Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 598: Is it a curse rather than a disease?
The result was unexpected but reasonable.

When the game console's narration gradually died down, Alice opened her eyes wide and said in surprise, "I didn't expect you to be the Girl King, Lorena."

Lingge guessed it right.

"Girl's Kingdom?" Rorona blinked. "What is that?"

"It's Kami!"

Alice was about to start talking nonsense again. Linger glared at her. Saint Shallia smiled and stroked her neck. The golden-haired maid subconsciously shrank her neck and coughed twice in a pretentious manner: "Ahem, I'm just kidding. The so-called maiden royal power refers to the offspring of the goddess."

"Goddess? Crystal Snow?"

As a mirror elf, when Lorena heard the word "goddess", the first person she thought of was Crystal Snow, the oldest god in the mirror elf clan and perhaps the oldest god in the entire ocean.

It is a pity.

“Not really.” Alice shook her head and said, “The goddess is much greater than Crystal Snow—well, I don’t mean to offend you at all. In fact, I respect Crystal Snow too. I have loved the ocean since I was a child and I am called Little Aguru—but in fact, the status of the goddess is indeed much higher than Crystal Snow, the god in your mirror elf legend. She is even the only one in the world!”

Rorona didn't mind Alice's disrespect for Crystal Snow. If the other mirror elves had heard this, they would have been angry. But she was obviously more interested in the goddess Alice mentioned: "So, what are her deeds?"

Indeed, the story of the goddess and the young girl's royal power involves various myths and legends from ancient times to the present, and is closely related to a secret organization, the Witch Society, which hides in the dark side of civilization and silently manipulates the direction of history. I am afraid that it will take another ten hours to finish telling the story, let alone half an hour. But Lingge and his friends don't have that much time to waste here, so when Alice wanted to explain the background story in depth, the young man gave Saint Shallia a hint with his eyes, causing the latter to stop her (in a gentle way), and then replaced Alice's position and continued to tell the story for Rorona.

……

“He created the world.”

In the mouths of young people, the love-hate relationship between the original girl royal powers and Saint Tumi, the love-hate relationship between the girl royal powers of order and the girl royal powers of chaos, and the love-hate relationship between the new girl royal powers and the girl royal powers who still retained the memories of the past... were all glossed over. If he were to be a bard, he would definitely be the most unpopular one. After all, he almost deleted all the plots that the audience liked and only summarized them in a few simple sentences.

The part that is emphasized is the reason why he embarked on this journey, the destiny opened by the golden apple, and the mission to go to the Temple of Heaven to find the goddess of creation. For this mission, he has traveled to several countries so far, walked almost half of the distance of the Western Continent, and successfully met "Destiny", "Mystery", "Freedom" and "Eternity" among the seven girls of order. Now, Lorena is the next one.

"Eh!?"

"so smart?"

Afterwards, Alice told Rorona the story about the goddess and the girl's royal power. In fact, it would be more appropriate for Lingge or Saint Shallia to do this, but this guy also has her own advantages, that is, she has good eloquence and is energetic. She talked nonstop for half an hour. An ordinary person would have been dry-mouthed, but she seemed not to be affected at all, and even wanted to talk for another half an hour.

Although Lingge may not be a qualified narrator, Lorena is definitely a qualified listener. In the previous narration, although she heard so many secrets that would subvert the world's cognition if revealed - for example, the revered Saint Tomi was actually a liar and betrayer, the East and West continents were once one in ancient times, and there was an even more mysterious organization hidden behind the union of the sects, etc. - she did not show any change in her expression, nor did she try to interrupt Alice or Lingge's narration to get to the bottom of the confusing parts.

She just sat back in her wheelchair, folded her hands on her belly, and listened quietly. Occasionally, a thought flashed in her beautiful blue eyes, but she quickly hid it and returned to the deep sea-like calm. After listening to Ling Ge's story, she, who had been very quiet, finally asked, "So, I, the 'half-son of God', am not the offspring of Jing Zhixue, but the offspring of the goddess of creation. Is this the girl's royal power you mentioned?"

"If nothing unexpected happens." Linger glanced at Alice, who was holding her neck and baring her teeth, and said, "Although Alice is unreliable, her cassettes have never made mistakes." This sentence made the golden maid very unhappy, but Rorona's mouth curled up slightly: "Then what is my royal power? Unpredictable fate? Knowing all mysteries? Freedom of the vast universe? Eternal reincarnation and immortality? Do I have the same magical power as these royal powers?"

"Yes."

Lingge said seriously: "That is your alchemy. Don't you think it is magical? That's why you prefixed it with the word "miracle". If I'm not mistaken, the power it symbolizes should be "creation."

Saint Shallia next to him added: "There is a path called [Creator] in both human potions and magic systems, which represents the power to transform and create matter."

And they all knew that the fourteen paths in the potion and magic system were essentially the fourteen powers possessed by the young royal powers. The ordinal path originated from the royal power of order, and the reversed path originated from the royal power of chaos.

"The evidence is irrefutable!" Alice got up from the ground without knowing when, and said seriously: "Just confess, Lorena!"

Click!

She fell down again.

"So, my alchemy comes from my royal power, not the gift of Crystal Snow." Rorona lowered her head slightly and looked at her outstretched hands. Her palms were white, and every hidden palm line was clearly visible. "So, my illness is not the price of gaining talent, but was inflicted on me by those witches you mentioned, my sisters in the past—"

She paused here, as if avoiding something, but Linger said bluntly: "It's not a disease, it's a curse."

As these words came out, the atmosphere in the room suddenly froze. Saint Charia looked at Ling Ge with a worried look. Even Alice, who was lying on the ground, couldn't help but raise her head and secretly glanced at Ling Ge. In the silent atmosphere, only Leticia's whispered words were crisp and harsh: "So, I said it a long time ago, Ling Ge is a nuisance."

Although Metien quickly covered his friend's mouth, everyone present - including Lorena - knew what this sentence meant and what the silence just now meant.

In Galene's narration, Lorena always called the misfortune that happened to her a disease, while others, including her mother, agreed that it was a curse. The conflict between the two sides originated from this, which once led to Lorena leaving the Nereids and going to live in a human city; now it has led to Queen Amyra placing her daughter under house arrest just to prevent her from leaving her side.

Now that the identity of the young girl Wang Quan has been confirmed, it also means that Lorena's stubbornness has been wrong, and her mother and others are right: it is not a disease, but a curse. This should be a hard fact to accept for Lorena, who looks weak but is extremely stubborn inside? But Lingge said it bluntly, as if rubbing salt into her wounds. To be honest, this approach is hard for normal people to accept.

That's why Leticia said that Lingge was a nuisance, and Saint Shalia and Alice looked at him like that. Even as a younger sister, Medien, although she trusted her brother, there might be some confusion in her eyes.

But only Lingge knew what Lorena insisted on.

He did not feel any guilt, nor did he dodge, but stared at the Princess of the Sea for a few seconds. The latter's eyes were as bright and peaceful as the sea water under the moonlight. Suddenly, she smiled and nodded gently: "Yes, Mr. Ling is right."

"It's a curse, not a disease."

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)