Chapter 17: The Shikano Family
There is a reason why everyone in this world is hostile to monsters.
The monsters in this world are really abominable and disgusting. They are born and die randomly, and they are everywhere.
Although most monsters are not strong, it is precisely because of this random uncertainty that they cause great damage to human production and life.
Of course, the above situation is when there are no monsters or immortals in charge.
The situation is much better with the presence of a guardian monster in Inazuma. In places like Renlian Island with poor land veins, Renlian Lingyi only needs to scan once a month to easily find the gathering places of monsters, and then easily eliminate the disasters caused by monsters in the bud.
In the year since Ren Lian Lingyi returned to Ren Lian Island, the number of monster attacks on people on the entire Ren Lian Island has dropped directly from 15-18 times per year to once, and this time there were no casualties, because the attacker was just a small water slime.
After the attacked fishermen fled to the land for a while, the water slime gave up chasing them. The wind direction was not right at that time, so the concentration of water elements on the island was not high, and the water slime did not like such an environment.
Later, the water slime was also dealt with by the lower-level priestess who was sent over.
As long as they are prepared, it is quite easy for well-trained lower-level priestesses to deal with low-level elemental creatures like slimes, not to mention water slimes, which are the easiest to deal with among all slimes.
The grass slime was slowly condensed by energy under Ren Lian Lingyi's gaze.
This grass slime seemed to have gained a certain amount of intelligence and knowledge when it was born, and it knew that Ren Lian Lingyi and the priestess behind him were not easy to mess with.
Soon, the newly born grass slime escaped underground with the help of the original grass slimes.
Element Creation Theory LV1 (10/100 ) (Grass Element Deposition - Grass Slime)
Originally, Ren Lian Lingyi thought that this was the end, but the remaining grass elements suddenly condensed and turned into a grass element crystal butterfly.
However, this crystal butterfly did not exist for long. It dissipated after being touched by the grass elements emitted by several grass slimes.
"This..." Ren Lian Lingyi was also confused. This crystal butterfly was too fragile.
Element Creation Theory LV1 (15/100) (Grass Element Deposition - Grass Slime, Grass Element Ascension - Grass Crystal Butterfly)
"It seems that the geological environment of Renlian Island is indeed much better. Even crystal butterflies have appeared." Anko Kano said with emotion.
"Crystal Butterfly? Those things have appeared on the Blade Island ."
Ren Lian Lingyi said this with great pride. He did not say that the appearance of these crystal butterflies had anything to do with him.
"Really? I didn't pay much attention to it. After all, crystal butterflies always disappear in the wind." Kano Kyoko said in surprise, "Crystal butterflies can only be bred in a very good environment. There are often many crystal butterflies around the Naruto Grand Shrine at the foot of Yingxiang Mountain. Everyone says that it is a blessing from Naruto-sama."
"Is there such a saying?" Ren Lian Lingyi was a little curious. "But then again, there are indeed a lot of crystal butterflies at Mingshen Taisha."
But to be honest, crystal butterflies are quite difficult to catch, and their intelligence is even lower than that of slimes, so his identity as a humanoid elemental creature doesn't play any good role. Every time he catches a crystal butterfly, all that's left are crystal cores.
Sometimes, if you try too hard to catch it, you can't even catch the crystal core, and the crystal butterfly will just dissipate.
In the Seven Kingdoms, crystal butterflies that exist for a long time can only be found in places where statues of gods are located and in some special places.
These places are what Liyue calls places with good feng shui.
"The Narugami Taisha Shrine is the most prestigious place in Inazuma besides the shogunate, so of course the environment is very good." Kano Anko said proudly.
Her family joined the Narugami Taisha as early as the early days of its establishment. Her descendants also worked hard, and people in her family became shrine maidens for generations. There has also been a continuous stream of high-ranking shrine maidens from generation to generation, and they have always been an important part of the Narugami Taisha.
This generation can even be said to be the most prosperous era of the Shikano family. Among the more than one hundred high-ranking shrine maidens in the Narukami Taisha Shrine, there are three from the Shikano family.
However, the luck of their Shikano family was not very good. Although there were three high-ranking shrine maidens, all of them were sent out. Shikano Anko, the high-ranking shrine maiden of the fighting faction, was the last one to be sent out from their family.
Ren Lian Lingyi nodded without comment.
The responsibility of the Narukami Taisha Shrine in this world of gods is not only to communicate with the gods, but also to manage the gods' followers and other monsters. Therefore, it is very noble. Although the power is not great, the status of the shrine staff is very high.
The status of the group of high-level shrine maidens is comparable to that of mid-level samurai like Yoriki, and is only slightly weaker than that of the Okujima, the general's personal guards.
Of course, although they had some status, their status was much weaker than that of high-ranking officers like the hatamoto generals, otherwise Kujo Hatamoto would not have thought of letting the two of them take the blame.
The existence of hatamoto generals can be regarded as high-level individuals in the entire shogunate system, and each of them is basically famous.
(Inazuma shogunate system: Ashigaru, Doshin/Saburo (lower-level samurai), Yoroki/Deputy (middle-level samurai), Okujishu, Hatamoto (senior samurai), Shogun, Bugyo, Raiden Shogun)
Moreover, each hatamoto basically has his own unique skills. Either he is the owner of the Eye of God, or he is like the hatamoto Kujo Makoto, who has a good background (Kujo branch family), is quite powerful (but not strong either), and is also good at naval battles and training troops.
That’s right, this Kujo Hatamoto is actually a special student among the hatamoto, good at naval battles and training foot soldiers.
He supplies a large number of high-quality soldiers to Jiujo Zhenwu and other places every year, which is why he can be in charge of a region.
Ren Lian Lingyi stroked his chin and thought, he didn't know how the Nine-Joe Flag was doing now.
You know, the monsters in the Nine-Tree Array House are extremely powerful. I don’t know if this guy who has been in the novice area for so long can adapt to it.
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Kujo Jinya, this is a sub-battlefield within the line of Kageyama - Ming Shen Island - Kujo Jinya, which is used to defend against the invasion from the Dark Sea.
Although there are divided battlefields here, it does not mean that the intensity of the war here is weak.
Although the demon god-level and subordinate-level monsters were blocked by Lord Thunder God of Narukami Island and the monsters of Kagemukaiyama, even these lower-level monsters were enough to give the soldiers of Kujo Jinya a hard time.
Basically, there are multiple Hillock Kings in every monster attack, most of which are the more difficult Hillock Kings. And this kind of attack basically happens once a week, and each time it takes a whole day to fight.
The most important thing is that these Hillil shamans also exist here in an organized manner. The existence of these Hillil shamans allows ordinary Hillil people to play a big role in such a battlefield.
Kujo Makoto, who is currently being worried about by Ren Lian Lingyi, is pulling the samurai sword out of the neck of the hillock thug with trembling legs and a grim face.
He had just been frightened by a demon-powered King Raido.
