Cthulhu Gonfalon

It was said that many hands made light work. That was when the trio of Sui Xiong, Galstoby and Snowflake met for a brief exchange of words and were delayed for a short moment, the group of attendants had helped Leon to redo his makeup. There was not a single strand of hair astray, and his clothes were neat and tidy. He was back to being the handsome man he was.

However, his handsome image was different from that of Javier’s clone. Leon sported a strong and valiant look. He was full of masculinity. The kind of vibe given by young, handsome and naïve men could not be found on him. On the contrary, he gave a feeling somewhat like that of a younger Brother Chow Yun Fat in old movies.

“Wearing this woolen coat, putting on polite manners and then holding onto an umbrella. This is just like a live version of Xu Wen Qiang walking out from The Bund,” Sui Xiong said. He watched Leon meet his bride; then the couple completed the various wedding formalities under the guidance of the elders from the Riley family. He could not help laughing as he mumbled to himself, “But Kalisa is more beautiful than that unaging old granny, and she is truly unaging. Oh, Leon’s almost an unaging one too, so there’s no problem for their love to be everlasting. But I’m afraid that wanting to live blissfully together till they are old and grey will be a little difficult…”

Just as the bride and groom were preparing for the most important ceremony of the wedding, the exchange of wedding vows, a holy light fell from the sky. The clone of the Goddess of Family arrived on that holy light. Right after it, there was light from blazing flames. The clone of the Goddess of Love walked out from within the light of burning flames.

These two goddesses did not share a good relationship. This was something almost everyone knew. At this moment, these two goddesses actually appeared at the same time and seemed to have no intention of fighting each other. This sudden occurrence stunned all the experienced and knowledgeable people present, rendering them speechless.

In order to convince the Goddess of Love, Sui Xiong had blocked the doors of Flame of Passion for several months. This matter was carried out clandestinely, so only a handful of gods knew. The Goddess of Joy was someone who did her work with rigor. She had long issued a gag order and even made all the gods in her Sorrow-Proof God System take an oath of secrecy. Though there was no punishment for leaking the secret, so long as there was a leak, she would learn of it right away—then what she would do, naturally went without saying.

Most of the members of the Sorrow-Proof God System were gods of flowers or gods of verdure with weak Divine Power. Although they were usually vivacious gods, in the face of major events, they were still very submissive. Up till now, no one had let the cat out of the bag. So this matter was almost completely kept under wraps, and many gods did not even know about it.

This made the event where the two goddesses, who were not on good terms with each other, actually appearing at the same time to bless Leon and Kalisa all the more shocking. It did not take long for news to spread. Even the gods in the Pantheon temple could not help but discuss it.

“Simply incredible! What’s going on?”

“Who knows? Could it be that Our Majesty, the Void Mask’s face is big enough?”

“Though his entire being is considered as just a face, ultimately, a big face and giving face are two different things.”

“Hey, who knows, maybe that big face is why he is given face.”

“Then my face is quite big too. Why don’t people usually give me face?”

“I’m thinking that… it’s still not big enough…”

“Go ahead and say that all you want!”

After all, they could not possibly know about Sui Xiong blocking the door. Despite all the rhetoric, the things they said ultimately constituted an insignificant dialogue void of substance.

After the two important goddesses had given their blessings, the other gods of various areas also took turns to give their blessings. Holy lights fell successively. All in all, there were easily 30 to 50 gods who had come. The Void God System, the Desolation God System, the War God System, the Ocean God System, and naturally, many other different gods, like the God of Justice, as well as the Goddess of Wealth turned up. There were also many gods who had acquaintances with Sui Xiong, like the God of Redemption. Fortunately, the gods were just here to give their blessings and left thereafter. Otherwise, the entire yard would be filled with dozens of gods. That would be a rather terrifying sight to behold.

Sui Xiong only showed himself after the gods had finished giving their blessings. Upon descending to the ground, he flew over to appear before Leon and Kalisa.

“I should have arranged this marriage for the two of you long ago. Because of my negligence, I’ve delayed this for much too long. I want to apologize to both of you,” he said. The moment he opened his mouth to say this, he startled everyone. There were already people muttering things like “His Majesty, the Void Mask, is so unreliable again.”

“However, I feel that good things come to those that wait. This might not necessarily be something bad,” Sui Xiong said with a swift change in subject. Then he went on to say, “This wedding of yours has been delayed for so long, but it was the perfect way for the two of you to look deeply into your hearts, be clear of your feelings and affirm your decision. I’m happy that after all these years you two have gone through together, you still maintain such a sincere relationship and have not allowed anything to change it. Just for this alone, you are deserving of every god’s blessing!”

After saying this, Sui Xiong paused for a moment. Just when everyone thought he was going to carry on speaking, he suddenly said, “Alright, a moment of a spring night worth a thousand pieces of gold. I shan’t hold you up further,” he said. Then he became a ray of light and dashed up into the sky.

So the people who had originally started to ease up a little were once again struck dumb. This started off a new bout of comments such as “His Majesty, the Void Mask’s way of thinking is truly wonderful.”

But Sui Xiong was never someone who bothered about what others had to say. He felt that he was finished with what he was supposed to say. As for things like “May you be blessed with a harmonious union, everlasting love, loving relationship between husband and wife that lasts for a lifetime, give birth to a baby soon” and such, that was all just too conventional.

Brother Xiong was an artist, a man of culture. How could he possibly say something so ordinary!

Yet, after he had flown up into the sky, he could not stop pondering over whether he should have said a few words of such traditional blessings. But on the other hand, he found it embarrassing to fly back down and dampen everyone’s spirits. He looked to the left then to the right, and finally, he thought of a bright idea. He cast some magic and created a beautiful display of fireworks in the air.

These fireworks were colorful and dazzling. They could even manifest into many different patterns and were so beautiful that they instantly attracted the attention of all the people on the ground.

Accompanying what seemed like flowers on a carpet, all kinds of words of blessings appeared amidst the fireworks display as though they were a logical consequence. The people on the ground who were watching the fireworks could not help laughing heartily as they sang their praises.

This show of fireworks lasted as long as half an hour and only completely dissipated when the wedding was about to commence. Some of the gods were curious about the cost entailed in this show of blessings, so they did some calculations. What they derived instantly took their breath away.

This was not merely creating a series of different displays in the sky. Every round of fireworks had to be accompanied by a wide range of divine grace and blessings. All in all, such a combination was enough to exhaust an ordinary weak Divine Power. Even for mid-level Divine Powers in general, this might also be quite demanding.

The powerful strength of the Void Mask had once again been proven—though Sui Xiong had no intention of proving anything at all.

And to the mortal world, this grand wedding fully demonstrated Garth City’s powerful economic strength and political influence. It also showed the deep foundation of the Church of the Void Mask.

From the start until the end, there were dozens of gods turning up to give their blessings. This was naturally a matter, of course. From just the crowd of friends who came to attend the wedding, close to a hundred of them were Legendary Masters. Almost all the Legendary Masters that the people on the Main Plane were slightly familiar with and many of whom the people did not know of in the past, and even many masters from other races, had especially come to give their congratulations.

For example, the automatons from the mechanical realm, the dragons from Dragon Cliff, the mermaids from the deep sea, the element creatures from the inner space… all sorts of them. The sight was simply spectacular.

In addition, divine graces fell like raindrops over and over again, and then there was the Goddess of Family and the Goddess of Love who arrived together. Though they were originally such an incompatible pair, like fire and water… Just as Sui Xiong expected, this wedding was recorded by historians. They named it the “Great Wedding of Garth City” and wrote it into the historical records that would be passed on to future generations.

And before these historical records were handed down, countless bards had already composed songs out of this grand event. These songs had since been sung everywhere.