The Holy Grail War of God's Blessing

"Mr. Halfdan, you have a deep understanding of runes. The pressure of the barrier has almost disappeared."

Mashu said happily, although the load is not a big impact, it is still hard work.

"Boundary refers to the gate's spell? Although your words are too complicated, I don't quite understand. That... every village must have a gate with a spell. Giants, ice beasts, in short, all scary things will be driven away by the gate's spell. That is the spell of the master. Mashu-sama, you are obviously the master, but there are so many things you don't know. Are all masters like this?"⑤

The children didn't suspect this, they just felt it was a little strange. But next, it was time to go into the village and collect intelligence.

After all, it is impossible to get accurate enough information from children, so we still need to ask the adults in the village.

So they decided to go to where Gerda lived and negotiate with her parents.

However, based on previous performance, the other party may be an orphan or something like that, but this can also be used as a springboard to talk to other adults in the village.

But when her parents were mentioned, Gerda's reaction was one of confusion.

"What are parents?"

"?"

In response to Gerda's question, the confusion on their faces was even greater than the confusion on Gerda's face.

"Your father and mother."

"You mean God? I heard that God is everyone's mother. Humans are all God's children, but God is not here."

"…Miss Gerda?"

It is indeed difficult to react to the fact that Gerda has no concept of parents.

According to common sense, this is not a concept that will appear only later. Such a concept should have already existed in many settlements where civilization has not yet developed.

"What's going on? Is there someone in the village who is in charge, like a village chief or a town mayor?"

Since there is no concept of parents, the person who actually obtains intelligence in such a village is obviously the person in charge of the village and is able to know more.

It’s just that it will be more difficult to have a conversation with him. After all, the village leader’s knowledge is definitely not as simple as that of a child, and he will not be easily deceived.

"principal?"

But Golda was still confused and didn't know what to say.

"That person among you who commands the others and is more powerful than the others."

"You mean the controller? After all, the only ones who are more powerful than humans are the controllers, besides the giants. The controller is not here today, but he should be here tomorrow."

It seems that the structure here is simpler than they imagined.

Apart from the residents of the village, there are only imperial envoys who come here regularly to distinguish their status.

This sounds like a pastoral fairy tale, with a kind of beauty of governing by doing nothing.

"Ahem, rather than that, I should formally take you on a tour next!"

Gerda was surprised that the three imperial servants kept asking her questions that she didn't understand at all. She waved her hands and said she would take the others into the village first.

"Welcome, three royal envoys. Welcome to our village, the twenty-third village. Please allow me to thank you for saving my life.

Stay at my house tonight! I'm almost 13 years old and I've got my own place! Haha, let's eat together around the fireplace, oh and by the way, I'll take out my treasured mead, and prepare freshly baked bread and fish! Before the sun sets, go to the pond and catch the biggest fish..."

Gerda was walking in front, jumping up and down, already imagining her life tonight. Although she looked energetic, her previous words did reveal the weirdness of the whole village.

"The 23rd village?"

Villages named after numbers do sound a bit out of place, just like this village.

"There's nothing strange about it, after all..."

Gerda was still puzzled, wondering why the three imperial envoys always raised questions about such common sense.

"It's Gerda! Sister Gerda is back~!" 3

A group of children dressed like Gerda rushed over from the green field. They were dressed very much like Gerda, except that they did not have furs over their cloaks.

After all, Gerda wore fur specifically to keep warm when going out, and the temperature in the village was normal for human survival.

"Welcome back, sister. It's amazing that you made it back safely from the gate! Did you pick the herbs in the story?"

The children excitedly surrounded Gerda and chattered.

"Little Laura can be saved! Great! Hey, hey, who are these people? They are white creatures... What are they? Rats?"

"It's a beautiful onee-chan! Wow, the black armor is so cool, the hair is so pretty, and the face is pretty too..."

The few people following Gerda naturally could not escape these children. They gathered around them, chattering and looking at these strangers excitedly.

Although Manshu did not hate children, on the contrary he liked cute children and he liked Gerda very much.

But there are too many children here, and they are even younger. They chirp and chatter like a duck gathering, which is very irritating to listen to.

"So why are there only children? Is there no adults in this village?"

"Yes, we haven't seen anyone over the age of adulthood. Since this is a farming village, I'm afraid the young and middle-aged laborers are all doing farm work... But even so, we haven't seen even one elderly person..."

Mashu had been observing the surroundings, and was genuinely confused.

"There are usually more children, right? Right? And, hahaha, Mashu-sama is really incredible. The so-called old people should only exist in stories. You can't just see old people in the village. After all, all adults have to leave the village when they reach the age of 25, right?"

"what?"

"Well?"

Goldajiu was puzzled by the incredible expressions on everyone's faces, and tilted his head in confusion.

Although it is a lovely scene, it does not make people feel any warmth.

"Even adults can't fight against the giants outside..."

"Is that so? The adults who create and raise children until they are 10 years old will go out and be eaten by the giants when they reach 25 years old.

Even if they are not eaten, they will be crushed, so people over this age will not survive no matter what. The same goes for people who fail to make and give birth to children between the ages of 14 and 15. I heard that all villages are like this, from the first to the th village. "

"Until the age of 25, humans above 25 no longer exist?"

"The only people who can live in the 100 villages created by the gods and the servants are children and adults who are raising children."

Gerda nodded and replied. To her, this was the normal law of the world, but the expressions on the faces of the three people in front of her made her wonder if she had said something wrong.

"Uh, that... I... am a little confused. Mashu-sama? Fujimaru-sama? Halfdan-sama? Why do they all look so surprised?

Am I right? It's the same everywhere, right? I'll be 15 next year, and if I don't have a child I'll be trampled."

“Fu… Fuwuwuwu…”

Fu Fu also made a sound like sobbing, as if she was sad about the girl's fate.

"Eh? Eh? Even Fufu, what's wrong with her all of a sudden? Why is she making such a listless sound... Did I say something disturbing? What should I do? Ah, what should I do?"

The girl could also clearly feel the atmosphere around her and couldn't help but blame herself for the mistake.

"No, it's not your fault, Gerda."

Manshu gently patted Gerda's shoulder and quietly drew the rune of Rune to calm Gerda's mood.

"We were just thinking about what to do next at the same time. Weren't you going to take us to your home and go fishing?"

The child's attention was diverted by the effect of the rune, and he regained his vitality and led the three people to his house.

"The treatment of humans in Northern Europe is worse than I thought. This village looks like a cattle ranch, or even worse than a cattle ranch."

Manshu turned around and said to Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others that if they wanted to encrypt the conversation, they could just change to a language that the girl couldn't understand.

The child spoke Old Swedish, and Mashu and the others also communicated in the language converted by instruments.

Listening to Gerda's description just now, it's hard to feel good.

Those who cannot give birth to children will die immediately, and those who give birth to children will die after raising them until they can take care of themselves.

What is the difference between these numbered villages and numbered farms? Humans are obviously lower in status than the giants, gods, and servants who live here, and are at the lowest level of intelligent life.

Chapter 28 Inquiry

No matter how uncomfortable you are with the rules here, there is nothing you can do in this village.

If we destroy this village, the people living here will be the ones who will suffer in the end.

They are like domesticated animals, with no other choice but to live here.

There are no institutions or mechanical devices in this village, and people's life remains in an extremely ancient state.

⑤This also means that the people here have no ability to survive outside the village and can only survive by staying in the village.

⑺If the root of this situation cannot be defeated, the situation here will not change. On the contrary, destroying this place will only make the giants outside slaughter the humans in the village.

⑹ Although what they are about to do is essentially no different from this, after all, they want to cut off this anomalous belt, which means killing everyone living here.

No matter what kind of scenes you will see in this strange belt, what the living conditions of the people in the strange belt are like, and how the entire strange belt develops, these have no effect.

⒊ Because these developments, these completely alien worlds that can be regarded as another world, have nothing to do with Manshu, although in fact, pan-human history has nothing to do with Manshu either.

However, since the first thing he recognized and saw was the side of pan-human history, he naturally stood on the side of pan-human history.

After all, there was no one he knew in the Lostbelt, no friends he was familiar with, so what did it matter what the scene in the Lostbelt was like?

Moreover, at least based on the two anomalies he has seen so far, he does not think that these two anomalies are a better world than pan-human history.

The child running in front, preparing to go fishing, was indeed a very cute guy, very capable of capturing people's hearts, and made Manshu smile unconsciously.

This would make it seem that this world is worthless, and in the eyes of the giants outside, the child is probably just a crop that has been planted.

The village is a piece of farmland with reasonable density of planting. People who are too old or cannot have children need to be thinned out.

After sowing, when the crops are too densely planted, some of the seedlings need to be removed so that the remaining seedlings can have enough growth space, so that they can better absorb sunlight, water and nutrients, and ensure the healthy growth of the crops.

Manshu believes that he is still a human being. Although his current composition may be a little more complicated, his inner identity is here.

Therefore, Manshu only felt deep disgust and anger towards everything he saw now.

Even if he had to make a judgment again, he still believed in his heart that this Lostbelt was worthless and needed to be cut off.

The next time I see Sigurd, I must consider how to knock him down first if he is alone.

After all, if there were multiple servants of that level here, it would inevitably be a bit tricky.

Manshu had not planned to leave the village directly. After all, the child still needed to entertain them well, and he could not let the child down now.

Besides, the child said that the imperial envoy will come to this village tomorrow, although no one knows what the imperial envoy is.

However, since he is holding weapons and can use runes, it is probably that the magician here is a servant of God.

The other party must be the one who is currently most likely to obtain intelligence and have the opportunity to understand the entire picture of the entire Lostbelt.

And at present, the other party is the maintainer of the system in which these 100 villages are raised, and is obviously a superior.

At present, there is still work to be done tomorrow, so Manshu put away his weapon and spent the day.

Manshu watched over the child as he caught the fish in the pond and returned to the house for a simple meal.

Today's dinner is bread and fish, and mead. This seems to be a Nordic style.

After all, there aren’t many animals here, and the crops grown are pretty much the same. After all, most of the residents are children, and there are no more than a hundred people in the village.

Obviously, it seems to be worse than that of Northern Europe thousands of years ago. After all, there are not many types of food.

After all, it was in Scandinavia at that time that people could eat carrots, green onions, peas, cabbage and other fruits, such as apples, pears, cherries, and strawberries.

But there is no problem with eating fish. Fish is definitely the most eaten meat in Northern Europe, but pork and the like should be the second most eaten meat.

The fish should be mostly sea fish, such as herring, salmon, trout. Can we only say that this meal is a stereotypical medieval Nordic meal?

But after all, it is a loss zone, and it is impossible to be the same as pan-human history. At least there is mead.

The dinner was quite comfortable, the child’s cooking skills were pretty good, and there was no problem with the food.

At night, thanks to Da Vinci's efforts, the communication on the Chaldean side was successfully completed, breaking through the interference of the magical snow.

After learning about what the three of them had experienced, Director Goldruff's reaction was particularly dramatic.

"I want to ask that child, Mash Kyrielight. I think my negotiation skills should be better."

Goldruf said seriously, his expression looking a little gloomy.

"This is just a personal question kid over there, so relax when you answer it. I have something I want to ask you."

"what's up?"

Goldruff's image is actually quite friendly. His chubby appearance doesn't make people dislike him so easily, but the expression on his face now may reduce his impression points.

"How do you feel about this Lostbelt... No, this village, and everything around it...?"