Looking forward to another world.

Chapter 1176 I’ve been waiting for you for a long time
According to Ivy and Leo, although their group had arrived at the hidden land, the place where they landed was on the edge of the hidden land.

It is naturally impossible to travel from the periphery to the core area in a day or two. Even if you fly the entire way, it will probably take a month or so.

If Li Ge was alone, even if he traveled at high speed the whole way, it would probably take several days.

Fortunately, under the leadership of Ivy and Leo, this time was directly saved.

It took them only about an hour to fly and they arrived at a city.

This city is not small in size. Although it is located in the marginal area, it is quite prosperous. Even if it is not as good as the capitals of many countries that Lige has seen before, it is not much worse.

Because there are no disputes or wars in the Hidden World, and the relationship has always been peaceful, the residents of the Hidden World, without internal friction, have devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the construction of the Hidden World. Not only have they created such magical landscapes in the outside nature, but the inhabited cities have also been built very prosperously.

With a heritage from ancient magic civilization, the magic technology in the secluded place is far superior to that of the outside world. Therefore, it has long been able to solve resource problems with the help of various magical technologies. Both the living environment and living conditions have almost reached the extreme.

Therefore, in this secluded place, there are basically no suffering or poor people. To some extent, it is indeed an utopia.

Under such circumstances, Ivy and Leo brought everyone to the temple branch of this city.

"The temple has branches in every city, responsible for the management and maintenance of the city."

Ivy told Lige this.

"And in every branch of the temple, there is a teleportation magic circle that can directly teleport to the headquarters."

The purpose of this trip is to use the teleportation magic circle in the temple branch in this city to go directly to the temple headquarters.

After learning about this, Li Ge also began to think about it.

"It seems that the magic technology in the hidden world is more advanced than I thought."

You know, in the Source World where magical technology is also extremely advanced, teleportation magic circles are basically only set up for ultra-long-distance teleportation, and have not reached the level of popularization among the general public.

Otherwise, when Lige was planning to go to Mistgo, the Kaledohat Empire would not have directly dispatched a floating magic battleship and spent several days to send him there.

On the other hand, although the Hidden World has not yet been popularized among the people, as the only manager of the Hidden World, the Temple can set up teleportation magic circles in its headquarters and branches in various cities. From this point of view, it has already surpassed the Source World.

After all, this means that people from the temple can instantly reach any city in the hidden land through the teleportation magic circle. This convenient way of transportation cannot be compared even with floating magic battleships.

Li Ge, who was thinking this way, actually didn't know that the reason why the Source World failed to do this was not because they couldn't do it, but because the conditions did not allow it.

Since it is already possible to set up a super long-distance teleportation magic circle, the difficulty of setting up a short-distance teleportation magic circle will naturally be lower, not higher.

But unlike this world, there is another opposite world beyond the source - the abyss.

In order to prevent the invasion and persecution of the abyss, the three holy swords had already blocked the plane, making the passage between the source and the abyss extremely difficult.

Coupled with the special structure of the front and back of the world, the spatial stability of the source is actually much higher than that of the Akasha continent.

In view of this, the difficulty of teleporting in the source is actually much higher than that on the Akasha continent.

If it is just the use of space magic under normal circumstances, there will not be too much hindrance. However, for semi-permanent projects like setting up a teleportation magic circle, the difficulty will increase dramatically.

One is to open a temporary channel to squeeze through, and the other is to arrange this channel permanently. Apart from anything else, the required procedures alone will become much more complicated.

Unless it is like in the Abyss, where magical rituals such as blood sacrifice are used to shorten and speed up the completion of the project at a great cost, it cannot be said that it is impossible to set up a teleportation magic circle in the Source World. However, it is a pipe dream to popularize it and use it in daily life.

Therefore, the existing teleportation magic circles in the Source World are basically very expensive to build, and the cost of opening them each time is also very high.

Like the last time Lige teleported from the dwarf settlement to the other side of the Nanilga Wall, that teleportation consumed at least half of the magic power in a mana orb.

In other words, once the teleportation magic circle is opened, it only takes one round trip and a precious mana orb will basically be gone.

And how precious the Mana Orb is can be seen from the way Alaye is drooling and almost losing his mind.

Even the scabbards of holy swords like Malfa and Moslo are made of mana metal. Mana Orbs are only produced in large mana metal mines, and only one is produced every few hundred years. They are the crystallization of the purest magic power in the mana metal mines and are countless times more valuable than ordinary mana metal.

Even a mana orb the size of a fingernail contains more magic power than tens of tons of mana metal, and its value is as high as millions of gold coins. In fact, the mana orb inlaid on the top of the hilt of the holy sword is only the size of a glass bead.

Therefore, Mana Orbs are one of the top magical materials in the Source World.

The mana orb that Lige had obtained before was about the size of a baby's fist.

However, the teleportation magic circle in the dwarf settlement is inlaid with a mana orb the size of an adult's fist.

Such a large mana orb can only provide three uses for the teleportation magic circle.

After three times, the Mana Orb will be useless.

From this, we can see how difficult it is to popularize the teleportation magic circle in the Source World.

Unless it really comes to a critical moment, even if the teleportation magic circle is set up, the chances of using it are very rare.

There is no such trouble on the Akasha continent.

Although the super-large teleportation magic circle that spans different spaces is also rarely used and costs a lot to use each time, the cost is much smaller if it is just teleporting between cities.

So, after Ivy and Leo showed a token to the head of the temple branch, the head of the temple branch immediately activated the teleportation magic circle and sent Lige and his party to the core area of ​​the hidden land.

In other words... they were sent directly to the temple's headquarters.

After all, the teleportation array was set up in the temple headquarters and the temple branches in various cities. With this teleportation, Lige and others naturally arrived at their destination directly.

…………

"Zheng——"

Along with a flow of brilliance, Lige and the others only felt a flash of white light in the world before their eyes.

When the white light faded and vision returned, the world in front of me had changed.

They were no longer in the original temple branch, but came to a hall they had never seen before.

This hall is very large and covers a large area, but its decoration is extremely simple. It is neither magnificent nor extravagant, but for some reason, there is a solemn, dignified and tranquil atmosphere in the air.

There was only a high platform in the hall.

On the high platform, Lige and his group appeared here, stepping on the teleportation magic circle that had not yet completely dimmed.

But although this place is vast and spacious, it is not empty at all.

Because the platform was already full of people.

"------"

When Li Ge and his party appeared on the platform, countless people crowded below the platform immediately turned their eyes and focused their attention on them.

They were lined up in neat rows, with a group of people wearing noble robes standing in the front, a group dressed like clergy standing in the middle, and a large group of fully armed knights standing at the back, wearing standard pure white full body armor, with golden cloaks on their backs and cross swords on their waists.

When these people focused their eyes on the platform and cast them on Li Ge and others, a terrible pressure suddenly descended.

Suddenly, the faces of several people in the crowd changed.

"Owner!"

Lilith was the first to take action. Without saying a word, she flashed in front of Lige and protected Lige behind her. Her eyes began to turn red and became as ferocious and dangerous as a wild beast.

“…………!?”

Liz also almost drew out the Sword of Moslo, causing Euroelle next to her to unconsciously tighten her hand holding the Shadow Sword.

"what?"

Even Ivy and Leo had not expected that the first thing they would see after returning would be such a scene, and they were both shocked and exclaimed.

"take it easy."

Only Liger, holding Lilith's shoulder and hand, shook his head and spoke calmly.

"Look carefully, there is no hostility or malice emanating from them."

indeed.

Under the platform, the people standing in neat rows exuded a surprising amount of pressure, but there was neither hostility nor malice in their eyes; they were just looking at this side very seriously.

And if you observe carefully, you will find that among these people, the people in the front row wearing noble robes can actually be vaguely seen with excitement in their eyes.

If you look more closely, you can find that these people's eyes first swept over everyone in Lige's group, and then stopped on Liz, who was holding a golden sword in her arms.

In other words, it was basically certain that the excitement in their eyes was directed at Liz.

"Priests!"

Ivy reflexively called out those people's honorific titles.

Yes.

These people wearing noble robes are the highest-ranking priests in the temple.

Li Ge's attention was basically focused on these people.

This is because the aura and magic emanating from these priests are the most powerful.

“Is this the priest of the temple?”

There was only one thought that arose in Li Ge's mind.

That is, it lives up to its reputation.

The aura and magic power emanating from any of these priests is stronger than that of Ivy and Leo.

They are even more powerful than ordinary sword masters.

In the Source World, these so-called priests are all at least at the Amber level, comparable to Lv. 8, and are as powerful as the bishops in the Holy Sword Church.

If they were in the Kingdom of Jinas, apart from Redson Elieman, who was known as the strongest swordsman, and Frohn Bollei, the leader of the kingdom's knights who was second only to him, none of the other swordsmen could match the group of people in front of them.

And at this moment, Lige saw more than a dozen such people.

Even in ancient magical civilizations, the temple priests were people of high status, so this shows how capable they were.

Not long after, the group of priests came out together.

They came to Liz and suddenly knelt down on one knee in front of Liz.

"The entire priest group, along with everyone in the temple, welcome your Highness back!"

A priest in the middle lowered his head and spoke with an extremely respectful voice and attitude.

"Welcome back, Your Highness!"

"Welcome back, Your Highness!"

"Welcome back, Your Highness!"

All the people present knelt down in unison, bowed their heads, saluted, and shouted with excitement with a momentum that seemed to be able to break through the ceiling of the hall.

"Huh? Huh?"

Liz stood there, accepting the worship and welcome from everyone in the audience, but she was at a loss and looked flustered.

Obviously, this huge scene frightened the little princess.

Especially when Ivy and Leo reacted, knelt down on one knee and joined the group, the little princess became even more panicked.

Lilith was stunned by this, while Euroelle silently let go of the shadow sword in her hand. Looking at this scene and at Liz who looked at a loss, her eyes became incomparably gentle for some reason.

"Did they know we would arrive at this time?"

Only Lige stood there calmly, thinking about such unimportant things in his heart.

He was sure that along the way, Ivy and Leo did not use any special means of communication to notify the people in the temple in advance and tell them that they would arrive at this time.

But when they arrived here, these people had already lined up neatly, recognized the identity of the little princess, and excitedly welcomed her at the first opportunity.

"So... this is another prophecy?"

This was the only possibility that Li Ge could think of.

Then, a voice responded to him.

"No, I just sensed that there were abnormal fluctuations in the space of the hidden land, and I knew that there were outsiders coming here, and I guessed that it was you."

A figure appeared silently in front of Lige and others.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

The other party said this while smiling.

"The High Priest!"

Ivy and Leo opened their eyes wide and shouted at the same time.

The person with the highest authority in this world appears here.

(End of this chapter)