Understand humans!

This is just the beginning anyway.

Aura has plenty of time. After Shasi gets started with her interest in plant magic, Aura will teach her other types of combat magic.

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There is no time in the mountains. After Shasi conveyed the order from the goddess' messenger Aura to the believers to build a village at the designated location, the humans in the mountain village began to migrate.

After trekking through mountains and rivers, carrying supplies, and going there in batches, it took several days, and finally under Aura's remote command, they found the holy sword stuck in the stone in the cave.

kindness?

You asked why Aula didn't go there in person, but just hid in the original mountain stronghold to give orders?

That is of course because the closer to the holy sword, the stronger the demon-repelling stance becomes. If it is within a hundred meters, even a large demon who specializes in defensive magic will be crushed directly.

Although the power of the holy sword was still gradually declining, Aura estimated that it would take at least a thousand years for it to be weakened to the point where it was only within an inch of the holy sword when Aura first saw it.

Aura's luck was really bad. That day he came across a rusty holy sword. Seeing that it looked ordinary, he reached out to pull it out. However, the holy sword sensed Aura's demonic aura and exploded immediately, becoming brand new.

Perhaps it was because of Aura's rash touch that the holy sword awakened. Otherwise, it is estimated that after thousands of years, no one would discover that the unremarkable rusty sword was the holy sword left by the legendary goddess.

But after thinking about it carefully, Aura felt that this must be the will of the goddess. Letting her Aura find the holy sword in advance was probably a hint for her to hide the holy sword and not let humans find it.

Is the goddess standing on the side of the demons this time?

This is great!

Aura was overjoyed.

Aura wants to build a village here, refuse any approach from those with ulterior motives, and hide the holy sword forever.

As long as she built the village around the holy sword in advance, in the future, no human would accidentally discover the holy sword, spread the news of its location, and build a "Sword Village" around the holy sword to protect it and wait for the brave.

And only the "Aula Village" belongs to her!

Haha, hahahaha! Hahahahahaha!!!

Aula was secretly delighted that she could come up with such a plan to occupy the magpie's nest.

This is the wisdom of Aura, one of the Seven Sages and the most talented demon!

Most demons only know how to fight and kill humans. They are not like Aura, who suppresses her malice towards humans and instead uses humans to check and balance humans.

If the achievement of hiding the holy sword spreads to the demon clan a thousand years later, even the omniscient Shuharat will have to give way to Aura and give her the position of the demon clan's first meritorious official and the second in command of the demon king.

Sunny day.

Aula came to a high mountain around the canyon where the holy sword was located. Relying on the terrain, he looked down at the green mountains and clear waters in the canyon which were gradually filled with people.

I feel extremely satisfied.

The human sword village disappeared before it appeared.

The demon village of Aura was born at this time and in this place.

Chapter 65: Incomplete loyalty is complete disloyalty!

Although the identity of the goddess Aura is acknowledged, the foundation of religion is ultimately material.

Not all believers are willing to die for their faith.

For most believers, the goddess is a spiritual sustenance in despair, a hope that exists in imagination, illusory and difficult to truly touch.

However, it is precisely because of the illusory nature of the goddess that they are willing to sacrifice their faith.

If the goddess really descends upon the believers and demands them to do this and that according to her will, the believers' faith will be shaken.

After all, most believers will accept your request to pray every day for the blessing of the gods, but if you ask them to give away all their wealth to help the poor, they will doubt the authenticity of your gods.

If the goddess is like this, what about Aura who is acting on behalf of the goddess?

There are many suspicious points about Aura.

It's not that no one doubts it.

Outside the rudimentary mountain village, groups of believers picked up hoes and reclaimed new land.

This place is far away from the mountain village with complete facilities and intact buildings to shelter from the wind and rain. On weekdays, believers have to cut trees and cultivate land under the scorching sun, and they cannot get a good rest and cannot enjoy the complete resources in the mountain village.

Because of the huge investment in the initial development but no results, the food resources accumulated by the bandits in the village were quickly consumed, and there was no longer the generosity of believers to enjoy them as before.

Once people become hungry, they begin to rebel.

Although no one has come forward publicly, people have been discussing it secretly, and doubts have been growing about the legitimacy of the goddess's identity in the horned, purple-haired humanoid creature.

Especially since the goddess asked the believers to travel far and wide to a deserted valley to reclaim wasteland and build a village... Wouldn't it be better to build a village in the original mountain stronghold? According to the terrain, the labor required would be less than one-third of that required to rebuild the village!

The land around the village is also very fertile, and you can just burn the vegetation on it and then plant something. Unlike this valley, the ground is full of gravel and needs to be cleaned up manually.

"Hey, it's been a while since I've seen Master Aura here, right?"

"It's more than just long time no see. I've never seen Aura-sama in the new village before—"

"You think the envoy of God is afraid of something here and doesn't dare to come near, haha."

"You must be joking. How is that possible? Haven't you seen the God's Messenger display her divine power? She burned through such a thick mountain wall with a wave of her hand. It was enough for three people to pass through at the same time. Who can withstand that? What kind of beast can drill through the mountain? That is something only God can do!"

"Hey, I'm just talking... I'm just saying it, don't take it seriously."

The person who spoke paused, then shut up and went back to work.

After a long while, someone on the other side spoke again.

This time it was a tall middle-aged man with a big frame, but not fat, thin, a serious face, a crew cut, and a long gown.

His name is Luo Men, and everyone around him knows him. Unlike most believers who grew up in the religious country, Luo Men came to the religious country halfway to settle down, and followed his neighbors to believe in the goddess naturally.

Although Luo Men attended daily prayers and all rituals on time, everyone could always sense a different trait from others in him - a lazy trait.

It seems that belief in the goddess is dispensable, and having faith is for the purpose of integrating into the crowd. As for whether Romen really believes in the existence of the goddess, only he himself knows.

While everyone was resting, Luo Men looked around, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and spoke slowly:

"Although Shashi claimed at the beginning that the person she found in the cave was the incarnation of the goddess, who could save us from the suffering of slavery, and that person did it... But I went to the cave and saw that it was full of bones that had been eaten. Some smaller bones were even bitten in half, and the larger bones had tooth marks... That scene, those strange tooth marks, didn't look like humans eating, but more like beasts."

"How dare you criticize Lord Aura like that! Asshole, don't you know that it was Lord Aura who saved us from the bandits?!"

"Well... in that case, we should really thank her," Romen glanced at the objector and looked away calmly. Although his hands were still busy, his words did not stop.

"Life is much better now than when we were slaves, but that's because the supplies left by the bandits are still there. We only consume and don't produce now, and sooner or later there will be a food shortage... I don't care, I'm used to starving anyway, but do you think that God's envoy is willing to starve? When she's hungry, can she control her appetite? Or will she eat us like she ate those bandits?"

"Anyway, we will die sooner or later. If there were no messengers of God, we would have died long ago! When we are hungry and starving to death, I would be willing to be eaten by the messenger of God. That is the way to heaven guided by the Lord..."

"Are you really stupid or are you just pretending to be stupid? Going to heaven after being eaten is just a lie. The miracle that person showed was just magic, not a blessing from the gods. Sasi was young and inexperienced, so she couldn't stand the lie and believed the nonsense of going to heaven after death. Do you believe it too?"

"Asshole! Who are you calling stupid? Of course I know the magic used by gods, and everyone knows it, but have you ever seen a magician who can pierce through a mountain? Who can achieve this level of power except with the blessing of the goddess? In the country we were in before, even the strongest magician couldn't do it!"

"Haha, of course I know," Romen sneered and glanced at the believer who refuted him. He certainly knew that no one present knew the power of magic better than him.

Because only Romen had walked out of that self-contained religious country. He had seen even stronger magicians who could raise a ten-meter-high wall in an instant. It was said that guy was a second-level magician in the Assessor era, and his abilities were terrifyingly strong.

But it was precisely because Romen knew more about magicians that he was certain.

"That lord's killing magic is indeed horrifying, but that kind of cruel method makes her more like a demon than the incarnation of a goddess. You have to know that creatures with divine power include not only angels in heaven but also demons in hell. Do you think a man-eating fellow is more like the former?"

"You bastard...don't slander Lord Aura!!"

Pfft!

The devout believer's face turned red and he opened his mouth to argue, but he was not good at speaking and couldn't beat Roman. In the end, he simply punched Roman in the face and forced him to shut up.

Luo Men was not a good-tempered person either. When someone punched him, he punched back.

Plop! Plop! Plop! !

The two people were so angry that they lost their minds and started fighting each other on the spot.

The believers around heard the noise and gathered around to watch. Some people also tried to persuade the two men to stop, but the two men were so angry that they not only refused to listen, but the kind-hearted people who tried to stop the fight were punched in the face. After their faces turned blue and white, they also joined the fight.

The situation gradually escalated, and in the chaos of the fight, someone lost his mind and picked up a hoe.

"Stop! What are you doing?!"

Suddenly, a clear and loud girl's voice rang out from the crowd.

Suddenly the noise in the crowd stopped and a small path was formed to allow the short girl with pink hair and thick eyebrows to pass through.

The girl was Shashi, who had just completed her daily magic practice with Aura. Shashi kept Aura's wish to build a village in mind. Although the daily magic practice made her mentally exhausted, Shashi would still come to see the believers who were cultivating the land next to the holy sword every day.

Help Awula inspect the construction progress of the new village.

Recently, many people have been dissatisfied with Lord Aura's instructions to make them travel through mountains and rivers to distant places to open up wasteland. Shashi also knows this, but she did not expect that the conflict would break out so quickly.

And the conflict was not directed against Lord Aura, but rather between believers.

"Under the Lord's gaze, we should unite and love each other. Have you forgotten the teachings? Lady Aura never wants to see her followers attack each other. What made you forget the Lord's loving teachings?"

"Shassi, Roman just said..." The believer who firmly supported Aura was about to speak, but was interrupted by Roman.

"It's food! Shaxi, you should have started to feel it too. There is not enough food in the village. Some believers are already starving. Although there is still some money in the village, this place is too remote. We don't know the way and can't get out. The food is gradually decreasing. If people starve to death next, what should we do? Does that lord have any solution?"

Romen's voice was loud, which drowned out the voices of others. What's more, what he said was exactly what many believers were concerned about. Even the believers who had previously clashed with Romen suppressed the urge to report Romen's disrespectful remarks. They wanted to hear what Shassi, who served Aura and was closest to the Lord's Messenger, would say.

"There is not enough food...don't we still have seeds?" Shasi tilted her head, and there was no worry in her clear and bright eyes.

The believers who were watching all felt a sinking feeling in their hearts. They had forgotten how old Shashi was. Although she was precocious, she was still only nine years old. A child of this age could not fully understand the plight of food shortage.

"...It's been too long." Even Romen could not hide his disappointment in his eyes. Although he had been prepared for a long time, he did not intend to get a truly effective solution from Shasi.

But when the expected reality appeared before his eyes, he couldn't stop feeling disappointed... Did he really have to resist that man-eating demon?

Even if they want to resist, do they really have the ability to do so?

"It won't be long," Sassi blinked, not understanding why everyone was so disappointed, she said,

"Aura-sama taught me magic."

"The magic of harvest?" For some reason, Romen's voice trembled a little.

"Yes, it's a magic that speeds up the growth of seeds. It was taught to me by Aura-sama."

Shashi lied.

The magic to accelerate seed growth was something she figured out herself.

During the process of Aura teaching Shasi magic, Shasi had already realized that although this lord was adept at magic with great destructive power used in battle, he knew nothing about other magic that had nothing to do with combat or killing.

Most of the time, Sashi could only hear the theory of this kind of magic from Aura, and when she asked in depth, Lord Aura would show a confused expression - as if Lord Aura could not imagine himself using this kind of magic at all.

Even when Shashi described her imagination in detail to Lady Aura, Lady Aura was still unable to imagine the process of making the seeds germinate.

But Shashi did it easily.

In full view of everyone, Shashi squatted down and put her hands on the cultivated land where potatoes were already buried.

Imagination…imagination…imagination—

To imagine potatoes growing, roots coming out of the tubers, shoots coming out of the potatoes...

A bright green light emerged from the palm of Shasi's hand. The weak magic power she had just cultivated was rapidly consumed, and she formed a spell along a very complex structure that even a first-level magician could not analyze.

There are geniuses among humans, the kind of absurd magicians that even the demons find incredible, who clearly do not understand the principles of magic, but construct spells based on instinct.

puff!

A green sprout popped up from the ground.

"Look! Grow! Grow!! I didn't expect that Lady Aura could use magic to speed up plant growth. It's amazing. She is indeed the goddess' representative in the human world..."

"Get out of my way!" Romen pushed aside the believers who were cheering around the green sprout, and moved closer to the newly grown green sprout. He opened his eyes wide, almost sticking close to it to observe it, his eyes full of disbelief.

"How is this possible? How can this kind of magic exist?!"

After confirming that this was not an illusion but a real magic that accelerated the growth of plants, Romen burst into tears loudly.

His voice was shrill and his posture was terrifying. Even the believer who wanted to mock Romen because of the previous conflict did not dare to provoke Romen again when he saw his crazy appearance.

Romen knelt on the ground, kissed the ground around the green sprout, kissed the leaf at the top of the green sprout, then turned around, buried his head deep in the ground, and kissed the instep of Sasi, who was panting because of exhaustion of magic power.

His tears flowed all over the floor, his vision blurred, and he looked up to the sky and shouted:

“Miracle, miracle!! This is a miracle!! Goddess, it turns out you really exist! Why couldn’t you let me see this magic earlier… earlier… If it could be earlier… earlier… my hometown wouldn’t be… wuwuwu…”

"Hey, Roman, that's too much. This is just a magic. Didn't the magicians in our country perform many miraculous magics? You just laughed at us for being unsophisticated and ignorant of the magicians' methods, but now you are like this... like crazy... just for a magic that makes seeds germinate?"