Su Luo spotted Ellen and Karen among the crowd and descended with Tiamat before the villagers.
The Situation in the Date A Live World
"Milord, is there anything we can help you with?" The village chief stepped forward and asked politely and gently.
He was deeply afraid that one careless misstep might offend Su Luo and bring disaster upon the entire village.
Setting Su Luo aside for the moment, the noble-looking woman beside him, with two enormous horns atop her head, was clearly no ordinary human.
Not to mention that Su Luo himself constantly exuded a powerful sense of affinity.
It made people unable to resist wanting to draw close to him.
Combined with the scene they had witnessed just now, no one present regarded Su Luo and Tiamat as ordinary people.
"There is no need to be nervous. Coming to this village was merely an accident. Still, I did not expect there to be Magi here as well." Su Luo smiled.
"You flatter us, milord. Our lineage of Magi has long since declined. We do not even know how much longer we can hold on." The village chief gave a bitter smile.
He was not wrong.
Magi were fundamentally different from ordinary people and could see things that ordinary people could not.
If they displayed their powers before ordinary people, they would easily invite rejection and suppression.
Furthermore, as human technology advanced, the power wielded by ordinary humans grew stronger and stronger.
The living conditions of Magi had become increasingly difficult.
One careless mistake could see them captured for research or simply killed.
This made them grow ever more disgusted with humanity, so they simply hid away in forests far from the bustle of cities and built a village.
However, as time passed, the aptitude of their descendants grew worse and worse. Even though many magical books had been preserved intact, very few people could learn from them.
The most talented Magus in the village was the girl Ellen.
At such a young age, she had already surpassed old men like them who had spent their entire lives studying magic.
She was also the strongest Magus in the village.
That alone was enough to show just how dire their current circumstances were.
"Have you never considered finding another path?" Su Luo asked.
The village chief did not hide it. "We have. A few years ago, two young people became curious about what the outside world was like and went out to make their way in it."
"They returned once two months ago and said they had found a new path for us Magi."
"However, their method was to cooperate with humans. That immediately provoked opposition from the villagers, so their proposal was rejected."
"After that, they left the village once again."
"I reckon they were brainwashed by humans long ago and forgot why our ancestors secluded themselves in the mountains and forests."
The village chief shook his head in disappointment.
Clearly, he also opposed the actions of the young people he had mentioned.
Su Luo immediately understood that the two young people the village chief mentioned should be Isaac and Eliok.
This was somewhat different from the original work.
In the original work, human extremists had targeted the Magus village and sent an army to destroy it.
Su Luo did not know the reason behind it.
However, in the original work, Isaac and Eliot had still been children.
They had escaped the calamity only because they happened to be outside playing.
But here, Isaac and Eliot, along with Ellen and Karen, had all already become adults.
The only difference was that Ellen and Karen had remained in the village studying magic and delving into mysticism.
Meanwhile, Isaac and Eliot had left the village several years ago to develop themselves in the outside world.
They had also drawn humanity's attention to the existence of the Magus village.
If nothing unexpected happened, this village would soon suffer a devastating blow.
Thinking of this, Su Luo turned his gaze toward the sisters Ellen and Karen, who stood among the villagers in black robes.
The two women looked very similar.
Judging from their appearances, they already somewhat resembled their anime counterparts.
They were simply missing a bit of... hostility?
Perhaps it was because the village had not yet been destroyed.
In Su Luo's eyes, Ellen possessed more innocence and airheadedness.
Karen, meanwhile, was exactly as he remembered her—expressionless.
Only those beautiful eyes of hers revealed intense curiosity when she looked at him.
Ellen was also examining Su Luo and Tiamat with curious eyes.
They clearly looked human, yet they possessed power beyond her imagination.
Could people like them truly be called human?
When the village chief noticed Su Luo looking toward the geniuses of their village, he immediately introduced them with a smile. "Milord, she is the strongest Magus in our village—Ellen Mathers."
"The one beside her is her younger sister, Karen Mathers."
As he spoke, the village chief also signaled for the sisters Ellen and Karen to greet Su Luo and the others.
"Greetings, milords," Ellen and Karen said in unison.
"If you do not mind, milords, please rest in our village for a while. I will have Ellen and Karen attend to you," the village chief said, seeing that Su Luo bore no ill will and hoping to befriend him.
After all, there was no need to think about it to know that Su Luo's side was immensely powerful.
If Ellen and Karen attended to them and Su Luo was pleased, it would be a blessing if he were willing to teach the sisters something.
Still, the village chief did not hold much hope for that.
Ellen was indeed a genius, but that was only in comparison to their village.
To Su Luo and the others, Ellen's talent might not be all that remarkable.
Moreover, mysterious knowledge generally came with teacher-student lineages and strict, old-fashioned rules.
It could not be casually passed on to strangers.
As long as they could show Su Luo and the others their sincerity and goodwill, that would be enough.
No one would refuse the chance to befriend the strong.
"Thank you for the trouble." Su Luo nodded slightly.
Since even the Origin Spirit had yet to appear here.
He might as well get in contact with Ellen and Karen first and leave behind an "anchor" to help him confirm the timeline.
When Eliok and Isaac used the Spirit Formula to create the Origin Spirit, he could go and snatch her away first.
Just thinking about it, he could already imagine how wonderful Isaac's expression would be.
A delighted smile rose on Su Luo's face.
Seeing this, the village chief led the other villagers away.
He left the space to Ellen, Karen, Su Luo, and Tiamat.
"Milord, what are your plans next?" Karen asked.
"We will take a look around the village. Also, just call me Su Luo."
"This beside me is Tiamat." Su Luo smiled.
"Aaaa—(Hello.)" Tiamat let out an ethereal voice.
"Tiamat... Isn't that the Mother Goddess of Creation from Babylonian mythology? She..." Ellen hesitated.
As the strongest Magus in the village, although she mainly studied the Kabbalah System.
She had also dabbled in other fields of mysticism.
Naturally, she knew the name Tiamat.
Even though the other woman looked nearly human apart from the two massive horns on her head.
Ellen still found it difficult to imagine that she was the legendary Mother of the Gods!
It left her feeling somewhat incredulous.
"There is no need to doubt it. She is the genuine Mother of the Gods, Babylon's Mother Goddess of Creation."
"It is simply that she is the Mother Goddess of Creation from another world." Su Luo smiled.
Ellen and Karen
"I see..." Ellen nodded lightly.
Although she found it unbelievable that Tiamat was truly a Mother Goddess of Creation and that Su Luo and the others came from another world, she felt that beings as powerful as them had no reason to deceive a weak Magus like her.
Over the following period, Ellen and Karen took Su Luo and Tiamat around the village, letting them admire its beautiful surroundings and experience its rich rural atmosphere.
As time passed, the distance between Ellen and Su Luo rapidly shrank.
Before long, they had become friends who could talk about anything.
Karen, on the other hand, maintained a serious expression from beginning to end.
However, Su Luo knew that although Karen appeared calm and serious in how she handled matters, she was someone on the same level as Master Origami.
By now, she was probably already thinking about some explicit things.
Time slowly passed.
It was lunchtime.
Ellen and Karen brought Su Luo and Tiamat outside the village for a barbecue.
The grill was covered with wild chickens and rabbits that Ellen and Karen had hunted in the mountains.
Smoke curled through the air, and the aroma of grilled meat spread everywhere.
Ellen could not help secretly swallowing. Even though she was already extremely anxious inside.
She still put on an outwardly calm expression.
While the food had yet to finish grilling.
Su Luo took the chance to use Clairvoyance to investigate Eliok and Isaac's circumstances.
In an instant, Past Vision activated.
Scenes from Isaac and Eliok's past experiences emerged in his mind.
It also gave him a better understanding of this world.
It was more or less the same as the original work.
Eliot and Isaac had gone to the city and entered human society.
The first thing they encountered was the city's various advanced industrial technologies.
Seeing the world beyond the village for the first time, they were naturally curious about everything.
Especially the field of technology.
The moment Isaac first saw it, he decided to combine magic and technology to make magic even stronger.
After years of hard work and struggle, Isaac and Eliot had founded DEM Company together and had already produced a batch of early Manifestation Devices.
However, Isaac and Eliot had not yet created the Origin Spirit, so they lacked any data related to the Origin Spirit.
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