Zongman: Sharingan just opened, you said it was the fault of the earth

"...?"

Freya tilted her head slightly, her expression froze for a moment, then quickly regained her composure.

"It's Bai Yulin."

Ota replied truthfully.

"What?!?!"

The moment she heard the name, she turned around abruptly, a hint of unconcealable surprise appearing in her beautiful eyes.

After a moment of silence, Freya seemed to have figured something out and chuckled softly, covering her mouth.

"What a naughty child."

She raised her hand and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

"You want to be defeated by me in front of the entire Orario."

"And then join my clan as a loser?"

"Really..."

She murmured,

“Even the way of offering it is designed to be so interesting.”

Ota, who was standing aside, said nothing, and there was no emotion on his face.

Freya, however, turned back and continued to look out the window as if she had finally gotten some dessert:

"Yu Lin, Yu Lin... How many surprises will you give me?"

……

ps. Chapter 3, there should be another chapter around 11 o'clock

ps2. Thanks to the three big brothers [The World’s No. 1 Fool], [Wishing], and [Drunken Dream Seeking Fate] for the monthly tickets!

ps3. The picture is of the goddess of beauty Freya.

Chapter 73: [Subscribe] Hermes's mediation, Bai Yulin's active refusal

Bai Yulin didn't know that at the top of the Tower of Babel, the "Goddess of the Harp" was interpreting his every action with a logic that was so magical that it was almost like a riddle.

If he knew that he was just trying to get a spot in the competition, but was actually understood as "offering himself in defeat"...

The black line on his face probably extends from his forehead to his chin.

Bai Yulin came down from the second floor, said hello to a few family members who were having breakfast, and hurriedly left the Dusk Hall:

"Today...I have to go to Hephaestus."

He whispered to himself as his consciousness scanned the puppet crow floating in the depths of his mind.

As he walked, Bai Yulin lowered his head and thought:

"This crow...it really needs a good upgrade."

As a combat puppet, the crow has certain attack power and auxiliary functions.

But as time goes by, its current "basic version" is obviously not enough.

Although the Crow Puppet will most likely be useless in the upcoming [One-on-One], its value will be infinitely magnified in the second [Siege].

The offensive and defensive roles of the two clans have not yet been determined, but whether they serve as attackers or defenders, the crows can become an extremely important combat force.

"Add to that my current mysterious nature, and maybe I can even come up with something unexpected..."

Bai Yulin had a premonition that if he defeated Ota in the [one-on-one] match, Freya would immediately initiate a second match and would not give Loki's family any time to breathe.

So during these five days, Bai Yulin has to do everything he can think of.

Soon, he arrived at the headquarters of the Hephaestus family.

Compared to the bustling noise outside, this forging workshop is still filled with the familiar rhythm of hammering and flames.

The guard at the door straightened his back almost subconsciously when he saw Bai Yulin's figure.

After all, some time ago, there was only one outsider in the entire Hephaestus family who could sneak into the forging room before dawn and was more diligent than the people himself.

Of course, it’s not just because of the hard work during that period of “forging from sunrise to sunset”, but also because... that name has now spread throughout Orario.

"Good morning, Mr. Bai."

The guard saluted him solemnly, with more respect in his tone.

"morning."

Bai Yulin nodded and responded with a smile.

Then he walked straight to the forging room reserved for him.

Pushing open the door of the forging room, he didn't delay for a moment. He raised his hand and summoned the crow puppet from his sea of ​​consciousness.

Then he stretched out his five fingers, and the chakra lines seemed to be guided and fell into the body of the puppet.

With the rapid mobilization of chakra in the body and the analysis principles of puppetry in the mind, in just a few breaths, the structure of the crow seemed to automatically decompose and fall apart with a crackling sound.

In Bai Yulin's eyes, every joint, every energy conduction line, and every groove of the crow in front of him were like an unfolded technical drawing, so familiar that it could not be more familiar.

"It's time to give you some new ingredients."

Bai Yulin opened his backpack and took out a bunch of scraps "borrowed" from Loki's clan - metal fragments, white rainbow iron and everything else.

Although they are all worthless things, for him, they are the best medium to experiment with mysterious growth abilities.

The sounds of hammers and furnaces rang out in this fiery forge room.

Not long after, the door of the forging room was suddenly pushed open from the outside, slightly dispersing the forging heat floating in the air.

Bai Yulin paused what he was doing and subconsciously turned his head to look.

What came into view were three figures.

Walking in front was a man dressed in a rather "special" way - he had short orange hair, eyes of the same bright color, and a hat with a feather worn tilted on his head.

To his left stood a blue-haired girl wearing a white cloak and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

As for the one on the right—

"Lord Hephaestus?"

Bai Yulin raised his eyebrows and watched the red-haired lady slowly walk into the room and close the door.

Leaning against the door, Hephaestus said to Bai Yulin:

"Someone was looking for you, a big name in Orario, but couldn't find you at the Twilight Mansion. Then Loki casually suggested that you might be hiding out here again... and they actually found the right place."

Upon hearing this, Bai Yulin turned his gaze to the orange-haired man, looked at him carefully for a few more times, and said with a smile:

"What do you want from me, Master Hermes?"

"Oh my, I've been recognized."

Hermes held the brim of his hat with one hand, and a smile appeared on his face.

"It's such an honor for this God to be recognized so quickly by Yu Lin."

Bai Yulin waved his hand, said a few humble words, and then turned his gaze to the blue-haired girl next to him:

"Lady Yasfi."

"Sir, that's too weird. Just call me Yasifei."

The blue-haired girl pushed her glasses, but her gaze remained on the disassembled crow puppet behind Bai Yulin.

She quickly stepped forward and moved closer. After just a few glances, she couldn't help but praise:

"Did you make this? It's so... so detailed!"

After she finished speaking, she hummed softly, nodded as if she had expected it, and then turned to look at Bai Yulin:

"Your developmental abilities are mysterious, right? But why do they feel more interesting than mine?"

Bai Yulin was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Hephaestus secretly. He couldn't help but complain in his heart - Lord Loki, you really tell everything.

However, this thought was fleeting and soon faded from my mind.

In front of the Hermes family, it was not surprising that others knew about his development ability.

On the surface, this clan seems to be well-behaved and low-key, but in fact, that is just an appearance.

In Bai Yulin's impression of the original work before he traveled through time, Hermes, this seemingly cheerful and always out of tune man, was actually one of the biggest behind-the-scenes manipulators of the Orario Intelligence Network.

He made all the adventurers in his clan "deliberately hide their strength", and even lied about the number of floors they explored in the dungeon, in order to reduce the guild's tax revenue and the attention it paid to his clan.

It can be said that the Hermes Family is the force in the entire Orario that knows how to "hide its edge" the most.

Thinking of this, Bai Yulin was no longer surprised as to why the blue-haired girl in front of him could know his own development abilities.

"You're too kind, Yasifei. You..."

Bai Yulin looked at Hermes behind him,

"What do you want from me? You can't be here to see how I work, right?"

Hearing this, Hermes took a few steps forward and said slowly:

"I'm here to mediate the war game between your Loki family and Freya's family."

Bai Yulin was stunned for a moment.

"Although Freya has always been... how should I put it, more spontaneous, the war game involves too many aspects."

"The confrontation between the gods, the exchange of interests between the clans, and even the future of Orario, will become very troublesome if it gets out of control."

"If you're willing to take a step back, I'll try to persuade Freya to withdraw her application for the war games."

Bai Yulin narrowed his eyes, glanced between Hermes and Yasfi, and then asked:

"In that case...then Lord Hermes, why didn't you come and mediate earlier?"

As soon as these words came out, Hermes' smile suddenly became stiff, and a blush of embarrassment appeared visibly on his face.

"Well, well... actually I..."

"It's all because of Lord Hermes himself!"

Yasfi interrupted Hermes's hesitating with a dark look on her face, gritting her teeth as if she wanted to eat him whole...

Although Yasfi didn't say the specific reason, Bai Yulin could easily guess it based on her understanding of Hermes.

After all, the most "serious thing" that this god in front of him did in the original book was to peek at women in the gods and the underworld taking a bath... and he was always caught on the spot.

Bai Yulin lowered his head, picked up the hammer again, and gently tapped the parts in his hand. He said without any hesitation:

"I'm sorry, but I don't accept mediation."

"...?"

The air in the forging room seemed to freeze instantly.

Hermes' smile froze, Asphie was stunned, and even Hephaestus raised his eyebrows, with a look of unconcealable surprise in his eyes.

Hermes was the first to come to his senses and asked in confusion:

"This is no small matter, Yu Lin!"

"If the mediation is successful, you won't have to join Freya's Familia, and you can also avoid the entire Loki Familia from being drawn into the war games and suffering the consequences... Isn't that better?"

Bai Yulin did not reply in a hurry, but continued to concentrate on fiddling with the core components of the puppet. After a moment, he raised his head, looked at Hermes with a burning gaze and said:

"Does Lord Hermes also think that Loki's family will lose?"

"This is not..."

Hermes opened his mouth, but swallowed the second half of the sentence "affirmation" back.

He sighed softly, a rare serious look on his face:

"I just feel that... you have absolutely no chance of winning if you fight on behalf of Loki's family."

"The opponent is Ota."