Chapter 511

That night, the entire material world was snowing. People all over the world walked out of their homes, either surprised, worried, excited, or afraid, and invariably stretched out their hands to catch the falling snowflakes.

Even after dawn, everything will return to normal, but this night will eventually be remembered by everyone.

(Fini is praying...)

On Friday morning, before dawn, Jenkins stood in front of the window in his pajamas, looking at the snowflakes in the night sky.

Chocolate lay on his pillow, the whole cat spread out in a long strip, his chin rested on the softest part of the pillow, and he opened one eye and looked at Jenkins secretly.

The pocket watch on the bedside was clicking, and the cover was open, reflecting the ambiguous warm yellow color of the gas lamp, but it wasn't even six o'clock yet. Next to the pocket watch is a cake-sized model of an ice and snow palace. Because this is a Category B item, even if it is only controlled by Jenkins, it cannot be taken back into the spirit like a gift.

"Meow~"

The cat made a low meow, seemingly trying to get Jenkins to go to bed, but Jenkins ignored his cat. His left hand was resting on the window sill, and his right hand was stroking the archer chess pieces he had taken out from the palace.

"Although I saved the world again and didn't boast about my achievements to anyone, why don't I feel happy at all?"

Even if the Ice and Snow Palace and the five chess pieces cannot be taken away, it is not without any gains. After his soul returned to his body, he immediately felt sensitively that his [Ice Condensation] had sublimated once again. Even though the color and name of the light spots have not changed, his control over the ice and snow has now reached the limit that humans can achieve.

"I not only saved the world, but also improved myself... This should be a good thing, but my heart is inexplicably heavy."

This heaviness does not come from the [Lord of Winter] who has planned everything, but from the worry about the fate of the world.

Alexia has long said that she has noticed the imbalance of the world's elemental order a few years ago, and it just happened to happen now.

This shows that the end of the era may not be far away, and the order of the material world is losing balance step by step, which is reflected in all aspects that humans can detect.

It's not just Nolan who is at the center of the whirlpool. Now everyone around the world can feel the depressing feeling of the coming storm, but Nolan is more obvious.

This time, because of the chocolate, he happened to come to Lun, thousands of miles away, but he encountered this incident. This is inevitable due to accident. In the future, although disasters of this magnitude will not happen often, they will definitely happen again.

Therefore, Jenkins is even more confused about what kind of more terrifying scene the catastrophe at the end of the era, which he has confirmed will definitely happen, will be.

"Winter..."

He didn't dare to pronounce the name out loud. After all, it was a short period of weakness after deification, so there was no need to make himself uncomfortable.

Chapter 1240 Chapter 1219 Jenkins’ Sorrow

Jenkins, who had not slept since returning from the Far North, stood at the window until dawn. He felt that the biggest focus of this adventure in the North was not to defeat the Yeti Corps and reshape the elemental order, but to once again have a deeper understanding of the end of the era.

What he was thinking about at the moment was the Lord. When he was investigating the origins of the Snowman Legion in his divine state, he did not dare to explore the detailed relationship between the [Lord of Winter] and the Legion.

But even so, there are vague clues that show that before becoming a master, the [Lord of Winter] was once a god, and he was also a very influential god with a belief that covered the entire northern part of the continent.

"So, when the disaster strikes again at the end of the era, can the gods and the masters from outside the world provide blessing and help to the mortals like they do today?"

He didn't know the answer, but instead of expecting others to protect him, he might as well try to solve the problem on his own.

Jenkins has made up his mind that after returning to Nolan this time, he must find a way to condense his own divinity and can no longer rely on external divinity.

"Meow~"

The cat lying alone on the pillow squinted its eyes and meowed again. The voice was very soft and soft, and the beard around its mouth trembled, but Jenkins still ignored it and concentrated on stroking the chess piece in his hand.

"And the matter on Roen's side is not over yet. Although the imbalance of elemental balance is caused by nature, the real beginning of this disaster was that the treehouse supported Lark Stuart to cause trouble.

Speaking of which, not many members of [Tree House] actually appeared in this incident. According to Alexia, even the two 'inferior' demigods who fought with us at the entrance of the House may not all be members of [Tree House]. So the only people who really appear to be affiliated with [Tree House] are the ordinary people who deal with corpses near the square, and they may be subordinates of this crazy organization..."

So this thing is very magical. Although the tree house is not the root cause of this disaster, it is one of the direct causes. But in the end, [Treehouse] barely appeared, just doing some things behind the scenes.

"These crazy people..."

Jenkins murmured, and the cat looked at Jenkins' back with one big eye open, and twisted on his pillow in depression, looking very dissatisfied.

"So, what role did the Stuart family play in history? That Stuart ancestor was able to obtain this gift... Although it seems easy for me to pass the test of those chess pieces, this is an exception..."

He can only be sure now that the Stuart family does not have the blood relationship with the master like the Augustus family. This family must have played a very important role in a certain period of history that has disappeared, so it has obtained such a unique position, but now no one can tell clearly what Stuart has done.

Looking down at the chess piece in his hand again, the ice archer seemed to be smiling at Jenkins. Even if he has multiple gifts, he must admit that except for the sword with a rather extraordinary origin, this is almost the most powerful C-class gift he has ever touched.

"Although I didn't want to possess it, after all, it was Dolores's, but the other four were obtained by myself, what a pity."

He lamented again, knocked on the wall with his left hand on the windowsill, and then pushed open the window.

"Meow~"

The cool morning breeze immediately rushed into the room, causing the already dissatisfied Chocolate to cry again. But the wind was not very cold. Even though it snowed last night, the temperature started to rise a few hours ago. Now before dawn, it was close to the normal temperature in early spring.

Looking at the darkness at the end of the horizon, he couldn't help but sigh:

"I did so many things with just one drop of divinity last night. I still remember that half a year ago, the first drop of divinity from an unknown towering tree was burned out just by letting me check the memory of the evil spirit... Does this mean that I am using divinity more and more efficiently? Well... This should be a good thing."

Even if no one pointed it out, Jenkins could understand that as time went by, he was getting closer and closer to those great ones. This is not only reflected in the improvement of strength, but also in all aspects of life.

As for using the drop of divinity last night, it naturally obtained some knowledge fragments of the original owner of the divinity. Because of the divine power characteristics of that drop of divinity, Jenkins suspected that it came directly from the master, or a pseudo-god with the priesthood of [Ice and Snow] who was related to the master [Lord of Winter].

After knowing that the great ones can occupy two or more positions at the same time in the form of clones, Jenkins now subconsciously thinks whether He is someone's vest no matter what god he faces.

"[Memory of Snow (Yellow Spell)], communicate with the snow in a certain area, and obtain what happened in the area during a certain period of time... Although it sounds like a means of divination, it has nothing to do with divination. This is a high-level use of communicating with the spirit of the world. Although I can't use it, Dolores may be interested."

With a casual touch in the air, a thick parchment was constructed by [Reading]. Under the extremely powerful [Ice Condensation], the density of water molecules in the air changed slightly, holding the parchment and floating in front of Jenkins.

Letters appeared on the parchment one after another. This was Jenkins recording this ability.

"【Calling Snow Plague (Yellow Spell)】, curse a certain piece of land, produce an extremely rare and highly contagious disease... When Nolan was plagued some time ago, I seemed to hear my father muttering about this disease, the symptoms of which are extreme love of snow and high addiction to snow."

After hesitating for a while, he still recorded this curse, maybe Dolores would be interested.

The cat shook his head behind Jenkins, knowing that Dolores would not be interested.

"【Ice Edge (Red Fighting)】, when using any weapon with a sharp blade to attack, the blade of the weapon is blessed by the power of frost... Why does this sound like an enchantment ritual? Many rituals can do this, but I don't know how powerful it is."

He also recorded this last ability, thinking that he could discuss it with Alexia after returning to Loen. The short lady likes to explore these things.

The young man moved his eyes from the gradually filled parchment to the window, with his left hand behind his back and his right hand on the windowsill, and sighed again. Although he seems to benefit from every disaster, Jenkins still hopes that the world can be more peaceful.

He doesn't understand why all this happened, but he knows that all this will be ended by himself as the "savior". Where the magnificent era is heading may only be in his mind.

There was no light in the room, so when the first ray of morning sun broke through the darkness and illuminated Jenkins' figure, the cat behind him could see it clearly. The cat was originally lying there bored, but now looking at Jenkins standing in front of the window, he inexplicably felt that he was much taller.

Chapter 1241 Chapter 1220 The End of the Journey

It was already five forty, and it was very close to the usual time for people and cats to get up. Chocolate finally accepted the fact that Jenkins would not go to bed before night fell, so he stood up from the pillow, jumped under the bed first and then jumped onto the windowsill.

Seeing Chocolate crawling over, Jenkins naturally reached out to scratch its chin. The cat squinted and shook its head, and the short cat hair on its head swayed in the morning breeze.

"Ha~"

Jenkins yawned in the breeze, and then the cat yawned as well, even though it had a good sleep last night.

"Chocolate, why are you awake so early? Oh, yes, it's almost dawn."

The young writer sighed, then waved out the window. Pieces of falling snow flew into the house from the ground, tree branches, and roofs, and continued to compress and shape near the bedside table, and then turned into many models of ice and snow palaces that looked like the real thing.

"Okay, that's it."

Although this place is still a long way from the front line, when everyone got up in the morning and planned to gather and take the annual train to set off, the local church had already received news from the Loen headquarters, and the team of 100 people could now return.

Last night, some people in the local area also witnessed the strange phenomenon in the sky. The captains from different churches checked the news from different sources and basically pieced together the truth.

In addition, Jenkins, who "happened to be insomniac", had a good foundation in astrology and divination, so he analyzed the meaning of the "starry sky phenomenon" and the shadow in the sky that he saw last night. Therefore, shortly after breakfast, this team far away from Loen and the front line had actually learned most of the facts.

It took some effort to find a train that could carry the group back to Loen, but fortunately, after coordination by the church, four carriages were temporarily hung behind a passenger steam locomotive heading to Loen that afternoon, and the people carrying the ice sculptures made by Jenkins lined up and walked into the dilapidated station that was almost filled with steam and coal ash.

Those ice sculptures were specially made by Jenkins to help study what happened last night. Because he was the only one who had witnessed the castle up close during the day and had also seen the shadow of the sky completely at night, the models he provided were very valuable.

As for the palace on the snowy mountain outside the town, people had been sent to investigate this morning. Now there was only a bare hill covered with snow. If the palace in the sky last night was not too similar to it, people might think it was a collective hallucination event.

In this way, when the train carrying Jenkins and his group returned to Loen, it was already Saturday morning. Exhausted, Jenkins got off the train with an ice sculpture model packed in a cardboard box and his cat, and then saw a large number of people waiting to greet him at the entrance of the train station.

After thinking about it, he gave the ice sculpture and cat in his hand as souvenirs to Dolores' servants to take back to the manor, and then got on the church's carriage and returned to the church with his companions.

The people who stayed in the church held a grand welcome ceremony for the group. Even though they did nothing and did not even reach the front line, this expedition was quite rewarding.

The ice-blue heart left by the snow monster and the models of dozens of palaces were taken away by the local secret keepers. In addition, because the war in the front suddenly stopped, the demigod Mr. Rossier (note), who returned to the Ruen Diocese from the front line in an emergency, finally met Jenkins.

This is a middle-aged man with a gentle appearance, but he is probably older than Bishop Palod. He is an acquaintance of Bishop Palod. After chatting with Jenkins about the topic of this accident, he talked about Nolan.

He was stationed in Nolan more than 20 years ago and was transferred after staying for five years. He was a native of Nolan and had lived and worked in Nolan before he was promoted to demigod. So he had known Bishop Palod since he was young, and even knew Robert William, who had just fled to Nolan when he was young.

"Saint William, I still remember your father. That year, there were very few poor people who were able to escape from the plague-stricken areas to Nolan, and most of them found refuge in the church. I still remember that it was Wednesday afternoon, before the sun set, he walked into the church with a small package on his back, explained his identity, and hoped to be sheltered. At that time, I happened to be in the chapel of the main hall listening to the sermon of old Bishop Percival... In a blink of an eye, so many years have passed."

The gentleman warmly invited Jenkins to dinner in the church, and during dinner, he talked about Beldiran, Nolan, and Rune.

As for the ice and snow disaster and the accident in Rune, he did not talk much, but only hinted to Jenkins that the final conclusion of this matter would be jointly determined by the church and Hampavo officials.

Of course, because the chaos and disaster of the Stuart royal family had a wide impact, it was still difficult to say how it would end. Now, all they, the witnesses, can do is to write their troublesome reports and submit them.

"Do you know? It is a unique tradition of the Sage Church that reports must be written for everything, even when going to the front line, ideological reports and weekly summaries must be written. Some people once said that this is a legacy of history and a bad tradition that should be abolished, but most people think it is very good and quite ceremonial."

Only the demigods of the church dare to joke with Jenkins about this kind of thing.

"I am in favor of this approach. I can find a familiar feeling in it... but it is indeed troublesome to write these reports frequently."

Jenkins' face was filled with a sense of nostalgia.

"Frequently?"

Mr. Rossier asked puzzled.

When Jenkins left the church, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening. Before riding the church's carriage back to Dolores's manor, Father Fernando, who was in charge of all his affairs in Rune, reminded him that the church would commend Jenkins in the near future and hoped that Jenkins would be present; and Beldiran would have new arrangements for Jenkins at any time, so they needed to know whether Jenkins would continue to live in the princess's manor in the suburbs recently.

"Of course, I lived there during my stay in Loon."

He answered like this. From Father Fernando's expression, he thought that the priest seemed to have misunderstood something...or he didn't misunderstand anything.

King Salsi II had awakened during Jenkins's absence from Rune, so Dolores could not live outside the palace. Now only Alexia was in the manor, and she welcomed Jenkins back with a big hug.

Section 1242 Chapter 1221 Current Situation

"Meow~"

The cat squatting on the coffee table made a shrill scream. It came back with the ice palace and had been waiting for Jenkins for a long time.

"Nothing unexpected happened, right? I was in Rune last night and saw something unusual in the sky."

The short lady asked with concern.

"I think the whole material world can see that palace."

Jenkins took Alexia's hand and sat on the sofa. Seeing the cat standing next to the palace and getting angry, he pulled it onto his lap.

"So, it's over?"

"It's over. This matter is barely over. To be honest, I didn't expect it to turn out like this."

He let out a long breath and then briefly recounted what he had seen along the way. The conversation with the ice-sculptured priest was shortened, and the final deification process was narrated in the third person, but he believed that Alexia could understand it all.

"That's good, Saint William, you saved the world again."

She deliberately used such a title to tease Jenkins.

"Yes, you saved the world again... I hope you can come later next time. I really just wanted to take a vacation in Loon this time, but it turned out to be like this. I don't even know when I can return to Nolan."

The end of the disaster is certainly a good thing, but it is not a good thing for the church that has entered a state of emergency. Everything has to be rearranged. Although it won't be a mess, it will definitely take some time for Jenkins to return to Nolan.

"What's the situation in Loen now?"

"The ruins of the two streets around the Parliament Square are still being cleared, and all the supporters and followers of Lark Stuart are being liquidated. The two steam cannons have also been found, on the third floor of the 'Hams Gentlemen's Club' two streets away from the main entrance of the Parliament. Funny, the club was originally the private property of Steppe Stuart, and it was only after he disappeared that Lark Stuart got it."

Steppe is the prince who "disappeared" during the winter hunting last year. He is still alive, but Jenkins hasn't heard from Dolores for a long time.

"What about Salsi II's health?"

"Not very bad, but it has also caused a serious blow to his health. Although the gunshot in the abdomen has no effect on the things in his head that can kill him, I think that His Majesty, after this double blow of spirit and body, originally estimated that he could live to the end of the year, and now it seems that this is a very optimistic view."

Jenkins saw Salsi II in person only once in the basement of the Parliament. But with just one glance, he was sure that the problem with Dolores's father's head was not caused by external forces, but a natural disease like a brain tumor.

In other words, since the disease was not caused by external forces, it could not be solved by eliminating this external force. It is almost certain that Salsi II will die this year. In the remaining eight months of this year, something "more exciting" may happen in Rune.

"The current situation is very delicate. As you know, Dolores's eldest brother, Sallot Stuart, lost an arm, and there is no precedent for the kingdom to let a disabled person be king. In addition to Sallot Stuart, the most favorable competitor was the second prince, Lark Stuart, but he is dead now. So the biggest opponent of Sallot, the disabled man, has become the eldest princess.

But as I said before, the Kingdom of Hampav is not the Kingdom of Fidictli. This country has only had a queen ruling once. No matter the nobles or the lower class, they don't want their new king to be a woman."

Alexia concluded, the light of the crystal chandelier above her head shone on her face, making her look more beautiful.