The Game of Global Mining

Gabriel leaned softly against Liya’s chest, still frightened: "Liya, my lord..."

Liya sighed: "You appeared just in time, of course, when I saw the situation wasn’t right, I administered the awakening injection to you, luckily you escaped very promptly too."

Gabriel asked again: "What about the Nightmare Dragon?"

Liya shook the detect magic crystal screen that showed a blank display and sighed: "It’s disappeared, can’t detect it anymore."

Although there were still questions to ask, those weren’t the focus now!

Gabriel exclaimed: "That Nightmare Dragon is of Baron level and just came out of the clinic, we should immediately go check on the foreign student."

Liya was surprised: "Baron level! Well, it’s good, but I’m not convenient to show up."

"Your lordship’s identity certainly shouldn’t appear in the slums easily; just continue the disguise."

So the two walked toward the clinic, and the bunch of Sweet Potato’s underlings playing cards immediately became alert and surrounded them, but they asked very softly: "What’s going on?"

Gabriel directly removed his cape mask, and Sweet Potato immediately showed more respect, lowering his voice even more and being more flattering: "Sage Lord, please~~~"

Then he went back to his post at the lamppost, keeping watch.

Gabriel was very satisfied, liking someone who is sensible but doesn’t talk too much.

So the two knocked on the door, knocked again, and kept knocking!

Inside came White’s slightly panicked voice: "Closed for the day!"

Actually, White’s actions had already been fully seen by the Eye of Omniscience.

"It’s me, Gabriel."

A surprised voice came: "Sage Lord!!"

Then the door opened.

The two entered, White closed the door, quite excited: "My lord, coming over so late..."

Gabriel sighed: "I was just worried about you, afraid you’re not comfortable with the living arrangement. Did you feel anything particularly unusual when you were sleeping?"

White solemnly said: "There was indeed something unusual, maybe because I’m not used to it or it’s noisy outside, but I have a more significant discovery, which is this house!"

Gabriel’s heart skipped. He had seen this house differing from its surroundings in the Nightmare Realm!

"What’s going on with the house?"

White solemnly said: "I think this clinic is very similar to our village chapel, it’s actually a temple, it has divinity!"

Gabriel was stunned: "What shows there’s divinity?"

White came to the wooden wall, scraped it with his fingers: "Please look, Sage Lord, this wood is the cheapest paulownia wood, loose and porous, typically vulnerable to damp and insects, degrading in less than ten years, but it hasn’t, it’s very tight and elastic, an energy has filled the internal pores..."

Gabriel didn’t understand wood, but had instruments, so he immediately took them out and shone them on the wooden wall!

——System prompt: detected mutated energized paulownia wood.

Gabriel was astonished: "Which god is worshipped here?"

White said: "There’s no worshipped god; it should be the people coming here for treatment who hold intense wishes, and when the wishes are strong enough, the clinic becomes a temple! But after all, it’s not a temple, the effects aren’t great, so I have a thought, to operate according to the village chapel model. Sometimes, our village doesn’t have special medicine, villagers eat some regular medicine to resist, then they come to the chapel to pray, sometimes it works—so, my idea is to pray first, then administer medicine. As for the god, it’ll obviously be the city’s Guardian God."

Gabriel inexplicably thought of Sariel! If he knew, he’d definitely shout about worshiping Mermaids, which would be quite troublesome.

Gabriel then said: "Alright! I agree with your operational approach, but regarding worship, wait for a notice tomorrow morning, tonight, you just rest well, you’ve worked hard all day."

White was very grateful: "Thank you, Sage Lord, for your concern."

The chat group Sela looked puzzled: "A village chapel? I’ll check it out tomorrow morning!"

Gabriel urgently said: "Don’t wait for tomorrow, accompany me through the night. Complete Amy’s task and then immediately go to the village."

Sela retorted indignantly: "Going to the village at midnight is useless!"

Metatron said: "Last time we developed the southern Jungle Mine Area, Sariel’s Eye of Omniscience was swallowed by a Shadow Demon that emerged from this village, so many things often have breakthroughs at night!"

Gabriel urged urgently: "Indeed, midnight is when it truly starts!"

Sela retorted indignantly: "You just want me to accompany your all-nighter..."

And after leaving the clinic, Liya supported Gabriel for ten more steps, then simply teleported Gabriel back to the mansion: "Miss Sage, you need rest, get a good night’s sleep."

Gabriel was anxious: "But my lord, without me there, I’m worried about you alone!"

Liya smiled and pushed Gabriel onto the bed: "Then lie there and worry slowly, so I don’t have the hassle of supporting you."

Gabriel sweated and said: "Alright, take care, my lord."

Then, it became somewhat awkward!

"Sela, let me tell you some good news. I’m injured and weak, so no all-nighter tonight. But don’t forget about the village chapel, I’ll wait for the news when I wake up tomorrow! Good night!"

Sela was infuriated: "You bitch, dragging me for an all-nighter and then going to sleep yourself!"

...

Chun led Xina all the way back to the Divine Domain Mansion.

Aileen apparently got the info from little Liya, looked relaxed: "Darling, you’re back! Fortunately, we noticed that fake Tifa is a bitch!"

Little Liya also smiled: "Got her! Though there was a little accident, the Sage Miss transformed into Dream Angel Form to intervene, forcibly awakened by the City Beauty, then went to the clinic to visit White, agreed to the worship thing. In the end, arranged for the injured Sage to sleep and rest, so she doesn’t inconveniently follow along."

Everything was arranged!

Chun felt indescribably comfortable: "Very good, thank you so much! By the way, how seriously is the fake Tifa injured?"

Little Liya laughed: "Actually, not too serious, but during the Sage’s intervention, she got hurt, probably... not as rebellious anymore?"

Chun felt relieved, seeing the Earth Vein absorption still needed time, had to find more things to do.

Speaking of which, besides fake Tifa, I have prisoners here!

Firstly, previously, Mei and I piloted the Water Element Hydrahis to the Arctic, then got blocked in Ice Mountain Canyon by the Fourth Prince and sent a Naga Banshee Demon Skill Mage, her corpse uniquely holding six Bone Staffs, left for Mei to study as frozen meat. The soul, however, was to test if Aileen’s newly understood Magic Mirror Space Teleportation works, it worked well, though she was twisted into a mess!

The thought back then was, when she recovers, attempt using Sea God’s Personal Guard skill to recruit her as the sixth Sea Soul. Of course, she should be the seventh Sea Soul, but Six went off to be the Tree God.

The result was she got locked and forgotten! Such a powerful soul can’t be wasted.

Chun asked: "Aileen—"

Wait! Once using Sea God’s Personal Guard, this involves the Mermaid’s ultimate secret, is it okay for Liya to know?