"What is this?" Tingyun took out the Bone Gathering Fan, becoming wary.
At this moment, she turned to look at the priestess beside her, only to find her eyes shining and her body collapsing to the ground in excitement.
"Hmph, it seems my missing person notice did have some effect..." Blake sneered, blocking Tingyun and the priestess.
"Miss Tingyun, the situation is urgent right now. I'll explain later... You'll understand when you see her."
To prevent his distinguished guest from mistaking him for Riddlers, Blake quickly offered an explanation, but to little avail.
Above the Gothic spire, the hourglass began to pour silently, and starlight-like silver sands pierced through the beams of light cast by the stained glass.
The space folds open like silk, and the once bright church is now shrouded in Eternal Night Veil, with the hourglass in the dome shining with pure white moonlight.
After a flash of light, a silver-haired elven girl appeared inside the church.
She shattered the misty moonlight, her figure, draped in frost-colored silk, appearing even more frail than the white snow.
The girl's silver hair was not the color of snow in the world, but rather as dazzling as an inverted galaxy. Her hair ornaments, with their cold, shimmering silver light, resembled a crown woven from stardust soaked in dew.
The tips of her crystal-clear ears peeked out from her cascading long hair, and the ends of her hair brushed against the translucent skin of her collarbone, revealing nebula-like veins.
While following the [ Whistling Flames ] caravan, Tingyun had seen elven clans before, but this was the first time she had ever met an elven girl like this.
Two silver halos encircled those Jade pupils, as if moonlight had been refined into liquid and poured into them, while the corners of their eyes were tinged with a thin blue hue, as if infused with the juice of the Azure Moon Flower.
Wearing a plain white sacrificial robe, the elven girl's expressionless face added to her aloofness.
"Hmm..." Her ears trembled slightly as she lowered her head and looked around the church.
"Only under the darkest night sky will the Eternity holy light fall upon this place."
"What I have done is Eternity!"
A clear voice echoed through the church. Tingyun rubbed her ears, wondering if she had misheard.
Looking at the priestess beside her, she had fainted from excitement.
"Speak like a human." Blake snapped his fingers, and the curtain was torn open by an invisible force, revealing the church to light once more.
Blake turned to Tingyun and said, "Miss Tingyun, you've seen her situation. We don't need to worry about that guy... Let's get back to business."
"Ha, Blake, the agent of the false god... What gives you the audacity to speak to me like this? I am..." The girl gently stroked the silver hair that had fallen beside her ear, and suddenly noticed Tingyun to the side.
bass!
She suddenly froze, a blush rising to the tips of her ears.
"Uh... cough cough cough cough! May the holy light of the Lord of [ Remembrance ] descend, and forget the interlude just now." The girl steadied herself, tossed her silver hair aside, and imitated the way someone in her Remembrance spoke.
"Welcome, lost traveler! The Church doors are always open for you! You can consider this a safe haven."
"Standing before you is the highest-ranking elven priestess. Call out my name... Fulisina!"
"Miss Tingyun, where were we?" Blake ignored Fulisina behind him and continued his discussion with Tingyun.
"You just said you would protect me back to Luofu and lead troops to support the Xianzhou..."
Hey! Don't ignore me!
Jarilo-VI, Underworld
"Ha~ I slept quite well last night~"
Stretching on March 7th, just as she had expected, a pillow fight would bring her a good night's sleep.
Did you knock Miss March 7th unconscious?
Ye Yan and Dan Heng turned their heads at the same time to look at Xing.
"You two are innocent! I've lived a life of integrity and honesty. How could I do such a despicable thing during a pillow fight? I'm the fairest Galactic Baseballer in the entire universe! You can doubt my abilities, but you can't question my character!"
"Exactly! No matter how weak I am, there's no way I could be knocked out by Xing with a pillow, right? Don't underestimate a beautiful girl's ability to hide!"
"Speaking of which, I don't see Bronya and Seele. Where did they go?" March 7th looked around, but there were only the four of them at the Goethe Grand Hotel.
"I didn't mean to disturb you, but I saw you chatting with Bronya last night."
Dan Heng turned to look at Ye Yan; he didn't have the same quality of sleep as March 7th.
"It's nothing, I just told Miss Bronya a bedtime story. Unfortunately, it had very little effect... in fact, it had a negative effect; she wasn't sleepy at all after listening to it."
"Ah... Teacher Ye Yan, it seems you still need to practice your storytelling skills more."
March 7th said that she had finally found a skill that Ye Yan was not good at!
"When it comes to storytelling, you still have to learn from the world's best Galactic Storyteller."
In less than a minute, Xing had changed his nickname again.
"Then, Miss Bronya went for a walk alone to clear her head, and I don't know what happened after that." Ye Yan shrugged. He wasn't that diligent or kind as to go for a walk with someone in the early hours of the morning.
To finish the mission as soon as possible and meet with Svarog... if nothing unexpected happens, they'll be returning to the Upper District today.
After everyone arrived at the meeting point, they saw Seele and Bronya already waiting there.
"Ahem, this is what Chief Oleg told me: Although your plan is similar to the ramblings of a drunk miner, at least it points you in the right direction." Seele cleared her throat and began to imitate him earnestly:
"The lower classes have long since run out of options, and Svarog's attitude has changed. Now that things have come to this, I'm willing to gamble on you all; [ Wildfire ] unconditionally supports your decision."
"Don't worry, Seele, we'll prove you didn't trust the wrong person!"
"It wasn't just drunken ramblings from a miner."
"Teacher Dan Heng, your focus is Curiosity."
Bronya looked at Ye Yan, Ye Yan, after telling her the story, turned around and went back to the hotel without any hesitation.
Thinking of going out for a walk to clear my head, I ran into Seele and Natasha, who said that the clinic was running out of medical supplies and they needed to go to the city that had been eroded by the Fragmentum to buy some.
The supplies and equipment they relied on for survival were swallowed up by the Fragmentum, and even trying to salvage something from it was a life-threatening endeavor.
Faced with this situation, the righteous Bronya volunteered to go to Rivet Town with Seele. She had a lot of experience dealing with Fragmentum and would never hold her back.
After arriving in Rivet Town, Bronya's mindset underwent another dramatic change.
As if it were destiny, she returned to the Underworld with the four members of the Astral Express Crew and learned about her background.
Witnessing the Silvermane Guards Guardians sacrifice themselves in the Fragmentum every day, she still couldn't bring herself to change Cocolia's mind... and thinking of the elven girl whose homeland was Destruction by the insect swarm, despair filled Bronya's entire being.
She was helpless as the Underworld suffered, and her former home was reduced to this state, yet she remained completely unaware of it.
In the end, she couldn't protect anything, so how could she be qualified to be the Supreme Guardian?