Zongman: The wrong person on the ground, double Shenwei at the beginning

Rod was surprised for a moment, then a bright smile spread across his face. He squatted down, opened his arms, and embraced the three adorable little creatures all at once.

"Hehe, just call me Rod."

"It's so warm in Lord Rhodes' arms."

"Smell...it smells like sunshine."

"Oh...this humble woman...this humble woman should have performed the proper bow first...this humble woman is such a rude and foolish fox..."

Rod gently patted the heads of the three little ones, paying particular attention to the melancholy little fox.

Chapter 145: Removes the limitations of Chun Ji's Myriad Treasure Hammer, Self-Stacking Spiral Ascension (Please subscribe, please vote~)

Rod smiled and reached out to gently wipe away the tears from the little fox's eyes, which were filled with self-reproach and on the verge of tears.

"It's alright, you don't need to be so formal with me. I also don't like you having to perform those cumbersome rituals every time you see me."

Following beside Rhodes, Tarluvi, who was enjoying a large bucket of potato balls, curiously reached out and gently poked Haruhime's fluffy fox ears.

"Wow! It really is a fox-person... Just like the traveling performer said, it has golden ears and a golden tail... You are so beautiful and so cute!"

The Winter Princess revealed an innocent and carefree smile.

"Hello, my name is Tarluvi, what's your name?"

boom!

Chunji's fluffy tail stood straight up instantly, and her fox ears turned bright red, almost dripping blood, at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She glanced shyly at Tarulvi and retorted in a voice barely above a whisper.

"You say I'm cute? You're clearly much cuter than me, sir!"

"My name is Chun Ji."

In Izumo Province, due to a divine decree from Rhodes, Haruhime was raised by the goddess Amaterasu from the moment she was born.

Her status was equivalent to that of a genuine princess of the entire country, extremely noble.

Aside from her fellow shrine maidens, she has almost no friends her own age.

Even Mingyu and Qiancao wouldn't approach her in such a straightforward and intimate way as Tarluvi.

This entirely new experience made her feel incredibly shy, but deep down she also felt...a sense of novelty and an irrepressible joy.

Taluvi paused for a moment, then reached out and gently stroked her soft, warm golden hair, her smile growing even brighter.

"Haruhime...a name as bright and warm as spring, how wonderful."

Suddenly, she thought of something, burst out laughing, and revealed a bright smile.

“My hometown, Bergen, is a place of perpetual winter. Since coming to Orario, I have been looking forward to seeing a real spring.”

"I thought I'd have to wait at least several months, but I never expected to meet the lovely Princess Spring in just a few days!"

As Rod watched the two quickly strike up a conversation and become acquainted, the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up, and an indescribable sense of satisfaction rose in his heart.

In the original story, Haruhime, who had once been a sacrifice and was filled with self-pity, risked her life to become the hero of Tarluvi, who was also a sacrifice.

Despite being deliberately verbally abused, and despite her own weakness and timidity, she persevered and was eventually rescued from despair with the help of her friends.

The princess of spring and the princess of winter redeem and grow together.

Although he has changed a series of things, so that neither of them has to suffer anymore, they still feel like old friends.

“Speaking of which, I also have fox-human blood mixed in with me~” Tarluvi suddenly dropped a bombshell.

Upon hearing this, Ming and Qiancao also looked up in surprise.

"Could you be... a beast?"

Chunji perked up her ears excitedly, and her tail wagged like a rattle.

"Are you serious!? Fox-people are extremely rare even among beastmen, practically one in a hundred years..."

"And not in the far East, but in Orario... Waaah... I'm about to cry tears of joy!"

Taluvi chuckled, subconsciously touching the pearl necklace around her neck. Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at Rhodes beside her, her eyes filled with gratitude and admiration.

"I was startled too! It's like it was destined, haha."

This pearl necklace was a gift from Rhodes to her after they returned to Orario.

At the time, Tarluvi jokingly asked him, "Is this a proposal gift?"

As a result, she learned that these pearls were the embodiment of the thoughts of past priestesses—her ancestors—collected from the Fountain of Life.

Taluvi burst into tears of joy on the spot, and unable to contain her emotions, she gave him her first, innocent and sincere kiss.

Although this bold move immediately drew cheers and jeers from the goddess Vera, and angry condemnation from the goddess Hestia.

Of all these pearls, the one with the clearest consciousness was her mother—a beautiful fox spirit.

In addition, there was a maternal grandmother with deer-human blood and a maternal great-grandmother with sheep-human blood.

Although I still can't communicate with them directly for the time being, just wearing this string of pearls makes me feel as if I am being embraced by my mother and family with the warmest love.

So if there were a preference rating, this Winter Princess's preference for Rhodes would probably be off the charts by now.

But then, Tarluvi looked puzzled.

She touched the pair of cute ram's horns and deer's antlers on her head, and then subconsciously patted her empty bottom.

"Strange...where are my fox-person features?"

The next second, to everyone's astonishment, this simple-minded princess lowered her head and curiously pulled open her collar, looking down at her magnificent cotton candy-like breasts, which were no less impressive than those of the goddess Hestia.

Ming's pretty face instantly turned red, she let out a gasp, and pounced on her like lightning to stop her.

"Lord Talvi!!!"

Chunji was so embarrassed that her eyes rolled back, and she almost fainted on the spot.

Chigusa cleverly tried to cover Rod's eyes with her small hands.

After a heartwarming yet chaotic period of playful banter, Rod asked Jun Suzuki to arrange rooms for the three little ones and to act as their guardian there from now on.

Then, he sent a shadow soldier to summon the Empress, Alphia, and Chardo together.

"What's wrong? Is there something important that requires the three of us to come together?"

Empress Regina clenched her fists, making cracking sounds, and a bloodthirsty and excited smile appeared on her face, as if she couldn't wait to torture people.

"Could it be... that we're finally going to attack Freya's Familia?"

Don't be fooled by the fact that there are only three of them. One is level 9 and the other two are level 8, all in their best health and strength. They are enough to crush both Loki's and Freya's Familias at the same time!

Rod held the little fox girl, whose pretty face was still flushed, in his arms.

Chunji curiously observed the three powerful figures exuding terrifying auras in front of her. The moment her eyes met Alphia's heterochromatic eyes, she gasped in surprise and then shyly buried her head back into Rhodes's chest.

Alphia crossed her left arm over her chest, rested her right elbow on her left arm, and unconsciously played with the tips of her right fingers on her silver hair.

"You called us here because of this little girl?"

Rod led the three of them to the center of the courtyard, a slightly smug look on his face.

"That's right, after she arrived, we've gathered the three great cheat codes of this world."

Stamp collectors and obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers are finally relieved.

Rod paused for a moment, glanced at Alphia, and added, "Of course, I'm referring to legitimate cheats with fewer side effects."

The so-called "cheat code" refers to the ability that transcends the understanding of gods and is enough to subvert common sense.

Orario does have powerful skills that allow her to fight across levels, but at best she's overpowered, though not quite at the level of a cheat code.

Chardo raised his eyebrows with interest.

"That battlefield saintess's healing abilities are indeed impressive, but besides this little fox-person whose abilities we still don't know, who else do we have?"

"It's a girl named Cassandra."

"...Um, that introverted, shy, and timid guy?"

Regina, the instructor, thought for a long time before finally recalling this person from the corner of her memory.

The other party's presence was simply too weak.

Regna felt that the other party did not deserve the title of "cheat".

“Isn’t she a therapist? And I remember that in every aspect, she was just a substitute for Amide.”

Regna's words were harsh, but they were true.

As the leader of the most powerful clan of this era, he has seen all kinds of strong people and is naturally not easily intimidated.

Rod showed a subtle expression.

"She possesses a skill that even sacred texts cannot reveal."

"..."

"Hestia probably calls her the 'Princess Who Sings the Praises of a Tragic World,' who can foresee the future through dreams, and... the content of her prophecies is absolutely accurate."

The expressions on the three people's faces instantly became quite interesting.

Good heavens, they had never heard of such an outrageous skill before.

Chardo touched his nose and chuckled dryly.

"Young people these days are getting more and more outrageous... But doesn't this skill have any downsides?"

Rod felt a sense of helplessness when he thought about the abstract representation of this skill in the original work.

"This skill only works when someone accepts my favor. Also, the dream is quite abstract, and upon waking, there will be extremely obscure poetry."

"And because of the influence of the curse, the prophetic dream cannot be believed by anyone, not even the gods."

Chardo opened his mouth, wanting to complain about so many things, but for a moment he didn't know where to begin.

Rhodes's precognitive ability to replicate the world while I was upgrading it on my own, although it also required dreaming and the triggering conditions were random, was much more convenient than hers.

"Don't worry, I've already removed the side effects of Cassandra's skill. However, I don't think she'll ever trigger the skill. Just treat her like an ordinary girl."

After all, this skill can only be triggered to find a way out when she is in a life-or-death situation.

However, he didn't think this skill would be useful against an enemy who could put Rhode in such a desperate situation.

The three nodded knowingly and turned their gaze back to the shy little fox in Rhodes' arms.

"And what about her?" Regna asked. "Is she also one of those skills that are extremely limiting and practically useless right now?"

Rod couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth slightly, and said casually.

"Her skills do have limitations at present, namely that she cannot use them on herself and they can only be used on one person."

"The effect is simple: it can forcibly raise the level of the target by one, regardless of their level."

The courtyard was deathly silent.

A moment later, Chardo suddenly clutched his stomach and let out a deafening burst of maniacal laughter.

"Hahahaha! Lord Rhodes, your joke is indeed... indeed very funny! Hahahaha!"

However, after laughing for a while, he found that Rod was just looking at him quietly, without the slightest hint of joking on his face. Chardo's laughter gradually subsided, and his heart began to pound uncontrollably.

"Wait, wait... could it be... you're telling the truth?!"

Even the usually composed Empress and Alphia were unable to remain calm at this moment. Their eyes were filled with disbelief, astonishment, and blankness.

Rhodes snapped his fingers, instantly teleporting everyone to the vast Divine Might Space, a pleased smile spreading across his face.

"Whether it's true or not, let's try it ourselves, shall we?"

But before that, Rhodes had something even more important to do.

He looked at Chunji, who was curiously examining this strange space in his arms, and gave instructions to the system in his mind.

"System, how many Prayer Points are needed to remove the restriction that the Wanbao Hammer can only be used on one person?"

[Returning to host requires 3000 Prayer Points.]

"So little?!"

However, the original Magic Hammer was a mechanic-based effect, and its cost was not affected by the level of the target.