"We are Immortal Masters, not seers or diviners, and we gather as they require." Ling Zuo Zuo’s answer to Malin left him even more puzzled. Returning to Maya, Malin discussed the champion’s situation with her. It seemed the champion had eaten something before dying. However, Maya felt it had been consumed by the Holy Flame, but Konsair suggested it didn’t seem to have been scorched to death. But neither could convince the other, as both sides’ viewpoints failed to persuade, and Malin couldn’t draw a conclusion under these circumstances—thankfully neither sought Malin for a fair judgment, choosing instead to use anatomy and mysticism to discuss its cause of death. The argument gave Malin a headache, so he simply ran aside, watching the chef team responsible for dinner. Xiao Lin was in charge of cooking today, with his assistants setting up the large pot, adding water, and starting to boil it. "I hope Xiao Jin and Xiao Sang can catch enough prey." Upon seeing Malin, Xiao Lin immediately expressed his expectations for the hunting team. Malin thought for a moment and decided to check it out. So he leaped onto a half-wall nearby, did a backflip for 720 degrees, and jumped into a teleportation rift opened on the ground. Upon exiting the rift, Malin saw Sang Zixin scream as he flew past him, followed by a giant boar charging at him. Hmm, it seemed even bigger than the one he almost forgot in Westland. "Your Highness! Watch out!" Jin Weili screamed, poking his head out from a pile of dirt. Malin reached out, grabbed a half-section of a small tree beside him, pulling it from the ground along with its roots. The roots were merging into a giant tumor, imbued with the agony of a lost future. The small tree transformed into a vengeful giant hammer, and Malin raised this hammer, applied a highly effective hardening spell to it, and swung it towards the giant boar. The boar’s charge was interrupted, and in everyone’s eyes, its head was slammed sideways, with one side of its face completely flattened, and its eyeball on the other side popped out. The entire boar eventually flipped twice in the air before crashing heavily onto the ground. "It’s safe now!" Jin Weili confirmed that this giant boar could only twitch on the ground, then eagerly scrambled out of the dirt pile. Three elves jumped down from the trees. "Where’s that Thainan elf?" Malin asked. The three elves looked towards the nearby lake; from which someone poked his head out: "There’s something wrong with this water, I feel like my skin is burning." Saying this, the guy jumped out and started continuously casting purification spells on himself. Malin took out a Geiger counter he acquired during his last adventure from his pocket, went to the lake, and dipped the probe into the water. For the first time, this small machine emitted a neurotic beeping, and Malin turned to see this guy had lost all his hair. He tossed a bottle of World Tree fruit elixir, commanding him to drink it while watching his skin peel away. This elf unstoppered the elixir bottle and guzzled it down; after a single gulp, the elf who had lost a little finger on his left hand finally halted his breakdown. Then Malin went to the edge of a cliff, to where Sang Zixin had fallen, and used Spiritual Energy to pull him up—this kid was resilient; though he had been hit by the boar, it seemed he had already reduced much of the impact through dodging. He could still walk back himself, and Malin, along with Jin Weili, helped him a bit, letting the elves make a stretcher to carry the unfortunate Thainan elf, and dragged the boar with one hand in tow behind the group. Upon returning to the city, the girls on the highway each carried a sack with their spiritual bones walking toward the city. Seeing the huge boar in Malin’s hand, Ling Zuo Zuo shook her head: "Wouldn’t such pork be too tough." "And the taste must be very strong." Another mage lady commented. "Can this meat be eaten?" This was the sentiment of all the girls. Malin assured them it would be fine. The Thainan elf was taken over by the healing group responsible for treatment; they did not know what radiation sickness was, but Malin informed them it was a Dark Zone illness. The three healers from Westland immediately understood, taking out an affluent—oops, medications specifically for treating Dark Zone illness. However, upon hearing Malin had given him World Tree fruit elixir, the healers remarked if Malin’s elixir couldn’t save this kid, then he was as good as dead. Thus, after comforting the elf lad named Jing Wei, Malin left a set of elixirs with the healing group—it seemed the North America region had also used significant firepower in the past. For everyone’s safety, Malin also found Xiao Lin and confirmed the water was synthesized using water creation spells before beginning to bleed the giant boar—this creature wasn’t dead yet; its head had been cracked open by Malin, and its life was being sustained by Malin through a healing spell. He hung the boar on the ruins of the wall, used a sword to slit open its neck, and let the blood drain. Malin then began dissecting—discarding all the viscera, some cuts and a large chunk of the hind leg meat were given to Miss Spotty. Of course, before letting her eat, Malin tenderized the meat with a hammer; otherwise, it was as tough as iron. Even so, it couldn’t withstand Malin’s strength; after tenderizing all the meat chunks with a hammer, Malin rubbed spices on them, accelerating their absorption using a spell, and then sliced them into thin pieces, grilling them on an iron plate. Hmm, when it comes to cuisine, I, Malin, am second to none! Konsair burped; his stomach was full, but his heart unsatisfied, yet the big leopard still didn’t dare to ask for more—for two reasons: one, because His Highness Malin had said no waste, anyone who wasted would be hung on top of the city’s Bell Tower. The second was that he really couldn’t eat anymore; tonight’s barbecue was just too excellent. Moreover, he still had work—Onor had already begun presiding over the sacrificial ritual before dinner, as those young legendaries had dredged up plenty of offerings from this city. In the past, a Chaos Sorcerer’s head was a superb offering, among the pricier yet scarce types. But here, Chaos Sorcerer heads were left lying in the streets with no takers, along with various glands of powerful Chaos Spawn, broken weapons from Chaos champions, spirit gems left by legendary Vengeful Spirits, and even the core of a giant legendary Corpse Fiend. Such offering items in any past congregated sacrifice would have been the grand finale, but here they existed as if wholesale goods in the streets. Konsair even saw that rabbitfolk girl named Ling Zuo Zuo find a pair of gem-blue Vengeful Spirit gems in a dilapidated building—these only occurred when twins, who turned into Vengeful Spirits after death, left the gems behind upon purification. Reportedly, throughout history, such twin gems appeared only five times, with blue ones appearing just twice, as they symbolized the final moments of the twin Vengeful Spirits’ lives achieving liberation; they were completely purified and, after putting aside their obsessions, chose self-exile. Speaking of which, that building, although half-collapsed, had an interior hall similar to a chapel, along with that silent statue of a woman holding an infant. Was... it the deities once worshipped by past peoples? Konsair once boldly asked His Highness Malin about this, only to receive a denial from him. "That wasn’t a deity, just the hypocritical belief mortals use to numb themselves. They write as needed, understand as needed; in their minds, everything was just an act." Konsair did not understand why His Highness Malin said so, but since it wasn’t truly a deity, Konsair withdrew his reverence for the statue.