Diary of Guarding Monster Girls-Chapter 667 - 370 Serve Me (8K, Additional - s 211, 212)

"I plan to summon a batch of heroic spirits to temporarily meet Elda's workforce needs."

In front of the few current high-level members of the Elda Territory, the wise Lord Herbert presented his great vision—we need more heroic spirits!

"Let those heroic spirits assist the architects of the grey dwarves, helping to construct more temporary strongholds."

Using a group of powerful heroic spirits as a workforce is, of course, a temporary solution that is somewhat extravagant.

The Elda Territory requires continuous development; the number of heroic spirits is limited, and not all efforts can be concentrated on this.

The construction of Elda Town, Elda City State, and even the future Elda Kingdom cannot rely solely on heroic spirits.

Currently, it is only a transitional phase, and sooner or later, a batch of real residents is necessary.

But even so, as long as the immediate need can be satisfied, to get through the most difficult initial stage is already enough.

"What do you think?"

The three present exchanged glances after hearing Herbert's explanation, falling silent for a moment.

"..."

The mushroom merchant squinted, silently scrutinizing Herbert, secretly pondering.

Summoning heroic spirits, huh?

Strictly speaking, a paladin does indeed have a certain summoning ability.

But typically, heroic spirits are not within the summoning scope of paladins.

Those luminous and righteous beings are better at summoning celestial creatures like Pegasi; only the most righteous heroic souls might respond to their summons.

This is not an ability a paladin should possess.

Priests are the ones who have the ability to have the heroic spirits grant them power or serve them—and this power does not originate from themselves, but from the gods they serve.

With the favor of the gods, priests can invoke the power of heroic spirits and command them to be at their service.

Is this considered opportunism? It certainly is.

With divine favor and benediction, priests can easily summon heroic spirits of the same tier as themselves as henchmen.

If they are willing to pay some price (such as offering their soul after death to the gods or lending their body for the use of heroic spirits, etc.), then summoning more powerful heroic spirits of a higher tier is also possible!

Miser did not doubt that Herbert had some special ability to summon heroic spirits.

A strong person like Herbert would not speak without purpose; since he said so, he certainly had his assurance and confidence.

Perhaps he has a special blessing, or maybe he's naturally endowed with abilities beyond ordinary people.

This is all unimportant.

What matters is, to what extent can he achieve this?

Miser still expressed some skepticism about how many heroic spirits Herbert could actually summon.

Under normal circumstances, a spell to summon otherworldly creatures usually only summons about ten creatures at most, and that is assuming a heavy cost is paid.

In most cases, only one or two can be summoned.

She imagined Herbert exaggerating; with exceptional talent and mental power several times that of others... twenty!

And being more exaggerative, then thirty!

But even if thirty heroic spirits could be summoned, what significance would those short-lived entities have? 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

The summoned heroic spirits must eventually return to the Divine Kingdom; they cannot remain here for long.

Surely one cannot exhaust themselves by summoning every time there's a construction project?

This sort of operation is indeed too laborious.

This is too irrational.

Miser did not think Herbert was such a foolish person.

And since it seems irrational, there must be another explanation.

After pondering for a while, she eventually focused her gaze back on him.

"Hmm, it seems he should have some other assurance."

In fact, Miser wasn't the only one speculating this; Joanna also furrowed her brows and silently nodded.

When Herbert mentioned this, Joanna was initially doubtful.

Being a priest herself, favored by the gods, even she couldn't summon a large batch of heroic spirits for labor; she didn't think a paladin like Herbert would have the qualifications to do so.

In fact, the fact that Herbert could consistently command a legendary-level centaur heroic spirit already perplexed her.

After pondering endlessly, she could only surmise that the god, in cooperation with her goddess, who stood behind Herbert, was orchestrating all this.

"..."

However, before questioning, Joanna recalled Herbert's previous actions and the terrifying dragon he summoned...

She had never seen an epic dragon before, but from the information she's read, epic dragons would not have such an exaggerated size.

Could that possibly be a saint-level dragon?

After much inner conflict, she concluded it probably wasn't that exaggerated.

Perhaps it was just a particularly large special individual?

Maybe it was the rumored extraordinary type!

In any case, to express her respect for Herbert, Joanna obediently kept her mouth shut and remained silent.

She thought it best not to speak unnecessarily.

After all, the goddess once said that timely silence is more precious than gold!

The goddess also mentioned that choosing to trust others is a commendable virtue!

The goddess also said... when faced with an overwhelming situation, do not act rashly.

Hmm... ahem.

This is not cowardice, just adherence to the goddess's teachings.

Yes, exactly like that!