An infinite journey starting from paradise

The dark elf cavalryman, suddenly awakened, was a little confused, but after seeing the old man pointing a gun at him and the humanoid demon in black clothes, he still tried his best to get up and run for his life.

"Sir, he, he is going to escape!" said old man Herbert nervously.

"Aim at the place where you want to hit him." Lin Shangren continued to order.

"Yes Yes."

"Okay, squeeze the trigger hard."

"Oh!"

The thunderous sound of the gunfire startled old Herbert, and the recoil of the pistol stung his palm. But what really surprised him was that the dark elf, who had already escaped a long way, had his head exploded like a rotten persimmon.

Looking at the dark elf's fallen body, old man Herbert asked in surprise, "This...I did this?" He was a little bit unbelievable, "I killed that dark elf with my own hands?!"

"Yes."

Lin Shangren took the Colt from Herbert and locked the safety back on. He continued to speak to the villagers who were still in shock: "This is one of the powers I want to give you to protect yourselves. But accepting this power also means accepting the responsibility that comes with it.

This power must not only be used to protect yourself and your loved ones, but also to pledge your loyalty to me and fight as part of my army. While this power can easily kill the enemy, as long as war involves sacrifice, you may also be killed by the enemy's magic.

As a merciful king, I will not force you to sacrifice your lives for me or die for me. Even if you dare not fight for me or for your loved ones, I will continue to protect you.

Now, my subjects, you should start to think about it. Should you continue to live a quiet life, or should you serve as my army, my strength, and achieve great deeds to repay my kindness?

"Me! I want it!"

"Me too! I don't ask for anything else but revenge!"

"And me, I don't want to be bullied anymore!"

Among the villagers, those with no ties and no family began to sign up enthusiastically, and a few farmers who were lucky enough to still have families raised their hands. "Dad," a young girl quickly stopped her father, "Why are you joining in the fun? Going to the battlefield will get you killed."

"Silly girl." The farmer quickly held his daughter down. "Are you stupid? What if some bad old bachelor gets the power bestowed by adults and uses it to force me to marry you and steal our food?! So for you and your mother, I have to take it!"

Out of consideration for human nature, Lin Shangren had already considered this situation, so he continued, "Very good, very good. You have been selected into the army of the Kingdom of Ivlorien. However, I must remind you that firearms, or the power I have bestowed upon you, are to be used against foreign enemies and to protect your own people. If you point your guns at ordinary people who are also my subjects, if you intend to use this power to commit evil, then when you pull the trigger, it will only be your own head that explodes!"

Hearing this, the farmer who had just raised his hand felt a little regretful, but he still held it in place. "I'm still worried about leaving your safety in the hands of others, so I'll do my part. Your Excellency is so kind and generous, maybe there will be other rewards."

"Okay. Those who have decided to join the army, please stand here with Gloria, the lady with horns on her head. She and Ms. Edna will teach you how to use guns later." Lin Shangren said.

"One more thing. To facilitate management and for everyone's safety, I will expand Shuiliu Village and have everyone from other villages relocate here. Rest assured, I will grant you new properties and houses. I will also provide accommodation until the new village is completed.

In addition, residents who participate in the construction and defense of the new village will receive additional food subsidies. The standard will not be lower than the food given to you last night."

At this point, Lin Shangren smiled and said in a dignified tone: "Okay, you can now shout long live."

"Long live! Long live Lord Lin Shangren!!!"

"There's more delicious food! Hooray!"

Amid the cheers of the villagers, the reconstruction of Shuiliu Village is about to begin.

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Author's words: I was so excited about writing today that I typed over 12,000 words. I'm so awesome.

Chapter 444: Haibara Ai makes a grand appearance.

Edna and Gloria were responsible for distributing and teaching the villagers how to use guns, Wilma was responsible for observing the situation near Shuiliu Village and designing the blueprints for its expansion, and Lin Shangren himself practiced his traditional art of torture.

Dark elves weren't human by race, and their roles weren't human, so their fate was to become target practice for the villagers. As for these human reconnaissance teams, while they didn't do anything human, their fate depended on how much "residual energy" they could contribute.

"Come out."

Lin Shangren released the unconscious human knights from the shadow space and hung them in mid-air.

"Which one should be tried first?"

Lin Shangren's gaze swept over their bodies and finally landed on the female knight who madly called him "Demon King".

【Name：Serhi Dirant】

[Race: Human female]

[Identity: Former member of the Pure White Knights, current Knight Sergeant of the Border Guard of the Rufen Empire's Raziel Province]

[Status: Coma]

[Note: Elite Magic Knight, specializing in Fire Magic. Formerly a female knight directly under the Knight Lillia. For offending Prince Dilluk, she was sentenced to exile by the King, but at Lillia's plea, her position was demoted instead. Possesses the "Eye of Truth," which can see the strength of magical essence (i.e., psychic energy).]

"Oh, elite knights sent down from the upper echelons? Looks like I'm lucky. Come, let me see what you know about this world. The Luofu Realm."

The black shadow quickly wrapped around Sersi's body, dragging her soul into a simulated dream. Lin Shangren also began to appreciate the psychological shadow of this female knight.

"Born into a declining noble family, his brother died protecting the young princess during a coup d'état within the royal family. Upon reaching adulthood, he was summoned to join the White Knights, directly under the command of Princess Knight Lilia..."

Compared to Sersi's life experience, Lin Shangren was more interested in her "common sense" about the Rufen Empire and the magic and combat skills system she practiced.

"Strange... magical talent, or the talent for using psionic powers, can be inherited. The offspring of two mages will definitely be mages, but two ordinary people can also have a chance of producing offspring with magical talent. So, magical talent is a dominant trait, a recessive gene? Then, can it be activated later in life?"

Thinking about it, Lin Shangren decided to collect some blood from magic knights and ordinary villagers and bring it back to the scientific world for Dr. Agasa to study. Maybe he could find something interesting.

"The Rufen Empire's magic system is quite interesting, like a combination of magic and prayer from traditional Western fantasy works. Yes, it's quite different from the magic of the elves of Alfheim. That's right, after all, humans only began to slowly awaken their magical talents around two thousand years ago, so it's understandable that they differ from other races."

Since the magic and so-called magic and martial arts skills mastered by Serxi were of little use to Lin Shangren, after looking through them roughly, he turned his attention to the political system of the Rufen Empire that she knew.

"The king, the court, the upper and lower houses of parliament, the local nobles... It's a bit like Daiying, but the king has more power... The absurd eldest prince, the female knight who has both military power and the support of the people, the foolish old king who insists on the succession of the eldest son, and the parliament officials who are ready to make moves. Although I have heard some information about the contradictions in the ruling class of the Rufen Empire from Mousse, I didn't expect that the reality is even more chaotic than I imagined. Tsk tsk tsk.

The eldest prince, Diluk, is a languid little yellow-haired fellow. Just looking at his face, you can tell he's a drunkard and a good-for-nothing. And the princess knight Lilia... well... she's here."

Through Sersi's memories, Lin Shangren saw the female knight, said to be blessed by the Goddess of Temperance and possessing humanity's greatest combat power. This was a memory of Sersi training with Lilia and other knights of the White Knights. Lilia was wearing heavy silver armor, minus the helmet, her white hair dancing in the wind.

Lilia wasn't exactly stunningly beautiful, but she exuded a vibrant, heroic spirit. Her heavy armor concealed her figure, but judging by her size and the terrifying explosive power she possessed when swinging her sword, she must have been a muscular woman.

"Hmm...are there any other memories of her, like when she was wearing regular clothes, or...wow~"

Lin Shangren retrieved Serxi's memory, and soon the scene in front of him turned into a bathhouse where the members of the Knights who had completed their training were bathing.

The steaming hot pool water made the faces of these female knights red in just a moment, and their well-proportioned and firm bodies were presented to Lin Shangren without reservation. He could also listen to the sweet voices in his ears and smell the fragrant and pleasant aroma of the women's bodies lingering in his nose.

Because they have magic to enhance their body functions, these female knights who swing sledgehammers and giant swords do not have exaggeratedly strong muscles. Instead, they have a sense of "fat-wrapped muscles": slender waists, abdominal muscles, big breasts, big buttocks and legs appear harmoniously on the same body, just like the heroines in some exaggerated book styles have come into reality.

Compared to her subordinates, Lilia's figure was much more "normal." Lin Shangren had expected her to be incredibly muscular and tall, but she remained under 1.6 meters tall, like a certain Ahoge King, with the physique of a young girl. Her nearly 1.8 meters tall in heavy armor was entirely due to the specially designed leg armor and combat boots that increased her height.

"I didn't expect that I would make mistakes sometimes. Changing the discs, watching people take a bath is not interesting..."

Lin Shangren was just about to continue checking Serxi's other memories when he suddenly sensed a psychic fluctuation, a psychic fluctuation belonging to the amethyst bat familiar he had created.

This fluctuation did not come from the familiars he left in the surrounding villages, but from the one he used to protect Miyano Shiho.

"What?! Was she brought to this world by the Mother Goddess?"

The triggering of the familiar means that Miyano Shiho is in danger. Although it may be a trap set by the Mother Goddess, Lin Shangren has to go and find out what's going on.

So he had to exit the simulated dream first, put Sersi and the knights back into the shadow space, and then he activated the teleportation array placed on the demon.

The purple magic circle unfolded. To be cautious, Lin Shangren activated the power of "Schrödinger's Cat" in the [Dice of Four Beasts] and transformed himself into an unselectable quantum superposition state, and then passed through the teleportation magic circle.

As soon as he landed, Lin Shangren saw Miyano Shiho, who was wearing a white coat, lying unconscious on the ground. His amethyst bat familiar was flying around her. On the ground beside her were two pierced orc corpses and two dwarf goblins who were too frightened to dare to get close.

Lin Shangren used the [Eye of Innocence] and [Soul Vision] to scan the surrounding environment. This was undoubtedly a dungeon, and the two orcs were the guards here. Their military ranks showed that they were low-level soldiers on the northern front of the Kingdom of Kairudora, and the goblins were military doctors and alchemists responsible for creating the orc suicide squad.

"What's going on? What happened here? Are there white elves attacking us?" An anxious voice came from not far away, and a young man in blue-purple armor came running over.

"Lord Cecil, for some reason, a human woman suddenly appeared here. There is also this strange monster beside her." A goblin pointed at Miyano Shiho on the ground.

"What? Impossible! Haven't the last batch of human mothers been sent to the front lines?"

The young man called Cecillu wanted to get closer to observe, and the amethyst bats automatically attacked him.

"What?! Quadruple protective magic? Rock King Wall!"

A massive rock barrier instantly rose from the ground, barely blocking the amethyst bat's impact before shattering. Just as the amethyst bat was about to retreat and launch its next attack, a sharp sword pierced through the shattered debris and dust of the rock wall and pierced the amethyst bat.

"Magic martial arts technique? Bee sting!"

The sharp sword broke instantly when it hit the Amethyst Bat, but the Amethyst Bat was also seriously injured. One of its wings was broken and it fell to the ground in despair.

Just this one strike was enough to show that the combat power of this young human named Cesilu was far superior to that of the Rufen Empire knight squad that attacked Shuiliu Village.

"That's quite interesting. He's clearly a human, yet he's serving in the dark elf army? And his rank is not low."

Lin Shangren was just about to look at the information of a young man in detail when he noticed something more urgent - Miyano Shiho's body was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Chapter 445: Am I that scary?

"Did she take drug A?"

Looking at Miyano Shiho who had shrunk to the size of a loli, Hayashi Shangren also released his quantum ghost state and revealed his true form.

Seeing Lin Shangren, a living person who suddenly appeared, Cesilu, who had been concentrating on guarding against the amethyst bat, was also shocked. At this moment, the amethyst bat that landed on the ground completed its power accumulation and roared a destructive sound in the direction of Cesilu and the goblin.

The incredibly powerful high-frequency shock wave was launched in a cluster, and the two goblins were instantly crushed into minced meat. As a human, Cecil would also be killed if he was hit by this wave at close range.

At this time, a sudden change occurred.

A hot and well-dressed silver-haired woman suddenly appeared in front of the young man named Cecillu, and used her magic shield to withstand the full force of the Amethyst Bat familiar's attack.

"Oh?"

Lin Shangren picked up Miyano Shiho, who had shrunk into the size of a loli, and looked at the two of them with interest.

【Name：Jerse Cecil Road】

[Race: Human-Demon Hybrid Male]

[Identity: Leader of the Orc Mixed Armored Regiment on the Northern Front of the Kingdom of Kairudora]

[State: Shocked, confused]

[Note: The product of the Garland Kingdom's human-demon hybrid experiments, he retains some of the abilities of the Demon King sealed by the Four Goddesses. After being scrapped and discarded by the Garland Kingdom, he was picked up and taken in by the Kairudora Kingdom's special forces. He later became a chapter leader due to his military achievements. Due to his unique bloodline, he possesses extremely high magical talent and physical qualities.]

【Name：Mist】

[Race: Demon? Succubus? Female]

[Identity: Owner of the Rufen Empire brothel "Dark Paradise", Demon King's attendant, Demon intelligence officer, and trainer]

[Status: Panic]

[Note: On the surface, she's a skilled brothel madam and training expert, but in reality, she's a high-ranking demon and one of the few demon intelligence officers who can directly penetrate the northern continent's barrier and enter Midgard. She's responsible for collecting and protecting the demon bloodlines scattered across Midgard and helping them complete their awakening.]

If Lin Shangren had played the games of "Herme Knight Olivia" and "Herme Knight Lilia" or watched the adapted anime of these two works, he would know that the former is the male protagonist of "Herme Knight Olivia" and the latter is an important plot driver in "Herme Knight Lilia".

However, even if he had not played the original game, he could determine that this man and demon were of great intelligence value based solely on the appraisal results of the [Eye of Innocence].

"Human, demon, hybrid, interesting."

"Cesilu, run!"

After seeing the terrifying aura emanating from Lin Shangren, Wu Zi decisively opened the portal and wanted to escape.

"Can you escape?"

[Finger of Eagle] and [Shadow Swamp] are activated at the same time, with the effects of stun and bind.

Feeling as if someone were squeezing his heart, Cecilus instantly passed out. However, contrary to Lin Shangren's expectations, the always-effective [Eagle Finger] had no effect on the succubus Wu Zi, whose actions were remarkably decisive. The moment she felt her legs sink into the shadows beneath her, she suddenly severed both her own and Cecilus's calves with a single palm strike, and the two of them fell into the teleportation array she had constructed, disappearing without a trace.

Looking at the two pairs of calves still bleeding, Lin Shangren couldn't help but say, "Oh, such a decisive act of amputation to survive. Am I that scary?"

As he spoke, Lin Shangren put the four broken legs into the dark shadow space.

[Hey, what do you want this for? I've heard of people using the severed limbs of fairies for hand jobs, but you wouldn't want a succubus's severed foot for yourself... Ugh, how perverted.]

"I simply wanted to study the differences in DNA between demons and humans. You're already thinking of taking advantage of the situation. Who is the one who's disgusting? Do I deserve to be offended by seeing someone's feet?"

[Ah, right, right, after all, you're holding a legal loli with a fever in your arms, why not try the 42-degree one?]

"You... you should just pour out the boiled juice in your brain and replace it with normal brain matter. I don't want to bother with you."

No longer arguing with the bat girl, Lin Shangren checked the condition of the loli-like Miyano Shiho in his arms. Her body had completely shrunk to the size of a seven or eight-year-old child. A large amount of sweat was oozing from her body surface, and her body temperature began to drop, but her consciousness was still unconscious.

"There's no danger to her life. It's just a matter of time before she wakes up. After all the twists and turns, Miyano Shiho finally became 'Haibara Ai'." Lin Shangren sighed and opened the [Dice of the Four Beasts].

"Laplace."

A dark red light filled Lin Shangren's vision, and then the scene in front of him began to rewind rapidly.

Time goes back to last night.

At the same time that Ashrose released the time stop for this world, Miyano Shiho, who was forcibly sent here by the magic circle a few days ago, finally landed.

One moment, she was leisurely munching on a blueberry sandwich in her office, and the next, she was brought to this dark, damp, unfamiliar stone chamber. For a moment, Miyano Shiho felt like she was hallucinating from working too much overtime. But then, she heard waves of heartbreaking wails and screams. The sound originated from the next room.

Miyano Shiho walked towards the source of the screams, and through the gaps in the stone wall she saw a terrifying and bizarre scene she had never seen before. There were several humanoid creatures nearly three meters tall, with brown-green bodies, who were using their penises thicker than their arms to frantically violate the women and... females under them - the victims included ordinary human women, elves and dark elves with pointed ears, and all kinds of strange creatures such as centaurs, half-humans and half-snakes, and dog-headed humans.

As a medical scientist, Miyano Shiho couldn't believe her eyes at all. The sight of this fantastical creature entering reality completely shattered her original worldview. And this bizarre scene also made her, as a woman, feel an instinctive fear.