The female devils I saved came to my door

But this lonely housekeeper is also curious about what kind of traces she has left in Shire's long and complicated thousand years of life, and what kind of traces she has left in his life with Hilna, Lovna, Sher Lana, etc. Compared with the people who appear and leave, whether they meet again or say goodbye forever, can the weight they occupy be considered heavy?

She wanted to know more about Ciel's experiences during these long millennia.

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The leisurely life seems to have no end.

Their life is easy and comfortable.Reading endless books in the study, playing all kinds of weird board games, trying to create dishes with different flavors... Charles even picked up paper, pen and tools again, trying to make those dishes accompanied by the two queens Fairy tale picture book.

It's just that his imagination and creativity are not what they used to be. Sometimes he would sit at his desk in distress for hours without being able to write. This should be regarded as a small regret.

Time goes on.

On this island at the edge of the world, the tides brought by the sea breeze day and night rise and fall, and the warm and genial sunlight gradually turns pale.

The island is about to enter a long, dark winter.

The northern islands will enter the polar night for a short period of time.In the small towns on the island, residents have prepared supplies for winter and huddled in their homes, enjoying extremely strong drinks and food full of fat and salt, waiting for the return of spring and daylight.

Except for the never-ending tide, the island has no extra sounds, as if it has fallen into hibernation.

The fire was rekindled in the fireplace of the old castle, and Hilna felt like the winter she spent in Ipoli during her childhood - leaning on their teacher, huddled in the quilt, drinking hot milk tea and bubbles. Soft biscuits while noisily reading and playing chess.

The severe cold and wind and snow are blocked by thick walls, doors and windows. No matter how long and dangerous the winter is, with a dry and warm mattress and the arms of my lover as a shield, I will only feel safe and peaceful.

"I heard from Wuming that you can see the aurora here."

Lying on the soft bed, Lovna made a small nest for herself with the quilt. She only stuck out her face, and while swaying in the quilt, she said expectantly: "I am in the whole territory of Ipoli." I have never seen an aurora. The last time I went to the north to see the aurora on a whim was five or six hundred years ago. After that, I fell asleep for a long time and almost forgot how beautiful it was."

"I've never been so close to the North Pole. The aurora... it's the afterglow from heaven, or the footprints left by angels riding their mounts on the sky, or the torches that guide the souls of the dead... it's all quite romantic. . The brilliance that covers the entire sky and penetrates the sky... must be spectacular."

Several people are looking forward to it.

However, they waited for a long time, and the aurora did not appear this winter.In the long dark night, only scattered stars still flickered dimly, and even the brilliance of the stars could be obscured by storms that appeared from time to time.

"It seems that we won't be able to see the Aurora this year..."

Both Sirna and Lovna were very depressed, but they were not that sad. After all, as long as Charles was here, any regrets would have a chance to be made up for.

At worst, wait another year.

But Wuming never gave up. Every day she would still find time to climb to the top of the castle, stand high in the cold wind, and look up at the sky above her head, hoping for a miracle.

Of course, she waited until the long dark night gradually became brighter and the winter was about to dissipate, but the aurora still did not appear.

"Maybe there really won't be an aurora this year..."

However, just when this thought occurred, she suddenly discovered that at the end of the sky, a long silver-white light appeared.

The colorful and winding light path extended from the distant sea level towards the small island where they were located, and even the turbulent ocean tide was illuminated with a turbid background.

As if it was about to split the sky, the aurora was getting brighter and more dazzling, as if it were a living divine beast that was about to completely cut the night into pieces across the sky.

"Lord Charles! Lovna, Sirna!" Wuming excitedly jumped down the stairs in three steps and two steps at a time, knocking on the three people who were playing chess by the fire: "The Aurora has appeared! This time the competition has passed. Spectacular anytime! Come on!”

The two queens, full of expectations, quickly got up and followed Wuming all the way to the roof of the castle.Ciel, who was following closely behind, suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation in his heart.

He pressed his chest gently, feeling a little confused.

This feeling was the premonition he had had when Lovna suddenly found him last year.

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"It's really spectacular! It's a very rare golden and silver-white aurora... But, isn't it a little too dazzling?"

"Indeed..." Hilna also noticed something was wrong: "It's too bright, and, is that aurora approaching us? And its shape..."

Wuming was also stunned at this moment - when the aurora appeared on the horizon just now, she was so excited that she didn't pay attention carefully.Now, she was sure it wasn't an aurora.It was completely different from the auroras she had seen in the past.

That's a train.

Her length can split the sky. The scales covering her skin are shining with dazzling colors. Her flowing mane is like burning flames. The huge dragon horns on both sides of her head have shining runes flowing between them, like a pair of Gorgeous sacred tree.

The light she emits is more brilliant than the aurora.

With her arrival, the tide of commission returns that was already non-stop became even more restless.

Her eyes looked towards the island below her, and her pupils accurately locked onto the castle on the island.

(End of first volume)

0. The Dark Realm and the Legend of Dragons

On the day when the first ray of wisdom was born, the Heavenly Father existed forever.

Following the guidance in their souls, all living creatures instinctively worship God the Father.

However, people's interpretation, understanding and yearning for the nature of God are not the same.

In the distant ancient times, the saints who had not yet established orthodox faith—the orthodoxy represented by the Eternal Holy See—firmly believed that the Father, as the only eternal God, is everything.

God the Father is the Lord of the underworld, the human world, and the kingdom of heaven.

God the Father is the collection of stars, destiny, death and nothingness.

Angels and demons are essentially creatures created by the fear of humans in the mortal world in the underworld and merged into the will of the Heavenly Father.

True believers should not be confused by the existences transformed by these desires, nor should they place their emotions on these existences.

Therefore, people should only respect the only Father in Heaven and obey only His infinite power.

Human beings should only be in awe of the unpredictable sky above their heads, their unpredictable fate, their destined death, and the emptiness of meaning. Other than that, all fear and reverence are false and will only lead to self-destruction. .

The object of fear and reverence should be the invisible and mindless body. Only the body will not be corroded by time and can be called eternity.

However, some people don't think so.

These people, who were later classified as "heretics" by the Eternal Holy See, believed that humans should revere more than just God the Father as an abstract concept.All tangible objects in reality, whether they are dangerous beasts, surging rivers, towering mountains, lost ancestors... can become representatives of God, and everything is transformed into the image of God the Father.

They felt that God should have a concrete image.

Therefore, they erected various totems according to the environment in which they lived, worshiping mountains, rivers, lakes, scorching heat and cold, the tallest ancient trees in the dense forest, the deceased ancestors, wild boars that wasted food, and culling livestock. The tiger and wolf...

Their fear and worship of all kinds of real things caused corresponding changes in their bloodline.

For those who revere mountains and rivers, their bodies gradually become hard and dark, their personalities become stubborn, and their minds become old-fashioned;

Those who worship the lake will grow scales on their bodies, fins on their elbows, gills on their necks, and their character will gradually become oily;

Those who respect the forest have their skin solidified into rough bark, and their limbs twisted into tangled branches and roots;

Those who are afraid of beasts will have horns growing on their heads, downy hair sprouting all over their bodies, their hands and feet turning into deformed animal hooves and sharp claws, and flapping flesh wings and feathers growing on their backs;

Some people's bodies will emit flames unconsciously; some people's bodies will emit ice as their emotions fluctuate...

In this way, these people are no longer human, they have differentiated into different demi-humans and alien species, and become intelligent monsters.

There was no country on the earth at that time, and people's language and writing were still very primitive. People did not understand principles, let alone doctrine, and did not know friendship and kindness.

Therefore, these demi-humans and aliens with different physical characteristics have no moral constraints. They form different tribes based on their similar bloodlines, and rely on physical differences and beliefs to distinguish and hate each other.

Following their primitive instincts, they began to kill each other.

Among them, there is a group of people whose desires and fears are the strongest and purest. They long to conquer the sky, oceans and mountains, envy the freedom of birds, fish and animals, yearn for strength, speed and long life... Their complex desires make their Alienation is the most serious and complete.

Their bodies became extremely large, with gorgeous scales covering their huge bodies, their gorgeous horns like crowns on their heads, their sharp claws capable of crushing anything solid and solid, and the spitting flames and ice capable of destroying everything. prey……

They can easily soar above the city, overlooking the small and frightened humans, feeding on people who were once the same kind, plundering people's metals to decorate their scales, destroying the capitals that people have built with difficulty, and enjoying being superior to others. pleasure.

These demi-humans and the most powerful of the alien races no longer consider themselves human beings. They are collectively called "dragons".

The war between aliens and demi-humans lasted for a long time in ancient times, until the establishment of the Eternal Holy See and the rise of the City of Glory.

Since then, human heroes, under the guidance of the saints, have held high the holy symbol of the only God [Heavenly Father]. The supreme power of the true God has weakened the twisted and sick distortions and powers of aliens and demi-humans, and transformed these Monsters who no longer considered themselves human were banished to the east.

Even the dragon, which considered itself the most powerful creature, could only flee in panic under the illumination of the holy symbol.

They fled to the vast land to the east of the Western Continent.

People in the Western Continent know very little about the continent in the east. That continent may be much larger than the Western Continent... No one knows where the eastern boundary of that continent is.

Therefore, in order to completely eradicate these alien species, the war will never end.

Since then, in the long years, people have continued to wage wars with alien races and sub-races.Burning their totems, destroying their sacrifices, and executing their descendants... these monsters gradually disappeared from the Western Continent.

After that, no new demi-humans and alien species were born on the Western Continent.

However, the war still continues.Every hundred years, there will always be fanatical human heroes who form Eastern Expeditionary armies of varying sizes, holding high the Holy Emblem of Heavenly Father, equipped with armor and weapons attached with sacred mottos, and launching conquests towards the mainland across the strait.

The strongholds established by the demi-humans in the east were constantly annihilated by the fanatic believers on expeditions, and the entrenched tribes were also constantly driven away.They could only throw away the corpses of their kind and continue to move eastward.

For thousands of years, the corpses of demi-humans, together with their filthy and twisted beliefs, have polluted the eastern continent.The area near the Western Continent is gradually no longer able to grow vegetation, and even the magical power given to mortals by the Heavenly Father will be greatly weakened by the cursed land.

It seems that there are only deserts, ice fields and wastelands filled with poisonous fog, where aberrant creatures that have lost their intelligence are forever wandering.

Even the most tenacious demi-humans would find it difficult to survive in that decayed land.Therefore, it was called the dark place and restricted area - [Dark Territory].

From then on, no demi-humans or alien species were seen in the Western Continent, let alone any dragons.

For thousands of years, those who fled to the Dark Realm and established strongholds were no longer the demi-humans who had long been extinct in the rumors, but sinners exiled by the Lord, heretics wanted by the Holy See, or lunatics with no sense at all.

The latest expedition to the Dark Realm was organized by the predecessor of Pope St. Ann IV.

Monroe was also one of those expeditionary soldiers.

In the last expedition to the Dark Realm, Monroe led the team and killed many heretical cult groups entrenched in the Dark Realm.But he was not satisfied and continued eastward, achieving the deepest achievement in history.

Moreover, in a cave in the wilderness, he killed a dragon with one person.

That was the last dragon recorded in the papal records.

When the dragon's huge body collapsed, he fell into a pool of his own blood.The warriors who expedition to the Dark Realm recast the dragon's scales mixed with metal into a monument and erected it in front of the dragon's bones as a commemoration of their conquest of the Dark Realm.

After that, the Holy See publicly announced that the sinful dark realm had become a no-man's land - the deformed demi-humans and alien species had long been extinct, and dragons would only exist in legends and fairy tales from now on.

At this time, not many people care about these histories that have long become legends.

However, in fact, as long as Monroe could ignore the dissuasion of his exhausted teammates and continue to move eastward, he would find that as long as he continued to trek for a few days, he could cross the desolate plain in one go and cross the final A towering hill, the desolate dark area will gradually come to life:

Further east, there is land that is not polluted by the curse, clear rivers flowing from the towering snow-capped mountains, and vast fertile fields enough for farming and grazing.

There, for thousands of years, the demi-humans, alien species, and heretics who have been continuously expelled and massacred by the Eternal Holy See still exist. They have established their own city-states there and established a civilization that only God the Father knows.

The dragon is here too.

1. Go to the East

Next to the island at the edge of the world, the white dragon that seemed to be able to surround the entire world let out a high-pitched roar, and its horns seemed to be gathered by stars, emitting a golden light comparable to the sun and the moon.If you don't see it with your own eyes, even if you exhaust your imagination, you won't be able to imagine such a spectacular, gorgeous, and huge creature in your mind.

Her huge and turbid vertical pupils seemed to be filled with a layer of gray, dim and lifeless.

Then, the ocean surrounding the island was almost boiling. The sea surface was like a puddle on the surface of a beating war drum, raising countless water columns, like a torrential rain rising in the opposite direction. The rolling clouds and the turbulent ocean seemed to have changed their directions, and the world was also at this time. They were all turned around by the power of this monster.

Then, the castle located on the west side of the island, together with the boulders under the castle, were torn from the ground by a huge invisible force in a roar, pulled and suspended in the sky, gradually approaching the head of the white dragon.

Then, this terrifying dragon opened its huge mouth that could swallow the entire castle, and slowly let out a thunderous roar, creating a hurricane that could almost blow away an adult.

"Wait..." At this time, Ciel slowly walked up to the roof of the castle and stopped the two queens who were about to use magic.

"Teacher, that's a dragon! A dragon that should have been extinct long ago!" Hilna was already a little anxious: "Moreover, this guy is bigger than all the dragons in history combined! She is at least dozens of miles long...Hurry up and activate The teleportation magic has left, we have to go back and mobilize the army to prepare for prevention..."

"nothing."

He held down Sirna and Lovna who were about to draw the teleportation circle. In their puzzled eyes, he slowly walked forward and stood on the edge of the castle rooftop, facing the almost heaven-devouring and earth-devouring figure in front of him. The terrifying monster met her confused and cloudy eyes.

Ciel hesitated briefly, then stood up straight and waved vigorously to the dragon.

When Ciel appeared, dazzling patterns appeared in the white dragon's eyes, and the fog in her eyes seemed to dissipate, replaced by agility and sadness that did not match her body.

Even the most considerate girl would have difficulty showing such a look in her eyes, but it appeared on a giant dragon.

"Elamat!" Charles took a deep breath and shouted to her loudly: "Are you here to find me?"

The giant dragon opened its mouth again and let out a low and long roar, as if it was responding.

Although the roar this time was still as loud as thunder, it was no longer as repressive and threatening as before, but more joyful.

The rolling tide gradually subsided, and the leaden gray clouds that densely covered the sky slowly dispersed.

As soon as Ciel appeared, he suddenly saw the light of day, which surprised the three women present.

"Teacher... do you recognize this dragon?" Lovna's eyes became a little subtle: "... Eramat? Is this the name of this dragon? She..."

"Well...actually, just call her Ella." Ciel explained awkwardly: "Also, she is not an ordinary dragon."

Sirna, Wuming and Lovna noticed the important point at the same time, and their eyes became sharp at the same time.

"she?"