Marvin unfolded the letter and saw that it was written in Common.
Eve’s writing was pretty, and like her, had a touch of elegance under the toughness.
Marvin skimmed through it very quickly, his expression becoming heavy.
The matter Eve described in the letter was such a headache!
“What happened?” Anna asked with concern.
To be honest, she had felt more and more powerless as matters reached this stage.
She couldn’t imagine how much pressure Marvin was under.
The only thing she could do to help was to manage the Sanctuary for Marvin, nurturing their territory.
As for the rest, regarding everything related to the Gods, she was truly helpless.
Sometimes, she even thought it would be better to return to how it was in the past.
She would rather have White River Valley become a small territory and follow after Marvin. Suffering some hardship and sadness was acceptable.
At least, the Young Master Marvin of back then didn’t need to do so many dangerous things.
She also clearly knew that in front of the real disaster, no one could be spared.
Only by becoming stronger would they be able to stand on a similar footing with the Gods.
…
Marvin didn’t say anything, instead handing the letter to Anna and letting her read it herself while he sank into contemplation.
The contents of Eve’s letter seemed genuine.
She talked about three things.
The first part was about the current situation in the North.
With the power of the Valkyrie and the draw of the Holy Sword, Eve rallied a formidable force in the North. Although it wasn’t like in the game, where she quickly unified large parts of the North with the help of her servants, she still managed to occupy an important harbor and the surrounding cities through her own efforts.
Deep Water Harbor!
A famous City-State in the North.
When Marvin saw the name, he thought back to the prosperous appearance of the game’s Deep Water Harbor. It was a harbor with a very important geographical location. Most important was the fact that Deep Water Harbor was very close to the High Elven Sanctuary.
Each year, some High Elven masterpieces would occasionally spread from the harbor.
At the same time, Deep Water Harbor was one of the [Three North Towns] and had a very important effect in the North.
Previously, the area encompassing the Three North Towns had been guarded by the Valkyrie. But it was unknown whether she would achieve her past heights in this life. Marvin felt that based on the current situation, it shouldn’t be an issue.
Besides Eve, the rest of the North’s forces gradually began to rise up too. The old forces stabilized their positions, once again re-establishing order, or else they were replaced by newly rising forces.
In short, many regions in the North started shining again. Unlike the two large principalities near Lavis, the eastern City-States of the North greatly lacked Wizards.
This situation actually made it easier for the eastern part of the North to handle the disaster.
Quite a few western territories fell, and only Lavis survived.
It seemed that Lavis to the west and the Three North Towns to the east would be the leaders in the future.
Marvin knew about Eve’s personality and charisma. Besides being slightly inferior to Daniela in terms of governing ability, in other aspects, the Valkyrie’s radiance wouldn’t pale to that of the Ice Empress!
‘Valkyrie, Ice Empress, Three Fate Sisters…’
A face flashed in Marvin’s mind. He couldn’t help smiling bitterly as he thought to himself, ‘If there really is a Plane Will, then it is definitely favoring women.’
‘During the Great Calamity, it was the women who were the most outstanding. It really supports an imperceptible truth: In the face of frightening difficulties, do women really tend to be stronger than men?’
This wasn’t something Marvin made up baselessly. He remembered that on Earth, some studies had shown that women generally handled suffering and disaster better than men.
They were better at adapting.
Perhaps this was the reason that women were in the limelight during Feinan’s disaster.
…
Marvin discarded these thoughts and thought back to Eve’s letter.
The situation in the North wasn’t clear yet. The second thing Eve mentioned was a proposal to form an alliance with Marvin.
She knew that Marvin had established Sword Harbor. Furthermore, the sea was still safe at the moment, so if they could mutually cooperate and help each other, it would be very advantageous to both territories.
After all, building long distance Teleportation Arrays was very expensive.
As for the details of the alliance, Eve invited Marvin to visit Deep Water Harbor for negotiations.
Marvin would definitely take a trip there, but this had to be delayed.
He had promised to go with Jessica to the Underdark to look into the matter of the Eternal Frozen Spring.
Moreover, he had previously buried a chess piece in the Underdark. It should be time to reap what he sowed.
Raven, who was under the control of the Book of Nalu, should have already established her own force in the Underdark. Marvin decided that it was time to take a look.
…
The third thing in the letter was what worried Marvin the most.
Eve vaguely mentioned that traces of some Gods’ followers had appeared in some small forces and small towns in the North!
Although they acted very secretly, there was already some information confirming it.
Her people had already checked. There were people were hiding a church in a certain small town.
That church worshiped the [God of Dawn and Protection]!
Needless to say, Divine Servants had already started descending.
The Dream God wasn’t the only one that was active. The other Gods didn’t stay idle either.
While they were attacking the Universe Magic Pool, they also directed their own able subordinates to enter Feinan.
A war of beliefs would unfold.
Marvin took a deep breath.
Although the Universe Magic Pool hadn’t shattered yet, the threat of the Gods had already descended!
Ambella was only the first, the first of many!
In order to protect himself, in order to protect his territory, he could only become stronger!
Chapter 566: Queen’s Worries
Chapter 566: Queen’s Worries
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After carefully analyzing the intent of Eve’s words, Marvin had Anna write an answer.
The albatross that had sent the letter was still in White River Valley. It had clearly been ordered by Eve to wait for Marvin’s response and bring it back.
In the letter, Marvin expressed his support for the North’s forces and also indicated that he would go to Deep Water City as soon as possible.
He didn’t speak too much about the details of an alliance, though, because it was just an idea for now. It would be far easier to discuss such things in person.
But Marvin still reminded Eve in the letter that she should be extremely careful of the Gods’ forces rising in the North.
Absolute belief was a very frightening thing. In this chaotic world, with the Gods added to the fray, it would be very easy for someone to betray their own ideals and willpower.
In contrast, the South was facing a lot less pressure from the Gods. But maybe that was because most of the South was still being devastated by the Wizard Monsters.
After all, the South Wizard Alliance had a huge number of Wizards.
…
After sending the reply, Marvin put the trip to the North on his schedule.
But he also had many other important things to handle, and White River Valley was a huge territory.
If Marvin wanted, he could even buil
d a small kingdom and rule over it as the king. Surely no one would oppose him.
Anna had chosen many people with administrative talents from the refugees to become officials responsible for supervising the increasingly busy matters of the territory.
In spite of this, there were still many things that Marvin needed to check personally.
He spent a whole afternoon going through everything.
He also got a decent understanding of White River Valley’s current situation.
With the influx of refugees, the territory’s population was already approaching ten thousand, and this number was increasing every day. The food supply wouldn’t be sufficient.
Marvin distributed the food in the eleven Golden Bulls to those that managed the various regions and had them handle it according to his rules.
River Shore City was in Madeline’s charge. The City Lord could deal with her own people efficiently. The Adventurer Camp was temporarily being handled by the leader of the Lord’s guards, Andre. As the original garrison leader of White River Valley, Andre was one of Marvin’s first followers. His strength had risen up quickly, and many believed that it was related to Constantine’s guidance. He was now already at the 4th rank.
As someone with Marvin’s trust, Andre could suppress the lawless adventurers.
And there was no need to worry about the Shas. Aside from their leader, Constantine, they also had a very good-natured elder.
When Constantine wasn’t there, the Shas’ matters were handled by him. Marvin had met with him for a short time, and he seemed to be a very loyal and honest man. The Shas were very sincere people. They only wanted to defend their own territory and didn’t have much ambition for more. Thus, Marvin had no issue with letting them handle their food.
White River Valley’s core, as well as the northern mine and the eastern Ogre Hill, were naturally under Anna’s management.
The only place that gave Marvin a problem was Sword Harbor.
The city had just been established, and the population was still low in number, only consisting of a few sailors and fishermen.
The person currently in charge was Sword Harbor 1’s captain, Roberts.
Because Sword Harbor 1 currently wasn’t going out to sea, he was temporarily managing this territory, but it wasn’t a reliable situation.
First of all, Roberts lacked talent in management, and moreover, Marvin didn’t feel at ease leaving the supervision of a harbor that occupied such a key location for White River Valley in the hands of a half-pirate-half-sailor commoner.
He hesitated before deciding to temporarily put aside the matter of who to put in charge of Sword Harbor.
After all, there weren’t that many people there for now, so the food distribution and workforce allocation could be handled by Anna for now.
Anna, Lola, and the others would make proper arrangements for the duties and the distribution of power throughout the territory, so Marvin didn’t need to worry about that.
Next, he had to deal with White River Valley’s biggest issue.
Food, it was still food.
…
Arborea, at the foot of the snowy mountain.
The Shadow Shrine’s ruins had long since been removed, and at the Queen’s order, the people there were creating an artificial valley.
At the end of the valley was a sharp, 90° fall to the Ashes Plain!
Arborea had been lodged firmly into the Ashes Plain by the Plane Traction spell.
Madeline had set up a Teleportation Array here, but because of the cost of the Planar Teleportation Array being too huge, they had only used it twice.
Those two times, they had mostly sent gold, pearls, and other treasures. These treasures were used to support the construction of White River Valley before the disaster.
Princess Nana didn’t break her promise. She had stored away half of the spoils gained from the destruction of the Shadow Shrine for Marvin.
She still admired Marvin from the bottom of her heart.
Even the unbeatable God that no one in Nottingheim could provoke was defeated by him.
And when Marvin left, he took her beloved older brother, Aragon, with him.
“When will they return?”
The new Queen, wearing a simple dress, was glancing down at the valley from atop a nearby mountain, as several guards were silently protecting her.
She seemed depressed and worried.
According to Orland’s words, Arborea had already more or less synchronized with the Prime Material Plane, Feinan.
At the very least, the time flow was about the same.
But it had already been four months now. Besides the two times that the Planar Teleportation Array had been used, they didn’t get any other news. This made Nana feel anxious.
How was it over there?
She was very curious, but she knew that no matter what the outside world was like, she might not have the opportunity to explore it in her life.
She belonged to Arborea, she belonged to Nottingheim.
The people here needed her. She was Nottingheim’s queen. They trusted her and she had to revitalize the kingdom.
Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but sigh.
Many days had passed and the kingdom was breaking away from the Shadow Shrine. Their land was gradually recovering, which made Nana very happy.
But then that troublesome matter caught up to her.
The nobles, even including her most respected Scholar Orland, were beginning to hint that it might be time for her to take a prince.
They had even put together a list that included the young talents from across the kingdom.
But Nana only glanced at it without interest.
She was a girl with high ambitions, as evidenced by how she became the Queen.
No one on the list attracted her eyes.
She directly vetoed everyone’s suggestions, which was a rare arbitrary act.
But she knew that this matter would still come back later.
After all, as she grew older and Nottingheim continued to flourish, she would need a child to inherit the kingdom.
Thinking of this matter and how she couldn’t consult anyone about it made her frown.
“Your Highness, it is getting late,” a maid to the side reminded.
Nana nodded, preparing to end her walk. There was a court banquet that night and she had to attend.
Who would have thought that a bright purple light would suddenly shine from the other side of the valley!
Chapter 567: New Discovery
Chapter 567: New Discovery
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When Nottingheim’s Queen caught sight of Marvin and Aragon’s faces, she couldn’t help rubbing her own eyes, afraid that she had seen wrong.
Aragon the Storm Swordsman, who had already advanced to Legend rank, was moving like lightning. He rushed to the path and hugged his younger sister.
Nana’s excited tears were pouring down.
She had been waiting for that day for a long time.
…
Aragon was the same. He had left Arborea only because he wanted to see the outside world.
At the same time, due to the limitations of the plane laws, his strength had always been suppressed to level 18. He couldn’t level up leaving him thirsting for more strength.
With his talent, he should have been able to reach the Legend Realm easily.
After Marvin took him to Feinan, he didn’t wander around, instead only exploring Sword Harbor and the area to the south.
Most of the time, he was the strongest expert guarding Sword Harbor.
Aragon ultimately completed the final step on the eve of Marvin’s trip to Arborea.
He had been promoted from being a Half-Legend to a genuine Legend Swordsman!
Marvin had been worried before because he couldn’t decide who to send to speak with Nana. Aragon had some understanding of White River Valley, but ever since he exceeded level 18, wouldn’
t he also be unable to enter Arborea?
But things changed later.
After Marvin used the pass Hathaway had given him entered the Ashes Plain with Madeline’s help, Marvin discovered with surprise that Arborea’s limit restriction had already been increased!
It originally was a Secondary Plane, but because of the special connection with the Prime Material Plane, it got upgraded. This was something that Marvin hadn’t thought about.
Not only was Arborea’s flow of time now similar to Feinan’s, but it was also extremely close to it.
At least Arborea’s Plane Will was no longer preventing the Legends from entering.
As for whether the Gods could enter, Marvin didn’t know. He had no way to connect to Arborea’s Plane Will and understand the limitations.
But according to Madeline’s planar knowledge, although the level limitations had been lifted, the strength of those inside was still restricted.
If people in Arborea wanted to reach a higher level, they would receive a restrictive mark from the plane.
It was a terrible mark, and it was also one of the reasons that many powerhouses from Secondary Planes yearned after places like the Crimson Wasteland where they could improve themselves further.
…
The changes happening in Arborea made Marvin pleased, yet somewhat worried.
He was pleased because he could now enter that world. The food issue was a matter of life and death for White River Valley’s Sanctuary and he couldn’t help attaching a lot of importance to it.
He fought for his life outside, fighting a chaotic war with Gods, but if he didn’t have enough food to support his people, White River Valley would directly collapse.
He couldn’t tolerate the destruction of all that he had built up.
As for what caused him some worry, Arborea’s strength restriction was a kind of self-defense mechanism.
Now, this self-defense mechanism had been destroyed, which was bad for Arborea itself.
The inhabitants couldn’t become Legends, but if Legends from other planes came, they would be able to do as they pleased. Wouldn’t any random Legend be able to turn Arborea upside down?
That issue was temporarily set aside by Marvin.
After seeing the two of them return, Nana was very happy.
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