"Roasted fish?" Hamm subconsciously repeated it, before he finally remembered that he had ordered the famous roasted fish with honey nearby as a reward.
Although the food in the Kingdom of Holm was too monotonous for the gourmets to tolerate, it was only for the long-term. For the short-term residents, the roasted fish with different flavors would be a great enjoyment too. For example, the roasted fish with honey on Landauer Street was very famous. Every traveler in Renstadt would try it. Hamm was no exception. However, it was inconvenient for him to go out because of his mission. He could only order it through the phone in the hotel.
After confirming the identity of the person outside, Hamm was much more relieved. He scanned the area with his divine power and saw that it was only a young waiter outside. So, he walked to the door and was about to open it.
"Sir, please open the door. Your roasted fish with honey is here." Bam, bam, bam. The waiter outside seemed to feel that it was impolite to address him just now.
"Why are you in such a hurry …" Hamm had never run into anything like that in the Kingdom of Holm. He shook his head in amusement. Phone orders were only carried out in Renstadt, which was the most popularized city.
Opening the door, the aroma of roasted fish with honey wafted into Hamm's nose. Just as he was salivating, two faint shadows suddenly darted out from the corner. One of them seemed to be able to control the shadows to entangle Hamm's legs, while the other used a darkness spell to cover Hamm's upper body, preventing him from seeing the surroundings or hearing the slightest sounds.
"Enemy attack!" Hamm was both shocked and infuriated. He had been attacked when he opened the door to receive the roasted fish with honey!
His muscles bulged, and his eyes were covered in vague redness of fury. His skin that was exposed to the air flashed black. He exerted all his strength and broke free from the shackles of the shadows.
The blood power of dwarves was that they were good at making machines, which meant that they had greater strength. Other than that, there was nothing special about them. That was why Augustus and the other dwarves on the Night Highland couldn't activate their blood power like human beings. However, the dwarves who did not hide in the Night Highland were savaged in the ancient Magic Empire and became the experiment subjects of blood power modification. After the blood power of barbarians and swamp dwarves were melted, their blood power mutated into a rather powerful blood power.
After activating their blood power, the strength and physical defense of dwarves would be as good as that of barbarians of the same level. They would also boast violent abilities and could perform a few illusionary spells. Hamm, on the other hand, was a Saint Samurai who had activated his blood power and was enhanced by divine power that was more inclined to melee combat.
Hamm's power, when the waiter's voice, the guy's voice came, "Hamm"..
But at this moment, the young waiter standing opposite him raised the plate of grilled fish and slammed it down. With a clang, it hit Hamm's head. It was so fast that he had no way of dodging it!
There was no telling what the plate was made of, but it made Hamm dizzy. Countless golden stars were glittering in front of his eyes, and his head was humming. The fragrance of the grilled fish, mixed with the soft meat, flowed down from his head into Hamm's eyes and nose, and entered his mouth.
Under such circumstances, Hamm finally tasted the honey grilled fish that he had been looking forward to.
It was indeed delicious!
While his head was sluggish, the shadows came again, and the other ambushers performed amazing spells again, collapsing Hamm's defense very soon.
At the corner of the stairs, Buck, a senior detective of the Renstadt Police Department, observed the fierce battle that did not spread out. Watching the three experts of the intelligence department of the kingdom press Hamm to the ground and put on the bracelets and collars that sealed his blood power and divine power, he said to himself in amusement, "You're bold enough to target the dwarves? Do you not know that they're the targets that the kingdom pays close attention to? You've only just got in touch with Harold, and you've already been targeted by the intelligence personnel. Tsk. You want honey grilled fish? "
He was under the order to cooperate with the intelligence personnel in case the ordinary people nearby were hurt.
Other people might not know who the God of Steam was, but the leadership of the Congress and the great nobles of the kingdom could more or less figure it out. Except for Lucien? Evans, there couldn't be any other possibility. Arthur Doyle could prove that the dwarves on the Night Highland were guided by Lucien. After witnessing Eternal Blaze, the dwarves even regarded it as the symbol of the God of Steam, claiming that they saw it in Atlantis in their dreams. Therefore, they all regarded the dwarves as Lucien's sphere of influence.
For the Congress, the dwarves that Lucien put on the surface were not involved in godhood and divine power. It was a beautiful misunderstanding of the dwarves and not a dissemination of faith. Wang Guozhong, on the other hand, and Natasha, who had confirmed the matter from Lucien, asked the intelligence personnel to pay close attention.
Hamm was taken away by the intelligence agents, and Buck retreated quietly. The operation ended very quickly without causing too much of a commotion. The regular passengers in the room next door did not even notice that a secret operation had taken place here. They were still mumbling to themselves, "Honey grilled fish … It smells pretty good. Should I call and order one too?"
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In the secret intelligence department of the Kingdom of Holm …
In the basement, Natasha, who had received the report, decided to interrogate it herself. She suspected that it had something to do with Viken's secret dissemination of the secrets of demigods.
Wearing a simple beige hunting suit, she stood before Hamm and repeated the intelligence she just received. "Heit, the God of Craftsmen, defeated Okun, the God of Valiance, in the annual summer festival. Then, Okun admitted that Heit was the incarnation of the God of Steam and worshipped him as the master of the dwarves. Heit also took the opportunity to announce his' identity 'and sent messengers to contact the dwarves of other tribes on the continent."
"Therefore, he mainly targeted the devout dwarves of Renstadt and the fake God of Steam who could not grant divine power … Hehe. I'm afraid that Okun is not the old Okun anymore."
Her tone was not solemn but vague mockery, as if it were not a sacred and solemn event but a farce.
The churches of the false gods that rose in the early years of the War of Dawn were not weak. Different from the false gods such as Ell in the alternate dimensions, the gods in their churches were often legendary, such as the Mother Goddess of the Earth, the Lord of Darkness, the God of Valiance, and the God of Craftsmen. There were about eight legendary false gods.
As for why they were not restricted by godhood like Ell and affected by the gathered power of faith, and why their consciousness and soul were disrupted by the "countless different consciousnesses according to the latest research", the Congress of Magic did not understand the reason at first, but after discovering the secrets of Thanos, Viken, Maskelyne, and other ancient sorcerers in the World of Souls, they basically understood what was going on.
They should be the products of McLeod and other sorcerers who studied the gods. They did not melt themselves with the power of faith directly but produced special divine items to replace themselves before they were melted with themselves. The hidden problems were relatively less obvious.
Hamm was more than one meter tall. Shaking his dizzy head, he looked at Natasha before him, his heart filled with fear. He had insisted on his faith and refused to reveal anything, but after the lady who was even more terrifying than gods and dragons came in, he was caught in the state of extreme panic after being stared at by her silver-purple eyes, as if his soul had been stirred and cut by knives from the beginning. So, he revealed everything he knew.
Natasha was so tall that Hamm had to raise his head to see her face. He shouted angrily, "You have blasphemed the great God of Steam. You will be punished by the gods!"
"I don't like to be called the God of Steam. So, please tell Heit that he must change his name, or he may not have a name, because the dead — no, the dead gods do not need names," said Natasha half-jokingly.
Suddenly, bright golden holy light burst out of Hamm's body. The heart of faith swallowed him and turned into a swirl of gold light.
From the swirl came an infuriated voice. "I'm very angry at your offense!"
The consequences will be dire … Natasha, influenced by Lucien, added in her heart and chuckled. She had really arrived.
The swirl immediately became transparent, and a dwarf in golden holy armor could vaguely be seen. He was holding a silver hammer that emitted the air of vastness and was full of dense patterns.
"Accept your judgment!" Heit waved his silver hammer angrily, turning the golden vortex into the same shape as his hammer and smashing it at Natasha.
The silver sword suddenly glowed. After a flash, the golden vortex was shattered into pieces. The illusionary, hideous gap cut through all the obstacles and arrived at Heit's side unstoppably!
Ah!
Heit's painful howl came through the last bit of golden light, echoing in the secret chamber for a long time.
Looking at the disappearing golden swirl, Natasha shook her head. "Under such circumstances, I still can't carry out the power of the Sword of Truth …"
As a matter of fact, because of her bloodline and her hard work, she was able to carry out the power of the Sword of Truth better than Lucien after the transformation. Had it not been for the fact that normal level-one legends couldn't reach such a level, Heit wouldn't have arrived recklessly and tried to teach her a lesson.
Heit was a level-2 legendary god. He thought that although Natasha's Sword of Truth was level-3 in the long-range battle with the help of the Heart of Faith, it would only be able to fully display the power of level-3. He could deal with ordinary attacks, but he ended up suffering a great loss.
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Inside the Atomic Universe …
Natasha looked at Lucien in amusement. "After Viken secretly announced the way to become a demigod, the competition for faith will be heated. Your steam dwarfs will certainly be targeted. I'm afraid that you can barely maintain them without the blessing of divine powers. Hehe. What are you going to do?"
"I don't think much of it. It's not my path." Lucien scratched his chin and smiled. "However, sometimes, I'm more than happy to do what certain people want to see. As for Heit, I need to find an opportunity to 'talk' with him."
Natasha chuckled and found it interesting. So, she discussed it with him closely. It was not until a long time later that she changed the topic in great interest. "What's the paper on your desk?"
"'Basics of Mathematics'. The Congress' mathematics development is very uncoordinated and unsystematic. There are only scattered studies. I plan to sort out the mathematical knowledge such as set and topology from the beginning and give them a complete system. Well, it also includes some mathematical conundrums and paradoxes that I can't solve for now. I hope that the development of mathematics will be promoted through the studies on them." Lucien would never tell her that the appendix at the end was a collection of conjectures and paradoxes.
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