MC's career as foreign lord

“Rather than calling them beings of the gods, it's more like the unpredictability of magic!” Watching the wooden blocks appear in Zhou Ren's hand, then transform into individual boxes and attach themselves to the wall, creating the semblance of a wall, it truly looked quite peculiar.

He was in the process of building the second floor of the house. The space directly above the stairs was originally a warehouse, with large boxes neatly categorized and placed. Zhou Ren was building the walls and the floor of the third floor on top of this foundation.

Each floor was a standard five blocks high, neither too tall nor too short! Four large boxes stacked on top of each other made it convenient and not particularly eye-catching.

Then came the stairs leading to the third floor. After completing most of the second floor, Zhou Ren removed the wooden railings from the second floor, replaced them on the third floor, and continued their purpose.

Antinoya watched as some glittering objects appeared in Zhou Ren's hand again, and couldn't help but lick her lips, but she still refrained from speaking, watching him place the windows one by one on this floor.

These glass panes were truly bright, transparent, and clean, unlike the glass in the towns that were filled with all sorts of impurities, which didn't meet her aesthetic standards!

“Alright!” Zhou Ren clapped his hands, then realized there was someone beside him, and said apologetically, “Sorry, I was too engrossed in building the house and forgot to entertain you…”

“It's fine!” Antinoya was clearly less interested in the house and was looking at Zhou Ren with bright eyes. “Lord Zhou Ren, that glass on your windows… could you sell me some?”

Zhou Ren was taken aback. “Glass? I used it all up when I was building the second floor, but if you want…”

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the elf lady nodding like a chick pecking at rice. “It's okay, just name your price!”

Zhou Ren was all too familiar with this generous spending style. He used to be the same when he was buying things in town, but he shook his head slightly.

“How much is a bit of glass worth? If Miss Antinoya needs it, we can dig some up by the river and burn it!” he said casually. “But I want you to answer a question for me!”

The knowledgeable and experienced elf lady readily agreed, as long as it wasn't about doing… well, actually, even that wasn't out of the question. What couldn't she agree to?

“You mean… this glass is made from things found by the river? How is it possible to burn it so purely?” Antinoya asked in surprise.

Zhou Ren smiled without speaking. He couldn't respond to that, and naturally couldn't explain it.

The two quickly arrived at their destination. This was a specially made pool, and Zhou Ren could still hear the howls coming from inside, but they seemed to be very faint now.

The two turned to the other side, where Zhou Ren had placed a transparent glass as an observation window. This was the simplest observation method he had discovered, as it not only didn't need to withstand the opponent's attacks, but also allowed him to observe the opponent up close.

This was actually a feature of the territory system. Before Zhou Ren opened the permission to destroy blocks, no creature could destroy a single blade of grass or tree here!

When she saw this fish, the elf girl was obviously stunned. According to the records of the elves, this fish shouldn't exist, but she recognized it.

Antinoya asked, “This… strange fish, is that what you wanted to ask about?”

Zhou Ren nodded. “Yes, when I was fishing yesterday, I was pulled directly into the river by this fish, and it took me a lot of effort to swim out!”

“Fishing? This fish bit your hook?” Antinoya felt that her common sense was about to collapse. Why would this fish bite a fish hook? How is that possible!

“So, do you know what this fish is?” Zhou Ren asked.

Antinoya was silent for a while, nodded with some difficulty, and then uttered a language that was somewhat similar to a roar.

“(Draconic) I need to make sure you can hear what I'm saying, and not just using something to amuse yourself! If so, you will witness the wrath of an ancient being!” she said, her voice filled with dissatisfaction.

Zhou Ren was puzzled, but he could still understand these words. “Uh… although I don't quite understand why you suddenly changed to another language, but yes, I did catch it!”

To be honest, compared to Common and Elvish, this new language was indeed much more difficult to understand, but the MC system's translation habits seemed to be like this, and Zhou Ren quickly became familiar with it.

“Then I'll tell you what this creature is!” Antinoya said. She seemed to deliberately use this language, deafening but able to be etched into people's hearts.

She said, “Before the elves appeared in this world, before the titans and dragons fought, in the era before the Skyfire Age, when even the gods had not yet cast their eyes on the Prime Material Plane, they already existed.”

(PS: These nouns are not explained, it's too troublesome to explain, you just need to know it was a long, long time ago.)

“We call these creatures the Creator/Maker race, and the Abyssal Lurker is a member of the Creator race, known as the Nightmare of the River of Time!”

“Huh?” Zhou Ren was stunned, and the strange language magic disappeared again, but the fish was still roaring frantically, seemingly not hearing those words.

He never thought that a fish he caught casually would actually be a legendary ancient creature, and an extremely ancient one at that.

Judging from Antinoya's solemn expression, it didn't seem to be fake.

But Zhou Ren sighed. It seemed that his defense wasn't very good. Even this kind of fish could break through the territory system?

Or was it that this fish was unconscious?

Zhou Ren's answer seemed to have touched something, and Antinoya seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, switching back to Elvish, she seemed to prefer speaking this language a little more.

“But this fish doesn't seem to have intelligence? That shouldn't be!” She walked around the pool. “As an ancient creature, it should have its own bloodline memory inheritance!”

“Or like the dragons, those without inherited memories are directly classified as dragon beasts, and Abyssal Lurkers are directly classified as ordinary fish?” She glanced at Zhou Ren. “This human doesn't seem capable of erasing all of the fish's memories…”

Zhou Ren listened to her muttering words, and finally summarized, “Specifically, it's—a sapient being, without intelligence, is an ancient fish, not edible?”

“The Abyssal Lurker has a large amount of poisonous mucus on its body, of course it's not edible, but this one doesn't seem to have intelligence, and it's useless, why don't you keep it for now?” Antinoya said.

Zhou Ren waved his hand indifferently. “I'll keep it for now, it looks like it's still full of energy!”

A terrifying ancient magical creature, and a sapient one at that, which made Zhou Ren a little disappointed. Not only did it lack intelligence, but it wasn't edible either, what a disgrace!

However, this matter did make Zhou Ren take a second look at Antinoya. The knowledge she provided was clearly not common sense, so it seemed she really knew quite a bit!

Having such a neighbor might not be bad, the young man thought, as he continued to lead her forward.

After passing through farmland and fish ponds, the two finally arrived at the riverbank.

Antinoya's expression turned slightly solemn. "You're saying that the fish was caught from here?"

Zhou Ren nodded. "It was right here. This small dock is where the fish was caught!"

Thinking about it now, he was still a little scared. Fortunately, he had discarded the fishing rod decisively. Otherwise, if he had been dragged to the bottom of the water, he probably wouldn't have been a match for that monster!

"There's no black water. It couldn't be an outlet from the Underdark's underground river!" Antinoya shook her head, then refocused her attention on Zhou Ren.

"Your Excellency Zhou Ren!" A smile appeared on her face. "Where is the glass you mentioned?"

Zhou Ren pointed to the river in front of him. "It's right under our feet!" As he spoke, he jumped down, found a spot with more sand, and then, under the somewhat shocked gaze of the elven girl, he placed a wooden door down!

The moment the wooden door opened, the river water automatically separated, and two air blocks came to Zhou Ren's side, allowing him to breathe easily underwater and quickly shovel sand.

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However, Antinoya, seeing this scene, didn't feel so good. She didn't sense any magical fluctuations, but she did feel the shaking of space. This meant…

Antinoya felt like she must be crazy. Why would she come looking for such a big monster just for a small alchemical tool?

The moment that door opened, the air that appeared out of nowhere wasn't some kind of spatial isolation, nor was it spatial transfer or teleportation. This was void creation!

Of course, in certain upper-level domains or in the language of human nobles, there was actually another, more pleasant term, which was—void creation!

Now, as Antinoya looked at the territory around Zhou Ren, her gaze became increasingly sharp and horrified. This wasn't just some territory; this was a divine kingdom on earth!

Could this young man be like the elven god Corellon Larethian, who mistakenly entered the Astral Plane countless years ago, and be a newly born god descending into the Prime Material Plane after being permitted by Ao? This…

(Note: Ao, the creator god of the Prime Material Plane)

She shook her head violently, throwing this speculation to the back of her mind. That was impossible. No being other than a saint could reach the Prime Material Plane through the Astral Plane. This was the iron rule of His Majesty Ao. She didn't believe anyone could break it.

Moreover, looking at Zhou Ren, who was busily working, her eyes gradually softened. True big shots wouldn't bother doing such things. Would the creator god personally build houses brick by brick?

But today's events had also somewhat reshaped her worldview, roughly like this emoji: [What haven't I seen? I've really never seen this before! What is this? What the heck is this! I'm just a country bumpkin who's never seen the world.] That's the kind of mental journey.

However, her inner persistence kept her going. Looking at it this way, Zhou Ren wasn't so scary after all. It was just that this area was a bit more diverse!

Then she saw that Zhou Ren didn't float up, but instead took out another door, opened another path under the sand, and then took out a furnace, directly starting to burn sand in place…

This series of operations directly stunned Antinoya. From opening up space underwater to setting fire underwater, doesn't Ao know that you're ignoring the rules of the world so much?

Of course, Zhou Ren didn't care about that much. The reason he was burning glass here was to save some time. It just so happened that by the time he finished digging up the clay here, the glass would be almost finished.

Clay is also a very important synthetic material and building material in the MC system. It can be fired into red bricks and can also be dyed into beautiful hardened clay. It is a special material that can be used in many man-made houses.

Zhou Ren didn't really want to use red bricks to build houses. His house in reality was built of red bricks. He just wanted to hoard some clay for later use, to make kitchen tools and flower pots, including teaware modules such as kettles, purple clay pots, and white porcelain pots.

Drinking tea is a major feature of teaware, and this world is so medieval, it probably doesn't have a tea-drinking culture, so he's actually very concerned about this.

Of course, he didn't make Antinoya wait too long. After the furnace went out, he knocked down the furnace and the wooden door, and then slowly swam out of the water.

Antinoya felt that she was almost numb from surprise. The moment the door disappeared, that space instantly collapsed. Where were the traces of void creation?

But the water flow didn't seem to recover, but was filled by the surrounding water flow, which couldn't help but make her breathe a sigh of relief.

If the water could be returned, then it would really be void restoration, an incredible divine art!

Zhou Ren had no idea about her mental journey. He hurried up, and the water droplets on his body flowed back into the sea the moment he came out of the water, with no excess water droplets remaining.

This was naturally noticed as well. His clothes were truly dust-free and spotless, untouched by anything. Even the water flow couldn't soak them, but could only stay on the surface, as if a layer of waterproof membrane had been brushed on!

Such small skills naturally couldn't surprise people, but it was also possible that Antinoya had used up all her surprise today, and had no reaction at all, just watching him take out a stack of glass.

"This is the transparent glass you wanted. There are twenty in total, each exactly one meter!" Zhou Ren said, and then, thinking that the people here might not understand what a meter is, he continued to add, "That's about three feet!"

This stack of glass was very peculiar. When Zhou Ren held it in his hand, it was actually very small, even just a palm-sized stack.

But this time Antinoya didn't dare to underestimate it. She gently touched the stack of glass, and to her exclamation, the glass suddenly grew larger!

"It gets bigger!" She poked the glass and said to Zhou Ren.

Zhou Ren covered his face. He suddenly remembered that these things seemed to only be used by himself, and couldn't be placed by others. This seemed to be a problem.

"Can I know what you want this glass for?" he asked, as a solution needed to be found no matter what.