I felt that Enaka, the Space Gemini, and Sylvia would have a lot in common, without a doubt.
One was the eldest daughter and only heir of a famous ancient family who had to worry about electricity and water bills all day long. The other (Asida and Asidora could only be counted as one) was a high-ranking commander of the Empire who ran a flower shop that was incurring losses every month. She had to rely on the support of her subordinates and comrades to pay the rent and eat her fill at the same time. The other was the former leader of the Empire and the current commander of the Raven Army who lived in the City of Shadows every day. As long as she could eat her fill every day, she could live as blissfully as a mole. What was so sad and pitiful about this world? These poor princesses deserved it.
Ah, speaking of Sylvia, it was said that she had recently opened a small shop near the entrance of the City of Shadows and Avalon. With the precedent of opening an accessory shop in the administrative center of the campus city, it was easy for everyone to guess how unreliable her shop was this time. That's right. She had opened a candy house in the SSS-level security zone of the Imperial Army's fortress. She was currently working hard to sell peppermints to the Schilling soldiers and heroes who were standing guard nearby.
What do you think is in that silly girl's head?
Let's not talk about whether Sylvia could earn money for now. Anyway, because of her small shop that wasn't located in the city, the number of soldiers that the City of Shadows needed for its daily security had increased by a large margin.
Speaking of which, we got off topic. In fact, what I wanted to talk about was the problem of Enaka charging us three years' worth of rent in advance before he went to school this morning. Three years! Although the money was obtained from Pandora's hacking into the bank system and she could get as much as she wanted, Enaka, are you crazy? Three years is enough for me to unify the world more than ten times over, you know? How could a well-behaved young lady in front of others act like Liliana in front of us?
Faced with my confusion, Sandora secretly used the spiritual connection to answer me during breakfast, "Ah Jun, I think this is also the effect of the stay-at-home dad halo."
I was confused. I didn't understand. While Enaka wasn't paying attention, I desperately winked at Sandora.
"That human girl found fatherly love in you, so she decided to ask you for pocket money every month."
Sandora was still calm in front of my instantly ashen face. She kept thinking about what she could and couldn't eat in her mouth. Across the table, Enaka trembled as she watched Sandora eat. Only now did she realize that the food budget for this girl with a big stomach last night was too optimistic.
On the other hand, I was considering whether or not I should lock Liliana in a cage for a few years after I return, so as to prevent that chick from using her vile genes to infect the world. Look at how pure my Sandora was before, now she's been infected by Liliana with the black-bellied gene.
"Hey, we have to go to school." Enaka and Wei Miya were still students, so they still had to go to school every day. Before we left home, Enaka reminded us one last time, "Don't touch anything in the house! Especially Sis Sandora, if you're hungry, you can call for takeout. Ah, of course, the money will be on your tab. Also, Uncle Alien, don't let any colleagues from the film industry come over, a European-style house won't be able to withstand being smashed … "
Hmph, you make it sound like we're here to cause trouble. Let me tell you, the people at the door are a bunch of saviors!
However, Enaka's next sentence made my rebuttal die in my throat, "Thinking about what happened to Wei Miya, I really think that no matter what happens to the house, we should accept it calmly."
I was wrong, Ling. We will definitely stay at home and not destroy anything. What happened in Wei Miya's house was definitely a series of accidents, please believe me.
After sending off the troublesome Missy, the Empire's soy sauce gang immediately returned to their idle state. Well, even though we had a lot of things to do, I don't know why I always feel like we're idling around even when we're working.
"Brother Director, we've already set up a defensive position here," Tears, who was dressed in military uniform, nimbly jumped down from the roof. The sword in her hand was still glowing in blue light, "If it's attacked or spied on by hostile forces, the space will immediately be locked down. The soldiers on standby in the basement can use the position's teleportation array to instantly appear next to the attacker."
"Oh, thank you for your hard work." I nodded. Even though she was still young, Tears more or less had the qualities of a commander now. If the heroic spirit that spied on Wei Miya's house that night appeared again, the position she had set up beforehand would probably be effective.
However, her ability was really annoying. She could disintegrate herself into scattered energy at any time. If we didn't set up a quick reaction trap, even with the advanced technology of the Empire, it would be a headache to deal with these fellows that specialized in escaping. After all, they were the workers of the world's origin. Even if they were just clones, these heroic spirits still had some impressive abilities.
"Where are Pandora and Visca?"
I looked around, but I didn't see the two of them. Only Little Bubble and Jingle were cheering and jumping around the living room, acting out the strange friendship between the food and the diners.
"They should be setting up a spatial mine," Tears scratched her head and revealed her signature dry laugh, "They said that in this unfamiliar place, they wouldn't be able to sleep well without at least two thousand units of high explosive ammunition."
I suddenly felt that Enaka's worries before he left home were probably reasonable. Pandora might really tear down Enaka's house at any time. Then, Ling would have a reason to ask us to use titanium alloy to build her a new home that occupied a hundred thousand kilometers and was two hundred floors above ground and two hundred floors below ground. This shouldn't be the young lady's original plan, right?
At that moment, a communication from Avalon suddenly connected to the information link. It was a communication request from the intelligence team in charge of monitoring this world. After connecting, the image of a subordinate commander that I had met once at the fortune-telling stall under the Erli Bridge appeared in my mind, "All glory to you, Your Majesty. The Garden of the Departed has obtained the latest data from their scan of the Liudong Temple area. The target space has undergone a reverse swap at 6: 55 am local time. Currently, the normal Liudong Temple has returned to the real world. However, we have yet to discover the location of the false projection that once occupied the real world."
I raised my head just in time to see Sandora's eyes turn in my direction. It was obvious that she had received the same information as I had.
Liudong Temple had returned, and the people inside were safe and sound. They were also completely unaware of what had happened that night. I didn't know if the magician who had mixed in with them knew about all of this, but compared to one or two troublesome heroic spirits, Liudong Temple, which was currently undergoing some sort of mutation, was more of a concern. Avalon's Garden of the Departed represented the highest level of technology that we currently possessed. As its main targeting device, that world's scanning module was extremely advanced. It could even cross the Sea of Void to scan every dimension of a distant world, as long as we were willing to expend sufficient energy. However, even such a scan was unable to discover where Liudong Temple had gone under the Crimson Moon.
Based on the Bubble's deductions, after correcting the interference caused by the dimensional barrier to the scanning, the only thing that could reach such a level of interference was Schilling's technology, which was of the same origin, or the original power of the world.
Alaya, Gaia. Of course, I wasn't referring to the eldest and second sisters of the "Three Sisters Who Illuminate All Things" at home. I was referring to this world's two greatest restraining powers. If "they" had already noticed and begun to counterattack the invaders, then everything would be fun.
Fun my ass! We're here to save the two of you, idiot restraining powers!
However, before Avalon could decipher this world's dimensional laws, we were unable to actively establish direct contact with the two greatest restraining powers. That was why ordering the controllers of the Garden of the Departed to continue with their current mission was the only thing we could do.
It was so boring being idle in the house. The younger ones were all enjoying themselves and finding fun things to play with. Pandora and Visca could study Dark Thunder, Little Bubble and Jingle were still playing Food Escape, and even Tear was happily fighting over the television with Sandora. I was the only one who was excluded from the group. After trying several times to blend in with the younger ones but failing, I decided to go out for a stroll.
Fuyuki City wasn't a flourishing major city, and due to the great fire ten years ago, this city had yet to completely recover after experiencing a period of low tide. There weren't many places to stroll around here, and as I aimlessly strolled around, I unknowingly arrived at a place far away from the downtown area.
I abruptly appeared in front of me. The land was filled with the aura of death and decay, with an ominous aura lingering around it.
Not far away was the lively city green space and residential area. Only the scorched land in front of me was completely barren. Even the remaining dried tree trunks appeared lifeless. This was probably where the great fire had raged. It was as if the undead of the past were still entrenched here, stubbornly using their own deaths to prevent the arrival of new life, turning this place into a barren wasteland. However, I knew that the undead were all nonsense. What was entrenched here wasn't actually undead, nor was it just despair and resentment. Through my mental perception, I could sense that something foul was stubbornly entrenched beneath the ground. It was something created by a mixture of magic and resentment, just like how the Calamity had contaminated the soil of the Western Plaguelands. The "virus" between life and energy had infected the earth, strangling the seeds in its infancy.
Since it wouldn't take much effort, I might as well just treat it as helping Jingle accumulate some merit points.
With that in mind, I took out a large cup from my dimensional pocket. On the cup, a certain "person" had drawn a silly smiley face and two crossed lollipops with crooked lines. I didn't even need to think to know who had drawn such a symbol. I used this cup to fill it with water from a nearby pool. The water instantly seemed to vanish into an absolutely transparent liquid, and it began to slowly evaporate into mist filled with energy. I knew that this thing would be useful.
* Splash! * I poured all of the water in the cup onto the barren land. The water, which wasn't even a liter, instantly sank into the soft soil. It seemed unremarkable, but in just a few seconds, an unprecedented energy storm engulfed this land in a way that ordinary people couldn't see. The foul energy that had been lingering in this land for ten years was instantly defeated after overestimating itself. Due to the grave sin of blasphemy, it was disintegrated into the basic elements of the world. Perhaps in just a few days, this land would become a lively grassland.
After all, this cup was the one that Jingle used to bathe in … Speaking of which, that little one didn't even mind that I would use such a thing to "bathe" her every now and then when her body was pitch-black due to the failure of her experiment, she even drew her own lollipop pirate flag on it when she was bored. Should I say that the God that could be bribed with a piece of candy was really easy to coax?
Because a true God had once bathed in it, it was bestowed with the meaning of Holy Spring. All the water that came into contact with this spring would become holy water whose level of mystery was second only to the "First Light". Although this theory was rather ridiculous when used on a plastic cup that cost 7.50 RMB, you had to admit that the Star Domain Protoss was unreasonably powerful in certain aspects. That vixen Laura was fortunate enough to obtain the remaining half a cup of water that Jingle drank. After going back and conducting a series of experiments, she came to a shocking conclusion: Reproducing that little bit of holy water would require the power of all the Christians in England to pray devoutly in the church for half a month in order to do so. And after knowing that the eternal seventeen year old "young girl" actually mobilized the entire Church of England to conduct such a research, I was also astonished by the former — of course, that's a different topic.
The dark and ominous energy was swept away by the holy water that was infused with Jingle's divinity. The air around me seemed to have become much cleaner. I took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. At the same time, a cheerful voice sounded behind me without any warning.
"Ah! It's that strange big brother! "
"Ilya?" Although I had already sensed the girl's approach, I still pretended to be surprised. "Why are you here?"
"Because I sensed that something happened here. Or is it that Ilya's sudden appearance annoys that strange big brother?"
The silver-haired girl tilted her head slightly, her face filled with unfeigned confusion and disappointment.
"Of course not." I smiled as I walked to Ilya's side. The first time we met, we were enemies, and even her Servant was brutally dismembered by two berserk short wintermelons. But now, she could actually greet me without any wariness. This little girl's way of thinking was really incomprehensible. "Also, can you get rid of that 'strange'?"
"Ah, Ilya is really annoying!"
Tsk, children are so troublesome.
"Speaking of which, aren't you afraid of me?" Looking curiously at Ilya's innocent smiling face, I pretended to be fierce to scare her. "My two younger sisters can kill Berserker in an instant."
"That won't happen." Ilya's eyes reflected the clear sky. Her voice was crisp and cheerful. "Berserker has already revived. That night, big brother protected me. Also, you know that Berserker can be revived, right? So, big brother didn't want to hurt Ilya from the start, right? Also, you aren't participants in the Holy Grail War, so we aren't enemies. "
How could such an innocent girl be so sharp?
I looked at the little girl in front of me in astonishment. I realized that I was unable to understand how she could maintain her current naivety and quick-wittedness at the same time.
Even though it was very comfortable to stand next to the ground that had just been purified by the Holy Water, I noticed that Ilya's complexion was gradually worsening. Her body was a "special tool" that was modified by the Einz Behren family from a young age. This kind of blasphemy against life could also be seen as a betrayal against the will of the Goddess of Life. Jingle's power had already unknowingly started to reverse modify the magic circuit in Ilya's body. In other words, Ilya's physical body was currently disintegrating under the remnant Divine Power of Life in the air.
"You don't look too good. Go sit over there."
I patted Ilya's shoulder and almost half-pushed the little girl to the swing set on the other side of the street. Ilya grabbed onto my sleeve and said with a confused tone, "It's so weird. I can clearly feel a warm aura here, but why do I feel so uncomfortable?"
After resting on the swing for a long time, Ilya's pale complexion finally returned to normal. The little girl swayed listlessly on the swing, her calves swaying lightly in the air. After a long while, she fell to the side dejectedly. In the end, I caught her quickly.
Er, could it be that she knew that I would definitely come to rescue her, so she dared to play a prank on me?
Looking at the slight smile on Ilya's lips, I was rather suspicious of this. Oh my Jingle, why are the children of the modern world so scary?
However, the mischievous smile on Ilya's face only lasted for a split second. In the next second, she pursed her lips and revealed an unhappy expression.
Although I didn't know what was going on, the little girl in front of me seemed to be in low spirits from the very beginning. Other than the energetic greeting she gave me when we first met, she still had a dejected look on her face. The effects of the Divine Power's corrosion had already passed. Ilya's current state definitely wasn't because her body was feeling uncomfortable.
I casually took out a lollipop that was bound to me due to various reasons and stuffed it into Ilya's hands. "Here, this was originally prepared for my younger sisters. It's okay to give one to you."
"It's so fortunate to have a big brother's younger sister." Ilya's eyes lit up as she accepted the lollipop enviously.
However, it was really hard to be their big brother.
I couldn't help but be moved by such an easily satisfied sense of happiness as I watched Ilya gradually reveal a happy smile. She must have been raised as a "tool" by the Einz Baylon family since she was young, so she had probably never received such pure and unadulterated care. This little girl with the color of ice and snow couldn't help but remind me of Weska of the past. Even though they appeared to be worlds apart, their joyful expressions in the face of happiness that ordinary people would find insignificant were incredibly similar.
"Berserker is injured," Ilya suddenly interrupted my thoughts. She had a lollipop in her mouth and her eyes were staring forward. "He was protecting me …"
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