Chapter 773 - The Carefree Days Before Hunting Gods (1/2)

The two women had vastly different expressions when they talked.

Mystra looked happy and hopeful, and Andonara seemed as shocked as when she first saw the ocean of worms.

Or rather, she looked even more astounded than when she saw the worms.

Roland didn’t care what the two women were whispering to each other about as long as they weren’t fighting.

He waited for a while. Very soon, the two women finished their conversation. Then, Andonara walked back, seemingly very disoriented.

“What’s wrong?” Seeing how distracted she was, Roland was slightly worried.

Did Mystra say something that she found unacceptable?

Andonara shook her head and said with a bitter smile, “No, Mystra simply said something very strange to me.”

“You mean the girly stuff?” asked Roland.

Andonara nodded and thought for a moment. Then she said, “Yes, it’s rather tricky and I can’t think it through for now.”

“Is it very troublesome? Do you need me to help with your analysis?” asked Roland.

Andonara shook her head again. “No, it’s unnecessary. It’s just something trivial between two women.”

Fine.

Roland didn’t think about it anymore. Andonara was very strong and not someone that anybody could take advantage of. Mystra wasn’t an Evil God either. Even if they had a conflict, it shouldn’t be too serious.

Mystra walked to them and said, “It will take some more time for your floating city to complete its evolution. Why don’t we chat over a cup of wine?”

Sure.

Then, all the three of them sat at the golden table and chatted while drinking the pink fruit wine.

However, Roland and Mystra did most of the talking. They were communicating their different understandings of magic.

Andonara listened. She didn’t understand magic. Although she smiled and replied to them now and then, she was absentminded most of the time.

In the paradise, thanks to Mystra’s enhancement, none of them felt tired.

After chatting and drinking for over ten days, even Roland felt that he had enough, but Mystra seemed to still be enjoying herself.

“Your floating city has finished swallowing the divine energy.” Mystra stood up and waved her hand, and the three of them appeared in the floating city. She looked at Andonara and said, “Consider it well. It will be a win-win.”

Andonara pursed her lips and didn’t say anything

After boarding the floating city, Roland instantly connected to it, only to find that the Magic Grid Core at the foundation of the floating city changed color from bright blue to white.

Its capacity of magic power was improved to 42,176, 30% higher than before.

That was a rather unbelievable improvement.

The compression rate of the magic power bricks had hit a bottleneck before, but after the divine energy in the Divine Spark was absorbed, the bottleneck was overcome.

A greater magic power capacity meant a better performance and a higher ability to attract magic power.

Earlier, the floating city could attract the magic power within a hundred meters, but at this moment, the range was expanded to 110 meters. Also, the magic power in the floating city would be purer than before. Swallowing the divine energy one time had resulted in a 30% increase. What if he did it a few more times?

Roland got excited.

But very soon, he held back his excitement and said, “Then we’ll go back first.”

“Visit me again if you have time.” Mystra smiled happily. “You know where my paradise is now.”

Roland nodded.

Although Mystra lost the ability of creation after becoming a goddess, a lot of knowledge had been transmitted into her soul along with the power of faith as more and more Mages worshiped her.

She had much more knowledge than she did two years earlier.

After all, Mages were known to be erudite.

Mystra was very happy that Roland accepted her invitation. She waved her hand, and a hole appeared behind the floating city.

After that, she smiled at Roland like a blossoming flower and then gradually vanished.

The floating city left the paradise, and the purple sphere could be seen again.

The rings made up of countless void insects were back.

Roland waited for a moment and reestablished a connection to the spatial coordinates that he remembered. Then, he activated the massive arrays on the floating city and teleported the gargantuan object to the border between the Astral Plane and the main plane.

Then, he slowly landed on the main plane.

Roland wasn’t in a hurry to hunt the Evil Gods who had the pieces of neutral Divine Sparks. Instead, he returned to Delpon and quickly gathered a new virtual Divine Spark.

Without that, it would’ve been impossible for Andonara to enter the space created by Mystra’s Mansion.

However, it took time to create a new virtual Divine Spark, so Roland went to the capital of Urganda when he was free.

The locals of the desert kingdom were well known to be a people who often fought amongst themselves.

Roland witnessed a dozen fights only half an hour after reaching the capital in the desert. They were either internal conflicts between locals, or locals fighting travelers.

Severed arms and legs could be seen everywhere.

Yet, nobody cared about that. A lot of people were watching the dramas, which seemed to be conducted according to certain rules.

Maybe due to the Mage robe that Roland was wearing, nobody dared to come to him for trouble, until Roland asked about Aldo’s family at the Association of Mages in the capital. What people showed off was mostly what they were most short of. The Association of Mages in the capital of the desert had the cheesiest and largest headquarters Roland had ever seen.

Even the Association of Mages of Fareins, which was the most powerful country in the world, didn’t have such large headquarters.

But of course… If any Mage was asked which Association of Mages had the largest headquarters, they would say that it was Fareins Kingdom’s instead of Urganda’s.

That was the importance of knowledge and talent.

The entrance of the Association of Mages had a floor that was made of the powder of void meteors and special building materials. It looked like a black mirror.

There were also four overlapping circles at the center which were made of four magic gems that were of a similar size but different in color.

Even more surprisingly, those gems were luminous. They were the source of light on the first floor.

Even though Roland was already very rich, his lips cramped and he secretly cursed the extravagance of these people after he saw this.

Then, he walked to the counter. A female receptionist looked at Roland nervously.