On the Ark.

"What? What happened?"

"How did you get all these injuries?" Lin Ye asked. "Yesterday at the temple, you were only injured in the abdomen, how did you get so... By the way, where did you go last night?"

“I’m going after him,” Lappland said. “After the guy who was hiding in the shadows and shooting at me.”

The guy who shot her in the dark?

Lin Ye immediately thought of the person who shot the arrow; it seemed to be one of Mephisto's trusted lieutenants, the same person who had shot him at Lungmen last time. If Skadi hadn't arrived in time, Lin Ye would probably have been killed by this guy. And the fact that Lin Ye hadn't seen this person during the long fight with Mephisto last night meant that Lappland had caught up with him.

"Are these injuries from your fight with that person?" Lin Ye asked.

“How could that be?” Lappland said with a disdainful tone. “That person couldn’t hurt me at all.”

"Who said that? Didn't he shoot you with several arrows when you were in the temple? If it weren't for me, you would be dead."

Lappland got angry again: "Are you looking for trouble?"

"No, no, no." Lin Ye shook his head repeatedly, afraid that Lappland would bite him again. "No, no, please continue. Did you beat that guy?"

“Of course I won.” Lappland swished her tail quickly. “He was no match for me at all. I was fighting him while I was injured. Otherwise, the battle would have been over in a minute.”

"That's amazing! Where is he?"

Lappland's tail immediately went limp, and her ears tucked into her hair: "She ran away."

"You're so capable, how could you let him get away?"

"You're so annoying."

"Alright, let's not talk about that then." Lin Ye looked at Lappland's bandages again. "Strange, why are you still wearing this? Wouldn't it be better to have Sussurro treat it for you?"

“Because this isn’t an external injury,” Lappland said. “It’s an allergic reaction.”

Lin Ye was even more puzzled: "Allergy? Why would I have an allergic reaction?"

“That guy used a smoke bomb when he was running away,” Lappland said, holding up a finger. “The smoke was poisonous.”

"Really? But you seem fine, so you probably didn't inhale much."

Lappland shook her head: "I took a big gulp."

Lin Ye: "..."

……

After some inquiries, Lin Ye learned that SilverAsh had never left Kjerag, but had instead been waiting at the back of the mountain for the butler, Grin, and the Reunion Movement thugs to walk right into his trap. As for the Three Races Council, it seemed they were making other moves, but Lappland was unaware of this; she had only come up to check on Lin Ye. She and Lin Ye were the only two injured last night, and her injuries weren't serious; she had simply inhaled a large amount of smoke from the Originium smoke bomb Faust had thrown during his escape, causing an allergic reaction.

However, Lin Ye suspected that the smoke bomb was not poisonous at all. After all, Lappland took a big breath and only had an allergic reaction. The poison was too weak.

Even if it's not poisonous, it must contain some abnormal ingredients. It's normal for Lappland to have an allergic reaction after inhaling so much in one go.

"You're awake, so I'm going downstairs now." Lappland left the house. "I just came up to see if you were dead. If you're not, then forget it."

Lin Ye's lips twitched slightly: "What did you say?"

"I'm just glad you're not dead."

After Lappland left, Lin Ye sighed softly.

Then, a familiar female voice rang in Lin Ye's ear: "Sighing so early in the morning will cause wrinkles."

Lin Ye was stunned for a moment, then turned around abruptly and saw Messiah standing beside him with a smile on her face.

"Messiah!" Lin Ye exclaimed in surprise, "What are you doing here?"

"I've come to buy wood."

"……What?"

"My house collapsed," Messiah shrugged, sounding somewhat helpless. "I need to buy some wood to go back and rebuild my house."

"...Could your reason be any less convincing?"

“Then let’s be more plausible,” Messiah said with a squinting smile. “I’m here to see you.”

Lin Ye opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

"Alright, it's because those people caused such a big commotion." Messiah sat on Lin Ye's bed. "So I came over to take a look."

"You were here last night?" Lin Ye immediately perked up. "So, that Mephistopheles guy..."

"Ran."

Lin Ye was stunned: "Huh?"

"He ran away. He's a really tough guy; I couldn't stop him." Messiah shrugged, looking quite innocent.

Lin Ye didn't doubt the truthfulness of Messiah's words, but he felt a headache coming on: "Those kinds of guys have all run away..."

"Yes, he's a very dangerous person, and he could pose a huge threat to you in the future. So, don't get too complacent."

"Too comfortable?" Lin Ye asked, puzzled. "What do you mean?"

“That means we need to try our best not to get killed by someone like that,” Messiah said with a smile. “If that happens, I’ll have to leave Kalan to kill him for you, which is too much trouble.”

Chapter 291 Far From the Deep Sea? (4K)

Lin Ye wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that Messiah could always easily shut him up, leaving him speechless. This feeling reminded him of when he first entered university and the school organized a debate competition for freshmen. Lin Ye, who had signed up, was originally ambitious and wanted to showcase himself on this new stage. He even sacrificed his gaming time and prepared for several weeks in advance, gathering more materials than everyone else in his group combined.

He lost that debate. The opposing team had a very pretty girl whose eyes crinkled into crescent moons when she smiled. Whenever he made eye contact with her, his heart would pound, and he'd stammer and be unable to speak, rendering all his preparations useless. This ultimately led to his team's crushing defeat, and he became the worst performer of the entire debate.

The experience that night left him frustrated and prompted him to reflect deeply. After much deliberation, he found the crux of the problem and ultimately made a resolute decision…

I will no longer participate in debate competitions.

Where can you find more fun group activities like debates than games?

However, looking back, the girl who had rendered him speechless with just one glance wasn't actually that pretty, and her eyes didn't seem particularly special. The main reason was that before going to university, Lin Ye rarely had the opportunity to interact with girls his own age due to health reasons, so he found it difficult to adjust after leaving his parents at university.

Fortunately, he was quite adaptable and completed half of his goal in a very short time: although he still couldn't communicate well with girls, he could already chat jokingly with his shirtless roommates.

That's progress, isn't it?

Ah, it seems I've gone off on a tangent again.

Lin Ye patted his head, pulling himself back to reality, and then looked at Messiah: "You told me before that if the maple tree on the top of the Holy Mountain withered, you could leave Kalan?"

“Yes,” Messiah nodded. “What’s wrong?”

Lin Ye stroked his chin: "Can we make it wither away artificially?"

Messiah gave a half-smile: "What, you want to cut down my maple tree?"

"Is that not allowed?"

“It’s not that it’s impossible,” Messiah said, looking up at the ceiling. “It’s just that if that tree falls, there will be no way to control the natural disasters in Kalan.”

Lin Ye was somewhat surprised: "There's such a saying? Then I won't do it."

I don't think you'd do it either.

Lin Ye still felt a little regretful. If only he could have kidnapped Messiah! Good heavens, Kalan! Forget all the complicated reasons, as long as Messiah was by his side, would that silly wolf Lappland dare to raise his voice at him?!

Speaking of Lapland...

Lin Ye silently said to Messiah, "You remember that girl named Lappland, right?"

"Hmm. What's wrong?"

“She said a few days ago that she was going to cause you trouble. You can go down and teach her a lesson later,” Lin Ye said. “Don’t hold back for my sake, just give her a good beating.”

……

"Ah!"

Lappland, who had just come downstairs, sneezed loudly, then rubbed her slightly red nose and muttered to herself with a hint of doubt, "I have a feeling that someone is talking bad about me behind my back?"

……

The talk about Lappland was obviously just a joke, meant to lighten the mood.

After that, Messiah steered the conversation toward the topic of "maple leaves".

Messiah turned to look at the [Maple] placed beside Lin Ye's bed and said with a smile, "It seems you've discovered some of its abilities."

Lin Ye had long wanted to ask Messiah about Maple's abilities, so he asked, "Is it only a part of it?"

"What do you think?"

"How should I know this is your knife?"

"Now it's yours."

Messiah got out of bed, picked up the Maple Leaf Sword, and drew it with a clear, resonant sound. The maple-colored blade was faintly gleaming with white light.

"Is this the power of the Sarkaz race?"

"Yes."

"【Anti-magic】 and 【Sealing Techniques】, the Sarkaz race possesses quite impressive power," Messiah exclaimed. "They are a truly remarkable race."

Lin Ye looked at Messiah with some surprise: "You think the Sarkaz are outstanding?"

Messiah sheathed her sword, then countered with a question to Lin Ye: "Isn't that right? Aren't those two amulets on you also storing the power of the Sarkaz?"

"No, of course I think so too. I'm just a little curious." Lin Ye coughed twice. "The Sarkaz are demons, right? And you are a god. It feels strange that a god would praise a demon."

"God and demons are not irreconcilable enemies, at least not between me and the Sarkaz. The Sarkaz's only enemy is themselves."

"Yes." Lin Ye nodded. "You're right."

Lin Ye knew that the Sarkaz had launched a civil war that nearly wiped out their own forces, and Messiah was obviously aware of this war as well.

"Let's get back to this sword." To prevent the conversation from veering off course, Lin Ye brought up [Maple] again with Messiah. "It seems to be able to absorb, uh, other powers? And then release them out at double the rate?"

Messiah smiled and said, "It might be better to change power into nature."

"nature?"

“Yes, for example, you can think of the remaining properties right now as magic or spell immunity.” Messiah handed [Maple] to Lin Ye. “This is a property from that Sarkaz’s power. You absorbed it and amplified it, and finally…”

"It has reached a certain level of [magic suppression]?" Lin Ye still remembered the scene from last night. He had driven the [Maple] with the [Sanctuary] nature of Nightingale into the ground, making it impossible to use magic in the entire Shiva's mansion. This directly crippled Mephisto's warlock squad, otherwise he would have been killed long ago. So he couldn't help but exclaim, "That's too amazing!"

Messiah asked with a smile, "What do you mean by powerful? The power of the Sarkaz or my power?"

"Of course both are stronger... Wait, is this all the power you have?"