Elysia: Is This Ever Going to End?

Hmm... my head is a little dizzy, where am I...?

"So it was for Feng. Does that mean these two are finally going to..."

"My God, I support Xila and Feng..."

"What?! Mo Feng's stock went bankrupt?!"

"What? Is it really impossible for Dr. Mobius?"

"Hey, hey, hey, what kind of crooked and evil method is this?"

Elysia: "???"

This familiar discussion... and the plate in my hand...

Kevin reached Nahamah's side, saying that he wanted to go back in the Present and kill him right now, "Is it today?"

"Yes, did the boss tell you that too?" Nahamah nodded and said, "However, she said we don't need to go there. She's going to confess to the boss by herself. She doesn't want too many people watching, so she won't confess in the banquet hall. What we need to do is to prevent too many people from disturbing them."

"Really?" Kevin looked in a certain direction. "The two of them... well, indeed, it doesn't seem like anything unexpected."

Elysia: "..."

Heh... How come she didn't notice when Kevin became Feng-Lilith Faction last time? Thinking about it carefully, it was probably around the time Maple and Kevin's relationship started to improve after the Seventh Herrscher Incident that Lilith was already trying to pull Kevin to her side.

Elysia put down the plate in her hand expressionlessly. She was certain that this was a dream, but she didn't understand why she would have this dream. It started after Lilith's confession following the Ninth Herrscher incident. Although Maple and Lilith were not actually a couple, they were nominally a couple in the gossip of the Fire Moth warriors.

In a sense, this incident left a deep impression on her. Because of this, she was afraid of hearing news she didn't want to hear and decided to bury her head in the sand, actively reducing her contact with Feng... It was another day she wanted to go back and properly educate her past self.

Those around her seemed surprised by Elysia's sudden change of expression, as Elysia rarely showed a blank expression. In fact, Elysia had never had such an expression before. It was just that she had gotten used to being persecuted by Lilith this time, and since someone around her often looked like that, she had been influenced to some extent over time.

The influence is mutual; for someone else, it's also because of Elysia. At least their expressions and words are much richer than before, and they've even revealed their cunning nature.

"A- Elysia, what's wrong?" someone asked, seemingly cautiously.

Elysia glanced at Lilith, who was heading towards the garden without turning back, and quickly composed herself. She smiled and said, "Well... it's nothing. I'm just a little upset about Lilith's confession to Maple."

The person asking the question, "..."

For you to make that expression... is it really just "somewhat" irritating?

Elysia glanced at the person who had asked her the question. Although she knew it was a dream, some parts were indeed too real. For example, the subtle changes in this person's facial expressions were very lifelike. Compared to the last dream, there were far more characters in this dream.

It was because there were so many characters that she was able to easily realize that this was a dream.

The other people talking further away were speaking indistinctly, and their faces were also relatively blurry. Kevin and his group were also conversing according to their original memories.

On the contrary, it's this person in front of me...

Although Elysia cared about everyone in the Fire Moth, it didn't mean she remembered everyone in the Fire Moth. Moreover, she had to start over this time. She didn't think she could accurately capture the subtle changes in a person's facial expressions in a dream, especially since it was someone she only vaguely remembered.

This ability to create dreams reminded Elysia of the Eighth Herrscher. Clearly, the Eighth Herrscher could do the same thing, except that the Eighth Herrscher's Herrscher Core had already been retrieved... No, that's not right. Mobius was still bothered by finding the Eighth Herrscher's Herrscher Core; after all, the way he found it was far too comical...

The reason why Elysia would think this way is very simple. It's impossible for her to dream about the important events between Lilith and Maple again in just a few days, right? Is she looking for trouble?

The only possible explanation is that someone is involved in the dream...

The person Elysia subconsciously thought of was Lilith. Basically, all these dreams were related to herself, Kaede, and Lilith. However, if that's the case, Lilith and Kaede shouldn't have known the details of the "The Final Banquet" before, so the simulation shouldn't have been so realistic.

Therefore, Elysia is more inclined to believe that the dream of "The Final Banquet" was constructed from her own memories. However, it is not impossible that when she later Fire Moth's Clan to find Maple, that memory belonged to Lilith, since Lilith was with Maple at that time based on ideology.

If you think about it that way, things start to make sense...

I feel like I've been persecuted by Lilith again.

The Tragedy of Binding, when the gap between myself and Feng was at its maximum, was also when Feng's feelings for Lilith were directly sublimated. In the Finality battle, Lilith and Feng stayed together until the end, while I was long gone by then... As the first sacrifice and only the second Flame-Chasers, I am really sorry (gritting my teeth).

Then there's this time, Lilith's confession to Maple... Should I go see it or not?

Going would only cause me distress, but not going would leave me unwilling to repeat the same mistake as last time...

Thinking of this, Elysia looked at Lilith with a hint of resentment. Lilith, who had been facing away from her, turned her head at this moment. Their eyes met, and then Lilith gave a playful smile before turning back and continuing toward the garden.

The moment the two locked eyes, Lilith's teasing voice reached Elysia's mind. "Guess whether the Maple who the Present in front of me this time is real or fake?"

Elysia: "!"

Is Feng in this dream too?!

Wait, if that's the case, then the Maple who walked towards the other Fallen Angel in the dream after the last the War of Finality, could it also be... him...?

Did I, at that time, push him into Lilith once again?

Elysia's eye twitched, and suddenly all the noise and chatter in the banquet hall vanished in an instant. She subconsciously looked around, and just like in all her previous dreams, everyone had turned into stone statues.

The only things left in the banquet hall were the soft music still playing, himself, and Lilith was about to leave.

Although it's unclear how Lilith acquired the power of the Eighth Herrscher, the fact that Mobius and the others couldn't find the Herrscher Core of the Eighth Herrscher before is definitely related to Lilith possessing the Eighth Herrscher's power...

She was already exhausted from fighting with Lilith all day. She was thinking that Lilith seemed to be less concerned about the time she spent with Feng during the day. It seemed that the whole night belonged to Lilith, right?

So... why did she drag herself into this?

Regardless, she'd better follow along and see what happens. Even if it's not actually Feng herself who appears, she definitely won't bury her head in the sand in this dream anymore! At the same time, she also wants to know what Lilith is planning to do.

On the other side, Lilith sighed softly in her heart when she noticed that Elysia had caught up with her from behind.

Actually, she didn't really want to bring Elysia into this. Elysia's appearance this time also confirmed one of her conjectures: even if she seized the power of the Eighth Herrscher and could create a dream for herself and Feng, Elysia would still appear in the dream even if she didn't use her power on her.

"Is it because we are the Origin, appearing as two sides of humanity, that we are essentially the same? My taking over the power of the Eighth Herrscher has caused Elysia to be connected to me to a certain extent, so I have no way to bypass Elysia..." Lilith pondered. As for the identity of the Herrscher of Origin that she had told Zhu Yufeng before, it was actually a guess. She herself was not sure whether it was true or not, but it was just a deduction based on some things.

After all, in the game that Zhu Yufeng encountered, there was only one Origin Herrscher, Elysia, from beginning to end. After Elysia sacrificed herself, the next civilization did not even have Origin... If Raiden Mei really just wandered around the Elysian Realm and didn't take anything.

(Note again: The main storyline had just passed through the Elysian Realm when the protagonist transmigrated.)

In her previous life, she always had strange feelings for Elysia. Although she always scoffed at Elysia's attitude towards those around her, questioned Elysia's authenticity, and mocked the so-called True Self in her heart, she was different from others... She knew that her feelings for Feng were love, while she felt contempt and disdain for others, even wanting to toy with their lives. But towards Elysia, unlike others or Feng, she could hardly feel any malice towards Elysia.

If I had to pinpoint any malice, it would be the jealousy that she was just as hypocritical as I was, yet still received special treatment from Kaede. In reality, Elysia had never really been pretending, except when it came to her feelings for Kaede, she liked to deceive herself by saying, "If I didn't see Kaede, it's as if nothing happened."

During the "The Final Banquet," around the time when Elysia sacrificed herself and left, she experienced sadness... Before that, she had only experienced sadness once, when her confession was rejected by Kaede. Apart from that, she had never felt any sadness for anyone or anything, nor could she feel sadness.

It was precisely because that emotion was exactly the same as the feeling she had when Feng rejected her that she was certain she was sad, but she didn't know why she was sad.

Although she and Elysia are opposites in many ways, they are the same in one thing: before they experience and become aware of each other, they do not have a clear understanding of the concept of liking someone.

Elysia loves all human beings, but if no one or nothing breaks this barrier, how could she realize that her feelings for Kaede are a different kind of feeling, a different concept?

She despises all human individuals and sneers at human stupidity. She doesn't even have a clear concept of love. In this respect, she should thank the Eighth Herrscher, who combined all her understanding of humanity to help her recognize her emotions.

My relationship with Elysia probably started with the help of the Eighth Herrscher. Elysia finally realized her feelings because the high probability of Kaede dying during the Twelfth Herrscher Incident strongly stimulated Elysia, making her realize that she resisted Kaede's departure more than anyone else, and that Kaede was special enough to her, above everyone else...

However, at that time, even if I wanted to help, I was powerless to change the situation.

In summary, the opportunity for her to meet and fall in love with Kaede was that the Eighth Herrscher introduced her to Kaede. She wanted to stay by Kaede's side and be with him forever, so that even if the life that followed was something she hated, she could still be happy with it.

For Elysia, the Twelfth Herrscher Incident was the turning point that made her realize that even though she still loved humanity and its civilization, there was only one person she could never leave: Kaede. So, it was only then that she realized what kind of feelings she had for Kaede.

It was also due to Kaede's overly obsessive personality and the irreconcilable estrangement brought about by the Tragedy of Binding that Elysia could only write her identity as Herrscher on the only invitation she sent out, hoping that Kaede would appear as a conqueror.

She so vehemently resisted her identity Herrscher, yet in the end, she had no choice but to write this invitation in that capacity, with the sentiment that even if Kaede "hates her, it doesn't matter as long as we can see each other one last time before we part."

When Lilith used her Eighth Herrscher abilities to review this memory, which was still too profound for Elysia even now, Lilith was certain that Elysia was already in a state of near despair at that time.

The best proof is that she changed the pink crystal jade to red before the "The Final Banquet".

She no longer believed that her feelings could be conveyed.

The person you thought you loved, who initially only saw you, now hates you and is gone forever. Your belated feelings can never be conveyed to them...

She meticulously prepared for her first ever makeover, even seeking out Eden for it and pondering her outfit for a long time, all so that on their final meeting, she could be in her most beautiful form to greet her end and the person she could no longer reach.

Then that person misunderstood and simply didn't come, instead sending Kevin, a former rival he had a strained relationship with due to jealousy, in his place...

When Elysia saw Kevin, besides feeling almost devastated inside, she also thought of the last words Maple said when he first confessed to her, "Because I'm not Heroes like Kevin?"

Sigh, even someone as pathetic as myself feels a bit pathetic. I must give a shout-out to the Eighth Herrscher, Qian! If it weren't for the Eighth Herrscher making me realize my feelings and directly prompting my confession to Feng, Elysia wouldn't have realized her feelings so late.

Perhaps it is because of these reasons that Elysia's obsession with Kaede after this rebirth is extremely strong.

However, she didn't turn into a yandere. Should I say that she truly is a good human being?