Chapter 206: 7.5 Second Violet Star - Going to the Temple.
Chapter 206: 7.5 Second Violet Star – Going to the Temple.
Domains of the Gods, In the Divine Realm.
Gods gather and go from this realm. This is a special land where gods, who break through the limits and humanity. But more gods are living within the mortal realm pretending to be ordinary people as they live in their own temples.
Within this land, a large temple stood. This is a building used by the conferences between gods and only two gods live in this temple.
The God of Light, Luciel, and his twin elder brother, the God of Darkness.
The mortal world thought that these two gods hated each other but they didn’t know that they were twins. Identical twin with only different colors of hair. One who possesses aureate shade that glows with golden brightness under the light.
While the other possess a shade that could rival the beauty of an obsidian gemstone. The color of the night as well as its undeniable existence as shadows.
The twin gods stood at the opposite side but split from one origin.
Sitting at some throne, this man with black hair yet golden eyes gazes at a human figure reflected on the water mirror in front of him. It was the appearance of the three candidates, Saintess, but his eyes continued to move on the unknown entity that wasn’t supposed to be here.
The God of Darkness murmured, “How did you get summoned in our world without our permission? Eirwen Night…”
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The Saintess prospects were given chambers to spend their privacy. They had the freedom to roam around the castle or go to the town as long as the ladies had a knight escorting them the whole time. The three otherworlders spent their own time leisurely at their own pace. Especially true with regards to Eirwen Night who even ditches the knights given to him for protection.
It’s been three days since the three candidates arrived in the world of Aerd. Lady Bela decided to no longer directly scheme against Eirwen Night as her plans regarding him all failed. She left him for the last time. As he already revealed himself as a male his prospects of becoming a Saintess are low. Lady Laurel started targeting Lady Evans instead.
She spread ugly rumors about Angela Evans being a dirty woman. As a tainted lady, she isn’t worthy of becoming a saint. While giving rumors about herself being a dignified, well-mannered, virtuous lady. What she didn’t know was that the rumors she asked to be spread in the kingdom were filtered and some words were replaced.
Rumors content:
‘It was said the Lady Night is not the Saintess because her gender is special and she is a pervert. Lady Evans is just a sickly girl using her body to get what she wants, a whore who sells herself for benefits. On the other hand, Lady Laurel is a virtuous lady. She helps anyone who needs help. A gentle and kind young lady. Is she our Saintess?’
This was the original rumor Bela Laurel asked to spread. But she didn’t know that her plan of using people’s opinion was held back by King Argus himself. This is something the king couldn’t allow to happen. Anyone can do their scheme but it must happen only within the castle. Once the nobles get involved then things would be hard to control and the lives of the candidates’ saintesses would be in danger.
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At the King’s throne room…
King Argus, Archmage Alexis, and Duke Damian were waiting for the Saintesses to finish their preparations for going to the temple today. They were able to finally get the Pope’s permission for the audience. The temple of light. This is the place that reveres the God of Light, Lucien. At a certain age, people of Aerd were required to enter the temple to get their status board. They undergo the appraisal of God Lucien. The status board would show someone’s extent of skills and talents.
The Saintesses need to accept this appraisal from God and know the percentage of them becoming the Saintess in prophecy.
King Argus spoke, “Sigh~ finally we could see what skills our saintesses could possess. Except for Lord Night who had the blessing of the Ice Spirits, we had no idea for the other two.”
“Your Majesty, what should we do about the rumors going around? We were able to hold it back from spreading fully and made sure to only let the rumors spread within the palace but… there was someone who intended to spread it to the town.” Said Archmage Alexis.
Duke Damian spoke, “As long as we tell the people the results of today’s appraisal all past rumors would be buried.”
“Yes. I wished so… This Lady Laurel is indeed… sigh~ too scheming.” murmured the king of Hart Kingdom.
Suddenly, an announcement from the guards outside the throne room finally yelled. It means someone has arrived.
“Lady Night, Lady Laurel, and Lady Evans had arrived!!”
The door slowly opened revealing the three candidates for the title of Saintess. There is a requirement for entering the Temple of Light. Anyone who wishes to end the temple needs to wear an article of white clothing. This is why the Saintesses were asked to wear white dresses with silver embroidery designs varying in accordance with their choice. This dress is cut smoothly and is made of cotton. Its length almost reached their ankles and their arms were completely covered in sleeves.
Lady Laurel, like her name, had the design of silver-colored laurel leaves crafted on the end of her dress. Her magenta-dyed hair was untied behind her, flowing loosely at her back. She braided a part of her hair on the side and wore a thin laurel crown on her head. She looks like the greek goddess from the modern world. Even though her beauty is only ordinary at this moment she looks like she’s glowing under the light.
Meanwhile, Angela Evans’s dress is different from Lady Laurel. Her dress is only pure white and didn’t put any design on the dress itself. Inside placed a thin cloak over her clothes. This cloak is transparent and only a floral design in silver could be seen. Placed on top of Lady Evan’s clothes made her look more dignified and virtuous than Bela Laurel.
What shocked everyone the most was Lady Night’s dress. It wasn’t the original dress that hides his arms and legs. It was partly hidden but behind the thin veil of snowflakes. Her dress is an almost see-through thin white dress with snowflake patterns scattered all over it.
Most snowflakes covered his private parts, butt, and chest part but most of the skin can only be behind the sheer fabric. It looks erotic and extremely otherworldly at the same time. Just this dress alone shows how much the ice spirits love her. The snowflake pattern on her dress was like living things. It moves as Eirwen moves, it tightly covers the part the others couldn’t see.
But the impact of Eirwen Night in this clothing is too much. Almost all of the people in the palace regardless of gender couldn’t help but stare at him with fascination, there were even some who had suffered from a nosebleed.
As expected, as soon as Eirwen Night entered the throne room, silence had ascended. The king, the archmage, and even the duke stare at Lady Night in such clothing. Except for her washboard chest, almost everything on her is perfect. A thin waist that could be held in one arm. Slender legs and arms, white and flawless skin. With her long silver hair braid upon her head, his smooth back is arch straight that one could even see the traces of his spine. Adding up that cold expression on his exquisite face, she looks like a Goddess of Winter descending on the land.
Upon seeing the astonishment of the three greatest authorities in the kingdom looking at Eirwen Night like stunned men, Bela Laurel lightly bit her lower lips in anger. She knew that Eirwen Night is an extremely beautiful man, but the Eirwen Night from her memories never liked to wear fancy clothing. Even the said ice spirits never come to him.
But everything seems to have changed since her rebirth. The timid Eirwen Night from before had disappeared instead he became assertive and open. His presence itself wouldn’t lose to the presence of the king and duke in front of them. It was sometimes even more frightening than the said merciless duke.
Bela Laurel’s thoughts, ‘Why? Just why!? Why is everything from my memories not happening the same way it should be!? Just who is this person wearing the appearance of Eirwen Night!!? There is also that little girl! She is not someone who is supposed to be summoned here with us. What the hell is happening!!?’
Eirwen ignored more stares on him ever since he left his room wearing this weird dress the ice spirits had made for him. Even his System Yue had been squealing nonstop in his mind when he saw him.
[Host! You are so beautiful that you’ve broken the minds of these men! Such a seductress~]
“Shut up! You’ve been screaming inside my head since a while ago like a slaughtered pig!” replied Eirwen in his mind.
[Master, I had the filling that you would be even more tempting if you start wearing men’s clothes~]
“I’m a man. I hope you haven’t forgotten about it yet, Yue!?”
[E-EH?]
“You bitch!”
The silence in the area had continued for a while until King Argus and Archmage Alexis snapped out of it.
Cough! “T-This… Lo… I mean Lady Night… What is that dress? It wasn’t the one we had prepared for you.” said the King while avoiding meeting this gorgeous lady’s eyes.
“It’s the same one. The Ice spirits mended it to their liking because they say it reeks too much of holiness and I don’t fit it.”
As soon as Eirwen Night said these words the hovering snowflakes around him danced even more as if showing their excitement and happiness to their beloved human. Archmage Alexis who is extremely sensitive towards the spirits of nature even heard them giggling and complaining.
“Pfft! Hahaha~” he suddenly started laughing, staring at the king standing beside him.
King Argus, “What’s wrong, Alexis?!”
“N-Nothing… It’s just that… Lady Night says it is true. The ice spirits really refined his dress. They say it looks so ugly that their beloved master couldn’t wear it. Moreover, it says that it reeks too much of the old rouge Lu… I mean God Lucien’s holiness that it made them disgusting. So they’ve changed it. Hahaha~” said Alexis Castel, this archmage whose beard poofed as he laughed.
Duke Damian on the other hand had stayed silent the whole time. His eyes are still at Eirwen Night’s figure, it didn’t even move for even a second. Like it was stunned, dazed by his current appearance, and was unable to look away. Eirwen Night noticed his stares but never looked at him and intended to ignore him. Damian notices his intention and lightly squinted his eyes before reluctantly moving away from his figure.
“Your Majesty. It’s time,” said Damian.
“That’s right. The temple. Let’s go then.” said King Argus.
Together with the king, the others had accompanied the saintesses on their visit to the temple of light. A cortège was prepared for the departure of the king and the saintesses. Carriages were prepared for everyone. The king and the archmage rode in the same one together with Lady Laurel. They wanted to ask the other candidates like Lady Night to ride with the king but they declined.
Lady Night says, “I hate the noise and crowds the most.” then walks away to ride on another wagon.
“Okay. Duke please go with Lady Night and protect her.” said the king.
The archmage heard his king’s words and felt that this was an opportunity to spend some time with Eirwen Night. He was about to get off of his carriage intending to accompany Lady Night. He was so sure that the cold duke wouldn’t agree to ride the same wagon alone with a stranger.
Archmage Alexis, “Don’t bother the duke, your majesty. This old man can..”
“Then I will ride on the same carriage as Lady Night. Please excuse me,” said Duke Damian who ignores the old mage clamoring to take his place. He entered the wagon which Eirwen had entered and even locked the doors from the inside.
The old yet wise Archmage Alexis finally felt what is like to be ignored straightforwardly on his face. He was struck speechless by the duke’s unexpected reaction. Even the king who was used to the duke ignoring everyone regardless of gender and avoiding interacting with them had changed today. It might be done indirectly by his orders but the duke could decline as he always does.
But this time their silent yet cold-hearted duke accepted the command of the king to accompany someone? What the hell happened to their abstemious almost ascetic Duke Damian.
“This… your majesty?” asked the bewildered old mage.
The king sigh. He had been signed almost every day since the Saintessess were summoned in their world, especially at the thing that involves Eirwen Night. This unpredictable element gives them surprises most of the time.
SIGHS~
King Argus, “Sit back. We are about to leave. Lady Evans, please get in.”
The truth Angela wanted to decline riding on the same wagon as the king as that evil sister, Bela Laurel, is sitting inside as well. But before she could ask her jiejie if she could ride the same carriage with him, her jiejie had walk away before she could speak a word. Now she no other choice but to ride with the king and the rest.
After Angela Evan had entered the same carriage as the king, the archmage, and Bela Laurel, their entourage had finally taken off.