Northlands Power (VI)

Ryan's authority over this land had to be absolute.

He did not want any group to exist outside the name Ryan.

Fortunately, the outcome with the Mage Association was good.

Mage Lyman, this "believer," would basically no longer oppose the "god" he believed in.

But when Ryan thought of the words and descriptions about devouring gods, he became even more wary of those mages. It was not as if he had never seen a Legend before. Darryl, the Legendary Knight of the Andara Kingdom, had been personally created by him. Yet only mages—those noble spellcasters—could analyze so many terrifying things from a simple blessing.

"Devour a god and obtain Its authority?"

Ryan thought of a... large wild boar.

That large wild boar from the Forest Otherworld had inherited part of the Divine Essence of a Great Being from that world and become a divine wild boar. If he ate it, could he gain another Spirituality Blessing?

Ryan shook his head. Better not. That lazy wild boar was living quite well in the Frozen Earth Territory. Whenever it had nothing to do, it even led its descendants in turning over the soil.

In Zero Crossing City, with more nobles came more conflicts.

Especially since the nobles came from different places. They might not have personal grudges against one another, but the glorious surnames they carried had belonged to ancestors who had held grudges long ago.

As the saying went, all nobles were relatives. Naturally, these people did their utmost to step on each other's tails. The reason Zero Crossing City was becoming livelier and livelier was that the attitudes of these nobles had caused the knights behind them to dislike one another as well. Then, at the slightest disagreement, they would head to the arena.

However, on the day Ryan