Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 671 The Problematic Puppy

"Hmm?" A string of thoughts flashed through Lori's mind, finally settling on something from a long time ago:

When His Majesty the White Dragon King defeated all his enemies and became the true King of the North, he sacrificed the heads of his unfortunate brothers to the heavens.

Rumors circulated that he also used an ancient curse to ensure that the souls of these traitors would be trampled upon for eternity.

He sat up and asked in a low voice, "Is there a problem with your sacrificial ceremony to heaven?"
Wasn't it supposed to be held under the watchful eyes of the gods?

"Wasn't Watson Castle also doing things right under the nose of the gods?" Travis retorted.

"Tsk~" The Lord of Storms, who had been discussing with the Goddess of Night whether the Portal God Iosca, who had been released by the Father of the Elves, would affect their world, snorted in dissatisfaction. "Since humans want freedom and don't want to be restricted by the gods at every turn, then they can't expect the gods to take care of them at every turn, right?"

“I don’t have any objections,” Travis said without looking up, “I’m just giving a suitable example. I can’t bring up other gods, can I?”
I'm a believer in storms!

The Lord of Storms hesitated for a moment, then suddenly flew into a rage: "I just warned you, don't use the name of the Storms to become a god!"

Travis looked at him with unusual sincerity: "But my faith and love for you are absolutely genuine!"

A series of coughs, like ice floes cracking and colliding, came from outside.

The Lord of Ice, who had been reluctant to participate in this exchange, could no longer hold back.

"Can't you just bear with it a little longer?" a steady, mellow voice said helplessly. "Look at your little brat! Can't you sort out your own problems first?"

"Icehound King? What happened to Icehound King?" Lowry craned his neck, straining to see into the dark abyss outside the Crystal Palace. "Could that stupid dog have really betrayed us?"

"Did you suspect he had a problem from the beginning?" the one with the deep voice asked curiously.

“Yes!” Lowry answered confidently, without changing his attitude, and replied directly, “Dogs, if raised well, are loyal; if raised poorly, they will devour their owners.”

The Lord of Ice, he doesn't even bother to support, what can we expect from him?

He didn't care whether this was the Lord of the Earth who had caused him a lot of trouble in the past.

Since those who made the move were all the other party's followers and subordinates, the Lord of the Earth could only say that he hadn't disciplined them properly.

After confirming what had happened, the other party did indeed order the Church of Earth and Lori to apologize.

Although that was all he did, he didn't impose much punishment on the high-ranking members of the Earth Church who had intervened.

But Lowry hadn't expected anything anyway; he hadn't thought about befriending the Lord of the Earth, nor did he have any connection with him.

Could it be that the Lord of the Earth would turn against his own people over such a trivial matter?
What did the Lord of Storms, a relatively upright god, do to the notoriously wicked High Priest Schroeder?

Don't say that these people all have reasons to explain themselves... If the gods really wanted to get to the bottom of this, there's no way they couldn't do it.

The reason for not doing it is naturally because it has no value.

Just as the Lord of Storms said, when humans don't want the gods to interfere too much, they have to solve problems on their own when they encounter them.

The gods now act as relatively impartial judges, adhering to laws, regulations, and doctrines.

The outcome depends on the evidence presented by the plaintiff.

The fact that things have turned out this way here in Lowry is all thanks to the Lord of the Earth's favor.

He's not so ignorant as to not understand this much.

Therefore, Lori showed no dissatisfaction whatsoever when facing the Lord of the Earth.

Lowry never felt that she had achieved a high enough status because of the sudden improvement in her treatment with the gods over the past few years.

His true worth is proven by his abilities.

The real him is a mage who isn't even level 16.

Lowry was able to accept the existence of the Lord of Storms because the Lord had been very friendly to him from the beginning.

Moreover, the reason is that I like his character and style, which has principles but is also unpredictable... which is somewhat similar to the essence of a storm.

Lowry even tacitly acknowledged his identity as a Storm Believer, and although he did not build a church in his own territory, he required his people to perform Storm Baptism on newborns.

However, the people he arranged to bear witness were all storm singers... that is, bards who believed in the Lord of Storms and whose main activity was chanting storm hymns.

But to the gods, there is little difference between the priests and the storm singers who serve their ordinary believers.

Only devout believers need the guidance of a pastor.

The Lord of Storms doesn't have many requirements; he just needs to ensure that there are no other gods' strongholds within his parish.

Therefore, he quite liked the Storm Singers' testimonies.

Because of his fondness for it, even the hymns of those Storm Singers have been imbued with the power of wind whispers.

Then, it is said that in some holy sites that are close to the Lord of Storms, priests have started to bring a hymn singer when they preside over higher baptismal ceremonies!
Because the relationship between the Lord of Storms and Lori is open and transparent, the Storm Church, no matter how many ulterior motives it may have, still respects Maple Territory.

But the changes in the other gods only made him more wary.

Lori understood that the reason the other party was being so accommodating was because of the checks and balances from the White Dragon King's side.

As long as Lori knows the rules, the gods, who don't want to upset their allies, will naturally become more friendly.

The fact that the Church of the Lord of Wealth suddenly suffered heavy losses on several major trade routes at the same time is proof of the White Dragon King's destructive power.

Regardless of whether the White Dragon King truly cared for his grandchildren, this at least served as an excuse for his reckless actions.

No one wants to be that excuse anymore.

Lowry has a clear understanding of himself and never believes that the reason so many people are doing good is because of him. Of course, he doesn't belittle himself either.

One of the main reasons these gods had to show their faces was that they simply had no way to get rid of Lori in secret.

This current situation is something Lowry has earned through years of hard work and struggle.

He is neither arrogant nor conceited.

Therefore, he can face anyone with composure.

The more he acted this way, the more courteous the gods became to him.

When the Lord of the Earth asked him a question, there was even a hint of hesitation in his tone: "So, that's why you've been publicly criticizing the Ice Dog Cave on the Great Ice Mountain for being filthy and smelly, and asking the Lord of Ice to find time to clean it up?"

“That’s right!” Lori nodded. “Most adventurers who enter the Ice Dog Cave are there to make money, so they will have some specialized equipment.”

The ice dogs themselves aren't valuable; what's valuable are the Azure Ice on their bodies and the Ice Lotus beside them.

To obtain these, one must possess some knowledge of gathering and carry specialized mining tools.

Even though they all have spatial equipment, they still have to take all of these things out and prepare them before entering the Ice Dog Cave.

After all, the time they can buy them is very short.

However, some people here clearly don't have these tools, yet they go deeper than anyone else.

At first, I thought he was someone summoned by the Lord of Ice, but... after testing him, I found out he knew nothing.

"What kind of test?" the Lord of Ice couldn't help but ask.

The Lord of the Earth was silent for two seconds before responding: "When he said those dogs were too smelly and drove people away."

I remember you openly gloating, didn't you?

He even said that if Lowry couldn't even handle this, what kind of mage was she?

"Ah...ah!" The Lord of Ice let out a strange shout.

"Were you speaking in a high-pitched voice just now because you were using the Azure Ice Body?" Lori asked suspiciously.

"How did you find out again?" The Lord of Ice was very dissatisfied. "Can you please stop knowing everything?"

Humans are better off not being smarter than gods.

He sneered and said in a strange tone, "This will make God want to wipe you out completely!"

"Who are you mocking?" the Goddess of the Night asked ominously. "You can't even control the dog you created, what else can you do?"
idiot! "

"There's nothing I can do. Not only do I have a despicable father and a disgusting mother, but I also have a half-son..."

"Ice!"
"Can't you get out of this body yet?"

The Lord of Earth interrupted the Lord of Ice's off-key speech.

"Did the puppy do this?" Lori asked in surprise. "Is he that strong?"

"Although it's not a very nice thing to say it this way," the Lord of the Earth said slowly, "but, Lori, the Ice Dog King's success is all thanks to the help of your family."

What the hell?

Lowry was stunned for a moment, and was about to get angry when Travis uttered a name that shut her up.

Masoud.

Then he remembered Massoud and Bar's child.

House Baal is a typical minor noble family in the North.

Like the Watson family, they also gained military merits through cooperation with the Ice Cultists.

Therefore, regardless of their primary attribute, they are very good at using ice-type skills.

This is also the main reason why only the nobles of the North are capable of doing these things.

After all, no one can accuse them of having a problem with the origin of their ice-type skills.

They know the answers from their ancestors; they are naturally insightful and can find inspiration even in the biting cold.

Try it in a different place.

Squatting in a place where even snow never falls, who dares to say that they are naturally in tune with the laws of ice and snow!

Do you really think the major churches are vegetarians?

If all else fails, they can put people into an ice palace to sense the universe.

Since they can resonate with the laws of ice and snow, they certainly can't be frozen to death, right?
However, even a roughneck like Baal, the nobles of the North, dared to openly claim that they had been inspired by ice and snow, and thus had the aura of ice in their blood.

Of course, nobody believed it.

In the North, even the Lord of Storms wouldn't say anything about it; at most, he would stop responding to the prayers of any member of the family.

However, the Lord of Storms will not forbid the Baal family from entering the Storm Church to participate in worship services.

In any case, many Northern nobles baptize their children themselves, and not many have Storm Priests to bear witness to them, so they cannot be considered true believers of the Lord of Storms.

(End of this chapter)