Super Righteous Player
Chapter 437 - 434: The Object of Half-Truths_1

Chapter 437: Chapter 434: The Object of Half-Truths_1

"Is this Dennisiowa?"

Lin Yiyi looked around curiously and asked.

Although the official name of the United Kingdom is Dennisiowa and Feld Archipelago United Kingdom, the prosperity of "Dennisiowa" and the "Feld Archipelago" is truly completely different.

Previously, Lin Yiyi had stayed on Gemstone Island for a day to receive the conditions necessary for advancement.

Although she didn’t get any key items... she did gather some information.

——"Gemstone Island Guard Knight," this Transcendent profession, if one wants to advance to the silver-ranked tank profession "Azure Holy Guard," one must advance on Gemstone Island.

And it is necessary to purchase the specialty of Gemstone Island—a sapphire mirror.

Of course... as everyone knows, sapphires are not necessarily blue.

This ritual item, called the "sapphire mirror," is made of a mosaic of pink, blue, yellow, green, white, and gray gemstone fragments. The requirement is that no type of gemstone can be adjacent to another gemstone of the same color.

The advancement ritual for the Azure Holy Guard requires one to buy some gemstone fragments, mirrors, and adhesive, and to construct it in a "Sinless Room" specially made by a Decree Wizard. Then, one must fall asleep with the face reflected in the mirror, which reflects the light of the setting sun.

The gemstone fragments from Gemstone Island are indeed very cheap, they can even be described as dirt-cheap.

Not metaphorically but literally as cheap as cabbages!

Three-quarters of Gemstone Island is composed of an extremely rich vein of red and blue sapphires. Moreover, this vein was cursed a thousand years ago to devour any living beings that contact the core of the vein, absorbing the curse and flesh to continuously produce new gemstones.

This rule was later discovered by the mine owners on Gemstone Island. They began to consciously perform blood sacrifices to prolong the life of the vein.

Gemstone Island has no farmland, no iron mines, no coalmines—the only work available is mining. There are over fifty thousand native miners constantly extracting gemstones; this is only the number of registered miners, not including the migrants who come from other archipelagos for hired labor. Over the past decade, the United Kingdom’s exports of gemstones and gem-related products exceeded one ton, all of which came from Gemstone Island, the difference being whether they were processed a second time.

The Azure Diamond Tower itself is built directly above the vein, enabling it to continuously mine automatically from the deep layers of the vein.

On Gemstone Island, only red sapphires larger than a pigeon’s egg are considered expensive; blue sapphires, even less so, as their price is generally less than half that of red sapphires of equivalent quality and size.

And if the gemstone fragments are under five carats... their price is basically no more than that of glass of the same weight.

Their main use is to be sold to Dennisiowa’s fashion designers, to be polished for use as dazzling decorations on trendy new clothes; or as spellcasting materials for Decree Wizards.

Lin Yiyi also just found out that many of Decree Wizard’s spells require gemstones and mineral powders as casting materials...

With the idea of "bringing back some local specialties when traveling," Lin Yiyi spent all her pocket money to buy two bags of gemstone fragments.

Each bag weighed one hundred and fifty grams.

She kept half a bag as casting materials and gave the other half to everyone as local specialties. Selling the remaining bag in Noah would likely provide her the starting capital directly...

Although theoretically, when leaving Gemstone Island, one cannot carry more than 100 grams of gemstones without paying some tax. But fortunately, Darry Garden’s old face... the senior bishop still had quite a reputation, and it seemed many important people knew him. Not only was Lin Yiyi not searched, but she also wasn’t checked by Decree Wizards.

She even received a flower-shaped gemstone hairpin from that high-ranking person... made with five petals of pink diamonds and a heart of honey-yellow sapphires.

To be honest, it was a bit overwhelming.

Lin Yiyi definitely didn’t dare to accept it.

But Bishop Daryl signaled her to just take it.

So, Lin Yiyi decisively accepted it and beamed with joy, just like a child who waves their hands "no, no, I couldn’t possibly" while receiving a red packet during the Spring Festival.

However, even Gemstone Island, with all its riches, has a city style no different than the rural areas of Noah—in fact, the infrastructure doesn’t even seem as good as Frostwater Harbor, which at least used to have galleries and theaters... although they have been abandoned now.

Yawen and the Silver Baron are both deities who have openly revealed their habitual cities. Just as the people of Noah were forced to become gentle, affable, and polite out of fear of the ever-possible appearance of the Silver Baron, the environment of Dennisiowa has also been changed by Yawen.

The Royal Capital of Dennisiowa is also called Dennisiowa—in the end, both the Kingdom of Noah and the Kingdom of Dennisiowa were established around the concept of "a city where the gods reside."

Unlike the Silver Baron, Yawen does not often go out for walks.

He always stays within his residence.

It was a comprehensive office, appearing no different from other offices within Dennisiowa... except that its owner was a True God.

Many aspiring painters, writers, playwrights, costume designers, and poets, dreaming of overnight fame, would regularly send their works to Yawen. The good works and the exceptionally bad ones would both receive a letter in response from Yawen; singers and actors would also participate in some kind of large ceremony that Yawen hosted regularly, similar to a talent show... and then be harshly criticized.

Yes, harshly criticized.

The biggest difference between Yawen and the Paper Princess lay in his utter intolerance for flaws in art.

No matter how good the work was, Yawen would always point out its shortcomings. Moreover, the flaws he identified were always real, significant, and painfully accurate... which often made the artists who received his feedback fly into a rage.

Only those particularly favored by Yawen would receive the kind gesture of a couple of crucial tips.

Otherwise, he was like a notorious critic from ancient times.

...But what made them unable to get angry was the fact that Yawen was indeed better than them.

In the face of mediocre singers, Yawen could perform a song segment on the spot with stunning virtuosity; when confronted with actors with awkward skills, Yawen could outperform them using the same scene. Not to mention painting, sculpting, writing, and such...

Yawen himself was the founder and improver of many artistic schools, a true, living master. Moreover, he never stopped learning, researching, and creating; new works could emerge at any time, each piece being unquestionably "the best" of the moment, with the newest work being "the best" again.

And the key to Nicholas’s tomb was in Yawen’s possession.

The barrier protecting Nicholas’s tomb had been personally designed and guarded by Yawen.

However, according to the confidentiality agreement, Lin Yiyi was not allowed to go to the graveyard - firstly to guard against the possibility of someone taking the opportunity to release and resurrect Nicholas, stealing the body under the guise of checking the corpse, which was a common trick.

Lin Yiyi also dared not stay with Yawen.

Although she saw Yawen from a distance... wearing a beret and glasses, a thin-faced old man who looked like an older version of zun, and who also resembled a thinner Osamu Tezuka.

—He didn’t look very good-tempered.

And in fact, there wasn’t much need to look; they were only there to confirm.

They already had an idea of the situation with Nicholas before they left Noah. Although for some reason, the Silver Baron and Yawen seemed unusually calm about the matter, which she found somewhat strange...

But when Bishop Daryl returned, Lin Yiyi realized that the situation might be more serious than she thought.

"Something’s gone wrong, Yiyi."

Bishop Daryl said in a grave tone.

"Is the body missing after all?"

"It’s worse than that."

Bishop Daryl took a deep breath.

He touched his bald head and said slowly, "Because... Nicholas’s body is still in the tomb."

"...The body is still there?!"

Lin Yiyi was immediately astonished.

Daryl nodded, "Not only that, but there are also no traces of anyone entering or leaving the barrier... at least not in the past five years."

Annan, observing the situation through Lin Yiyi’s perspective, was also instantly stunned.

He too quickly realized that the problem might be getting serious.

The current Nicholas had come to regard himself as the real Nicholas... and all evidence pointed to him as being "Nicholas the First." He simply forgot some memories, thinking he was a homunculus.

But if the real Nicholas had not been resurrected...

—Then who was that Nicholas in the Royal Capital?