The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

These manufactured weapons and equipment will be purchased by Boro's agents and sold to other countries as bonuses.

Perhaps the things made by amateur blacksmiths are ugly and difficult to use, but they are certainly acceptable as freebies. Some poor countries like to find gold in the dirt and specifically buy these freebies at cheap prices.

Blacksmithing also requires talent. Some people can draw upon magic simply by striking metal, without any teacher's guidance. That's talent.

They found an inn, but the low door forced Maginos to bend down to enter.

After asking the owner, she took out a dish of food that was not available in the dwarf kingdom from her dimensional bag and handed it over as payment for the room. She then went to the shop to prepare a room specifically for human adventurers and was finally able to stretch her body.

Chapter 543 Methods of Whitewashing

Early the next morning, Maginus left the secluded dwarf town, bid farewell to the mayor, and continued on his way to Emerald City.

She descended the mountain along the same route she had come from, returned to the desolate mountains, took out the map to memorize and confirm it again, and headed east.

A moment later, Maginus encountered an obstacle. A towering mountain stood before her, with steep cliffs jutting out at sharp angles. She made no attempt to use her psychic powers or life force, but instead gripped the rock face with both hands and began to climb rapidly upwards.

Since I'm going to act, I have to act until the end. I'm a barbarian, so in normal times, unless there's a risk of my avatar being destroyed, it's best not to use other abilities.

Without any intention of taking a detour, Maginos, with her current body, traversed mountains and rivers, and easily dealt with any attacks from wild beasts. With her legendary-level physique, there was really nothing that could harm her.

While on her journey, Maginus was also able to handle more administrative matters and skillfully respond to the prayers of her believers.

As her divinity grew stronger and the power of her faith continued to increase, her proficiency and speed in multitasking improved significantly, but unfortunately, she had not yet undergone a qualitative transformation from quantity.

Having no limit to multitasking, Maginus simply sent out another avatar, the black dragon sorceress Leona, to continue hunting for divine children across the continent.

"Tsk, my followers in other countries aren't doing so well, they've started killing again."

When dealing with government affairs, Maginus would occasionally hear the cries for help from his followers, mostly from all over the world, with almost no followers from within the country.

Some of the statues she experimentally threw out, along with the followers she developed, were disposed of by the authorities or other unforeseen circumstances. However, some of them secretly spread within the slums.

The believers are mainly composed of gangsters, avengers, and people filled with hatred. Most of them belong to the evil camp, with only a small number wavering between good and evil, and most of them are young children.

Maginus chose to let these believers live freely, providing them with things to enhance their strength as long as they survived, thus ensuring a continuous flow of faith power.

If she can't survive, she won't waste her energy on rescue efforts, since most of them aren't sincere anyway.

Of course, for a small number of believers who truly trust her but are not particularly talented, she will still give them some help to escape on their own. Whether they survive depends on fate and the believers' own efforts.

As for those with exceptional talent, Maginus pointed them in the right direction, allowing them, like Mia and the others, to choose whether or not to undertake a "pilgrimage."

They can stay, or they can choose to come to New Nesery; Doflamingo will certainly welcome them.

Several years have passed since the statue was lost, and the establishment of New Nesserry and Doflamingo has drawn increasing attention to the situation there.

New Nesserre is a theocratic state, so other countries naturally fear these churches of the dead within the towns, wondering if they might become a weapon for Maginus.

When this idea came to mind, their first reaction was to clean up the mess in their homes, and thus Maginus and his group of early believers in the historical sense were wiped out.

Most of them are evil people, a small number are good people, and the believers are just general believers who kneel down to her only to gain power.

Maginus, currently an evil false god, does not feel sorry for their deaths and listens to their curses before they die without any emotional fluctuation.

Staring at the scene opposite through the damaged statue, she gently plucked the thread of faith. The thread of faith outside of New Nesiri was almost gone, with only one-tenth of what it used to be, and many of the statues that had been distributed there had been destroyed.

There are now ten left in total, five of which are being held by individual believers who, like Mia and the others, are heading towards New Nesser.

Five more remain in small shrines, worshipped by a small group of gangsters, and it's unknown when they will be destroyed.

Once the ten statues she personally sent out have either returned or been smashed, the dark history of the Church of the Dead will officially be gone.

She could then fabricate a story to whitewash herself, such as "being constantly influenced by the will of the god of slaughter and fear, which is why the church initially attracted so many evil people."

"Your Majesty, Primia Astan of the Swan Merchant Guild has arrived."

Another day of operating on three fronts. Maginus turned her head and glanced at Mira, who was reporting to her, and raised her chin to signal her to invite the person in.

Mira no longer needed His Majesty to speak; he could already understand her body language. She bowed slightly and left the study. Primia entered the study, feeling slightly uneasy.

As a spellcaster, he naturally sensed that something was wrong with the environment. His magical energy began to malfunction after entering the palace, but his magical equipment and scrolls remained unaffected.

A massive magic circle enveloped the palace, inertizing magic and making spells difficult to control, posing the most disadvantageous situation for the caster.

Fortunately, this trip was to see Maginus; otherwise, he would never have wanted to enter this place.

"Primeval Principality, so much time has passed, have you considered my proposal?"

Maginus looked up at Primia and asked again about the proposal she had made a few years ago: she wanted Primia to be her treasurer and replace Mr. Gordon.

“Heh, Your Majesty, you’re asking a question you already know the answer to,” Primia said with a wry smile. “We’ve already lost the battle for the family business guild. We only have a portion of the Swan Business Guild’s shares, but I’m not the president.”

"Oh, that's wonderful," Primia's bad news was actually good news for her. "What are you waiting for? Join New Nesery, and your future achievements will definitely be more than just being a guild president."

As Primia said, Maginus had already learned of his failure to win the position of president through other channels.

As a child with fewer resources, Primia had done his best through various means, but when it came to determining the successor, he was still inferior to his elder brother.

Primia was angry, but anger was useless. As a spellcaster, he quickly calmed down and immediately thought of the path that Maginus had left him, and acted very decisively.

He made a deal with his elder brother, giving him most of his shares in the Chamber of Commerce in exchange for a large amount of resources and wealth. With this wealth, he rushed to Maginus and decided to "invest" in New Nesery.

Since one path is blocked, he'll take another. Sooner or later, he'll trample those who look down on him underfoot.

Chapter 544 The Underground World

After meeting Primia, Maginus did not immediately appoint him as treasurer. Instead, he gave him a lot of information and intelligence, allowing him time to sort out the current financial situation of New Nesery. The rest could be discussed later.

Having just seen off her future treasurer, Maginus flipped through a continent-wide newspaper published by the Mage Guild, her expression slightly pausing when she turned to one page.

The vast desert she had passed through before was now inaccessible. For some unknown reason, a large number of high-level monsters had rioted and moved from the depths of the desert to a location very close to the forests and grasslands.

That's not all. Even more serious is that an unprecedented sandstorm enveloped the entire desert, and the oasis country of Broadleaf, where Maginus had spent a few days with Primia, was completely cut off from the outside world.

The chaotic and arid magic rendered all spells unable to penetrate the desert, and the bizarre sandstorms seemed more like a man-made disaster than a natural occurrence.

"I originally thought the anticipated danger would erupt in a year or two, but it's only now that it's finally come to fruition?"

Turning the page, the thick Wizard's Monthly Report reveals an even greater crisis than the previous year, with chaos evident in the news articles.

So far, several weak priests of weak gods have encountered problems with being unable to cast spells.

According to the reporter, the bishops of these temples tried to contact their gods, but they did not respond to the believers' questions, only telling them to prepare for the shock.

Legendary divination mages attempted to make prophecies, but given the frequent anomalies, they saw little of the future, or rather, remained silent and unwilling to reveal the truth.

The news also mentioned Maginus, and as before, the discussion mainly revolved around her outrageous remarks made near the Blood Lake.

She turned page after page, much of the content uninteresting, but some useful, such as the major problems and internal strife that had plagued several countries near New Nesery.

"It's a pity we can't make a move yet."

Maginus sighed with some regret. Nesery still needed some time to develop; otherwise, she would have already taken this opportunity to send troops to reclaim the territory that Abes had given away.

After finishing the entire Wizarding Monthly, Maginus's expression shifted slightly, and she focused more attention on the avatar, Tirenie.

After several days of continuous travel, the avatar had reached the depths of the desolate mountains and arrived at the only entrance to Jade City.

According to the dwarves' map, Emerald City is not on the surface, but buried underground, and one must pass through some caves to get in.

Beneath the massive mountain range adjacent to Ilandamia lies an enormous cavity, even larger than the cave beneath the capital Doflai, the size of an entire kingdom.

It is very similar to the Underdark, but the two places are far apart, and the area beneath the mountains is entirely a kingdom of dwarves, unlike the complex web of power in the Underdark.

Because it was so enormous, the cave was buried very deep, and the dwarves carved out many extremely long tunnels leading to the surface, the largest of which was right in front of Maginus.

Looking at the rough, man-made tunnel, she plunged inside. The darkness and dampness did not obstruct her vision. A large number of fungi grew inside the tunnel, and spores filled the air.

At first, you could still see some moss at the entrance of the cave, but after turning a few corners, the sunlight completely disappeared, and there were practically no green plants left, only fungal organisms.

At the same time, the road becomes increasingly steep, and the original obtuse-angle slope gradually approaches a right angle, making it very difficult to climb. For ordinary professionals, a slight misstep could cause them to tumble down and only stop when they hit a rock or a corner.

Using a gliding motion to glide down the slope, Maginos uses the map in her mind to continuously choose the correct forks in the road and glide all the way down.

Crossroads can be dead ends. At the end of a dead end, there may be nothing, and you can just struggle to climb out. Or it may be a monster's lair, which would be terrible. Many professionals have perished there.

"Sigh, how long will it take? Will it really take a whole day to see the Kingdom of Mountains?"

Maginus was bored with the desolate landscape around her, and Boroth told her that even the route with the fewest forks and the fastest speed would take at least a day to reach Emerald City.

It's important to know that there are caravans connecting Jade City to the outside world, and their routes aren't as steep as this Long Road. However, this means that it will take Ling Meng longer to travel from the mountain to the surface.

It's hard to imagine how bad the mood must be for the merchants traveling to and from Jade City after such a journey.

"Ok?"

Somewhat bored, Maginos stopped her frantic run, slamming on the brakes and kicking up a lot of dirt and stones to steady herself. She stopped when her body was almost touching the ground, and her toes touched the ground at an almost right angle as she reached the wall.

A luminous plant appeared before her, its faint magic sustaining its light, which made Maginus truly realize that she had gone deep underground.

This special plant only appears far from the surface and deep underground, and it can autonomously absorb magic to create a result similar to a light spell.

Maginus plucked the plant and put it in her mouth, savoring the vitality it contained, the taste of a creature that had been in contact with the earth element for a long time, solid and heavy.

As for the taste, it's similar to ordinary wild grass, there's not much difference.

Suppressing her curiosity, Maginos turned around, and some strange creatures appeared before her. Most of them lacked light-sensitive organs but had highly developed hearing or touch.

Before she could even get close, the creatures sensed her presence and quickly burrowed into the crevices of the rocks.

After calming down, Maginus began to admire the wondrous creatures that lived underground. About twenty hours later, the situation finally changed.

The near-right-angle slope flattens out, which means she's almost at the bottom.

About an hour later, the slope returned to normal, fluorescent plants covered the ground, and mosses and ferns also grew underground due to their presence.

As the cave gradually narrowed, she finally saw the exit after traveling all day. Bright lights flickered outside the cave entrance, where many fluorescent plants were gathered.

Parting the vegetation at the cave entrance, a vast underground world stretched as far as the eye could see, with fluorescent vegetation dotting the top like stars, and beyond that, a large jungle of ferns and mushrooms.

"We've finally entered the underground. Now all we need to do is find the direction of Jade City."

Chapter 545 The Mushroom Man and the Underground Crisis

Taking off her boots and emptying the rubble she had shoveled in on her journey, Maginus recalled the words of the dwarf mayor, Boroth, and began to climb the wall, gripping it with both hands so that she could see further.

An enormous mushroom came into view. I jumped off the rock wall. That was the first stop in the depths of Maginos, a tribe of many mushroom people.

The Mushroom People, often referred to as "Mushroom People" or "Fungus People," resemble giant, intelligent, mobile fungi with four limbs.

Most mushroom people tend to be orderly and kind, although some become extreme and evil due to their environment, but still maintain a certain degree of order.

Evil mushroom people generally live in the dark regions, since that place is not fit for humans. To survive, one must either be strong enough or ruthless.

This underground world is under the control of the dwarves. There are bandits and robbers among the dwarves, but they are certainly not the majority. The fungus people here have also largely maintained their original allegiance because of the normal environment.

As she approached the giant mushroom tree, Maginus heard a noise and looked to the side at the thicket of slender mushrooms. Several tiny mushroom people were staring at her with their beady eyes.

At first glance, the little mushroom man gave her a very cute impression. Unlike the big mushroom man in the book, the wrinkles on its body were not fully open. Instead, it was all chubby and looked like a rag doll.

A few calming spores filled the air. Maginus herself had no ill intentions; they could sense her emotions and staggered closer.

Several small fungus looked up at her, muttering sounds without forming a language. However, soon, psionic energy emanated from their bodies as they attempted to establish a connection with Maginus.

Mushroom people possess a certain amount of psychic talent, but this talent is entirely focused on communication. Through spores in the air, they can communicate telepathically with people inside the spores, without needing to speak.

Relaxing and happy, Maginos heard the childlike voices of several fungus-men.

Hello... Are you from the earth?

“That’s right, I’m an adventurer from the surface world, and I want to go to Emerald City. Does any of you little guys know how to get there?”

Maginos crouched down, picked up a mushroom-man, and kneaded its soft body, feeling as if she were kneading soft clay.

Their reproductive method is asexual reproduction; they are truly "grown" from the ground. Their size increases over time, so something this small must be a child that has just gained consciousness.

I don't know; the older generation would probably know better.

The little mushroom people stared at her with curious eyes, not saying much. After answering her question, they fell silent. But Maginus could sense that their telepathic communication was flowing towards the giant mushroom, probably calling for the older mushroom people.

Three or four minutes later, a fungus-man, about two meters tall, walked over from a distance. When it saw Maginus, a hint of wariness flashed in its eyes, sensing her power and danger.

This mushroom man is very fat. Without a doubt, his plump, white body is solid. A punch from him would probably feel like a giant hammer hitting you.

Adventurer, are you searching for Emerald City?

A calm voice connected telepathically, and Maginus nodded. The giant mushroom man raised his fingerless hand to point in a direction when a powerful mental wave suddenly emanated from the top of the mushroom tree.

...Adventurer, please follow me. Our Mushroom King wishes to see you.

The giant mushroom bowed slightly, and Maginus raised an eyebrow, agreeing to its request. He would treat it as a side quest, since the "Tirini" avatar didn't have any hard requirements; he could just consider it an unfinished adventure.

Upon entering the mushroom tree, one is greeted by a group of thorny, weapon-wielding mushroom people guarding the entrance. They vary in size, and some of the thinner mushroom people emit black spores from time to time, exuding an aggressive aura.

Climbing to the top of the mushroom-shaped roof, the surrounding scenery is unobstructed. What interests Maginus the most is the east, where a cloud of purple mist is rising and spreading slowly.

Greetings, mighty adventurer.