Free Web NovelChapter 934: Chapter 460: The First Night of Blood and Fire
Perfect timing, he also wanted to test and get a feel for the principles behind "Divine Descent."
The principles... he didn’t get them at all!
At the end of the day he was still only a Legendary right now; operations on the level of a Divine Spirit were still hard for him to grasp.
Forget it. With Nenasha around, he didn’t actually need to understand it at the moment—being able to use it was enough. Why bother caring so much?
Stuff like that could wait until he hit Epic or even Saint before he really thought it through. For now, a rough idea was more than enough.
["So, what are you planning to do with that bunch of people?"]
Nenasha didn’t wait for Herbert’s reply before sighing and saying speechlessly, ["Never mind, I won’t even ask. Since they’ve got fluffy tails, I’m guessing you’re definitely not going to let them go."]
Herbert: ?
Slander!
You’re slandering me!
I’m not! I did not!
"Ahem, let me make this clear first, cough, cough, it’s not like I like every kind of tail, okay?"
Nenasha couldn’t be bothered to bicker over this sort of "you’re only fooling yourself" topic. She snorted, ["Cut the crap. I’m just asking you one thing: are you saving them or not?"]
"Saving them!"
Herbert answered without the slightest hesitation, then shook his head and said calmly, "But how exactly I save them... that’s something we’ll have to wait on for now."
"This time I did step in to save them, but in essence I was only going to rescue Cyril. As for whether the others live or die... I don’t really care."
["So that’s why you deliberately let that Druid go?"]
"Yeah, that was part of it."
Herbert’s smile was gentle, but his eyes were utterly indifferent as he said coolly, "To put it uglier, with him as a ’threat,’ there are some things that’ll be easier to handle."
The Beastman Clan—he either didn’t interfere at all, or if he did, he would never allow them to slip away from his hands.
These guys with their fluffy beast ears and tails had to be held tightly in his grasp!
But as for how to make them willingly follow him, even beg him to save them—that required a bit of maneuvering.
Most people were stupid. They might not even know how to repay kindness, let alone among Beastman groups whose overall intelligence wasn’t all that high.
If he made himself seem too proactive and helped them solve their biggest crisis right from the start, they might not continue choosing to follow him.
They might not even feel grateful, and instead treat it as something taken for granted.
That was a situation Herbert did not want to see.
The people—he wanted them.
Their gratitude—he wanted that too.
Their faith... he would certainly not hand that over to anyone else.
Herbert would not allow any accidents; he had to keep them firmly in his hand.
["Looks like you’ve adapted to the current situation even better than I thought~"]
"I just don’t want a good thing turning into a bad thing. The Divine is generous, mortals know to be grateful—doesn’t that sound perfect?"
"Besides, just harvesting their gratitude isn’t enough. I want favors from some other folks as well."
Miss Xie Shen, seeing that she didn’t need to remind him, also laughed and said slowly, ["You mean... Them?"]
"Mm."
Herbert nodded, then said in a meaningful, cool voice, "The Natural Pantheon should give me an explanation."
"That Fallen really did leak quite a bit of intel to me, which lined up with my original suspicions."
"The Natural Pantheon’s internal relations might not be as harmonious as they look on the surface. I’m afraid there’s some dirty laundry between Them as well."
"That said, I don’t care about Their internal mess. As long as it doesn’t involve me, and They give me a satisfactory explanation, I’m more than happy not to care."
"But if They don’t give me one... heh."
In her sleep, Miss Hungry Dragon felt a chill, and instinctively sneezed.
Achoo!
Then she shook her head, flinging Herbert off the top of it.
Next, still with her eyes closed, she scooped him back into her arms and pressed the Giant Dragon’s massive lower jaw down on him.
Herbert: ?
"Hey, hey, hey, no, don’t press down on me!"
"Wake up!"
"Wake uuuuup!!!"
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Natural Sanctuary.
The Forest Goddess stood alone before the Master of Nature’s remnant body, a smile on Her lips, but a faint indifference lurking in Her calm eyes.
After a long moment, She slowly shook Her head and turned to leave.
In the empty Holy Sanctuary, Her murmur echoed—a whisper no one knew who it was meant for.
"Truly disappointing..."
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