Kevin, but he is a male mother in Xingtie with little Ai Li

In theory, the so-called gods are just life forms that are powerful to a certain extent. Didn’t the Herrschers in the past also claim to be the apostles of God, and many fools even worshipped the disaster-bringing Honkai as a god.

In the end, humans successfully proved that Honkai is not some high and mighty god, nor is it invincible.

In Kevin's opinion, there is no such thing as an omniscient and omnipotent "God" in this world, and he has never imagined that there will be a so-called God to help mankind.

But when one actually witnesses that majestic figure, even the most staunch atheist will inevitably be shaken.

The majestic body that seemed to be made of some kind of crystal rock could almost block out the starry sky, and the gorgeous galaxy that was so close around it was completely reduced to a background that could only serve as a foil.

The Star God of Protection - Klipper, the Amber King.

If there is such a being that can even represent a certain conceptual law on the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers", then calling it a god does not seem to be a mistake, right?

Kevin really felt that the rule that brought power to Xier from imaginary numbers was entirely in Him, and the same was true for the shield that protected the entire Beloberg.

If there really are countless similar things in countless worlds throughout the universe, then how huge is the power of the Star God himself?

Erasing reality and creating a world... perhaps such a thing is not impossible.

As for Kevin, He only glanced at him. There was no extra meaning, and no emotion could be felt... Perhaps for Him, the realm of mortals was not worth any extra attention.

Or to put it more directly, isn't it just a joke to try to understand alien creatures that we don't understand at all from a human perspective?

Humans may not even be able to understand the poetry collections left behind by ancient people hundreds of years ago.

After calming down for a while, Kevin immediately pulled his thoughts back to reality. After all, the look He cast at him did not reveal any malice, and that distant existence had nothing to do with him for the time being.

In fact, he is also a very pragmatic person.

The same weak connection as the one in Xier's body also appeared in him. Even if he didn't plan to explore it rashly for the time being, it was a good thing, wasn't it?

"So, what exactly is this thing you carved on my back? How could it increase my strength so much?"

Xier, who was standing by, didn't notice anything wrong with Kevin's expression at all, and quickly turned her attention back to the special red pattern behind him.

After she stopped using her ability, the pattern on the sword that broke the ice also disappeared, leaving only her smooth and white back. And even though her ability had increased so much, she didn't feel any discomfort at all?

So, there are no side effects?!

She didn't understand anything about what Kevin had just said about imaginary energy.

"Its effect is just to improve your energy conversion efficiency. It won't bring you anything directly." Kevin shook his head and replied seriously, "If you want to become stronger, you can only rely on yourself."

"As for the name... this is the seal of 'Savior'."

Hearing this, Xier frowned directly: "Savior? Isn't this name too vague?"

If someone on the street shouted that he wanted to save the world, the kids in the lower class wouldn't do that. Even if an adult said that, Xi'er might even kick him.

You can't even take care of your own family, and yet you're still yelling here? Are you not letting people sleep?

For ordinary people, the so-called salvation is simply an unattainable proposition. They may not even be able to manage their own lives in an orderly manner, so how can they manage the affairs of the world?

Until this moment, Kevin still thinks that he is just an ordinary person. There are no heroes in this world. Those who save the world and sacrifice their lives for it are just ordinary people in their own lives.

"Indeed, no one should bear these things, and no one has the right to force others to bear these things... So I will not force you to do anything from my perspective."

"But don't forget what you said, that you are determined to change all this."

Maybe it was because he saw determination in Xier, maybe it was because he couldn't bear it after seeing the situation in the lower district, or maybe it was just a whim, but Kevin did contribute his part to this dying world.

And since even the engraving has already been delivered, you aren't afraid of a little more trouble, right?

"Do you have anything you need to do tomorrow?" Kevin suddenly asked.

"What? I don't have much to do myself, but the lower areas are not peaceful recently. Not only does the Earth Fire have to deal with the conflicts between the wanderers and the miners, but there are also many monsters that have run out of the Rift that hurt people and need to be cleaned up... The Earth Fire is completely short of manpower."

"Um, that is, do you want to also..."

Xier really wanted to ask Kevin if he was willing to join Dihuo to help, but she was always straightforward, and when she thought about the fact that the other party had just helped her several times, she really didn't know how to start the conversation. She hesitated for a long time but couldn't say anything.

After all, when you think about it, the Earth Fire actually has nothing that can attract the other party.

Kevin saw at a glance what the child was struggling with, and finally he could only sigh and take the initiative to say, "In that case, let's go to the Rift tomorrow."

"what?"

"Go to the Rift, I will teach you how to hone your combat skills, and...what it means to be a qualified warrior." Kevin did not speak along the lines of what Xier failed to say, but gave the result directly.

Anyway, his original plan was to find some world-ripping monsters to allow the child to quickly adapt to the power of the imprint. Since there happened to be world-ripping monsters wreaking havoc in the lower area, it could only be considered a matter of convenience.

All I can say about this is... just spoil her!

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Chapter 25 But there is nothing we can do about it

The next day, on the small road outside Rivet Town.

Bah!

Along with the sound of the sickle suddenly cutting through the air, the tall body of the Rift Creature, which was half mechanical and half crystal, finally fell down with a loud bang and shattered into debris on the ground.

To be honest, the bodies of these Rift Creatures will not completely dissipate like the Honkai Beasts after death, but will leave some physical matter. Unfortunately, after paying a lot of lives, people found that these remaining Rift Creatures are as corrosive as the Rift, and they cannot be touched for too long.

And just after this world-splitting creature completely stopped moving, the ragged man who had been hiding behind the rock immediately ran to Xier.

"Thank you, Miss Xier, thank you. If it weren't for you, I would have been split in two by this monster. If something like that really happened, I don't know what to do... Xiao Limi, she is still waiting for me at home. It's all my fault as a useless father. I can't even keep my job..."

The man's words were quite incoherent, but looking at the other person, he still had a terrified expression on his face, and you would find that this was still good.

"It's okay, it's okay. Uncle Watt, the mine shutdown is not your fault. Dihuo will definitely find a way to get you back to work as soon as possible."

Seeing the middle-aged man almost kneeling down in front of her, Xier quickly reached out to help him up and comforted him softly, "Take these things and go home quickly, but don't go near such a dangerous place as the Rift."

"I understand. Thank you, Miss Xier. Thank you..."

After working hard in the mines for most of his life, his body was inevitably hunched. After still insisting on repeating his thanks to Xier several times, this not very tall figure gradually disappeared around the corner of the road.

"Is this the eighth person today?" Kevin, who had been standing beside Xier with his arms folded across his chest and watching everything, suddenly asked back.

Although he originally had some plans to train the child while eliminating some creatures from the Rift, he didn't say that he would come to the Rift specifically to be a firefighter?

Knowing that the monsters in the rift are a threat they cannot resist, are they still determined to drill in regardless of their lives?

"Do you think he will listen to you?"

Without waiting for Xier to answer, Kevin suddenly asked again.

"I don't know, but this is something that cannot be stopped... There used to be many mining areas underground, but in recent years, due to the spread of the Rift Corrosion, many mines have suffered and can no longer be mined."

"Uncle Watt had been a miner for half his life and could not do anything else. When he lost his job, it was like his lifeline was cut off."

"I know that little girl named Limi. She often goes to Nata's clinic. Nata often praises her for being smarter than other children and says that if she can go to school, she will definitely become an excellent student."

When facing those vicious monsters or unreasonable scum, Xier would naturally use the sickle in her hand to tell them who has the bigger fist here. But once she was asked to deal with these honest people who never made mistakes in most of their lives, she was at a loss.

After all, he actually did nothing wrong from beginning to end. The erosion of the Rift and the shutdown of the mine were not things he could decide, but he had never hurt anyone.

Maybe...if he didn't have a daughter and was alone, he would never have risked coming to the Rift if he had to steal or rob.

But as a father, he can't become a negative example that makes his daughter suffer for the rest of her life, right?

"But if he really died here, then everything would still be meaningless."

Kevin's tone was still cold, as if he was just a bystander who was not involved in the matter. He would not feel any sympathy and would only attack the pain in the other person's life.

"But he can't change anything at all. This is the only way out for him. How can you blame him from this perspective..."

As Kevin pressed on step by step, Xier's tone gradually became more and more irritable, as if she could raise the sickle and point it at his nose at the next moment.

But what she didn't know was that Kevin was waiting for her to say this.

"That's right, he can't change anything, but you can."

Kevin suddenly turned around and stared straight at Xier's face with eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything.

"I hope you know what you really want in your heart? Great power, a beautiful world, or just wanting everyone's life to no longer be as bad as you see it?"

This is a mistake that most young people make. They don’t even know what the answer is in their hearts. They just rely on some specious concepts, so once they are hit, they will start to doubt themselves frantically.

Just like the Kosmo who had just joined the Fire Moths, just like...himself in the past.

When the most real question was put in front of her, Xier subconsciously lowered her head. She was like a student being scolded by the instructor, or a daughter listening to her father's lecture?

Even though he had already talked to this point, Kevin suddenly closed his mouth and let the atmosphere around him gradually solidify until a sudden shout interrupted it.

"Ms. Xi'er, Miss Xi'er!"

A young man with the Earth Fire symbol on his arm ran over from a distance, trying hard to breathe in the air while shouting: "Mine, there's an accident at the mine! Those wanderers and miners are fighting, the leader and the others have all gone over, and asked me to come here immediately to inform you!"

"what?!"

Xier subconsciously wanted to follow the other party to the mining area to help, but just after taking a step, her head unconsciously drifted towards Kevin under the strange gaze of the Underworld Fire member.

"The mining area is the lifeline of the underground. We must ensure the supply of underground marrow so that we can get the rationed materials from the ground through the transportation line. So... it is very important."

Although there are rationed materials, the value of those things is obviously not equal to the earth marrow they deliver every day. But compared to the upper area, there are too many difficult-to-produce resources underground, which must be obtained from above.

After all, the lower area has been positioned as a large mining area from the beginning to the end, and it does not have a complete production chain at all.

"No problem, let's end today's training here."

Kevin nodded and agreed to Xier's proposal: "It just so happens that I also want to meet the leader of the Earth Fire Organization."

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Chapter 26 Why is there a little girl without shoes?

"The mining area we are going to now is one of the few places that is relatively intact and has a relatively clean environment. Many wanderers who escaped from Rivet Town have settled down nearby."

"Although most of these people are honest, with so many people, there are bound to be some troublemakers mixed in. The result is that the wanderers often fight with the miners and often steal their supplies - this is just a minor incident."

On the way to the mining area, Xier briefly introduced the current situation to Kevin and also expressed her own guess: "This conflict has suddenly become so serious. I think it is probably about a relatively large mineral vein, so that those hooligans who only think about their own interests can't sit still at all."

Of course there are all kinds of birds in a big forest. Although these wanderers who have lost their homes are very pitiful, how can you guarantee that some of them were not idle scum before they lost their homes?

With this guess in mind, Kevin and his companions quickly reached the outskirts of the mining area. The young man who initially delivered the message was left far behind because he could not keep up with their speed.

As soon as you step into this mining area with intricate steel frames and roads, you can see from afar hundreds of people densely gathered in one place not far away, and you don't need to spend any effort searching at all.

"What do you want to do? This road is blocked. No one can come in. Stay away!"

"Such a big thing has happened in the mining area, why are you still blocking people here and not letting them in?!"

"We have nothing to do with those hooligans. Who knows what you want to do here?"

"Then at least release the injured first!"

"Don't push! Don't push! If you keep getting close to us with bad intentions, we'll really take action!"

"I've already told Mine Manager Antona that we shouldn't let these wanderers join us in mining. If it weren't for these troublemakers, things wouldn't have turned out like this!"

According to what Xi'er said before, the wanderers who escaped from the rift had settled down in the outskirts of the mining area. However, there was such a big conflict inside the mining area that if they wanted to get in, they would have to pass through the territory of these wanderers.

With hundreds of people crowded together outside the mining area, it is inevitable that there will be some thieves who are not here to treat the wounded inside or to care for their families.

Not to mention the situation inside the mining area, even the members of the Earth Fire Team are unable to handle the current conflicts in the periphery, with new casualties appearing from time to time.

"Ms. Xier, Miss Xier! You finally made it here!"

The moment Xi'er was seen, a member of the Dihuo immediately ran over. Without even asking who Kevin was, he immediately explained, "It is said that the First Mining Team discovered a vein with astonishing reserves. They wanted to keep the news secret, but the wanderers found out. So some hooligans came over to make trouble and demand hush money."

"The result was that the two groups of people started fighting directly. Doctor Natasha is still treating the wounded in the makeshift shed over there, while Chief Oleg led his men to the mining area to stop them. No news has been received until now."

It was obvious that these troubles were caused by some hooligans without any bottom line, but in the end most of the consequences had to be borne by the miners and vagrants who were inexplicably injured in the conflict. It makes people angry just by listening to it.

In the lower class areas where the social environment is extremely realistic, getting injured means a high probability of losing your job. Once you lose your job and your source of income, the troubles that come with it are more than just a decline in living standards.

Everyone’s living standards have already dropped to the lowest point, if it gets any worse... won’t there be no way to make a living?

Just like Uncle Watt whom they just met, if their luck was a little worse, they might have to hear bad news in a few days.

"What? I haven't heard any news before, how come the situation has become so urgent all of a sudden?!"