Horn bowed deeply to the graves of the mother and son. In this cruel world, he hadn't done anything wrong!
No one would blame a wild witch for not offering help to ordinary people, but there was still a deeply buried sense of guilt in Horn's heart.
For him, it was just a choice, but for that mother, she would probably give everything she had in exchange!
In Ceylon, cremation was rarely chosen except when there were too many corpses to handle.
Because being burned to ashes was the way of death for those lowly wild witches. Out of respect, burial was mostly chosen.
People believed that as long as the body remained, the soul would have a place to rest and there would still be a chance to ascend to the divine kingdom.
However, wild witches didn't believe in gods!
Horn cremated the mother and son only out of guilt.
...
Ten days later, Horn and the others had set foot on the land belonging to the Church of the God of Wealth.
The God of Wealth was the most powerful god in the nearby area. Even among all the gods on the entire Continent of Gods, he ranked among the top.
The God of the North Wind couldn't be compared with him at all. Even the God of Wind, Disia, the leader of the God of the North Wind, could only barely be on an equal footing with the God of Wealth.
With a high - status god, the diocese of the God of Wealth was naturally much larger than that of the God of the North Wind.
The territory of the God of Wealth's diocese was in the shape of a gourd, and the main city, Mam City, was located in the center.
To the north of Mam City were towering mountains stretching for tens of thousands of miles, where powerful magical beasts abounded. Even senior bounty hunters only dared to hunt magical beasts on the periphery.
To the south was a huge inland lake, where a branch of the Sea Race lived. Without permission, no ships were allowed to pass over it!
They controlled all the water - borne economic exchanges in Mam City.
If one wanted to cross the diocese of the God of Wealth to reach the Black Garb Forest, they had to pass through Mam City.
They had long heard that the diocese of the God of Wealth was much safer than that of the God of the North Wind.
But when they really set foot in the diocese of the God of Wealth, they realized how safe it was for wild witches.
It was so safe that they were a little unaccustomed!
At least the small institution for investigating wild witches that existed in every city of the Church of the God of the North Wind was never found here. This small institution was generally composed of ordinary people and posed no threat to a wild witch of Horn's level.
But just like a toad jumping on your instep, it didn't bite but was annoying. Seeing those investigators wandering around the streets all the time wasn't something that made one feel good.
The absence of such a bothersome institution made Horn and the others' journey here very comfortable, and their constantly tense nerves could finally relax a bit.
Even when they were on the road, they didn't have to deliberately take small paths and stay in small towns. Instead, they could directly pass through the cities, which saved them a lot of travel time without taking detours.
The rice fields by the roadside swayed in the wind. The green wheat had just grown to knee - high. As far as the eye could see, it was all green, which made people feel very relaxed.
On the much flatter road than that in the diocese of the God of the North Wind, two carriages moved forward leisurely.
Horn sat on the carriage, carefully holding a small shield covered with dense cracks and examining it closely.
This was the Sacred Artifact of the North Wind captured from Sean.
Horn's Lightning Flash spell had exceeded its protection limit, so it had become what it was now.
Now this tattered shield had lost its due effect. Horn didn't ask Sean for the incantation to control the Sacred Artifact. It would have been in vain to ask.
This shield definitely couldn't withstand the next infusion of energy.
However, even such a thing on the verge of breaking was of great value to Horn.
Horn could study this shield to lay a foundation for making items with magical effects.
He first had the idea of making magical props when he saw the magic circle that Annie had revealed to the outside world.
And when he saw the lightning weapons of those other - worlders, he had a better grasp of making magical props.
But it was really when he saw this Sacred Artifact of the North Wind that Horn really had the confidence to make magical props!
Not to mention anything else, the material of this shield had a high probability of allowing the magic circle to conduct energy smoothly!
Through the dense cracks on the shield, Horn observed that the material inside the shield was a kind of silvery - white metal. But there were too many materials that met this characteristic, and Horn couldn't tell exactly what kind of metal it was.
As long as he knew what this material was, Horn would have more confidence in making items with magical effects.
And there must be blacksmiths in Mam City who could identify this metal and gather the materials for making magical props!
If Mam City couldn't do it, then no other place could!
This made Horn look forward to reaching Mam City a little.
...
Mam City could be regarded as one of the most prosperous cities on the Eastern Continent of Gods and was the largest trading city in Ceylon, without a doubt!
The time it took to reach the center of the diocese exceeded the expectations of Horn and the others. It took them more than a month to reach the center of the diocese, Mam City, from the edge.
On the way, they met many passing caravans. From them, the wild witches learned that Mam City was an extremely huge trading city.
But no one could describe exactly how big it was.
As one merchant described it, it was a giant city that only the gods could build.
God only knew how big that was.
But when Horn and the others finally saw Mam City in the distance, they finally understood why those merchants before couldn't describe it well.
Because even Horn couldn't find a way to describe this giant city.
Just talking about the city wall, from such a distance, it could be seen that it was at least more than thirty meters high, forming a sharp contrast with the small city walls of five or six meters in the Church of the God of the North Wind.
As far as the eye could see, there were only city walls, and one couldn't even see the end! And there seemed to be many tall buildings inside the city!
I wonder which one was more magnificent compared with the steel city in their world described by Old Douglas?
The city gate of Mam City was also very imposing. Roughly estimated, it could allow ten carriages to pass side by side!
...
At this moment, on the high city wall of Mam City, a man in a gray cloak was looking into the distance.
When he saw the two carriages of Horn and the others, a smile curled up on his lips.
"Sure enough, just as I expected, they really took this road! And they arrived here at this time!"
"But we've been waiting here for half a month..."
The one who spoke was a short figure, also wearing a gray cloak, and was still munching on something under the cloak.
"Hahaha, don't care about these details. The important thing is that we've waited for them!"
A gentle breeze blew, blowing his cloak open a bit. Under the cloak was a suit of black scale armor!
He was,
Ilya, the Dragon Slayer!