Chapter 66 (2/2)

What did this mean? It meant that resting in the shelter made you completely defenseless! Was there even a difference between resting in the wild without proper defenses and asking for death?

So unless it was a last resort, adventurers would not use this spell for shelter. Even if they had to use it, they would make arrangements so that people kept watch outside in turns. This way they avoided being caught defenseless by monsters or enemies.

Of course, there were also advanced spells that could solve these problems. For example, a man named Sacred Dwelling could build a stone room with considerable defenses and people could pray therein.

However, that was something exclusively owned by gods whose positions were about traveling. Except for priests who were authorized by them, even Sui Xiong, also a god, couldn’t cast that spell.

There was a mage’s spell called Mage’s Villa, which not only provided a very high level of accommodation and food but also had a few magic statues responsible for guarding. There were even maids.

However, that spell was so subtle that even the God of Redemption only knew of its existence and knew nothing of its principles. Perhaps among the deities, no one knew how to cast it…

“I’ll keep watch tonight, and you guys can sleep well,” Sui Xiong said to Ray and Steele, who were still unable to recover their spirit. “Rest assured and sleep well because I will keep us safe.”

With a god keeping vigil, of course, it was extremely safe. Ray and Steele, though somewhat embarrassed, ended up accepting his kindness and entered the room for rest, weary with fatigue.

The two of them took a shower simply, ate and drank, and fell onto the bed and immediately went to sleep. They were really tired.

Sui Xiong, while guarding them outside, changed into a huge floating jellyfish even larger than the shelter. He hovered in the sky over the room, watching carefully.

He let out a sigh and then dispersed some of his floating weight in all directions. Then he only heard the sound of turmoil without knowing how many monsters, big or small, fled quickly and didn’t dare to stay nearby.

After dispersing anything that could threaten Ray and Steele, he could rest assured and immersed himself in his studies again.

This time his research objective was that serpent. This serpent had a low IQ and no ability to cast spells. It seemed that it was just an ordinary low-level poisonous snake. It was unknown how it had grown to such a big size.

If it had grown to such a size, how long had it lived?

All things on earth had life, and snakes were no exception. This world did not seem to have legends about things like turning into elves or demons, but any creature that could be born and grow was either strong enough to combat the passage of time or had noble blood and exceptional talent.

However, this serpent was neither strong enough nor had any noble blood, so what was the secret of its longevity? Sui Xiong was very curious about this.

He was not a heartless absentee leader. He also wanted to contribute more to the construction of the church and the holy places —he disagreed with the custom that required believers to work hard while gods sat idly and enjoyed the fruits of their labor.

After some consideration, he felt he was a senior intellectual who deserved to contribute his wisdom and effort to his religion. It was just…how to contribute with his intelligence? He had not yet found a clue.

The planned holy place would be built in the frigid northern part of the country. Even if it could depend on his strength to make farmlands, it would be self-sufficient at most. It was unrealistic to expect to sell surplus grains. It would be excessively cruel to ask the followers to make money by mining, logging, and quarrying in an extremely cold place. Manufacturing and the like were unlikely industries to get rich from in a place with such inconvenient transportation. As for the service industry… He-he…Drop it…Why even mention this boring joke!

If he wanted to arrange for the holy place to have an industry that could support his believers and provided extra money to run the church, he had to take into account the following points: First, the work involved in the industry had better not be outside, or people would freeze to death; second, it was better that the industry didn’t use too many raw materials, or either collection or acquisition would be unreliable; third, it would be best if this industry was as exclusive as possible, so that even if someone was jealous they couldn’t copy or mock it…These were what Sui Xiong thought of for now, and the rest would be supplemented later.

But with these three ideas, he could only frown because he couldn’t think of any other reliable ideas. Although he was powerful and had learned many things from both the gods and his original world of advanced science and technology, it was still too hard to find a suitable industry based on these requirements!

After all, before coming to this world, he was just an art student good at painting, rather than an engineering student familiar with a variety of materials, various kinds of mechanical drawing, and a variety of mechanical processes!

But now, he had inspiration.

Health and longevity were clearly best welcomed by the rich in this world. Although in this world people could go to the Holy Kingdom after death, the threshold for entering the kingdom was extremely high. Most rich people believed that they would not find a kingdom willing to accept them. And they certainly didn’t want to go obediently to the netherworld after death like poor people, without caring what happened next…

Therefore, under such circumstances, if he could launch a life-prolonging medicine with small side-effects and good results, he would definitely earn lots of money. There wouldn’t be any problem supporting a church whose power was spread across the entire continent, not to mention his followers located in only one holy place!

Creating this medicine relied on the giant serpent that had just met its demise…