The maids and patrol knights in the palace saw Martin and hurriedly saluted respectfully.

Martin, preoccupied with important matters, paid no attention and walked right past them.

After Martin left, the maid and the patrol knight slowly stood up, looked in the direction where Martin went, and then continued to devote themselves to their previous tasks.

Unconsciously, Martin arrived at the Imperial Garden and saw his mother, Mrs. Ellie, admiring the flowers in the garden with her three wives.

Inadvertently, they also discovered Martin and walked towards him.

Martin also saw them, so he quickened his pace and went forward to meet them.

After meeting, Martin first exchanged a few words with his mother, Mrs. Ellie, and then turned his gaze to his three wives, making the three women look shy.

Seeing this, Mrs. Ellie hurried out to smooth things over and led everyone to the pavilion in the imperial garden.

In fact, Mrs. Ellie and her three daughters-in-law all noticed that Martin seemed to be worried, but they knew that as women, even if they knew a little about those matters, they should pretend to be ignorant at this moment.

Then, the three girls began to tell some funny stories, which made Mrs. Ellie laugh, and Martin's mood also improved a little.

He knew in his heart that the main reason for his depression was due to excessive pressure.

In this pleasant atmosphere, more than ten minutes passed quietly. At this moment, Martin's communication crystal flashed twice in succession.

He took it out and saw that they were messages from Betan and the dwarf Hogan respectively.

Betan informed Martin that they had entered the secret realm, and he replied that he knew.

Then he stood up and said to his mother, Mrs. Ellie, and the three girls, "I have something to take care of now. You guys can continue playing."

The women knew that Martin was very busy and did not try to keep him.

Martin left the pavilion, walked out of the imperial garden, and quickly came to the imperial study.

After sitting down, he took out the communication crystal again and checked the message sent by the dwarf Hogan.

At the same time, he asked the system to upgrade Betan. However, the system issued a warning: "After this system upgrade, the host needs to upgrade the system level to level 4 as soon as possible, otherwise it will not be able to continue upgrading the lower gods."

After thinking for a moment, Martin decided to continue upgrading the system.

As 5.05 billion energies were consumed, Betan, who was far away in the secret realm, began to transform.

Martin looked at the energy consumed, but did not feel any obvious improvement in his own strength. At most, he reached the level of mid-legend.

Moreover, he was very confused about what happened to the extra 50 million energies consumed.

The system immediately gave an answer: "Host, please upgrade the system level as soon as possible." Martin exited the system panel expressionlessly, his mood getting worse.

He took five minutes to collect himself, and then continued to check the message from Dwarf Hogan.

In the message, Hogan wrote: "I can barely protect myself right now. My ancestors seem to have gone mad, allowing even dwarves above Sky Strength in the Dwarven Kingdom to participate in the 'God Creation Project'. This is simply insane! These days, I've seen a large number of orcs, orcs, dwarves, goblins, and even some humans, being invited or captured into a secret realm."

"That secret realm is located in the Land of Death, south of the Dwarf Kingdom. People are sent in every day, but all they come out of are coffins engraved with runes. Moreover, those runes are definitely not ordinary magic circles; they exude an evil aura. I feel like they seem to have noticed me. I want... Your Majesty... to save..."

Martin couldn't understand the rest of the content.

He then dialed Hogan's number, but no one answered. He called several times and the situation remained the same.

But on the system panel, the information about the dwarf Hogan was changing slowly and strangely, sometimes turning black, sometimes turning white, and sometimes turning gold.

The system translated the meaning of these changes in real time: sometimes he was on the verge of death, sometimes he was improving, and sometimes he seemed to be deified, alternating back and forth.

Martin quickly instructed the system: "If the panel remains black, send energy to him to maintain his life and see what kind of existence Dwarf Hogan will eventually become."

The system immediately agreed.

In the next few days, battle reports appeared in front of Martin like snowflakes through the communication crystal every day.

Martin's brow furrowed as he read the news. The situation was truly not optimistic. Seven or eight evil spirits had appeared on various battlefields.

These evil gods are so powerful that they can almost fight the dragon knights to a draw.

The Shadow Hunter's situation was much more difficult. He was completely suppressed by the evil god and had no power to fight back.

What's strange is that these evil gods clearly don't have the strength of demigods, but they are able to use divine power. However, the good news is that according to the intelligence of the Continental Parliament's special envoy, these evil gods are semi-finished products, otherwise they would have been unable to hold on long ago.

In desperation, Martin could only send Xingchen to the battlefield, which barely stabilized the situation and prevented it from getting worse.

However, in the days that followed, the number of evil gods grew very slowly, but was still increasing.

However, what was unexpected was that lightning began to fall from the sky, striking towards those evil gods.

Moreover, as the number of evil spirits increases, the power of thunder and lightning is also increasing.

Just recently, three or four evil gods were killed by lightning, which slightly relieved some of the pressure on Martin.

At this time, Betan's advancement was still in progress, but Martin could only worry.

It can be said that there is a severe shortage of energy now, and the main source of energy is the kingdom's mines. However, the situation in the two newly taken over territories has not yet stabilized, and mineral production has not been able to be increased.

Most minerals still rely on internal supply from the Dragon Spine Kingdom, resulting in very slow progress in energy acquisition.

In the past few days, Martin used the energy he had just obtained to sign contracts with two thousand students from the Loyalty Academy in the royal capital. He then sent them directly to the Dante Royal Capital, handed them over to Malcador for distribution, and then sent them to the Starry Holy Land, hoping to contribute to the local development and stability.