"The Schicksal Church's crusade reached all the way to Divine Land five hundred years ago."
"No, it would be more accurate to say it only reached the border. They failed at the border alone."
The reason they failed was that they had become too arrogant. However, there was an even more crucial reason beyond that.
"The one whom the people of Divine Land respectfully called the 'Immortal.'"
Although the expeditionary army of Schicksal consisted only of trained ordinary people, it numbered a massive one hundred thousand. Even Feng Chen could not have coped with them before releasing the power of the Herrscher Core, let alone defeated them alone.
"Chiyuan, Chiyuan! Wake up, Chiyuan!"
My head... hurts so much. Did I remember something again? the girl called Chiyuan wondered.
The one waking her was a black-haired girl. Both her attire and demeanor resembled those of an ordinary girl. In particular, the slits on both sides of her clothing exposed almost her entire legs. Judging only from her lower half, one would certainly think she was an extremely sexy woman.
In reality, that was not the case. Judging only from the girl's appearance, it would be perfectly normal to think she was merely thirteen or fourteen.
The girl called Chiyuan could find no information whatsoever in her mind about the girl before her. She only vaguely knew that this person was extremely important to her.
The hair ornament atop the girl's head was a pair of small snakes carved from white jade. If she knew the current time, perhaps she could even guess the girl's identity from these details.
"Stop shaking her, you idiot little sister."
Compared to her younger sister's lively voice, filled with girlish innocence, the older sister's voice was much colder.
If one ignored the color of their eyes