emperor's childhood sweetheart, could solve the problem.

The Giant Queen and Herbie worked together and successfully made the miners give up the idea of ​​using limbs as reward, and the broken arm was reattached with a snap, quite casually.

But the miners were certainly unwilling to accept no compensation, so they took out a map and gave it to Herbie, asking Herbie to dig along the markings on the map.

As for what they are digging, it would be impolite to ask in more detail.

Herbie walked to Blaze's side with his hands and feet trembling, holding the map with his limbs stiff, and tried to put the map into Blaze's hand as if his elbow joint could not move.

"Take it."

"No, thanks."

"You're welcome."

"I'm not being rude, I just don't want it." Blaze refused seriously and stated the reason for his refusal.

"This is most likely the cemetery of the treasure miners. There are either human-shaped bodies of treasure miners there, or bodies of treasure miners that have been smashed so hard that they can't be recognized as human bodies. Anyway, I can't take out the rare metals inside and use them."

"How can you be so mean! Why did you say it out loud!" Herbie jumped up angrily and hit Blaze hard with the map in his hand.

The miners who saw this from a distance expressed their delight. They said the little girl was jumping for joy.

"Anyway, just keep it for now." Blaze caught Herbie's hand as he was trying to put the map into the magic bag, then rolled up the map and stuffed it into the back of Herbie's collar, making sure Herbie couldn't reach it.

"You should accept this gift."