The Divine Envoy

"?" Gauss silently formed a question mark in his mind. But he was genuinely curious. What did the Lake God Methra want him to do? Although she had not directly admitted that she was a god, even as the will naturally born from Blue Lake before him, her status was clearly beyond that of any ordinary creature. What could a mere Level 5 Professional like him possibly do for her? "Please, speak, great Methra." [Blue Lake connects to the Tarna River to the north. The river flows for a thousand miles, and its source is a towering snow mountain.] [Within that mountain's ten-thousand-year-old ice and snow dwells a will born from the same source as I, my sister, the Snow Mountain Spirit Eisvel. She guards the pure mountains and the source of the river.] [However, in recent years, the water flowing down from the upper reaches of the Tarna River has carried an increasing amount of impurities and filth.] [I am the spirit of the lake, and my power is rooted in these still waters. It is difficult for me to travel far upstream.] [My awakening this time was partly because I wished to see you, and partly because this matter has troubled me.] [Thus, my request is that you travel north along the Tarna River until you reach the snow mountain and investigate the source of the contamination for me.] [As advance payment, I have already bestowed the Water-formed Armament upon you. If you can investigate and resolve the source of the pollution, I will use the power of Blue Lake's origin to grant you a true "Blessing Baptism."] Methra's voice remained ethereal. Gauss understood her meaning. In short, she wanted him to continue north, follow the Tarna River to the snow mountain at its source, and investigate the