"It's hard to borrow the booklets this time, but I'm sure there's one race that has a lot of them." Luigi winked at Angor. "You get it, right?"
Angor tilted his head. "You mean … the organizer?"
The Crystaleye Race.
Luigi nodded. "Correct."
Although Pilucci was the supporter of the gathering, and the booklets were modified by Sage Pika, the organizer was still the Crystaleye Race. Naturally, all the booklets were sent out from the Crystal City.
If there was a race that had extra booklets, it had to be the Crystaleye Race.
"Does Glapnir have connections with the Crystaleye Race?" Angor asked.
Luigi nodded. "Yes. Ever since the incident with the baby dragon, Glapnir's reputation has spread far and wide. He's often invited to various places for fortune-telling, and he's had several encounters with the Crystaleye Race. "
If Glapnir really wanted to borrow the booklets, the Crystaleye Race wouldn't refuse.
Angor was amazed by Glapnir's wide connections, and he was also looking forward to seeing the booklets. After seeing Pippi Castle up close, Angor was quite curious about Pilucci's invention, especially his creation method. What were the differences between Pilucci's invention and the alchemy of wizards?
Luigi suddenly spoke up, "This platform is quite empty. There's no one here except for us. This isn't a city gate, is it?"
Luigi could share his mind with his other selves, but he rarely did that. Most of the time, he would use Mind Synchronization to share images with Laplace and Glapnir, or "group chat".
In the previous "group chat," Luigi only knew that Laplace had asked them to come here, but he didn't have the time to ask where the pavilion and the passageway behind it led to.
"This is an entrance," Laplace said. "It's not a city gate for the gathering."
To put it simply, this was a private passage used by the Crystaleye Race.
As for why Laplace could use this place? There was no need to ask. Either he was well-connected, or he was worshiped by the Crystaleye Race.
"You said there's no one here, but that's not right. There are people over there," Laplace said.
Laplace turned his head and glanced at the passage behind the pavilion. Angor and Luigi followed the voice and saw a small head peeking out from an even darker corner of the tunnel.
As the crowd looked over, he, who was secretly observing, was also startled and quickly retracted his head.
He moved quickly, but Angor was still able to see his face in the blink of an eye.
The other party had only one eye, and his skin was like colored glass. His face was devoid of color, but it was a nearly colorless white. In the middle of his round head, there was a cluster of vertical crystal lines. Perhaps this was his hair?
There was no doubt that the other party was from the Crystal Eye Clan.
Judging from the smoothness of his skin, the brightness of his eyes, and the thickness of his face — literally, the thickness of his face — he should be a child of the Crystal Eye Clan. Or rather, he was at the age where he was about to grow into a teenager.
Since it was difficult to determine the true age of the Crystal Eye Race, they were temporarily classified into the "juvenile" group.
"When did he come?" Luigi looked at the narrow passage in confusion. "Why didn't I sense his aura?"
Luigi's question was directed at Laplace, but what answered him was an old voice.
"In this city of Crystal Eyes, which is filled with holy corpses, you need to use your senses more precisely to detect the aura of a Crystal Eye Race. In other words, you need to keep your senses out …" A hunchbacked figure with a cane slowly walked out of the passage. "But if you do that here, and you're looking at a young Crystal Eye Race, you're provoking the Crystal Eye Race …"
The old woman who spoke walked out of the passage and nodded at Angor and Glaipnir while scolding Luigi.
Without a doubt, this old woman was Glaipnir.
Luigi didn't mind being scolded by Glaipnir at all. Instead of looking at Glaipnir, he was looking at something behind her.
Not only Luigi, but Angor as well.
Glaipnir didn't come out alone. Behind her was the young Crystal Eye Race who peeked at them earlier.
The young Crystal Eye Race student was hiding behind Glaipnir timidly, only showing his side.
Angor couldn't tell if the young Crystal Eye Race student was male or female. Or rather, he never saw the gender of any Crystal Eye Race student.
The young Crystal Eye Race student was wearing a sackcloth robe with rough edges, which covered his hands and feet. Only his head was exposed.
"He's …" Angor looked at Glaipnir in confusion.
Glypnir replied, "His name is Rita. When I came over, I saw him looking around in the tunnel, so I brought him along."
Angor thought the young Crystal Eye Race student came here with Glaipnir, but it seemed that wasn't the case.
Glaipnir continued, "I know his grandmother. She used to be a member of the Crystal Eye Race's elder council. Her name is Shiluda. But I think she went to the edge of the world and never came back. "
Glaipnir looked at Rita. "As for Rita, I heard from the Crystal Eye Race that he comes here every day to wait for Shiluda."
Just as Glaipnir finished speaking, the youth named Rita retorted in a low voice, "Grandmother Shiluda didn't go beyond the border, she went to Ghost's Domain … I-I usually have to wait for Grandmother, but today I have other matters to attend to …"
Towards the end, Li Ta's voice became softer and softer. He lowered his head as if he was deep in thought.
Glaipnir patted Rita's shoulder and looked at the others. "Anyway, I don't think he's spying on you. He's here every day, so he must have something to do.
Let him stay here. I'll take you inside. "
Glaipnir gestured for everyone to follow him into the city.
However, at this time, Li Ta said in a very soft voice, "Divination granny … Grandmother said that granny can be trusted. Can … can you take me away from here?"
Everyone stopped moving. Glaipnir also looked at Rita in confusion. "You want to leave? Leave the water … "
Halfway through his sentence, Glaipnir seemed to have realized something. He glanced at the towering Crystal City beside him and silently summoned a dome of starlight, covering everyone and the tower of power.
Glaipnir had heard of a rumor before: Crystal City had its own consciousness.
This rumor had been popular for a long time, but no one knew if it was true. Glaipnir had asked Shiluda about it before. Shiluda had only smiled and never given a direct answer.
Even though Shiluda hadn't said anything, her "avoidance of the question" was a different kind of "answer."
Regardless of whether Crystal City had its own consciousness, Glaipnir still decided to treat it as one. If Crystal City had its own consciousness, then it could possibly listen in on the conversations of all living things in the castle.
Especially the Crystal Eye Race.
Hence, she summoned the starry dome to cover them and prevent them from being eavesdropped.
"You want to say that you want to leave Crystal City? Why do you want to leave? Where do you want to go? "Glaipnir looked at Rita, who was less than 1.5 meters tall." You want to find Shiluda? Shiluda is outside the boundary, or at Ghost's Domain. You can't go there right now. "
Glaipnir threw a bunch of questions at Rita. It sounded like he was trying to discourage Rita, but it was also a kind of concern.
From this, it could be seen that the relationship between Glypnir and Siluda was not bad.
Love and Love.
Rita replied, "Yes. I want to leave Crystal City. I came here today to find a chance to escape during the chaos. I'm not leaving to find Grandmother. I'm leaving because … because … "
Rita hesitated for a moment before revealing the truth under Glaipnir's gaze. "Mother went behind the snow mountain yesterday."
Behind the snow mountain?
Hearing Rita's words, Glaipnir frowned as if he had thought of something.
On the other hand, Angor was puzzled. What happened behind the snow mountain?
He knew about the snow mountain. Behind Crystal City, there were endless snow mountains. But he didn't know what was behind the snow mountain.
Maybe the snow mountain was a metaphor for someone being buried in the snow mountain? Did Rita mean that his mother was dead and buried in the snow mountain? Angor began to make wild guesses.
Before he could think further, he heard Laplace's voice transmission.
Laplace seemed to have noticed Angor's confusion and explained the meaning of "behind the snow mountain".
After some time, he realized that his guess was completely wrong. Or rather, it was the complete opposite of what he expected.
Going behind the snow mountain didn't mean death or extinction. Instead, it meant a new life and hope.
The Crystal Eye Race did not have a biological gender. Their gender was determined before they were born. As for how to determine that, it had something to do with the snow mountain.
In the snowy mountain behind Crystal City, there were two lakes that looked like eyes and were hugging each other. Of these two lakes, one was a deep sky-blue color and was called the Male Lake. The other was a quiet black color and was called the Female Lake.
The Male Lake and Female Lake determined the sex of a Crystal Eye's offspring.
If the mother bathed in the Male Lake before a Crystal Eye's offspring was born, the child would be male. If the mother bathed in the Female Lake, the child would be female.
But in fact, the children of the Crystal Eye Clan did not have any external sexual characteristics. The so-called gender was just a way of addressing them.
The only difference was the name. Male Crystal Eye's name always had "Ta" in it, while female Crystal Eye's name always had "Da" in it.
Other than that, there was no other difference.
As far as Angor knew, the Crystal Eye race was a monogamous race. This was why he couldn't tell the gender of a Crystal Eye's offspring because they were all the same.
The only way to tell their gender was whether their mother bathed in the Male Lake or the Female Lake before giving birth to them.
It sounded like a sloppy way to determine the gender.
Angor was puzzled. Why did they decide the gender like this? Also, they were a monogamous race. Why did they have to have a gender distinction? More importantly, how did a monogamous race reproduce?
Angor didn't really understand. But he also knew that using human worldview to define an alien race or civilization was too biased. It didn't matter if he didn't understand it. He just needed to respect it.
After understanding the meaning of "behind the snow mountain", Angor could roughly guess what was going on in Li Ta's mind.
Maybe Li Ta thought that his mother no longer loved him because she had a new child? So this was the so-called "second child syndrome"?
While Angor pondered, Glaipnir and Li Ta continued to talk about other things.
Angor slowly understood the situation.
Li Ta was indeed worried that his mother would neglect him, but this worry was not without reason. In the past, his mother loved Li Ta very much. That kind of love was beyond words, and Li Ta could clearly feel it.
However, a year after his grandmother Siluda left, which was last year, Li Ta noticed that his mother was becoming colder and colder to him. She would always stare at him in a daze.
Because of this, Li Ta felt so helpless when he lost his "love". He even thought that it was the "second child" who caused this.
Li Ta's mother didn't tell him that she was about to give birth to a new child. Rita had heard this news from a loyal servant of his grandmother, Shiluda. It was this servant who told Rita that staying here would only increase her sadness. Perhaps leaving Crystal City was a good choice.
However, the children of Crystaleye Race rarely had the chance to leave on their own.
Li Ta came here because he wanted to find a chance to leave while the other races were having a meeting.
However, before Li Ta could leave, he ran into Glaipnir.
Siluda once told him that Glaipnir was her most trusted friend, which led to this conversation.
…
After listening to Li Ta's story, everyone in the room had their own questions.
There were many strange things in Li Ta's story.
Why did his mother suddenly treat him so coldly?
Also, why did Siluda's servant suggest Li Ta to leave Crystal City? Considering the whole story, the choice of "leaving" was too abrupt. It could be corrected, but it didn't need to be corrected.
Li Ta didn't think too much about it. He actually chose to leave Crystal City. He even planned to sneak away. That was strange …
He used a voice transmission spell to tell Laplace what he was thinking.
Laplace was silent for a moment before he said, "Just now, Glaipnir told me through Mind Synchronization that there might be some secrets behind this matter."
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