[Chapter 395 The Orcs’ Hometown is Gone]

Holy Light and Shadow are two opposing but interdependent forces.

Although many people know that light and shadow are two sides of the same coin, everyone can talk about it in theory, but there are too many difficulties in actual operation.

Due to the nature of shadow magic, using this power alone faces a lot of problems. There are countless examples of people who thought they had conquered the power of shadow and were careless and lost their lives due to backlash.

Even assassins who only use a little bit of shadow characteristics, when practicing the skill of stealth, there are a large number of assassins in MI7 every year: either they die suddenly or get stuck in the gap between reality and shadow planes and can never get out.

So, when Gwen actually comprehended this power, David could not be too careful.

But after half a month of observation, David noticed that the holy light and shadow in Gwen’s body formed a good coexistence relationship, and they magically promoted each other’s growth and could transform into each other without loss.

This situation made David feel very magical. He couldn’t help but study it more. The result was that Gwen was a little dehydrated and had to recuperate for a few more days before going back.

After sending Gwen away, David looked at the situation of the other people.

Laura still used the strengthening potion. The holy light in her body was very strong, and her physical fitness had long reached a very high level. She thought that the strengthening potion should have no effect on her, but it turned out that her physical fitness was still slightly improved, and the holy light in her body was also enhanced.

Through the verification of Laura, Eva, Helen, and Gwen, David also had a clearer understanding of the effect of the strengthening potion.

After using the strengthening potion, those who have strong physical fitness and mastered extraordinary powers will still get a certain strengthening effect. Moreover, after using the strengthening potion, because it is optimized from the most basic aspects, Laura feels like she has opened a valve, and she finds that the speed of her own strength improvement has become faster again.

“It can be understood that the potential has been greatly improved after strengthening.”

Eva, who has mastered a certain extraordinary power, will quickly complete the strengthening, and the energy mastered will also be increased.

People like Gwen and Helen, who seem to be just one step away from success, may break through that threshold and master some mysterious power because of the stimulation of the strengthening potion.

At the same time, the energy that has just entered the body will provide sufficient nutrients for strengthening, so that they can complete the strengthening in a short time like Laura and Eva, who already have some power.

Only ordinary people or those who are stronger than ordinary people and are still far from mastering some mysterious power will take a longer time to slowly complete the strengthening like Tony; or use the strengthening chamber to speed up the process. After

figuring out the specific effects and the differences between different people, David knew how to use the remaining few tubes of potion.

Give one tube to Addis first. The old hunter has been living a comfortable life recently.

Since the establishment of Winter City, he no longer has to take a bow and arrow to the wild to look for prey, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, hot or cold, as he did in the past.

After becoming the director of the education department of Winter City, he only needs to stay in the office to read reports and occasionally go to Winter College to make sure that the young people of the right age in Winter City have entered the school to study according to the order of the Lord; the courses they study meet the requirements; and the students have grown up according to the Lord’s requirements.

This work is almost the same as nothing for Addis. He even feels that this workload is not enough to kill time.

No worries about food, clothing, and housing.

Suddenly, Addis found that he had begun a happy retirement life.

“It’s really unexpected!”

All this is just because he adopted a child in a daze.

What’s more unexpected is that he not only ate the strange golden apple, but also learned the magical power called holy light.

Although he has never been able to really master it! But he has no place to consume holy light. The holy light that David infused into his body at the beginning did not consume much at all. He is still enjoying the benefits brought by this magical power.

He thought that this was already very beautiful, but today David suddenly gave him a potion.

“What is this?”

“Strengthening potion.”

“Made by Tony Stark?” In Addis’s impression, anything strange that he couldn’t figure out was made by the consultant named Tony Stark.

“Yes.”

“How do I use this thing?” Addis looked at the tube of potion in front of him that was emitting a faint light, and after asking a few simple questions, he was ready to use it.

He was not worried that David would harm him, and he had nothing worth plotting against! David was already a duke, and would soon become His Majesty the King.

Whenever he thought of this, he felt it was magical.

The kid who always refused to obey anyone in the past actually didn’t have to look at anyone’s face anymore. There really are miracles in this world.

After injecting the potion into the body, the holy light that had not been used for a long time began to be consumed rapidly. Addis felt the wonderful changes in his body. Before he could react to what was going on, he found that the holy light that was about to be consumed in his body suddenly began to grow.

At the same time, a certain feeling appeared in his mind, and he knew that he had finally truly mastered the Holy Light.

“Oh, a miracle happened to me too?”

The strengthening process ended quickly. Addis felt the unprecedented strong power and frowned slightly. It seemed that he had to spend some time to adapt to the current state.

However, compared with a strong and healthy body and the power that he truly mastered, what was this trouble?

“Do you have Alfie’s?”

“There are only two tubes left from the first batch of potions, and Alfie’s bloodline may not be suitable for using this potion.”

Alfie is a half-elf, and it is still a question whether he can use this strengthening potion with his elven bloodline.

However, he has good talent. Even without the strengthening potion, he should be able to become very strong with his own efforts.

David originally wanted to arrange for him to join the Winter Knights when he grew up, but Alfie was captured by Sylvanas and taken to the Tiran Knights not long ago.

Considering that with the guidance of Sylvanas, the elven ranger lord, Alfie may be able to become an excellent ranger faster, so he did not express any objection, but just reminded Alfie not to neglect the study of cultural courses, and then smiled and admired Alfie’s bitter face.

Coming out of Addis’ office, David was not in a hurry to send out the last two tubes of strengthening potions.

He really didn’t know who to give them to, and the people who were currently using the potions, except Tony and Pepper, were the people closest to David. No one would think it was unreasonable for these people to use the strengthening potions in the first batch.

Even if David didn’t have any special ideas about who to give the remaining people, he couldn’t guarantee that his subordinates didn’t have any ideas.

This problem is not easy to solve. Instead of causing dissatisfaction among his subordinates, it is better to keep it first, and when a large number of potions are produced, give one to each of the important subordinates. Anyway, it won’t take long.

The principle of “not worrying about too little but unequal distribution” is applicable in any era and any world. David doesn’t want to deliberately create conflicts among his subordinates.

He hasn’t reached the point where he needs to play the balance to maintain his rule – and as his own strength continues to improve, he doesn’t seem to need to use this method.

Coming out of the government building, David exhaled a puff of white mist. In

the deep winter, Winter City is all white. Even though the ground has been swept, there is a lot of snow piled up around. David also saw two snowmen at the door of Castle Glamorgan.

After standing there and thinking for a while, David decided to go out for a walk.

There was no snow today, and there was no wind. Although there was sunshine, there was no warmth. The dry and cold weather was not comfortable, so there were relatively few people on the street.

Even farmers who did not need to work in winter mostly spent their time hiding in their own homes or in warm indoor places such as taverns.

David’s identity determined that it was not convenient for him to go to those places to “have fun with the people”, but the few people on the street made it convenient for him to wander around, and his current physical fitness would not be frozen by the cold climate.

As soon as he walked out of the main gate of the Winter Fortress, he saw Crossbones Rumlow and Wolverine Logan arriving in a car. When they saw him, they got out of the car immediately.

“My lord.” This is Rumlow.

“…” It was Wolverine Logan who nodded.

“Are you back?”

The two were previously sent out to scout the eastern sea, looking for the orcs’ hometown, Asegos Island, and investigating various information about the orcs and the god called Asegos.

“Didn’t find it?”

They came back so quickly, either they didn’t find it, or they found it but there was nothing on the island, so there was no need to search, they just came back directly.

“Well, we flew over the eastern sea for quite a long time, almost all of that sea, not to mention the big islands, we didn’t even see the small reefs.” It

would definitely be more appropriate for Rumlow to do the report, Logan just followed by the side, supplemented when necessary, or proved when David wanted to verify the content of Rumlow’s report.

According to Rumlow’s description, they initially followed the orcs’ words and flew north along the coastline, found the ice road that “appeared” in winter, turned east, and flew along the coastline.

But soon they found that they were flying further and further north, and this direction did not match the information provided by the orcs at all, so they immediately turned south and looked for the big island described by the orcs near the “ice road”.

The final result was that they found nothing, which made Rumlow seriously doubt how credible the information provided by the orcs was?

“According to the orcs’ description, natural disasters have occurred repeatedly in their hometown over the years. Maybe the island has sunk to the bottom of the sea?” Logan speculated, which was the most reasonable explanation at present.

If it really sank to the bottom of the sea, it would be more difficult to find it, and it might even be impossible to find it.

(End of this chapter)