bookrandom Chapter 347 Mural
Chapter 347 Mural
Catherine had no intention of responding to these vicious curses.
Her eyes were no longer enough.
The Forest of Elves is actually like this...
bustling.
——These were the only adjectives she could think of.
This place was completely different from the quaint, quiet and mysterious forest world she had imagined.
Countless vines that she didn't recognize extended outward from the Tree of Life in the center, and the light was like broken gold, filling every corner as far as the eye could see. Catherine saw that some vines were connected to the giant trees on the roadside, lighting up the giant flowers hanging on them, like a huge jewel lamp.
On the road that was wider and flatter than Highgarden, some strange carriages without horses passed by from time to time, and the people in the carriages would cast curious glances at her as a foreigner.
The people who were chatting and laughing on the street turned into two eagles and flew into the sky the next second.
She seemed to have stepped into a beautiful dream world.
Catherine couldn't describe her feelings. She did feel it was novel, but she also felt that... it was supposed to be this way.
This is how the world should be.
"These..." Catherine pointed at the vines that she couldn't name and asked the priest who was leading them.
"Do they draw their power from the World Tree? Every day? Won't the tree be damaged?"
Such a simple statement almost made the priest in front of him lose his serious expression.
"Do you understand the weight of these words 'World Tree', young witch lady?" He glanced back at Catherine and Kanien who was struggling desperately, feeling a little embarrassed to watch.
"It is the center of the world, the origin of everything, and the incarnation of our gods. Its energy is so strong that it can attract the attention of outsiders, so there will be holy wars... Didn't your history books teach you this?"
Catherine didn't say anything. The World Tree described by others was completely different from what she saw with her own eyes.
"We have been encouraged by the Mother Goddess to learn how to use it. The energy we are taking now is equivalent to taking a grain of sand from the river." said the priest, looking at the vines with flowing light.
The light on the vines above his head flashed. When the priest saw it, he sighed, stopped chatting with Catherine, and quickly took her and Kanien to the registration office.
"Is this the royal elf who has been stranded outside?" A young elf teacher was already waiting at the school's registration office.
"...I am! I order you! Capture this woman for me!" Kanien came up with a new idea.
The elf teacher at the registration desk raised his eyebrows and looked at the priest who was leading the way.
"His mother said that he is a little rebellious now and has done a lot of ridiculous things." The priest had listened to Kanien's curses all the way and his face was expressionless.
The elf teacher didn't comment. It was not like she had never taught a bad student before. Then she picked up a beautiful pen on the table.
"Parents' names."
"Let me go back! My father... my father is the only Duke of the Gaia Empire! He is the only brother of King Bishop VII! The pillar of the empire! He will soon be promoted again! To become the only Grand Duke of the Gaia Empire! And I! am the nephew most beloved by the king and queen——"
The teacher had never heard of such a long name, and looked at the priest in confusion while holding the pen.
"Orphan." The priest gave a simple translation.
Katherine & Canyon: ...
Teacher Elf happily wrote it down. With this premise, the subsequent procedures were greatly simplified.
By the time Kanien hadn't recovered from being an "orphan", he had become an elven elementary school student who still had eighty years to graduate.
"I am going to kill you!"
He gripped the gate railing with both hands and stared at Catherine with red eyes.
"Well, you should say goodbye to your relatives properly." The problem was finally solved, and the priest gave perfunctory instructions and left in a hurry.
Catherine looked back at her brother who was from the same family as her. It seemed that the royal elves did not have as many privileges as she had imagined. This was for the best.
"Kay, Katherine!"
Kanyon's expression changed quickly, and when he realized that cursing was useless and that his sister was about to leave him alone here, he changed his route again.
"Are you really going to leave me here? For eighty years!" When he thought about his future life, he shed tears out of true emotion.
"Have I ever really hurt you? I am your relative! We have the same blood in our bodies! Do you really want to push your brother into hell for an outsider?"
Catherine looked at his cowardly look and slowly smiled.
That smile made Kanyon hold back his bitter tears.
"What are you laughing at?!" Only now did he really regret going to Lilith. Before this, he had never expected that Catherine would be so ruthless!
"Because I think it's very interesting..." Catherine smiled and slowly approached the beautiful carved gate.
"I just thought that I have awakened as a real witch, and you, thanks to your own great inventions over the years, have transformed into a pure-blooded elf... Didn't you discover anything, Kanyon?"
Kanyon's nose was red and he looked a little dazed.
"The part of our blood related to Bishepu has been washed away, and our blood connection seems to have disappeared -
Do you think we are still family?" Catherine asked calmly.
After being stunned, Canion angrily stretched out his hand over the railing and tried to tear Catherine's hair, but she easily dodged it by stepping back.
"I know that even at this time you still don't think you are wrong." Catherine said lightly as she looked at her former sibling. Sometimes, she felt that she understood this brother better than her parents.
“It doesn’t matter if your walnut-sized brain can’t figure it out. You still have 80 years to learn slowly.
I hope you can grow up to be sensible and wise, just as your mother hopes."
Catherine's words were very serious, and she did not expect her foolish brother to listen to her. However, she still did as the priest said, said goodbye to Canion, and then turned around and left resolutely to find her mother.
From the very beginning, Cynthia went to a meeting hall with the forest rangers, waiting for the managers of the Elf Forest to come for negotiations.
Since she didn't come out, Catherine wandered around the periphery, walking along the long corridor, admiring the quaint murals on the wall step by step.
But he stopped after only a few steps, as if he had encountered a problem.
"Do you need help?"
A figure jumped out, and golden hair flashed suddenly, making Catherine want to call out that familiar name.
But this was not her - Catherine took two steps back and distanced herself from her. This was a male elf, and his hair color was just somewhat similar to Lilith's.
"Ah, did it scare you?"
The visitor scratched his head and introduced himself somewhat embarrassedly.
"I thought you needed an explanation. We met in the Pathless Forest... Oh, my name is Lariel. You are so pretty!"
"...Thank you." Catherine was confused by his messy self-introduction and still didn't recognize that the person in front of her was the boy who was caught by the ranger.
"This is the Two Holy Trees." However, Lariel took this thank you as a response to his request for help and started introducing them.
"The Two Sacred Trees?" Catherine no longer cared about his irritable way of communicating and asked about something that interested her.
"Well, they once supported this world, but then they declined and collapsed when the Void Disaster came." Lariel took a step forward and brought Catherine to the next mural.
"There is a saying that the sun and the moon were born from their fruits. After they collapsed, our mother goddess came with the world tree and created us."
Mother Goddess… Catherine heard this word countless times today.
"…It was she who led all the tribes to unite and resist the invasion of the outside world and defend our homeland."
Lyriel seemed to want to show off in front of the witch very much, wishing he could squeeze out all the knowledge in his head and offer it to her. When he couldn't remember clearly, he skipped over it vaguely, and then he saw Catherine stopped in front of a mural again.
"This is..." Catherine looked at the largest mural and took a few steps back before she could see its full picture.
He took a closer look and breathed a sigh of relief. He was still able to explain this one clearly.
“Isn’t it spectacular?” Lariel also retreated to the same distance as Catherine and said softly, “This is the Heroic Picture, which records the Mother Goddess and her former allies fighting together.”
Catherine looked at the mural in front of her and was shocked by the magnificent war scene.
On the huge mural, a woman holding a sharp sword is riding a white dragon, with the tip of the sword pointing directly at the dark purple clouds in the sky.
Below her, there were countless stone statues with bat wings, holding spears in their hands, rushing towards the purple-red monsters on the ground.
The scene on the ground was even more varied. The little people of various races raised their weapons and rushed forward under the leadership of a female warrior blowing a horn at the front...
On the coastline, a huge mermaid came walking on the waves, triangular halberd raised, ready for battle.
Is this... what it was like during the holy war?