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"???"
Alan was bewildered by the sudden quiet of this group of busybodies and was about to turn around to see what was going on when he was met with a loud slap in the face.
"It's nothing, don't look."
Yonglin raised her hand and turned Yalan's face, which had just turned halfway, back to its original position.
"Uuuuuuu..."
The latter could only sob and whimper.
"Let's drink, let's drink, let's drink."
"Eat vegetables, eat vegetables, eat vegetables."
The group of Gozanlong people became even more enthusiastic. They had been chatting idly about their leader's family affairs, but now they suddenly started pouring wine for Aran as if they had met an old friend in a foreign land. The empty plates in front of them were piled high with dried fish.
"???"
The young man, nicknamed "Son of Earth," was completely bewildered. However, the atmosphere was so lively and enthusiastic that even the naturally peaceful man was drawn into it and found it difficult to extricate himself.
"Ugh--"
Yonglin sipped her wine to one side, recalling the scene she had just witnessed. She then looked at the unusually easy-going Wind Master in front of her, feeling conflicted and left with only a long sigh.
Just now, that princess seemed to be knocking on the immortal master's door at night.
Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.
Newborn!
Do you like her?
Pooh!
You're just lusting after her body!
You are despicable!
……
Believers Hearn, have you forgotten your original aspirations? What of your ambitions? What of your vows? Do you still yearn to return to that decadent life of carefree indulgence without self-awareness or self-control?
Do you still remember what you wrote in those pages of your diary?
October 20th,
After get off work, I drink with the girls.
October 21st,
After get off work, I drink with the girls.
October 22nd,
After get off work, I drink with the girls.
October 23rd,
After get off work, I drink with the girls.
October 24th,
After get off work, I drink with the girls.
October 25th,
After get off work, I was taken away by some young ladies.
October 26th,
After get off work, I was taken away by some young ladies.
October 27th,
After get off work, I was taken away by some young ladies.
October 28th,
After get off work, I was taken away by some young ladies.
Believers Hearn, have you forgotten your original aspirations? What of your ambitions? What of your vows? From this day forward, you must know and love yourself, and never again indulge in debauchery and waste your time. Be a pure person, free from base desires…
October 29th,
After get off work, I was taken away by some young ladies.
October 30th,
After get off work, I was taken away by some young ladies.
October 31st,
After get off work, I was taken away by some young ladies...
Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.
At the same moment, Mr. Hern, sitting upright in the "Immortal Master's Mansion," mentally slapped himself twice with powerful slaps from the past before suppressing the craving for the blood of the Rhine in his throat.
In Aoko's view, this was undoubtedly a sign of careful consideration.
To be honest, it was impossible for her, as a woman herself, not to feel uncomfortable when this princess, who looked like she was in mourning in the West, visited her late at night.
However, given Mr. Hearn's extremely demanding criteria for choosing a spouse, comparable to a carp leaping over the Dragon Gate, or rather, the seemingly casual mention of the "Hearn family threshold" by Kaguya Houraisan during a tea party amidst a sea of flowers under the moon, coupled with the horribly negative impression left on Mr. Hearn in the countryside by a certain Far Eastern fantasy character whom he affectionately called "Yellow-haired old crook" in his early years.
To be honest, even though she vaguely guessed from the words and the apologetic look that seemed to say "Aoko, I'm sorry" that the princess intended to sell herself to that bastard and then curry favor with him, Aoko still felt that this blonde beauty who spoke fluent Gozan had little chance.
The reason is simple: hair color is the original sin.
I'm sorry, but it's really hard to imagine Mr. Hearn walking arm in arm with a blonde, blue-eyed woman along the shores of Lake Zurich at dusk—what a horrifying and unrealistic scene that would be.
What a joke! Even if he suddenly attacked and sliced that blonde into eight hundred million pieces and dumped them into the lake to end it all—Qingzi wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if that happened.
In short, let's wait and see.
"In short, I'm very curious about how that branch of the Rhine in the Far East resolved, or rather, to some extent avoided, the bloodline curse of half of the Rhine Daughters?"
After a moment of silence, the believer opened her eyes and asked the unavoidable question.
“After all, as I said before, Your Highness Salome, you look very healthy.”
"Your question is within my expectations, Your Excellency. Rather, Salome came here today to reveal to you a host of secrets: the past of the Far East Rhine, the whereabouts of the Crown of the Sky, and how to sever the connection between the White God and the Human King that spanned several eras."
"Then, please allow me to listen attentively."
The goddess of faith raised her hand in a gesture of greeting, her expression unchanged.
"As the saying goes, facts speak louder than words. Regarding the first matter, I think the most direct way is to let Your Excellency see it for yourself. So, please forgive my rudeness..."
As she finished speaking, the princess's cheeks flushed slightly. She then casually removed the black robe she never parted with, the one she wore to mourn her deceased sister. Beneath the robe, a delicate and shapely young woman's body was encased in a thin black dress...
Hey Hey hey?
Stop!
Just a moment ago, the atmosphere was so academic, like two historians discussing and working on a problem. How did it suddenly become so immature?
Aoko immediately planned to halt this increasingly unhealthy development.
The next moment, there was a thunderous roar, followed by purple lightning and blue light.
The entire room was illuminated by a pale light, and then, as the light faded, a series of thunderous sounds echoed.
"Your Excellency, what do you believe is the true nature of the Holy Light?"
Salome Reinhardt's voice remained unchanged, emanating from the other side where the sudden change had occurred.
"Generally speaking, holy light is the positive energy field that celestial beings usually possess. It is the opposite of dark and unclean things, and the opposite of negative energy fields. It is beneficial and harmless to most living things. It can heal injuries and dispel evil spirits. In the Far East, there is a more concise term to describe it: righteous energy."
"Indeed, the Rhine Daughters of the Far East have not escaped the curse originating from the bloodline of the White God. They have merely found a place to live a life of ease amidst the duality of opposites, a void constructed by the cognitive bias between dualism and the culture of the Gozan Dragon people."
"!"
After all the strange phenomena subsided, Aoko was able to witness the sudden occurrence of the strange occurrences.
After just one glance, she felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, and then she began to lament her ill-fated connection with a certain kind of creature.
Where Salome had stood before, stripping off her clothes, was now nowhere to be seen, only a four-legged, blue-scaled, white-horned, cloud-like creature with an ink-wash outline remained.
The incessant thunderclaps originated from the blue-purple lightning and fire flowing around its body.
“Your Highness, although I vaguely guessed that you had not escaped the Rhine curse, I really did not expect that you, who lived in the Far East, would actually be a... Qilin.”
The believer was speechless for a moment, but then suddenly understood.
He finally understood the original intention of the Rhine crossing to the East, and why Yale, which was only one step away from colonizing the astral plane, never wielded its sword against the Gozan dragons across the ocean until its demise, and even maintained good relations with them.
“The Gozan dragons are not creations of the fifteen Thranheim gods, so the good and evil camps divided by dualism will be quite different from theirs. And this loophole is exactly what the Rhine daughters need, right?”
"As you have said, Your Excellency the Righteous."
Salome Reinhardt, a fantasy creature in the area, nodded in greeting.
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Chapter 193 Taiyi (Part 1)
"In that distant, chaotic era, which is commonly known as the First Age and the years before it, fifteen primordial gods descended from the stars and established their own clans on the planet Thranheim. The creator of the Sons of Earth was naturally our supreme White God."
"The Lord of Radiance, the Saint of Dawn, the Lord of the White Moon and Ether, the White God whom we, the Children of Earth, worship, has never been stingy in bestowing His divine grace and virtue since the beginning of the Chaos Era. Therefore, even in the primitive era before civilization had sprouted, when the Children of Earth still lived on this star in tribal form, the ancient divine grace of holy light often accompanied them. In other words, our ancestors relied on this power of holy light obtained through their faith in the White God to migrate step by step in that barbaric chaotic era, in that ancient era when dragons and beasts roamed and alien races rose, carefully preserving the spark of civilization, and finally developing it into the city-state-like civilization at the end of the First Era."
Salome, now transformed into a Qilin, seemed more at ease in her current form. Her voice, when recounting the past, lacked the usual restraint in her choice of words and phrases, and instead conveyed a joy akin to freedom.
"Hmm, the Holy Light Warrior of the tribe?"
Upon hearing her words, the believer conjured up a picture in her mind: several large men dressed in sparse furs, holding spears, with resolute faces, and golden holy light radiating from the backs of their heads like small suns, while they casually trampled several ancient, large wild animals, or rather, dragons, beneath their feet.
He vividly described his imagined scenario to Salome.
Salome, the girl from the Qilin family, adopted a rather humane expression, offering a wry smile in affirmation.
"I haven't seen it with my own eyes either. There are some depictions of it in the oil paintings that have been preserved by the royal family. However, those are all products of secondary processing by artists of the Third Age. No one knows exactly what it looks like."
"That's how it should be. So, what does this have to do with the Gozanlong people?" the believer continued the conversation.
"The Gozan Dragonkin were not a clan established by the fifteen original gods when they descended before the First Era. This fact has been repeatedly proven by the Rhine royal family and the Gozan royal family during their two-era contact. They do not shy away from or intend to hide this fact. On the contrary, they proudly declare to all the divine creatures that have crossed the ocean to the Far East that they are the children of the One."
“Understood, an alien species.” The believer nodded. “But this [Taiyi] god is quite audacious, daring to sneak into the private land of the fifteen original gods to steal food. Did they fight afterward?”
“No,” Salome shook her head and denied.
"Hmm? Is there some special reason?"
"Because of the timing of its appearance."
"opportunity?"
"Indeed, if the Gozanlong people had arrived in Thranheim as an alien species during the First Age, then without a doubt they would have faced the combined annihilation of fifteen divinely created species. In an era when the Creator could still send down incarnations of saints to walk the land of Thranheim, even the most gentle Rosetta people could not defy the divine decree of their Creator."
"However?"
"However, the Gozan appeared at a very delicate and ideal time—the beginning of the Second Age. From the beginning of the Second Age, the gods could no longer send down incarnations of saints to walk on the land of Thranheim, and instead began to select representatives of the gods from among the believers. In other words, they used the method of 'divine selection' to continue to maintain their influence over their people."
"Has the model of descending as an incarnation of a saint been changed to one of promoting the chosen ones? In my understanding, something must have happened in the world of the gods, forcing them to abandon the model of descending as a saint, which would consume more divine power. In our mortal terms, it's because they were too busy to spare the time, or perhaps too preoccupied with their own affairs?"
The believer tried to guess what was going on.
"On this point, the Rhine royal family's conclusion is exactly the same as Your Excellency's guess," Salome nodded.
"Haha, then you are truly disrespectful. How can believers doubt the divine power of their creator? Hasn't the White God punished you for your disrespect?"
"The Rhine royal family I'm referring to is the current Rhine royal family."
After saying this, Salome transformed back into human form and then pointed to herself.
The believer couldn't help but chuckle softly.
“I apologize, Your Highness. I almost forgot that you are now the Rhine royal family itself, and you once subtly mentioned in Silver City that you were not such a staunch believer in the White God. I was mistaken. Let us continue.”
"As you wish, Lord Righteous Man... The Gozan appeared at the end of the First Age and at the dawn of the Second Age, etc... Before that, I would like to confirm, Lord Righteous Man, whether your extensive knowledge includes information about this transitional period between the end of the First Age and the beginning of the Second Age."
"I dare not presume to be erudite; these are all archaeological findings. I would be grateful if Your Highness could explain them to me, as I am unaware of the secrets of the ancient history that led to the transition between the First and Second Ages."
"I see. Actually, it's not really a secret. Almost all the written records of the divinely created species that have continued from the First Era to the present day have related records, but each record is from a different perspective and standpoint."
"Even if different attitudes are adopted in recording that period of history due to differing stances, the most basic objectivity can still be guaranteed, right?"
After listening intently for half the day, Miss Aoko couldn't help but join in the academic discussion that had finally returned to normal. Midway through, she exclaimed in surprise because Princess Qilin'er's black gauze dress seemed too thin and too ulterior motives. She rushed over and put the black robe on Salome before returning to her seat with a clear conscience.