Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 476 Does the story begin a long time ago?

"That is a story that happened a long, long time ago."

Many stories start like this, but the time span of those stories is only a hundred or two hundred years at best, and the longest is only a thousand years. After all, for mortals, a hundred years is ancient, and a thousand years is a legend. But the story that Fei Er wants to tell these guests from afar and her sisters who have lost their memories today can indeed be summarized as "a long, long time ago."

"It's been so long that I have almost forgotten what I looked like at that time. Many memories are often only vague and you will never touch them in person. Therefore, if I only tell this story from the perspective of the person involved, it would be biased. Let me stand in the position of an observer and try to reproduce its original appearance for you in a fair and just manner."

Fei'er's eyes swept over the faces of Saint Xia Liya, Olvera, and Leticia one after another, taking in their different expressions, which were reflected deeply in the depths of her silver-gray eyes. As for memories, they had lost more than she did, so if she was the person who was most reluctant to recall the past, then they were the most indifferent bystanders.

Saint Xia Liya forgot what she was supposed to do. Her finger hovered over the [Escape] option but she never pressed it. Perhaps fate did not allow her to escape. She once again recalled the boring years she had spent in the apple orchard. At that time, the apple branches were flowing with a slightly tipsy sunlight, and the leaves were as transparent as patients who had lost too much blood. The complex veins on them were like blood vessels. She saw a rabbit hit and died on the tree trunk, and the yellow leaves under the tree drowned groups of ants and grasshoppers. Only then did she realize that her thoughts were gradually turning into ashes in the long and boring fire. She fled there because she could not bear the loneliness and solitude, and vowed to find her sisters who were lost in the vast world and never be separated from them again.

When her long-cherished wish was within reach, she had no reason to escape. After realizing this, Saint Shallia slowly withdrew her hand and nodded gently and silently, indicating that she would listen carefully to the truth about blood relatives turning against each other and brothers killing each other.

Since she had already made the decision, no one else would object. So Fei Er began to tell the story, but she did start from the beginning of the story. So Linger and Metien once again heard the magnificent myth that they had heard countless times in the "Church Scriptures" and in the prayers of their adoptive fathers. They thought they were back in Tianxin Church. Under the colored glass windows, tiny dust and particles floated in the sunlight, like plankton on the seabed, so remote and small that it was unbelievable.

"A long, long time ago, our mother, the great goddess, created the world in six days, bringing life, color, soul and magic to this originally empty and desolate universe. On the seventh day, She decided to fall asleep, and entrusted the authority to the fourteen girls She created. The side of order is the left side of the scales, the light side of the world; the side of chaos is the right side of the scales, the dark side of the world. The balance between order and chaos maintains the foundation of the entire universe, that is - the royal power of girls."

Speaking of the goddess of creation, Fei'er's tone became much gentler, because all the young royal powers were born from His gentle arms. Even though many years have passed, and many things have been forgotten actively or passively, His loving eyes and compassionate expression at that time will never be forgotten.

The witch of fear used her power to bring fear to the world, but she herself missed the warmth of the past. Therefore, through this subtle difference, the story she told gradually changed from an ancient myth since the birth of the universe to a grand epic of the struggle between the wisdom of living beings and the cruel world that was newly born after the birth of civilization.

"In the world at that time, magic power was abundant between heaven and earth. Races that were born with the ability to use magic power therefore gained great power and became the masters of the world. Among them, dragons ruled the mountains, giants ruled the plains, feather elves, dust elves and mirror elves ruled the sky, earth and ocean respectively. They were the second sons of their mother and inherited some of her memories. They knew that the most noble person in the world was the goddess, so they also called themselves gods. This was the earliest origin of false gods in mortal civilization. In addition, there were demons represented by fairies who occupied forests and little-known secrets, and terrifying monsters roamed the wastelands and canyons in the dark night...Humans were unable to use magic power and were born the weakest race. They lived in tribes and struggled to survive between the cracks of other races."

"The girls favored by the goddess live in the Holy Temple of Heaven outside the universe, controlling the kingship of order and chaos. They follow the instructions left by their mother before she fell asleep, and silently watch over this new world to prevent it from being invaded by the extraterrestrial disaster beasts wandering in the infinite universe. They have no intention of participating in the struggle for life, because it is not a fair thing for them to do with their strength. However, among the humans at this time, there is one who is unwilling to accept the situation of his race and is determined to open up a new path for his compatriots, so that the naturally weak humans can also compete with powerful dragons, giants and other races for the right to survive."

Hearing this, Ling Ge was startled for a moment, and then he opened his eyes wide in disbelief. He seemed to have guessed who the person Fei Er was talking about was. To this day, that person's name still appears repeatedly in the history textbooks of the East and West continents and the religious texts of animists, and is praised as sacred, that is -

"Saint Toumi."

Fei Er said: "Later, humans called that man that, but in our eyes at that time, he was just a mortal who was blinded by his ideals and impulsive. I even think he was a little crazy. If he wasn't crazy, who would risk being swallowed by the interstellar tides and rashly break into the universe to pursue the traces of the Holy Temple of Heaven? No one knows how he passed through the ancient star road blocked by the gravity of so many huge stars, let alone how he could accurately lock the coordinates of the Holy Temple of Heaven in the vast universe... In short, when his fellow tribesmen were still living on the ground, competing for food with ants and beasts, that man had touched the most fundamental secrets of the universe with his innate wisdom and perseverance." "Saint Tumi met the girls who guarded the royal power in the Holy Temple of Heaven, far away from the world, explained his purpose to them, and moved them with the miserable situation of the human race. From the standpoint of compatriots, the girls could not sit idly by."

When she said this, Alice was shocked and said, "Wait, compatriots? You mean, at the beginning, all the girl kings were human?"

"Yes." Fei'er nodded: "It's better to say that the young queen is the ancestor of all humans. Mother created the human race based on their appearance. As for your current race - whether it's silver elves, light elves, or even blood race, it doesn't matter. It's just the appearance that changed after reincarnation, and the essence of the soul has never changed."

The last sentence was said to Saint Xia Liya, Olvera and Leticia. After listening to her explanation, Ling Ge suddenly understood why she had invited them to join the organization on behalf of the Witch Association, which was extremely exclusive of aliens. It was not because they were aliens, but because they were originally human.

Metien's eyes became strange and her mood was complicated. She muttered in a voice that only she and Shemi, who was closest to her, could hear: "The ancestor of mankind is so powerful."

She is clearly my close friend who has been traveling with me all the way and a good friend I just met, so how come she is suddenly so much older than me?

Alice wasn't too surprised. After all, this was considered a relatively common character setting in the game. She just stared at Fei Er with suspicion: "Since the young royal power is human, why didn't the goddess give humans the talent to use magic when she created life? This is not fair at all, right?"

Alice had this doubt when Saint Shalia first told them the legend of the Goddess of Creation and the Maiden Kingship, and it has never been answered. If the goddess had not been so partial, Saint Tumi would not have had to risk his life, cross the sea of ​​stars, and go to the Holy Temple of Heaven to seek help from the Maiden Kingships, right?
"Mother has her own considerations."

Fei Er, however, lightly brushed aside the topic, and without waiting for Alice to ask, she continued, "Humans who cannot use magic are destined to become vassals and slaves of other races, struggling to survive under their shackles and fetters. The young royal girls, who have never set foot on the earthly world since the creation of the world and therefore retain their kind nature, were convinced by Saint Tumi's words, so they decided to divide a part of their authority into fourteen holy vessels, entrust them to Saint Tumi, and tell him that the hope of mankind using magic lies in them."

"After leaving the Holy Temple of Heaven, Saint Tomi immediately summoned thirteen of his followers to study and analyze the holy vessels given by the young royal powers. What they finally obtained was a note called "The Beginning of Spirituality", which mentioned: '... All things have spirituality, and human spirituality is the strongest, but they are particularly dormant. If we activate spirituality, we can see the truth through appearances.' This sentence later became the foundation of human mysticism. Spiritualism is like the foundation, laying the foundation for the glorious splendor and great future of this ancient temple."

"Later, after a long period of exploration, he and his disciples finally found a suitable path. They used magical herbs, minerals, plant and animal tissues, and even body parts or souls of other intelligent races as materials to refine potions with properties similar to the fourteen royal powers. They stimulated the awakening of human spirituality and gave the user the dual power of body and soul. That was the first extraordinary system in the history of human mystery—"

"Potion system."

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)