Chapter 48 (1/2)
Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma
Surprisingly, Sui Xiong and the barbarian races in the Graystone Mountains got along very well, which could be described by the Chinese saying that “guests and hosts are all happy”.
The barbarian races were not so evil in nature, and the grudges between them and humans were mainly because of the battle for living space. Of course, if a human god and a human adventurer came, there would be a tough fight between them; but this time a jellyfish god and its “horse” came, (when Ray heard this, he expressed a solemn protest. However, the protest was ineffective, and Sui Xiong still chose to live on his head) and the god was very friendly to them. Why wouldn’t they show him goodwill?
Of course, Sui Xiong didn’t tell Ray that he was only being friendly to these barbarian races because he felt the supernatural power of their priest.
He had a breath similar to that of the god who had helped him. According to the documents of the God of Redemption, the priest believed and dedicated himself to the God of Fertility, a subordinate of that God.
Thanks to the God of Redemption’s documents, Sui Xiong had a good understanding of the gods in this world. For example, he already knew that the god named Morani, the chief barbarian deity, had helped him when he’d clashed with the God of Sleeplessness in White Leaves Village. He was also respectfully called Steel Lion. He was a good god who liked to travel around the world and called for justice everywhere. There were several other sub-gods under his command, including a God of Fertility named Zhuogeng, also known as the “Wanderer of Fertility”. He was capable of turning all the barren lands into fertile farmlands, and he had always been wanted by many deities.
According to the documents from the God of Redemption, the God of Fertility did not have a church, but he merely relied on the faith of the God of Desolation to share followers. However, looking at this priest, having no church meant having no church in the world of human or humanoid creatures. In the world of barbarian races, the God of Fertility seemed quite popular.
Since the incident in White Leaves Village, Sui Xiong had not seen the God of Desolation again. But in his mind, he regarded him as a friend who helped him when they first met, and this friend’s subordinates, of course, were friends as well. This was the reason why he showed goodwill toward these fierce questions whose position was roughly neutral and possibly evil.
Sui Xiong understood that the barbarian race inevitably had to fight against the human race in order to hold onto their living space. The fight was for the survival of their race. Perhaps it was evil, but it should by no means be condemned. In any case, it was never a mistake to guard your family and resist aggression.
He was not a liberal leftie, nor a heartless man of steel, nor a perverted man who never felt shame when he should. So he fully understood and supported this behavior. If one day he established a Holy Kingdom, he would never reject believers with such behavior because of such small variations between good and evil. Soldiers had shed blood when they were alive, so how could he let them cry after dying!
It also made him doubt the effect of the spell “Eye for Identifying Position”, and perhaps the spell itself also had a predetermined position…Considering that the spell came from the God of Redemption, whose believers were only human beings and some humanoid creatures excluding the barbarian races, there was nothing strange about this.
He thought, A hero in the eyes of others is my enemy. Even a god can have the same ideas as a common person!
Bidding farewell to the tribe of Fierce Gnomes, he told Ray these ideas when they were setting up camp.
“This idea is really strange. Of course, a god has its own race, which leads to a point of view. It is unreasonable when a god considers things from the position of a race that isn’t his own,” Ray commented. “Of course, this does not apply to you. After all, the jellyfish is a non-intelligent creature, so you don’t have a problem with the perspective of your race. Perhaps for you, those barbarian races are more interesting and worth understanding than us humans.”
Sui Xiong was silent: he was not actually a jellyfish, but a human—just not from this world.
As a man who had travelled through space, he had an innate position not much different from that of a jellyfish. To him, no matter the type of intelligent creature—as long as their shape wasn’t totally contrary to his aesthetics—did not make a big difference.
“The world is so big, and the living space occupied by these barbarian races is actually not much. Why do some people still want to snatch their land from them?” He could not help but speak to himself, and he understood the ridiculousness of this idea—people were never truly content! Even on Earth, where people were of the same race with the same yellow skin and black hair, it was common for friends to turn hostile to each other after some time. Of course this would happen on this different world full of various races. This kind of thing couldn’t even be solved by gods…
Falling into a bad mood, Sui Xiong remained silent for the rest of the day. He focused his energy on research, using his research to pass the time and change mood. Soon after, when Ray finally came to the edge of the Graystone Mountains, his research had found some results.
“Your Majesty…what is this?” Palin wondered, seeing Sui suddenly appear and give himself a strange thing.
It was a flat, round pancake-shaped object with colorful spirals on the surface going from the center to the edge. Below it there was an ordinary wooden stick that served as a support. It emanated the faint scent of some tempting sweetness from above, like candy.
If there had been a man from Earth here, he would have been extremely surprised—this was nothing more than a lollipop!